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Liz McCarthy

@lizmcc.bsky.social
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Wishing to live in a world where ALL people are treated with dignity, respect & kindness. A proud Jewish Londoner, interested in running and most other stuff.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
London investment bankers, lawyers, accountants make £1.2bn from takeover frenzy. Everything for sale in slicing/dicing, asset stripping bazaars. Anyone focused on the long term? UK has been at/near the bottom of the OECD league for investment in productive assets for 30 yrs.
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London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy
Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis
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Liz McCarthy @lizmcc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hampstead (London UK) at dawn this morning
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Kwajo Tweneboa: "I don't think any party should become so dependent on the donations of.. millionaires & billionaires, because then people start to question, if that party is elected into a position of power, where does influence lie?"
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Anna Mac 👑🪱 🌈🖤🖤 @annamacb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s not an easy topic but we preserve because it is important, today is World Suicide Prevention Day. If you are struggling please call the Samaritans on: 116 123 🇬🇧 they want to hear from you. If you are suffering after losing someone to suicide, 🫂
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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Liz McCarthy @lizmcc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So yet more cells for people to fill as they go through the revolving door of reoffending because prison fixes nothing! The money would be far better spent on genuine rehabilitation activities for prisoners, helping them fix whatever their issues are so they don’t need to turn to crime in future.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Following Andy Burnham's remarks about the UK's "poorest communities" housing a disproportionate number of asylum seekers, I did some digging Dispersal has become a lot more evenly spread over the past decade but striking disparities exist inews.co.uk/news/the-cot...
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The Cotswolds, New Forest and Malvern among 17 areas with no asylum seekers
New analysis shows the North West of England houses the largest number of asylum seekers - as Burnham says middle-class areas must 'play their part'
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Asylum seekers are not allowed to earn any money, have no choice where they live and are expected to support, feed and entertain themselves for months and maybe years on £49.18 per week. Government-provided accommodation must supply: 8/
Government accommodation guidelines list required linen items for asylum seekers, outlining quantities for towels, sheets, and blankets.
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Liz McCarthy @lizmcc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
And simply walking of course…. Imagine our cities if cars were the minority form of transport
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Forward Democracy @fwddem.com · 24/07/2026
This is extremely serious. A former Southern Water CEO has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the Environment Agency. Reportedly, this is the first time criminal proceedings have been brought against a former UK water company chief executive.
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Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests
Matthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/07/2026
To all the firefighters and control room staff working across London - thank you. London Fire Brigade have had their busiest day of the year this week during the heatwave. With wildfire risk high, please take extra care around parks, open spaces and waterways to keep London safe.
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London Fire Brigade records busiest day for emergency calls in 2026
The high call volume already being experienced by the Brigade comes during another heatwave, which brings with it a heightened risk of wildfires in London and could lead more Londoners to cool off in ...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong" Spot on!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026
When data centres plug into the grid, power generation has to increase. That often comes from coal and gas - and so, Google's reported grid emissions are accelerating too The pollution pumped out here causes stuff like heatwaves that kill thousands of people. This is unsafe and v v v dangerous
google's emissions for the grid
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforeGoogle's total energy consumption more than new zealand
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "It's an existential crisis" 🔥 Extreme heat caused by the fossil fuel giants is killing people. ❌️ No more drilling in the North Sea ❌️ No airport expansion ✅️ Invest in renewables ✅️ Maximum workplace temperature ✅️ Cooler homes 🚨 Now.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Venezuela... Such horror. My condolences to all who have been affected by the earthquakes.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Each year of delay to the restoration of Parliament is estimated to increase the overall cost of delivering the programme by between £320m to £420m - latest @nao.org.uk report www.thetimes.com/article/71db... (full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/rest...)
thetimes.com
Delays to Parliament’s restoration costing taxpayer £1.5m a week
Indecision means the Grade I listed-building requires expensive maintenance to address fire safety issues, asbestos and decaying stonework
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years
In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
... when a white person commits a crime no-one tries to make out all white people are to blame no religious scholars rush out to condemn Christianity no-one calls for rioters to attack all white people ... meme via Expose Racism
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Henry Nowak murder has highlighted the debate on whether UK media is complicit by repeating far-right unevidenced statements
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wes Streeting had a once in a lifetime chance to reinstate the NHS as a FULLY PUBLIC SERVICE He squandered it, continuing with privatisation £1.6 billion was wasted on profits in the last 2 years according to @chpithinktank.bsky.social - enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses
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Ben Williams @bpwilliams72.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Lib Dems control more English councils than the Conservative Party, the Green Party and Reform UK. Not that you'd know this from yesterday's coverage. The media's lack of curiosity and imagination and its inability to explore beyond the populist noise is as depressing as it is boringly predictable.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Whilst the world has been focusing on the Straits of Hormuz the Israeli government has been organising a ruthless theft of other people's land and property at the point of a gun in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. Collective punishment at best. Genocide at worst. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on ceasefires that aren’t: Israel never stopped killing in Gaza – allies must reject any escalation | Editorial
Editorial: The US is unlikely to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to comply with truce terms. Europe must take action
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 21/04/2026
Our polluted rivers Why is raw sewage being discharged so regularly into our rivers, and what are the concerns and consequences for our health? By Brian Morgan
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Our polluted rivers
Why is raw sewage being discharged so regularly into our rivers, and what are the concerns and consequences for our health?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"Small boat crossings are still increasing" reports the BBC's flagship Radio 4 Today programme. Editors could check BBC Verify, which reports they are down 35% year on year. The trend began Sept 2025, though crossings rose before that, but falling for over 6 months now if compared like with like.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Temporary accommodation (TA) linked to deaths of 104 children, 76 under the age of one, in England in 6 years. 135,000 households living in TA, including 176,000 children. Low wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, poor housing, lack of social housing. Cruelty inflicted by political choices.
theguardian.com
Temporary accommodation linked to deaths of 104 children in England in six years
Calls for ‘urgent, sustained action’ over rising number of children who do not have permanent home
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Nobody seems to be mentioning that Boris Johnson failed his security vetting and Theresa May still made him Foreign Secretary. Then the Tory members made him Prime Minister still without clearance. Conveniently forgotten by the media and by the Tories who are calling for Starmer’s resignation.
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Liz McCarthy @lizmcc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
All that training to be playground bullies!
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/
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Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds
In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wednesday’s @theguardian.com front page: Iran conflict could spark recession with Britain hit hardest in G7 - IMF www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
There is nothing newsworthy about putting people seeking asylum at risk. There is nothing in the public interest about misleading the public as to the scale of people seeking asylum based on being LGBTQIA+. There is nothing in the public interest about ignoring the barriers they face to safety. 8/
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/04/2026
New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows
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New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows
Exclusive: research finds Jackdaw field would provide only about 2% of current demand, and Rosebank only 1% Opening major new fields in the North Sea would make almost no difference to the UK’s reliance on gas imports, research has shown. The Jackdaw field, one of the largest unexploited gasfields in the North Sea, would displace only 2% of the UK’s current imports of gas, which would leave the UK still almost entirely dependent on supplies from Norway and a few other sources. Continue reading...
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
THE NEWS AGENTS Jon Sopel & Emily Maitlis “Putin is having the best day of his life with the stuff Trump is saying and doing – it’s every Russian dream come true.” #TRAITOR #FELON #TRUMP #APRIL This idiot is just like a bad joke 🤦🏻
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Liz McCarthy @lizmcc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Once again… when will the BBC learn?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
❗❗ FT exclusive: A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter www.ft.com/content/744e...
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Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack
Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is Apartheid. It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide. To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/03/2026
Cost of living: how to prepare for the ‘awful April’ shower of bill increases
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Cost of living: how to prepare for the ‘awful April’ shower of bill increases
From council tax to water, broadband to stamps, costs climb again from next month …. and that’s before any knock-on effects from Iran war
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/03/2026
Don’t upstage your friends! 19 modern etiquette mistakes – and how to avoid them
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Don’t upstage your friends! 19 modern etiquette mistakes – and how to avoid them
In a world teeming with social media and smart devices, there are many ways to upset people, whether you’re checking your watch notifications or sending a voice note without a text to explain the subject. Here’s how to navigate it all
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In fact, the Home Office's own analysis shows that harsher policies, such as those being presented by the Home Secretary, are more likely to force people into more exploitative situations, and being trafficked. 7/ freemovement.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Section One Summary

