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Perpetually exhausted person. Likes reading, writing, but mostly watching TV. Particularly Nordic, not necessarily noir. I like dogs, the outdoors and decent people. I am more exhausted now than I was when I began this paragraph.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 4h
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Holy Coves @holycovesband.bsky.social · 5h
'North Wales rock band celebrate their latest album hitting the official charts' Massive thanks @nation.cymru for sharing news on our recent chart success in the @officialcharts.bsky.social Our new album 'Hiraeth' 'is out now! Read Full Article 👇 nation.cymru/culture/nort...
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 9h
Health workers bring destroyed Palestinian ambulance to Palantir's HQ, to call out its involvement in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Palantir should have no place in our NHS. The government must cancel its contract NOW!
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 8h
Councils spent £42.8bn on adult and children’s social care last year — almost 72% of their combined core spending. In some councils, children’s social care alone accounted for as much as 44% of core budgets. 1/4
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Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care
Councils collectively spent record 71.9% of core spending on adult and children’s care last year, analysis shows
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 9h
“We need to make sure our bills get lower. This is absolutely vital. It frees people up to contribute to society. It ends up helping our economy so much more.” Rachel Millward on why bringing down household bills benefits everyone.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h
Comparison of state pension in G7 shows that the UK state pension is the least generous. Countries have wide variance in how retirement incomes are funded and how returns are calculated. Purists might want more nuanced data but this is what we have. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14h
Why must it always be about planting trees, when they managed just fine for 100s of millions of years before people came along? Just let them seed out. Yes, planting does have a role, but so often the underlying subtext is continued human domination of nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 16h
“Physically, Long COVID has absolutely just ruined my life.” “Doctors just don’t know what to do with you.” “There’s no help coming your way.” People living with #LongCovid describe how the illness has changed their lives. Highlights from a PBS NewsHour report aired in 2023.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14h
Time to join the Pheasants’ Revolt… DEFRA have launched a Call for Evidence on the environmental & animal welfare impacts of the gamebird industry. If you care about this, PLEASE submit evidence - this @wildjustice.bsky.social blog tells you how: wildjustice.org.uk/defras-call-...
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Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebird releases; what exactly is it asking for? – Wild Justice
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Ally Raymond @allyraymond.bsky.social · 22h
😆😆😆 #stupidantivaxxers
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 16h
📣 Bingley Greens have launched a petition calling on Bradford Council to explain why Cottingley’s play area has gone over 20 years without an upgrade. ✍️ Sign and share the petition calling for the reinstatement of previously withdrawn funding ⬇️
Graphic from Green Party Bradford District showing a children’s playground in a large grassy park, with hills and houses in the background. Three people are pictured in the foreground, from left to right: Rachael Drucquer, Cath Bacon and John Brazendale. Large text reads, “BINGLEY GREENS LAUNCH PLAYGROUND PETITION”. The Green Party Bradford District logo appears at the top.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People vs Palantir – International Day of Action 🌎✊ Thursday 1 October 2026. We are saying NO to Palantir! Find a UK action near you 👇🏽 www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...
Activists at Parliament Square, London holding up a banner that reads NO PALANTIR in our public services
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
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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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.
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Stationery Explorer @stationeryexplorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Suicide is the leading cause of death for 16–35s in the UK — the highest rates in 30 years. Young lives are being failed. Please can you sign the petition calling for more investment in proven support that saves young lives. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save young lives from suicide
Suicide is the leading killer of young people in the UK. Every day, an estimated 300 to 450 young people aged 16 to 35 attempt suicide, with rates now at their highest level in 30 years (Office for Na...
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Stationery Explorer @stationeryexplorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high student loan interest rates. It's time for Andy Burnham to fix this unfair system in the upcoming Budget so balances stop growing faster than they're paid off. Add your name if you agree: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...
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Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/09/2026
This morning, 99% of delegates polled at Labour Conference said that Thames Water should be brought into public ownership. It's SO obvious what the public want. Now it's time for Andy Burnham to do it. #labour26
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The Guardian view on Thames Water: Andy Burnham should nationalise this failed monopoly | Editorial
strongEditorial:/strong Bill payers should not fund another rescue for financiers of the water industry. Public ownership can end the cycle of extraction and failure
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Protesters were being ARRESTED for HOLDING UP SIGNS outside the Labour Party Conference yesterday! But this is nothing new. In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Reform's five quietest policies, in full. Pay at the GP. Two million pound mansions inherited tax free. Austerity, again. No wonder they would rather talk about immigrants." via Ink Tank
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... They have had their chance. They have blown it. We need a real alternative in this country now. They will never be it again.
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It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour
As I say on fiscal rules in the glossary to this blog: Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits over time. They are presented as if they are neutral, technical...
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced
theguardian.com
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’
Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big business excels at tax evasion so the rest of us suckers have to pay more "Starbucks brought in £556 million from coffee sales in the UK last year. Yet the taxman paid them £13.7 million. Not a typo. Not unlawful. Just the tax rules operating exactly as they are written." via Immanuel Ezekiel
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Helen Whatley MP spends every day bashing disabled people online and calling them scroungers. She has claimed for almost £2,000,000 on expenses since 2015. £300,000 of this are for her own travel and accommodation etc, yet she lives 50 miles from London. " via Harry Eccles
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/09/2026
“Camden Council faces £90 million worth of cuts under a Labour government, a government that promised things were going to get better after austerity, and they’re not.” Benali Hamdache on the pressures facing people and public services in Holborn and St Pancras, on BBC Politics London.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the introduction to the Hookland Tourist Board I=SEE STRANGE HOOKLAND book:
REMEMBER:

Don’t go out by yourself at night. Many things in this book are thought to be imaginary, but being out by yourself in the dark can still be dangerous – even if you don’t encounter the Danebury Grim. 

