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Please share please Cambridge folk. Someone flytipped two sets of crutches by our home, they belong to Addenbrookes Physiotherapy department. They have no way of picking them up. Is anyone driving down there from Kings Hedges with space for two sets of crutches?

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@junesim63 I doubt anyone searches thus but if this doesn't work I'll try that next, ta.
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@junesim63 Maybe no-one *searches* thus, but people follow hashtags. (I follow both #Cambridge and #Cambridgeshire, but am not able to oblige, sorry.)
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The government's concrete problem is not an abstract one.

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Things are pretty good for me. Lots of people care about me and it seems to me that when I spend time with them I like myself a little more. I even had a moment of actually appreciating how I look. Some of my fears about the future have started to seem more manageable and navigable, and I've had a pretty good day today, organising for a day's walking in the Peak District next weekend and lounging around before watching what was a pretty exciting Italian Grand Prix.

And so why do I find myself suddenly feeling slightly low and on the verge of tears? There's nothing to sadden me, I'm sitting in the summerhouse with the laptop and the new bureau I rescued from Ravensworth Gardens. It's a lovely afternoon. And yet there are tears welling up and something catching at the back of my throat.

I've taken antidepressants as usual, per schedule, and similarly hormones. Whyyyyyyy.

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Re-puberty?

What day are you walking?

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@ceb Could well be though I rather expected most of that to be over and done with by now! Bloody hell I’ve been on hormones for three years now. How did that happen?

Walking on Saturday 9th.

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Is it possible that it's more "moreness" than "sadness"? I think a certain kind of sadness is maybe the most reasonable state in reaction to life, even to its good things. Not the full-grown ravages depression of course. Also, it's definitely the right time of year to feel Septembery. Is it The Waste Land or Four Quartets which starts in the garden in autumn?
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@kæt The Waste Land starts in the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land. It’s Burnt Norton which opens Four Quartets with a rose garden in the autumn heat.
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Ah yes, the Four Quartets! (Roses in Four Quartets; hyacinths in The Waste Land).

At the start of 4Q I always think of someone a bit like Eliot himself, a bit like someone like Bertrand Russell or Whtehead, wandering through an autumn garden of a dilapidated stately home maybe after some great sadness and shattering, perhaps the great war (1), kicking up leaves, kicking up dust, running your hand along the sheets covering the furniture in the west wing remembering the great Edwardian dances, etc.

(1)via a linking image of my own: the way people can and have dry-drowned in disused fountains filled with leaves, from the CO2 of the decay, like the trenches in the war).

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Sorry for waffling on randomly about images when you were talking about things you were directly feeling. That was insensitive of me.
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@kæt Really no need to apologise. Feelings often come out best as images for me, and you’ve always had a facility with the metaphorical that prompts rather than challenges, that is never a tangent but always a chord.
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I suppose maybe I just mean feeling things more intensely, but also accessing things previously barred, or synthesising, reflecting, assessing, etc, those kinds of things in that general bucket.
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sure sex is good but have you ever opened a brick of vacuum packed coffee and it goes ssss

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#RailwaysExplained
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Welcome to another #RailwaysExplained thread… this is my first completely new thread on Mastodon, and boy is it going to be an epic one.

HOW IT WORKS (AND WHEN IT DOESN’T) – DISCONTINUOUS ELECTRIFICATION

Something I get asked about A LOT is discontinuous electrification. A typical comment on social media will be something like “well with battery technology so readily available we can just electrify the easy bits and run on battery in between…”

#railways #OLE #OCS #OverheadLine

#OCs #railways #RailwaysExplained #OLE #OverheadLine

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It's not just the monetary issue of rebuilding bridges and tunnels - it is also the disruption that it can cause. Take the electrification of the Bolton-Manchester line, for example. The bridge at Moses Gate caused disruption for months as it was a major thoroughfare for the town's car traffic, contained utilities and the geology underneath wasn't as expected.

If they could have run on a battery through this, it would have saved so much time and disruption.

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I like that the heat ray is on a tripod. Big War of the Worlds vibes.

