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Kathryn Macapagal

@karmacap.bsky.social
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clinical psychologist, associate prof studying HIV prevention and sexual health in LGBTQ teens. cofounder prep4teens.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's also pretty interesting that "expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right" rarely means "hire more experts credulously studying the intellectual basis for Hindu nationalism, the gender politics of the Black Hebrew Isrealites, or the righteous teachings of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."
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ICE agents in plainclothes handcuff man at Las Vegas airport, shocking onlookers
After their actions attracted attention, the agents walked away, leaving Phu Nguyen with a handcuff attached to one arm. He was later arrested before his flight left Los Angeles International Airport
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Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Congrats to CBITs Core Faculty Member @karmacap.bsky.social on her presentation at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research! The talk titled "Acceptability of SHER, a digital sexual health promotion intervention for diverse adolescents" shared teens' feedback on SHER. 🎉
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This rule is currently in the notice and comment period. And while the Trump administration can’t be trusted to respond to those comments in good faith, they are required to respond to each and every one, which can slow adoption of the rule until after a federal election.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The existence of a trillionaire is a policy failure.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Christopher Walken: 

I GOTA FEVER, AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION IS MORE SCAFFOLDING
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
First they came for the trans people But I did not speak out Because I did not work with vulnerable populations . . . Then the came for the university administrators and the journal editors Fortunately, there were those who had seen this coming and had been fighting the entire time. 1/2
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Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Congratulations to CBITs core faculty @karmacap.bsky.social on her new position as president-elect of the International Academy of Sex Research. Well-deserved and excited for your impact in this space, President-Elect Kathryn! 🫡🏳️‍🌈️👩‍🏫🏳️‍⚧️ To learn more about IASR: www.iasrsite.org
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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s true. he gasped loudly in a restaurant when I explained it and people turned around to look
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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Exciting and good news from the Glaze/Nightshade UChicago team! They are releasing a new non-profit, ETCH, whose mission is specifically to assist and prioritize humans in this GenAi era! One of the first public releases of ETCH is Quicksilver, an solid GenAi detector for music!
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blair @blairaf.com · 20/04/2026
Another trend I'm seeing emerge in some of these spaces: "We are very concerned that AI agents pose grave cybersecurity risks but we are using them for as many tasks as possible and we encourage others to do the same if you don't want to fall behind"
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Erin In The Morning @handle.invalid · 20/04/2026
Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.
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Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats
The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification
The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20/04/2026
A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.
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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Start calling literature reviews “the lore”
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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’m speaking at the Chicago @standupforscience.bsky.social rally tomorrow, rain or shine! Join me and your fellow Chicagoland nerds, be loud, and bring your best pro-science signs! 🪧 📢
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Massie goes full beast mode today. Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.
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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A year later we still feel the effects of funding cuts to #science. They trickle down to our communities and patients. The losses are immeasurable, but also often invisible to most people. Thank you to @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social for amplifying our stories and making the impacts clear as day.
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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
thinking of all the clinical and counseling psych students on match day 🫶🏼 14 yrs ago i matched to the best place for me, even though i wanted to stay close to home. my spouse didn’t match on his first try and the year after made him way stronger. regardless of what your outcome was, you got this 💜
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
mprnews.org
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
a great article you should read instead of the Washington post one: theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
theracket.news
The Most American Halftime
Decoding Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl for the haters
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
explain to me, very slowly, like the dimwitted child you must think I am, how body cameras or ICE cooperating with cops would have prevented any of the many, many, many law enforcement murders committed by both ICE and cops over the years which were already thoroughly documented on video
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
To those American academics out there who have chosen to remain silent/mostly silent about the horror going on in the USA these days at every corner of the federal government, please start speaking out and fighting back.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/01/2026
I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”
January 24, 2026 at 18:42
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an
ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thank you @davidmalakoff.bsky.social for this write up about the past year in science and how orgs, including @standupforscience.bsky.social are meeting the moment. We all need to recognize that science is not the golden cow and we are on the chopping block, too. www.science.org/content/arti...
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In the age of Trump, are U.S. scientists ‘bringing white papers to a gunfight’?
An unprecedented assault has forced researchers to rethink their advocacy tactics
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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I needed some joy and Indiana brought it ❤️ 🤍 proud to be a #hoosier
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 20/01/2026
Curt Cignetti has done the unthinkable, turning the biggest loser in college football history into a 16-0 national champion in just two seasons. With the win, he has proven to be the best coach in the sport, @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social writes.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)
Elderly man wearing only shorts with a blanket over his shoulders is flanked by ICE officers on either side as he descends the front stairs of him home in the snow.

“A man, whose family requested a Hmong interpreter, is detained after ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducted an immigration raid at his home, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 18, 2026.REUTERS/Leah Millis”

via @idreesali114.bsky.social on X
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 15/01/2026
My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/01/2026
WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature? FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
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Renee Good Had Just Dropped 6-Year-Old Off at School When She Encountered ICE. Soon Her Partner Was Crying,
'They Just Shot My Wife'
Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, shortly after the agency began large-scale immigration raids in the city By Greta Bjornson |
Published on January 8, 2026 04:44PM EST
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Donald Trump Says 'My Own Morality' Is 'the Only Thing That Can Stop Me' from World Dominance: 'I Don't Need International
Law'
The president doubled down on his plans to take military action in Latin America, annex Greenland and more in a revealing new interview
By Meredith Kile
Published on January 8, 2026 05:13PM ESTElon Musk Shares
Startling Post Endorsing
'White Solidarity'
The former White House adviser and Tesla CEO shared a shocking X post on Jan. 8 that stoked fear about repercussions if White men become a minority
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Published on January 8, 2026 05:36PM
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Christopher Pepper (He/Him) @mrpepper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We need a total and complete shutdown of ICE in the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
this country truly is allergic to helping people
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇 1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression. 3) Organize your department. We are stronger together! aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
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2025: A Year of Resistance, Solidarity and Resolve
CONTACT:  Brian L. Evans, PhD, President, Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), affiliated with the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT), aaup.texas@gmai...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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Popular Science @popsci.com · 18/12/2025
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels
Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels.

Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey.

Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.Text reads:
Question-writing best practices
To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices:

Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions.
Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?”
Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”Text reads:
Discussion
The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002)
of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
1/ NEW: I found out who sent me that vile voicemail. His name is James Catalano, 62, of Fresno, California. I break the whole thing down in this video
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/12/2025
People talk about mental illness in terms of depression or psychosis or violence but please don’t forget the “high functioning” mentally ills who are hyperproductive because their brain tells them if they don’t adhere to a rigid and punishing schedule they will literally die
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