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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 12/02/2026

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪🌏🐵

Handwritten note saying: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

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Kate Koppy @katekoppy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

So far in #eurovision semi2, I’m appreciating more physical props on stage!

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Hey, @tjvanhouten.bsky.social , what are you looking forward to in tonight’s #eurovision semi?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Of course the greatest US president of the 20th century served this country from a wheelchair, so using mobility as an indicator of intellectual ability is both stupid and insulting, as is making a clickbait story out of something that didn't happen but someone said someone was thinking about.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

How disinformation campaigns are typically structured to engage audiences for financial, power, social-psychological, and/or physical exploitation. youtu.be/NhAzUBOLd0g

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Disinformation Campaigns: how are they structured, what are the incentives, and when are they used?

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Renewables were 92% of new power added in 2024. Low carbon sources now accounts for 41% of worldwide electricity. Though, I can’t help but look at this graph and think about how much better it would look if we weren’t retiring nuclear plants so much faster than we’re building them.

A graph of low carbon sources over the last 20 years. Nuclear 9% (down from 17 in 2000) hydro 14% (very consistent) solar 7 and wind 8 (up from basically zero)

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The public record is often written by those in power, but we can write our own. Let’s take ownership of our history. Let’s make sure our protests are counted. Let’s commit to documenting each action like it matters because it does. We count. Our protests count. Let’s make sure the world knows it.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🚨 We are not in a theoretical crisis—our American democracy is on its last breath. But from coast to coast, city to city—the people are uniting. Join our nonviolent resistance at www.FiftyFifty.one 🤝 #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #PeoplesMovement #MayDay #May1 #ImpeachTrump

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Kate Koppy @katekoppy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Come to Dilijan in July for a Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity & Inequality sponsored jointly by the Yerevan Economic School & U Chicago. Apps are due by May 14, 2025 and include: Statement of Interest, CV, 2 ref letters (PhD Students only) stonecenter.uchicago.edu/events/sum...

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Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality at New Uzbekistan University - Stone Center

The Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality seeks to provide the next generation of scholars with the multidisciplinary underpinning necessary for effective research on inequality dy...

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Just learned that my wife’s thesis advisor and my thesis advisor each had a book pulled from the Naval Academy Library last week. In their honor, please check out the list of books they banned, and go buy one of them! Lots of great titles to choose from! Pass it around.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 04/04/2025

Elon’s teenage hatchet team just walked into the Peace Corps—yes, the agency that sends Americans abroad to build schools, fight disease & empower communities. Gutting this is not “efficiency,” it’s cruelty. Hands off the Peace Corps, Elon. We see you. #HandsOff www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Staffers from Elon Musk's DOGE land at the Peace Corps

The arrival of DOGE staff at a federal agency is often followed by layoffs.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

In all 50 states, there’s #HandsOff protests happening today. BUT, there’s global protests too. Worldwide resistance to Trump & Musk’s illegal trampling of the Constitution. Demos already seen in Paris🇫🇷, Amsterdam🇳🇱 & Lisbon🇵🇹. Here’s the current scene in Trafalgar Sq, London🇬🇧👏 (🎥 Chris Hobbs)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

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AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

2 PhD students recently met at a conference & Trump's slashing of research & science bound them With only 3 other scientists they started a movement that's growing around the country On March 7 in Washington DC, and state capitals, "Stand Up for Science" will take place All details below & bravo!

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‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests

New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

🚨 Stay Prepared, Stay Empowered! We’ve created a Citizen Guide to help you navigate extreme situations like Martial Law- not to alarm, but to inform. 🌐💡Again - not sounding an alarm, just informing. Print it out or save it offline so you can access it anytime, even without the internet.

1. Introduction to Martial Law
What is Martial Law?
Martial law is the temporary imposition of direct military control over civil functions or the suspension of civil law. Governments may declare martial law during emergencies such as natural disasters, war, or civil unrest. However, misuse of martial law can undermine democratic rights and civil liberties.
Legal Foundations of Martial Law:
In many countries, martial law can only be declared under specific conditions and often requires approval from the legislative branch. In the United States, for example, the Posse Comitatus Act limits the use of federal military personnel in enforcing domestic policies.
Potential Misuses of Martial Law:
Throughout history, martial law has been misused to consolidate power, suppress dissent, and restrict civil freedoms. Citizens should be aware of their rights and prepared to respond to unlawful declarations of martial law.
2. Historical Examples of Martial Law
- United States (1863): President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.
- Poland (1981): Martial law used to suppress political opposition, leading to mass protests.
- Philippines (1972): Marcos declared martial law, leading to human rights abuses.
- Myanmar (2021): Military coup imposed martial law, sparking international condemnation.
- South Korea (2024): President Yoon declared martial law in response to escalating tensions. [Read More](https://www.csis.org/analysis/yoon-declares-martial-law-south-
korea

3. Understanding False Flag Events
A false flag event is an act committed to appear as though it was carried out by another party, often used to justify extreme government measures.
Historical Examples:
- Reichstag Fire (1933): Used by Nazi Germany to consolidate power.
- Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964): Led to increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
4. Citizen Response to Illegally Declared Martial Law
Legal Actions:
- Consult constitutional lawyers and civil rights groups.
- File lawsuits to challenge unlawful orders.
- Document human rights violations with time-stamped evidence.
Community Organization:
- Build local support networks for food, shelter, and information.
- Establish safe meeting points and alternative evacuation routes.
- Organize peaceful protests and advocacy campaigns.

