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Professor Katharine Adeney

@katadeney.bsky.social
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Prof Comparative Politics Nottingham. Researches (& loves) S Asia. India Pakistan Sri Lanka. CPEC, Federalism, Majoritarianisms, HE, EDI & SEN. Mum and wife of Long Covid sufferer. Cats 🐈‍⬛, Brompton 🚴‍, Gardening. Views expressed my own

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This falls undet WTAF! What happened to international law? #venezuela www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Trump claims US has captured Venezuelan dictator and wife
US president says on social media that operation to capture Nicolás Maduro carried out with US law enforcement
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
India's citizenship laws being effectively weaponised against Muslims. For several years I have not been able to tell my students that India is the world's largest democracy :( #India #Democracy #VotingLists #Ethnocracy #EthnicDemocracy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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India’s electoral roll revision threatens democracy and Muslims, say critics
Opposition claims SIR process being used to disenfranchise minority groups to benefit Narendra Modi’s government
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Shame on China #freedomofthepress www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Jimmy Lai: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom
Rights groups dismiss ‘sham conviction’ of media tycoon on national security offences in city’s most closely watched rulings in decades
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Awful www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Bondi beach terror attack: 12 people killed in ‘evil antisemitic’ shooting at park in Australia
Police say one alleged shooter among dead, with second arrested and in a critical condition, after attack on Jewish festival in Sydney
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland
Palestinians who have worked the ‘breadbasket’ area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Heartbreaking
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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Completely crazy that anyone should be able to tradmark the word sabzi (cooked vegetables) in the UK www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
OMGG scroll.in/article/1088...
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‘A permanent surveillance backdoor’: Why Sanchar Saathi app order raises privacy fears
Digital rights groups warn that forcing an app onto every device could allow the government to spy on Indians and even control their devices.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My first thought listening to David Lammy on the Today programme as I cycled to work yesterday, was that this has horrific EDI implications. Glad to read that Diane Abbott called him out on this. #JuryReform #UKPolitics #EDI www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Is David Lammy persuaded by his own jury trials proposal? Not sure. But he said it anyway | John Crace
Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Great project www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain
Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world war
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 07/10/2025
C’mon folks, surely we can make an exception to the Russian sanctions for window safety catches…?
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Badenoch on Today—backing Jenrick’s “no white faces in Birmingham” comment & making a sharp distinction between multiracial & multicultural societies. Definitely using this in next semester’s teaching. Will she still be Tory leader by then? #Multiculturalism #Teaching #Conservatives
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I won‘t claim to be an expert in Japanese politics but a radical right party doing well in elections and the mainstream right party shifting sharply to the right sounds awfully familiar. Let‘s just say good reasons to believe that this won‘t be great for Japan. www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/j...
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Hardline nationalist to become Japan’s first female prime minister
Takaichi is to succeed prime minister Shigeru Ishiba as she wins in run-off against Shinjiro Koizumi
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Finally! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
Keir Starmer’s announcement comes seven decades after end of British mandate in Palestine and creation of state of Israel
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Just deleted my Threads account (not that i used it much) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
When you’ve spent so long on the Parliament of Sri Lanka website that it thinks you’re a bot and locks you out 🤖😂 Just your average day in #Academia, chasing down elusive cabinet details one timeout at a time. #SriLanka #ComparativePolitics #ResearchLife #DigitalFieldwork
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This, from a 19 year old in the UK. Heartbreaking. “I’ve experienced more racism in the last 12 months than the rest of my life put together.” #racism #UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy
I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far right, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is my big worry for a professional perspective - people need to learn the skills to do their own analysis/research so they can recognise what's wrong. If junior roles get replaced by AI (or even if juniors lean too heavily on it) how do we train the future leaders?
