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May Chong 🇲🇾

@maychong.bsky.social
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(she/her) Bi Malaysian poet/speculative writer in Apparition Lit, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons. Not the food journo.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14h
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 14h
A cool part of living in the woods is that every 3-5 business days, I meet a new type of lil' guy that I have never seen before in my entire life.
a Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar
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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026
3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training
Opinion under seal for now.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 12h
This week Malaysia sent a gift to the Myanmar military junta: over a thousand refugees who had sought protection from it. But criticise this action and many Malaysians will act like they’re the ones harmed.
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 15h
This was my nemesis bird for so long, I can’t even. (Yes, despite the colour scheme)
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 16h
~two more weeks for this!
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 21h
Your 3rd dose today of Anthropic settlement madness (at least from me). Authors, CHECK YOUR CLAIMS! Your situation may have changed, per this email from the settlement administrator that some authors are receiving (subject heading: Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates)
We made updates that may affect your claim.
What Changed?
Wed, Sep 30,
2026 at 5:35 AM
Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works are categorized.
In particular, where multiple claimants submitted default claims for the same
ownership interest in a work, we changed those works from agreement to
disagreement.
In addition, the portal is updated to reflect that some claimants changed their sole
ownership claims to default claims, and some claimants withdrew their claims.
What This Means for You
As a result of these updates, some works on your claim may now be categorized
differently. We encourage you to review the current allocations for your works.
How to Review and Update Your Allocations
Please use your claim number and PIN above to log into the portal below.
Claim Summary and Allocation Portal
For help making updates, please visit the allocation portal instructions.
If You Already Submitted Updates
If you already updated the allocation for a work, then you do not need to
submit those updates again. Any changes you submitted previously
through the online portal are recorded, but the portal is not being
updated in real time. If you submit multiple updates for the same
copyright number, your most recent submission will replace any earlier
submissionsWhat’s Next?
We will continue to work with claimants to help resolve disputes.
For works where all rightsholders are in agreement and where all necessary
payment information is provided, we expect to send a first round of payments in
November 2026.
If You Have Questions
Please contact us at 1-877-206-2314 or info@AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com.
Regards,
Settlement Administrator
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 23h
I'm looking to hire a Tokyo-based Japanese interpreter/research guide (fluent in Mandarin and/or English, preferably Mandarin) in preparation for a research trip in late Oct/early Nov. Looking for: help navigating a university museum/archives and finding some Meiji era-related sites/maps/photos/etc.
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 15h
One became two became three the longer I thought about it: 1. Madness of a Seduced Woman, Schaeffer 2. I Shall Wear Midnight, Pratchett 3. Ultraman Super Fighter Legend vol. 2 (Malay edition), Sagawa/Kurihara, translators unknown
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kaleidotrope re-opens to fiction and poetry submissions three weeks from today, October 18. It will be open for just one week, closing after October 24, and won't re-open again until some as yet undetermined time, probably in 2027. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
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Monet X Change: Get Ready, Honey!
Alt: Monet X Change: Get Ready, Honey!
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey there. Latest story now available to read online! "Jempo." A maquinista out to advance her career encounters someone with a different approach to competition. A (relatively?) light story in terms of tone, for me. Hope you enjoy!
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Jempo - Lightspeed Magazine
Jempo took a deep bow on the iron platform. His body flopped forward, limbs like thick braided wire. No obvious weapons in his large and rubbery hands. Little digital eyes and a bright smile that lit ...
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mfw I wander onto Instagram and seeing Reactor posting about 'T. Kingfisher discourse':
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Funny Baby Says Nope
Alt: A GIF captioned "Nope" in all caps. A toddler toddles into a room, makes a face and promptly toddles back out. That's enough Internet for everyone today. Let's go touch some grass.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Source: Telegram (Sep 2019)
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When you want to write, "The AI wants to hurt people," remember that you mean to write, "The AI company profits off of hurting people."
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/09/2026
All right, all, it’s…certainly been a day that ended in Y. Tomorrow, I get to talk mushrooms and mycology at Clarion West! You can get tickets to attend virtually here! www.clarionwest.org/event/deep-d...
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Mycology, Decay, and Metaphors for Community
From fungus to slime molds, nature has always held lessons for us in collapse, renewal, and connection—sometimes sticky, sometimes horrifying, always a little weird. Author T. Kingfisher (What Moves…
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Open call for Indonesian Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 23/09/2026
*weary voice of insect under flat rock* Also happy Wednesday! Today is a good day to buy my books because my stupid Summer Storm McBusted chimney is FINALLY getting repaired (!!) and I just paid the deposit 💀 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thread to help a trans person who has gotten some scary attention. Please help if you can.
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.
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LRR.rocks @lrrrocks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every author you admire has sat looking at their screen page, unsure if the sentence in front of them was good enough. That uncertainty didn't disqualify them from finishing the book, and it doesn't disqualify you either.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 24/09/2026
fun fact for the NY Times editors: if a computer program does what you programmed it to do, "going rogue" is not an accurate way to describe that event. Words should probably still mean something at the paper of record.
