iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 06/10/2026

Not at all! In fact, if you're lurking anyway, you're welcome to take a seat...

A picture of a chair in the corner of a hotel room with the edge of a bed and side table visible in the bottom right.

The caption reads "THAT ONE SPECIFIC CHAIR IN EVERY HOTEL ROOM"

Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 26/09/2026

What are you using the gel for and are you using any other products? For my hair, I use an Argon Oil dry oil spray when my hair is still damp and then use an Inecto Naturals hair serum for a little hold

Argon Oil of Morocco weightless dry oil mist

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 19/09/2026

I'm not intending to use any AI, but I have to concede that the training and distribution of OLMo adds some nuance to my stance and I'm curious to know what other people think Overall, I think the advice of @ethical-consumer.bsky.social remains appropriate

What to look for when choosing an AI tool:

• Start with less AI. Before using an AI tool, ask whether you need one at all. A search engine (see separate forthcoming guide), library database, calculator, or colleague may be safer, more accurate and less resource intensive.

• Use AI deliberately. Treat prompts like a small act of consumption. Avoid using AI for throwaway tasks, especially image generation, long conversations, or anything involving sensitive, legal, or financial information.

• Look beyond convenience. Look for small providers and prioritise companies that avoid military contracts and minimise data retention. A tool that is slightly less polished may be the better ethical choice if it means you can avoid Big Tech.

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 15/09/2026

In psychology, the transposed letter effect is a phenomenon in which letters within a word are switched, but still recognisable as the original word

The side panel of a business van with a decal reading
"STULZ" in a large font with the tag line "CLIMATE. CUSTOMISED." in a smaller font beneath

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 12/08/2026

Watching a kids movie in the cinema, so I just learned about Armoursaurs, aka we have Power Rangers at home I'd be less dismissive, but when your T-Rex is red and your triceratops is blue comparisons will be made...

Poster for Armoursaurs, featuring armoured dinosaurs, including a red tyrannosaurus rex, a blue triceratops, a pterodactyl, and orange and yellow raptors

In front of the dinosaurs are 5 young adults in colour coded armour to match the dinosaurs

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 17/07/2026

Interesting idea, but just to point out that the comparison there is British political parties compared to individual American politicians Would be interested to see you throw these into the mix as well

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 15/07/2026

Just realised that @podnews.net's own editor didn't even like this article, lol

Screenshot of a post by James Cridland (@james.crid.land), reskeeting the Podnews article "Listeners prefer AI voices, claim two studies"

It reads, simply, "Eurgh."

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 20/05/2026

I'm increasingly wondering if the books and coaching strategies that promise "ADHD is a superpower" are a product of survivorship bias, like bullet holes in returning fighter planes

"Look where the bullets are not"
A diagram of a WW2 era, two propeller fighter plane, with red bullet holes marks, indicating where planes returning from combat had received damage

This was used to identify where to add additional protection from gunfire, originally suggesting that the areas marked received more gunfire. However, the realisation was these were places planes received gun fire and survived, whereas receiving gun fire in the blank areas would be fatal

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 28/04/2026

They're using the same model as pay as you go phone plans, because everyone loves how those work

As noted in a supplementary FAQ, unused AI credits will not roll over. Instead, they will reset at the start of each new month.

If someone runs out of credits mid-month, they will need to wait for their entitlement to reset or purchase additional usage to continue using Copilot for anything other than code completions and Next Edit Suggestions.

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 19/04/2026

Every time I see someone post a logo with a multi pointed star in a circle, I have to restrain myself from responding "your flag is an anus"

The Greendale Community College flag, a royal blue flag with the word GREENDALE across the upper third. Below, a pink rondel decorated with six arrows forming a star over the centre. It looks like and anus
Around the symbol is the Latin "E PLURIBUS ANUS", which translates to "Out of Many, An Anus"

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 05/04/2026

They're taking their ideas from Douglas Adams' satire now...

“The electric monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”

From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 02/04/2026

I grew up in the UK in the 90s, so I instantly thought of Mr Motivator!

Mr Motivator holding a loose boxing pose while smiling. He is a black man with glasses wearing a green cap, and a fitness leotard, with vertical green, orange, red and blue alternating stripes and a lime green bum bag

Mr Motivator doing a tricep dip against a bench. He is a black man with glasses, wearing a black cap and a multi-coloured leotard which I think is based on the UK TV test card

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 15/03/2026

According to the source material: long term relationships and the inability to resolve millennia of sexual tension

The front cover of "Warhammer 40,000: The Infinite and the Divine" by Robert Rath

Two robot skeletons with Egyptian-style ornamentation glare at each other with barely disguised lust in front of five Earth-like planets aligned in a column

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 13/03/2026

We've hit Paranoid Android hours at Satyritowers...

