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So this really needed writing / compiling... really interesting how and where Amapiano is enduring in the UK, and it's resulting in amazing innovation still. I made a great playlist and also make sure to check some of the shows/mixes I listed too.

Join the Diasporic Dots and Learn How Amapiano Is Bedding Down in the UK | Sound of Life | Powered...

Amapiano, a sound nurtured from decades of house music love in South Africa, finds a new context in Black audiences and artistes around the UK.

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I'm putting (not satanic) on all my eBay listings now.

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I fully endorse this hedgehog jazz

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Oh YES you beautiful bastards 10/10 that’s cheered me right up

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People dedicate so much effort to unpicking "the culture war" but for 95% of participants it just amounts to calling people poofs if they read books or eat salad.

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Weird, I've written and talked a lot about "the trip hop era" but one album that rarely came up in conversation in my research, yet which was omnipresent and still stands up is....

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I literally love this

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Me to lady in chemist: “What gets rid of coronavirus?” Lady: "Ammonia cleaner." Me: "Oh sorry, I thought you worked here...”

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Statham's finest role

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@senatormcdaniel Thanks for your interest in our opinions. As a bona fide direct descendent of Gen Lee, I think every last statue of him should be put into a barrel of shit and then dropped into a volcano.

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AUTECHRE ARE **NOT** IDM THEY COME FROM WORKING CLASS DANCE CULTURE AND IF YOU LISTEN TO THEIR FULL DJ STREAMS YOU’LL COME TO APPRECIATE THE ESSENCE OF RAW FUNK AND MISCHIEVOUS HUMOUR THAT STILL PERMEATES THEIR PRODUCTIONS AND FURTHERMORE YOU SHOULD REALLY GIVE QUARISTICE ANOTHER

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Realised I still can't quite process how funny the Four Seasons thing truly is. It's like it's too funny for the mind to comfortably encompass. I'm a bit scared that if I appreciate how funny it really is I might actually die.

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Actually it's even better if you imagine them badly lipsyncing like old kung fu films

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How to design your own extreme metal band logo

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You’d buy this LP on sight right?

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@demarionunn Ah now this one has already been discussed and decided. It's saying anything other than "anywhere here's fine mate" at the end of a cab ride.

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I have never wanted anything more

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@multiplebears @SzMarsupial Ever since 4Chan, the boundary between really bad (deliberate) joke and reactionary politics has not existed.

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2 years

@mosseri I think Meta should have learned the hard way that trying to strong-arm people into "pivoting to video" doesn't end well. Let Instagram be Instagram, PLEASE.

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Oh this is amazing. "Orchid vinyl" copies of the new Taylor Swift got mispressed with @EdCartwright 's 'Happy Land' comp of **massively druggy** mid-90s electronica; TikTok is full of girls hearing Cabaret Voltaire for the first time and freaking tf out. ?

TikTok · Rachel ✨

473.4K likes, 7968 comments. “send help I got speak now (not Taylors version) this is so funny #speaknowtaylorsversion @Taylor Swift @Taylor Nation”

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1 year

Get you a guy who can do both

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Leaving the Oppenheimer theater and heading to the Barbie theater

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I'm always reminded of The Jesus & Mary Chain, who no matter how punk or wrecked they were, would never trash hotel rooms because (paraphrasing) "it would be someone like our mum who'd have to clean it up"

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@joemuggs Being rude to any support staff (hospitality, IT, premises) is huge red flag🚩🚩🚩 Those people are always bad vibes.

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@EmmaSzewczak Do you want him learning really annoying lyrics? :)

They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Official Music...

You're watching the official music video for They Might Be Giants - "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" from the album 'Flood' (1990)Subscribe to the Rhino Chann...

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AUTECHRE ARE **NOT** IDM THEY COME FROM WORKING CLASS DANCE CULTURE AND IF YOU LISTEN TO THEIR FULL DJ STREAMS YOU’LL COME TO APPRECIATE THE ESSENCE OF RAW FUNK AND MISCHIEVOUS HUMOUR THAT STILL PERMEATES THEIR PRODUCTIONS AND FURTHERMORE YOU SHOULD REALLY GIVE QUARISTICE ANOTHER

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Dear freelancers, here is your periodic reminder that the words "Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998" in an email have magical powers.

Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 - Wikipedia

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Too much.

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@breadman27_ @DamagedSector @dieworkwear You sound incredibly salty about the fact he critiques people you like, but you don’t have the knowledge or vocabulary to counter anything he says. Understandably, but I must say that if I was in your position I would simply shut the fuck up and stop making myself look worse.

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saw someone in one of these at We Out Here and have never wanted something so much

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@rhansens @jimnsin @HisDivineShado3 @bbcease @LCRWnews It wasn’t an argument it was a prophecy.

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Throwback Monday: remember when the Labour Party's internal battles were fought in the style of translated kung fu movie dialogue?

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Oh Jesus it's going to be a new U2 album isn't it?

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Every phone in the UK will get an emergency alert next week - and this is what it's going to say

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THIS. IS. FUCKING. AMAZING.

