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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bolsonaro got 47% to Lula's 45% & now face a runoff in 3 weeks. What went wrong? - Concerns about Lula's age (80) & incumbency - Corporate media manufacturing scandals against him - Trump helping Bolsonaro. My look at how Lula could still win the runoff paydayreport.com/what-caused-...

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What Caused Lula's Electoral Setback & How He Could Still Win the Runoff

Bolsonaro received 47%, while Lula received 45% in the first round.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you Lucas County Stonewall Democrats.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/09/2026

As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

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Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about
There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates.
Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true!
If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.)
Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i would love it if any politician or pundit could be talking about the sweeping changes to medicaid set to kick many many many people off the only insurance available to them in the coming months, instead of litigating whether or not trans people are too mean for the millionth goddamned time

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14/09/2026

"Right now, Republicans are ruining lives, and they promise to ruin more… The moral and the smart thing to do would be to provide as much resistance to the GOP’s agenda as possible… Time is short and coalitions are critical." (November 18, 2024) www.liberalcurrents.com/abandoning-t...

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Abandoning Trans Rights Is Not a Path to Victory

While columnists discuss the finer points of trans women in sports, Republicans pursue an authoritarian and punitive regime.

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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

can only speak for animation but if work for a new season starts up within a 12-month period, they are required to offer the previous crew their old positions. after that period they can hire whoever they want my last studio waited 12 months and 1 week to start hiring for their BG Paint department

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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.

Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

There is never a compromise you can make that will satisfy them. They will still attack you and force you to concede more. You should never concede anything to them because they want to eradicate trans people.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 02/09/2026

ah yes once again the racists are the real victims

In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password's Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following:

As I said, people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind.
However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you.

There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.

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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/09/2026

This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Tofte @tofte.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A quick search and the top results for the lead journalist on this shows her work focuses almost exclusively on exposés of scandal and dark secrets. This seems like nothing but a fishing trip for material that paints furries in a bad light. No one should touch it with a ten foot pole.

Ellie Flynn is an investigative journalist and broadcaster known for hard-hitting documentaries on issues affecting young people in the UK. Her BBC Three debut, “Sex for Rent”, exposed exploitative landlords and led to changes in UK law.

She later presented Channel 4’s Dispatches: Undercover – Sexual Harassment: The Truth, which was highly commended at the British Journalism Awards and nominated for a Rose d’Or. Her recent investigations, Coca-Cola’s Dirty Secrets and The Truth About Temu have gained widespread attention. Ellie hosts the National Crime Agency’s Underworld Podcast and regularly appears on Woman’s Hour, BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain, and The One Show. She has also created content for Morning Live.
Ellie continues to be at the forefront of Channel 4 fronting a number of documentaries across Untold and Dispatches including; Vinted’s Dirty Laundry, Coca-Cola’s Dirty Secret and the record breaking Magaluf Undercover.

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Back in 2021, the German senate decreed in their infinite wisdom that 18+ games must verify the player's age every time the game launches Instead of implementing that insanity, Valve decided to stop selling adult games in Germany entirely 👋

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 27/08/2026

It keeps happening. Again, this game - even with the sex stuff still in - would probably pass muster as a 15+ rated title. From what I've seen, it is SUPER tame. Valve are absolutely insistent that it is porn.

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tctc @toastcrust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it sucks that steam has just gotten away with not giving a fuck for so long and continue to just have an entirely opaque system for what they allow on their storefront with basically no real path to dispute it, and devs/pubs always just have to find this shit out last minute

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/08/2026

meanwhile, hakeem jeffries has appointed the furthest right, pro israel, self declared “ron desantis democrat” to one of the most influential positions for foreign policy. hakeem jefferies cannot be house leader come 2027

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tante @tante.cc · 22/04/2026

"AI" as we use the term today is a construct built on fascist ideas and reasoning. In order to fight fascism we need to get rid of those patterns, not normalize them. AI as a Fascist Artifact

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ugh: A new Massachusetts poll has a 51-32 lead for a ballot initiative to adopt the top-two “primary” system. This system has been a wreck in California. The majority party frequently risks getting shut out of general elections, so party organizations often pick favorites in primaries to avoid that

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All but two Mass. ballot questions likely to pass in November, poll finds

Nine statewide ballot questions will face all Massachusetts voters this November, and a new poll finds that all but two are likely to pass.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

LLMs cease to be useful when they can't be used to scam people into unknowingly reading slop anymore. When the typewriter was invented, no one had to pretend its output was handwritten to get people to accept it. Typing had its own utility. LLMs are scamtech that have no utility outside the scam.

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Claude users are canceling their subscriptions, citing Anthropic’s new AI watermark

One developer said they feared Anthropic's watermark could lead clients to flag their work as AI-generated and raise questions about authorship.

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Slashley Cooper 🔪 @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When I worked on Space Marine 2 I became the target of a mass harassment campaign by the worst corners of the 40K fandom. Saber tried to deal with the problem by asking me to remove that I worked for them from my social media. I refused. Not at all surprised by this behaviour from Karch.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.

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Molly @mhuzzell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Most of the supposed AI "tells" are rhetorical flourishes that a lot of people (myself included!) were actively taught to use in formal writing. A good essay on that subject: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...

