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Tighearnán Skye

@tigheskye.bsky.social
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Multi-disciplinary maker of things, mostly fiction and sewing right now | Very into storytelling as a thing we humans do | linktr.ee/tigheskye | Tighe (pronounced TEEg) for short, Tighearnán (TEER-nin) for long | they/them 🏳️‍⚧️

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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.
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Kit Author @kitauthor.com · 26/06/2026
Have you recorded the first chapter of your book for youtube or an audio book? Looking for 4-6 first chapters to play on Musecharmer Radio to start testing various content blocks. All genre fiction/ no adult/explicit content in chapter itself. Interested? Reach out! #Booksky #Authorsky
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hey fellow trans friends, I can't wait to get fucked up with some weird ass trans horror ❤️give me the stories you finished and were like "nah, I love this..but it's fucking weird and unsellable." And you leave it in a doc for 3 years. Please surprise me & make me feel gross & cry. I want it bad
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
HI YES ISSUE 2 OF OTHERSIDE IS FREE TO READ!! I'm really happy with how this issue turned out, it's dreamy and a little nightmarish and so full of emotions 💜 which is to saaaay HAPPY PRIDE GO READ QUEER STORIES AND POEMS THANKS 🌈🪐🗡️
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Candace the Magnificent 🔜 PAXU @thecandacemarie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
LIVE NOW!! Come hang with me as we raise funds for @translifeline.org 🏳️‍⚧️🎉🏳️‍⚧️
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
AUGURIANS! Thank you for supporting @talesfeathers.bsky.social on Kickstarter so far! We passed $8,000 & we're on the way to funding YEAR 6! 👀 We have until MAY 31 to raise the $15,500 CAD ($11.4k USD!) for 2 more years & put out our FIRST ever print edition! 📚✨ Help back us NOW! 🔗 Link in bio!
An illustration with a green overlay of a small group sitting by a campfire in the countryside woods under the blue night sky. A cloaked figure sits beside a small furry animal with a tail, and in front of them is a storyteller whose body glows yellow from the fire. A deer is lying nearby, and there are three ghost mice with wings perched on a wooden fence watching. At the top of the image reads: "Back us on Kickstarter until May 31" in white text. Below that reads: " Tales & Feathers" in white text. Underneath it reads: "Pro-Paying Slice of Life Fantasy" in white text. There are 4 covers of the tales and feathers volumes. At the bottom of the image is a green bar. Inside the bar is a white progress tracker bar from $0 to $15,500 CAD/$11,200 US. There is an orange bar inside to indicate the current amount raised.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
With the #RECORDED campaign launching in just under two weeks (!!) I wanna talk a little more about weird/found media formats I love! 👀📽️ follow on BackerKit (I'd love to get to 30 followers on that!) ➡️ tiny.cc/recordedantho submission guidelines ➡️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho 🧵(1/)
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Get Ready for [RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!
From Merc Fenn Wolfmoor - Get Ready for [RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
We're 86% of the way to our fundraising goal with 99 backers and just 2 weeks to go 💫 Thank you so much for your support! Kickstarter only releases this money if we hit our goal of $5,000, so we need your help! Be our 100th backer, or even our 101st 💜
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No’eau Aitonui/Heiani Mareva Hoata @mudaship39.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Part of land back is referring to our Indigenous lands by their Indigenous names not colonizer ones. Don't add to more Indigenous erasure. Stand the fuck up for Indigenous agency and soveignty.
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hey Augurians!! We're NOW OPEN for a PRIORITY call from BIPOC, trans, &/or disabled creators currently living in &/or from Canada 📚 From May 5th-31st, Augur Mag is now ACCEPTING speculative submissions of... ✨ Short fiction ✨ Flash fiction ✨ Poetry Scroll for more details 👀⬇️
The background is an illustration, layered in the colour blue of two figures on the right and left with swirls of fire as their hair, wearing blue robes, sitting among colourful flowers and writing in a book. There is a larger figure in the middle with swirling fire hair with a glowing white bird in front of them. At the top of the image is the augur logo and below it reads: "Priority call" in white text with an orange banner behind it. Underneath it reads: "BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled writers in or from Canada" in white text. In the middle of the image reads: "Submissions now open" in white text. Below it reads: "$100 cad per poem.
$0.14 cad per word (Fiction, 800+ words).
$112 cad per flash fic (<800 words)" in white text. There is an orange bar and inside it in white text reads: "Pass it on" and beside it is a paper airplane graphic. At the bottom of the image is a link to the submissions: https://augursociety.org/submissions/ in white text. Below it reads: "Sci-fi. Fantasy. Slipstream."
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Hey Backer 99 and 100 👀👀 Sup 👀👀👀👀👀 How you doin’ 💜👀💜👀 (Help us find them with a campaign share today?! WE ARE ALMOST AT GOAL ONE!)
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Would you like a sneak peek at our Issue 2 cover illustration by @hvmator.bsky.social? Of course you would! It's dreamy, lush, and surreal, just like so many of the stories and the poems in this issue. We adore this cover and we know you will too 🪐 Full reveal coming Wednesday!
5 tile sections of Issue 2 cover art on a blurred purple and orange background.
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Tighearnán Skye @tigheskye.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
this made me snort laugh what am i gonna do not repost it
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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We are still actively fundraising for Flights of Foundry! If you like what we do, and want to support us in getting a new platform, please donate today! Every little bit counts (including resharing this post!) givebutter.com/FoFne...
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Okay, crew—there’s less than $1000 CA (less than $700 US) between us and funding… ONE ✨ WHOLE ✨ YEAR ✨ of Tales & Feathers !!! 🐉🏰🔮 + knocking the first of our three goals (year 6 is next!) out. LET’S GOOOOO!! Give us a share, help us get there !! 😤
$5572 of CA $6500
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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists and Writers is now open!! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Submit by June 8, 2026 1/2
Contest for Emerging Artists

