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Tracy Erickson @pdxtrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

@theozvlog.bsky.social Hi Tori, you might be interested in these, the artist who did the illustrations for the recent limited edition by Lyra is selling some of the sketches: www.gregmanchessshop.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

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Greg Manchess Shop

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 09/08/2025

so a few months ago i read an article about how someone put "don't scrape" commands in robots.txt and that AI crawlers ignore that so each legit page had a hidden link that would trap the crawler into endless pages of generated garbage and listen it said in robots.txt to go away but did you listen?

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Here's the truth. You can't stand with trans people and take a gig with Rowling. It is impossible. You can make donations, you can issue statements of support, but at the end of the day you are choosing to work with the single most prominent transphobe who uses her money and platform to harm us.

I hear you, and I understand why this is painful for many. I want to be clear that I stand with trans people, and I support trans rights - fully and without hesitation.
"When I accepted this role, I did so as someone who has always loved the stories and what they meant to so many - especially those who found comfort and identity in that world," she wrote.
"I now understand more clearly how deeply omplicated and hurtful this association can feel, and I take that seriously. Being an ally eans listening even when it`s uncomfortable and taking accountability where it's needed. I'm committed to doing both."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Every day, that demented old man makes the White House look even tackier, having workers glue gold-spray-painted polyurethane bric-a-brac to every available surface. Who knew it was even possible in the United States to stand out for your vulgarity?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

NEW: @wyden.senate.gov asked the Social Security Admin’s Office of the Chief Actuary what Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would do to Social Security’s solvency — and as expected they said it will cause Social Security to run out of money more quickly: 2032Q4 instead of 2033Q1 (4-5 months earlier).

SOCIAL SECURITY
Office of the Chief Actuary
August 5, 2025
The Honorable Ron Wyden
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Wyden:
I am writing in response to your request for our estimate of the financial effects on the Social Security trust funds of Public Law 119-21, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), which the President signed into law on July 4, 2025. Among many other provisions, this law makes permanent the lower ordinary income tax rates and adjusted tax brackets originally enacted under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and temporarily changes certain standard and itemized deduction amounts. Because the revenue from income taxation of Social Security benefits is directed to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, implementation of the OBBBA will have material effects on the financial status of the Social Security trust funds.
The balance of this letter provides our understanding of the provisions of the OBBBA with material effects on Social Security program cost, followed by estimates of the program cost effects of the law change. All estimates reflect the intermediate assumptions of the 2025 Trustees Report. Effects of the OBBBA are determined by comparing to the law in effect prior to its passage (i.e., a current law baseline).
Specification for and Effects of the Law Change
Before the OBBBA was signed into law, the marginal tax rates and tax bracket amounts were set as specified in the 2017 TCJA; those values were scheduled to revert to pre-TCJA levels in 2026.
However, implementation of the OBBBA makes permanent the rates and bracket amounts specified in the TCJA. The OBBBA also increases the standard deduction amounts for those age 65 and older for years 2025 through 2028 and includes other tax changes with relatively smaller effects on Social Security beneficiaries.
The combined net effect of these income tax provisions results in less overall tax liability for Social Security beneficiaries. In turn, the trust funds will …

