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Andrew

@badbeardwrites.bsky.social

Dad, Husband, human to many animals, Writer. Determined to help leave the world a better place than it is. 🇨🇦

created October 18, 2023

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Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Hold them to the flame!

2/9/2025, 7:52:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hella convenient to use AI as an excuse when you don't want to answer something your people have already claimed was a contractor tossing something from the window.

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2/9/2025, 7:52:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they obtuse, or are they actually this ignorant or how batteries store collected energy?

2/9/2025, 4:12:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Man wants Nobel peace prize. Reverts Defense Department to ancient and entirely peaceful sounding title. smh

2/9/2025, 12:03:41 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Admitting to all of his crimes and revoking the pardons to his criminal cohorts, self-exiling to his own gulag to live out his remaining day.

2/9/2025, 11:57:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Because she's part of the constant grift

2/9/2025, 11:15:47 AM | 74 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dane 🔜 DragonCon Comic and Pop Artist Alley A11 (@monkeyminion.com) reposted

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”
1/9/2025, 6:01:24 PM | 30390 7561 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) reposted

45 years ago today Terry Fox was forced to call off the Marathon of Hope at Thunder Bay. He showed a nation what determination and leadership meant. Terry has stayed in our hearts ever since. We carry his spirit in these troubled times.

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1/9/2025, 11:31:23 AM | 1096 267 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ramon Villalobos (@ramonvillalobos.bsky.social) reposted

Obsessed with images of a giant promotional statue of King Kong that accidentally caught fire

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31/8/2025, 11:02:13 PM | 3252 880 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Does any level of federal government do anything there, now? Sincerely. Is it just all the rotting orange stomping his feet and making demands?

31/8/2025, 5:42:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 5:40:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

His call for violence before he's gone?

31/8/2025, 12:56:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

And STILL wants more money. Can't take it with you!

31/8/2025, 12:53:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 (@1stwark.bsky.social) reposted

Sunday Thought

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31/8/2025, 10:09:07 AM | 147 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Radney (Commissions Open. See Pin) (@aaronradney.bsky.social) reposted

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

29/8/2025, 1:21:36 AM | 6089 3565 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

The alpha snowflake.

27/8/2025, 9:46:42 PM | 176 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

She's compromised.

27/8/2025, 8:17:05 PM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rodney 🚧🚇 (@chanface.bsky.social) reposted

I don’t understand how it’s legal to start construction using tax payer dollars while the budget remains a secret?? Like we’ve already normalized not having timelines on projects, we can’t normalize budget secrecy!!

27/8/2025, 5:47:59 PM | 64 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Philip Bump (@pbump.com) reposted

News from Canada: The Toronto Blue Jays have broken their single-game dollar hot-dog sales record.

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27/8/2025, 1:06:12 AM | 1180 167 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

I say we let them in if they can quasi-hum the theme song.

27/8/2025, 2:04:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry Chicago, we're so supercharged on hotdogs, we're now unstoppable!

27/8/2025, 2:04:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

How about the actual cities/states with real crime issues? No? Just blue locales? Cool.

26/8/2025, 11:05:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) reposted

the exact center of fascism is the point equal distance between 14 year olds are too old for redemption and 25 year olds are too young to transition

26/8/2025, 10:07:14 PM | 660 134 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Every accusation...

26/8/2025, 6:30:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Same "virtues" taught by her husband. Absolute garbage.

26/8/2025, 6:28:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

He's never had a friend, aside from J Epstein.

25/8/2025, 9:41:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

These assholes are flat out working to kill Americans. Fight back, save your country!

25/8/2025, 4:33:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

AI =/= creative.

24/8/2025, 11:43:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Secret fact about these posters: they smell like mayonnaise.

23/8/2025, 10:29:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

How many people will lose jobs because of this??

23/8/2025, 1:40:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

They're destroying your country's present and future.

23/8/2025, 1:40:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social) reposted

Every single day about a dozen times I learn of something new and awful these dipshits are ruining.