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@Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ @John Macintosh UUUUUUUULA!

And presently they came to Tillingham, where, if Wells had done his research properly, he would have known it is basically a mudflat and far too shallow to float a torpedo ram, which had a draft of 6 metres.

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@geekylou :transgender_flag: @John Macintosh Do not look into beam with remaining eye
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Me: Idly browsing through Amazon crap.

Amazon: Would you like a retro telephone handset that connects via bluetooth?

Me: Nah...

Amazon: What if it's RADIATION PROOF?

Amazon product listing for a "Retro Telephone Handset. Bluetooth Mobile Phone Radiation Proof Telephone Handset USB Handsets for cellphone (Black)." "Radiation Proof" has been hand circled.

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I’m no radiologist but that seems like it would cause problems with the bluetooth part

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Pip and Stella 💜 #thearchers
#thearchers
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What's going on? I'm seeing it being called bi-erasure elsewhere.
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@Sion [main] Pip has never considered a relationship with a woman before and kissed Stella, who has had bad relationships with women “exploring their sexuality”. They’ve agreed to a date night. (Not been following it so much this week so I don’t know if either party has self described)

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@d a t green spotted in my Public Law textbook
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#StarWars - 'Reign of the Empire' Trailer concept, this one #TheBadBatch through to #StarWarsRebels. #Ahsoka #AhsokaTano #Andor

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Star Wars - 'Reign of the Empire' Trailer concept

The second of my Star wars concept trailers, this one encompassing The Bad Batch through to Rebels. I've been sat on this video for weeks now as I finished t...
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#starwars #andor #ahsoka #ahsokatano #thebadbatch #starwarsrebels

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Found @girlonthenet@mastodon.social’s alternative relationship escalator which raised a smile. girlonthenet.com/blog/alternat…
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You mean people get married without doing all that first? I certainly didn't. (Apart from the sex. And Diggerland.)
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(That's not to say no sex before marriage, just ... different priorities.)
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I now have a Welcome To Paradise earworm! (~2:30) Wonderfully cathartic song for those brought up in that world.

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Front 242 Welcome To Paradise V 1 0 V

Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise. 1988 Wax Trax Records. A slick track by a slick band chastising tele evangelists. Great industrial example of angst and rebe...
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This isn't something we see that often from the #IsleofWight but the weather conditions yesterday were perfectly clear.

These wind turbines are situated near Brighton, some 50 miles or so away. We were up on #CulverDown. I posted a video from there yesterday afternoon.

The Nab Tower is in the picture which is a well known Solent landmark.
#photography

A deep blue calm sea. Wind turbines fill the horizon. A couple of yachts and a distant concrete structure are in the scene. A minimalist picture with mainly blue and white colour, a small splash of yellow from a buoy.
#photography #isleofwight #CulverDown

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Apparently Cambridge is on the approach to Luton tonight
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Counterpoint to the “good news” on German self-id girlcock.club/@Evelynuwu/11094…

Evelyn

2023-08-24 10:08:49


it's worse than what we have now it also removes all anti discrimination laws as a compromise 🤡

They exchanged one legal assessment to a million daily micro assessments. Now it isn't how much bs u can tell the court but how well u pass

It's not a good law. It also forces newly out trans fems in the military

Misgenders trans parents

Sets legal groundwork for trans exclusion in sport

Atleast if u got ur tsg it's something you can point to and fight discrimination.


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Programming languages should not have their own package manager.

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I’m pretty sure that’s not actually spelled ramen scattering.
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Does anyone know why Nvidia are shipping a firmware updater with a two-year out-of-date signature on it? It doesn't match any of the known-leaked keys, but it's somewhat suspicious to me!

nvidia.com/content/DriverDownl…

(In case they replace it, the signing cert at time-of-writing is:
Serial : 329EFDC406C491D67C01DBF8252A885A
Certificate expiration date:
notBefore : Aug 3 00:00:00 2018 GMT
notAfter : Aug 3 23:59:59 2021 GMT
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#Nvidia #infosec #certificate #leak #ResizableBAR

Download NVIDIA, GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla Drivers

Download drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards, video cards, GPU accelerators, and for other GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla hardware. US / English download.
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#infosec #nvidia #certificate #leak #resizablebar

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"Given these precedents, there is a growing apprehension that Wu's digital silence signals a new chapter in China's human rights transgressions–one in which the LGBTQ community potentially emerges as the newest target of state-led oppression, in keeping with global trends."

