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Paul

@brokensea.bsky.social

Published author, single dad, fascinated and horrified by the collapse of the US empire. Please don’t DM me, I’ll assume you are a bot and block you.

created November 29, 2024

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Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably a relief for him to not have to deal with such blatant corruption anymore.

15/7/2025, 1:52:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Dubai is another example where they are recognising that there is no future in oil. The Dubai Future Foundation is proposing some remarkable areas of research.

14/7/2025, 6:12:52 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Why haven’t Americans risen up in armed revolt against this tyranny against your own people? You are all legally armed to the teeth and passionate about your freedom. Start acting like it. You bunch of hypocrites.

12/7/2025, 9:16:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

The essential food, supplies, and services shortages will commence right on schedule. 😐

12/7/2025, 6:12:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, but that sounds like a “Christian nation” to me.

12/7/2025, 5:26:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

The varoa(sp?) mite has been the major threat to honeybee populations for decades. Why has the US only just realised this?

11/7/2025, 10:29:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

Americans. How are you preparing for the inevitable food shortages in the next 12 months? When the people who harvest, transport, and process your food are gone. When the people who stock your grocery store shelves are gone. What will you eat then?

11/7/2025, 10:27:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s ethnic cleansing

11/7/2025, 10:25:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

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11/7/2025, 8:42:15 PM | 28049 6519 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

11/7/2025, 9:05:07 PM | 37505 13598 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

3/3 Anyway, after 10 years I was made redundant and took my severance pay and left. I heard a few months later they hired 3 people to try and replace me. Don’t take your experts and experienced people for granted.

9/7/2025, 6:19:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Because, according to the exact wording of my contract, I was required to work the hours necessary to complete the daily requirements of my role. It was supposed to mean I worked unpaid overtime. My manager had zero problem with my leaving because he could see the results.

9/7/2025, 6:18:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

Over 10 years I built systems and processes that made my position so efficient that I would work a four hour day. 1/

9/7/2025, 6:17:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the worst and least comprehensible movies I’ve ever seen.

6/7/2025, 5:23:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Please sir, can I have some punctuation? I can’t read that many run on sentences without circular breathing.

5/7/2025, 11:25:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

51,000 people are predicted to die every year. Not counting those who are abducted and detained by ICE. You are no longer human. You are an expense.

4/7/2025, 7:43:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

Vale, US Democracy. 4th March 1789 - 3rd July 2025.

3/7/2025, 8:15:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

My first thought was “you have got to be kidding? Then I saw the “oh wait…” It would be hard to be a non biased broadcaster news network when the govt is your income source.

29/6/2025, 8:52:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

She handed me each offending nugget and glared at me until I ate it. Then she’d hand me the next one. Her cold stare daring me to refuse.

29/6/2025, 5:27:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

I made Sophie hot chips and 4 cut-in-half, lightly battered chicken nugget dinosaur shapes hidden among the chips She carefully picked each dinosaur piece off the plate and handed them to me like they were dead slugs she’d found in her salad.

29/6/2025, 5:25:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Republican Party suicide?

29/6/2025, 5:04:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

My old dog slept through people breaking into my house, stealing my keys and taking my SUV. 😕 Police found it 25 hours later. Insurance repairs are taking months. Least I got a free hire car out of it.

29/6/2025, 5:02:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/6/2025, 5:01:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Oooh Wasteland 2 is the only one I have not played.

29/6/2025, 2:58:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

3/ It is a longitudinal study. Refreshed results will be published as they become available.

29/6/2025, 2:55:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

2/ Babies - constantly wet nappies. Toddlers - wet nappies, wet toilet training, wet bedding, water play, emptying the bathtub on to the floor, emptying the dogs water bowl onto the floor, emptying water bottles and cups onto the floor… wet clothes. Wet dog. Wet carpet. 🫤

29/6/2025, 2:55:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If anyone was interested, my research concludes that the most notable feature of children is how damned wet they are. 1/

29/6/2025, 2:54:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, but, fair warning, I have a dog and a 3 year old in here already.

29/6/2025, 2:53:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

The problem is it’s not just America that suffers. The rest of the world is thrown into turmoil because this senile, demented, illiterate fuck is in charge.

29/6/2025, 2:51:42 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Those doxxing numbers? They are rookie numbers. We can do better. Doxx more

24/6/2025, 1:38:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellent.