No submission fees
No rights Encumbered
Submit a portfolio of speculative illustration
Finalists judged by Becca Farrow and Hannah Vardit

Cash prizes!
1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize)
2nd Place: $750
3rd Place: $400

Open between April 13 - June 8, 2026Contest for Emerging Writers

No submission fees
No rights Encumbered
Submit a speculative short stories up to 10,000 words
Finalists judged by R.S.A. Garcia and P.A. Cornell

Cash prizes!
1st Place: $1500
2nd Place: $750
3rd Place: $400

Open between April 13 - June 8, 2026
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
To all the other trans folks out there: I hope something wonderful and magical happens for you today.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“Water Softener People” by EC Dorgan (Kaleidotrope, Winter '26), writes @mariahaskins.com, is "a slow-burn blend of weird fiction and horror that starts out quietly in the everyday world before dragging you deeper into the mysteries lurking beneath the surface of the mundane." 🚿
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who submitted! We always feel so lucky to read your amazing stories and poems. First-round response times are around 4-7 days, and we plan to have final decisions made by early May. Missed this window? Don't worry! We open again in July 🌟
White text on a purple blurred background. Text reads: SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED! Thank you so much for submitting! Final decisions will arrive in early May. NEXT OPEN WINDOW: We'll next open to original fiction and poetry in July! Early opening for trans, BIPOC and/or disabled authors: July 1st-7th. General opening for all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors: July 8th-21st! 

