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L Avril

@queerbooklover.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 They/Them. Disabled and Fierce. Neurodivergent and proud. Artist and writer. TTRPG worldbuilder. Nerdy book lover 📚. Tea enthusiast 🫖 and foodie. ko-fi.com/LPowersCarns redbubble.com/people/CripRevolution linktr.ee/lpowerscarns

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L Avril @queerbooklover.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
It’s hard realizing that at 48 I’m nearly bed-bound due to severe chronic pain from multiple disabilities. It’s been really hard on our relationship how little I’m able to be up and out of bed. I was able to do more when I had more support and I could have my feet up while I was in the living room.
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L Avril @queerbooklover.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Without downloading any new pics where are you at mentally
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L Avril @queerbooklover.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Some will not survive this
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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.
Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. 

I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times.

Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman:
We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves
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Zach Kahn @zkahn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Hello Mueller, She Wrote, I’m Zach, a high school journalist. I just published an exclusive investigation into how 193 Trump donors funneled $2M through Guam, raising quid pro quo and campaign finance concerns. Would be grateful if you gave it a look or shared it: open.substack.com/pub/zachkahn...
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Trump's Second Favorite Island
Republican donors funnel millions through Guam, spotlighting the need for campaign finance reform
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The truth is coming out and this is why they want to stop all the research. www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
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New study confirms far higher risk of blood clots from COVID-19, than from vaccines
A health data study confirms the risk of blood clots is far higher from COVID-19 infection than from vaccination.
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The canceling of Colbert shows that corporations don’t really care how obvious it is that they’ve caved to fascism, because they don’t believe they’ll suffer any consequences for it. We need to make sure that they do.
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The John Snow Project @johnsnowproject.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Governments and certain key opinion formers aren’t being open and honest about the risks associated with COVID-19 and their actions will have long-term consequences for public health and trust in science. johnsnowproject.org/primers/hone...
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Honesty About Covid is Essential for Progress
Governments and certain key opinion formers aren’t being open and honest about the risks associated with COVID-19 and their actions will have long-term consequences for public health and trust in scie...
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“The virus gets stronger every summer and winter. It’s seasonal.” The fuck it is. WE are. And pretending like it’s some uncontrollable force of nature might make you feel better, but it’s fucking killing people, so wake up already.
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HotdogBongwater420 @hotdogbongwater420.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
LGBTQ+ Youth Safety Hotline (317) 643-4888 As of yesterday, the general 988 safety hotline removed its direct extension for LGBTQIA+ youth. The Rainbow Youth Project has provided this number to fill the need for the community.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale in Alberta @nanagale.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
themindshield.com/82-year-old-.... The only thing they deserve is to be sued. Collectively and individually for billions. This specific case has a better than average chance for success.
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Grandfather detained at appointment to replace lost green card and deported to Guatemala. - The Mind Shield
An 82-year-old grandfather from Allentown, Pennsylvania was detained by ICE agents at an appointment to replace his lost green card and deported to Guatemala, a country he has never been before. Luis ...
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✠ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽 @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Mom was a Child Protective Services worker for State of Oregon for 25 years. She told me there is danger of people shutting off when more details of sex crimes are revealed because they are so abhorrent, so offensive a need to insulate from even knowing about them occurs. We can't look away.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
There's nothing more punk rock than being kind to people
