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Thomas Bauwens

@thbauwens.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University | ERC grantee |Research on Collective Action | #Sustainability | Just #Energy transition | #CircularEconomy | #PostGrowth

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
I wrote an accessible introduction to the life and work of the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics - Elinor Ostrom. She showed that are not doomed to fall into the "tragedy of the commons." Collaborative governance is possible. islandpress.org/books/uncomm...
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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom
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Thomas Bauwens @thbauwens.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
New publication out in #EcologicalEconomics ! Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... You're part of an energy cooperative. Your community governs its own resources. It feels right. Then climate breakdown reminds you: the atmosphere doesn't care about municipal borders. 1/6
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Friends of the Earth International @foeint.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨FoEI condemns the military assault on Palestine’s only national seed bank in Hebron — a direct attack on food sovereignty. We stand in solidarity with Palestinian farmers #FreePalestine #UAWC
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FoEI condemns the assault on Palestine's national seed bank
The Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC)´s Seed Bank in Hebron is the only national seed bank in Palestine.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Yes climate change is already killing people www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...
Bar chart showing heat-related deaths in several European cities from 23 June to 2 July 2025, distinguishing between numbers due to human-caused climate change and those due to natural variability
Milan: 317 from human caused climate change, 182 natural
Barcelona: 286, 54
Paris: 235, 138
London: 171, 92
Rome: 164, 118
Madrid: 108, (then some relatively small number not given)
Athens: 96, 79
Budapest: 47, 24
Zagreb: 31, 25
Lisbon: 21, 71
Frankfurt: 21 (then some relatively small number not given)

Added text says two-thirds of heat deaths in London were attributable to climate change

Guardian graphic, source: World Weather Attribution, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
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Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New here and not sure who to follow? 👀 We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time. Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️ go.bsky.app/7STgwpg
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Community Energy England @communityenergyengland.org · 16/06/2025
#MembershipMonday 🗺️⚡ Is your #CommunityEnergy project on the map? Our national map is now bigger, better & part of our easy-to-use data portal. Help us show the impact of UK community energy! 📍 Add your site 💡 Update your info 🌱 sots.communityenergyengland.org
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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us.
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 16/05/2025
A high-profile 'carbon capture' project doesn't even capture enough co2 to cover it's own pollution, making it a net emitter Projects like this get plenty of soft media coverage of their promises, none have delivered There is no silver bullet, climate pollution must be stopped at the source
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Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions
The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Did you know that electricity is often taxed more than fossil fuels in the EU? It’s a policy choice that makes electrification less competitive. Our @regassistproj.bsky.social report explores how taxes and levies shape this imbalance and what can be done. www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Unforgivable
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📢 EVENT ALERT | MAY 14 – BRUSSELS The other face of the energy transition 🔋💥 Join us at SoundsResist in Ixelles to hear from two Indigenous women defenders from Argentina exposing the hidden costs of lithium extraction! 👀 www.sounds.brussels/resist
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Sofia Rafaella Greaves @sofiagreaves.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Excited to announce my new project exploring artists experiences of affordable housing in London funded by Bow Arts Trust, more here #affordability #postgrowth #postgrowthplanning www.sofiagreaves.online/bowarts
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Researcher and Artist. Resident Bow Arts, Associate LSE Cities, British Academy Knowledge Frontiers: Postgrowth Cities
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture. For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...
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Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington
How the politics of investability determine climate financing
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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 06/05/2025
