So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it. 

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and  unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender. 

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.

Similarily: “Dyke/butch/femme are lesbian words, bisexual/pansexual women shouldn’t use them.”

When I speak to them, lesbians who say this seem to be under the impression that bisexuals must have our own history and culture and words that are all perfectly nice, so why can’t we just use those without poaching someone else’s?

And often, they’re really shocked when I tell them: We don’t. We can’t. I’d love to; it’s not possible.

“Lesbian” used to be a word that simply meant a woman who loved other women. And until feminism, very, very few women had the economic freedom to choose to live entirely away from men. Lesbian bars that began in the 1930s didn’t interrogate you about your history at the door; many of the women who went there seeking romantic or sexual relationships with other women were married to men at the time. When The Daughters of Bilitis formed in 1955 to work for the civil and political wellbeing of lesbians, the majority of its members were closeted, married women, and for those women, leaving their husbands and committing to lesbian partners was a risky and arduous process the organization helped them with. Women were admitted whether or not they’d at one point truly loved or desired their husbands or other men–the important thing was that they loved women and wanted to explore that desire.

Lesbian groups turned against bisexual and pansexual women as a class in the 1970s and 80s, when radical feminists began to teach that to escape the Patriarchy’s evil influence, women needed to cut themselves off from men entirely. Having relationships with men was “sleeping with the enemy” and colluding with oppression. Many lesbian radical feminists viewed, and still view, bisexuality as a fundamentally disordered condition that makes bisexuals unstable, abusive, anti-feminist, and untrustworthy.

(This despite the fact that radical feminists and political lesbians are actually a small fraction of lesbians and wlw, and lesbians do tend, overall, to have positive attitudes towards bisexuals.)

That process of expelling bi women from lesbian groups with immense prejudice continues to this day and leaves scars on a lot of bi/pan people. A lot of bisexuals, myself included, have an experience of “double discrimination”; we are made to feel unwelcome or invisible both in straight society, and in LGBT spaces. And part of this is because attempts to build a bisexual/pansexual community identity have met with strong resistance from gays and lesbians, so we have far fewer books, resources, histories, icons, organizations, events, and resources than gays and lesbians do, despite numerically outnumbering them..

So every time I hear that phrase, it’s another painful reminder for me of all the experiences I’ve had being rejected by the lesbian community. But bisexual experiences don’t get talked about or signalboosted much,so a lot of young/new lesbians literally haven’t learned this aspect of LGBT+ history.

And once I’ve explained it, I’ve had a heartening number of lesbians go, “That’s not what I wanted to happen, so I’m going to stop saying that.”

This is good information for people who carry on with the “queer is a slur” rhetoric and don’t comprehend the push back.

ive been saying for years that around 10 years ago on tumblr, it was only radfems who were pushing the queer as slur rhetoric, and everyone who was trans or bi or allies to them would push back - radfems openly admitted that the reason they disliked the term “queer” was because it lumped them in with trans people and bi women. over the years, the queer is a slur rhetoric spread in large part due to that influence, but radfems were more covert about their reasons - and now it’s a much more prevalent belief on tumblr - more so than on any queer space i’ve been in online or offline - memory online is very short-term unfortunately bc now i see a lot of ppl, some of them bi or trans themselves, who make this argument and vehemently deny this history but…yep

Or asexuality, which has been a concept in discussions on sexuality since 1869. Initially grouped slightly to the left, as in the categories were ‘heterosexual’, ‘homosexual’, and ‘monosexual’ (which is used differently now, but then described what we would call asexuality). Later was quite happily folded in as a category of queerness by Magnus Hirschfeld and Emma Trosse in the 1890s, as an orientation that was not heterosexuality and thus part of the community.

Another good source here, also talking about aromanticism as well. Aspec people have been included in queer studies as long as queer studies have existed.

Also, just in my own experiences, the backlash against ‘queer’ is still really recent. When I was first working out my orientation at thirteen in 2000, there was absolutely zero issue with the term. I hung out on queer sites, looked for queer media, and was intrigued by queer studies. There were literally sections of bookstores in Glebe and Newtown labelled ‘Queer’. It was just… there, and so were we!

So it blows my mind when there are these fifteen-year-olds earnestly telling me - someone who’s called themself queer longer than they’ve been alive - that “que*r is a slur.” Unfortunately, I have got reactive/defensive for the same reasons OP has mentioned. I will absolutely work on biting down my initial defensiveness and trying to explain - in good faith - the history of the word, and how it’s been misappropriated and tarnished by exclusionists.

