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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan

@screendoorpictures.com
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Director & Filmmaker, Photographer, & Armchair Anthropologist. Lover of books, languages, science & extinct nations. Creator of Trekspertise & the Wikisurfer podcast. Find me elsewhere: linktr.ee/neoteotihuacan

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3h
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 05/10/2026
15 years ago today, I stared out of an airplane window in shock at the sight of my city, Seattle. I hadn't slept in 48 hours. It looked unreal, like a model train diorama. When the airplane door opened, I was struck by the smell of trees and rain after four years trapped in a concrete box. /thread
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From NASA: How do you get a probe ready for the heat of Venus? Put it in a furnace.🔥 From Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, a model of our DAVINCI probe went through six cycles to 869°F (465°C), each matched to its planned hour-long descent. It came out unscathed: go.nasa.gov/3VYwVKR
Close-up of the DAVINCI probe engineering model, a rounded metallic vessel about the size of a yoga ball, before heat testing.
Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto
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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This whole thing is good. Watch, listen, act. But at 9:55 to 10:15 we hear the fundamental warning, now's the time to stand up and protect who you were, who you are and who you will be for 7 generations, or else they will take your data and make up any story they want www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebH...
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The Native BioData Consortium: A Beginning
YouTube video by Native BioData Consortium
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 28/09/2026
I'm one of the scientists here. Sternberg Museum holds one of the most important pterosaur collections in the world. It is extremely important that the collection remains accessible for research, and it would be a tragedy for Kansas if it has to be transferred out of state.
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Go to my Podcast to hear more. I've been saying this at least since 2019 if not earlier. Y'all are crazy if you are acting like the 1979 Common Rule and/or Belmont Report are worth more than dirty toilet paper. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Palantir has a hand in NIH’s most ambitious health initiative
The defense tech firm’s work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 21/09/2026
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Eos @eos.org · 16/09/2026
Great news about the Roman telescope! eos.org/research-and...
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Roman Telescope Begins Quest to Reveal Evolving Universe - Eos
A new era of space exploration began today with the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you want to understand what's what re generative AI, follow @doctorow.pluralistic.net and read his book The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, along with Enshitification. No one is doing a better job of analysis and critical thinking on the subject.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026
#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc
At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 15/09/2026
Correct.
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Philip C. Sedgwick @philipcsedgwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tucson moments ago...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Lahaina fire in 2023 destroyed over 2,700 structures and killed at least 102 people, leaving 12,000 homeless. The disaster exacerbated the existing housing crisis in Hawaiʻi and Maui in particular, driven by vacation rentals and remote work, leaving many displaced families struggling to rebuild.
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The Long Road to Rebuilding Lahaina After the 2023 Wildfire (Gift Article)
Hawaii’s housing crisis was at a breaking point even before the fire. Since then, displaced families have struggled to rebuild their lives.
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today's the 50th anniversary of the Viking 2 landing. An excuse to re-up this. science.nasa.gov/resource/vik...
Illustrated poster showing a Viking lander on the surface of Mars with the rising sun in an orange sky. Several other kinds of robotic rovers and helicopters that came later are also depicted. Text reads: Viking - The lander that broke ground on 50 years of Mars surface exploration.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
From NASA The Curiosity rover has now been exploring the surface of Mars for more than 5000 Martian days! Each day on Mars, or "sol," is about 24.6 hours long. How did Curiosity and its team mark the occasion? By working, of course. 🪏 1/2
Black-and-white photo of a small, dune-like ripple of sand and soil-like material. The ripple is crossed by a deep rover track.
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0wlpunk @pax-amorisque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How does time travel work in Star Trek? Perfectly fine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E168...
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Solving Star Trek's Time Travel Problem
YouTube video by Trekspertise
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 31/08/2026
I did my best, y'all. It might not have been enough. LINK: youtu.be/E168IrW_V2E?...
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 31/08/2026
Come get some! September 4, 5, & 6, 2026
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A mama chimp at The Sedgwick County Zoo is despondent as her newborn baby was taken from her after birth to get oxygen at the vet for a few days. Here they are reunited. 😍🥹❤️
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 29/08/2026
‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: More than 550 people missing in Tibet, China's state media says, in massive flash floods that have also killed at least 162 in Nepal.
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More than 550 missing in Tibet after floods that left hundreds also missing in Nepal
China’s Xinhua News Agency says mudslides caused by a glacial collapse in Tibet have left 558 people missing.
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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dick Durbin, Senator from Illinois, almost single handedly stopped the surreptitious company called Regeneron from buying the bankrupt 23 and me assets. This is something that needs to be screamed from the rooftops. We are in a dangerous cross-roads. www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
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Durbin Delivers Opening Statement In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Privacy & National Security Implications Of The 23andMe Bankruptcy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21/08/2026
Anyway read this article where I was among the folks that said that NOAA is cool and good and we should fund it because it belongs to us www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It
Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
From me: Navajo data sovereignty has its roots in a native seed bank
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Navajo data sovereignty has its roots in a native seed bank
The work in a native seed bank shows how the Navajo Nation is working to protect its intellectual property.
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
From NASA: Looking for more NASA photographs? Here are some places to start exploring: - nasa.gov/images - images.nasa.gov - nasa.gov/image-of-the... - eol.jsc.nasa.gov - flickr.com/search/peopl...
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 19/08/2026
"He who is not acquainted with foreign languages knows nothing of his own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 19/08/2026
This is horrifying.
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 17/08/2026
A bunch of us in Birmingham had a hand in crafting this movie. It is an utterly, joyful, surprising film and I think you should go see it: youtu.be/5NeIIlsNsYM?...
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The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer #1 (2026)
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
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Honestly climate change scares the heck out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we're losing because of it.

