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@gombeisos.bsky.social
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Evolutionary anthropologist, biology adjunct, stable isotope nut, baker, mom

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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Saddleback tamarin (Leontocebus fuscicollis), also called Andean saddle-back tamarins, are not equipped to extract tree gums. They lay in wait for pygmy marmosets to gouge holes in trees and bully the smaller monkeys away from their quarry. Widespread and common, no major threats imperil them.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For US international students and their colleagues: Choose an English-speaking, US citizen friend to be your one call and memorize their number. Then memorize the number of an immigration lawyer. Remember that ICE and USCIS officers have ultimate discretion over how any encounter might go.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
But race is not a biological reality. 😬🤬
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Attention bio lecturers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/5TMZ2S...
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Enhancing Student Comprehension of Paternity Assignment in Molecular Primatology: A Pilot Study Using a Shiny Web Application in Kenya
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Oooo I want something like this! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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CSViewer for Analysts: I. Building an Integrative Database and Knowledge Model for the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaque Colony and Its Derived Skeletal Collections
Access to the CS Rhesus Knowledge Model: The graphical abstract illustrates the integration of diverse datasets within the CS Rhesus Knowledge Model, highlighting its key components. It showcases sim...
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Zach Cofran @dizachster.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Incredible orangutan fossil from Vietnam highlights how diverse this group of apes was in the past; today there are only 3 highly endangered species living on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra (article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Crossley's dwarf lemurs (Cheirogaleus crossleyi), also called furry-eared dwarf lemurs, are native to northern and eastern Madagascar. Nocturnal primates and obligate hibernators during the dry season while food is scarce. Threatened by habitat loss and degradation. Listed as Vulnerable.
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 24/03/2025
Have you tried an activity like this in your classroom? #EdChat #EduSkyAI #EduAI
What Works For Me! I asked ChatGPT to write an essay on the theme of fear in Macbeth. I gave it to my seniors and told them I’d probably score it a D. Their job was to redeem it. C level added quotes and better syntax. B level had to thoroughly expand. Most chose the ‘A’ option: not look at the ChatGPT essay and write their own. It helped them to see how simplistic the AI is, unless they’re sophisticated in programming it. —Kristen Brewer, Educator
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The @ncse.bsky.social has a new climate podcast, Safeguarding Sound Science! The first two episodes are interviews with @michaelemann.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social on climate denial. Check it out -- NCSE is also a fantastic organization. Their mission is more important than ever.
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Safeguarding Sound Science | National Center for Science Education
Safeguarding Sound Science, Climate Change EditionSafeguarding Sound Science combats misinformation, disinformation, and misconceptions about climate change with actual science.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
FYI: Funded (non-American) PhD www.lsce.ipsl.fr/en/archives-...
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PhD offer in 14C and archeomagnetism dating of archaeological ceramics - LSCE
Description Context We are offering a PhD position at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) between the GeoTrAc and CliMag teams in the ‘Archives and tr...
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Preuss’s monkeys (Allochrocebus preussi) are native to Cameroon, Nigeria, and Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. Distribution is restricted to 8 population segments. They live in groups of 9-12 individuals. Threatened by habitat fragmentation and hunting. Endangered. Photo courtesy of Brent Huffman.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#FossilFriday The oldest human face in Europe compared with the face of Homo antecessor: Nasal lateral margin in ATE7-1 (Homo aff. erectus) and ATD6-69 (Homo antecessor). Source: (Huguet, Rodríguez-Álvarez, Martinón-Torres et al., 2025) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Mauna Loa CO₂ record is the most iconic time series in the environmental sciences. Trump and his enablers are trying to kill it.
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Climate Change Science On Mauna Loa Could Stop Amid Federal Cuts
The NOAA office in Hilo that supports that carbon dioxide sampling has been flagged for a possible lease cancellation.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“This is the kind of treatment that scientists get in totalitarian societies like Stalinist Russia if they don’t toe the political line of the leaders,” wapo.st/3DFDo4R
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A mural of Anthony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down.
Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, Trump officials continue to blame Fauci for missteps — and are minimizing his presence on his old campus.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Incredible photo essay www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Siberian Bone Hunters Diving for Ice Age Mammoth Fossils (Gift Article)
A search for the fossils of long-extinct creatures, hidden in Russia’s frigid waters.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This is crazy. Especially when cheap small scale solar is such a game changer. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/c...
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Fossil Fuels Are the Future, Chris Wright Tells African Leaders (Gift Article)
Chris Wright’s remarks were welcomed at a time when countries across the region have felt whipsawed by cuts to longstanding African energy initiatives.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Dunning-Kruger at work. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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DOGE staffers flew to California to try and release water themselves during LA fires
The pair traveled to California after reportedly trying to pressure a top government official to open the water pump
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great interview with @flintdibble.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/flint-d...
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Why Joe Rogan Believes In Fake Archaeology
The popular podcaster has repeatedly had on guests who think Atlantis was real. Today we talk to a genuine archaeologist, Flint Dibble, who tries to reason people out of delusions.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
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Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Elderly man angers free world, shoots self in foot. News at 11.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Heartbreaking but heroic work by a dedicated nurse. I just don't understand how any American can be aware of these conditions and still think what we need to do is cut Medicaid and food stamps. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
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She’s a Foot Soldier in America’s Losing War With Chronic Disease (Gift Article)