If you see something that scares you, tell a parent or a trusted adult such as a teacher. In extreme cases where you can’t find an adult you can trust, you could even tell a police officer.

Don’t provoke Faeries of any type. You would not like people shouting your name, poking you in your bed with a stick or throwing stones in your bath, so don’t do it to Faeries. No-one likes ill-behaved children, least of all the Elves of Hookland.

Don’t signal for UFOs with torches. It is not only a waste of batteries, it can be misinterpreted by the emergency services. Besides, we can’t promise that all UFOs are friendly or interpret your signal as a positive message.

Show some respect for the graves of the dead. If you were buried in the ground you wouldn’t appreciate another child dancing on your grave or trying to dig it up would you?

Remember to take extra care when looking for things around water – both by the sea and along rivers and pools. Even if he is imaginary, the King-Under-the-Sea should be shown some deference and Stay Belows not encouraged to grab at you when dangling your legs or trailing your hands in cool, apparently calm water.

Imaginary things can’t hurt you unless you believe in them with all your heart and then they are really quite dangerous.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/09/2026
#LabourConference MPs and delegates have sent Andy Burnham a clear message today. Get Thames Water sorted and put into public ownership - don't give it up to US Hedge Funds. #labour26
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Reform UK decided to whip up racial tensions without bothering to wait and oh look, nothing to do with small boats or any immigration but British nationals #bbcwato #wato
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
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Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“We’ve had wasted decades in which huge numbers of patients have been abused, mistreated and their very horrible condition made even worse by medicine.” George Monbiot talking about the PACE trial, graded exercise therapy (GET) and CBT as treatments for #MECFS.
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JuneSim63 💚 @junesim63.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. See link for an action near you. #Palantir #NHS #UKPolitics People vs Palantir - International Day of Action | Amnesty International UK www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...
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People vs Palantir – International Day of Action
On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. Join a local action near you!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If only we'd had someone like Chis Philp in government for fourteen years, including being Minister for Immigration...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026
Over 85,000 people have asked their local NHS Trust to say no to Palantir. Time is running out, so every email counts. Will you email your local trust and ask them to stand against Palantir? notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema…
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 27/09/2026
The terrorists had infiltrated the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Thankfully, steadfast police officers discovered old ladies with deadly weapons such as signs with unapproved words. They have been dragged off to cells and now face up to 14 years in prison. Isn't this brilliant?
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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“IPSO is not an effective restraint on the activities of the British press and misinformation about the climate crisis fills the newspapers.” Climate misinformation and press regulation www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/c...
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Climate misinformation and press regulation
Chris Goodall took a complaint to IPSO over fifteen factual errors in a Daily Mail article on wind power. Almost a year later, the regulator ordered a single sentence to be amended.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Symptoms are “horrible” and severe cases are a “living nightmare.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social speaks to @natashadevon.bsky.social on LBC about ME/CFS, its long history of being dismissed and psychologised, and the role of governments and insurers.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Only 10% of the richest 0.01% of the population paid close to the top 47% (45% income tax marginal rate + 2% NIC) rate on earnings. A quarter of that group paid an effective average tax rate of 20% or less. The tax system appears to be progressive for some but is frequently not so at the very top
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Only one in ten top UK earners pay close to top tax rate, says CenTax
CenTax says equalising capital gains tax with income tax could raise £19.7bn by 2030, as HMRC data shows few top earners pay the 47 per cent top rate.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 26/09/2026
They keep lying about public ownership of water Thank goodness we have fighters like Feargal Sharkey to call them out on this lie every time Make sure your MP has the facts. Take 2 minutes now to send them our NEW REPORT on how Andy Burnham can deliver public ownership: vist.ly/5jytv
Screenshot of a Feargal sharkey tweet that says ""Thatcher Minister Defends Water Selloff Despite Thames Crisis."  Let's be clear about this renationalising the water industry does not force water company investment to compete with other demands on the public purse like the NHS or education. Frankly that's a lie.  We, the consumer, the bill payer, we are already paying for all this today, upfront, now. EG over the next 5 years we the bill players are financing 99% of the so called investment, paying for it directly from our water bills, that's why they gone up so much, it's not coming from shareholders, not from govt, not from tax payers but from us, directly from our bills.  When will they stop making this stuff up?"
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers for spreading our great energy across Holborn & St Pancras. This election could not be closer and every single volunteer brings us closer to electing our 6th Green MP. We can win this election - but only together. Sunday sign up below!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2026
🚨Broadcasters are required to present news impartially, without political bias. Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action. ⬇️ bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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