23/8/2025, 1:37:12 AM | 176 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Holbein (@johnholbein1.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

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21/8/2025, 11:35:30 PM | 4332 1216 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this what a world leader should be wasting their time doing?

21/8/2025, 7:25:15 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

You see where he intends this to go, right?

19/8/2025, 9:03:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

The leader of your country does nothing to help your country.

19/8/2025, 6:10:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty sure rapists don't qualify for heaven in any belief system.

19/8/2025, 6:06:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Your president is 1000% a Russian asset. This should infuriate and terrify your entire country.

19/8/2025, 12:45:14 PM | 110 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

The mental gymnastics of these bootlickers

19/8/2025, 12:20:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 (@peipolitical.bsky.social) reposted

Did anyone hear the news out of Queens Park? Doug Ford and the MAGA CONS gave themselves a 35% raise citing inflation!! Can’t forget they’ve also brought back a comprehensive pension for all MPPs! #cdnpoli #onpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2025/05/29/o...

18/8/2025, 11:51:42 AM | 48 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Canadian here: we use mail in ballots for elections.

18/8/2025, 12:22:16 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Every accusation is an admission.

18/8/2025, 12:20:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CRIMINAL SIMPSONS (@criminalsimpsons.com) reposted

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16/8/2025, 6:01:20 PM | 818 182 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Good gravy, your president is a mooning idiot.

16/8/2025, 11:22:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard to believe. Hard to believe.

15/8/2025, 11:19:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Got to listen to those building owners whining they need more people paying rent to work in an office on virtual meetings all day.

14/8/2025, 5:10:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Stable genius.

13/8/2025, 1:46:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

They proclaim it to be lies. Where are their stats and proof of their own claims? Pretty simple to make a narrative when your followers just nod and agree without any critical thinking skills.

13/8/2025, 1:45:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeremy (@floregonian.com) reposted

I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.

12/8/2025, 1:51:23 AM | 7692 1755 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuckin get 'em!

12/8/2025, 9:26:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like something a dictator does.

12/8/2025, 6:20:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Even if any of his verbal diarrhea was legit, the dehumanization of people on the street is disgusting. These assholes have zero empathy.

12/8/2025, 3:07:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

What we see happening in real time is actually part of Martial Law. Oh, it hasn’t been officially declared, but his federal takeover plans for cities across the nation…under the cloak of “attacking crime,” is pre-positioning for when he does. It will happen prior to the November elections. Watch.

11/8/2025, 6:39:09 PM | 10376 3627 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Since when is doing something awesome a crime? That bish is jealous!

12/8/2025, 11:27:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

That there is intention to invade an ally. What's it take to convince people these are all bad actors with horrifying agendas?

11/8/2025, 11:20:52 PM | 44 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Reel Jon 🦌🎬🍉 (@thereeljon.mov) reposted

If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.

11/8/2025, 1:51:31 AM | 5821 2994 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Your "friend" is committing genocide and countless war crimes.

11/8/2025, 10:02:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

So the same fantasy as LA and other blue leaning hubs?

11/8/2025, 2:11:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Saul Staniforth (@saulstaniforth.bsky.social) reposted

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

11/8/2025, 7:13:24 AM | 1031 728 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Didn't he also... lose the first round as a dem?

8/8/2025, 10:26:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Fallon's garbage. Not funny, no principles, just an attention starved starf*cker.

8/8/2025, 2:39:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Vote them out.

8/8/2025, 2:19:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Now look up how many times dofo has spoken lovingly about trump.

8/8/2025, 12:24:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

He's as much a part of the problem. Born on third base, no actual education or experience, just a name and legacy money to buy his club membership while screwing over Ontarians.

8/8/2025, 12:22:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brooke Harrington (@ebharrington.bsky.social) reposted

Things that will happen when he's gone: * we're going to learn about shit he did that's so heinous, it makes the stuff we know about look tame * his many minions will claim to have "always opposed" him and demand sympathy for their suffering at his hands * dancing in the streets, worldwide

8/8/2025, 5:32:35 AM | 16557 3541 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone gave a purple heart to cadet bonespurs? What an embarrassment.

