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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 27/07/2026

“Mira, esos dos edificios eran de negreros”, indica el historiador Martín Rodrigo Alharilla mientras pasea por la zona del puerto de Barcelona. “Las familias catalanas esclavistas que se conocen son solo la punta del iceberg”

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Martín Rodrigo Alharilla, historiador: “Las familias catalanas esclavistas que se conocen son solo la punta del iceberg”

El experto estudia los beneficios económicos que dejó la trata de africanos en Cataluña durante dos siglos

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

obviously there are more serious issues but also this is illustrative of some of those more serious issues.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

With reports of a brain-dead Mitch McConnell, it is critical to avoid the distinction that people want to make between Trump and the GOP. McConnell is the most effective and destructive politician of the 21st century and was the architect of Trump's entire agenda.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When officials say shit like this, they're not thinking about Oxford and Cambridge. They're thinking about the post-92s and the lower-ranked Russell Group schools—in other words, the universities that serve working class & BIPOC students whom the "political strategy" would love to ignore completely.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13/06/2026

"Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse. How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

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Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🚨 New in Journal of Gender Studies: We consider how the concept of “backlash” can flatten and frame masculinist responses as merely reactive; we suggest “countermovement” better captures how masculinities are strategically organised www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

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The limits of ‘backlash’ masculinity: on the value of reframing gendered resistance as ‘countermovement’

This paper proposes a reconsideration of backlash as the dominant frame for analysing resistance to gender equality. Widely used to describe reactionary responses to feminist progress, the term oft...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/06/2026

The "reality gap" isn't just a product of algorithms. It's also the result of the collapse of shared civic institutions, local journalism, religious participation, community organizations, stable career paths, and other structures that once gave people a common frame of reference.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.' time.com/7295195/ai-c...

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 15/05/2026

The UK Government today convinced the Council of Europe to weaken Article 3 and Article 8 of the ECHR. We’re horrified at the possible ramifications of this on minorities in the UK. Key points in Friday’s declaration include a statement that the bar for something to be considered

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 16/05/2026

The coverage of "hate marches" in the UK has been almost entirely about those in solidarity with Palestine This is compared to euphemisms used to describe increasingly emboldened fascist and their billionaire enablers Excellent from @desfreedman.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

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Des Freedman | ‘Hate Marches’

Two marches will assemble in central London tomorrow. One is championing the rights of Palestinians and commemorating 78...

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This is so sick! 🤮

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Carlos Martín Urriza @carlosurriza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

El Banco de España acaba de volver a negar q exista una burbuja en el precio de la vivienda Esto es muy preocupante porque hizo lo mismo en la anterior burbuja de 2004-2008. Y todos sabemos cómo acabó Aquella burbuja provocó la mayor crisis económica de nuestra democracia 1/14

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

According to #ADL data, during the first #Trump administration, the US suffered over 100 fatalities from far-right terrorism, far more than any other ideology. Makes it all the more shocking that far-right extremism is not even mentioned in the new US Counterterrorism Strategy.

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@statewatch.bsky.social: "data exchanged under the proposal [#EBSP] could be used for a wide range of purposes by the US. This includes preventing or arresting people travelling to the US who have expressed opposition to US policies in EU" www.computerweekly.com/news/3666430...

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Europe and US negotiate deal to share citizens’ biometric data, UK also approached | Computer Weekly

The UK has received a request from the US to share biometric data of citizens, as Europe negotiates a similar deal with US Department of Homeland Security.

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is not about policing the actual, physical, marches themselves. It is about policing public perception by making them equivalent so far right racism & violence becomes the same in the public's mind as pro-peace anti-violence & anti-racism

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Reviewing for reputable journals is an essential part of academia, and a skill that's difficult to master. If you are an ECR, check out the FAQs put together by @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org on best practices! These are great tips, especially for RIS, which is a CUP journal 👇 buff.ly/E9B71qG

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Ca la Dona @caladona.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

📢Aquest dissabte 16 de maig tornem a sortir al carrer amb Palestina! 📍18h a Plaça Catalunya (BCN) 🚶‍♀️‍➡️Començarem la marxa des de la cantonada amb Passeig de Gràcia. Prou complicitat amb Israel i prou de tanta impunitat!

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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

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Miquel Ramos @miquelramos.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Esto de @casmudde.bsky.social sobre la derrota de Orbán y los desplantes de Trump a Europa, y cómo afecta (o no) a las extremas derechas globales. Su éxito va más allá de lo electoral. Han sembrado una semilla que otros, sin el estigma ultra, van a seguir regando. www.eldiario.es/opinion/trib...

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Trump es un lastre y Orbán ha desaparecido, pero la extrema derecha europea no está en declive

No saquemos conclusiones erróneas de las elecciones en Hungría y los problemas del presidente de EEUU. La extrema derecha ha llegado para quedarse, y muchos de sus partidos están tan consolidados como...

