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Maud Anne Bracke

@maudannebracke.bsky.social
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Prof of contemporary history, University of Glasgow. Mum. Left feminist. Belgian/Italian/Scottish/Swiss. Thalassophile.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A very important piece - on AI theorists, the Edge Foundation, their desire for fascism, and Epstein. (And it'd be interesting to see how the European 'race realists' link in with these networks). H bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Le Nouvel Obs @nouvelobs.com · 20/09/2026
« La priorité s’écrit invariablement au masculin » : la colère de Gisèle Halimi, il y a 50 ans dans « le Nouvel Obs »
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« La priorité s’écrit invariablement au masculin » : la colère de Gisèle Halimi, il y a 50 ans dans « le Nouvel Obs »
Deux ans après sa création, le secrétariat à la Condition féminine passait à la trappe. « Nous étions devenues [ce] qui fait vendre dans une étude de marché », dénonçait Gisèle Halimi le 27 septembre 1976 dans notre journal.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is so good. Read/digest these lines slowly: “In recent months, the success of AI in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles. But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight..”
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Inequality is wrecking Britain, and it's not inevitable youtu.be/Rv3NEq8I9fw?... The real question is, how much inequality will we accept?
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Inequality is wrecking Britain, and it's not inevitable, as Understanding Economics shows
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“UK university management teams have so far struggled to take a principled position on AI, often embracing the technology uncritically and seeking to ‘partner’ with AI providers rather than consider its longer-term impact on pedagogy." (Steve Jones, University of Manchester)
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Are device-free classrooms the way forward?
US universities embrace laptop and phone bans, but professor suggests policies may be more about political positioning than pedagogy
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the reporting on Netanyahu ignoring explicit warnings of a Hamas attack days before Oct 7th, to confirmation that Netanyahu rejected a Hamas offer to release civilian hostages right after Oct 7th, without conditions, this Haaretz piece is astonishing: archive.ph/Z4lXx
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
‘Why is Scotland the only part of the UK where abortion hasn’t been decriminalised?’ Scotland is the only part of the UK where women can still face prosecution for abortion. I talk to the campaigners fighting to bring Scotland into line with England, Wales and NI In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Why is Scotland the only part of the UK not to decriminalise abortion?
As women’s reproductive rights come under increasing attack from populists, our Writer at Large meets the campaigners demanding that the SNP…
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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bring the trams back!
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Dico Jenkins 🍉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @siencyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you read nothing else today, read this! Please? @Richard Murphy spells it out how the poor are expected to fund the rich. How this government could put the interests of ordinary working people first! If someone could get it to AndyBurnham, that would be good. open.substack.com/pub/richardj...
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The FT’s view: make the poor pay
The FT’s editorial today sets out the worldview of the rich, which is that the most vulnerable must pay for the failures of neoliberalism
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.
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Congratulations to Iceland on voting to keep their independence.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Many, many UK parallels.
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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
How not to love her!
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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
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Le Nouvel Obs @nouvelobs.com · 20/08/2026
Yvette Roudy au Panthéon !
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Proche de Beauvoir et signataire du « Manifeste des 343 » pour l’avortement, Claudine Monteil a partagé plusieurs des combats d’Yvette Roudy. Elle réclame aujourd’hui la panthéonisation la première ministre des Droits de la femme (1981-1986), décédée le 18 août.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
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The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet ignored the warnings. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway
Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet continued anyway
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Something has broken within so many people in this country. Somewhere along the line in the last ten years they just gave up on the notion of empathy. For pity’s sake, some even mock and deride empathy today, seeing it as a weakness In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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The persecution of minorities has reached bloodthirsty levels
Even in death, Jason Arday is hounded, writes Neil Mackay: the cruelty isn’t just immoral and disgusting, it is making Britain look like a nation…
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just to note, Toby Young and James Orr’s Free Speech Union paid the legal bills for this guy who plans to be a future ‘Professor of Eugenics and Race Science’ after ‘the revolution’ Young himself supported ‘progressive eugenics’. They’re not even hiding their fact free racism
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/08/2026
‘The heritage of a civic arts centre belongs to the community it serves. Before it went into voluntary liquidation on 30 January, the CCA was a publicly funded, multidisciplinary arts institution.’ Helen Charman on Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...
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Helen Charman | Save the CCA
The entire contents of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow were auctioned off by a commercial asset sales...
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Perhaps we ought to take a moment to reflect on how many white male cishet privately educated non disabled men have been given jobs and promoted without question based on fabricated CVs, unfounded self-confidence and an embellished life story & whether we’ve even heard of them.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We all know there are countless academics still in post — OK maybe they had to take a sideways promotion — who have sexually harassed colleagues and students and well you’d never know it from the press… because only some transgressions matter by some people.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“So far, we hear a stream of seemingly disconnected stories: floods, droughts, food prices, energy bills, migration, and insurance. Rarely are we shown how they fit together in the bigger picture.” ✍️ Mike Berners-Lee
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Not the ‘New Normal’ Educating the Public on the Nature and Climate Crisis is a Step to Putting it Firmly on the Political Agenda – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Professor Mike Berners-Lee, chair of the National Emergency Briefing, sets out the ‘civic moment’ he is trying to create as extreme weather events show no sign of slowing
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8
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How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge
Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If @andyburnham.bsky.social were Prime Minister during the Blitz: "There is an urgent problem of bombs falling on London. They appear to be coming out of the sky. We convened a COBRA meeting to discuss it. The root causes of this problem are not something I am prepared to discuss." #ClimateEmergency
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 14/08/2026
Britain has another “ingenious” plan for Europe: single market access without freedom of movement or EU law. Niall Ó Conghaile spots a familiar problem. Britons are talking to Britons again. Why would Europe agree? @eastangliabylines.co.uk @nialloconghaile.bsky.social
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Britons talking to Britons: the Brexit mistake we keep making
Another 'ingenious' plan for Europe founders on a familiar problem: nobody seems to have asked what Europe actually wants
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Climate breakdown isn't a political negotiation. It's a scientic reality borne out in lives lost and wildfires. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefight helicopters, a cool space in every community and a maximum working temperature.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3
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The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’
The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life. When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit.
Andy Burnham to make it harder for people to claim benefits as he vows to get serious about cutting welfare bill
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’
CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.
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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵
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University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review
The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were "missteps" in its process in 2023.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
'A less than five-minutes-long Teams call with no opportunity to respond is how staff at the University of Dundee heard that their jobs, the courses that they teach and their livelihoods might be at risk. I ask members to think about that for a moment.' (Maggie Chapman (North East Scotland) 1/5
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The Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament examines what the Scottish Government is doing, makes new laws on devolved matters and debates the issues of the day.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I hope we're going to see many charges for incitement to racial hatred, incitement to violence and incitement to riot, all of which have been happening blatantly and prolifically on social media. Or will two-tier policing in the UK, favouring the right and the far right, prevail yet again?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Elon Musk is very busy attempting to incite violence in the UK. It's his response the the government's initiative designed to ban pornography on the mobile devices of children... pornography of which he is the principal supplier.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Already the cancer of Reform has spread - deep into the Tory Party, which now refers to 'anti-racism' as a 'dangerous ideology'. What society, worth the name, considers anti-racism to be something to condemn, for pity’s sake?" via The Herald
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
We must not allow the tragic murder of a
young woman turn into attacks on men
and attacks on the police
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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A disgrace. "The Court implies that individuals with profound cognitive disabilities cannot be "deprived" of liberty because their condition limits their ability to experience it—a view that devalues their fundamental rights"
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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.
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