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Suffolk Anarchists

@suffolkanarchists.bsky.social
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Mutual aid and big ideas in East Anglia. North of Essex. No you've gone too far that's Norfolk. To the right of Cambridge ... theeeere you go. Yeah that's us, looks like a medieval shoe someone left lying around. (pic: Abbey Gate, if you know you know)

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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Keeping very roughly to our monthly schedule of articles on anarchism in Suffolk, today we're looking at H2O in broke and broken Britain.
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Anglia Water’s quiet dumping scandal
It’s taken a volunteer group of testers to keep an eye on some quite startling poisoning of the Gipping in recent months.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's a little outside our patch, just over the border in Norfolk, but the violence which has been taking place against working class people is just another expression of a lethal moral panic the far-right has been stoking for years. There is no policy that will placate them because their end goal >>
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Organise Magazine @organisemag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Cities are often the focus of radical ideas – the audience is closer, more left leaning, the ideas find easier paths to resonate. But what of places like Ipswich, or Bury, or Lowestoft? S of @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social shares some thoughts. organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/08/06/e...
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Encouraging anarchism in politically 'dead' areas - Organise Magazine
Cities are often the focus of radical ideas – the audience is closer, more left leaning, the ideas find easier paths to resonate. But what of places like Ipswich, or Bury, or Lowestoft? Depending on y...
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Check out our latest blog, in which ~s writes about differences between city, town and rural organising to anarchist ends.
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Encouraging anarchism in politically 'dead' areas
Cities are often the focus of radical ideas - the audience is closer, more left leaning, the ideas find easier paths to resonate. But what of places like Ipswich, or Bury, or Lowestoft?
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As the State withdraws from its already limited role supporting working class needs, we have some ideas ... open.substack.com/pub/suffolka...
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Practical action on food
As the State withdraws from its already limited role supporting working class needs, we have some ideas ...
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Check out our latest substack, which came out of our Sunday discussion meeting.
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Cliff notes: Anarchism and Social Ecology
The following was written by one of our members for the introductory section of our recent discussion meeting.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We're trying to start a Food Not Bombs chapter here and need your help to make it happen. If you can help cook, clean, serve, deliver, pick up, do admin bits or supply us with waste food or spare kitchen tools we need you - send us a DM or email us at suffolkanarchists@riseup.net Let's do this <3
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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"Climate crisis? What climate crisis?"
Reform-led Suffolk County Council making climate chaos denial its top priority as hail and flooding directly follows record heat is peak brain-rot
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Notes on a "rally" held by the far-right transphobe in Ipswich today.
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The underwhelming Posie Parker roadshow
"Something something PENIS" yelled over and over again like a Freudian tic, plus a dozen crumpled hangers-on, speaks more of a desperate need for attention than a political project.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Pulling together a general summary and some thoughts on Monday's set-to, when the far-right leader visited Felixstowe, ITFC and Trinity Park ... open.substack.com/pub/suffolka...
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Notes after a Farage visit
Reform was doing its best to keep him removed from the rabble in Suffolk
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We've got stalls, they're multiplying ... Quick update on what we're up to in Suffolk this month! suffolkanarchists.substack.com/p/what-were-...
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What we're up to in March
Birds are birding, blossom is blossoming, and Spring is undecided whether it wants to rain or shine, oh you thought you needed that coat eh – WRONG, SUCKER! Anyway here's some events for your diary
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Slightly longer-form ramblings, as we do have a Substack and suppose we should use it! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Headline: Connection over the winter. Building towards a community takes work and is often slow, but the benefits are many
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Join us this weekend for Last Sunday Cinema, and a showing of Love & Anarchy! 7pm Jan 25th at the Quaker Meeting House on Fonnereau Road, Ipswich. In 1930s fascist Italy an anarchist farmer stays in Rome brothel while preparing to assassinate Benito Mussolini, but falls for a co-conspirator ...
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Good bit of work this week posting around 300 4-page flyers through Ipswich letterboxes, telling folks who we are, what we want, and about our next four months of Last Sunday Cinema showings ...
Flyer noting our upcoming films: Lonve and Anarchy on January 25, Paris is Burning February 22, Pom Poko March 29, and When The Seedlings Grow April 26. All 7pm at Ipswich Quaker Meeting House
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Join us for a trans DIY HRT harm reduction workshop on the 11th of January at 7pm at the Ipswich Quaker Meeting House on Fonnereau Road. We'll be running a peer-led support and information session for trans+ people with help from the Cambridge based Moth group.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year all and hope you had a lovely bit of time off! We'll be back shortly with our upcoming list of Last Sunday Cinema selections, plus workshops, stalls and all that good stuff, but in the meantime here's a little preview of our cracking new in-progress banner ❤️🖤