Worth noting here is a sneaky new front I’ve seen radfems start using:

Yeah, okay, maybe older LGBTs use queer and fag and dyke…but they’re cringey, and you don’t want to be cringe, do you?

I’m not even joking. They strip the loud-and-proud aspects of our history out of all context, remove every bit of blood, sweat, and tears the queer community poured into things like anti-discrimination laws and AIDS research funding, and use those screams of rebellion to say we’re weird, and you wouldn’t want to be WEIRD.

Stop and think about that for a minute.

Yeah. They are not the arbiters of our community and they never were, and it’s important to not give them the time of day.

beyond mad at doc martens for making these glow in the dark bug shoes in child sizes only

They’ve got some awesome shoes and boots that… only come in “women’s” (narrow) sizes.

this is a callout post for the white bellbird

That link is to an old recall from 2019. This link here is from the current April 2023 recall.

Oh thank you! I appreciate the corrected information. I grabbed the link from the other post about this, since I won't reblog from OP, to make my own link, and I clearly didn't check it well enough.

Please reblog this version, y'all!

A list of what is being recalled here!

This is my favorite boomer comic

It’s that time of year again. Courtesy of digitalhammurabi.com

Addition about the image, courtesy of Twitter user @lui_log: wrt the background image, which is a stone plaque showing a winged goddess flanked by owls: “Also, we don't know whether this is a depiction of Ishtar, as the piece has been looted, thus has no archaeological context that could point us to whom it shows. Nor does it bear an inscription. The owls could mean that it is Ishtar's sister Ereshkigal, Goddess of the Underworld.”

New Episode of Nothing Is Wrong - The New Guy - Should be up Monday.

finally completed my dnd quiz! featuring a mix and match of 30 races and 14 classes, discover who you would be in the forgotten realms! i'd be a satyr artificer :)

I had been thinking about making this quiz. But now I don't have to.

Here’s what I have learned about “healing crystals”

Crystals have powers. Why do they have powers? I asked some weird crystal healing websites.

It is because they have energy. What kind of energy? Vibrating energy. Vibrating faster is better.

I would not like to vibrate faster. I have anxiety. I move on from this for now.

The “crystal healing” websites (there are dozens) maintain that the vibrational energy powers of crystals come from their crystalline structures, made of a repeating lattice of molecules. Things that have a specific chemical composition in a lattice structure are crystals, which have powers.

This is okay. This is a scientifically accurate understanding of what a mineral is, except for the powers.

Having established a firm foundation of scientific understanding of what “crystal” means, the crystal healing websites immediately flush that understanding down a toilet of ignorance into the septic tank of stupid.

How? Firstly, many of the most commonly recommended “healing crystals” are stones that are definitionally not crystals. Lapis lazuli, obsidian, tiger’s eye, and opal are some of the most commonly recommended crystals that have powers. The problem is that the powers come from the specific chemical composition in a crystalline structure, and lapis lazuli, obsidian, tiger’s eye and opal don’t have a specific chemical composition in a crystalline structure. But the websites say they have powers anyway.

Wikipedia says opal is amorphous and has no crystalline structure. THAT MEANS NO POWERS! What is the truth? Make up your mind!

I am troubled further still. By what, you ask? Primarily the quartz.

I look at lists of the rocks that have powers. On them is clear quartz, smoky quartz, rose quartz, amethyst, aventurine, chalcedony, jasper, agate, citrine, and carnelian. What do all these things have in common? Being quartz! The base chemical composition that is in the repeating lattice structure is quartz. They are different because of impurities. I thought the impurities meant no powers. But all these quartzes have hella powers—different powers! What is the TRUTH?

What powers do the rocks have?

I have documented many powers:

It is too much to write. There are many, many, many others. Mostly, websites discuss more general powers, like “protection” or “manifesting.”

I visit many different websites, and I notice that they are all highly inconsistent about what powers each type of crystal appears to have.

So I quickly draw this chart:

Along the side I list major powers of crystals, along the top I list important crystals. Then I mark the boxes whenever one of the website mentions one of the powers as a major important quality of one of the crystals.

Online sources are both highly inconsistent in what crystals do and very broadly attribute their abilities. One website focuses on amethyst as one of the best cleansing stones, another says its main quality is unlocking psychic powers, and another says it is the calming stone. Smoky quartz is well-known for its protection qualities according to one site, well-known for being a calming stone according to another.

