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Kayla "Iacovino with an i"

@kaylaiacovino.com
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Scientist, cat owner, python coder. Doesn't know how to quit vim and refuses to learn. Volcanologist trying to make the world a better place. “Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”

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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/08/2026
Also can we please all appreciate the official Clark County logo?!
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/08/2026
The most Vegas thing I’ve seen on the strip, maybe ever.
Vertical video billboard at the intersection of Flamingo and Las Vegas Blvd (the Strip) showing an extreme heat warning.  

Extreme Heat Warning
helphopehome.orp
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 05/07/2026
Today’s moment of zen.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 18/06/2026
Just me sending my emotions into the void 🥵
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 25/05/2026
My first pocket holes! (please clap)
Photo of a wooden board with two pocket holes drilled, about 1” from each side of the board and about 1” apart. On the workbench below you can see a speed square, an. Lamp, and park or a power drill with a pocket hole drill bit in it. Reply if you remember your first Walkman.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 27/04/2026
Your moment of zen: this street in Pelham, New York.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 17/03/2026
Found on top of a stack of junk someone is getting rid of. Devastating.
Pile of black polo shirts; the left side says “ASU Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Arizona State University Center of Excellence for Energy”; on the right it says “USAID from the American people”.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 16/03/2026
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from my local grocery!
Cupcakes decorated to look like one large clover from the top, with frosting across the tops of several cupcakes pushed together. But it really really looks like a dick and bush.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/03/2026
AI is such an improvement to our lives. Thank you, robot overlords. Tech bros really doing the lord’s work.
Screenshot of an item from DoorDash that reads:

French Fries 薯条
Thin cuts of potato typically deep-fried until golden brown.
Description generated by DoorDash using Al
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 22/02/2026
Hotel notepad with the word IDEAS printed on it in large print. Someone has written “Drive thru chowder” in shitty handwriting at the top of the note.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 14/02/2026
New development: pistachios are only for the bourgeoisie.
Photo of a portion of the Southwest Airlines in-flight menu showing packs of pistachios with the text:

Wonderful Roasted & Salted PISTACHIOS

Exclusively for our Extra Legroom seat Customers.
Enjoy a complimentary premium drink and Wonderful® Pistachios No Shells Roasted & Salted or Honey Roasted. Extra Legroom seats. Extra refreshment.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/02/2026
Photo of one of those metal wall mounted toilet seat cover dispensers in a public restroom with a piece of paper glued to it that says:

"What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life-integrity."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Please flush toilet paper only.
The integrity of our historically sensitive plumbing depends on it.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 08/02/2026
I hate the future.
Screenshot showing a commonly searched term, “What is the best doorbell without a subscription?”
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 15/01/2026
And :)
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 15/01/2026
And…
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 15/01/2026
And…
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 15/01/2026
Here’s just a few
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 13/01/2026
A friend sent me this photo of a talus slope. The radial fracture in this granite is astounding. Can anyone point me to literature or other photos of this? If I had found just one of those wedges, I’d have thought shatter cone, but it’s unlikely someone put a lil TNT dead center in the boulder.
Photo of a hillside covered in large gray (granite) boulders, with grass on the flatter portion of the image closer to the observer. Jn the center there is a large round boulder. It is hard to know the diameter, as the surrounding shrubs are ambiguous in size, but maybe 2-3 meters. There is a point fracture in the dead center of the boulder with fractures radiating outward, giving it the appearance of a pizza with slices. The terminations of each slice are very pointy toward the center.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 02/01/2026
Water has the rare quality of expanding when frozen. On this dry ice is a hydrophilic gel bead made up almost entirely of water with a pliable shell. As it freezes, the water decreases in density, dramatically increasing in volume, as the shell is relatively unchanged, leaving this teardrop shape.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 26/12/2025
Mele Kalikimaka from Pele herself! Two fire fountains in Kīlauea’s lava lake, Halemaʻumaʻu. Unspeakably amazing.
Silhouetted human figures in front of absolutely HUGE fountains of lava. The sky is red, and lava flows can be seen flowing to the right on the ground.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 18/12/2025
Don’t you just hate airport layovers?
A lovely tropical garden with a small manmade stream in what looks like part office park part Star Trek set. It’s in the middle of the Honolulu airport.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 09/10/2025
“Sentry”
A box in a store showing a decorative life size inflatable snowman with children playing around it. It’s called, “Joyful Snowman Sentry”. 

