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Eugene Alvin Villar

@seav4f.bsky.social
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digital crafter (coder, cartographer, graphic designer, tech writer) ▪︎ open data/knowledge advocate ( #OpenStreetMap, #Wikimedia, #Wikidata) ▪︎ Oxfordian commaist ▪︎ 🇵🇭 ▪︎ he/him 🏳️‍🌈 primary microblog: en.osm.town/@seav (Mastodon)

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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 4h
This is fantastic news! I spent hours visiting several museums in London, all free of charge, back in 2014. Some of these museums were the British Museum (home of fine looted artifacts), Museum of London, Royal Observatory Greenwich, National Maritime Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery.
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UK decides against charging foreigners for museums
The government announced in March it would explore the idea of charging foreign visitors to boost funding. But after months of consultation, the culture ministry decided against the move, saying it co...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 12h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 4h
I looked at the other site and predictably, those on the right are loosing their shit at this performance.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 9h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5h
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 6h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 22h
#TuneTuesday (Sep 29) I instantly liked “I Dare You” from English indie pop band The xx when I first heard it. The vocals of Oliver and Romy on top of a constant drumbeat and singing about infatuation makes for a pretty nice song. youtu.be/lGBn9_aEtB8
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The xx - I Dare You (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The xx
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#SilentSunday #photography #throwback #Singapore #MarinaBay #PublicArt #sculptures #HereIsSG #StreetPhotography
Wooden sculpture of the letters S and G with parts of each letter having different numbers of wooden layers. Both letters are mounted vertically on a horizontal pipe-like black-painted wooden mount with the same layered look as the letters and with the G slightly behind the S. The sculpture fills most of the 1:1 photo and is on a wooden esplanade with metal railings overlooking a body of water. On the far shore stands several modern skyscrapers behind which is a white overcast sky.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the game between South Alabama and Kentucky shows up abbreviated as a War of 1812 rematch
graphic reading

USA vs. UK
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It might be a sign of the apocalypse when you can buy peanut butter in France.
Jars of peanut butter on a store shelf
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Run Hide Fight: Infidels, the new Islamophobic movie from Ben Shapiro’s DailyWire+, currently has a 20% Tomatometer rating from 10 critic reviews and a 79% Popcornmeter audience rating on @rottentomatoes.com. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/run_hide_f...
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Run Hide Fight: Infidels | Rotten Tomatoes
Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Run Hide Fight: Infidels on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oof. If you’ve seen a lot of linguistics and etymology content on YouTube, TikTok, or Facebook, you’re probably already familiar with Adam Aleksic aka @etymologynerd.bsky.social and probably have also heard about his new book Algospeak. 🧵 1/2
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As someone who was taught the “elemenopee” version, I actually like the new one.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 22/09/2026
WWII and CryptoAG and NSA DualEC level mathematical/algorithmic encryption breaks are not really instructive about the practical threats facing targeted individuals at all, and may be more out of fashion for widespread leveraging than ever before.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If the UN Secretary-General can’t motivate world leaders to action on climate, who can? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Everyone is counting on pardons. It’d be funny if he died before that happened.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 23/09/2026
📕 📚 We analyzed thousands of pages of financial disclosures to build the definitive list of members of Congress who make bank by … writing books. Some earn more than the value of their congressional salary. In the @washingtonsun.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/money/congre...
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Federal Lawmakers Score Major Paydays From Books
Some lawmakers’ book sales have exceeded their paychecks from Congress.
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Saw a comment that said that since the Caribbean island of Saint Martin / Sint Maarten is half Dutch 🇳🇱 and half French 🇫🇷 that it was basically Belgium! 🇧🇪
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Petition to rename the two Georgias, East Georgia 🇬🇪 and West Georgia.
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#TuneTuesday (Sep 22) American singer Duncan Sheik sadly passed away last week. While many people know of his 1996 debut single “Barely Breathing”, I think that the follow-up “She Runs Away” is underrated. It’s tonally different from the first, but I love how smooth it sounds. youtu.be/JTZUVK5kd7s
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She Runs Away
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#SilentSunday #photography #throwback #Spain #España #Catalonia #Catalunya #Barcelona #SantsEstació #TrainStations #corridors #LiminalSpaces #architecture
A moody photo of pedestrian tunnel with matte bold red paneled walls, square floor tiles in various shades of gray, and a very dark slightly curved ceiling with a single strip of continuous fluorescent lighting in the middle spanning the whole length of the corridor. In the distance, the corridor opens up to a wider space with a pair of escalators visible leading up to an upper floor. There are no people seen in the photo giving it a liminal space aesthetic.
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jviide.iki.fi @jviide.iki.fi · 19/09/2026
Just leaving this here: drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
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Weird little guys of FOSS
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There ya go, folks. The self-proclaimed Genius just explained that we can get rid of our trade deficit if we all just stop eating bananas. It’s so simple. Why didn’t anyone think of that?? Come on, be a patriot — ditch the bananas! 🍌
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everyone should watch this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social.
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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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Monty 🇨🇦 @onlymonty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Go Bills!!!
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So if Pixar’s Coco is for 🇲🇽 Mexico, and Disney’s Encanto is for 🇨🇴 Colombia, then Dreamworks’ Forgotten Island is for the 🇵🇭 #Philippines. This teaser scene is chock-full of Filipino cultural references like karaoke, lechon, mouth pointing, and manananggal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8H...
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Forgotten Island | Extended Graduation Clip
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is an interesting investigative study comparing the corruption of every U.S. President from Eisenhower to Trump 47. theleahfiles.substack.com/p/the-most-c...
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THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A CORRUPTION MODEL
I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale as the men who looted their countries.
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also, Ed Sheeran is being hypocritical with his “apolitical” stance when he actually headlined a 2022 concert for Ukraine’s benefit. Washing his hands on the Macklemore debacle is just plain cowardice. www.musictimes.com/articles/842...
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Ed Sheeran Headlines Ukraine Benefit Concert With Camilla Cabello, Snow Patrol, More
Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello, Snow Patrol, and More will be headlining the Ukraine Benefit Concert later this month.#EdSheeran #CamilaCabello #SnowPatrol #Ukraine
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#TuneTuesday (Sep 15) “Do You Believe in Us” by Cuban-American singer Jon Secada is such a good piece of Latin pop music from the early 1990s. It also has a Spanish version titled “Cree en nuestro amor”. youtu.be/h5vTvXp2ZzA
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Do You Believe In Us
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tonight’s conjunction of the waxing crescent Moon and Venus is very pretty. ☾♀☌
Grainy night sky photo of a crescent moon with the bright side facing the bottom right and a bright Venus approximately half a degree to the upper-left of the moon
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Hélène Cook Photo 📷 @helene-cook.eu · 12/09/2026
'Smiling Manta-Ray' #metro #Munich #photography #architecture #urbanphotography #architecturephotography #metrophotography #UBahn #münchen #BlueSkyArtShow #undulating #ECK #STUNDAY #SilentSunday #SundayShadows #subway 📸©helene-cook.eu
Symetrical wide-angle view of a white canopy on the ceiling at Am Hart U-Bahn station in München, that extends and ondulates on each side of the picture like the wings of a white Manta Ray facing the viewer. Two lit circles in the center look like a pair of eyes. The station is empty and its wall are dark blue, emphasising the impression that a Manta Ray is swimming in the sea.
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@ e d e l s u e s z <3 @edelsuesz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Nachtlinie #SilentSunday
Aufnahme in schwarzweiß, bei Nacht in einem Linienbus, Blick nach oben, zwei beleuchtete Lichtstreifen, zwischen Haltestangen ein kreisrunder Spiegel über dem Ausstieg, ringsherum Dunkelheit
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
#SilentSunday #photography #911anniversary #NYC
Photo of the midtown Manhattan skyline at night, with the lights reflected by the Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. 

