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Dmitry Borodaenko<a href="https://aoir.social/@eilah_tan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eilah_tan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fediversereport</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@laurenshof</a> <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Governance</a> systems take, among other little things like empathy and integrity, a LOT of effort. Show me the <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#money</a>.No, seriously. Half if not more of the problem is that having the money and time to spare to run a non-personal Fedi server as a hobby is a <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a>, and we all know what privilege does to people's ability to self-govern and restrain from abusing power.Don't tell me how to run a server as a full time job if you can't pay me for it.

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/ivins-molly/76404/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from Molly Ivins</a><blockquote>That’s why it’s called Establishment journalism. You concentrate on the people at the top, the people with power; you watch, you study how they make their moves, you get fascinated by it, and pretty soon you can’t see anything else — just the top, just the power. And the others, the people, the readers, matter so little that you don’t even bother to let them know what’s going on. You start to think like the people you cover. It can happen on any beat — business, police, politics, education. The stuff you want is from the top — you want to quote the chief, the superintendent, the chairman of the board. There are no reliable sources who earn less than $10,000 a year.</blockquote>Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins] Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ivins-molly/76404/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/ivins-molly/76404/</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=capture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capture</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=context" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#context</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=establishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#establishment</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=focus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#focus</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=importance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#importance</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=littlepeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#littlepeople</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=perspective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#perspective</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reporting</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=statusquo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#statusquo</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=VIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VIP</a>

libramoon<a href="https://whitecatgrove.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/the-maga-dollhouse-on-privilege-and-how-dominator-culture-shapes-the-self/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://whitecatgrove.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/the-maga-dollhouse-on-privilege-and-how-dominator-culture-shapes-the-self/</a>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dollhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dollhouse</a>: On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a>, and how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dominator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dominator</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culture</a> shapes the self <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitecatgrove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitecatgrove</a>..."We all have constellations of privilege and pain – areas that put us ahead of others, and areas that push us to the back of the line. In the West, a dark-skinned person faces systems designed to discriminate – but, as an individual, may also have great wealth or a powerful job, for example. And if we restrict discussions of privilege to race or gender, for example,."...

Malcolm NanceWalz: If you say you love <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedom</a> but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a>.

TechdirtDOJ Learning In The Abrego Garcia Case That Judges Don’t Like Being Lied To <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/23/doj-learning-in-the-abrego-garcia-case-that-judges-dont-like-being-lied-to/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/23/doj-learning-in-the-abrego-garcia-case-that-judges-dont-like-being-lied-to/</a>

∫∀⊂∅<a href="https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sundogplanets</a> I'm not a physicist, but I think the recommendations will work for white dudes in engineering too. :-E <a href="https://waag.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/inequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inequity</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://waag.social/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sexism</a> BTW: happy I'm not posting this in the US. :-/

Cosmic LibrarianWhy I was not impressed by New Shepherd's all female crew...Could you take a ride to space? What to know about Blue Origin after celebrity spaceflight Among those who have previously boarded the New Shepard's crew capsule since its first ticket sold for $28 million are celebrities, entrepreneurs, renowned scientists and a lucky few others.<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NewShepherd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewShepherd</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wealth</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://www.statesman.com/story/travel/2025/04/14/blue-origin-spaceflight-cost-tourism-future/83081440007/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.statesman.com/story/travel/2025/04/14/blue-origin-spaceflight-cost-tourism-future/83081440007/</a>

A Sweet GentlemanGayle King is quick in defending her space trip. She doesn't seem to be as eloquent when it comes to Black female scientists being fired by the Trump administration, supported by Bezos.She refuses to see she's just the token Black woman used to justify billionaires' support of racist and misogynistic policies but we're not blind.<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/gayle-king-defends-space-flight-backlash-1235318753/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/gayle-king-defends-space-flight-backlash-1235318753/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/taxtherich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taxtherich</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaire</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amazon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bezos</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a>