What factors affect migrant decision-making?

Migration trends and secondary movement towards the UK

Since 2017, the number of asylum applications in the UK has been increasing, by 2019 returning to levels seen during 2015-16 although the UK was relatively little affected by the European 'migration crisis'. This recent increase is likely due in part to movement to the UK by those already in Europe.

In 2019, at least I in 6 asylum applicants to the UK had made a prior application in a European country.

However, only a small portion of secondary movement across Europe is to the UK-in 2019, the UK produced just 6% of Eurodac hits relating to prior applications elsewhere in Europe.

While many entering the UK may travel through France, most top nationalities applying for asylum in the UK do not apply in France in large numbers (with the exception of Sudanese, Afghan and Albanian applicants).

Social networks, shared languages and diasporas motivate asylum seekers to reach certain destination countries

Social networks aid migrant integration to society, acting as facilitators of information relating to life in the destination country. They are considered trusted sources and are likely to influence migration journeys more than information from formal institutions.

The presence of diaspora communities can motivate migrants to reach certain destination countries. The proportion of diasporas in the EU+ residing in the UK is correlated with the proportion of asylum applications across the EU+ made in the UK (see slide 21).

Armed conflict, human rights abuses, poverty, political & economic instability and violence are factors that forcibly displace migrants

The majority (57%) of individuals escaping persecution are internally displaced within their own countries and most refugees displaced abroad stay within their region of displacement, living in countries neighbouring their countries of origin.

Of the number of asylum seekers that reach Europe, o…
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Opinion

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all

Shabana Mahmood

Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair

Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Our drug policy makes sense, @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social. The war on drugs has failed we need take a public health approach to help people, that means legalise and regulate and follow advice from proper health professionals.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
👇 bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
There are no guardrails on US or Israeli actions anymore. Haven't been with the latter since October 7 2023 and with the former since the first Southcom strike on boats in the Caribbean.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The people wanted the full release of the Epstein files They wanted Trump to be called to testify about his involvement They wanted transparency They did not want a war with Iran. 80% are opposed to it. This was illegal, immoral & won’t make us forget about the child rapists
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/02/2026
NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By @megomatz.bsky.social
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
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