“Protection” and “clearing negative energies” seem to be attributable to practically all of them. “Calming” is also like a majority of the stones.

I begin to wonder why there aren’t any stones that make you feel worse. Where are the rocks that make you sexually frustrated, give you headaches, attract toxic people into your life, and put more ghosts in your house.

A few things are weirdly consistent:

But for the most part, the websites are all in a lot of disagreement over what the crystals do.

to be more serious though it’s kinda horrifying to see how clearly the ideas on these websites are shaped to wring increasing amounts of money out of people. The lifestyle of spiritual wellness they promote entirely hinges on purchasing things.

How to select your crystals. Where to find your crystals. Here are some candles, here are some smudging sticks, here are MORE crystals, it is so focused on buying.

Apart from being pretty, the common quality in all the stones said to have powers is that they’re easy enough to source that they can be sold profitably, but they are uncommon enough that you have to find a place to buy them from. That’s why so many of them are quartz—quartz is common enough that it can be sold at a price most people can afford, but pretty enough that it can justify being price-hiked all to hell.

these websites are trying to convince people that “crystals” are different than, well, rocks, even if they aren’t…actually…crystals, because they have to convince people of a reason that they can’t just…find a rock outside and meditate with it.

And of course pretty rocks are cool, I’ve bought pretty rocks before, I love them, but an obsidian isn’t more spiritual or ~connected to nature~ than a piece of limestone. This makes me sad! Rocks are everywhere, and they’re cool! When I took my geology class I realized that billions of years of unique earth history was underneath me at all times, and that every rock told a story and that none of them were boring, and the world became much much cooler to me!

idk, it’s so depressing to me, how these websites talk about how special it is that these crystals were crafted by nature when it’s like. a Product theyre trying to sell. Why can’t you find a cool rock in a creek and use it as a grounding/meditation tool? Because cool creek rocks don’t have Spiritual Powers…for reasons

and also I’ve been to like local craft fairs and there’s a rock festival I visited in a county near mine and I can tell you that most of these crystals on the Internet are so, so, so overpriced. A 1 1/2 inch clear quartz point should NOT be selling for $45.

I understand the idea of wanting to connect to nature and I definitely understand pretty rocks but there’s something really sad about this

and these websites are also absolutely taking advantage of people who are having struggles in their life and health problems and the ideas they promote are in some cases dangerous

“CHEAPER THAN THERAPY AND A SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIDEPRESSANTS?”

Beyond the predatory snake oil cure bullshit, The Thing™️ that really bothers me about the crystal wellness movement, is that it so wildly undersells why these rocks are cool.

The ammonite fossil is not cool because of its "sacred geometry spiral", the thing is cool because it is evidence of life that has not seen the sun since the devonian. Time immemorial held in the palm of your hand.

Smokey quartz is actually not the result of impurities in the quartz it is the result of radiation damage knocking the electron valance of the crystal lattice out of whack. Fluorite has something similar where the colors come from light interacting with misaligned crystal facies. Optical calcite will polarize light. Calcite actually does a whole bunch of insane bullshit under different pressures and temperatures. My personal favorite is olivine, because it is the most common mineral on Earth, it's just inaccessible because it comprises the mantle and we cannot reach that unless there's been some ridiculous orogenies. Also it's acid green.

All this shit is really cool but it relies on you caring about what the rock is and not just what the rock can do for you.

filterable picrew database!

hey pals!! i'm working on a filterable, tagged collection of picrew i like. right now there's about 60 picrew (and other such makers such as those from neka or meiker) in there with tags for things like fashion, hair options, skin colors, specific features like horns or headscarves, and body types. you can search for multiple tags at a time and filter out tags you don't want. the whole thing is organized in a big grid of sample results from the picrew in question, so you can see the style at a glance and click it for more images and the url, but you can change the view and organization system however you like.

the link is here!!! feel free to share this wherever. i'm still going through my folders and adding more makers, so expect lots of updates real soon.

i'm hoping this makes it easier for people to find picrew that suit them and their characters, especially in cases where it's unfortunately harder to find certain features like dark skin options and fat bodies.

have fun!!!! i hope this is helpful for people!!!

international people start calling our country aotearoa instead of new zealand challenge

aotearoa is the te reo name for our country, commonly translated as "land of the long white cloud" as the story goes Kupe was guided to our whenua by following a long white cloud in the sky. new zealand is a name which was forced on us by colonizers who stole our precious land less than 200 years ago. by reverting back to the māori name you are metaphorically giving the land back to the tangata whenua, the people of the land, and we can begin to normalize using the proper names for things that should have always belonged to māori

heres a link to a good pronunciation, i recommend practicing saying it along to the video. but please remember that even if you cant get it perfect, say it anyway!! its better to try and get it slightly wrong than not try at all

Me: oh yeah, if you think school photography is hard now, try imagining doing this with film.

