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@imagegardentrax
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3 months
Fair
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mahnoor cheema
3 months
@imagegardentrax 5 monthly listeners.. let’s focus on getting a job first king ❤️
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This child is going to develop a cocaine addiction and crash spectacularly out of a Magic Circle job at age 25
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i'll remember Shane MacGowan for his staid, unflashy fiscal stewardship during the late New Labour years, Henry Kissinger for his wildcat drinking and visionary balladeering, and Alastair Darling for his crimes against the people of Cambodia and Laos
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this faux lad shit is the one of the most consistently tiresome things about Corbynism
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Becky Long-Bailey Memes for Socialist Teens
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BECKY LONG-BAILEY NO SURRENDER FOUR DAY WEEK AND A THREE DAY BENDER
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2 years since the most important tweet of all time
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I’m sorry, is he addressing me?
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I'm sorry, the old Robbie Travers can't come to the phone right now? Why? Oh, he never actually worked here
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The 1922 Committee later this evening
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The Simpsons
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Stupid sandwich, this is all your fault! Oh, I can't stay mad at you... (From @dansheppard1985 ) http://t.co/Y2ILbGzm
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George Aylett is like a pokemon who hasn’t yet evolved into Richard Burgon
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yes I guess what Jack Monroe ought to understand is that the key to really helping disadvantaged people is making shit podcasts that nobody listens to, as long as you make it clear that you really liked jeremy corbyn all along
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@danielmcelroy0 Oh to have £0.00 student loan and pension deductions from my paycheck per month...
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I’m sorry my rider is who?
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It is time
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@LasVegasSun
Las Vegas Sun
6 months
Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4 million loss; CFO quits
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Watching this thing on mute with jungle playing over the top is kinda hypnotic
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@Dr_D_Robertson You people really overplayed your hands back in the summer with the 100k nonsense, you know. If you want plan B now, why weren’t you calling for it when hospitalisations and deaths were higher in the summer, and when cases in *adults* were higher than they are now?
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🔒RT: apparently the ideal political correspondent recruit is someone who has followed current affairs intensely since adolescence but never once took a normative position on any of it, dedicating themselves solely to observing and worshipping the pure exercise of power
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Media Guido
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BBC’s Corbynista Correspondent
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Lexit is gullible middle class kids who have a weird class tourist infatuation with greggs and wetherspoons thinking they're proletarian champions for favouring thousands of people losing their jobs
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Wow, thanks for this Otto
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“I like BrewDog because they have games,” says Dom, 32.
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Your majesty, sorry for party rocking
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@sellottie holy shit this one got meta
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@AllegraStratton @RishiSunak @Mark_Spencer You should probably disclose that he was your husband’s best man at your wedding
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What too much high fructose corn syrup does to an mf
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@LeviEirinberg who wants this?
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Oh for god’s sake
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@JuliaHB1 @joeldaw Go to Oxford and come out with opinions as simultaneously horrendous and sublimely dumb as those of Julia Hartley-Brewer, I can see it on the open day prospectus already
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Hey I just met you / And this is crazy / But I was made in / The Royal Navy
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Oh wow they’re actually fully doing the Children of Men thing huh
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Buddy they won’t even let
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Jon McNaughton Art
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My painting "Respect the Flag" is alive! #Trump2020
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@mrianleslie @JohnRentoul What the fuck are you talking about ?
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@Zubhaque but they are restrictions. in what way are they not restrictions?
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Vain, puffed up old man unable to admit any fault
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PoliticsJOE
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"To falsely accuse somebody of any kind of racism is a major, dishonest and dishonourable thing to do. I will die an anti-racist." @jeremycorbyn opens up about accusations of antisemitism within the Labour Party
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'divisive, ineffectual, inconsistent and arrogant' is also a good description for the kind of smoothbrain twitter casualty who's decided to excommunicate a prominent campaigner against food poverty, because she expressed misgivings about the guy that crushingly lost an election
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@iminhobengoshi @BallouxFrancois These are just made up figures
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Glad to see the spectator allowing marginalised groups to tell their own stories
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what an insane thing for an official university account to be posting
@Columbia
Columbia University
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“Asian American students who have earned admission to Harvard are smart, promising, and have no doubt worked very hard. But in ways . . . they may have also benefited from their racial status long before they applied,” writes sociology Professor @JLeeSoc .
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@fascinatorfun @cjsnowdon @chrischirp To be fair Fionna, your idea of a life seems to be posting literal hundreds of tweets every day about whatever subjects you’ve most recently decided you’re an expert in
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…based Matt Chorley?
