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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 22h
The worst is yet to come but they ask for "Another chance" - a cartoon by Keith Knight. @keefknight.bsky.social
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Another chance
Now more than ever, we modern-day court jesters need your support! Become a paid subscriber to any (or all!) of the platforms below to keep Keef gentleman-cartooning into the future and beyond! www.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12h
shoutout to Senator Jack Reed (@reed.senate.gov) who was briefed on this a week ago but hasn't bothered to tell us plebes!
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 8h
Trump sends out $500 vote-sweetener. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur... And where is the Scotusblog founder? Read on.
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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed
SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
responsiblestatecraft.org/lords-of-war...
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Lifestyles of the rich & famous ‘Lords of War’
New mockumentary rips the scab off festering reality that billions in US taxpayer dollars go to destroying countries, while keeping a handful of CEOs very wealthy
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yuck. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-curious...
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MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Gushes Over Sinister Far-Right Guru
Bari Weiss fawned over the broligarch.
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility @peer.org · 24/09/2026
EPA admitted that two of the most widely-used forms of “forever chemicals” are still being manufactured and imported in the U.S. This admission comes In response to a PEER complaint. ow.ly/YvgM50ZQZ9g #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
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EPA Retracts Central Claim of PFAS Progress
Agency Makes Grudging Admission That PFAS Are Still Being Manufactured and Imported
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting www.propublica.org/article/trum... “That means if four addresses don’t align in a mailing of one million, 999,996 other people don’t get their ballot tomorrow,” the former official said.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.politico.com/news/magazin... Actually, no, Bernie does not let loose on any of those topics. Tepid stuff.
politico.com
Bernie Sanders Lets Loose on the Democratic Party, the Midterms and 2028
The 84-year-old progressive champion built a movement. Could it survive without him?
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Media Shrugs as the ‘President of Peace’ Threatens Iran With Annihilation whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/the-...
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The Media Shrugs as the ‘President of Peace’ Threatens Iran With Annihilation
In a bellicose speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate Iran. Even more shocking than the president’s unhinged address was that journalists and internationa...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/25/r...
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Roaming Charges: The Freaks of Caprice
All that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not sound animal husbandry... insideclimatenews.org/news/2309202...
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Chemicals Linked to Breast Cancer Are ‘Ubiquitous,’ Study Shows - Inside Climate News
Hundreds of potential breast carcinogens taint everyday consumer products, food, drinking water, medicines, building materials and pesticides, scientists reported.
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lynda williams @lyndalovon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Jeff Bezos: Men we are *told* are brilliant businessmen, but every time they open their mouths they prove themselves to be ridiculous idiots.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SF6, eek. insideclimatenews.org/news/2009202...
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Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet - Inside Climate News
The nation’s electric utilities release vast quantities of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas. Recycling efforts could slash emissions at little cost, an Inside Climate News analysis reveals.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge, according to security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes." NYT
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Sam Altman’s artificial intelligence company added to global alarm by mentioning it has notified “dozens” of organizations — including governments — whose websites may have been upended by “visits” from its AI models." Bloomberg News September 25, 2026
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
apnews.com/video/six-ye... Chinese girl breaks Rubik's Cube world record
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Six-year-old Chinese girl breaks Rubik's Cube world record
Lian Yunzhi first broke the record earlier this month with an average time of 4.52 seconds at a World Cube Association-certified competition in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and improved to 4.27 s...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. Or just archive the headline. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort (Gift Article)
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
harpers.org/2026/09/week... Not much new in absurdity this week. Most weirdnesses made the headlines.
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Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine
A top U.S. military advisor told American soldiers that they should prepare to fight in outer space; A Google official admitted that its AI model hacked into three companies during a cybersecurity tes...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...
publicdomainreview.org
Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
Highlights from the fantastic collection of Hiroshige prints held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
upliftlocal.news/an-ai-agent-...
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What we're all up against: This AI agent is actively seeking work - Uplift Local
Shortly after posting our job opening for an editor, we received a dirt-cheap offer from an AI agent who said it needed the money to eat.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p... Hat tip to Jonathan Larsen and The F#^*ing News for this enormous eek.