5. Why Decentralized Networks Matter
In times of crisis, especially under martial law or internet blackouts, centralized communication channels may be censored, monitored, or shut down. Decentralized networks allow for peer-to-peer communication, protecting privacy and ensuring information flow even when traditional channels are compromised.
**Setting Up Now is Crucial:**
- Pre-install decentralized apps and tools.
- Familiarize yourself with offline communication methods.
- Establish local communication groups using decentralized platforms.
Recommended Platforms:
- **Briar**: An app that uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, even without internet access. [Briar Website](https://briarproject.org)
- **Mesh Networks**: Establish local networks that bypass centralized control.
- **Serval Mesh**: Designed for disaster scenarios, allowing phones to communicate without infrastructure. [Serval Project) (https://www.servalproject.org)
- **goTenna Mesh**: A popular off-grid communication tool using small devices that pair with smartphones. [goTenna Website](https://www.gotenna.com)
- **TOR & VPNs**: Mask identity and evade government firewalls.
- **The Onion Router (TOR)**: A highly secure browser that anonymizes internet activity. [TOR Project] (https://www.torproject.org)
- **ProtonVPN**: A widely trusted VPN service with a strong commitment to privacy.
[ProtonVPN](https://protonvpn.com)
- **Mastodon**: A decentralized social media platform that allows users to communicate without centralized servers. [Mastodon Website](https://mastodon.social)
- **Session**: A decentralized messaging app with end-to-end encryption. [Session
Website](https://getsession.org)

6. Emergency Actions Checklist
- Stockpile essential supplies (food, water, medicine).
- Back up important documents and store in a secure location.
- Establish encrypted communication channels with family and community.
- Know your legal rights and how to contact civil liberties organizations.
7. Resources and Contacts
Key Organizations:
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): www.aclu.org
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): www.eff.org
- National Lawyers Guild: www.nlg.org
- Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org
Hotlines and Legal Assistance:
- Civil Rights Emergency Hotline: 1-800-555-1234
- Legal Aid Society: www.legalaid.org
- Freedom of the Press Hotline: 1-888-123-4567
8. Websites and Further Reading
- Freedom of the Press Foundation: www.freedom.press
- International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group: www.iclmg.ca
- Center for Constitutional Rights: www.ccrjustice.org
- Privacy International: www.privacyinternational.org

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23/02/2025

He’s preparing to declare martial law, you guys. You do see that, don’t you?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

And the FBI is instructing employees to ignore the email as well. Also reported earlier by NBC News.

All,
FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses.
Thank you,
Kash Patel

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

New — State Department employees have been instructed *not* to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

Colleagues,

You may have received a message from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management requiring you submit five work-related accomplishments. The State Department will respond on behalf of the Department. No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their Department chain of command.

Thank you,
Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy
Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary for Management (M)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Apparently every journalist in the US went to a school where their professors let them get away with calling it "Westward expansion" instead of "colonialism."

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Indivisible Georgia District 10 @indivisiblega10.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

#AthensGA #Protest #MuskNotElected Nearly 400 people attended a protest in Athens Ga today to demand removal of Elon Musk from our government. #Indivisible This was part of the #50501Protests around the country

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South Carolina 50501 @ctraveler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It was amazing to see the turnout today in Raleigh, NC. Thank you to everyone who stood up. You make the difference. You make the change. Be the reason others stand up. #50501 #50501protests #50501protestnc #raleighprotests #northcarolinaprotests #notmypresident #notmypresidentprotest #protests

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NickB @motomd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

At the Capitol today, February 17, 2025. Sound up for full effect! "Where is Congress? Do your job!" #USprotests #50501protest #protest #50501protests #stopthecoup #whereiscongress #saveusdemocracy

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Caffeine 🇺🇦 @caffeineninja.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Protest 2/17 President’s day Salem Oregon. Approximately 300 people attended. #resist #3e #protests #protest #fucktrump #presidentmusk

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Trenton protest right now

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Today's protest in Santa Cruz

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Spirited protest near SF Tesla Dealership today NO KINGS! Hundreds present

Protest on corners adjacent to SF Tesla Store

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Some pictures from today’s protest outside the U.S. Capitol. 💙

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Caffeine 🇺🇦 @caffeineninja.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Protest 2/17 President’s day Salem Oregon. Approximately 300 people attended. #resist #3e #protests #protest #fucktrump #presidentmusk

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Marsha Coupé @marshacoupe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Tomorrow is 'President's Day' in America. We have renamed it #NoKingsDay There will be protests at every state capitol in all 50 states. There will also be protests at city hall in smaller communities. We are following the examples of the Civil Rights Movement and Suffragettes.