Marvin the Paranoid Android from the BBC adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a square headed robot with sad red eyes

Subtitles read "I think you ought to know, I'm feeling very depressed."

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 09/03/2026

I absolutely agree, that is a highly specialised LLM trained with specific data One of my favourite essays on AI points out that anyone who needed to use LLMs was already using LLMs, and the current push really is just attempting to generalise something with a narrow use case

II. But We Need AI To Remain Comp-

Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking. Unless you are one of a tiny handful of businesses who know exactly what they're going to use AI for, you do not need AI for anything - or rather, you do not need to do anything to reap the benefits. Artificial intelligence, as it exists and is useful now, is probably already baked into your businesses software supply chain.

Source: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 04/03/2026

I genuinely thought this was advertising a tie-in for the @chucktingle.bsky.social RPG

Cover for "The Tingleverse: The Official Chuck Tingle Role-Playing Game" By Chuck Tingle.

The title is written in a Wild West-style font on a wooden sign. The background appears to be a mountain behind a lake, surrounded by pine trees, at sunset.

Beneath the sign is a shirtless dinosaur facing the viewer with defined muscles, wearing a cowboy hat, and jeans with chaps.

To the left and behind the dinosaur is a sasquatch looking off panel, to the right and behind is an elf carrying a bow, wearing an open backed top and a quiver of arrows.

Rising from beneath the group are three black tentacles.

The authors name is written jauntily across the crotch of the cowboy dinosaur, in a way that is probably coincidental, but feels relevant after staring at this image for ten minutes writing alt-text.

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 02/03/2026

New month means new #skircle! Say hi if you're there!

Vic Collin's skircle

Inner Circle:
@caphurricane.bsky.social
@yuraite.bsky.social
@praxisandtheory.bsky.social
@skawtzilla.bsky.social
@lilycowbelle.bsky.social
@naolindavis.art
@lookwhosfhtagn.bsky.social
@jamiejamesbs.bsky.social

Middle Circle:
@mynxdelynx.top
@kirynn.bsky.social
@isaacanzu.bsky.social
@amabel.bsky.social
@queerbuccaneer.gay
@bocovt.bsky.social
@drazovthewicked.bsky.social
@violetbranwen.bsky.social
@rox4.bsky.social
@monologueart.bsky.social
@hanzoravenspear.bsky.social
@pupunamai.bsky.social
@girafastev.bsky.social
@hesper.positivt.space
@monologuensfw.bsky.social

Outer Circle:
@potatevt.bsky.social
@brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social
@itsnoellenow.bsky.social
@lotusenta.gay
@floofnfluff.bsky.social
@vixwytch.bsky.social
@alasdairstuart.com
@meredithnudo.blacksky.app
@claudethered.vtubers.social
@sparkysummers.vtubers.social
@voicesbyzane.bsky.social
@phroobin.gay
@madilynnalchemist.bsky.social
@orlandohno.bsky.social
@artwomble.bsky.social
@darknightprincess.bsky.social
@garius.bsky.social
@marzgurl.com
@dandyfloss.bsky.social
@zackaryxanatos.bsky.social
@cecilnyx.bsky.social
@baa.bsky.social
@zenotia.bsky.social
@emrys.gay
@zal-cryptid.bsky.social
@andycruns.bsky.social

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 28/02/2026

If I'm going to show off, I may as well go all in

A white masc presenting person with Mohawk and beard in gym wear, standing in front of a squat rack and weights, flexing a bicep and throwing the horns

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 02/02/2026

I've never done a Skircle before, but these are some lovely faces that I'm glad to be in the orbit of!

@satyricorner.live's skircle

Inner Circle:
@skawtzilla.bsky.social
@caphurricane.bsky.social
@yuraite.bsky.social
@lotusenta.gay
@hesper.positivt.space
@mynxdelynx.top
@lookwhosfhtagn.bsky.social
@praxisandtheory.bsky.social

Middle Circle:
@flailmorpho.bsky.social
@isaacanzu.bsky.social
@monologuensfw.bsky.social
@byssworks.com
@bocovt.bsky.social
@vixwytch.bsky.social
@dandyfloss.bsky.social
@lilycowbelle.bsky.social
@rox4.bsky.social
@itsnoellenow.bsky.social
@queerbuccaneer.gay
@v3xxe-vt.bsky.social
@meredithnudo.blacksky.app
@kirynn.bsky.social
@tentacle.gay