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Given the uncertainty about possible future effects on Social Security due to other provisions included in the OBBBA, we have limited our analysis to the effects of the income tax changes and their resulting effects on taxation of benefits revenue to the trust funds. We will continue to monitor incoming experience and modify our projections as appropriate.
DASDI Program Cost Effects
We estimate that implementation of the OBBBA will result in net increased program cost starting in 2025. Over calendar years 2025 through 2034, the total net increase in OASDI program cost is estimated to be $168.6 billion. In addition, the timing of combined OASI and DI Trust Fund reserve depletion is accelerated from the third quarter of 2034 under the 2025 Trustees Report baseline to the first quarter of 2034 following implementation of the law.
Considered alone, the reserve depletion date for the OASI Trust Fund is accelerated from the first quarter of 2033 to the fourth quarter of 2032. DI Trust Fund reserves are not projected to become depleted during the 75-year projection period.
Over the long-range projection period, implementation of the OBBBA will decrease (worsen) the
75-year OASDI actuarial balance by 0.16 percent of taxable payroll, from -3.82 percent under the 2025 Trustees Report baseline to -3.98 percent following implementation of the law. Table 1, attached, indicates that the net effect of the changes in the law will decrease annual balances for the OASDI program from 2025 through the end of the 75-year projection period, decreasing the annual balance for the 75" projection year (2099) by 0.17 percent of taxable payroll. Tables 1b and lb.n show the effects of enacting the OBBBA in present value dollar and nominal dollar amounts, respectively.
Finally, note that we will be using the results provided in this letter as an updated baseline for evaluating the effects of proposals that affect the OASI and DI Trust Funds, and particularly prop…

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Like I said, you don’t have to pay attention to all of the PR about how AI will revolutionize human creativity or whatever nonsense, when the people deploying it are open that its main purpose is to devalue and destroy human labor. futurism.com/ceo-replacin...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

PLEASE REPOST EVERYWHERE! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Kickstarter has just 11 HOURS to reach its Stretch Goals! An original covers by Katy Shuttleworth! Staff raises! Keeping flash fiction and a novella! MAKE IT SO, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/2WK5nk0

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Claire's has been tied up with private equity, in some form or another, since 2005. At this point I assume all such cases involve PE unless explicitly told otherwise. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Many will dismiss this story about an avowed Nazi running as a Republican in the California governor’s primary. Sure, he won’t win. But haven’t we learned our lesson about dismissing GOP candidates who express ideas that seem outlandish (at the time)? www.ncronline.org/news/trad-ca...

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This trad Catholic is running for California governor. He's also a Nazi sympathizer.

Kyle Langford, 24, is a longshot Republican candidate for governor of California, where he has stirred controversy for espousing white supremacist and antisemitic beliefs. "I know how to strike a nerv...

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Secondly, I keep bringing this up every time the idea to centralize the Worldcon comes up and no one ever seems to acknowledge it: if you want a single team running the Worldcon year after year, they can't be volunteers. They will be professional employees, and will need to be paid accordingly.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 04/06/2025

I'm honored to be included in "Grimoire: A Grim Oak Press Anthology for Seattle Worldcon 2025." You can order a copy from @grimoakpress.bsky.social here: grimoakpress.com/products/gri...

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Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Hi Bsky. Today I want to talk about a forgotten rising-star of 70s UK #ScienceFiction, & a mystery involving lost #DoctorWho storylines that were never filmed (which maybe you can help me solve...) This is a 🧵 about my great-uncle, the author Andrew M. Stephenson, who passed last month. Let's go 1/

The cover of a science fiction novel. The book is "The Wall of Years", by Andrew M. Stephenson. The picture on the cover shows a man wearing Anglo Saxon clothing (a yellow tunic belted at the waist with a sword by his side, and a brown cloak clasped at his neck by a heavy rectangular broach) and a strange gasmask-like helmet, standing in front of a futuristic vista. Behind him, a string of cities enclosed in transparent domes stretch out across a barren, ruined landscape dominated by shades of brown and orange, while behind it all the sky is a concerning shade of yellow. The man's lower body is somewhat see-through, while his torso and head appear solid - there is the impression that he may not be fully there, perhaps fading in or out of that moment in time as we look on.

The cover of a science fiction book. The book is called "De Aarde Voorbij", and it is an anthology containing 3 novels (one per author) by Andrew Stephenson, John Varley, and Terry Practchett, translated in to Dutch. The book cover is a dusty purple, with the title in heavy black block letters and the names of the authors in blue, pink, and taupe.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

If you are at or near Worldcon (or even if you're not) my second performance reading will take place at the Theater Puget Sound in Seattle, WA (about 1.5 miles northwest of the convention center) on SUNDAY August 17, again starting at 7 PM: www.scottlynchstore.com

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Home | Lynch

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 03/07/2025

ICYMI I'm hosting a special Writers With Drinks in Seattle on Thurs 8/14 focusing on superstars of queer SFF. Featuring Becky Chambers, Andrea Hairston, Darcie Little Badger, Cecilia Tan, Annalee Newitz and me. Book sales by Charlie's Queer Books! Tickets at townhallseattle.org.