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The minions, as we call them, look to have gone to bed. We’re heading home…for now. FYI-Shutdown DC is organizing morning protests at OPM every day this week. If you want to get more plugged into these protests, check them out. (will provide socials when I can)

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Guess what? We’re still here. 😂 People are asking what they can do: 1) Keep calling your electeds! 2) If you’re local to DC, come protest at OPM & the Old Executive Bldg, where word has it Musk works out of. (haven’t confirmed that) Just stay on public sidewalks and be kind to federal employees.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“In truth, none of Trump's promises to the American people can be met in a world failing to deal with climate change.” A good, if understated, letter in The Times about the barrelling menace of Trump and his ruinous “Drill, baby, drill!” tyranny.

Sir, William Hague rightly highlights the omissions in President Trump's first-day blitz
"It's what Trump won't do that is worrying", Jan 20). The most egregious is climate change. There is a bizarre reference in Trump's speech to the damage done in the Carolinas by Hurricane Helene, and by the storm-driven wildfires around Los Angeles:
"Some of the wealthiest individuals in our country... don't have a home any longer.
That's interesting." He then promises a new dash for oil and gas, and has withdrawn from the Paris agreement. This is reaching for petrol while watching your house burn.

In truth, none of Trump's promises to the American people can be met in a world failing to deal with climate change. Migration will surge, whatever defences Trump constructs. Economic stresses will intensify, with renewed reliance on volatile hydrocarbon energy markets. Any sugar rush from a hydrocarbon renaissance will empower the dictators and potentates who control much of the global supply.
Climate failure will impoverish us all and make our tinderbox world yet more insecure.
We must now work with those in the US and elsewhere who understand the imperative of bringing the age of fossil energy to the earliest possible end.

Kim Darroch, British ambassador to the US 2016-19; John Ashton, UK climate change envoy 2006-12

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

An embarrassment of riches

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:

Histories of fashion, dress, and textiles are not just found in texts, images, and extant objects. The ‘embodied turn’ (Davidson, 2019) has seen scholars, curators and makers alike turn to their needles, dyestuffs, and looms to investigate how making can elucidate on how we understand the garments of the past. Joining the generations of conservators and experimental archaeologists who have employed similar methods, these maker-researchers are employing innovative techniques and practices to consider how retracing the creative processes of the past can reveal new dimensions to historical material knowledge. However, much of this research is difficult to capture and translate into the traditional written formats of the monograph or journal article. It is tacit, felt in the fingers, hands, and body, and challenging to wrangle into a comprehensible written form. Recreative Reflections invites authors to experiment with short-form modes of articulating and communicating their recreative practice approaches to dress and textile history.

We seek short essays of 1,000 words to appear as part of the Recreative Reflections section of the Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library. These may comprise of pieces of reflective writing, autoethnographic studies, or accounts of making projects and the interventions and new knowledge which they exposed. We especially encourage authors to consider the broader value of their recreative work. How, for example, might it feed into understandings of historical bodies, notions of gender, the relationship between bodies and machines, or the temporalities of making.

Reflections should be submitted to Dr Serena Dyer and Dr Sarah Bendall at serena.dyer@dmu.ac.uk by 24th February 2025.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 17/01/2025

It's fun to be back behind the keyboard liveposting a conference! Follow along today and tomorrow over at @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social if you're interested in #MultilingualDH issues of character encoding and type design.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/01/2025

I promise I wrote my new patreon post before the gaiman piece was published; I clearly osmosis’d that topic over the weekend but also it’s very sad that I could’ve written it at any time in the past decade and it would have been Topical

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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Kate Koppy @katekoppy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I have a new piece up on #Positionality Studies, a peer-reviewed blog project about identity in #writingstudies, in which I talk about my experience of racial identities and power dynamics in the undergraduate writing classroom. Please share widely! #academicsky medium.com/positionalit...

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Who Gets to Take Up Space

Beginning to Learn to Be Anti-Racist in the First-Year Composition Classroom

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Kate Koppy @katekoppy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m in a situation that has me regularly thinking, “we are absolutely the Clampetts…”But nobody else in this situation would get the allusions to The West Wing and Beverly Hillbillies were I to say this out loud. So, here you go, Bluesky, please laugh wryly along with me 🤣

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024

NO PROMISES on the raping of women by the way.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

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Kate Koppy @katekoppy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’m having one of those “physicians are the worst patients” experiences, but as an editor having someone else edit my own writing. I can tell the editor is giving good advice, but I can also see through all the polite formulas we use. Trying not to be insufferable in the places I push back.

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