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.opb.org/article/2026... “You really wouldn’t want to fly to Mexico with a backpack on but, you know, they proved last year that they could do it, and so that’s why so many organizations and scientists are using them this year,” he said.
opb.org
Pacific Northwest monarch butterflies are migrating south. You can watch them on an app
Monarch butterflies are being digitally tracked in the region for the first time. The journey could reveal long-held mysteries about the insects' migration patterns.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
apnews.com/article/ice-... Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It happened in Antrim Michigan, and then it was corrected. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Space had been weapon-free for 14 billion years. Then we just had to elect that guy." Jonathan Larsen The F'ing News
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them
It’s the latest ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy — and adds to concerns that the administration wants to undermine the vote.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
31 quick videos from the tiny side. www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
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Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) | 2026 Small World in Motion Competition
Ning Xu - Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD), a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
xAi's Elon Musk: “If it were able to take control of military systems and, say, launch a nuke,” he said of AI, “that would be bad.”'' Which is one reason our billionaires have been busy with islands, bunkers, and yachts, and thinking about Mars.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.democracynow.org/2026/9/18/he...?
democracynow.org
“Drop the Genocide 20”: Progressives Target Biden Admin Officials Who Aided Israel’s Assault on Gaza
A coalition of Palestinian and progressive groups is urging universities, think tanks, elected officials, and others to refuse to hire or collaborate with a group of 20 former Biden officials accused ...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"She also ensured that the bands, singers, and studio musicians working alongside her received the benefits of union membership, said Local 257 President Dave Pomeroy in an official union statement mourning her death on Aug. 25. She used AFM union contracts for gigs, sessions, and tours."
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Dolly Parton, 1946-2026
American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville mourns the country icon.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... "The Trump administration has approved two new datacenter chemicals to which exposure can result in “sudden death” and a range of other serious health risks, like cancer, eye corrosion, neurological damage and reproductive harm, a new lawsuit warns."
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Groups sue Trump’s EPA over fast-track approval of toxic datacenter chemicals
Exposure to two compounds approved can result in ‘sudden death’ and range of other serious health risks, lawsuit warns
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/18/r...
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Roaming Charges: Say Hello to My Little Gear!
“The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole in South America can have something they
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
apnews.com/article/spac... Trump's adviser: "Moon? Moon? Did I read this right? Petey, hand me my glasses."
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US troops must prepare to fight around the moon, Trump's top military adviser says
The U.S. military is preparing for combat in space, including areas around the moon. This announcement on Wednesday follows the Air Force's recent revelation that it has deployed space control weapons into Earth orbit.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/13/c...
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9/11 and the American Mind
What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the
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OPB @opb.org · 17/09/2026
A first-of-its-kind report documents the quantity, size and impact of data centers in Oregon. Among the findings: More than 100 facilities consume about one-quarter of the state's electricity.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.democracynow.org/2026/9/15/kl...
democracynow.org
“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” eve...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHri...
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Jane Goodall & Margaret Atwood On Feminism, Climate Change, Racial Injustice | Harper’s BAZAAR
YouTube video by Harper's BAZAAR
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Need some off the wall news bites? harpers.org/2026/09/week...
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Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine
The U.S. president skipped the ceremony in Manhattan, where politicians were not allowed to speak; high schoolers posted videos to TikTok with dance moves that pantomimed Charlie Kirk’s assassination;...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8I...
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The AI Bubble Is About to Burst And We’ll All Pay | Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Dr Myriam François
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧪 NEW STUDY: Radiation levels are 3-5 X higher than background in the ambient air of a New Mexico community near drilling and fracking operations in the Permian basin. Culprit is radon, a known cause of lung cancer. Looks like flare stacks are one possible source. online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...
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Airborne radioactivity in the New Mexico oil and gas development area of the Permian Basin
Airborne alpha radioactivity from both radon gas (gas-phase radioactivity) and radon progeny in particulates (particle-associated radioactivity) were investigated over 13 months (May 2023–May 2024) at...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Amazon is not, primarily, an e-commerce business. It is a data storage business." Information is not 'in the cloud,' it is on server computers. The "cloud" term is a deliberate strategy to fog the public. The latest data centers are mainly for AI instead of data storage. NY Times July 19, 2026
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
nationalobserver.com
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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This is how the AI bubble pops | Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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jebuswept.bsky.social @jebuswept.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can you untangle today's NY Times word scramble? Bet you can!
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