The new girl: what’s film?

Me: … film. Like… film that goes in a film camera.

New girl: what’s that mean?

Me: … before cameras were digital.

New girl: how did you do it before digital?

Me:… with film? I haven’t had enough coffee for this conversation

New girl: I need you to show me how to format the usb.

Me: format?

New girl: yeah what do I do?

Me: you… put the usb in. Then you make a new folder on it and rename it with (name, date, location)

New girl: but how do I do that?

Me: … they dont… teach you this anymore, do they?

The lack of computer skills is becoming a problem. Like there was a period of time where the older workers in office jobs had to be brought up to speed on computers, but now a lot of the newer workers have the issue too.

There’s a lot of assumed technical literacy because we had a whole generation brought up on desktop computers, but now it’s one that was brought up on phones, tablets, and chromebooks. Phones are easier to use, but that means the users have never had to work around the daily problems presented by most desktop environments.

But our systems are still set up assuming the kids are “digital natives” who just already know this stuff. So no one teaches them. So a new employee walks into the office… and they just don’t.

30-something here. And this is frightening for a few reasons.

Much of the back-end architecture will soon be more difficult to maintain, as those with the expertise retire or when the one guy volunteering to update a niche corner of some minute software function that holds up ¼ of the computer world dies.

While products are made to be “easier to use” now, which has made them more accessible, they aren’t made to last, contributing to tech pollution / e-waste. Many consumers don’t know how to upgrade or repair their own tech…if they are upgradeable.

Which brings me to my next point.

I bought a new low end laptop recently. Not chrome book, but actual Windows PC laptop. I haven’t had a personal computer for a while and with a lot of expectation to “return to the office” because COVID’s over, right? *heavy eye roll*, I wanted something cheap and portable. I found a deal because a lot of low end laptops are being discounted because school children aren’t remote now. I was actually looking for refurbished but found what I wanted cheaper new, sadly.

Finding one that I knew would run the software I needed or that wouldn’t be bogged down just with Windows? A challenge. You’ve got to know what RAM, HDD vs eMMC vs SSD, cores, age of processors, and all those specs mean.

Finding one that wasn’t Windows in “S mode,” a bullshit mode that locks you into the Windows app / store for ALL software (where they take a cut of each purchase)? Even more challenging.

When I booted it up…I imagine most people just click yes through things because why not, just want to get right to it, right?

The amount of privileges I had to decline because of targeted data collection, for ad preferences and other nefarious reasons; the number of easy-to-miss “no thanks” options to decline enrollment in bloatware; the number of things that wanted me to launch the free trial, where they could automatically enroll me into a monthly PAID subscription and could report failure to add a credit card to pay for it to credit agencies (!); many of these presented as the “recommended” or default option… ASTOUNDING.

And then I still had to go into system settings and turn off additional data tracking that they didn’t even present during set-up, along with bloatware bullshit programs they wanted to always run at start-up. Because I knew where to go and find that stuff. Don’t even get me starting on fucking Cortana.

Technology has gotten bad. Even 10 years ago, it was a couple simple agreements not to pirate, using software at your own risk, etc. and that was it.

Now? Waiving rights, arbitration, hidden terms that could leave you owing money if you don’t uninstall it, data collection to link accounts and literally track every move / your exact location / your usage, attempts to personalize ads through your specific searches, inability to block cookies unless you download a Google app!?, four pop ups for every website, as the default?

It is scary how much tech that was designed to increase productivity and make life easier has become yet another way for corporations to track us, sell to us, and sell their data on us, even potentially incriminating us.

Oh, and heaven forbid you know what you’re doing and try to upgrade or repair your equipment yourself. Warranty voiding? Should be illegal, may be illegal in some areas, but they still tell you it’ll void your warranty. Good luck finding the parts. Using non-OEM parts will void the warranty too…by design.

I did not survive Windows Vista era to deal with this bullshit.

I did not survive

Windows Vista era to

deal with this bullshit.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Anyone have any resources for technology literacy for beginners?

