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Rob Dalton

@daltonator.bsky.social

Irascible sci-fi polyglot • Detachment 2️⃣7️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ • #SocietasEruditorum • #GNUTerryPratchett Surviving in a fascist dictatorship. Dystopian sci-fi was supposed to be a warning, not a roadmap.

created October 13, 2023

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Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

The dictator's fascist goons aren't known for obeying laws.

1/9/2025, 10:27:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

He's going to enact martial law in DC tomorrow and lock it down isn't he

1/9/2025, 10:26:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 10:24:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Baseball Crank isn't fondling Dear Leader's balls?

1/9/2025, 7:53:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

We are the bad guys. We are ruled by sick monsters filled with hatred. That's the long and short of it.

1/9/2025, 4:07:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Negative information about the King is woke tyranny

31/8/2025, 7:53:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh this is fantastic Ironically for as much shit that Allan Lichtman gives Nate Silver, Nate was right

31/8/2025, 7:04:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

31/8/2025, 2:55:31 PM | 1197 304 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Hey remember when everyone was breathlessly saying that Pete Hegseth would be replaced for being so obviously bad at his job and it never happened? Kennedy isn't going anywhere. He's doing the job Putin told him to do.

31/8/2025, 4:36:40 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

He DOES care about all Americans. He simply redefined what constitutes an American. And guess what: only his cult counts. But seriously, do they even hear themselves talk? I've never seen a president who so obviously hates a huge amount of the population.

31/8/2025, 4:35:16 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Enough weaksauce BS. Do your goddamned job with some fire.

31/8/2025, 4:33:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Surprised he hasn't been nominated for a court appointment yet.

31/8/2025, 2:30:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

I'm guessing this is precisely what @radiofreetom.bsky.social meant about the "death of expertise" RFK Jr is the greatest threat to public health in history Because of him, the next pandemic will be worse than COVID

31/8/2025, 2:08:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

So he ordered SCOTUS to allow his bullshit tariffs

31/8/2025, 2:01:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

His inevitable demise

31/8/2025, 2:00:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

MAGA influencer Matt Walsh went full Nazi again, calling for "common sense restrictions" on trans Americans. This is who they are. This is who they always were.

30/8/2025, 9:12:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance is an opportunistic lying sack of crap which describes most politicians

30/8/2025, 7:10:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

But her emails!

30/8/2025, 6:49:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellent point

30/8/2025, 5:26:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) reposted

"the national guard is picking up trash and putting down mulch, not stopping crime" sounds less like clown behavior and more like an actual propaganda effort at winning the hearts & minds of DC residents, so they became habituated to and even fond of the troops' presence

30/8/2025, 3:31:28 PM | 763 133 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Kinda begs the question of what he was doing.

30/8/2025, 1:43:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone who could have possibly stopped him has completely abdicated their responsibilities. And it's terrifying, because 77 million Americans are fully on board with an authoritarian dictatorship. Call me crazy, but everything I've seen points to this being the endgame of a long con.

30/8/2025, 4:29:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Secretary of Inators Heinz Doofenschmirtz resigns, citing inability to come up with evil plans as poorly designed by incompetent bumbling idiots as the ones pushed by the administration.

30/8/2025, 4:19:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Just checking in on BlueSky to see what outrages and atrocities committed by the fascist kakistocracy will be whitewashed by pliant media apparatuses.

30/8/2025, 3:58:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Again, the reason why the fascist pig is using the military to invade our cities is so they can oppress blue votes

30/8/2025, 1:46:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Whale-Killing Windmill Hate (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

The Republicans give us the venomous power-hungry racism but you need to go a Libertarian to get “the government suggesting I shouldn’t eat raw chicken is as tyrannical as the age of consent”

29/8/2025, 8:31:50 PM | 1314 223 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Hahahahahahaha holy fuck the cult really believes this

29/8/2025, 11:49:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

29/8/2025, 8:07:12 PM | 9157 2584 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Just dancing around those white nationalist talking points are they

29/8/2025, 6:44:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

This was never about removing criminals. It was always about hatred and fear. This is the legacy of the MAGA movement.

29/8/2025, 6:09:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture OrbGazer (@orbgazer.bsky.social) reposted

It rules how not a single act by this administration is not only not in the public good, but designed to cause harm. Incredible stuff, perpetually amazed that it’s this easy.