www.othersidespec.com/guidelines for our full guidelines!
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
*banging pots and pans* DEAR QUEER WRITERS AND POETS: IT'S OTHERSIDE'S LAST DAAAAY OF OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 2!! GET YOUR STORIES AND POEMS IN!! 👀
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Tighearnán Skye @tigheskye.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it) Luna is a cute little lady and deserves everything in the world, obviously
A small for ffy far rests her little head on a small pillow in a sun beam
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.
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KTLyn (any) @ktlyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My poem is free to read today in @heartlines-spec.com It'd mean a whole lot if you gave it a read. www.heartlines-spec.com/embodied-anc...
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Embodied Ancestors
Embodied Ancestors by K. T. Lyn
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Tighearnán Skye @tigheskye.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Pro: fun jacket in progress Con: forgot how much I hate hand sewing rip me
A jean jacket with several many patches laid out on it ready for sewing. There's a huge iridescent skull patch, a couple Canadian scout crests, a Newfoundland Botallbical Gardens patch, a polyhedral dice set patch, a bisexuality lit skeleton patch, a patch with Nessie on it that says 'hot mess monster', a Welcome To Night Vale patch, a astronaut cat patch, a bowie-eswue lightning bolt patch, a crochet skull and crossbones patch that's embroidered onto the jacket, and a homemade patch that says 'depressed gremlin nightmare boy'
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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hey pals, we’re getting closer to GRIEF EATER’s book birthday! Very excited for you all to read my bloody, vengeful, revenge book. 🖤✨ Boosts humbly appreciated!
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i said this about substack all the way back in 2021 and it's as true now as it was then and has always been and will always fucking be
Text reading: There’s quite a lot I’d like to say about the situation, but for now I’ll leave it at this: the choice between protecting profit and protecting people feels like a difficult one, but in reality, it is a false choice. It’s easy to make that decision feel complicated, but it’s not. If there can be no profit without investment in exposing trans people to harm, then there should be no profit.
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Harms: i'll take that dare! King: guys, check it out, eve is gonna do the dare Wiswell: ok you're on Wiswell: first challenge Wiswell: i dare you to properly hydrate Harms: i bit off more than i can chew
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When we asked poetry editors Jess Cho and Angel Leal what they wanted to see in Issue 2, they immediately said things like "VISCERAL VERSE" and "weird queer monsters" and "joy and euphoria" and "MORE POEMS, PLEASE." Poets, you know what to do! Send us your work + spread the word! We pay $50/poem!
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Once more, with feeling! 🎱2️⃣🥈 The flash fiction theme for April is SECOND CHANCE. You have until the end of the month to submit! Check the link below for guidelines and submission portal ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/april-...
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a silhouette of a hand holding a frisbee that says " try again "
Alt: a black and white animation of a hand shaking a Magic 8 Ball. Its message reads: "try again"
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026
We are so, so small. #Artemis
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
Some lunar vocabulary in case you're following along with the #Artemis II flyby: * albedo: reflectiveness (high albedo=very shiny) * mare/maria(plural): from Latin for "sea," dark regions on the Moon, which are dried lava basins * terminator: the line of the transition between sunlight & darkness
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026
I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
📣YOU ARE A GOOD WRITER! FUCK THEM📣
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Honest advice: are you nervous about boosting your own work? Then boost other people's. What books made you stay up too late? What books entered your life when you needed them most? Yell about that! Help people find those books, too.
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Sara, no H @syntherella.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is why you always want the window seat
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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wanna hear two of the Nebula finalists for short story? Come on in! The fire is warm and the chairs are cozy!
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Issue 2 submissions are OPEN NOW! We are looking for speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from April 1-7. If that's you, send us your work 👀 General submissions will be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from April 8-21!
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
What’s on your low/no-cost dopamine menu? I’m going on a strict budget in April after an over ambitious March, but know my over-spending kicks in most when I’m bored. 👀 I need more fun that isn’t tied to $$$
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Tighearnán Skye @tigheskye.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit #tlt #gtn
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Tighearnán Skye @tigheskye.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I am in the final chapters of Gideon the Ninth and I am hyperventilating AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
so funny when people get all upset about genres that other people DARE to enjoy. these big think pieces about ROMANTASY or COZY HORROR or DARK ACADEMIA and how dang upset they make the writer of the article. bud who cares what other people like youll be fine. let people read their books oh my god
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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The Hugo nomination deadline is right around the corner. My little short story about self-acceptance is a finalist for the Nebulas and I would be so honored if you considered it for the Hugos. You can read or listen here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...
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Six People to Revise You - Uncanny Magazine
A parent or guardian Someone who has known you since childhood A mentor or teacher An employer or coworker A spouse, partner, or close intimate friend Someone who does not consider themself a loved on...
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 22/03/2026
Anyway everybody go read 'Everyone Keeps Saying Probably' and then tell me to get back to work, daylight's a-burnin' psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...
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Everyone Keeps Saying Probably - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Publisher's Note: Please enjoy this short story by Premee Mohamed, who, coincidentally(!!), has a book out from Psychopomp on February 11th. It's called One
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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
What are you doing an hour from now? Is it this? :D
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 19/03/2026
The Canada Council for the Arts grants ~5,300 organizations, groups and artists an avg of $53,000 each year. $77B would fund 10x as many artists and orgs -- 53,000! -- at double the avg $, every year for 13 years, on the principal. This would change the country, tbh. I mean, the gay hockey alone.
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Childless Dog Lady is on sabbatical. 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
it makes it even more striking how there still has only been one Black woman best actress winner, ever. in 98 years.
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Tighearnán Skye @tigheskye.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The River Has Roots was one of my top three reads last year, if you haven't gotten to it yet I can't recommend it highly enough 🌳
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I'm getting questions about why there are trans characters in my Fantasy novel. There's a simple answer: trans people don't need to justify existing. Glad to clear that up!
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