7/8/2025, 9:15:25 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

That old man has terrible hearing and poor cognitive function.

6/8/2025, 10:02:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jess m. 🌷 (@jametc.bsky.social) reposted

haha this rules. folks don't know that AIs scraping websites accounts for like half of all internet bandwidth usage right now. Sites get scraped- ie, all the contents downloaded- over and over again, destroying/wasting their bandwidth, often maxing it out. It's like being continually DDOS'd

6/8/2025, 8:43:28 PM | 3771 2029 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

Serve your country! Defend your culture!
6/8/2025, 8:07:23 PM | 7741 3169 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 (@laura-babcock.bsky.social) reposted

Argh!! Ford’s “idea” is a plan a developer pal gave him to spend billions of our tax dollars on a tunnel nobody needs or asked for? Like he did on the parking garage at Ontario Place? Ford does nothing to protect Ontario and everything to profit his private sector pals #Onpoli

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Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

**Kennedy is going to kill a lot MORE people. He's not new at that.

6/8/2025, 12:10:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this something a world leader should be doing? He's gonna pout about trans-athletes instead of doing ay actual work. Also, support Trans rights!

6/8/2025, 12:07:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

It gets better.

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6/8/2025, 11:13:57 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, the United States committed one of the most atrocious crimes in human history and plunged the world into a nuclear dark age. It dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima, Japan and mass murdered an estimated 70,000 to 140,000 people, mostly civilians, instantly.

6/8/2025, 10:55:11 AM | 1333 519 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

In short: He dumb. He REAL dumb.

6/8/2025, 1:41:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maggie Tokuda-Hall (@maggietokudahall.bsky.social) reposted

Someone is going to name a character they're killing off after my worst neighbor I FEEL LIKE A GOD This is why being friends w other authors is the BEST

6/8/2025, 1:36:41 AM | 264 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

It's now a skeletal paw... far more dangerous and powerful!

5/8/2025, 10:34:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) reposted

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

5/8/2025, 9:58:15 PM | 7525 3054 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Too Fast, Too Furidice

5/8/2025, 10:30:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Saunders (@robertsaunders.bsky.social) reposted

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

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Profile picture Mary Gillis (@marygillis.bsky.social) reposted

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

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4/8/2025, 10:56:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Same!

4/8/2025, 10:56:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/8/2025, 10:55:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

This is abhorrent.

4/8/2025, 10:53:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

They really hate your first amendment.

4/8/2025, 9:53:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maddie Jacobus (@tacobusart.bsky.social) reposted

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

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4/8/2025, 6:15:47 AM | 4799 2111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

He's burning your country down.

4/8/2025, 12:27:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Did someone explain it to him like he's five? I'd bet a month's pay he doesn't know what genocide means.

4/8/2025, 12:26:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Cowards.

3/8/2025, 7:19:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

They should, but won't. They just gutted the EPA regulations to limit greenhouse gasses. They are leaning fully into ruining the planet.

3/8/2025, 7:17:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool. Now about those Epstein files.

3/8/2025, 1:36:34 PM | 20 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Lupita Nihongo (@otsumamiboy.bsky.social) reposted

I feel like the reason why far right propaganda is so effective and pervasive is because instead of offering solutions they offer excuses. It always boils down to "All of your problems are because of someone else" which is like oldest and most basic grift around.

2/8/2025, 3:34:43 PM | 2768 637 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture merritt (@merrittk.com) reposted

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

3/8/2025, 12:35:19 AM | 7986 2504 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Mandatory reading to see exactly what is happening (again) is Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts"

2/8/2025, 8:26:44 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

He wouldn't know taste if it slapped him with a lawsuit.

2/8/2025, 8:24:45 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

Inserts himself into every interview or performance - zero skills as an interviewer, allowing guests to have 5 minutes to talk or sing, etc.

2/8/2025, 4:30:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

The Heel turn of Fetterman will always burn.

2/8/2025, 12:44:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew (@badbeardwrites.bsky.social) reply parent

And then never released them. Masterful gambit.

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