29/8/2025, 2:39:59 PM | 46 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

A mob of thugs and bullies whose primary job is to terrorize people.

29/8/2025, 2:48:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Washington is a blue state, so it makes sense that the government is actively causing more harm.

29/8/2025, 2:47:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't blame you. It's hard to see how we ever rebuild from this.

29/8/2025, 2:45:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

While I wouldn't be surprised at him wanting a white nationalist ethnostate, I'm not sure as to if that particular quote is true. However, given the fact that the only explanation for the insane policies espoused by the likes of RFK is that they will lead to mass deaths, it's hard to discount it.

29/8/2025, 2:44:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Every policy is hurting everyone because that's how those policies are intended to work.

28/8/2025, 11:25:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

The psycho who committed the latest mass shooting made it plainly obvious what he was planning, but because the most corrupt and incompetent president in history appointed absolute morons to crucial roles who in turn hired a heritage foundation Internet troll who fired everyone, nobody was watching.

28/8/2025, 9:16:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

To be clear: I have zero sympathy for anyone who has voter's remorse at this point. You knew exactly who he was for almost ten years but you voted for him anyway. We're all reaping what you've sown. I don't have the grace to welcome the Johnny-come-latelies who didn't care until he came for them.

28/8/2025, 9:07:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

People are dying because we elected a stupid narcissist who filled his cabinet with the worst people possible.

28/8/2025, 8:14:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

The blood of millions is on the hands of the orange tyrant.

28/8/2025, 8:00:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

YOU DID THIS BILL. YOUR FAULT.

28/8/2025, 7:59:38 PM | 39 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sorry but that made me laugh hard

28/8/2025, 7:59:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

The gun owner definition of tyranny is seeing a gay couple in a cereal commercial. Having armed military accosting "those" people as they deliver food is their idea of freedom and justice.

28/8/2025, 7:58:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

The gun owner definition of tyranny is seeing a gay couple in a cereal commercial. Having armed military accosting "those" people as they deliver food is their idea of freedom and justice.

28/8/2025, 7:57:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

RFK's purpose is to utterly destroy public health and allow for the spread of disease. This falls in line with the overall goal of an internal collapse of society on behalf of Putin, who will win the Cold War 40 years later without firing a shot.

28/8/2025, 7:48:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

RFK TO AMERICA: DROP DEAD

28/8/2025, 5:53:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

They will not touch RFK. He is a favorite of the King and fulfilling his purpose of indirectly killing millions of Americans on behalf of Vladimir Putin.

28/8/2025, 2:52:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 2:51:00 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

You thought Don the Con was dangerously stupid? Brainworms McGee may be the most prolific mass murderer in American history

28/8/2025, 2:50:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

28/8/2025, 2:04:55 PM | 17699 4599 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

It's exhausting to have a government full of posturing aggressive assholes who are not only wildly incompetent but also breathtakingly corrupt, compromised, and laden with a cornucopia of drug addiction, criminal charges, and deteriorating mental capacity

28/8/2025, 2:47:39 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

He is doing his appointed task, which is to indirectly kill as many Americans as possible.

28/8/2025, 11:03:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Ooh I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

28/8/2025, 2:20:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Anthology series are usually great. Love, Death & Robots is awesome.

28/8/2025, 1:49:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

It's funny because he's 100% committed mortgage fraud

28/8/2025, 12:52:54 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

It's what happens when you have a government dedicated to causing as much catastrophic destruction as possible because they're working for Russia

27/8/2025, 11:16:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

They will move to ban trans people and do nothing on guns.

27/8/2025, 11:14:27 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Nuremberg.

27/8/2025, 10:14:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing changed even when a Republican Congressman got shot during a softball game.

27/8/2025, 10:13:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

The assault weapon ban expired in 2004. What a curious correlation.

27/8/2025, 10:11:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

They fired their own CDC director. Did she not kiss the ring?

27/8/2025, 9:50:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how they define wokeness

27/8/2025, 7:50:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Humor For Resistance (@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social) reposted

a book that says: ANYTHING NOT CREATED SOLELY FOR WHO LOOK & THINK LIKE ME IS PERSECUTION AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN GUIDE To WHITE OPPRESSION
27/8/2025, 5:21:37 PM | 65 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Put the past aside. We have had differences with conservatives like George before. But they actually care about democracy and justice and we need to amplify this. This is authoritarianism.