23/6/2025, 9:30:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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23/6/2025, 9:23:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

We’re Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister

20/6/2025, 2:09:00 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

“Take me down to Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty” ~ Guns & Roses

20/6/2025, 2:08:23 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh look, Iran just declared war On the USA.

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14/6/2025, 8:33:05 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

When they said that guys think about the Roman Empire every day, I don’t think it was the fall of the Roman Empire they thought we are thinking of.

14/6/2025, 6:05:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Dems need to act at all. Like actually remember who they are and what they represent.

13/6/2025, 1:14:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

And just like that, peace descended over the forest…

13/6/2025, 1:13:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Breathe in through your nose slow and deep. Hold it for a count of three. Exhale slowly though your nose.

13/6/2025, 1:08:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

Israel is attacking Iran. I fucking hate this timeline.

13/6/2025, 1:07:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s great as long as the thugs detaining you give a shit about your rights. Which they don’t.

10/6/2025, 9:34:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

9/6/2025, 1:39:09 AM | 34981 16787 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus that is so obviously fake, the man himself confirmed it was fake. 🤣

4/6/2025, 8:12:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Bertinelli (@wolfiesmom.bsky.social) reposted

🤣😂🤣 #happypride

3/6/2025, 6:48:38 PM | 3720 623 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

And the police are like, “No evidence of a hate crime” Fucking seriously?

3/6/2025, 9:23:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible East Bay (@indivisibleeb.bsky.social) reposted

Difficult decision for some. Tax the rich or kill the poor? #Iowa @insufferablewoi.bsky.social

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2/6/2025, 8:17:21 PM | 587 191 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they all going to be painted orange as well?

3/6/2025, 9:14:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

According to the BBC, Pornhub and several other porn websites are owned by a Canadian investment company called, “Ethical Capital Partners” “Ethical.” How fucking ironic.

3/6/2025, 9:13:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CerberusXt (@cerberusxt.bsky.social) reposted

Pride month begins, so let's all be as loud and proud as possible ! #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #lgbt

Dark Angle space marine holding a flag painted in the colors of the progress flag.
1/6/2025, 5:12:43 AM | 5004 844 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture We Geek Girls (@wegeekgirls.bsky.social) reposted

The first trailer for the final season of 'Stranger Things' has been released. ▪️Volume 1 premieres November 26th at 5pm PT. ▪️Volume 2 premieres Christmas at 5pm PT. ▪️The Finale premieres New Year's Eve at 5pm PT. #StrangerThings #Netflix #TUDUM

1/6/2025, 1:42:45 AM | 524 126 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

The only thing better is The Godfather Part II

1/6/2025, 4:10:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Ooh! Where do I sign up for a borrowers card?

1/6/2025, 4:09:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 (@madisonkittay.bsky.social) reposted

Oh, look, this Cybertruck got the aftermarket Roman customization package.

31/5/2025, 5:43:11 PM | 14564 2255 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.

31/5/2025, 7:01:52 PM | 7404 2684 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve been in GW stores in three countries, and that is the only time I’ve seen a sign like that being necessary.

1/6/2025, 3:55:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On Sundays we make blanket forts.

1/6/2025, 2:54:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I sincerely want to make it so much fucking worse. This woman is a psychopath

31/5/2025, 10:15:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool bro, so why not prove us wrong and pee in this cup…?

31/5/2025, 8:53:15 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

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31/5/2025, 1:17:02 AM | 28905 12971 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Enjoy the time you have left.

31/5/2025, 8:29:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fucking 3 year olds man. Tips food on floor of car. Loses shit. We get home. Get her inside. Get her food off the floor Give it to her inside. She carries it outside Loses her shit. Open car for her. She empties food onto floor of car. Proceeds to eat it off the floor of the car.

31/5/2025, 3:17:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Water/river

31/5/2025, 1:52:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

I use Anthropic’s AI every day in my job. My company has asked me to oversee rolling it out to all employees. At the same time I’m working out how to make my self irreplaceable by AI. I got nothing. 😕 www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a... AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath

30/5/2025, 11:59:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

True. Some are even worse.

30/5/2025, 9:44:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it “Guy sitting in a stroller joke meme” season again? Wow the year is going by so fast.

