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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 17/09/2026

For when you want the environmental impact of crypto, but the vulnerability to state actors seizing your assets of Paypal.

Screenshot from e-mail from paypal that reads:

"Crypto payments. Simplified.

Accept crypto payments quickly and easily. Customers pay in crypto and you get paid near-instantly in USD with no need to hold or manage crypto."

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 04/09/2026

[slop image] I've sometimes use image search engines to see examples of a dish as part of a larger meal, but now that there are places trying to charge you for AI-generated images (!!) the results are full of very incorrect photos. So for çig köfte, there […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of a portion of a Google Image search for çig köfte. Most of the results show them with the characteristic wavy shape (they are formed in the hand with fingers creating waves) but in the middle is AI-generated cooked meatballs on top of lettuce with a side of weird, undercooked-looking fries.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 16/08/2026

More areas near me have had their evacuation orders lifted. Nixon, along the southern part of Pyramid Lake, is still threatened by the Stallion fire and the rural communities such as Red Rock are still threatened by the Bug Fire, but both fires are mostly contained.

Fire perimeter map of Reno-Sparks area and the rural areas to its North, now with the area around the Bug Fire, closer to the border with California and the area around the Stallion Fire, around the Southern Pyramid Lake, no longer being a contiguous area of mandatory evacuations, but the places in between, along Pyramid HWY being in blue/evacuations lifted. The overall perimeter of the fires is greatly diminished now.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 11/08/2026

The Stallion Fire expanded a lot because it's in difficult to fight terrain. A structure fire also happened to start right as I was driving home yesterday. It might not have anything to do with the wildfires (Reno-Sparks seems to be a very flammable city) but […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

watchduty map of fire and evacuation zones north of Reno-Sparks in Nevada. The Stallion Fire in the southwest of Pyramid Lake has expanded and now there is a sprawling yellow zone of "prepare to evacuate" stretching from the area of the Bug Fire to the west and north of Reno all the way to Pyramid Lake and the south of it. The perimeter of the fires can also be seen, with three major fires in the area.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 10/08/2026

The situation has been stable since last night and my kids' school is in session today, along with every other school in the district. I filled our cars' tanks with gas last night though we're not in the yellow zone at this time. The air is dry and triple […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Perimeter map of the fires North of Reno-Sparks in Nevada. There are many sections marked in red, "evacuate now - go now" with yellow areas around them, "get set to evacuate." These evacuation zones extend to the east and North of Cold Springs lake, stop at the border with California with yellow areas ending before Highway 445. The Cold Springs community itself is marked blue, "evacuation lifted."

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 09/08/2026

This is pretty fucking bad. I’m not in any of these zones but it’s getting uncomfortably close to me. perimetermap.com/data/142-162738-po…

Fire perimeter map of Cold Springs area of Northern Nevada. To the northwest is the now 100% contained Elephant fire. To the northeast portion extending to the north and east of Cold Springs lake is a red evacuation zone and beyond that, a larger yellow “prepare to evacuate” zone

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 04/08/2026

This datacenter company (Tract) is planning a major installation Southeast of me that builds around historic petroglyphs, in an area full of piñon pines.

Map of proposed datacenter construction. The territory has a wide rectangular enclave for where historic petroglyphs are known to be and inside is an archipelago of differently colored zones vaguely labeled "development area"

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/07/2026

As I told him, what happens in the real world is immigration restrictions trap queers under regimes that oppress them. The US is trying to count being trans as a form of "fraud" that invalidates immigration papers. Every major political faction will take a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

User tamsynne.terror on instagram (me)

"@hadidamien there are no countries in the West that have "unregulated, mass immigration." There are always considerable restrictions and the restrictions will never be based on anything good anyway. If we tried to push a law that immigrants must not have homophobic beliefs, then TERFs or conservatives will hijack that and ban anyone who criticizes Israel or something asinine like that. They will never do this in accordance with what helps LGBT people. They will send LGBT people straight back into regimes that oppress them. That's what happens in the real world with immigration restrictions."

I continue:

"Here in the US, ICE *specifically* goes after LGBT immigrants. That's what will happen if you do what it actually takes to deliver the mass deportations that nativists want."

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/07/2026

The person behind the "Beirut Pride" account on Instagram calling for immigration restrictions. It's totally normal for a queer person to be intensely critical of the society that's from. That impulse can go in a healthy direction, fighting to make that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

User hadidamien on instagram:

"@tamsynne.terror: yes, i say western people admitting large numbers of people. I say western people because we are speaking about berlin / the west. I say large numbers of people because it is not all immigrants. Yes both german and lebanese governments are incompetent - though I literally congratulated the lebanese government in this instance. Yes there is a problem with unregulated and mass immigration, and integrity requires us to acknowledge that."

hadidamien continues:

"The problem is systemic: it starts with the governments that fail with their immigration policies and it continues with the immigrants who wanna performatively “f*ck the system”. I’m speaking about these specific people: not all immigrants. And yes of course you don’t reward incompetence with more power to manage anything - in particular demographics that they don’t understand because of their initial bigotry (the bigotry of the officials)."