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ah yes me old uni, the stomping grounds, that old place. gee whizz i can barely remember its name now! i'm sure it'll come back to humble ole me
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Flora Gill
4 years
Can not believe mum was ‘no-platformed’ at my old Uni yesterday Mum doesnt need the platform and travelled to talk for FREE for International Womens Day-proceeds to FGM charity I dont care if you disagree with her. Its fucking rude This is NOT how women should treat each other
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Finally, a proper bloody pub
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Lobby journalism is the domain of people for whom the world has no texture, causality or basic meaning beyond the spectacle of politicians doing things to each other.
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@spectator @FraserNelson hi fraser, I'd like to know why you continually commission a man who pushed his pregnant wife down a flight of stairs to write about gender issues. Please don't be shy, I'm very eager to know
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@HZiauddeen maybe you should, yknow, delete it then!
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@imagegardentrax
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@pickyouredge it's bigger than that chris, it's large
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Is it because they’re trying to sell it?
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@MrHarryCole Carrie’s taken you back???
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Liz Truss: We’re going for growth Anyone else: Cool, I assume you’ll be scrapping greenbelts, reforming planning laws, building the Leeds HS2 leg and rejoining the EU single market? Liz Truss: No, just bankers bonuses 🙂 Tory pundits: wow, bold moral focus from the new govt
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Harry Phibbs
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. @rcolvile : “Britain’s people are leading poorer, meaner lives than they should and could — especially our young people, who have been subjected to a relentless battering. Yet we carp and cavil if anyone tries to do things that might make us richer.”
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There are too many ‘journos’ working today. Too many writers. We’d live more meaningful, less information-polluted lives if fewer people were financially indulged to present these kind of flimsy, parochial opinions
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Ben Smoke
2 years
maybe constantly amping up the rhetoric was actually not a good idea?? maybe those arguing that it might be salient to construct some sort of off ramp might have had a point +perhaps didn’t need to be roundly and constantly condemned for being putin apologists?? just a thought!
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Also very funny (and telling) that this person is apparently a CND activist! Working for a nuclear-free world means instantly submitting to the demands of the most irrational actors on the UN security council when they threaten to blow Kyiv and London to smithereens
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@chrischirp You’ve been wrong and wrong and wrong again, as recently as December when you were calling for household mixing to be a police matter, and before that July when you were calling for exactly the same thing. Why would anyone listen to a word more you have to say on this?
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@eeeeuan @demarionunn 'beware the ides of march' 'no'
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@steve_hawkes Do you think the burghers of 'middle Britain' earn 150k?
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@alastairis @MayorofLondon Why are you, a Green Party member, opposed to a new public transport hub in a populous area previously underserved by the tube ?
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ukip wario intensifies the quest to get his girlfriend back
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Media Guido
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EXCLUSIVE: Harry Cole is the New Political Editor of The Sun
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Pity @FraserNelson , for whom each working day ends in being wrestled to the floor and watching, helplessly, as Rod Liddle rushes to the editorial swivelchair, fires up the Spectator's Wordpress and hits 'Publish' on the article about building a mausoleum in space for Cecil Rhodes
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noooo dont be cancelled due to severe weather conditions your so sexy aha
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This + Telegraph cover seem like a full shift in LOTO's comms strategy. No more attempts to cultivate a loyal ecosystem of partisan platforms (skawk, novara etc) with big social followings. Starmer's team now aggressively trying to match govt coverage on broad-reach legacy media.
@BBCNewsPR
BBC News Press Team
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The BBC will broadcast a response from the Leader of the Opposition to last night’s statement by the UK Prime Minister 17:50 📻 @BBCRadio4 | @BBCSounds 18:55 📺 @BBCOne | @BBCNews Channel with sign language interpreter
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What a wild ride of a bio
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bleakly apposite that @IndependentSage , who spent 2 yrs accusing everyone who didn't want permalockdown and punishing border closures of being anti-science, have embraced an actual 'vaccines cause autism' guy just for being suitably pompous and indignant about restrictions ending
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becoming increasingly uncomfortable at how the very fraught question of how and when to lift lockdown is starting to get sucked into the terminal maw of the UK's endless culture war
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@MirrorBreaking_ why does the mirror do this over and over again?
@fact_covid
Covid Fact Check UK
2 years
Just a reminder that last Tuesday’s UK reported death figure was artificially low and corrected the following day. So don’t be surprised or alarmed if you see headlines like “deaths up 43% in a week” - they are still falling overall.
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Of course, this is a tweet that’s wholly uninterested in the specifics of any Russian rhetoric or action, and much more concerned with vindicating the author’s personal heroes in the Anglosphere like Jeremy Corbyn and the Stop the War Coalition.