30/5/2025, 9:16:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Values? The US administration has no values outside of $$.

30/5/2025, 9:14:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

30/5/2025, 2:27:21 PM | 18279 6954 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s wasted.

30/5/2025, 9:03:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That guy is wasted.

30/5/2025, 9:03:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

We are. We just don’t talk about it.

30/5/2025, 12:10:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

@whiteroseresistance.org got my hat today 😊 It’s a fine hat.

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29/5/2025, 8:51:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s NK level of propaganda. All information is controlled by the State. They tell you what is real.

28/5/2025, 6:39:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

Anthropic’s Claude AI was offline this morning. I had to type stuff into Google search like our ancestors did. Amish Internet. 🫤

28/5/2025, 6:37:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

When white supremacy is Federal policy, you are no longer living in a democracy. www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/p...

22/5/2025, 11:33:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Well I am sure gutting public service agencies is going to help reduce those incidents…. He said somewhat sarcastically. 😐

22/5/2025, 8:06:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

What the hey are they doing to veges to give them salmonella so often??

22/5/2025, 12:44:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

22/5/2025, 7:31:32 AM | 19632 7259 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course not. If you tried taking $500 million away from their support infrastructure and contribution to their living costs, they would lose their freaking minds.

22/5/2025, 4:32:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Following these simple steps will reduce stress, anxiety, and make you a happier human being.

22/5/2025, 12:55:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Smoke a bowl!

22/5/2025, 12:52:50 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

“Google is beginning to weave advertisements into its new AI Mode for online search, a strategic move to counter the challenge posed by ChatGPT as the primary source for online answers.” This is why we can’t have nice, or even shitty things! www.news.com.au/technology/o...

22/5/2025, 12:51:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellent uptick in productivity people. Let’s aim for 500% by July.

22/5/2025, 12:45:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They sure do….

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22/5/2025, 12:44:03 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

I definitely get a warm heart glow every time I get to hug my fully vaccinated kids.

18/5/2025, 11:26:46 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

See also: New Zealand and Australia. Same practice when getting off the bus. In NZ we used to say hello to the driver when we got on too

18/5/2025, 6:04:37 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oceaned man (@oceanmanex.bsky.social) reposted

video game forums in april 2006 after seeing the newly announced official name of the nintendo revolution

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Profile picture Helen (@helenmaryme.bsky.social) reposted

Some days I'm the dog, some days I'm the little boy

17/5/2025, 5:11:30 PM | 8392 817 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

No Excretions… ?

18/5/2025, 12:16:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

In New Zealand we would give name, address, occupation, As required by law. Then I was taught to say, “I understand what you are saying but I am not interested.” In response to anything.

17/5/2025, 8:19:46 AM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Hang on, I like where this is going and I could see a little more. 😂

14/5/2025, 3:44:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

And coincidentally the most dangerous

14/5/2025, 3:44:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t see the connection. You can have a successful quarter or whatever profit wise AND at the same time rationalise your middle-management bloat by improving efficiency and laying off 3% of your workforce who are part of the “middle management layer”

14/5/2025, 3:43:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s quite disturbing how they can legally make bullshit claims and act as news. I guess it is why people don’t trust “traditional media” outlets.

14/5/2025, 3:28:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Under US law it is “entertainment” and no news network is obligated to report facts or objective journalism.

14/5/2025, 3:19:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t watch this or read the news campaign around it. My daughter is 3 and in childcare (not this franchise but a decent centre with good, hardworking staff whom she loves) and this makes me physically ill.

12/5/2025, 10:55:02 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Sally (@drsally.bsky.social) reposted

The entire Trump family There are no laws in the USA that are apparently upheld against these appalling creatures

12/5/2025, 10:35:36 PM | 9 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

In many aspects NZ is still in the 80’s. 🤣

12/5/2025, 10:52:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social)

There should be a sign opposite every politician’s desk that they can see every day that says,”You Are A Welfare Recipient” Taxes pay their salaries. Just like all govt employees. Except they need reminding they work for the people.

12/5/2025, 10:51:49 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

Wasn’t this a movie with Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman?

12/5/2025, 10:49:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul (@brokensea.bsky.social) reply parent

The US is looking for 20,000 more ICE enforcers. So I’d say this is exactly who these people are

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