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/07/2026

Reposting a few photos here too. These are just a few shots from the show in Kyoto. Yama Uba is one of my favorite contemporary acts!

Photo of Akiko of Yama Uba singing on stage. There is motion blur in her right hand. The overall cast of the photo is purplish and dark. She has pink hair and her eyes are partly closed as she looks up in a dramatic pose. Their guitar is set down in the back, next to the amps.

Photo of Winter of Yama Uba playing guitar. She has big hair, 80s style and a pink/black semi-goth style.

Photo of Gilly of Phaidia holding up candles and looking up in a dramatic fashion. His style is somewhat reminiscent of Rozz Williams with white makeup, black eyeliner and big hair.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 20/07/2026

It was shockingly easy to get the Linux build of Netscape 3.04 running, just use this project: github.com/ostrich/netscape304-mode… But there was only one website I knew for sure would work, my friend's website, pnppl.cc but with http: instead since no modern ssl works on this.

Screenshot of Netscape Navigator 3.04 running on a modern system. The website http://pnppl.cc is displayed. There is a TOC on the top with All, Calendar, Recent, Search, Hashtags and RSS Feed. It is a blog and should be screen-reader friendly.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 01/07/2026

In Osaka I did a fun photoshoot where they put me in two outfits and did my makeup. I never feel like dealing with doing the orange concealer trick to hide facial hair so it’s nice to have someone do that for me. My wife found the place (she figured doing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Photo session photo of me wearing a black and purple dress, with fake blood on my face, black wings and devil horns. I am holding a skeleton hand prop and looking upward and to the side. In the background are candles, mirror and an overall macabre decor.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 18/06/2026

I swear I’ll stop supporting Behringer’s shenanigans after this. They know how to tempt me with tiny things that sound awesome. Not a fan of having gigantinornois amab hands but it makes tiny things like this seem even tinier.

Photo of a hand-sized synthesizer in my hand. It has usb-c and audio out ports, on/off switch, a dual function select/push knob, volume, filter cutoff and filter resonance knobs, the latter two doubling as param a and b knobs. There is a tiny lcd screen and the following mode buttons - osc, mod, vcf, vca/mix, arp and settings. There is a touch keyboard with a single octave and the words “UB-1 Micro Analog Synthesizer” printed on it and Behringer printed closer to the touch keys. Its general appearance mirrors the design of the Oberheim OB series synthesizers. It is being held in my largeish hands.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 18/06/2026

My brother urgently needs a foster, currently in norcal. The current foster decided to abandon him.

Urgent Foster Needed
Meet Neil

Open Your Home & Heart
A temporary foster home saves a live - could yours be the one?

About Neil

Neil is ~100 lbs of pure love - a big-hearted puppy with a gorgeous brindle coat and a warm red tint. He is recently trained and ready to shine in a home that will use and build on his foundation. Confident, affectionate, and eager to please, he truly thrives with clear structure and consistent guidance.

Quick Facts

Already trained - responds beautifully to structure; crate trained & housebroken
Thrives in a home that engages his training
~100 lbs of love - healthy & thriving
Neuter appointment coming up
Loves hikes, bike rides & adventures
Good with dogs with proper introduction

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 16/05/2026

[nsfw, tmi] Long before starting hrt, I imagined what sex would feel like in an E-dominant body and it's kind of amazing how close I was. Like I knew in my soul how it was supposed to feel for me. What helped me consider at least trying it was hearing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Trans woman meme that just says "I'm so gay pp in girl feel good"

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 10/05/2026

[Food, bread] The fries swartbrood (Frisian black bread) from the other day. I feel like making more breads that use pullman loaf pans now that I finally replaced the old one that got messed up and started sticking too much.

Dark, pullman loaf shaped rye bread with a single end slice and the crumb exposed

An open-faced peanut butter and jelly sandwich on dark rye bread

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 18/04/2026

When samples in drum machines started being CD quality sometime in the late 80s...

Photo of Carl from The Simpsons making a parody of the line he actually said, replacing "dank" with "jank":

"But, Moe, the jank, the jank"

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 14/04/2026

As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any significant damage to buildings or injuries. The only photo of damage I could find is this one of product falling on the floor at a Dollar General. Because it is Silver Springs, after all.