Outer Circle:
@claudethered.vtubers.social
@sparkysummers.vtubers.social
@mysterywrestling.bsky.social
@listentocrass.lesbian.cat
@zal-cryptid.bsky.social
@bonnicula.bsky.social
@pupunamai.bsky.social
@monologueart.bsky.social
@kiddbanditpro.bsky.social
@emrys.gay
@darknightprincess.bsky.social
@naolindavis.art
@theneoncaster.bsky.social
@ursamajorbrat.bsky.social
@kharne83.bsky.social
@twinksatan.gay
@hanzoravenspear.bsky.social
@ricdesi.dpad.fm
@gemma-babbler.com
@kreep.gay
@jamiejamesbs.bsky.social
@rowanveetee.bsky.social
@floofnfluff.bsky.social
@comeandgotavern.bsky.social
@violetbranwen.bsky.social
@wrenmoo.bsky.social

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 30/01/2026

You need a Boco manip of this meme with omg boots hi!!!

Meme template
First panel has a stick figure sat in a dark, gloomy space
Second panel has the room brighter, the stick figure standing with their arms raised saying "omg [blank space] hi!!!"

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 30/01/2026

Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Gabe Newell

Steam Board Game Fest
Jan 26 - Feb 2 at 10am PT

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 25/01/2026

What the fuck actually is a lemming?

The cover of Lemmings for the SNES, lemmings are depicted as humanoid creatures with peach skin, wide, round noses and green hair, wearing blue body stockings and red shoes

A definition reads "lem-mings ("lem-ings"): adorable yet incredibly stupid creatures. Without you help they have no chance for survival."

A lemming from "Grizzy and The Lemmings", it looks like a blue hamster, round body and head with no visible neck, big eyes, black snout and buck teeth, with a white belly and peach coloured hands and feet

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 16/01/2026

I didn't realise I was so close to being "notable" (From the vtuber wiki "Notability Standards" page)

VTubers whose primary language(s) includes non-Japanese: >500 subscribers on any video service to be considered notable. This would be <400 VTubers.

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 10/01/2026

Bouncing ideas around with a friend for an upcoming Paranoia TTRPG stream, this is how I know I'm hitting the right tone

Received WhatsApp message reading "why are you like this"

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 07/01/2026

A little light reading for the train

The player's handbook and gamemaster's handbook for the 2016 edition of Paranoia

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 16/12/2025

The author doesn't actually talk about the wider modern corporate surge on AI, just a few niche cases that predate the current rush. I'm reminded of the quote below, from the seminal work on AI: "I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again" (Source ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...)

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 12/12/2025

I'm a bit late to the party with this, but here's my #twitchrecap for 2025, plus 2024's for comparison! I thought I'd received far fewer new followers compared to last year, but it's probably in line with the fact that I did fewer streams overall Next year, hopefully I can stream more regularly!

Twitch Recap 2025 for satyricorner channel
New Followers: 81
Total Hours Watched: 457
New Subscribers: 2

Top Categories:
Atomfall (Top 10%!)
Hollow Knight: Silksong
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Balatro (Top 10%)
Drop Duchy (Top 10%)

Total Streams: 58
Chats Received: 6.69K
(A picture of a joint of ham for some reason)
Top Channel Emote: A picture of chibi Loxley holding a knife and smiling

Twitch Recap 2024 for satyricorner channel
"Raiding Action Star of the Year"

New Followers: 120
Total Hours Watched: 748
New Subscribers: 7

Top Categories:
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Top 10%)
Hades (Top 10%)
Steamworld: Heist (Top 10%)
Fights in Tight Spaces
Dicey Dungeons (Top 10%)

Total Streams: 82
Chats Received: 11.5K
Clips: 6
Top Channel Emote: A picture of chibi Loxley holding a knife and smiling

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 01/12/2025

Ah, the old I ain't reading all that gambit

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 28/11/2025

But that relies on availability, which can vary. I found the below Reddit response from a librarian who purchases TTRPGs for their library I'll briefly acknowledge piracy, but it still requires AWARENESS of games to try out AND it's going to hit small publishers far more than giants like WOTC 6/10

A screen shot of a reddit response
coreypress • 2y ago
I'm a librarian and I buy RPGs for my library. So I know library RPG collection exist, they just vary from library to library.

It's tricky to balance the cost vs use. I can stock D&D pretty easily, but when it comes to smaller games (ie, most of them), it's hard to justify the cost/shelf space if they just end up sitting there (not helped by games that require custom dice). I try to base some of my smaller game purchases on ongoing programming to help justify them come budget season.