Yes! @aquadraco20

General basic safety

How to avoid ransomware, malware, hacks, and how to maintain good data privacy.

https://www.getsafeonline.org/

^ this has intermediate information (as well as beginner info) that I think people who grew up on the internet benefit most from (so it won’t tell you what a phone is, or how to press the power button to turn on a computer). I recommend all sections the personal section under the top drop down (except the one aimed at children).

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetsafety/

Same deal as above, with quizzes and additional topics.

https://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/

^ this one is mostly video and audio which some people might helpful

HTML

https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

W3schools is a well known free resource for coding. I recommend HTML because it gives basic website building capabilities, so you can create a neocities website for example or even edit your Tumblr theme. You can also learn CSS (used with HTML to make prettier websites) and Python (used to make programs).

Touch typing

Touch typing is using the home row on keyboards. It allows people to type faster than pressing individual keys one at a time, like on a smart phone.

https://www.typingclub.com/

This site has lessons, and honestly looks much nicer than the program I learned to use touch typing with.

https://www.how-to-type.com/touch-typing-lessons/how-to-type-home-keys/

This site has lessons and practice tests and speed tests to measure progress. In middle school I was taking a practice test about three times a week and a speed test once a week for about fifteen minutes each time, if that helps.

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These three areas are the main things people were taught in computer literacy courses.

I also recommend checking your local library or other educational resources (like local colleges, your current college/highschool/middle school etc, the college you graduated from). These can have in person instructors which can be super helpful. Feel free to send me any questions and stuff, if I don’t already know I’ll try to find out and share where I found it!

Helpful things I’ve done with my windows computer to make it safer/more efficient:

I hope this helps :D

Hi! I’m an end user who grew up in the sweet spot between “nobody learns this” and “eh, you all know it all already” so here are some tips on learning to touch-type:

—cover your hands or get a keyboard cover that hides the keys. It helps you avoid “learning,” by which I mean I knew two people who did their “practice” looking at the keyboard and then couldn’t pass the test.

—you will still make typos when touch-typing. Do not take this as a sign of lack of progress on your part. I’ve been touch-typing for 22 years and I make typos. The cool thing is, though, the more proficient you get, you’ll get to the point where you can literally FEEL that you made a typo and correct it without looking.

—on this note, when you’re first learning, DO NOT try to correct yourself! Leave your mistakes. I forget why we were told to do this exactly but I remember being told it’s the same reason piano students are told to keep going and not start over, so there’s a lot of precedent behind that statement.

—when you first get the keys down, you are going to be. So. Slow. You’re going to look at the required WPM on job listings and go “no fucking way.” You’re going to be frustrated because you know you could go faster on your phone and at least think you could go faster doing hunt-and-peck. Keep at it. My AWPM (adjusted WPM, means it takes into account fixing typos and stuff) is 103. I didn’t get that speed overnight, or even in a couple of years. But it only took me about eight months to match the 40WPM you see on job listings.

—trying to transcribe from speech is a pain in the ass before you get used to it, but it’s really good practice. Try putting on a new podcast (so you don’t subconsciously know what’s next) and typing along.

—no, you will not lose texting skills due to learning touch-typing. Although it may make your texting faster! If you’ve ever seen the scene from Sherlock where he’s texting behind his back…yes, once you know the keyboard well enough, you can do that. I know this because I can do that. (Although not one-handed. I don’t have to look but I do need both hands.)

—touch-typing opens up a whole new world. Seriously—learn it.

new tingleverse movie actually looks pretty good

April 5, 2023: Homeric Hymn, A.E. Stallings

Homeric Hymn A.E. Stallings

What if it wasn’t hell, it was only sadness And your mother never came looking for you, never Put the earth on hold, calling your number, And your husband only wanted to cheer you up With a handful of ruby arils, a lead-crystal Flute of bubbles that struggled to reach the surface; What if the pit-bull with squared heads was just That old black mutt who only yapped at ghosts, What if the ghosts were just insomnia, A way to never rest in peace, what if The winter came and went and came and went, And the spring was out of whack, and that had nothing To do with you, and the flowers weren’t lamps Or bridal torches to solemn you into the darkness; What if the darkness was only the curtains pinched Against the sun in the bedroom during the day, And what if the corner’s horror was only the shadow Of a coat hanging by its neck from a doorknob, And the woolly fog that scumbled out of the river Was a way of seeing carried inside your eyes, What if the meadow of sweets was the worn world Whose beauties would outlast you, until they didn’t, What if your alarm was just the alarm, What if, all along, you were free to go?

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