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Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) @ibei.org · 07/05/2026

🎙️Conference | Governing in the Age of Algorithms: Institutions, Polarisation & Democratic Security With C. del Real @unileiden.bsky.social, @inesbsomoano.bsky.social & L. Chaqués Bonafont, IBEI. Introduction by J. Oller, Palau Macaya. In collab with Fundació LaCaixa 🗓️ www.ibei.org/en/democracy...

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Institut Català Internacional per la Pau @icipeace.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Aquest dijous comencem el cicle de webinars "Repensar la seguretat a Europa" coorganitzat amb @cidobbarcelona.bsky.social Primera sessió amb Mary Kaldor i Tutku Ayhan sobre la militarització de la seguretat. ✍️Inscripcions: www.icip.cat/ca/event/cic...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

India's online content blocking orders quadrupled in 2 years—from ~6,000/year to 24,300 in 2025. Tech Policy Press fellow Apar Gupta examines the political economy of digital censorship and how AI panic became the latest accelerant.

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Three Justifications—and the AI Accelerant—of India’s Digital Censorship Infrastructure

Each expansion of state power is preceded, justified, or accompanied by a public anxiety, writes Apar Gupta.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Even if the EU’s age verification app and EUDI wallet improve data confidentiality and decentralize data to users’ phones, their promise of empowerment falls short due to centralized critical functions, writes Thijmen van Gend.

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Europe’s Age Verification Push Raises Privacy Issues Beyond Data Confidentiality

Age verification mandates promise safer online spaces while expanding digital identity systems with uncertain consequences, writes Thijmen van Gend.

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Jose @jduranr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

La mejor recomendación que se puede hacer en el Día del Libro es que usemos las bibliotecas públicas todo el año y exijamos a las administraciones que las doten con los recursos necesarios para actualizar sus fondos y mantener sus plantillas en buenas condiciones laborales.

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Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) @ibei.org · 23/04/2026

Books, roses, and a dash of matchmaking 🌹📚 For #SantJordi, IBEI hosted a Literary Speed Dating session to swap book recommendations! Teaming up once again with #ArrelsFundació, we shared solidarity bookmarks with our staff and faculty. A small gesture with a meaningful impact

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Oh you thought I was just being ridiculous talking about "hard right" content did you? Well, time to do your homework! escholarship.org/uc/item/3p24... ; escholarship.org/uc/item/0h13...

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The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right
2025

Tebaldi, Catherine; Burnett, Scott

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https://doi.org/10.5070/RW3.1604
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Scores of male right-wing influencers offer advice to young men online on fitness, diet, and bodybuilding. Representations of the “right” kind of man draw attention to rippling muscles, square jaws, and beautifully symmetrical faces as evidence of racial superiority. This contemporary resurgence of “body fascism” in the hypersemiotized online spaces of the far right, however, remains underexamined. In this article, we analyze Man’s World magazine, a digital publication edited by the neofascist lifestyle influencer “Raw Egg Nationalist.” Through gendered semiotic and linguistic anthropological analysis of the text, we argue that hardness, understood in myriad ways, is the moral flavor of a far-right masculinist speech register that combines elements of mental fortitude, muscular strength, sexual potency, and physical beauty at the individual level with racial renewal and national invulnerability at the political level. We show how readiness for violence and the “return” to traditional masculine violence are legitimated through graftings onto scientific and academic registers, and how neofascist influencers ultimately operate within boundaries delimited by neoliberal modernity. We argue that the production of a “dissident” right-wing male subjectivity is intimately interwoven with the dissemination and use of this register.

Hailing, Voicing, and Masturbation Abstention: NoFap’s Role in Socializing Young Men into the Right-Wing Politics of Ressentiment
2025

Burnett, Scott; Borba, Rodrigo; Hiramoto, Mie

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https://doi.org/10.5070/RW3.1623
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Digital ethnographic and linguistic anthropological analysis of the far right is an invaluable resource for explaining the gradual processes of socialization through which individuals are recruited into right-wing extremism. This article examines online masturbation abstention programs in three linguistic contexts (English, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese) as potential sites that mobilize gender and sexual norms to draw subjects into anti-feminist and racist sociopolitical visions. NoFap (known as nōfappu or onakin in Japan) is a fairly popular trend that is understood to help men regain the focus, vitality, and energy they have lost to pornography addiction. By analyzing the ways figures of personhood are constructed through the enregisterment of disparate semiotic materials in these very different contexts, we argue that the right-wing abstemious masculine subject is produced through tensions between neoliberal generalized competition and the imagined authority of a “tradition” associated with restrictive gender and sexual norms.

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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨Thrilled to share our new research note: "In the Trenches: A Hands-on Approach to Teaching Data Collection in Terrorism Studies." Co-authored w/ Dr. Sarah Carthy & based on a course that trained 400+ grad students at Leiden in open source data collection. pt.icct.nl/article/tren...