In places like Mingo County, W.Va., where working-age people are dying at record rates, a nurse learns what it takes to make America healthy.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is a gorgeous cover and an even cooler paper - a full phylogenetic tree using BUSCO genes, featuring new genomes for some weirdos including chitons, the watering-pot shell, a tusk shell, a symbiotically chemosynthetic mud clam, the Chilean abalone (not an abalone), and *two* monoplacophorans! 🧪
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I think one of the saddest and maddening aspects of the past several weeks is that so many Americans have no conception of the damage that has been done. They will be poorer, sicker, and less secure.
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Popa langurs (Trachypithecus popa) were discovered and described as a unique species in 2020. Total population size is estimated at 135-176 mature individuals. The largest subpopulation resides near Mount Popa, hence their name. Threatened by hunting, habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It blows my mind that so many people do not understand that having healthcare is an essential part of being able to work and hold down a regular job. Or that millions do not get healthcare from their jobs.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Super cute monkeys riding super cute deer. Yes, there are pictures. rdcu.be/ebAL4
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Monkey-deer rodeo: exploring the mounting behaviours of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) on Sika deer (Cervus nippon)
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Higher rates of enamel hypoplasia with more frequent climatic disruptions on Cayo Santiago onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Revisiting Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta): How a Stress Marker Relates to Environment and Maternal Lineage in a Rare Rhesus Colony With Known Life History
Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) prevalence in the teeth of Cayo Santiago rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Defects matched on right and left teeth and the increase in the frequency of LEH by decade.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A great resource I never knew about (with fun cartoons): "Teaching with AnthroNotes Cartoons " by Ruth O. Selig and Alison S. Brooks digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/jae/vol9/iss...
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Teaching with <i>AnthroNotes</i> Cartoons
For 33 years (1979–2012), the Smithsonian Institution publication AnthroNotes brought anthropology and archaeology to classrooms in the United States and beyond. AnthroNotes featured lead articles by ...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/02/2025
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
2024 was the third biggest year for repatriations. 👏 www.propublica.org/article/nati...
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ProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law
Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Re...
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Everything today is just devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. VUB researcher discovers hand axes that may go back 1,5 million years ago in Iraqi desert 🏺🧪 www.vub.be/en/news/vub-...
An example of one of the found artifacts
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Can't wait to tell my kid we will be taking a 6 hour drive to Canada to go get shots. On the plus side: fall color along the north shore!
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ayumi shinozaki | 篠崎あゆみ (she/they) @ayusheknows.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
West Javan ebony langur (Trachypithecus mauritius) infants are born golden orange and darken after about 3 months. Specialized salivary glands and sacculated stomachs break down their leafy high-cellulose diet. Threatened by hunting for meat and use in traditional “medicines”. Listed as Vulnerable.
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Black-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes) are found in Cambodia and Vietnam. Their lower leg (shank) color differentiates them from other douc langurs. Hunted for bushmeat, body parts, and further threatened by human encroachment and habitat loss. Listed as Critically Endangered.
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that&nbsp;West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
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Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺) @sethchagi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Join the AABA Education Outreach Committee and see our work live at the Circle of Voices! Hosted by prominent paleoanthropologists Dr. Pobiner and Dr. Lasisi, and amazing people! Learn why this divisive topic needs to be addressed and how it can be done properly. www.eventbrite.com/e/cov-what-d...
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(CoV): What does science say about race and racism in America?
The U.S. is blinded by socialized race. CoV will examine what it means to be human, and the ongoing impacts of racism in America. Join us.
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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 24/02/2025
It is remarkably exciting to see these linear marks associated with human footprints from White Sands, with some as old as 22,000 years. The researchers interpret these as travois marks. Bottom line: People have probably missed these at many other sites. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Linear marks with human footprints from White Sands, interpreted as travois marks. Source: Bournemouth University
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2025
Undergraduate research opportunities are incredibly valuable, both for the students and for the progress of the work. And having undergraduate research experience is a massive help for grad school admission. REU cancellations harm students’ preparedness & career prospects, and slow research progress
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Red slender lorises (Loris tardigradus) are native to the rainforests of southwestern Sri Lanka in a region called the “wet zone” because it receives 10 ft (3 m) of rain per year. The smallest of the slender loris species. Threatened by habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation. Endangered.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Moving story about the important work done by the DPAA identifying the remains of fallen servicemen &women. FYI, SNA International, which is associated with this work, is looking for a forensic anth postdoc. Listing here: bioanth.org/jobs/forensi... wapo.st/4gTfgsU
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Trump’s targeting of Pentagon hits a nerve in POW/MIA recovery office
As Trump and Musk move to dismantle the federal workforce and cut spending, those tasked with repatriating missing Americans fear their mission is in jeopardy.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol
The Trump administration’s attacks on scientific funding, restrictions on Federal scientist activities, and 
indiscriminate firing have caused chaos, panic, and harm.

We need *specific* examples of harms caused 
by these policies to include in an open letter. 
Grants cut, projects cancelled, jobs lost.

Feel free to send news stories, blog posts, or social media posts that mention these, as well as original contributions. 

Please send to WhySharksMatter @ gmail or DM me
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Disappointed @nature.com put this behind a paywall. And still doesn't have a BlueSky button. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
❣️ @mcnultylab.bsky.social www.sapiens.org/culture/loca...
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Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya
On Rusinga Island, a group is celebrating field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring locals to study ancient history.
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Monkeys produce lithic flakes as a side effect of nut cracking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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R Nocked @gombeisos.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Ordered!
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