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Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: data.post45.org

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I draw on several datasets published by the great people at @post45data.bsky.social for this piece, including data.post45.org/posts/nea-cr... from @manshel.bsky.social
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The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships (1965-2024) – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset contains a comprehensive list of the writers sponsored by NEA fellowships from the organization’s founding in 1965 to 2024, including information about those writers’ demographics, educat...
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fiction has undergone a huge demographic transformation over the last 50 years. Men lost ground, which women gained. But the way some have written about it, you’d think men are, as a NYT headline suggested, disappearing. Hardly! Women have just caught up. sinykin.substack.com/p/where-have...
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Where Have All the Literary Men Gone?
Not too far....
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 287 (8/2/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely ...
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@post45.bsky.social finally has an instagram. It stinks! (I set it up.) But it kinda works. And it will get better, I promise. For now, it might be easier to find out about our new stuff if you subscribe over there. As always, everything will be at post45.org, too www.instagram.com/post45journal/
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Here are just a few of the publishers included in this small press bestseller data: - @blacklawrence.bsky.social - @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social - @floodeditions.bsky.social - @dorothyproject.bsky.social - @rosemetalpress.bsky.social Check out these publishers & the fascinating data below.
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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Annulet's "American Poetry and Poetics, 2008–2025" forum is calling and saying omg, please use this for an essay!
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is such a valuable dataset on small press bestsellers, preserving nearly 20 years of SPD's history. So much diligent data curation here, pieced together from social media posts and web archives. Congrats to Sera-Ann Hargrove and @micahbateman.bsky.social on creating this important resource.
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J.D. Porter @jdporter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is a great dataset! Among many other things it contains info about many of the poets I would once have considered (and probably on some level still consider) the *cool* poets. Your Fred Moten, your Lyn Hejinian, your Craig Dworkin, your Elizabeth Willis, etc. Find your own cool poets now!
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New dataset hot off the press 🚨 This data documents the bestselling authors and titles distributed by Small Press Distribution (SPD) between 2006-2023, including American poetry, short and experimental fiction, & hybrid nonfiction and essay. Check it out! data.post45.org/posts/small-...
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Small Press Distribution Bestseller Lists 2006-2023 – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset documents the bestselling authors and titles distributed by Small Press Distribution (SPD) between 2006-2023, including American poetry, short and experimental fiction, and hybrid nonfict...
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Issue 46 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ @post45data.bsky.social Tabular Data Style Guide ➡️ Resources to Meet the NIH Data Sharing Plan Format @marlahertz.bsky.social ➡️ AI-Assisted Data Analysis for Reproducible Research @digiresacademy.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 046
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 21/05/2026
"Make yourself a spreadsheet and folder of .txt files" is how so many projects start. I'm delighted that this style guide exists to point students to -- so many of the little gotchas that I try to remember to mention, and several I often forget about!
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The P45 Data Collective Tabular Data Style Guide is now live! If you are a researcher, student, librarian, or instructor working with cultural data, this style guide is for you. data.post45.org/style-guide....
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Post45 Data Collective Tabular Data Style Guide – Post45 Data Collective
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great news for people who read Playboy for the articles
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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
OMG this is SO good
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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Amazed to note that Fahrenheit 451 was very nearly the FIRST basically new fiction they published, in their FOURTH EVER issue; in their previous three issues, most of their fiction was reprints of Sherlock Holmes stories or excerpts from the Decameron
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The people who just read PLAYBOY for the articles ended up encountering some of the finest American writers of the 20th century. Now, thanks to Nora Shaalan and the Post45 Data Collective, we have a record of the more than 1,000 stories published by PLAYBOY from 1953 to 2020!
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Who wrote fiction for Playboy? Now you know!
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We're excited to share a new dataset, The Playboy Fiction Index, by Nora Shaalan. It includes metadata for +1,000 works of fiction that appeared in Playboy between 1953-2020—featuring authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, and more. data.post45.org/posts/playbo...