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#Hacker #NaomiWu #China


EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was...
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... And India just soft-landed a lunar rover on the Moon. For $2M less than Hollywood spent filming "Gravity"!

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@cstross: New conspiracy theory: the movie was a hoax, faked in Bollywood's lunar studios.
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@riley I call bullshit: the lander didn't even try to put on an extended song-and-dance routine!
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Apparently the Latvian for "Article" is "pants", which as an English speaker makes the translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights quite funny: ohchr.org/en/human-rights/univ…

#pants

A fragment of the UDHR in Latvian: "3. pants Ikvienam ir tiesìbas uz dzìvìbu, brìvìbu un personas neaizskaramìbu."

OHCHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Latvian

VISPÂRÈJÂ CILVÈKA TIESÌBU DEKLARÂCIJA ANO Åenerâlâ Asambleja pieðèmusi 1948. gada 10. decembrì PREAMBULA Ievèrojot, ka visiem cilvèku sabiedrìbas locekîiem piemìtoøâs paøcieðas un viðu vienlìdzìgu un neatðemamu tiesìbu atzìøana ir brìvìbas, taisnìgum…
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I've been trying to move out of my old storage unit (because I can't afford it) but it's gotten delayed, and I'm at risk of losing it.

Any donations to help me keep my collection of old computers would be very helpful!

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Fediverse acclimatisation test. Do not write on both sides of this toot at once.

1) What is a stavlet?
2) Do you agree?

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(1) Stavlet: follower of Zoëasstrianism, a yeastern school of philosophy.

(2) It is always safest to agree with the custodienne of the Var.

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oribi.se/en/apps/stavlet/ apparently

StavLet - Oribi

StavLet Et avanceret staveprogram, som retter stavefejl og grammatikfejl på dansk Køb StavLet StavLet fungerer på Windows, macOS og ChromeOS.
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Oh it's weird here and not full of Nazis.

I like it.

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we're all a little odd here and we don't take well to nazis.

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Musing that at 16 months since surgery It’s almost scary how quick is the pathway from dilating taking up large parts of my waking life to being a thing I try to remember to do once or twice a week.
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Once or twice a week still sounds like a high executive function load to spoonie brain here.
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If your spoon economy is anything like mine, "once or twice a week" is much more spoon-load than "twice a week", which in turn is much more than "every Wednesday and Saturday".
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@chiffchaff Yeah, currently trying to get my œstrogen patch "twice a week" schedule back onto something regular after messing it around to get all my meds onto a "everything every four weeks, all at the same time" routine.
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@Sion [main] It helps that nothing terrible is going to happen if I forget, and that it gives me 20 minutes extra in bed to read.

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Lise Doucet has just talked about the “Wagner missionaries”
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Otter
A picture of an otter.

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Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.

Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts (more than Belgium or Chile) to process less than 7 transactions per second :

Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.

This could be a joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dollars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.

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@sparrows
I live in a country (where I was born) where I need to apply for government approval to move significant funds out of the country. No issues doing it now, but I am concerned with what would happen if they start saying no. My currency also loses roughly 10% value against USD per year (sometimes more). I also have to provide my social media accounts to get a US visa. Bitcoin is valuable in this context. Much more than running AC or playing games (but value is subjective)
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@sparrows Also it is electricity generation that actually produces pollution not the Bitcoin network. So it is just as bad for the environment as an ebike or an EV per unit of energy consumed. Probably less so because Bitcoin can use more renewable and stranded (difficult to use) energy resources that can't be connected easily to homes or businesses.
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The currency situation sounds shitty, and governments can be arbitrary, my sympathies.