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‘Can I have my girlfriend back, prime minister?’
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once every generation, the philosopher king emerges from his mountain mind cavern with a message for his huddled subjects:
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Rowland Manthorpe
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Health select committee: Sir John Bell says we have a "70 to 80 per cent chance" of reaching Easter having vaccinated the most vulnerable "That's provided they don't screw up the distribution of the vaccine."
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@5_News @SusanMichie @shikta_das @ClaudiaLizaTV 'forever', come on this is just cartoon evil scientist stuff
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Took me to Finsbury Park To do some bowling at Rowans Went for pints at Twelve Pins, got kicked in the shins Bought a fake pack of Bensons Oooh I love LDN, and its men
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Oh no no no @TheMendozaWoman I don’t want your retweet - you’re an egregious Anti Semite so take your retweets elsewhere
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in what world are London's parks criminally underused?
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Ash Sarkar
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London has the most park coverage out of any European city. And yet, they’re criminally underused. Compare that to Mexico City, where random bits of concrete space are chock-full of street food stands, couples canoodling, old blokes playing chess. Why can’t we have that?!
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@IndependentSage @Zubhaque Yes it’s much better for young people, women and disabled people to live in a perpetual state of hypochondriacal anxiety and restriction in the face of a disease they’re immunised against, because somehow that will then achieve a radical rebalancing of society or something
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America is now so stratified and alienated from itself that its liberal class can no longer even conceive of the material basis of its living standards. As if heat and electricity are generated by benevolent fairies who keep the lights on while all the good people burrow inside
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@moveincircles Why don’t you leave other people alone
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@PaulbernalUK I don’t think you realise just how much children’s education has been impacted by school closures and remote learning. Some pretty catastrophic setbacks
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People who trot out this line should actually go to Jackson, Mississippi and see if the on-paper GDP differential would really make you want to choose a life there over, say, Edinburgh or Bristol, because, as the saying goes ‘lol lmao lol’
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it's probably more because their kids like the talking mouse and the magic castles
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my theory is suburbanites fucking love Disney World because it’s their chance to to enjoy walkable dining and entertainment experiences with convenient mass transit without having to see homeless people.
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FBPE stands for Femi Boshing Peruvian Exports
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A month ago we were told these measures were criminally inadequate to stop transmission causing the total breakdown of the NHS. Now they’re apparently the only thing keeping us from barbarism
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I love how he writes this stuff as if he makes his living lifting steel beams above his head from dawn till dusk, instead of typing pungently inane social commentary into a Google doc for a magazine which doesn’t actually have a physical office
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@emilysheffield
Emily Sheffield
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My column: I’m not saying it’s a job done, or that I’ll eat anyone’s hat if Labour win. But some are whispering it in Westminster: The Tories might win again. And I’m one of them.
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Robbie Travers gritty origin movie
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@PaulbernalUK Keeping schools open has nothing to do with education?
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Alex
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Pet conservative mouthpiece and 2019 manifesto author says that party's new U-turns are indeed actually really great and cool. more on this as we get it
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Robert Colvile
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Nerdy transport contacts say that the replacement projects for HS2 are indeed much better value.
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@lukerobertblack Listen man if you can’t find the many many bars open till 3/4am (and given that clubs normally close around 6am) in London, that is entirely your fault
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@havingalaugh Oi mista, this is a Leon
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It's a totally performative stance completely detached from the realities of what it implies. In a way its the most entitled, middle class stance possible, but we all know that the lexit kids would go ape at the first sign of any tangible economic aspect on their own lives.
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almost every aspect of british life conforms to this curve
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Wow, cancelling HS2 and using the money to invest in proper binmen, like the ones we had in the 70s, is definitely a bold move. but it’s one that might just pay off with floating voters!
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@rcolvile You worked harder than almost anyone to elevate these people to power when they were obviously, glaringly unsuitable for it, and you've spent your career as their appendage; a faux-wonkish gloss on their machine. You have no valid perspective here, but try and have some shame
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@allisonpearson Allison you are a moral vacuum
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2 minutes of remembrance for all those who were thrown in jail by Keir Starmer just for saying they're english
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One failing of legacy media is that it still doesn’t take social media seriously as a communication channel. To LK, Twitter is an extension of Westminster gossip mill; a frivolous, gamified way of playing with information, consequence-free, before filing the real copy.
@bbclaurak
Laura Kuenssberg
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This seems like a really daft row to pick - follow our @BBCRealityCheck or @FactCheck for actual fact checking
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For fucks sake man
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