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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey

@trendisourfriend.bsky.social
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Award winning communications expert. An energy transition enthusiast, with an extensive industry and media network; author of the ‘Trend is Your Friend’ newsletter. Fixer. Lobbyist. Dad. 🔋❤️🔋 www.boldvoodoo.com

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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It’s been a minute; #socialmedia not my strength - however - think this deserves some air - P.S #tesla I still love you - but change is needed and kindness www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ki...
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Tesla's challenges run deeper than controversy around Elon Musk | Ben Kilbey
Being on the other side, the one being interviewed in this BBC News deep dive on Tesla woes, was a little daunting … and made me realise how the uninitiated…
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I answered a reporter's question: "The long-term well-being of our climate system is incompatible with the short-term gains of shareholders." I stand by that statement.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/01/2025
You know who understands risk? Actuaries. And guess what they're saying: "... the plausible worst-case hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090." I'm bad at budgeting, can someone tell me whether 50% is a lot?
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Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#potholes - screw that - Roads that Last, please 🙏🏼 🥊🥊🥊 @linkedin.com article here from @quentinwillson.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ki... @telegraphnews.bsky.social article here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
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Ben Kilbey on LinkedIn: #opinion #potholes
An excellent #opinion piece in The Telegraph by 'Friend of the Trend' and founder of FairCharge, Quentin Willson - looking at the scourge of #potholes and why…
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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As Inauguration Nears, Sad Trump Voters Share Their Post-Election Regrets: ‘That Sh*t is Kinda Scary for People Like Me’
There’s got to be no worse feeling in the world than knowing you’ve made a grave mistake that will adversely affect your life or the lives of the people you love. And in reality, I actually feel bad for most people who go through something like that. But…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/01/2025
As tech barons dial up the spreading of lies, why is the BBC dialling down the reporting of truth? | John Harris
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As tech barons dial up the spreading of lies, why is the BBC dialling down the reporting of truth? | John Harris
A damning report shows how local news cuts stymied coverage of the riots in Plymouth. What fills the vacuum? Misinformation On 4 August 2024, the riots and disturbances that followed the killing of three children in Southport, on Merseyside, spread even…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I fear there is deep truth here.
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Trend is 🫵 Friend Come get some #energytransition goodness “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion”    Simone de Beauvoir "Drill, baby, drill" Donald Trump ⛽️🥊🎳🔋 www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ki...
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Ben Kilbey on LinkedIn: #hybrids #lithium #zevmandate #electricvehicles #energytransition
"But remember this We're not invincible, we're not invincible, no We're only people, we're only people Hey we're not invincible, we're not invincible…
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Love a cup of Worm Dirt to fire up the grey matter … ☕️🤟☕️
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Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com · 08/01/2025
Los Angeles from the air 😳💔
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The start of 2025 means it is precisely 25 years until net zero targets in the UK, EU, US, etc fall due. Every quarter now represents one per cent of the available time to fully decarbonise industrialised economies. Happy New Year! www.businessgreen.com/news/4392880...
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The emissions don't lie, Trudeau edition www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Canada has the highest proportional increase in CO2 emissions since 1990 relative to G-7 countries
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
As @janrosenow.bsky.social has shown, Britain's reliance on gas for heating shackles us to the fossil past and to higher bills. Getting gas out of our homes is a win-win-win and a no-brainer - but it requires robust government support.
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
@thetimes.com doing a solid here 🔋 🙏🏼 www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ki...
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Ben Nelmes @bennelmes.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
EVs were the most popular fuel type in the UK for the first time in December, marking the end to a year in which sales of clean cars returned to very strong growth. Our full update will be in your inboxes on Monday - sign up here to make sure you get it: newautomotive.org/ecc
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I'd like to sing about all the things Your 👀 and mind can see So hop aboard the turntable Oh, step into TiYF with me, yeah … keep smilin' through the days If we can help to entertain you Oh, we will find the ways … Step into TiYF with meeeee … 🎄🔋🎄 #BattChat 🎄🔋 www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ki...