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Well that's embarrassing for them ... University of Suffolk comes 131st out of 147 on the climate and social justice league table this year, with an ethical investment scheme that comes in somewhere between blood diamonds and summoning the actual devil.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One of our members has picked up a bunch of the new issue of Freedom Anarchist Journal while on a trip to London - anybody who wants one let us know while we still have some to give away!
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
There's something particularly pathetic about the Reform offering for Norfolk-Suffolk mayor. David Bick works in the sports industry but likes to cosplay as a tweed-suited farmhouse aristo. A long-time London Tory with even less loyalty than is usual among that type. Change? What change? ~S
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It's our last free film screening of the year this Sunday! The Estallido Social (Social Explosion) was a popular uprising in Chile in 2019. What began as a student campaign of transit fare evasions quickly spread into a nationwide uprising.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Want to learn how to identify raids, what to do when you see one, and what your rights are? Join the folks from Anti-Raids Brighton, up specially from the south coast, tomorrow for this free training session! SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9TH, 2PM AT IPSWICH QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join us for a very important workshop on eviction resistance this Sunday at 2pm at the Quaker Meeting House. These are crucial skills for protecting people from authoritarian violence so now is the time to learn them.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Join us for the first session of our new anarchist book club on the 23rd of November. Helping us get around to reading when we're too damn busy fighting the forces of capital.
Poster for suffolk anarchists book club starting on the 23rd of November 7pm, send a direct message for the address. Our first book will be Sophie K Rosa's Radical Intimacy and a qr code link to the book is provided on the poster
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Tonight! Free food and film with friendly folks, 7pm at the Quaker Meeting House 🙂
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
One talk at the Peterborough Radical Bookfair on Saturday was by @copscampaign.bsky.social and @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social about the whole disgusting Spycops saga, and the Inquiry. They're doing a reactions series to the most recent tranche of statements here: www.youtube.com/@copscampaig...
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Cops Campaign
Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance An alliance of people targeted by Britain's political secret police.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Having had a lovely time at the Peterborough bookfair yesterday, our next event will be Last Sunday Cinema, 7pm on the 26th at the Quaker Meeting House. This month's showing is Born in Flames: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in... Free entry and with food and chat after, all welcome!
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The idea of Jack Abbott MP building anything more complicated than a sandcastle is objectively funny.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Can you "steal" spammed leaflets? I'd have thought they're there for whoever happens to pick them up. ~s
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/10/2025
A story about trees, time and quiet action. Sometimes saving something ancient starts with simply writing it down. Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks to Aidan Baker
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The lesson of the lost oak: why one Suffolk man’s mission matters
Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks about the work of adding to the Woodland Trust's 'Ancient Tree Inventory'
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Anglia Water claiming "it ain't us guv" while having the worst record of any water company for sewage dumping is a real eyebrow raiser. Oh and they're also trying to get the biggest price hike for cleaning it all up. Gipping the piss, this lot. #Suffolk www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2551609...
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‘Disgusting’ footage of sewage leaking into Suffolk rivers revealed
Footage by Save the Gipping show pollution and spills in Ipswich, Needham Market and Stowmarket along the River Gipping, according to campaigners.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Great pic via the Ipswich Society: The river Gipping viewed from Ranelagh Road 1977 A series of monochrome photographs donated by David Steward documenting social history of the day
Graffiti on a wall by the river reading "Smash the social contract"
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Coming up this Sunday, 7pm at the Quaker Meeting House, Ipswich, our next screening will be Libertarias. During the Spanish Civil War, a nun attempts to flee Barcelona but is instead drawn into the struggle of the Mujeres Libres. All welcome, free entry (donations welcome) with discussion after!
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Obviously we're not electoralists, but saddening to see Your Party's MPs stuffing up their project, especially when it had so much enthusiasm at grassroots level. Hope everyone involved in the various nascent local branches don't get discouraged - there's still loads that can and should be done! ~s
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Coming up on Sunday evening we'll be soft launching our DIY education series: First up will be a freeform workshop on how we engage with (or simply de-escalate) political conflict in group situations. Give us a bell if you fancy coming along for it! suffolkanarchists@riseup.net
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Well done everyone who put the pressure on to get the white power gig in Great Yarmouth cancelled! That's 500 very disappointed boneheads. www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/2543569...
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Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals
Police have confirmed that a white power music festival in Great Yarmouth has been called off.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Ahead of our first Last Sunday film showing (on Sunday), as the Quakers didn't have a sound system we've scrounged one together and donated it for anybody to use 🎵. Matewan is showing 7pm, free entry with discussion (and possibly cake) afterwards. It's a story of epic union struggle.