⚠️Some corporations claim the energy community label without adhering to the values. Join us for the webinar "Corporate capture: A threat for a citizen's energy transition in Europe", organised by @foeeurope.bsky.social & @eco-union.bsky.social 📅 14 May - 11H CEST ✏️ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Thomas Bauwens @thbauwens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Circularity in energy isn’t just about materials. It’s about who controls the system, who benefits, and who sets the rules. Next month, I’m leading a session at the European Energy Communities Forum in Kraków. 🧵 1/3 #EnergyCommunities #CircularEconomy
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REScoop.eu @rescoop.eu · 29/04/2025
🎺 3 weeks to go until our annual Forum! 💫 To mark the International Year of Cooperatives, @thbauwens.bsky.social and @coopseurope.bsky.social will lead a session on circularity and its potential for energy communities. Find out more 👉 www.energycommunitiesforum.eu/day-2 #EECF25 #IYC2025
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/04/2025
The world has warmed more than 1.1C since the first Earth day in 1970, with the fastest warming occurring over land (where we all live!) and in higher latitude regions:
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy to contribute to this article about how to build lasting power for environmental change: “One of the best ways to be effective, if you're going to be an activist, is to create community and solidarity and really build down into the local level" www.sierraclub.org/sierra/earth...
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On Earth Day 2025, Here's How to Sustain Environmentalism Against All Odds
Floridians have pushed back on plans to develop state parks and drill for oil
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Ko van Huissteden @kovanhuissteden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Een minister van "Klimaat en Groene Groei" is de zoveelste brutale oplichtingstruuk van kabinet Wilders. Fossiele subsidies. nos.nl/artikel/2564...
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Kabinet helpt industrie met terugkeer fossiele subsidie, CO2-heffing blijft
De Nederlandse industrie klaagt al langer over de gestegen energieprijzen. Het kabinet wil bedrijven helpen.
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Dr Sabrina Chakori @sabrinachakori.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
New publication on our @degrowthjournal.bsky.social 👇
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Global CO2 emissions in 2024 increased 0.9% on the previous year www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2024 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Global CO2 emissions in 2024 increased 0.9% on the previous year, totalling 36.3 Gt CO2. These ongoing emissions further deplete remaining carbon budgets, with some estimates suggesting the 1.5 °C bud...
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This morning wind is the largest source of electricity and fossil fuels below 9% in the UK. Please share and spread the good news! via grid.iamkate.com
UK electricity supply via https://grid.iamkate.com/
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Surprised to see @economist.com on the ‘politicians should be allowed to do crimes without consequences’ team. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
Punish the offender without also punishing French democracy
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Energy communities are helping us progress towards sustainable and fair energy systems. There are challenges, however, around e.g. limited national support. This new paper summarizes some of the key issues and offers up some recommendations...
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Energy communities – lessons learnt, challenges, and policy recommendations
Abstract. Energy communities (ECs) are considered important in transitioning the energy system. They are of particular interest due to their potential to e
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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today, universities in NL begin to strike! One uni after the other strikes for a day, raising our voices against the far-right's attack on education. Join: woinactie.blogspot.com/p/stakingen-... On budget cuts as a political attack (piece from Nov. 2024): www.diggitmagazine.com/refusing-mor...
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Refusing Moral Panics/Defending Education and the Right to Protest
Universities under AttackIf education is the midwife of democracy, as U.S. philosopher John Dewey once argued, then authoritarian political visions have a stake in dismantling institutions of educatio...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 06/03/2025
Amazonian deforestation is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons dryer, according to research in Nature. The analysis highlights the local and regional effects of removing trees from the tropical region. go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows simulated contrasting precipitation responses to deforestation at different scales (0–1,000 km) over the Amazon region.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
next up, is the Pope a Catholic and what do bears really do in woods
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Are Elon Musk's politics costing Tesla sales?