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Simon Hudson | MVP @simonjhudson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Lots of fun and forceful insights on why hydrogen ships are as stupid an idea as hydrogen cars Some great data too cleantechnica.com/2024/12/12/h... #hydrogen #EV #shipping
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Hydrogen Ships Are Seeing Same Pattern As All Hydrogen Fleets - CleanTechnica
Just as hydrogen is like square wheels on ground vehicles, it's like using a colander as a hull on the water.
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
‘Mr Jackson remains motivated to use clean energy and technology to solve problems here on Earth…’ What a sentence to end a great piece on … 😍 The battles of @gjuk.bsky.social, Britain’s clean-energy disrupter - The Economist apple.news/A0gkcnnNfSkK...
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The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain’s clean-energy disrupter — The Economist
The boss of Octopus Energy wants to change the way the world uses electricity
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
For anyone who missed this prescient piece by Laurie Laybourn and James Dyke when it came out, it’s a MUST read for understanding the social instability that’s coming as our world warms and we weather the social consequences of it. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
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A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Not long now … TiYF is coming … and it’s a 🎅🏼🎄🎅🏼 cracker of an edition … www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ki...
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Ben Kilbey on LinkedIn: #energytransition #electric #secondhand #electricvehicles #challenging
In just a few hours you'll get your fortnightly dose of #energytransition market magic, education and information ... It's a 🎅 🎄 cracker of an edition…
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Britain’s biggest energy firms have warned that relaxing rules on electric vehicle targets could hit household budgets through higher energy bills and fuel costs: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Weakening electric car rules could cost consumers, energy firms warn
An industry body with members including British Gas, EDF and Octopus Energy said watering down the zero-emissions vehicle mandate could backfire
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/12/2024
40% of the mass of everything transported by a ship in 2023 was a fossil fuel. That stat paired with this new study shines a pretty harsh spotlight on how obscenely bad-faith the right-wing concern trolling around offshore wind + whales is www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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UW study finds leading cause of whale deaths
New research shows that the top threat to whales around the globe has changed. But it wouldn't take much to reduce the risk, researchers say.
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Climate change and El Nino were the two key reasons 2023 was so record-breakingly hot. But scientists struggled to explain about 0.2C of the warming last year. A new study suggests fewer clouds may explain the puzzle. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/article/fc28...
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Fewer clouds could be to blame for 2023’s record heat
Low clouds reflect the sun’s rays back into space — without them, scientists fear climate change will worsen quicker than predicted
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🇨🇳 🥊🔋 @edconway.bsky.social does it again … A solid report, unbiased, based on facts. 💪🏻🔋💪🏻 You’ve heard of them, facts. They just seem to get trampled on a lot for the sake of #clickbait … Ed, my mate, thank you. #batteries firmly included 🔋🫶🏼🔋🫶🏼🔋🫶🏼 news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/news.sky...
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The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future - and how China has leapfrogged major car-exporting nations
Sky's Ed Conway explains how the rest of the world was caught napping in the electric vehicle race, which means our car prices and auto industry jobs are within China's grip.
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Colin Walker @colin-walker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"Auto Trader forecasts ‘seismic shift’ to electric vehicles in Britain" "The number of petrol cars on British roads has peaked this year but is set to tumble by more than 40% over the next decade" www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Auto Trader forecasts ‘seismic shift’ to electric vehicles in Britain
Number of petrol cars on British roads rose to 18.7m this year, but decrease expected amid growth of EVs
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
@davidfrum.bsky.social this is an excellent piece of writing, honest and raw … I’m pretty speechless 😶 Martial law might be uttered again … just not in South Korea …
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Sweden's remarkably clean power grid. In November, this was its electricity generation mix: Hydro 38% Wind 31% Nuclear 28% Bioenergy 4% Zero coal or gas. - Ember data
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In 1993, major German energy suppliers ran adverts in newspapers claiming that renewable energy could only ever provide 4% to German electricity system. Fast forward to 2023 and almost 60% of German electricity comes from renewables, mainly wind and solar. www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/blog/wh...
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Why I'm an energy transition optimist | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
4 December 2024 - In this blog, Dr Jan Rosenow, CISL Senior Associate and course lead of the new self-paced online course, Renewable Energy Foundations for Business, explains why he’s an energy transi...