Photo pointed at the floor in an aisle of drinks with liter bottles of sodas fallen on the floor and spilling their contents.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 07/04/2026

I would love for there to be more interconnections between different parts of the world and for Americans to see SWANA as real places that matter, not just lazy stereotypes about backwardness, aridity and being at perpetual war. It's unfortunate that rich […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Map of the Arabian peninsula and the Levant with countries other than Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain deleted.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 01/03/2026

[Food] My cal-mex take on panzanella. More info in alt tag. #FusionCuisine

Wide bowl with pickled red onions, macadamia nut queso fresco dollop, tomatoes, croutons made from birote salado (Mexican type of sourdough), cilantro, lime juice vinaigrette on bed of romaine

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 16/02/2026

This is shockingly detached from reality. It’s possible that this optimistic prediction comes true and it’s possible that it doesn’t. If you are a TERF and you want a repeat of the UK where the most extreme anti-trans backsliding happened under a center-left […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

BlueSky screenshot

grf500.bsky.social:

The next dem president is going to surpass the last dem president as the most pro- trans president in history, just like last time and the time before

@parkermolloy.com:

Things got significantly worse for trans people between 2021-2025. Biden signed the first federal anti-trans legislation in 35 years. AND Democrats' failure to prevent Trump's return to power resulted in things getting *even worse*.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 07/01/2026

[food, bread] We needed to use up anko from New Year's so I made anpan for the first time in a long time. Including very off-model Anpanman. #vegan #japanese

Plate of round buns with toasted sesame seeds on top with one bun in the shape of a cartoon character with round cheeks and eyes, eyebrows and mouth drawn using chocolate icing

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 01/01/2026

My wife drew a girlkisser loosely inspired by the ones I've been drawing but way, way better and... yeah, goals Happy New Year!

girlkisser (meme cartoon cat character) with goth or emo fashion, eyeliner, spike choker, multiple earrings including cross earrings on each ear and some hair covering one eye

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 14/12/2025

[food] I just have to show y'all these adorable little pumpkin gnocchi I made (out of kabocha). I didn't make nearly enough so everyone's insufficient portions were in handmade chawan. Garnished with piñon pine nuts. #vegan

Orange colored, pumpkin shaped gnocchi in a small bowl. Pine nuts and sage leaves can be seen along with a creamy sauce.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 11/12/2025

[food] Pumpkin pie I randomly decided to make a couple of days ago, and sweet potato pie (using satsuma-imo) I made a few weeks ago. They're basically the same thing, especially how I make it, see github.com/thomasjwebb/recipes/blob….

Photo of a slice of pumpkin pie on a small white plate with a motif around the edges, and iced cold brew coffee served in a small glass that's actually an upcycled Doña Maria mole container.

Sweet potato pie with pecans on top, served with whipped coconut cream on top

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 13/11/2025

One of the first of Epstein's victims to come forward was a trans woman and they made it about her transness instead of the heinous crime itself (htt @imgwendy@threads.net).

One of Epstein's underage victims was a trans woman, but nobody paid attention because she was trans and Latina. The New York Post and The Times of Israel even ran hit pieces on Ava Cordero like these.

Epstein's lawyers had her 2007 suit dismissed for exceeding the statute of limitations. The lawyer also claimed Epstein wasn't gay and thus Ava must have been lying. I often think about how Epstein could have been stopped sooner if society listened to POC, trans people, or girls.

[Photo of newspaper articles with headlines "Gender-Bend Shocker" and "S(he) has a history"]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/10/2025

When a conservative "moves to the left" but just ends up being a blue maga or a tankie.

Lisa Simpson saying to Mr. Burns "you're still evil, and when you're trying to be good, you're even more evil."

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 24/10/2025

No one, not even a soul: White house official government website: [trans woman's boobs]

cropped screenshot of White House website's history section showing the headline "2023-2024 Trans Day of Visibility" with a photo of a topless trans woman covering her nipples next to another photo of her next to then Pres. Joe Biden.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 23/10/2025

[selfie, eye contact] The effects are least visible in my face, I think. Both because of my facial structure and because I simply can't not have facial hair. I shave and it's back in a couple of hours. The rest of my body very much shows the effects […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Selfie of a mostly male-presenting androgynous person (me) with artificial bokeh effect applied by cell phone camera. I have a side-cut, blue eyes, beard stubble and brownish hair with blonde highlights. I'm wearing a black t-shirt and a grey undershirt that can be seen around the collar.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 01/10/2025

[Food, bread] Improving my pretzel recipe! Maybe I will make this again later this week.

Closeup photo of a plate of soft Bavarian-style pretzels. They are golden in color with darker arms and broad, fluffy middle. There are about 5 seen on the white plate

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 24/09/2025

Fucking Nintendo (inspired by them letting a copyright violation slide because so many of their workers in the US are on green cards).