A graphic that says Charlie's and Town Hall Seattle present Writers With Drinks: Superstars of queer sci-fi/fantasy. Hosted by Charlie Jane Anders. August 14 at 7:30 PM, Town Hall Seattle. Featuring photos of Charlie Jane Anders, Becky Chambers, Andrea Hairston, Darcie Little Badger, Annalee Newitz and Cecilia Tan.

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ConCurrent Seattle @concurrentseattle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

IT'S TIME! Here's the ConCurrent panel schedule, threaded. Schedule, registration, and donation links all at the end of the thread. Oh yeah, and registration is now open. 1/

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a man with long hair is wearing a white shirt with a blue collar and looking at the camera .

Alt: a man with long hair is wearing a white shirt with a blue collar and looking at the camera, saying "It's time."

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Translated Hugo Initiative @translatedhugo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come. translatedhugo.org

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The Translated Hugo Initiative

Putting the World in Worldcon

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 21/03/2025

These senators are—and I say this without hyperbole—absolute morons. Well, that is, except for the ones actually recognize the extraordinary power this will give the Trump administration to target online speech it doesn't like, and so are just morally corrupt.

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It's been out a month. Did you get yours? Did you enjoy it? There's copies available for you folks who meant to get it, and for those of you who didn't know you needed it. 8 Eisner Awards. 1 Harvey. Much love, some tears. www.darkhorse.com/Books/3015-3...

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Beasts of Burden Omnibus TPB :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics

This eight-time Eisner Award-winning comic book series blending fantasy, horror, and humor features the adventures of paranormal pets in ...

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 25/03/2025

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/03/2025

this is completely insane

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21/03/2025

Unfortunately I have acquired this book Zuck apparently *really hates*. I suppose the only thing to do is read it immediately so I don’t accidentally touch on any sensitive issues the next time I get asked to talk about AI and copyright.

Book: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams - orange hb with a blue square swimming pool in perspective, a pair of feminine legs poking out as if someone has dived in. Subtitles: a story of where I used to work. Power. Greed. Madness.

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Tracy Erickson @pdxtrent.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Well this post is certainly… a choice. I suppose for next weeks stupid idea he can set himself on fire to keep warm.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

No, Gaiman didn't plagiarize Tanith Lee (I have a bunch of Lee first editions, I interviewed her once, I know her work). There are a bunch of writers who did gods stuff before him (Adams, Leiber) BUT it does show something I've noticed that a lot of writers from the 80s and 70s have been forgotten-

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Joe Hill @joe-hill.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here’s the cover of my next novel, #KingSorrow and a bit about what to expect. It’s out in October and available for preorder with all the usual suspects. My thanks to Today for making a nice little splash out of the cover reveal. www.today.com/popculture/b...

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EXCLUSIVE: Joe Hill previews his first standalone novel in 9 years, 'King Sorrow'

Clocking in at nearly 1,000 pages, "King Sorrow" was worth the wait.

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Tammy S. Davies @tsdavies.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

go.bsky.app/UiGhTio #grimdarkgroup

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

America is Calvinist in lots of hateful, dysfunctional little ways, but one I recall from 2017 or so was a bunch of privileged people believing if they just got Yelled At by the right kind of oppressed person then it would grant them absolution

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/01/2025

UnitedHealth CEO was killed 30 days ago on Dec 4. Mangione is on trial for that killing. Since Dec 4, about 5589 Americans have died preventable deaths under America’s exploitative for profit health system. So—when do CEOs who enabled these deaths go on trial? www.qasimrashid.com/p/americas-h...