The rest though...

One, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people' logic for electricity consumption looks even worse than with guns.

Two, I hope to see enough EVs running to power a small nation. They take gas machines off the road.

Third, farms run where power is cheap and exploitable. If it's a stranded source, that's just coincidental, & likely to crowd out others.

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@sparrows
What I am trying to say is this:
1. Bitcoin has value to at least some (e.g. my government example), in the same way that some other things have value to some e.g. games.
2. Power generation creates pollution not bitcoin mining. So it's on equal footing with whatever else consumes power like gaming consoles, EVs or ACs or washing machines.
You have the right to your views but treating it as abolutely right compared to other uses of electricity is not an argument.
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@louis @sparrows Those other uses are not engaged in a race to the bottom to piss away as much electricity as possible.
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@louis @sparrows "Per unit of money expended, eating caviar at the Ritz is just as bad for my bank balance as eating instant ramen".
@Louis @Sparrows
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Prisoners with jobs: “Sire! Sire! The advertisers are unhappy!”

SuperGeniusMan: “What are they whining about now? Have I not created the best social media network in the universe?”

Pwj: “Sire, some of the userbase, er, that is, the Necessary Scumbags, have revolted against your benevolence and are blocking advertisers on sight. Thus they do not see the amazing cryptocurrency scams being offered to them.”

SGM: “Ha! They cannot foil me, the Smartest Man Alive. Remove the blocking feature!”

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“It is said that the users are revolting!”
“I know! They stink on ice!”
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I just wanted to visualize a waveform, randomly searched for "audacity like online", not expecting much... and by god, they did it. The maniacs.

wavacity.com/

Picture of a sawtooth waveform being edited in an online editor that looks like Audacity. The waveform is zoomed in enough that the frequency changes show in detail.

Wavacity | Online Audio Editor Based on Audacity

Wavacity is a port of the Audacity audio editor to the web browser. Free and open-source. No install required.
wavacity.com

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If that looks too desktoppy, there’s also sodaphonic.com

Sodaphonic - Record, edit, and share audio online.

An online audio editor for humans. Cut, copy, record and export to mp3 or wav files.
sodaphonic.com
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Why? Because it really matters #mentalhealth
#mentalhealth

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The world's longest rail tunnel has been shut to passenger services after a derailment in Switzerland causing damage that will take months to repair.

Swiss authorities said there was "no indication" when the Gotthard Base Tunnel would reopen.

Sixteen wagons derailed and are still stuck inside, a week after the derailment on 10 August.

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Derailed wagons inside Gotthard tunnel - the World's longest rail tunnel SBB currently assumes both tunnel tubes will be available for limited rail traffic at the beginning of 2024

Gotthard: World's longest rail tunnel shut for months after freight crash

National Swiss rail operator SBB said a derailed freight train caused severe damage to tracks.
By Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)

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New terf slogan just dropped.
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BREAKING: the world jigsaw authority have banned trans women from doing jigsaws with cis women citing their "biologically immutable advantage at connecting bits of cardboard together."

More as we have it.
#trans

#trans

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Debian Celebrates 30 years! Thank you everyone! bits.debian.org/2023/08/debian… #debianday #debian #debian30years

Debian Celebrates 30 years!

Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...
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Congratulations to Debian! Such an important project for everybody! #debianday #debian #debian30years
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Daily Mail Online: Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off the coast of Iceland. caitie delaney: The thing that's still bothering me about this is that a giraffe is easily one of the most disproportionate animals when halved. Which half, scientists. In what direction is it halved. I hate this.

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Moor’s Law ended in 1492.
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Very sad. Look at all the great things to come out of Granada: Corronation Street, University Challenge, World In Action...
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#uk
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Anyone after #retroComputing fonts?

Just found this GitHub repository full of fonts for quite a few systems

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GitHub - robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts: turns out I like bitmap fonts

turns out I like bitmap fonts. Contribute to robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@livinglavidaretro @Jmj I get the same thing, although I had seen that table before and it did work, but I think it was on another site
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