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 17/09/2025

When I mentioned my extended backyard, I was thinking about Robert Fuller, who apparently did end his own life in the high desert in 2020. That is tragic! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Age-adjusted chart of suicide rate between non-Hispanic white, Hispanic and non-Hispanic black populations, showing non-Hispanic white being higher overall but making a downturn since 2018, with the other two lines making a gradual uptick.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 15/09/2025

My brain, any time I see the kia logo

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 06/09/2025

FYI if you're in the US - you can probably get an updated vaccine. I'm waiting on the updated version of the vaccine and apparently so is Nevada (this map makes it look worse than the reality; the situation should be rectified by next month).

Map showing where vaccines are available in US states. Most states are "available without a prescription" and a handful of states, most of which GOP-lead are "need a prescription" and Nevada is "currently unavailable"

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 03/09/2025

On an ig story where Lorde says "If I'm going to be a woman I want to be exactly the kind of woman that I need to be. Part of that is sometimes being a man." Imagine saying "I disagree" to someone's self-description. It's so weird to me that people still […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comment on an IG story with one person saying "I disagree with this statement. I believe gender roles should be abolished. People should have the freedom to do whatever they want without associating actions or identities with being a woman or a man."

And the following replies to this comment:

"🙌 the discourse is just so stiff and binary"

"This."

"thiss like people are only trans because gender was established. i don't think so many ppl would go through medical transition or have gender dysphoria if we were all just seen as humans with different body parts from the beginning of time and there were no expectations of each sex"

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 01/09/2025

The latest youth risk map from @erininthemorning.com I just argue with some blue maga including a gay podcast host who knows Newsom. People knee-jerk reacted to a headline about concerns with Newsom instead of responding to the substance. They keep trying to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Youth Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map

Do not travel - TX and FL
Safest states - MN, VT, HI and MA
Low risk - OR, NV, WI, DC, MD, DE, NJ, RI and ME
Moderate risk - CA, WA, AZ, CO, IL, MI, PA, NY, CT
Every other state is under "worst laws passed" unless I missed on in the other categories

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 14/08/2025

This photo is boring yet it's one of my favorite photos from the last time I was in Japan. Just captures the vibe of the area my in-laws' place is at, in a rural area right across from the 7/11. Toward the left you can see an Udon restaurant because they're everywhere in Kagawa-ken.

Photo of large, mostly empty parking lot with 7/11 towards the back. To the left an udon restaurant can just barely be seen

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 26/07/2025

I am infamously a fan of the original mp3.com. It was like a predecessor to bandcamp. After the lawsuit unfortunately forced it out of existence, it became some third-rate music news website that no one cared about. Apparently the domain name has been up for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of classic 2000-era mp3.com

Middle section says "Free Music and Charts:" with multiple genres and subgenres listed. On the top right is an embedded audio player, then below that are various services and links.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/06/2025

This perfectly describes the way so many pundits obviously think. Because they interpret the whole rest of the world through electoral politics, they can only conceive of activism in the form of logrolling and rationing political capital. When they talk of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Post on bsky by Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social

“He’s wrong but this is an incredibly common elite pathology: the belief that your voice should be held strategically in reserve, to strike at the right moment and change everything. Then they do and it's washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.”

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 19/06/2025

It doesn't matter how reasonable (or not) Klein & McBride were, the headline writer decided the still for this would imply some cancel culture nonsense and most people just interact with headlines and previews. It's weird to frame the center-left being […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of youtube video suggestion. The video still is a photo of congresswoman Sarah McBride with 'The illiberalism of the left' in large font and "Ezra Klein with Sarah McBride" on the bottom. The description reads "Sarah McBRide on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights | The Ezra Klein Show"

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 30/05/2025

I made another version with her straightish wife included

Blue haired wojak woman on left saying "nooo you can't be a gay trans person in a relationship with a cis het person! You're invalidating eachother's identities!" with a chad trans woman saying "haha human sexuality and relationships being complicated go brrrr." Next to chad trans woman is trad wife wojak, implying that she's her significant other.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/05/2025

Pictured: Gavin Newsom trying to appease everyone "just tell me what to say!"

The Simpsons screenshot showing Principle Skinner with his usual suit and tie outfit from waist up but skirt and pumps below.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/05/2025

I also a little bit have a problem with people being absolutist about this. Because what if a straight man wants to stay with his trans husband? Maybe hard logic applied to squishy subjective things is the problem, not a habit that can be reformed. Okay I had to. I made a fucking meme about that.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 08/05/2025

[food] Up your tofu scramble game with nopales. See image description for more details about what's going on here.

huevos rancheros-style tofu scramble - white corn tortilla, lightly fried with refried beans on top, tofu scramble with nopales on top of that and fire roasted salsa and guacamole on top of that

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