The text on the box reads:
•Fast and Easy Assembly (instructions included)
• Collapses Quickly for Easy Storage
• Includes Heavy Duty Fan, Ground Stakes and Tethers
• 3 - C7 Bulbs Included
• Inflates in Minutes to Approximately 7'3" Tall

AIR FILLED!
Includes Heavy Duty fan
7’ 3"(220 cm)
Light Up!

It is marked $19.99 from Big Lots. Pretty decent price, actually. I found this on the floor at Goodwill in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

Do you think they know what “sentry” means? Like what’s the message here? Merry Christmas! Stay off my fucking property.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/10/2025
Gives new meaning to the phrase “ghost riding the whip.” #Tempe
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 26/09/2025
I stopped to admire the brick pattern. I like how this angle shows the three-dimensional layout of the brick facade.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 12/09/2025
Spotted someone moving a couch in their truck. Ah they must be moving. Ah they must have a cat.
Photograph zoomed in on the back corner of a red pickup truck with its tailgate open. A gray textile couch is extending just beyond the cab. Along the front corner of the couch there are the telltale signs of cat ownership: little pieces of the fabric torn out due to a cat stretching and scratching it.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 10/09/2025
@drnatashadowey.bsky.social I recognize that volcano in your profile pic! My mom and I in May this year:
Me and my mom posing and smoking amongst the backdrop of a volcanic landscape.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/09/2025
⚠️ Person detected ⚠️
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 03/09/2025
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 02/09/2025
If only OS’s would confirm whether you meant to click on a mailto: link

hell is right-clicking to save an image and accidentally clicking 'email image' and having to wait forty years for some email program you didn't even know existed to rise from its slumber like some lovecraftian ancient god, meanwhile the fans on your laptop are preparing for takeoff and you stare dead-eyed as the rainbow spirals, spirals, spirals. you wait and suffer this cosmic karma. days pass. "just a few more seconds" you slur. your laptop freezes and the concept of time is no longer comprehensible. your family and friends forget your name and you fade from existence.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 02/09/2025
I really really really wanna
Photo of a hand holding a Pokémon card of a Pokémon named Zigzagoon. It’s some kind of black and white dog thing with jagged fur patterns with its tongue hanging out. Looks cute. I have no idea what this thing is. In my day, we only had 150(+1) Pokémon, and we didn’t complain! Comment if you get the joke in my post.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 14/08/2025
The whole room cheered when Sarris’s ship blew up! What he failed to realize, is that the NSEA Protector was dragging mines!
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 14/08/2025
Watching Star Trek First Contact with a couple hundred Trekkies on giant screens on the floor of a Vegas Casino is something special. Thanks to the new owners of the Rio for showing the #STLV convention some love. They put on a Trek movie every night - Galaxy Quest on Sunday!
Panorama looking down onto a casino floor. In the center of the image there is a large stage area. Three huge screens hang from the ceiling above it showing Star Trek First Contact. A couple hundred chairs are set up. A bunch of people are in brightly colored Star Trek costumes. Some slot machines are on the left side. A fan dressed as Mr. Spock is sitting and watching Star Trek First contact on a huge screen suspended from the ceiling. Captain Picard is on the screen looking concerned.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 10/08/2025
In the wise words of @dasharez0ne.bsky.social admin.
A SKELTON MAD AND IT SAY,S "I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK A WEBP IS JUST GIVE ME A JPG MOTHER FUCKER "

FUCK AVIF, FUCK WEBP, FUCK WEBM, STOP INVENTING NEW FILE TYPES, THE MORE WE INVENT THE WORSE EVERY THING GET'S, THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

- ADMIN
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 03/08/2025
This is the most amazing New York Times Sunday crossword theme I’ve ever seen. Also the names look like a beam pattern when highlighted! #StarTrek #STLV #StarTrekVegas
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 22/07/2025
Throwback to the time I was an invited speaker at my undergrad alma mater, and my mineralogy/petrology prof and I rescued one of those food delivery robots after it yeeted itself into a very deep hole. 📷 @karabrug.bsky.social
Me: a late 30s white lady with short hair and a killer dark teal blazer. 