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The Playboy Fiction Index – Post45 Data Collective
The Playboy Fiction Index (1953–2020) contains metadata for over one thousand works of fiction published by Playboy between 1953 and the end of its print run in 2020.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
It's kind of amazing that Juliana Spahr, who, with her collaborators Claire Grossman and Stephanie Young, has done more than anyone else to gather data on and analyze literary prizes, has won a Pulitzer www.pulitzer.org/winners/juli...
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Juliana Spahr
A collection in which the poet takes stock of her personal disillusionment, which she uses to interrogate her relationship to her art form, community and politics.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Here's her peer-reviewed, published dataset of Major Literary Prizes at @post45data.bsky.social data.post45.org/posts/the-in...
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The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US – Post45 Data Collective
The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes datasets to the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over.
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Please consider voting for us for Best DH Resource 2025! And while you're at, cast a vote for Grant Wythoff and @teddyleane.bsky.social's _Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction_ in the category of Best Dataset! So many awesome projects—and anyone can vote.
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are very grateful that J.D. served as one of our faculty respondents at the inaugural Post45 Data Collective Grad Workshop. It was wonderful to gather with such bright young scholars and to see all the creative research they're doing with, against, and alongside cultural data.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just got out of the first ever @post45data.bsky.social grad workshop. Fantastic projects drawing and testing the limits of the literary and cultural data sets. You can find the peer-reviewed sets at the link: use them, critique them, submit new ones. data.post45.org
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The Post45 Data Collective peer reviews and houses literary and cultural data from 1945 to the present.
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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The Post45 Data Collective peer reviews and houses literary and cultural data from 1945 to the present.
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Half way done teaching Intro to Python for humanities - been great! Anyone have ideas for public datasets focused on culture for students to work on for final projects? @mellymeldubs.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @mariaa.bsky.social
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We presented on our tool for enriching and clustering book data at Code4Lib today. Check it out, and let us know what you think! data.post45.org/our-tools.html Huge thanks to @thisismattmiller.com for leading development on this project. #code4lib #c4l26
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Our Tools – Post45 Data Collective
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
James Folta (@jamesfolta.com) and F. Poretti (@fporetti on Substack) dive into our International Bestsellers dataset to investigate what the world has been reading and what great books we might have been sleeping on. data.post45.org/news/intl-be...
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International Bestsellers Dataset Featured on Lit Hub & Substack – Post45 Data Collective
James Folta (@jamesfolta.com) and F. Poretti (@fporetti) dive into our International Bestsellers dataset to investigate what the world has been reading and what great books we might have been sleeping...
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
There's so much great (peer-reviewed!) data hanging out at @post45data.bsky.social for people to explore and play with! 100 years of major prizes (and the judges)! Everyone who went to Iowa Writers' Workshop (and who they studied with)! All NEA lit awardees! The Canon of Asian Am Lit! So much more!
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 24/02/2026
TFW you discover someone went and did the thing you were struggling to do like 5 years ago. 💖 And it's open data, which is especially remarkable given how much the data broker from France (the only one I was even able to track down) wanted to charge for this kind of data. 😵‍💫
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Come “poke around” our data “to find new books and authors [you’ve] never heard of!” @jamesfolta.com makes great use of the Int'l Bestsellers dataset built by @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, & @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/find-your-ne...
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Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers.
In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyz…
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nina sabak @ninasabak.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
it makes me so happy that a column I once managed at Publishing Trends could be a source for such cool data.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Stoked to see @jamesfolta.com in @literaryhub.bsky.social talking up a dataset on int'l bestsellers built by @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social (I helped). See who the world reads! One nit: Folta sez "Sinykin is a great follow on Bluesky"—LIES lithub.com/find-your-ne...
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Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers.
In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyz…
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"The world doesn’t have terrible taste, it seems." — @jamesfolta.com writing about the @post45data.bsky.social's International Bestsellers data for @literaryhub.bsky.social! lithub.com/find-your-ne...
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Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers.
In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyz…
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Sean DiLeonardi @sdileonardi.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When we published international bestseller data with @post45data.bsky.social all I wanted was to make a Sankey diagram but never managed, now someone has. And it looks beautiful. Check it out! Source: substack.com/home/post/p-... public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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Publishing flows (no domestic)
A Flourish data visualization by cody
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Becca Cohen @beccacohen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Excited to see the dataset being used!!