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In the Trenches: A Hands-on Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Data Collection Skills in Terrorism Studies | Perspectives on Terrorism

The burgeoning availability of open-source information on individuals who have been radicalised offers new opportunities to build, expand, and disaggregate rich databases on the characteristics of the...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) @ibei.org · 13/04/2026

About today’s #IBEIResearchSeminar 🌐 'Mainstreaming Anti-Gender Radicalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Czechia.' With Sarka Kolmasova (Metropolitní univerzita Praha o.p.s.). Chair: @inesbsomoano.bsky.social (IBEI) Thanks to everyone & stay tuned! 👏 Next events here ➡️ t.ly/SYbp7

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Over 500 arrests at Defend Our Juries peaceful demo in London Even an ex-Met boss has come out and said the force's treatment of Defend Our Juries is "not practical". Yet hundreds were nicked, anyway. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

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Over 500 arrests at Defend Our Juries peaceful demo in London

Even an ex-Met boss has come out and said the force's treatment of Defend Our Juries is "not practical". Yet hundreds were nicked, anyway.

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Inés Bolaños Somoano @inesbsomoano.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Come join us as I chair a truly fantastic seminar!

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/04/2026

"Who knew that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was on the take from the same Russian mobsters who were laundering millions through Donald Trump's real estate?" craigunger.substack.com/p/the-offer-...

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The Offer Viktor Orbán Couldn't Refuse. (Or Didn't.)

Who knew that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was on the take from the same Russian mobsters who were laundering millions through Donald Trump's real estate?

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Remigration” has moved from neo-Nazi spaces into mainstream politics, reshaping immigration policy through a lens rooted in white supremacy. Its adoption shows how extremist ideas are being normalized & enforced by the state, with deportation & detention as instruments of repression. Read more:

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What Is “Remigration”?

“Remigration,” a white supremacist concept rooted in neo-Nazi ideology, has been adopted as immigration policy and embraced into far-right politics in Europe and the United States. Linked to the antis...

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Inés Bolaños Somoano @inesbsomoano.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A bit embarrassing but... Merry #WomenInScience! Thanks @ibei.org Comms team for their work on this :)

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Isabelle Stephanblome @isabelleste.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Few concepts have shaped German counterterrorism debates as much as that of the “dangerous person”. In our new open-access article, @reemahmed.bsky.social and I unpack the term’s inherent ambiguities and highlight it’s performative quality as a category of security governance. tinyurl.com/3bev3xwa

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Governing threats through ambiguity: the construction of the dangerous person in the German parliamentary discourse

Over the past two decades, German counterterrorism policy has shifted from managing dangerous situations to identifying and pre-emptively addressing individuals classified as so-called dangerous pe...

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Inés Bolaños Somoano @inesbsomoano.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If there were ever questions about big tech and privacy concerns... Just kidding, there never were any!

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Alba Huidobro @albahuidobro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉 📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

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Claudia Brunori @claudiabrunori.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📢New article in International Migration Review! w/ @svidal.bsky.social (@lifelongmove.bsky.social) and Louise Caron, we study how immigrant descent and migration experiences in childhood shape later-life aspirations towards migration. Check it out (it's OpenAccess!) 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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Where to (Next)? Family and Childhood Migration Experience and Migration Aspirations in Adulthood - Claudia Brunori, Louise Caron, Sergi Vidal, 2026

Migration is increasingly recognized as a dynamic, often recurrent, and intergenerational process. Yet, little research has examined how childhood exposure to i...

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Miquel Ramos @miquelramos.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

'Epidemia ultra': Cómo el proyecto autoritario y antidemocrático de las extremas derechas está conquistando el mundo. Una conversación con @fdelledonne.bsky.social sobre el auge y la normalización de las extremas derechas, sus estrategias y sus diferentes actores. www.publico.es/sociedad/vid...

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'Epidemia ultra': Cómo el proyecto autoritario y antidemocrático de las extremas derechas está conquistando el mundo

El doctor en comunicación por la Universidad Libre de Berlín, autor del podcast Epidemia Ultra y del libro homónimo recién publicado, conversa con el periodista Miquel Ramos sobre el origen y la no...

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

🧵Have you ever heard of LLM-authored books being used as part of an disinformation operation? Well now you have! #AI #Disinformation open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

BREAKING: At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.

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At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.

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Sergio Gracia @sergiogracia.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

🖊️Ya está disponible el European Islamophobia Report 2024 coeditado por @enesbayrakli.bsky.social y @fhafez.bsky.social !📢 🧩Orgulloso de formar parte de esta iniciativa junto a mi compañera @inesbsomoano.bsky.social 🤝 🔗Lee el informe completo aquí 👇🔥 islamophobiareport.com/islamophobia...

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Sergio Gracia @sergiogracia.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

🖊️ The 2024 European Islamophobia Report @islamophobiaEIR is out by @enesbayrakli.bsky.social and @fhafez.bsky.social 🔊 ! 🧩 Happy to be part of this important initiative together with my colleague @inesbsomoano.bsky.social . 🔗Read the full report 👇 islamophobiareport.com/islamophobia...

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