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I agree. But this has to be a collaboration. And for it to be a true collaboration, students need a solid foundation of knowledge first. The real challenge? Motivating students to build that foundation before they turn to AI tools. #Academia #HigherEd #AIinEducation
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Dismissing the academic merits of ChatGPT is intellectually dishonest
Portraying ChatGPT as a playground for plagiarists is a timid response to AI’s ability to enhance research in all subjects, argues Agnieszka Piotrowska
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It's time. After decades as a Labour voter and supporter I've taken the plunge into Green waters.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Unwelcome realisation: standing desk season = cold legs season. Autumn’s creeping in and the home office heating’s not on yet. Might be time for leg warmers to make a comeback? #AcademicSky #PoliSky
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🔁 A gentle reminder to ECRs: never throw away your old notes or drafts. That overlong chapter or article draft—yes, the one that’s 5,000 words too long—might just hold the key to your next project. Save it. Archive it. You never know when you’ll return to it with fresh eyes or a new angle.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A plague on publishers who still don’t offer citation files for their books. Yes, Stanford University Press, I’m glaring in your direction. #Publishers #Citations #Academics #MetadataMadness
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
When a populist increases the size of the military / worry #Indonesia #polisky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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In Prabowo’s Indonesia, the military is quietly creeping back into civilian life
The retired general who is now president has established 100 new army battalions and plans more – and critics say the move has echoes of the country’s authoritarian past
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“For some senior UN figures, the only conclusion to be drawn from these attacks is that Israel is killing the world’s only available witnesses to the starvation it has visited on Gaza through its policies.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts
Double-tap strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
What struck me about this article is how this reflects what happened in India with the BJP mastering the new way of politics #SouthAsiaSky
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“as …voters are lost, the lion’s share of the windfall goes to those on the…extreme right who have already mastered the gamification of politics…the ability to summon fever dreams of threats (to) be dealt with & prosperity that is just around the corner” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Democrats are in deep trouble in the US – and Labour is on the way to joining them | Nesrine Malik
When millions of once-loyal supporters become disillusioned with a party, there can only be one result: electoral disaster, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
In global conflicts tracked by UCDP since 1989, civilians made up a greater proportion of the dead only in Srebenica – although not the Bosnian war overall – in the Rwandan genocide, and during the Russian siege of Mariupol in 2022 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Returning to my dataset on Pakistani cabinets today to evaluate the religious composition of cabinet positions as part of my contribution to the Majoritarian Nationalisms in South Asia monograph with @wilfriedswenden.bsky.social.
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Gullimair travels east: drivers of party system institutionalization in Asia in comparative perspective
In this article, we apply Mair’s concept of ‘party system closure’ to Asian party systems, with particular comparison with his native continent, Europe. Building on Mair’s (2001) conceptualization ...
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
An extraordinary (and horrendous) story. #Windrush www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Nothing is the same’: Windrush victim allowed to return to UK after 28 years
George Lee was stuck in Poland and received little help from UK officials even after the scandal broke in 2018
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I've come back from 2 weeks annual leave to find no fewer than 10 requests for PhD supervision in my inbox. Unsure how to deal with them professionally in a meaningful manner (especially as I am aware that there is an individual at the end of each one). #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A reminder that #SouthAsia is at the frontline of #ClimateChange thoughts and prayers www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Rescue efforts continue in Pakistan as flash floods kill more than 320 people – video report
The death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 321 people
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Lovely to see the red shirts of @nottinghamforestfc.bsky.social fans walking through WB today.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report
Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staff
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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India and Pakistan tensions spill over into contest over whose flagpole is bigger
Nationalist rivalries are on show at border crossing where soldiers in elaborate uniforms perform flag ceremonies each night
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Access to reliable information about wars and conflicts is not a luxury; it is essential for the wellbeing of global populations, the protection of human rights and the global effort to hold perpetrators of war crimes accountable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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On Gaza’s killing fields, journalism faces its darkest hour – but that won’t stop us reporting | Asef Hamidi
Israel’s actions are an assault not only on individual reporters but on the entire global public’s right to know the truth, says Asef Hamidi of Al Jazeera
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Heartbreaking even among so much terror and horror www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
as someone who has just got herself a Garmin watch this doesnt surprise me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find
Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
But not “back from Mississippi” I gather
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 04/08/2025
Do students with special educational needs make it to university? If so, where? wonkhe.com/blogs/just-3...
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Just 329 students with an EHCP got to a high tariff provider last year
David Kernohan addresses the low likelihood that someone with special needs support gets to university, in an analysis of the government's annual widening participation data release
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The headline here should say: "Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded". (The increase is mentioned way down the article.) www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
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More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees
Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
More people in Gaza died of starvation in just over 11 days than in the previous 21 months of conflict www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is long overdue www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Cabinet ministers and third of MPs call on Starmer to recognise state of Palestine
Exclusive: Rayner and Cooper understood to back action as 221 MPs sign letter calling for UK recognition of statehood
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"In language no former Israeli prime minister uses lightly, Ehud Olmert has described a proposal to corral Palestinians into a settlement on the ruins of Rafah and prevent them leaving as in effect a “concentration camp”." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
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There is a dangerous disconnect: on Gaza, politics no longer speaks for the people | Gaby Hinsliff
The government now faces a daunting task to show that society’s concerns can be reflected. It will need to do better than this, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“AFP said … that for the first time in the news agency’s history it risks losing a colleague to starvation…the head of the World Health Organization, …said a “large proportion” of Gaza’s population was starving. “I don’t know what you would call it other than mass-starvation – and it’s man-made”
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Brilliant messaging from the Green Party. Wow.
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Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨Pool Etiquette Violation Alert!🚨 Why is it always the swimmer going snail-speed in the medium lane who also decides to cut diagonally across you at the wall like it’s their personal slipway?! 😤 Rage level = chlorine boiling. #SwimLife #LaneEtiquetteMatters #PoolPetPeeves #AquaticRage
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