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Environmentally conscious, dad of 1. Wondering what future we're leaving for our kids

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Lynn Boylan MEP @lnbdublin.bsky.social · 15h
Investors dump data centre bonds as AI borrowers face ‘Darwin moment’. Investors are losing confidence that revenues from the AI boom will be sufficient to support the vast debt piles financing data centres, www.ft.com/content/678b...
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Investors dump data centre bonds as AI borrowers face ‘Darwin moment’
Debt issued by AI infrastructure providers and neocloud companies such as CoreWeave has sunk to increasingly stressed levels
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is an untrue and dangerous take from George Lee, Environment Correspondent for our national broadcaster. Emissions do not "cancel out" other emissions, nor do they negate efforts made towards a healthier world. Shameful, climate-denying reporting. www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
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Niger methane leak may cancel 40% of Irish emissions cuts
A major oil well blowout in the African country of Niger has been releasing methane into the atmosphere over the past 18 days.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Greenland fishermen want to cull 1,000 sharks that can live over 400 years and only start to reproduce at the age of 150 with $45 per heart bounty The plan has been dropped but there is momentum growing to kill the sharks Absolute evil - spread the word nypost.com/2026/10/07/w...
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Greenland fishermen want to cull 1,000 sharks that can live over 400 years with $45 per heart bounty
Greenland sharks becomes sexually mature at the old age of 150 and are believed to gestate thier young for over a decade — meaning populations can take an extremely long time to recover.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In Latin America and the Caribbean, wildlife populations fell by 95% [in 52 years, and] 80% in Africa..." How do you even compute such whirlwind annihilation of nature? *THE* best thing we can do to alter such trends? Shift towards more plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse
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Not Here Not Anywhere @nhna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ireland cannot “credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of data centres” …or while cutting carbon taxes! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Ireland to miss climate targets with renewable energy being 'cannibalised by data centres'
Ireland could not 'credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of ...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s
Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
According to leaks, Anthropic reported a $42B net loss in 2025. This was revealed as Anthropic is preparing a massive IPO and even bigger investments in AI infrastructure. How worried should we be about the AI bubble bursting?
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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 24/09/2026
This new report blows the government propaganda on data centres out of the water. We could have built 50,000 homes instead of data centres - but the government has prioritised Big Tech.
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Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims
The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Starting to look like the artist-boycott of South Africa back in the 80s. Maybe it can grow equally big? Boycotting ALL artists who support IsraHell/ refuse to use their voice against genocide? It only takes one to start the ball rolling. www.thenational.scot/news/2655742...
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Radio station drops Ed Sheeran music after listener feedback on Macklemore row
A radio station has dropped Ed Sheeran’s music after “the reaction from our listeners” to the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour over…
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Breaking: In a potentially landmark decision, a major data centre project in Mayo has had planning permission overturned over climate concerns. More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social this evening.
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Susan @naurielsjh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Notice how often we say this and not a single person has been sued? Hmm..
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 14/09/2026
Momentum is growing against data centres. They're using a quarter of our electricity while paying half the price that households are paying. It's time to pull the plug and stop Ireland being the dumping ground for the toxic waste of the 21st century.
Poster for Online public meeting titled 'No More Data Centres - Pull the Plug' at 6pm Monday 21st September, with Paul Murphy TD, Patrick Brodie, and Ann-Louise Bresnahan as speakers
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Which side are you on? The side of abandoning Earth, and profiting from apocalypse? Or staying loyal to this planet and its people? This brilliant video from @naomiaklein.bsky.social asks the most consequential question in human history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
*Simpsons this is the coolest summer of the rest of your life meme*
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
August was the hottest month on record for the planet. What does it mean? I'll be on #BBCNews discussing ~6:40pm ET (~11:40pm London local time): www.bbc.com/live #ClimateCrisis
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 07/09/2026
It's not enough that they pay half the price that households pay for electricity. Now they're going to get cut price gas too! It's time we stopped pandering to Big Tech and their data centres which create no jobs, and use our electricity, water and gas. No more data centres!
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ChatGPT was responsible for the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in Canada, leaving 9 dead & 27 Injured ChatGPT provided "substantial assistance and encouragement" to the shooter, and even though workers saw the messages - they didn't call the police GPT-4o tendency to agree lead to other similar cases
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BLM approved a data center on public land using a 2023 study of a 19-megawatt solar farm. Town of 15,000 said no. A judge froze it. First one they tried. First one they lost. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-lipan-ap...
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 04/09/2026
Scandalously, the City Council is refusing permission for this poster to be put up. "DCC cannot approve any poster containing language or graphics that could reasonably be construed as causing offence." Trump's feelings are being put before our right to expression and assembly!
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 03/09/2026
It's now confirmed that Donald Trump will be in Dublin on Saturday 12 September. He needs to be met with a massive show of opposition. He's not welcome. The bootlicking of the Irish government doesn't represent the people.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"This year has brought us incontrovertible evidence that global heating is a real and present danger, which puts our welfare, our economies and ultimately our civilisations at unacceptable risk. All the more baffling, then, that Ireland continues to fall far beyond its climate targets at home..."
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Solar panel prices have fallen 90% since 2010, making solar the cheapest form of energy on Earth. oilprice.com/Alternative-...