One thing you can try is talking to your library interlibrary loan department. They can search libraries through out the (I'm assuming you're in the) US and order materials from them for you. It might take awhile to get to you and may cost a small fee (your library system depending), but they'll get the thing for you.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/16ue339/comment/k2kn4kv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 27/11/2025

Was there? I can only find reference to the Flour Wars in France Unless you're talking about the hostility that occurs when someone asks for the correct name of... the item below

A pile of five small, round, individual portions of bread baked in a batch, so that they have a thin crust and a notable semi-circular tear in the sides where they previously connected to each other

Due to a lot of regional variation in what people call them, arguments about the "correct" name for this food have become a meme in the UK, to the point that major data and analytics group YouGov have conducted surveys, identifying at least 5 common and 3 less common names in use

https://yougov.co.uk/consumer/articles/21204-cobs-buns-baps-or-barm-cakes-what-do-people-call-b

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 21/11/2025

I used proton to integrate email accounts; it's pretty straight forward. The easy import section sets up email forwarding and imports all your existing emails (tagged with the relevant original email address) I just replied to relevant email saying "by the way please note my new email address"

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 13/11/2025

Maybe it's depends on set up? I just finished a twitch stream where I was using a VPN I used an ethernet cable to my router and chose a server from a nearby country which was specifically marked as "streaming supported" with low use - no dropped frames, no bitrate issues, no issues raised by chat

Part of the ProtonVPN interface a tooltip shows that the server is "Streaming supported"

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 13/11/2025

This stream was on the front page of Twitch dot tv under the "Wrestling" tag, which just seems ridiculous at a time when vtubers receive bans for less and ASMRtists and h-game devs are losing their incomes from sites which grew via adult content

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 06/11/2025

Off the top of my head, Linux Mint is pretty light weight; it's designed to look similar to Windows and is generally considered a pretty easy starter distro

A Linux Mint desktop with the start menu open

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 09/10/2025

This is a really shitty product. It's like someone thought "how can we take a game kids have been playing for free for decades, and charge them for it?"

Box for "The Original The Floor is Lava!; The Fun, Physical, Lava Leaping Game" (age 5+, 2-6 players) by Goliath, priced £15.99

Marks on the box indicate that it won the Tillywig Toy Award for Best Family Fun and the 2018 NATIONAL Parenting Product AWARDS

A shit of the back of The Floor is Lava, showing 4 children, 1 is holding a 5-colour spinner, the other 3 are standing on different pieces of coloured cardboard

Content:
25 x "safety Stones symbol",
27 x "cards symbol",
1 x "spinner",
Instructions

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 30/09/2025

Decided to add a new tag to Twitch tonight, really think it sums up my streams

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 14/09/2025

The ride is over! My final time was 6 hours 31 minutes and 59 seconds! I am now on a coach back to London wrapped in an emergency blanket, but I'm thrilled that we got to £482 raised for @breakthrought1duk.bsky.social on stream!

A wet Vic Collins (white man with dark mohawk and beard) sat on a coach with burgundy panels and curtains, he is wearing a Breakthrough T1D cycling jersey with a trans pin attached, a medal and a silver emergency blanket. Outside the window, it is grey and wet.

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 13/09/2025

Just over 24 hours until the big charity bike ride and the weather's looking so bad the event might be cancelled... As long as the ride is deemed safe, I'll be going, but it does look like the weather is gonna suck Toss a coin to your rider? www.justgiving.com/page/satyric...

Event contingency
While we are planning for the event to go ahead, the forecast continues to change, and we must be prepared for all possibilities. If conditions are deemed unsafe for riders, volunteers, or support crews, we may be forced to make a last-minute decision to cancel the event. This could be necessary if high winds, heavy rain, or other factors make the route too hazardous.

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 09/09/2025

Perfectly valid, do what you wanna do Just seems weird to choose to complain about a thing you didn't care for instead of moving on with your life and ignoring the conversation Just comes across as this image

Stick figure shouting "Quit having fun" at other stick figure happily playing a game

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 08/09/2025

And people still say One Piece isn't political...

A panel from One Piece Chapter 1159
A Marine officer shouts at a subordinate
STOP THINKING!!
INDIVIDUAL THOUGHTS ONLY DISTRACT FROM THE WILL OF THE GROUP!!
FOCUS ON COMPLETING THE MISSION!!!

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 31/08/2025

And people say One Piece isn't political...

A panel from One Piece Chapter 1158
Young Gol D. Roger (in straw hat, without a mustache): I'm hungry, Marx!! Feed me!!
Marx (man with burly rounded off beard): Grub's already on. Eat all you want!!

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Vic "Loxley" Collins @satyricorner.live · 12/08/2025

Hell yeah, this is really cool and generous of you!

Bust shot of Loxley, a satyr with curved goat horns, yellow eyes, brown hair and beard, with white at the temples, wearing grey athleisure clothing with green trim

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