Many building spires are blue for the 20th anniversary. One spire shows the American Flag waving (though it looks pretty yellow here). There are two beams of light replacing the Twin Towers, though you may have to zoom in to see they're not one beam die to the angle.
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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Room With A View (2026) (When 2430m elevation is near the bottom of the valley and the glacier(s) almost still reaching till the doorstep when that hut was built in 1928... now retracted by almost 4km...) #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains #Glacier #Hiking
View of a mountain hut at the mouth of a high alpine glacial valley with steep rocky mountains on either side. The view shows the entire valley with the remaining glacier near the highest peak in the background and its outflow creek meandering through the valley. It's mid afternoon and the ridge on the right is casting harsh cold shadows. The hut and side buildings, on the other side of the valley, is still in the bright sun, surrounded by yellow/brown grasses among the bare scraped off rocks... Clear blue sky.
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
#SilentSunday
A beach looking out over the ocean. The majority of the image is of the sea: there is a tiny strip of sky beyond the horizon at the top, and the lowest fifth of the image is of a pebbly beach.

In the centre of that beach, looking away from us, a person sits, staring out to sea. Apart from the person there are no other manmade features visible at all.
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Bastiaan @lichtsignaal.nl · 13/09/2026
I'm not a (very) religious person, but I can never seem to walk by a church without peaking inside if possible. A small one in Winterberg for a bit of silent reflection or just sitting for a bit. #BlueSkyArtShow #SilentSunday #Photography #EastCoastKin #Architecture #Winterberg #Church
A portrait colour photo of the inside of a small, typical lutheran German, church taken from eyes height down the aisle towards the altar. Pristine dark wooden pews left and right, everything is symmetrical. Some small ornaments on the walls., but nothing more than that. The white walls contrast very nice with the wooden pews. On the end behind the altar is a small green light. There are minimal decorations on the classical built curved ceiling. The maximum height of this church is about seven meters  would be my guess.
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mitchseaver.bsky.social @mitchseaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Smooth Sunset - Southeast Alaska #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #nature #clouds #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #seascape #travel #TravelPhotography #Scape #BlueSkyArtShow #Minimal #Stunday #SilentSunday #PhotographersUnited #ECK #Alaska #sunset #ColorADay #OrangeSun
Inside Passage sunset - Southeast Alaska
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧵 1/2: Looking back at this map, an itch needed to be scratched. I created it as part of the 2024 #30DayMapChallenge and so I didn’t really have time to polish it... seav.github.io/osm-cavite-m...
Screenshot of an animated map. The map is dark themed and depicts the Philippines centered in the province of Cavite. Three colored tracks representing three journeys are overlaid on the map. Spanning the left side is a description titled “Cavite Road Network Mapping Party” and two paragraphs explaining the map. This is followed by a list of the three teams with their members (red team: Rally, Rem, Rhodor; orange team: Eugene, Ian, Ian’s mom; green team: Sorbi, Maning, Ernest). There is a minimalist analog clock on the lower-right corner with a time indicating ~4:34. Below that are two buttons depicting a curved backwards arrow for ”Reset”, and a right-pointing triangle for “Play”.
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