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How Solar Panel Prices Fell 90 Percent In 15 Years | OilPrice.com
Solar power outpaced every other energy source in 2025, driven by falling costs, early policy bets and a global push for energy security.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We KNOW that rewilding massively reduces flooding and the effects of drought, not to mention reversing nature loss, boosting rural communities and the wider economy, and aiding against climate collapse. Why is the government still ignoring the obvious? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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seanochuinn.bsky.social @seanochuinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Myself and my entire family enjoying nature's goodness.
Bee on Blackberries
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A Dutch bank has warned that Europe risks falling into a “doom loop” in which climate damage slows economic growth, prompting governments to weaken climate policy, and so leaving the continent even more exposed to future heatwaves. euobserver.com/232026/eu-fu...
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EU fuelling economic ‘doom loop’ by weakening climate rules during record heatwave, Dutch bank says
Dutch bank Triodos argues that by prioritising “competitiveness” over tougher carbon pricing amid this summer's heat crisis, the EU is leaving its economy more exposed to future climate shocks.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the cliamte crisis?New Labour MPs take over £45k from oil and gas lobbyists
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Having burnt all my bridges with mainstream media - I have just launched a Patreon site - I’ve just put up a podcast on art, atoms, Caroline Aherne, Peter Cushing and more www.patreon.com/cw/RobinInce #patreon #podcast #poetry
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Robin Ince — conversations and blog posts about creativity
Get more from Robin Ince on Patreon. conversations and blog posts about creativity . Support Robin Ince and get exclusive access to their work.
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Ginny Stibolt @ginnystibolt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#ReplaceLawns with wildflower meadows to support pollinators & birds, to reduce pollution in waterways, & to save water. Then register your property for the National Homegrown National Park. We can do this! Our book provides this & other Earth-friendly ideas: www.climatewiselandscaping.com
2 photos the top photo labeled "Before" is of a large lawn with some brown patches in front of a gray house with white trim. Some large trees are behind the house. The bottom photo labeled "After" is of the same house but there is a meadow filled with grasses & wildflowers instead of the lawn.
Text says, "A native meadow landscape which replaced a water-dependent lawn with pollinator friendly plants." followed by 2 little drawings of a bee and a butterfly,
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Waterloo scientists Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and destroy cancer from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
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seanochuinn.bsky.social @seanochuinn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is the way...first crop 🥰
Sink full of vegetables
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Cathey🌎🦋🗽☮️❤️‍🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 💙 💛🇵🇷 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 ⭐️ @cleverhandlebars.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 06/08/2026
The government spent €100,000 of public money on a KPMG report on data centres and then deleted anything negative from it! We are just paying for their propaganda to pretend that data centres aren't driving up our electricity prices and cutting across housing and transport!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.
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Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".
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Screamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is excellent. Labour's response? More extraction of fossil fuels. It's not good enough.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
‘Renewables offer humanity an unlikely exit ramp off our current highway to #climate hell – if only our politicians & business leaders had the wit & mettle to grasp this slenderest of lifelines’ My take in Irish Examiner today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Renewables are a lifeline our politicians are too cowardly to grasp
Every month that passes brings us another step closer to tragedy
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Your regular reminder that this is only the early stages of climate change and if we don't act soon we will trigger changes that no-one can limit or control as feedback loops kick in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert
Some 19 major Italian cities - including Rome, Milan and Naples - are already on red alert, and by Monday all but two will be.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 29/07/2026
Their capitalist system is going to burn our planet unless we stop them. The climate crisis is here and yet the government is rolling back inadequate environmental protections at home and abroad. www.thejournal.ie/readme/wildf...
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Wildfires at home and abroad: The climate crisis is here, and Ireland is far from prepared
With wildfires raging across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the warning signs couldn’t be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on climate action.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We SO need to leave monoculture plantation forestry behind. It usually • Burns like petrol • Drives out nature • Drives out local communities • Drives climate breakdown • Helps kill tourist economies... • Produces crap timber • Is *highly* vulnerable to pests and diseases ENOUGH already.
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🌊💙💞 Ms.KerolynC 💞💙🌊 @mskerolync.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Europe is on fire. 🔥 The U.S. is on fire. 🔥 Canada is on fire. 🔥 Tornadoes are whipping through the Midwest. Tropical storms are getting stronger. But tell me again how climate change isn’t real?
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A weather model suggests temperatures of almost 50 degrees are possible in France. Anyone who claims there is no climate change, who disparages science in this field, or who denies that human activity is the cause, is making a statement that has nothing to do with reality #ClimateEmergency #FarRight
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
As a species, we are right now unthinkingly recreating the very conditions that gave rise to global mass extinction events in prehistory.
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.
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In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
Together, wind and solar generated 44 percent of Germany’s electricity, while fossil fuels generated roughly 43 percent, according to data from the Energy Institute, a think tank based in London. The figures represent a major milestone for the German “Energiewende,” or “energy turnaround,” a national push to ramp up renewable energy and phase out gas, coal, and nuclear power. 
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Our discussion on why governments fiddle while the world burns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...
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Europe is BURNING - why are politicians not acting?
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest The film is out now 🎞
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