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
www.thetimes.com/business-mon... The Trend is OUR 🫵🫶🏼 Friend Back issues here: us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=478e... #BattChat 🔋🫶🏼🔋
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Electric car sales hit 25% of market
The ZEV mandate is working, but ministers must not pull the rug under progress
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Trend is Your Friend Trend is OUR 🫵 Friend I can feel it coming in the air tonight Oh, Lord And I've been waiting for this moment, for all my life Oh, Lord Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? Oh, Lord Oh, Lord Read the latest edition right here: us13.campaign-archive.com?u=478e0c6e24...
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
@bsky.app certainly feels a lot more positive in its communications and engagement - Perhaps this is the arena to really tell the story of #electricvehicles and the huge benefits that they will have on #health and #wealth As I say; I hate cars, that’s why I love my EV. ❤️ No hassle. No pumps. 🙏🏼🔋🙏🏼
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Happy December the 1st, people. In a world of war and addiction to #fossilfuels … sometimes you just need a family of #elves invading for the month to take the edge off … 🎄🔋🎄 And this excellent piece from Leggett / BBC News: lnkd.in/eqWJ28zN LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ki...
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Ben Kilbey on LinkedIn: #fossilfuels #elves
Happy December the 1st, people. In a world of war and addiction to #fossilfuels … sometimes you just need a family of #elves invading for the month to take the…
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Solar installations are now mandatory for large parking lots in France theprogressplaybook.com/2024/11/19/s...
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Solar installations are now mandatory for large parking lots in France
The aim is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy in the country, which already operates one of the world's cleanest power grids.
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Call me an old traditionalist, but it just isn’t Christmas until you can buy Churros in a German market in Birmingham.
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🌊 🐲 🌬️
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#heatpumps @dalevince.bsky.social, interested in your views as know you are a 🔋 fan, but #heatpumps not so much?
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanks for flagging @colin-walker.bsky.social 🔋🙏🏼
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @colin-walker.bsky.social @adamvaughan.bsky.social we’ve all been working very hard to find some balance and sense in an argument that’s once again become very anti #electricvehicles As I said earlier, my new campaign. Hate cars? Love an EV. #ZEVmandate is working
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
EVs did not close the Luton factory … regardless of the bluster 🔋 Thoughts with those affected - but we can’t pin the #narrative on EVs … 🥊
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Pleasure listening to @jamestfrith.bsky.social and @aaron-wade.bsky.social discussing what can be learned from 🇨🇳 dominance in the 🔋 supply chain and large scale #manufacturing - sure we need to #collaborate for success, but we also need to be thinking about how we finance the Western 🔋 industry …
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Anyone at The London EV Show today? #BattChat @jamestfrith.bsky.social looking forward to seeing you, my mate 🔋🙌🏼🔋 @lizziedriscoll.bsky.social @gavindjharper.bsky.social In 🔋 We Trust
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Energy stocks are rallying while crude oil slumps. What gives?
This kind of divergence only happens about 1% of the time....
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
As @bennelmes.bsky.social rightly says, this is a sad day for Ford 🚗 but with the right investments in the future #energytransition economy we can transfer skills and create the jobs of the future - the #ZEVmandate is an important policy to make sure investors have certainty and clarity on 🇬🇧 plans!
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hold tight @bsky.app community - with over 20 million caring, kind, climate conscious people, including a raft of #scientists, this petition should already be signed by over 10 million? Or, something is wrong … @helenczerski.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Living with @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social is pretty hard work, at the best of times - but when 🇬🇧 trains are as bad as they are today - wow, I’ve had to dig deep and do some 🙏🏼💩🙏🏼 @teamlabouruk.bsky.social think we need to work a bit harder for that #change Almost 😅 home Blessed w/e people ❤️
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m branding this the iceberg COP. Almost impossible to learn what is going on under the surface. Background briefings are normally the order of the day at UN climate negotiations, but even they are scarce at #COP29
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Ben ‘www.boldvoodoo.com’ Kilbey @trendisourfriend.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
@lucympowell.bsky.social great speech last night at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social NW Gala Dinner … An enjoyable gathering of #business and #government Here’s to a strong 2025 💪🏻 In the words of Oasis: ‘I'm not saying right is wrong It's up to us to make The best of all the things that come our way’
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