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Teegan @teegan.dog · 06/06/2026
bisexual final boss
Bisexual flags everywhere on the person and also a huge bi flag display like a peacock
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And for my next obscure inside joke, please imagine a Baltan doing that Will Smith meme but with Mars.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A freelance client ran into this recently, and scammers are getting very elaborate. PLEASE be careful out there. Here's their story: 1. Someone reached out to this client, claiming they were an editor with a big 5 imprint. 2. They said they had found my client's self-published book on Amazon
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
I'm of two minds about this information
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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If Flights of Foundry means something to you, if you've gotten something out of it - whether that's inspiration for a project or a friendship or good memories or the comfort of knowing someone out there is designing events like this... Put some money in, please. flights-of-foundry.org/donate/
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Donate – Flights of Foundry
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People alwayes aske "Wher dyd the yeares go?" when the answere ys clearlye ynto the ever-hungrye maw of the tyme wolf.
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Lizbeth Myles @lizbethmyles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Since I'm trying to self-promote more, I guess I'll take this as an opportunity to link to my essay? But, yeah, I'm really quite upset. Afaik I've not been plagiarised before. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/doct...
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Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with AI Slop 1969 AD - Uncanny Magazine
One of the joys of Doctor Who is when decades after first broadcast, a story’s themes are suddenly painfully relevant again, and you can marvel at the timelessness of the world’s greatest Science Fict...
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 21/09/2026
In 1952, Japan stripped Japanese nationality from Koreans and Taiwanese who had held it under the empire. No one was given a choice; the decree was issued by government circular. Their descendants hold special permanent residency today.
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A Tokyo Hotel Asked for Her Japanese Name. She Sued Instead
A Zainichi Korean woman is suing a hotel in Tokyo after they refused to let her check in under her Korean name.
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Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
mantle is coming along for the season. But let's get into some poet tips I've learned over the years to keep my corner of Bluesky helpful. Let's shoot for 10(?) tonight but feel free to ask questions too. These thoughts are absolutely not in order of importance after 35 years. #featurenotabug
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Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Poetry Tip: Not words on a page nor sounds in an ear, but souls talking to souls. That mindset will carry you far and teach you much, if you can keep curious
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Adam Stemple @adamstemple.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@marissalingen.bsky.social right now at her A Dubious Clamour release event on story ideas: “The thing that makes it a pearl is that it irritates you.” Fucking brilliant.
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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 18/09/2026
If you watched Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender… yesterday one of the friends who was charged with me was Lim Kay Siu aka Monk Gyatso So I’m in good company, at least
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The natural world that so astonished Annie Dillard & Wendell Berry is right outside your front door, right now, hungry to be encountered. Encounter it. Be an instrument of awe.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/09/2026
if you think ed sheeran is a spineless shitheel (as you should) and have been celebrating the bands who've quat his tour, you can join them in an act of equally principled and much more direct action right here and now, by signing up to support the Sameer Project
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Elite Ball Knowledgemon
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can I ask my SFF poet friends a question? When analyzing and judging the poetry of other artists, what do you look for? How do you think about what makes someone else’s poem worthy of a Hugo nomination? @mariness.bsky.social? @therisingtithes.bsky.social? @elismontgomery.bsky.social?
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Asia Pacific Authors Reminder, If you sell books on Itchio/ Kofi/ your website etc- I'm still seeking more authors for my Asia-Pacific Authors Blog. And I'm happy to open it up to Kobo -So Direct & Or Kobo. Would anymore Aussie/ Kiwi/ Asian or Islander Authors like a sign up form?
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
*smack smack*...why do I taste ais kacang in my mouth rn?
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing! soundandcolormag.com
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Sound & Color
A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 13/09/2026
Gotoh Masafumi of Asian Kung-Fu Generation put ¥75.6 million in crowdfunding and donations into turning a 130-year-old tea storehouse in Shizuoka into a recording studio. It's run by an NPO that rents to struggling artists at half the normal rates so bands can afford to fail.
Screenshot of a Japanese-language colocal article about MUSIC inn Fujieda, the residential recording studio Gotoh Masafumi of Asian Kung-Fu Generation built inside a roughly 130-year-old earthen tea storehouse in Fujieda, Shizuoka. The headline says he wanted to give young musicians time to fail.
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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026
An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
First thing the Blizzcon attendees see as they join the queue for this year’s show.
The Blizzard union stall set up outside of Blizzcon 2026A sign reading “Unionized Blizzard Gamemakers. We make the games!”
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Me: well, I bailed on gym for a while, but that session with the notoriously tough coach went okay! The skin all along the tops of my palms: lol u thought
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Spirited Away: Haku the Dragon's Transformation
Alt: Spirited Away: Haku the Dragon's transformation. He dissipates into a cloud of tiny glasslike flakes.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/09/2026
I have written this horrifically long and painful thing about translations in the Anthropic settlement. www.courtneymilan.com/translations...
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Translations in the Anthropic Settlement : Courtney Milan—Historical Romance Author
Translations in the Anthropic Book Settlement I have probably seen more people talking about complicated issues with multiple authors surrounding translations than anything else. This is a copyright e...
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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James W @soukoutaigi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is not mine but I think the best analogy for this I've encountered, the one people really seem to get in their bones, is "would you rather do an easy homework assignment yourself or edit the work of someone who did it badly"
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May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My traffic light sticky notes system at work rn, about 9 months after I bailed on it:
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Godfather: Don Corleone's Justice
Alt: Godfather: Don Corleone's quote "But now you come to me and you say 'Don Corleone, give me justice." A middle-aged Italian man in a snazzy tux, red flower in his buttonhole, speaks to someone with their back to the camera. He's also playing with a cat in his lap.
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