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@juliangaramendy.dev
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Software engineer at @Wise previously @King_Games.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h
40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...
Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 02/10/2026
Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...
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Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools
Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 10/07/2026
Big tech platforms argue they simply store and display information created by others, so should not be seen as legally responsible for it.
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Why an EU ruling about a traffic app could have major implications for big tech companies
Big tech platforms argue they simply store and display information created by others, so should not be seen as legally responsible for it.
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Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🧪 Thanks to everyone who’s already subscribed to my new YouTube channel, Unbaffled. Nice to see that the first three films have already been watched by half a million people around the world. Lots more to come.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I'm going to sign copies of my new book this Tuesday and if you want me to write YOUR NAME plus a DEDICATION then there's still time. They ship internationally as well!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2026
Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations
Panel 1
A figure addresses an audience from a lectern:
"Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications."

Notes
*1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar 
*2 Abbreviation-Related Problems

Panel 2
She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads:
 1. ROAs* 
 2.WUAs* 
 
 Notes
 *3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations 
 *4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations 

 Panel 3
 She says:
 "...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly."
One of the audience thinks "WTF!"

  Notes
*5 widely-recognised Abbreviations
*6 Well, that's fascinating.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.
Title: Bertrand Russell, 1933 

Panel 1
Bertrand sits at his desk, puffing on his pipe. He says 'The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts.'

Panel 2
He gets up and walks over to a mirror.

Panel 3
Pondering his reflection, he muses 'But if I'm certain about this...' 

Panel 4
'Does that make ME a fool or fanatic?' 

Panel 5
He walks back to his desk.
His reflection in the mirror says 'Talking to yourself in a mirror seems pretty doubtful to me.'
'Good point.' says Bertrand.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
An interesting essay by educationalist Will Ellis - raising serious concerns about AI, with studies showing that cognitive engagement shrinks in direct proportion to the degree of AI assistance - with adolescent brains particularly vulnerable: reclaimchildhoodmedia.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
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The Cost of No Friction
Adolescence happens once.
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Vlad Miricioiu 🌸 @vlad.website · 01/05/2026
The NHS is turning back on its commitment to keep its code open. We're asking them to reconsider. Would you join us?
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An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Later they go out for a superposition of chocolate and vanilla ice cream. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/quantu... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
4-panel SMBC comic update. A father and daughter are walking across a park. The daughter asks "dad, do you think the unpredictability of quantum mecanics means we have free will?" The borders of the first panel connect with arrows to the second and third panel. In the second panel, the father says yes. In the third, he says no. Arrows are then see connecting the second and third panel to panel 4, where both responses converge to the daughter's reply "You're so wise, dad" implying she would say the same thing so matter his response.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/
Title: Specialist delivery services available from local bookshops 

A chart showing the services folowing this structure:  
G. Genre 
H. How To order 
M. Method of Delivery

G. Romance 
H. A trusted servant dispatched with a secret letter 
M. A brooding Aristocrat on a Black horse

G.  Murder-mystery 
H.  A telephone call from within a locked room
M.  A bookseller/ gentleman detective 


G. Science fiction
H. A robot bearing a holographic Message
M. Teleported from an orbital data platform 

G. Horror 
H. Screams. Awful, bloodcurdling screams.
M. An evil thing. Horrible beyond Comprehension 

G; Fantasy
H. Runes engraved on an enchanted Elven sword 
M. A postal goblin Riding on a talking raven
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
With all that’s going on in the world right now, I feel it’s really important to draw a distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘faith’. I’m not religious, but I have a humanist worldview which prioritises rational thought, empathy and kindness. I know many people of faith who hold similar values. 1/5
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter!
Title: Hunting for Easter eggs with Werner Herzog

Panel one: Werner goes out looking for eggs saying “I despise this idiotic sanitized ritual, and yet I am unwilling to return home eggless”

Panel two: Werner stands before an egg on the ground “The joy of discovery rings hollow against the monumental indifference of the universe”