Gary P Jackson (RAT) @gary4205
@AstroKatie Maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM!

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@gary4205 | dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics.
Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 15/08/2026
I put this in as a joke in our Trekspertise video about 'Star Trek As Epic Poetry' NINE YEARS AGO! I should have placed a bet on this.
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From me: Judge rules against Tohono O’odham Nation on border wall construction
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Judge rules against Tohono O’odham Nation on border wall construction
A judge denied the Tohono O’odham Nation's request to halt border wall construction through its tribal lands.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
twitch has said that it won't be introducing labels to differentiate between channels that opt into amazon's ai training and those that don't. so streamers are taking matters into their own hands
As first spotted by Zach Bussey, numerous streamers have begun adding “AIOptedOut” to their tag selections on Twitch. Other popular tags with similar aims include “NoAI” and “NoGenAI”, with the latter managing to attract big names like longtime streamer Chris “Sacriel” Ball. While this approach is by no means comprehensive, it at least gives viewers a selection of streamers who for sure aren’t letting Amazon’s creepy crawly data-scraping bots go hog wild on their broadcasts. 

Streamers say it also sends a message.

“‘What does this do?’” wrote a streamer named Shania, who has also taken to displaying a “This channel doesn’t train Gen AI models” banner in her Twitch profile. “It gets people talking. The only way things can change is if we use our voice.”

“I'll be joining in,” said another streamer who goes by the handle Drunklockholmes. “Deception and hiding things like this is a company's whole MO. They know you don't like it, but know there's a chance that what the viewer doesn't know won't hurt them.”
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 11/08/2026
'The former president of Columbia University and Nobel laureate Nicholas Murray Butler warned that admitting Hawai'i and Alaska to the union would "mark the beginning of the end of the United States as we have known it."'
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
❌data modelling ✅ Data, modelling
Data, modelling
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 10/08/2026
Our timekeeping of hours is a digital approximation of a mechanical replica of an Ancient Greek marriage of Egyptian 24 flexible hours (hour length varied by season) and Babylonian equal-bēru timekeepeing (a bēru is roughly two modern hours - 12 equal bēru in a day).
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Fun fact: calling them the WNBA and MNBA is a fun and easy way to make some people really really mad.
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How can you not admire the Voyagers' seemingly eternal second lives, if nothing else as a tribute to engineering? From NASA: Engineers have freed up power on Voyager 2 by simultaneously turning off certain devices and substituting them with lower-power alternatives. science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...
Illustration showing a Voyager robotic spacecraft, bristling with antennas and instruments, in deep space.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"The end of the ownership cap gives Sinclair—and companies like it—even more room to turn local television stations into national political megaphones." —@status.news Remember this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHf...
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Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media
YouTube video by Deadspin
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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature apnews.com/article/braz...
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Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature
Capybaras have been making surprise visits to a Brazilian state legislature. These chill rodents strolled into the legislative building in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, last week, catching lawmakers off guard.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/08/2026
Authorities arrest a 37-year-old man suspected of starting the devastating Old Trails Fire in Washington state.
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Authorities arrest arson suspect in connection with one of the devastating Spokane wildfires
Authorities say they’ve arrested a 37-year-old man suspected of starting one of the devastating wildfires burning around Spokane, Washington.
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 03/08/2026
Action Can inside a shark's mouth.
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Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan @screendoorpictures.com · 03/08/2026
San Diego one way and Tijuana the other.
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dead domain 🐐🏳️‍⚧️ @domaindead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The city of Spokane is on fire.
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Puget Sound Storm Watch @pugetstormwatch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Unreal what we witnessed today in Spokane County and other areas of Eastern Washington impacted by new fire starts. The night is far from over. #wawx #wildfire
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 02/08/2026
This is so horrifying. I visited Spokane for the first time this spring & was so moved by the kindness & hospitality I was shown. Wishing everyone safety & care.
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'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/08/2026
Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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