By Chris Isidore, CNN
Updated 12:58 AM EST, Tue February 18, 2025
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Nicolas Hervieu @nicolas.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025
Après les élections en Allemagne, les partis d'extrême droite deviennent « les plus populaires en Europe ». A ce stade, ils restent exclus du pouvoir (car minoritaires dans l'absolu). Mais selon l'étude, plus leurs idées sont reprises & plus le cordon sanitaire s'effrite, plus ils s'élèvent...
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Bram Claeys @bramclaeys.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Een Lijst van Enerbelgen, alstublieft (NL). Une Liste de Enerbelges, svp (FR). Pinnen aan home: een gecureerde feed. Maak uw eigen algoritme. Een vd leuke dingen in Bluesky. Check leden, en volg. Suggesties voor ontbrekende Belgen welkom, surtout du coté francophone. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Chłoddy @ofsymbols.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
What’s most interesting to me is entering the era of colonialism with a face. With a face so loud, obnoxious and narcissistic that the absolutely normal way of things, the west inflicting crippling extractive capitalism on vulnerable nations, no one can help but notice it.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
An important thread about Ukraine and European security from the former minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania. Worth reading. Europe must act fast. Not only for its own security but also for the climate. Russian and American fossil fuel interests cannot be allowed to dictate European priorities.
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Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Great to see this open access collection on *Postcapitalist Countrysides* out there! @uclpress.bsky.social Check out our chapter on *The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: Towards a town-country synthesis* discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...
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Postcapitalist Countrysides
Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its ...
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Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University @rsmerasmus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🌱💧 Students teamed up with @evideswaterbedrijf.bsky.social to tackle #watersecurity with innovative solutions for a #sustainablefuture. From rainwater systems to pollution consultancy, their ideas showcase the power of collaboration! 🌍 Read more: ow.ly/oHGH50UBbKq
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Tackling water security: students rise to the sustainability challenge
Master students collaborated with partner organisation to develop innovative and actionable solution
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Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University @rsmerasmus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
✨ Ready to lead the sustainable economy transition? Applications are open for RSM’s Online MSc in Sustainability Management! 🌍 This #OnlineProgramme is designed to equip future leaders with the skills to make a real impact: ow.ly/yhRl50UUYXN #Sustainability #BusinessForGood
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Community Energy Pathways @cepathways.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We've joined Bluesky as we change our name from Community Energy South to Community Energy Pathways! Our expert support across the Southeast continues as we invite nationwide communities & local authorities & businesses to participate in the #futureofenergy #communityenergy #strongertogether
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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Lecture du week-end! Effrayante de réalisme et de lucidité! Si vous ne suivez pas les travaux et les réflexions de @jksteinberger.bsky.social, vous manquez une des voix les plus inspirantes. So.... bsky.app/profile/bonp...
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 09/02/2025
🚨🪸💀 1.2°C, 350ppm New research shows that the tipping point thresholds for warm-water coral reefs (upon which hundreds of millions of people rely) have already been breached! Considerations for determining warm-water coral reef tipping points esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
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Considerations for determining warm-water coral reef tipping points
Abstract. Warm-water coral reefs are facing unprecedented human-driven threats to their continued existence as biodiverse functional ecosystems upon which hundreds of millions of people rely. These im...
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Trump's aim is to accelerate climate change and thus murder millions of people. Compromise with Trump is compromise with mass murder.
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Thomas Bauwens @thbauwens.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Happy to have contributed to this book with our chapter on the #EnergyCommons! We explore how commoning in #energy —through resource rights, cooperative ownership, peer-to-peer sharing & #circular practices—can drive a just and democratic transition. Check it out! bit.ly/3Q9p8Ec
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(PDF) Unpacking the energy commons
PDF | On Feb 7, 2025, Thomas Bauwens and others published Unpacking the energy commons | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Dr Zahira Jaser @zahira.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is what happens in totalitarian states few persons’ decisions determine the fate of many others bypassing any democratic process. At least now the emperor has no clothes and we can see it in all its ugliness.
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🤔Can we rethink housing as a common good? IIPP's Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Visiting Professor @cityofsound.bsky.social propose a bold rethinking of housing as a human right and as a way to achieve social & environmental justice ✍️Read their paper here: buff.ly/3ZD1hlQ
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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you're interested in post-growth economic thinking, this newly published article will be right up your street. It was a big pleasure to work on it with such a fantastic group of co-authors. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Uruguay hasn't used any fossil fuels in its electricity mix since July, according to Ember data. Wind and hydro are Uruguay's largest sources of power.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Joe Biden’s legacy has already gone up in smoke - quite literally. The U.S. didn’t cut emissions during 2024 despite all the fanfare about renewable energy.
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US emissions stagnate in 2024, challenging climate goals: Study
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#Microplastics - there is no escape on this choked, #PoisonedPlanet #PlasticWaste #PlasticPollution #PublicHealth www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-...
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Study Finds Microplastics Are Widespread in Popular Seafoods
Like a salmon returning to its birthplace, ocean plastic is finding its way back to its makers.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#Microplastics and #PublicHealth - we are going to have to get serious about slashing down production of plastic on this choked, #PoisonedPlanet #PlasticWaste #PlasticPollution www.ndtv.com/world-news/m...
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Microplastics In The Air May Be Leading To Lung And Colon Cancer: Study
The study reviewed approximately 3,000 research papers and identified potential links between airborne microplastics and various health conditions.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 09/01/2025
Surely the reason for all this nonsense is that the response to climate change is blindingly obvious, quite disruptive and costly, and a lot of rich people want to make sure we think of just about anything else before we do it
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Emanuel Ubert @emanuelubert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
And then what? I suspect that the (re)organization of the management of climate change related risks is going to have an equally systematic societal effect as that of the organization of the new risks emerging out of the rise of industrial capitalism. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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This could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California
The damages could overwhelm the state's already-stressed insurer of last resort.
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holly caggiano @holcaggiano.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#EnergySky, what are your favorite books/papers/reports on community-owned energy systems? Small and large! Feels like there is somehow not enough work out there, but also tons of great case studies. Which should I make sure my grad students absolutely read?
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