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America's HELL Corporations

It is long past time we grapple with the violence imposed on Americans from our exploitative for-profit health exploitation system

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Barry Malzberg's self-assessment from his interview with Charles Platt published in the 1980 book Dream Makers.

"But I honestly believe that. It's not a pose. I don't think it matters at all and I think my career in science fiction to have been a mistake at best, a tragedy most likely. But if I had to do it all over again I would do it exactly this way. I had to run the course, I had to find out. I'd do it all over again, to the same conclusion. In a way it's satisfying because there's no sense of loss, I will never have to lie awake at night thinking, what might have been if — Or, could I have been a writer. I have become the best version of what I could have been."

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

8/Per the CNN report, Musk's firms teetered on the edge of bankruptcy repeatedly btw 2008-19. During those years, he was bailed out by at least $6.7B in federal cash infusions & regulatory credits. That was OUR $. Now Musk wants to repay the favor by cutting our Social Security & gutting the FDIC.

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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Matthew Francis - science journalist, hat & cat appreciator, & someone i consider a friend - deleted his Bluesky account last week. For those of you still wondering "what is the DEAL" with that Jesse Singal guy (or even "who even is that"), this is a must-read - especially if you're not trans

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Goodbye, Bluesky

(Quasi-sincere apologies for the earworm. This is probably not a post most people are interested in, but what else are blogs for? ) So, I deleted my Bluesky account. ALF has become, for reasons far…

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/12/2024

WELL HE FUCKING WELL IS

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 10/12/2024

So, this has a term. It’s national socialism. Nazis, for short.

After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it. Today is as good as any day to return to it.

Allowable any Nikki Giovanni

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened

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Alyssa 🍁 @alyssagambone.northsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is so so important. Companies will do anything to not have a unsolved justified complaint against them.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Not sure if I've shared these before, but they are so delicious. Gift link: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...

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Orange Rolls (Published 2023)

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 28/11/2024

Egad, I hate the term "sapphic." I mean, go ahead and use it if you want; I'm not trying to control you. Personally, though, I much prefer "dykey." Here's the dykey gothic horror story that won me a Nebula Award: reactormag.com/a-human-stain/

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A Human Stain - Reactor

"A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson is a disturbing horror novelette about a British expatriate at loose ends who is hired by her friend to temporarily care for his young, orphaned nephew in a remote cast...

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Lothlórien 💙Prints on saIe💙

The tree of Lothlórien, with a vingette of Frodo and Galadriel at the base.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Holy cow, does this ever ring true.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

DRAINING THE SWAMP UPDATE:

Unfortunately I don’t know who put this document together so am unable to credit.
It is a one page list of transactions between Trump and his new AG nominee Pam Bondi. Too right is a picture of Trump in a suit with Bondi whispering something to him.
There are nine points including in the document. In summary, it covers the illegal $25,000 donation given to Bondi’s re-election PAC that Trump was fined for.
Trump and his daughter also then donated to Bondi’s campaign and she got discounted access to Mar-a-Lago for a fundraiser.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

59 years ago this month scientists warned the president about the "vast geophysical experiment" of burning fossil fuels and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. "The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings."

Cover page of a report titled "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment", from the Environmental Pollution Panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee, in November 1965

Section I. Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels—the invisible pollutant

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Tracy Erickson @pdxtrent.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just left the theater and the Wicked movie is superb. It does not feel anything close to 2 hours and 40 minutes. My absurdly high expectations were met and exceeded. Is it too soon to watch it again?

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NukeRooster @nukerooster.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Kinda wanna do one of those 80s fantasy Todd Lockwood and Micheal Whelan style themes turned Dragon's Dogma 2 with Arisen Kraus riding dragonsplauged Liam on their way to challenge the Pathfinder. #DD2 #Fantasy #sketch

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

1. It's impossible to control whether GOP Senators rubberstamp Trump's nominees But it is possible to make more people aware of exactly who Trump is trying to install in these powerful positions Here are 13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense 🧵

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