NonilexJudge <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Boasberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boasberg</a> cites the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin’s gloating after his order was violated, noting the “oopsie”tweet from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bukele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bukele</a> & its amplification by admin ofcls.Boasberg says the admin can “purge” its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contempt</a> by bringing back the people he ordered not to be sent in the first place & giving them appropriate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DueProcess</a>. If not, he will conduct further proceedings.Boasberg said he’s skeptical of the admin’s invocation of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSecrets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StateSecrets</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlienEnemiesAct</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#judiciary</a>

Hazel (She/ Her)Whilst there is an actual genocide in Gaza... ".. what has finally driven David Lammy to direct real, righteous anger towards Israel – to describe its actions as “unacceptable, counterproductive and deeply concerning”? Two Labour MPs, Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed, being denied entry to Israel and deported." <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/israel-deport-labour-mps-british-government" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/israel-deport-labour-mps-british-government</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarCrimes</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/UKGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKGov</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/UKGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKGovernment</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/Privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privilege</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/WesternPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WesternPrivilege</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/InternationalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalRacism</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/StopIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopIsrael</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/StopArmingIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopArmingIsrael</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/StopTheGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopTheGenocide</a>

Roland Maurice<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peterkalmus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peterkalmus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatehuman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatehuman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interesting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metacrisis</a>

Arbres<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a> was warned. All summer. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americans</a> are just that fucking stupid. They only pay attention to sports and video games, so they don't know how anything works. They weren't afraid of electing the dumbest, most incapable people alive bc they don't care & don't remember last time bc <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apathy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfishassholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfishassholes</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dumbasarock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dumbasarock</a> I worked my ass off to prevent this total clusterfuck that's killing people horribly. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckeveryonewhodidnotvote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fuckeveryonewhodidnotvote</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️"Normally we'd say that <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Columbia</a> University & those <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> firms taking in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars annually are powerful. They're <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/rich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rich</a>, they're highly visible, but in their acquiescence they have proven they are weak rather than strong, that what is supposed to be their power is their accumulation of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> they are so afraid to lose they turn out to also be afraid to use. If you can't use it, it's not <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> and you're not powerful." <a href="https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-have-the-power-week-whatever-of-the-stupid-coup-and-the-pushback/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-have-the-power-week-whatever-of-the-stupid-coup-and-the-pushback/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a>

David WakehamDespite declining to lodge an official complaint, here I am, seven years later, still being ghosted (and gaslighted). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisabledInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisabledInSTEM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerImbalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerImbalance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privilege</a><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-students-who-complain-about-supervisors-never-hear-outcome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-students-who-complain-about-supervisors-never-hear-outcome</a>

small circle 🕊 in calmness<a href="https://social.coop/tags/ThoughtProvoker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThoughtProvoker</a> :blobhyperthink:<a href="https://social.coop/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> = free software + *gratis* contributions ???<a href="https://social.coop/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inclusion</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/sx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sx</a>

Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’<a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GottaLaff</a> They don’t believe the rest of us are actual people, we’re just game pieces on their silly board games. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitesupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitesupremacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a>

SeaFury 🦜🍉I was called out yesterday for stereotyping people who live in “Ravo” (a public housing area here in Launceston) I have been ruminating about it and have come to thr conclusion that I am a snob and I don’t want to be. I will try to be more aware of my privilege and prejudice 😳 <a href="https://aus.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a>

Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CETYou can be both privileged and marginalized at the same time. That's because, you can be privileged in one aspect of your life and marginalized in another.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/marginalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marginalization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/marginalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marginalisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Intersectionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Intersectionality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minorities</a>

Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CETIt's easy to have a "no politics here" policy when you are privileged. Everything is politics if you are marginalized<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/marginalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marginalization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/marginalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marginalisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Intersectionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Intersectionality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minorities</a>

WordofTheHour<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privilege</a> : special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden- French: privilège- German: das Privileg- Italian: privilegio- Portuguese: privilégio- Spanish: privilegio------------Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

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