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On em-dashes and “AI detectors”

and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMs

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 24/07/2026

the irony, lost on your average bigot, is that it IS due to indoctrination! specifically how we have indoctrinated societies around the world to value straight relationships more than any other kind artificially decreasing the rate at which people identify as queer. break that? rate rises. easy.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

um oh my god????? the sedevacantists of Orkney are doing a schism tomorrow??? “The order had previously faced accusations of abuse, bullying and psychological torture”???? one monk drowned and three others had to sneak away in a boat heist to escape??????? Jennifer what am I reading holy shit

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Jessica @jessidhia.dev · 22/07/2026

“making your own” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this article about how SaaS sucks so you should use a SaaS platform to GenAI a replacement you take credit for

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

And no, I don’t mean “reverse racism” or “hating abled people” or “heterophobia”. I mean accepting the belittling of fat people. Secretly suspecting every disabled person of being workshy. Deciding you know better than an elderly person. I mean policing bathrooms and feeling entitled to bodies.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You cannot discriminate against one group of people without it infesting the entirety of your soul. It is as true on the “left” as it is the right. Once you decide it’s cool to throw vulnerable people under the bus, you’re cooked completely.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Y'all, I honestly teared up a bit while putting together this list of some of what TNN's done in under a year. It's so much, on so many fronts. The kind of radical journalism our communities desperately need right now. Every bit of it funded by our readers.

Since our founding nearly a year ago, Trans News Network has exposed how The New York Times' bigotry is directed from the very top, revealed Epstein's extensive network of anti-trans cronies, showed how Itch took away queer creators' livelihoods, shined a light on trans political prisoners, investigated the Catholic Church's draconian trans healthcare ban, showed how universities sold out to Trump, gave a reality check on trans gun rights and interviewed courageous activists. We've published in-depth histories of resistance, powerful reminders of our communities' survival in the face of genocide and much, much more.

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 01/07/2026

Reskeeting this thread to remind y'all not to attend this guy's Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Sonic, & Persona cosplay meet-ups at Anime Expo this weekend. Has yelled about women who've spoken up about their assaults before, defends the guy that did the assaulting (which included young cosplayers), etc

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 30/05/2026

ICYMI: Japan is in the middle of an ADHD medication shortage that's hitting patients outside major cities hardest. Strattera was pulled in 2024, Concerta is rationed, and where you live shapes whether you can fill your prescription.

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ADHD Medication Shortage in Japan Leaves Patients Scrambling

It's especially bad news for users who live outside of major cities, where the medication can be harder to obtain.

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ChocoMingo 🦩 #RaysUp @chocomingo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

To @bsky.app & @support.bsky.team, we already have tools available that help users filter out adult content if they don't want to see them. Plus, there's user-made blocklists on here people can use if they don't want to see accounts with adult content in them Maybe inform users about these tools?

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ChocoMingo 🦩 #RaysUp @chocomingo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This new Bluesky label leaves users who only want to see SFW posts from someone who may post tagged content on occasion with no way to see their posts other than seeing all their posts including labeled content To put it simply, users hit with this content warning are NERF'd. It's all or nothing

Bluesky's content filters panel, which can be found by going to Settings and then "Moderation & content filters". This panel features four different label-based filters, adult content, sexually suggestive, graphic media, & non-sexual nudity. All of these filters allow users to either show, warn, or hide posts featuring images that were labeled as any of the four categories manually by users or automatically by Bluesky's Moderation Service.

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ChocoMingo 🦩 #RaysUp @chocomingo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The new label was placed on some accounts lately. I don't see how this feature helps anyone other than discourage users from putting content labels on their adult posts as they have & should've done for the past few years which filters their NSFW posts from their SFW posts bsky.app/profile/loos...

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ChocoMingo 🦩 #RaysUp @chocomingo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 14/05/2026

A book on manga history that was so full of errors and false claims that I felt like I had to write a blog post about it to warn people got nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic Work. Truly post-truth society 🤷‍♂️ eikeexner.com/2025/11/26/n...

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Early Manga Historiography, the Importance of Consulting Primary Sources, and the Limits of Peer Review

There’s a new book on manga history, Manga’s First Century: Creators and Fans Make Japanese Comics, 1905–1989, written by Andrea Horbinski and published by the University of California Press.…

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Judge Breyer: Okay. Thank you very much. Juror 96, I think that you also have strong views. Could you set them aside?

Juror 96: I believe that in a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict. However, in a civil trial, I feel I can set those views aside.

Judge Breyer: That’s interesting.

Juror 96: I’m happy to expand.

Judge Breyer: Sure.

Juror 96: I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race were Mr. Musk to be sent to prison. However, I don’t believe a loss of several hundreds of millions of dollars in a civil trial would be even a drop in the bucket to his wealth, so it doesn’t really matter. Therefore, I would be able to consider the facts.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 10/05/2026

Out now: AI and the Murder of Truth. And Air Bud. On AI, education, fascism, paying the Dane-geld, and why there ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball. The follow up to last year’s “You are a better writer than AI.” If you liked that video, this is worth your time. youtu.be/sETvPBVKBAY

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AI and the Murder of Truth. And Air Bud.

YouTube video by josh (with parentheses)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

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たにし @tanishiii.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

オリキャラ

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The response to the conversion therapy video has been amazing. I’ve gotten messages from lots of NHS staff appalled to learn about the present-day abuses, who want to hold senior managers to account. As I say in the video, allowing this abuse undermines the entire NHS! 🏥 youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

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Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why.

YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

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