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The tens of billions of dollars being allocated to ICE could provide food and healthcare to everyone who needs it. This regime chose tyranny and terror instead. They would rather fund a militia to kidnap & disappear people, than give folks healthcare, school lunches and food assistance.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Here’s info from @prospect.org on the sequester, by @ddayen.bsky.social.
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Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
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Solidarity✊ @solidarity2025.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
📣 WE ARE WITNESSING THE TWISTED UGLY FRUIT OF 20+ YEARS OF PROPAGANDA 📣 They’ve weaponized ignorance and hatred, but we won’t stay silent 🐔 T.A.C.O – Together Against Cowardice & Oppression 💥 Join the National Strike! 🗓️ June 6–10, 2025 🔥 Disrupt. Resist ✊🏽 #NationalStrike #StandUpSpeakOut #TACO
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
As soon as we allow people to debate the worth of other’s within society, we’ve lost. We must work together to ensure our most vulnerable are taken care of, because in doing so we build a safer and more inclusive society for everyone.
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George @hannahtempler.com · 01/06/2025
i love to do a little joke but in reality things are challenging and I have been navigating some really challenging mental health issues after years of abuse, conversion therapy, and corrective rape– this pride month if you would like to help me get closer to my service dog goal that would be so rad
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 03/06/2025
A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days. EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
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Elon Musk's Reign of Corruption Chronicled in Elizabeth Warren Report
Warren’s report is focused on Musk’s misuse of political power for personal gain as Donald Trump’s DOGE chief.
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S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Happy Pride! As always I feel the best support for the community is of the financial variety and I encourage you to donate to LGBTQIA+ charities and support networks. But this year also consider buying some of your summer reading at queer owned shops! #booksky #reading #Pride
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An Official Directory of 65 Queer-Owned Bookstores in the U.S.—And Counting
From Alabama to Wisconsin, shop these queer-run shops today.
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 02/06/2025
Happy Pride Month to everyone else who is also chronically ill and high risk and unable to participate in Pride Month festivities because folks won't mask. I see you. Your love is still valid. And to everyone else who can safely attend events this month, please mask up.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 03/06/2025
"The stiffest penalty in the 66 cases was issued to Officer Brian Mahon, who [..] shoved two protesters and hit two others with a baton, and then gave misleading statements." "Last year, as soon as his probationary period ended, Mahon was promoted to detective." #NewYork #USA #Policing
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Almost Every NYPD Cop Charged with Excessive Force During the George Floyd Protests Escaped Serious Punishment
A review by THE CITY reveals that only five cops cited in the most extreme cases substantiated by the CCRB received significant discipline, and that 10 disciplinary cases still haven’t been resolved…
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
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Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Mask up NOW “A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.” www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...
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A New COVID Variant Is Here, And It's More Transmissible — Here Are The Signs And Symptoms
A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.
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Aubrey is agonizing over book two 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
For the month of gay wrath (june) you can get my sapphic space fantasy novel for only a $1 on itch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫡 aubreyennis.itch.io/name-her-holy
Book cover art for Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. The cover has two women standing against a starry twilight background with a pale sun. At the forefront Kye stands facing forward, one hand held up with a cold flame and billowing black smoke. She is wearing dark purple robes with a high color and gold accents. She has dark wavy brown hair that comes to her chin, tan skin covered in light scars, and pale gray eyes. Behind her Jude stands in profile, a head taller than Kye. She is in leather armor stamped with meadow floral designs, holding a golden sword etched with light oak leaves. Jude is white, has long auburn hair in a braid with an undercut at the sides. She has a long scar across her nose and freckles on her cheeks. The sun rises behind her. A border of flowers and stars creates an arch above them with a deep purple background.