Panel three: Werner carries an egg “what, other than regret, can hatch from this empty chocolate vessel”
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories... (Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!) So let's look at them individually: We'll start with the photo... So what's going on? 🧵1/12
Screenshot of a tweet saying:
* WTF: Lincolnshire Church of England primary school allegedly forced 7-year-old children (none Muslim) to perform full Islamic prayers to Allah in
RE lesson.
"We did prayers to Allah yesterday," one girl told her father.
Pupils were shown a demonstration video then told to kneel, bow heads & copy the movements themselves.
Angry parents reported it to Lincolnshire Police.
School unnamed amid backlash fears. Disgraceful.
There is a Picture of children in school uniforms kneeling on the floor, heads down, in a classroom setting
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 17/03/2026
We’ve launched a brand new animation explaining what #secularism is and why it matters in an increasingly diverse society. Our short film, What is secularism?, is now available to watch on the @humanismedu.bsky.social website. 🧵 understandinghumanism.org.uk/secularism/
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What is secularism?
Made for schools and families, the animation introduces secularism in clear terms as a practical way of organising society that people with different worldviews can share.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Did you see this headline? Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you? Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️ Would you like to know the reality behind the headline? Course you would!😜 Let's take a look 🧵 1/25
Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 09/02/2026
Every session – whether in the Lords or Commons – starts with prayers. Peers and MPs reserve a seat with a 'prayer card'. Those who are seated are more likely to have speaking privileges. This gives unfair advantage to parliamentarians who pray. That's wrong. humanists.uk/action/parli...
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Sign our petition: Replace parliamentary prayers with inclusive time for reflection
We're calling on the procedure committees of both Houses of Parliament to review the outdated and discriminatory 'prayers' system which the puts the views of non-religious people at a disadvantage.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 09/02/2026
Great news. MPs should also pay attention to our campaigns: ● Remove the 26 bishops Religious office should not grant automatic voting rights in a parliamentary democracy. ● Scrap parliamentary prayers Attending prayers should not to provide speaking advantages🧵 observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Lords reform to be tackled by new group of MPs. After the observer raised the alarm, a new group aims to address filibustering and how to strip disgraced peers of their titles more quickly
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 02/12/2025
As Australia prepares for its social media ban for children under the age of 16, which comes into force next week, 74% of Britons would support a similar ban in the UK Support: 74% Oppose: 19% yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
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rob @robinprague.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We became a ludicrous country when we left the EU, elected that lying twat Johnson as PM and began to consider the racist Farage as a respectable politician.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/11/2025
Malaysia plans to bar children under the age of 16 from social media starting next year, with a close eye to how Australia implements and enforces a similar ban that takes effect next month. Here's what to know.
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Malaysia to Ban Children Under 16 From Social Media, Echoing Australia
The announcement on Sunday, which was light on details, came weeks before a similar action takes effect in Australia.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼 16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas” With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees 2.2Million views to date🙄 🧵1/26
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
FFS Daily Mail No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants” Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄 I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter Now the DM are on it, let’s go again! 🧵 1/12
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨 That’s outrageous! Or is it? Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy? Let’s take a 👀 1/17 🧵
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨 😱Sounds outrageous? You know the drill… If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏 1/25 🧵
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Panel 1
A figure stands at a lectern 
"This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything." 
The screen is completely packed with such things 

Panel 2,3,4,5.
Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I’m just going to say as someone who lived in London for eleven years and is currently seriously considering going back precisely because of the far right theocratic fascism of Trump, that he’s talking out of his fucking asshole.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The Right hacked our collective attention since 2015, this is a well-documented strategy, and we keep falling for it ever since. "Gay immigrants are stealing children and giving them autism". And that's the one thing everyone talks about for days. That's why you feel exhausted.
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dan @danabra.mov · 22/09/2025
the thing i'm worried about is whether AI will decimate the "flow states" of knowledge work. i realize this is very selfish. i enjoy being in a flow state. i don't want to constantly be babysitting an unlearning intern who repeatedly violates instructions. even if they eventually produce good work
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Proton @proton.me · 20/09/2025
Spotify DMs have just dropped, and the best response is to mute them entirely 🔇 Settings and privacy > Privacy and social > Messages toggle off
Someone sharing Evan Greer's "Spotify is Surveillance" using Spotify DMs with the message "Spotify is surveillance, turn off DMs". Next to this is the settings from Spotify with "Messages" turned off.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
1/11 Why is Elon Musk pushing for civil war in the US and Europe? This thread breaks down how Musk is using his platform, wealth, and influence to amplify far-right movements, incite political violence, and undermine democracy—across continents
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Last week the Express ran with the following front page. So obviously I had to take a look! Is it true? How does it compare to other professions? Because anyone familiar with British RW media discourse knows they reserve a special venom for civil servants…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/25 (1/1)
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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 10/09/2025
Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations
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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 09/09/2025
More blogging! I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop. Not because that's not useful, but because it's incredibly hard (impossible?) to do securely: sophiebits.com/2025/09/09/a...
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I don’t want AI agents controlling my laptop
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again. So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version 🧵 1/21
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Julian @juliangaramendy.dev · 31/08/2025
I thought BBC journalists and government ministers were able to distinguish between correlation and causation. But sadly not. "What we know is if children miss a day or two in the first couple of weeks of term, they're more likely to go on to be persistently absent." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Minister warns parents on school attendance ahead of new term
It comes as data shows children who missed some of the first week of school were more likely to be persistently absent.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Seeing some politicians competing for just how brutal and dehumanising they can be to vulnerable minorities - I can’t help comparing that to 16th and 17th witch trials. It’s so depressing.
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