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Cool new essay that analyzes data from @post45data.bsky.social to argue for the rise of literary nationalism in parallel with political nationalism substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Literary Nationalism
Why don't Americans read more European fiction? Why don't Europeans?
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Used Claude Code to analyze three datasets from @post45data.bsky.social together: NEA literature winners; NYT bestsellers; major prize winners. Made a power list of the 51 writers (out of ~7000) who hit all three open.substack.com/pub/sinykin/...
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Power Ranking of the 51 Biggest Writers Since 1965
Claude Code Changes Everything
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Started mucking around with data this morning. Made a couple interesting charts from data about all the writers who ever got an NEA grant, with data from Xander Manshel + team. Decided I’d write it up for my first post. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The NEA is a Zombie
What Was the NEA?
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
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BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering
We present BookReconciler, an open-source tool for enhancing and clustering book data. BookReconciler allows users to take spreadsheets with minimal metadata, such as book title and author, and automa...
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This project has been supported by the @post45data.bsky.social. It was initially funded by an NEH grant led by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and me. Then our NEH got cancelled. But we persisted! Matt, Dan, and I have been working on this project for years at this point.
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.
Diagram illustrating the BookReconciler workflow. On the left, a book cover of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong appears alongside “Minimal Metadata,” listing Author: Truong, Monique and Title: The Book of Salt. An arrow points to a box labeled “BookReconciler” with book and diamond icons. A downward arrow leads to “Enriched + Clustered Metadata,” showing multiple editions of the book cover and expanded metadata, including several ISBNs, subject headings (e.g., Vietnamese–France fiction, women authors, household employees, gay men, cooking), and an author VIAF identifier.
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors? This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you! Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
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Lewis T. J. Ward @ltjward.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Back again with the Selected British Literary Prizes dataset for #TidyTuesday. It was really nice to see LGBTQ+ data included🏳️‍🌈. I also had a look at ethnic diversity across prize institutions and winner vs. shortlist % for nominees from the top 15 unis. lewis-ward.github.io/tidytuesday/...
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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 02/11/2025
I created a heatmap for this week's #TidyTuesday showing UK literary prize demographics with data from @post45data.bsky.social. White British authors account for 61% of winners vs. 46% shortlisted. Men win 56% vs. 46% shortlisted. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz
A heatmap showing gender and ethnic representation in UK literary prizes, split into two panels for shortlisted authors and winners. The visualization displays counts across ethnicity categories (African, Asian, Black British, Caribbean, Irish, Jewish, Non-UK White, Non-White American, and White British) on the y-axis and gender categories (Man, Non-binary, Transman, and Woman) on the x-axis. Each cell shows the count with white text on a colored background, where darker colors indicate higher counts. White British men show the highest counts in both panels (120 shortlisted, 149 winners), followed by White British women (123 shortlisted, 105 winners). Non-UK White authors also show substantial representation (39 men and 87 women shortlisted; 40 men and 32 women winners). Most other ethnic groups show single-digit counts, with several cells having zero representation. The data reveals that White British authors increase from 46% of shortlisted to 61% of winners, while women decrease from 54% of shortlisted to 43% of winners.
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stats_33100 @stats33100.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This week's #TidyTuesday data was interesting. I decided to look into the Costa Book Awards and the gender distribution of their winners. Data: github.com/stats33100/t...
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Peter Gray @pgdataviz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Looked at the percentage of Oxbridge educated people who have won various British Literary Prizes for #TidyTuesday. I used ggbrick and, as the bricks of look like books, tried to make it look like they were in bookshelves with meh results. Code here: tinyurl.com/bddsuuc3 #rstats | #dataviz
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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
TWO great opportunities for graduate students in post45 literary studies in 2026! The Post45 Graduate Symposium @ Duke and @post45data.bsky.social’s virtual workshop for research with their data sets.
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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Excited to get to sit in on this workshop! Hopefully, @post45.bsky.social will get the opportunity to publish some articles that emerge from this P45DC event 🤩
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