Tropes listed around the cover are: sapphic space fantasy, get in loser we’re going to fight god, trans sword lesbian, chronically ill chosen one, literal sun/moon sword/shield lesbians, super slooow burn
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Snow Tigra 📚Ironbound Kisses 📚 @snowtigra.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Happy Pride Month! Have a list of all the queer manga, manhwa and danmei coming out this month! wellarethey.blogspot.com/2025/06/upco...
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It would help a lot of more effort was made to normalize wearing masks. It's just obvious. Smoky outside? Wear a mask. Feel like you're coming down with something? Wear a mask when around others. COVID surge? Measles outbreak? In a high risk situation? At a clinic/hospital? Wear a mask.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It has been estimated that by eliminating programs like USAID and PEPFAR, the Trump administration has effectively killed 300,000 people Over 200,000 of them were children And if Republicans cut Medicaid as they’ve threatened, thousands will die in the US as well We MUST stop these ghouls
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✨steph ✨🏳️‍🌈 @iridescentdreams.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
there's something so incredibly soft about the phrase "this made me think of you." or, "this reminded me of you." like!!!! being known is scary but then people see fragments of you in the world around them and can't help but share that love and i think that's beautiful.
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I'm reposting this cartoon by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social every day, separate from my usual thread. Because this is the Number One story.
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Release the Epstein files @hopeyy84.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 IN A FEW DAYS WE THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TAKE BACK OUR LIVES. Let maga republicans play their games with each other Make your plans and be ready We deserve better This is the spark, not the end. June 6–10: a decentralized strike rooted in care, defiance, and solidarity. SHARE EVERYWHERE
BE HERE NOW.
RESIST TOGETHER.
SHIELD OF
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JUNE 6-10°
RESISTANCE
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GENERAL STRIKE • NATIONAL STRIKE
PEOPLE'S STRIKE
PLENTING SEEDS. WE'RE BECOMING THE FOREST.
WE ARE THE SIGNAL.
#50501 IS THE STORM.
Info & updates
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SHIELD OF RESISTANCENATIONAL STRIKE
JUNE 6-10
Some want to wait.-
Wait for numbers.
Wait for control.
But WE CAN'T WAIT-the crisis is already here.
This strike isn't owned. It doesn't need permi-ssion. It's happening. It's growing.
WE TOGETHER.
THEN WE GO FURTHRER.
#NATIONALSTRIKE #GENERALSTRIKENATIONAL STRIKE
JUNE 6-10
THE PEOPLE ARE ALREADY MOVING.
NO ONE OWNS THIS.
NO ONE'S WAITING ANYMORE
JUNE 6-10 ISN'T THE END IT'S THE SPARK.
#NATIONALSTRIKE #WETOGETHER
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
There are gonna be disabled folks who can't contribute anything to The Cause. They have no money, no energy, no physical ability, no time. They will need to receive and will never be able to give back. You gotta save them, too. Especially them.
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2025
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“The cycle is vicious: Disability often leads to homelessness, and homelessness can lead to disability.” Disability & homelessness … two minority groups you can join at ANY time and yet the vast majority of people see them as personal failings that could “never happen to them”. Excellent article 👇🏼
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L Avril @queerbooklover.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Can anyone help us get some more food for the rest of the month? Even if by commenting/sharing - anything helps! If we can raise a little more, I’d love to get some fries as well if we can raise a little extra and I’m sure my wife would love a burger too. Venmo @LPowersCarns CashApp $LPowersCarns
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Silly shirt/mug design on my Etsy store [ www.etsy.com/shop/Chronic... ] and pin, magnet, sticker on RB [ www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1675... ] Venn Diagram of Superhero and Spoonie #spoonielife #spoonie #chronicillness
venn diagram of (outer circle is superhero and spoonie) and inner circle (where they meet) is -weird abilities - disappears a lot -survives by fighting -alter ego:hides real self from others -always wants to do more *sometimes wears underwear on outside of pjs
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HeatherLGo @heatherlgo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Why does this have to be the darkest timeline
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
#fatigue #chronicillness #autoimmune
Source: ripeteeth on tumblr
I simply need everyone to understand that I am tired all of the time. Literally all moments. If I ever go somewhere and do something, it is not because I am somehow full of energy, but instead that I have carefully stored up all of my little bits of energy like a dragon collecting jewels, and am now vaporizing them all at once
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Hey it’s apparently all Nazis all the time tonight- let’s stop using degenerate as a pejorative. It was literally used on people who “degenerate” the “master race”. Meaning mixed race people, queer people, disabled people, and other such undesirables.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This made me laugh for the first time in I don’t know how long.
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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentine's!
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 15/02/2025
I say “I googled” but my default search engine has been Duck Duck Go for some years now.
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Texty the Bard @textualdeviance.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Eugenics. No exaggeration. This crowd sincerely believes gutting health care and food assistance and letting disease run rampant will kill off all the weak and inferior people, leaving only the strong and those spared by God.
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L Avril @queerbooklover.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
People will die. Lots of us.
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