Speaker set donated to the Quaker Meeting House Testing it out to make sure everything works
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Look what arrived! Being thrifty and environmentally conscious sorts we not only sorted our Last Sunday Cinema list several months ahead so the flyers will stay relevant, we also put a little intro to Suffolk Anarchists on the back 😎. Come along to the Quaker House 7pm Sunday after next and say hi!
Flyers for Last Sunday Cinema, first showing being Matewan, 7pm Sunday 31st at the Quaker Meeting House
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Oh look, the Tory who made himself wildly unpopular by grabbing the Suffolk library system is now weaponising that control to attack free expression. Phil Faircloth-Mutton, all dressed up as lamb, was a bigoted nut on a culture-wars scam www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2539140...
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Criticism after panto dame's library events cancelled due to 'high risk of protest'
Mama G, Britain's Got Talent contestant, had her events cancelled at Haverhill, Stowmarket, Lowestoft and Gainsborough Library.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
More on this soon, but following our showing of To Kill a War Machine in June we've now confirmed a monthly series of radical film nights with the lovely folks at the Quaker Meeting House in Ipswich! It'll be free entry, with donations towards the cost of the room welcome.
Listing o upcoming movies, all at 7pm, Quaker Meeting House: Matewan on August 31st, Libetarias on September 28th, Born in Flams on October 26th and Interebellium on November 30th. Libertarias and Interebellium are both Spanish language with subtitles.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Artist: "I'm concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism ... I think it is so important that we don't collectivise any one group of people." Ipswich Star: Here's a pic of Bob Vylan and a lame attempt to imply they're responsible for anti-Semitic attacks by people they never met or encouraged.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A quick explainer for weapons-grade idiot and ongoing source of Great Yarmouth facepalming Rupert Lowe about why he may have picked the wrong constituency if he's looking for refugee boats to scaremonger about ... (Related to this: www.bbc.com/news/article...) ~S
Map showing the relative distances between Great Yarmouth and the continent (165km) and Dover to Calais (38km)
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Anglian Water often gets let off by critics for not being as financially dysfunctional as Thames, but it's one of the smallest water companies in Britain, how is it topping the sewage scumbags list? ~S
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If it were anything but Labour Friends of Israel there'd be major concerns over an MP taking a propaganda junket worth thousands from a country on trial at the ICC for ongoing war crimes. Bury St Edmunds MP Peter Prinsley, however, barely makes local news. #Suffolk ~S www.eadt.co.uk/news/2536467...
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Suffolk MP placed under investigation
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP Dr Peter Prinsley has been placed under investigation by the Parliamentary standards watchdog.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"Oh this guy's being aggressive, better be racist at him" is an er ... interesting argument. And by interesting, I mean nonsensical. ~S
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Netpol @netpol.org · 31/07/2025
Targeted under counterterror powers? Read our guide to find out what your rights are netpol.org/2025/07/31/w...
Image of two armed police officers carrying Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns on the streets of London
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A symbol to send shivers down the spine of the ruling class, for sure, but "savage" and "brutal"? Simon Sudbury was executed in the same style as the monarchy itself used at the time, for far less egregious behaviour than his role oppressing Suffolk's peasantry. Are "official" axes civilised? ~S
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Stock quietly being left to rot along with its occupants is a common problem with the big housing NGOs like One CIC. And of course it does - capitalism forces even nominally social institutions to maximise income/cut outgoings, meaning exactly these outcomes. > www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2530746...
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Residents' woes continue as they question paying £305 a week for vulnerable housing
Residents' woes in vulnerable housing units in Ipswich have continued after being returned to their flats following flooding issues.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
With proscription set to be waved through the Lords, this is officially the last chance to publicly state that banning even supportive words for a non-violent direct action group is among the lowest, most anti-democratic decisions about a domestic political issue ever taken by a Labour government.
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Simple. Radical. Spiritual. @quakers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Stand for Peace in Sudbury, on Sun 6th July 5-5.30 pm. Please join Churches Together Sudbury and District, and come along to support this call for peace. Open to all peace lovers regardless of religion. @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social @bsequakers.bsky.social
Churches Together Stand for Peace

Churches Together Sudbury and District will be standing
for peace around the Gainsborough statue on Market Hill on Sunday 6th July from 5 to 5.30pm. This is open to everyone who wants to stand for peace.

The demonstration will be strictly focused on a ceasefire
 in Gaza, and will not address any of the wider issues.
 Please bring your own banner or placard,
 or simply join with others to stand in prayer.

You might like to wear something red to symbolise a red line
 which should not be crossed.

Please do come along and support this call for peace.
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Suffolk Anarchists @suffolkanarchists.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We screened To Kill A War Machine last night and it's excellent! Thoroughly recommended for anyone wanting to know about the campaign against Israeli arms firm Elbit from Palestine Action's perspective rather than filtered through the mainstream media smear machine.
QR link and website (tokillawarmachine.com) for the documentary To Kill A War Machine
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