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I'm not convinced that a lot of the accounts that are angry about Alan Turning being on the bank note are actually real people. If only there was some easy test to find out.

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT YOU LOT. It's been a long time coming but it's HERE. After some production delays we've now got BASS, MIDS, TOPS locked in w/ the printers and it is out FRI 13th DECEMBER! Please tell all your friends and PRE ORDER PRE ORDER PRE ORDER.

BASS, MIDS, TOPS

Bass, Mids, Tops An Oral History of Sound System Culture by Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens 500pp (approx) ful...

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@MNateShyamalan A vain prince covets a magical mirror that allows the gods to speak to anyone in the world. Pan tricks him into giving up his whole fortune and true love in exchange for it, but when he gets it all he hears is mocking laughter. He shouts louder and louder into it until he is mad.

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The fact that Mark E Smith described the Football Association as "a randy cult souped up on good wine, expensive fruit and nice clean sausages" has absolutely done for me.

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Never forget, this photo was taken AFTER Jackie Walker had been publicly busted for saying Jewish “financiers” were secretly behind the slave trade. He knew. And approved.

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@GuidoFawkes IDS's "reforms" were sadistically punitive, corrupt in their outsourcing, and to rub salt into the wound, saved absolutely nothing for the exchequer.

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Good to see The Guvnor all over the TL on what would have been his 60th birthday. Here's my little tribute, there'll be something much bigger from me in the next week or so too.

‘We swap mystical ideas and tips on facial hair care’: the caretakers of Andrew Weatherall’s legacy

On the day the late DJ and producer would have turned 60, his friends and family are ensuring that his club nights, festivals and sense of cosmic wonder all live on

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Oooooffffff @rubytandoh going INNNN on the new @vittlesmagazine mail

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Plsplsplsplspls tell me it is really true that people are not realising Taylor Swift’s album is pressed at 45rpm and getting freaked out by it

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Jungle still fries my mind. Like someone sat down at a little home computer in 1995 and did this, and it was considered normal behaviour.

Northern Connexion - The Bounce (Bad Behaviour Remix)

Northern Connexion – The Bounce (Remixes)Label: Back 2 Basics – B2B 12031Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPMCountry: UKReleased: 1995Genre: ElectronicStyle: Drum n Ba...

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Perfection is achieved

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@DamagedSector @dieworkwear Fashion is art as well as craft. You don’t have to have a “use” for, say, a Barbara Hepworth sculpture to dearly love it.

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"I'm on a final warning at work"

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@Reuters This you?

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@BBCNews what the FUCK is this headline?

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@GuidoFawkes That's just a stupid lie. Don't tell stupid lies.

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“…you could be entitled to compensation.”

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@blaiklockBP Someone told me this is happening . This is a text I received. 'I've got a girlfriend. She goes to a different school, you wouldn't know her. She's French.'

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1) Electro Swing

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It's odd that Gen X and Gen X only experienced that brief period when things switched on quickly, in between the old days of valves warming up, and now everything having to boot up,connect to the wi-fi and update.

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@drivelcast @vizcomic Not so much letters, but I can remember Top Tips from 35 years ago word for word. "Just the right amount of gin in the goldfish bowl makes the fishes' eyes bulge, and they swim in an amusing way."

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@ChipHomme @gallimagerl @ZoeSchiffer You’re a broken human

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Until the box is opened, Churchill exists in a superposition of Great War Leader and Reviled Genocidal Racist - if anyone looks in the box, the wave function will collapse.

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@pegobry "I am so scared of brightly coloured wigs that I will vote for genocide" is quite the spicy take I must say.

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How have I only discovered that people were face swapping Harry onto Meghan and getting Aphex Twin?

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Anyone with Disney+ get on Soul ASAP. Starts slow but it's easily as good as Inside Out, a good dose of Coco style industrial strength tearjerking, and funnier than either.

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@ArlingtonDiva @senatormcdaniel It's 100% true too. I AM a direct descendent (and the statues SHOULD be dipped in shit and destroyed).

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Matt Hancock's behaviour isn't the story. Even Johnson's hypocrisy isn't the story. LEAKED WHITEHALL SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE is the story. As security breaches go, that is off the fucking hinges. If journalists don't hammer that issue, we're fucked. (Obviously, we're fucked)

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I'm never going to change my opinion that Sam Smith is a mediocre singer who lucked out massively BUT seeing them causing so much upset to the absolute worst people in the world has completely erased any resentment I might have towards their success.

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Which would you rather go partying with: Nu Disco Fox? Warehouse Techno Fox?

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In the car on the way home from @Leftfield , 13yo - who is normally kind of gloomy and cynical - thoughtfully went "is raving the only thing where being friendly is the whole point?" and let me tell you, MY HEART.

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Just putting it out there: Depeche Mode haven’t headlined Glastonbury yet…

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Stop the clocks. I've found it. The perfect Guardian Rap Comment.

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@AMedaglini @trad_beauty @Gandalf1948 True, but tuberculosis killed their other seven children.

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“If I can give back even a little bit of what reggae has given me over the years, nothing could make me happier.” ❤️❤️❤️

Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae

The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline...