Him: my former professor who looks exactly like what you would expect - a 60 something tall pale white dude with white hair and a large white beard. 

The scene: Downward looking angle showing us standing in a stepped very large hole in a construction area. We have just hoisted one of those food delivery robots (a cooler on six wheels with a lil flag) back onto the concrete at ground level.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 11/07/2025
Bee butts. Glass art.
Glass art in a museum. They look like giant shiny bee butts sticking out of the wall.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 03/07/2025
The vote was tied at 213-213 with 10 seconds to go. Three last minute votes for yea and one for nay came in just before the voting period closed then the few more trickled in. Final vote: YEA - 218 (218 R, 0 D) NAY - 214 (2 R, 212 D) NV - 0 Speaker Johnson read the result to cheers of “USA! USA!”
Image from the camera overlooking the floor of the United States House of Representatives. It shows the vote after the voting period ended but before the final outstanding votes were tallied on screen. Text on the screen reads:

ON MOTION TO CONCUR IN THE SENATE AMENDMENT
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With votes tallied below. 

A couple dozen congresspeople can be seen standing around congratulating each other. 

This budget bill is a death blow to the American economy and solidifies the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few ultra wealthy. Millions will lose access to healthcare, food assistance, housing assistance, funding for medical and scientific research, subsidies for green energy and funds to bolster communities against the deadly and ever increasing effects of climate change, strong public schools that uphold the separation of church and state.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 03/07/2025
Still from The Simpsons. Homer in between two podiums where men in suits are standing (in the episode, Bob Dole and Bill Clinton during Clinton’s second run for President). Homer is pulling off their human masks to reveal that both are aliens.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 26/06/2025
I tuned in when they were exploring the inside of someone’s house (how??) and then we drove onto a boat! And then we honked the horn several times!
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 25/06/2025
When you’re falling behind at work, already struggling with procrastination, and some more bullshit drops. eos.org/research-and...
Screenshot from a press release from the AMERICAN FEDERATION GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES Union, AFL-CIO, LOCAL 3403
AFGE
National Science Foundation Surprise: Employees Being Relocated to
Accommodate Secretary of HUD's Palatial New Office
A Statement from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403
This afternoon, AFGE Local 3403 received notice that HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin will announce HUD's takeover of the National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia tomorrow. Currently more than 1,833 NSF employees work in the building. Many were forced to relocate to Northern Virginia with very short notice and at great personal expense when return to work orders were given.
AFGE Local 3403 has not been briefed on the exact details of the plan. The Union was told plans include the following:
• A dedicated executive suite for the HUD Secretary on the 19th floor.
• The construction of an executive dining room.
• Reserved parking spaces for the Secretary's 5 cars.
• Exclusive use of one elevator for the Secretary.
• A space dedicated to hosting the Secretary's executive assistants on the 18th floor.
• A potential gym for the HUD Secretary and his family.Little girl crying while coloring with crayons. Text says “some days, I just want to reply to emails with ‘ok’ and this photo”.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 24/06/2025
Today’s moment of zen: a female cardinal grabs a bite to eat at our feeder. She is mated to a male who frequents our yard as well, along with at least one other couple.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 17/06/2025
This is a renaissance painting.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 16/06/2025
First time getting flash on a whim. First tattoo on my arm. Love this little dude. Thanks to Babs at Lilac Studio in Fort Worth, TX!
Photograph of a close up on my inner arm just below the elbow ditch showing a fresh tattoo. It’s a skull in black outline with a yellow halo. Four short, thin vertical black lines are over the halo giving it the feeling of a little *pop*. The style is new American traditional. The tattoo is about 2” tall. The skull is looking to the right of the image, so it faces forward on the body when the arm is down. Fun fact: a tattoo with a face should always face forward on the body. Always. No exceptions. This is a universal and strict rule in tattooing. A face looking backwards doesn’t sit right on the body, and some feel it represents negative vibes that don’t belong in the tattoo. But, mostly it just looks wrong. Another fun fact: a tattoo doesn’t need to “mean” anything. It’s a piece of art. It can absolutely represent something if you want it to, but most tattoos have no meaning whatsoever. There is a sense of freedom that comes with this attitude. Lots of things that happen to you, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, are permanent. A tattoo is one of the only permanent changes to your life that you have any control over. Most people with multiple tattoos will agree. Even if their first tattoos have meaning, it’s common to get additional tattoos “just because”. Look at it this way: if you want a tattoo but worry you’ll tire of the design, you can instead realize that it reflects a part of you at the point in your life when you got it. You can be proud, nostalgic, or ashamed of your past, but that past is a part of you and your story. That said, consider whether a tattoo has societal implications or represents a famous person. Public perception of that person or that ideal can change, as can your own. You can cover up a tattoo or remove it ($) if part of your journey requires removing that ideal from your life. Many shops will cover up Nazi or other hateful symbology for free. If you’ve done that, I’m so fucking proud of you for growing and celebrating it 🌈
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 10/06/2025
Well, shit. The free COVID test kit program was ended in March. The (.gov) website to order them now redirects to a page on whitehouse.gov peddling the lab leak conspiracy theory. Good lord.
Screenshot from usps.com: March 9th, 2025: The Free COVID-19
Test Program Has Been Suspended
Ordering through the covidtests.gov program has been suspended. The program is no longer accepting orders. All orders placed before 8:00 pm Eastern on March 9th, 2025 will be delivered.
This effort was part of a federal program to provide free at-home COVID-19 tests with free shipping to every residential address and residential PO Box™ in the United States.Screenshot of the official White House website with a frankly creepy as fuck image that says LAB LEAK in giant letters with Trump in the center of the words looking angry. A subheading in small print below that says THE TRUE ORIGINS OF and then Covid-19, which is written like a signature in blue pen for some reason??? Did COVID write this?
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 05/06/2025
I didn’t believe them when they said we would all turn into our parents.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 04/06/2025
Today’s moment of zen: Icelandic sheep.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 01/06/2025
This is what unchecked capitalism looks like 👏👏👏 God bless America 🇺🇸✝️🙏 Land of the free 🦅👊🏼🔥 Home of the exploited 🤡💩🫡 We have come full circle: we ARE the huddled masses.
Screenshot of an app showing the progress of a prescription being filled. It says:

June 1, 2025
In progress
Paxlovid Standard Dose 300/100mg T
Price without insurance: $1798.19

Paxlovid is the main medication for treating COVID-19 and the only typically available.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 01/06/2025
Three beautiful blooms on one of my plants today!
A close up of a plant in a yard. There is a wooden fence in the background. The plant has waxy bright green leaves. There are three tall stalks rising from the plant with beautiful large white flowers. The flowers are unique. They are sort of boat shaped, or scoop shaped, with the long axis oriented vertically. Inside the scoop is the flower’s pistil which is like a small, long, white pine cone shape.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 29/05/2025
Today’s moment of zen.
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Kayla "Iacovino with an i" @kaylaiacovino.com · 29/05/2025
The long inhabited island of Heimaey, Iceland increased in land area by 20% in 1973 when Eldfell volcano erupted and poured lava into Vestmannaeyjar, its only town. An historic effort to pump millions of liters of seawater onto the lava flow successfully slowed, diverted, even stopped it in places.
The remains of a small wooden house that appears to be partly inside of a hill. It’s the ruins of someone’s home after it was destroyed by a lava flow. Hummocky Icelandic terrain of rocks and moss sit in front of rolling hills covered in grasses and lavender colored lupine flowers. A red-orange and black volcanic feature dominates the background. Beautiful purple lupine flowers as far as the eye can see on a bright and sunny day. Two people walk away from the camera on a black dirt path surrounded on either side by an abundance of grasses, small trees, and purple lupine flowers. The path leads toward a small but stark volcanic cone, black on top and covered in green grass about halfway up.
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