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@b_nmrrs Hahahaha "field recordings really have as much sonic richness and depth in them as anything that a modular synth can produce"

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@MIAuniverse @RealCandaceO Remember how you sang songs about immigrants’ strength and nobility and now you’re allied with a political block that calls them all rapists, now THAT is scary.

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12yo just asked me “have you heard of a song called ‘Night’ by Benga and Coki?” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Daft Punk disappear just as The KLF reappear tho

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@bizbuild_uk @melraunch1 Please fuck off. It's global warming ruining the olive harvests. That's what it is. Your conspiracy BS harms everybody.

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Holy shit, 1979 Madonna looks like a 2021 hip kid dressing like it's 1995.

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Wrote a quick and from the heart appreciation.

Richard H Kirk was prolific, hungry, angry and funky to the end

The Cabaret Voltaire musician exemplified Sheffield’s experimental mindset and transformed British club music

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This gif will be remembered as the greatest moment of the 21st century though.

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1 year

Little known bit of Sopranos back story - Furio Giunta was also a DJ back home in Italy with some success internationally. Here he is doing a guest set at Shelly's, Stoke in 1991.

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My 7 year old is scaring me

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@SamWhyte I mean it might be true that a 15 year old told them that story, in which case I salute that child.

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PSA: Nina Kraviz is the best, her new EP is the best, and the legion of incels who go to her gigs and watch intently for her to mistime a mix so they can put it online and scream “wHy mAkEuP lADy hAvE sUcCeSs?!?” are Kissinger level war criminals.

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THIS IS THE MOST WHOLESOME CONTENT. A woman just posted it on a techno group: she's kept the scrap of fag packet that the DJ scribbled the answer to her track ID request in Voodoo, Liverpool, for 25 years 💜💜💜

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RIP Dot Cotton. I remember her hosting a big gay rave in Brighton in the mid-late 90s, being carried shoulders aloft by muscle marys, cheerfully puffing on a gasper and grinning her head off. VERY cool.

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The perfect graffiti doesn't ex- oh.

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RIP Ennio Morricone, in his way as influential on the sound of musical culture as James Brown or Kraftwerk. Took the avant garde to the heart of the mainstream - and was still musically active at the age of 90. Salute to the Maestro.

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Ugh this is proper grim. And AGAIN "I never liked his music anyway" is a shitty response to these stories, for many, many, reasons. Don't do it. It doesn't make you look cool and your fave is just as likely to turn out to be a wrongun.

If I’m Lying, Come Sue Me

The Story of an Abusive Man - a long read

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I did a Skibadee appreciation - it’s not intended to be a comprehensive obituary, so don’t tell me things I missed out, it’s about what he and his art meant and where it all fit in the big picture

Skibadee changed the very nature of what it meant to be an MC or rapper in the UK | Joe Muggs

The MC, who has died aged 47, laid the foundations for grime, drill and all that followed – there is not a UK rapper today that doesn’t owe him a creative debt

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@jburnmurdoch @Okwonga I live in the Toryest of Tory Shires and I see this every day. I call it the "for god's SAKE Roger give it a rest" principle. The majority of the Tory base, however noxious their views might be, think the Antiwoke Right is flashy, obnoxious and silly.

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"T2 'Heartbroken' is the most requested song in the history of Radio 1" I mean... good. But also... WHAT?

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Son just saw a Viennetta, went “what the hell is that?”, I replied “loaf of cornetto” and I have never felt the elegance of poetry more intensely.

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@emilia_cebe @benshapiro @RubinReport @jordanbpeterson People love inhaling solvents too.

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@StigAbell YOU PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL CALLING REFUGEES COCKROACHES AND CALLING FOR GUNBOATS TO BE SENT AFTER THEM YOU SANCTIMONIOUS FUCKING PRICK.

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RIP our beautiful Missy 💔 She was very nearly 19 and faded fast seemingly without pain, but losing the sweetest natured cat I’ve ever met is hard.

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@Ruthless_Regg @princesseva43 @CarmenTS @DalanaQuintana @Shmegsxo @sarahndipity18 This is exactly it. It was very Buddhist. The sycamore seed was the symbol of impermanence. Everything passes: only the moment exists. Your "purpose" is walking, looking at the sky, breathing...

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@PaulHook_em @SnipingFrom @3Sandy7_ @elonmusk @libsoftiktok @Kara_Creates Yes. You are. It’s what you do. This entire scam of Elon’s is about playing victim.

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@joemuggs

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AUTECHRE ARE **NOT** IDM THEY COME FROM WORKING CLASS DANCE CULTURE AND IF YOU LISTEN TO THEIR FULL DJ STREAMS YOU’LL COME TO APPRECIATE THE ESSENCE OF RAW FUNK AND MISCHIEVOUS HUMOUR THAT STILL PERMEATES THEIR PRODUCTIONS AND FURTHERMORE YOU SHOULD REALLY GIVE QUARISTICE ANOTHER

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@joemuggs

3 years

L-R: coke, poppers, pills

Baroness Jones of Shirley

@Sh1rley

3 years

wtf!

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