27/8/2025, 7:49:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

"'People don’t want to reach this conclusion: This is authoritarianism."

27/8/2025, 5:01:42 PM | 2268 612 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

You're fired

27/8/2025, 6:50:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

27/8/2025, 6:42:38 PM | 20667 6748 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Murphy (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social) reposted

The protect the children people are terribly exposed by their fixation on transexuals in school bathrooms while also being silent on school shootings that kill kids every year. The transexual stuff they complain about comes across like some Freudian kink that they can't get out of their mind.

27/8/2025, 4:33:02 PM | 219 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

The penalty doesn't have to be legal. Social media sites already have tools at their disposal to flag disinformation and limit its spread. A dude with a megaphone saying someone is full of shit isn't a first amendment violation.

27/8/2025, 6:46:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Gun owners should be forcibly disarmed until they pass stringent psychological tests and complete mandatory training on safety, de-escalation, and rules of engagement. They're clearly not in it for defending against tyranny.

27/8/2025, 6:36:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh they definitely tried to overcharge. Need to make an example of anyone who challenges the fascist dictatorship

27/8/2025, 6:12:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

At this point, anybody still with an R after their name is either a coward or a collaborator None are worthy of our time or our respect

27/8/2025, 5:11:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

He needs that adulation because he is weak, pathetic and insecure. And he has really tiny hands.

27/8/2025, 5:09:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Ooh I had no idea.

27/8/2025, 4:06:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Fox News spin: "Dear Leader's flawless policies were so effective that crime is at 0% and our Brave Troops are cleaning up the streets!"

27/8/2025, 3:20:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Abasing themselves before Dear Leader like a bunch of cowards

27/8/2025, 3:19:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) reposted

The televised multi-hour "Dear Mr. President, are you a great president or the greatest president?" cabinet meetings are just such an embarrassment for everyone involved. All the bad politics aside, these people have no self-respect.

27/8/2025, 11:54:01 AM | 1143 218 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

I must have missed something - Youngkin isn't running?

27/8/2025, 3:18:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

I have heard that the shooter took their own life.

27/8/2025, 3:13:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Mr No More Wars wants to start wars

27/8/2025, 3:10:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Yet. I'm sure there's some techbro developing some sort of biometric genetic screening lock for bathrooms.

27/8/2025, 3:08:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a hot fire take and I'm not biting lol

27/8/2025, 3:06:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm looking forward to King Con using this as an opportunity to belittle Tim Walz, offer no sympathy or support, and make it about himself.

27/8/2025, 3:06:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

I maintain that Andor is the best Star Wars ever made.

27/8/2025, 3:04:51 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Cracker Barrel abandoned the change because of market pressure, not government intervention. That's literally how the free market is supposed to work, conservatives.

27/8/2025, 3:04:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

This feels like a calculated attempt to help the stupidest president in history to learn the difference between insane asylum and political asylum

27/8/2025, 2:34:36 PM | 26 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Riding the zeitgeist Ken

27/8/2025, 1:54:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Couldn't indict a ham sandwich after all

27/8/2025, 1:52:50 PM | 80 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

The Fifth Element is one of the best sci-fi movies in history precisely because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Fight me.

27/8/2025, 5:21:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

God this scene was perfect

27/8/2025, 5:21:12 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Wielding a synth keyboard like an M56 Smartgun

27/8/2025, 3:04:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

Conservative policy is 90% rooted in shame and self hatred

26/8/2025, 10:53:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

"I don't know how I'm going to explain this to my kids" I don't know man, that sounds like a "you" problem How about you get over your own shit instead of trying to force your beliefs down my throat

26/8/2025, 10:51:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social)

Again, the reason why conservatives get the ick every time a same sex relationship is portrayed in the media is because literally the only context they have for LGBTQ lifestyles is all the pornography that they don't want you to know that they watch

26/8/2025, 10:49:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

He's rapidly deteriorating, obviously showing signs of severe mental decline, and has obvious skin lesions. In other words, he's the healthiest president to ever walk the earth.

26/8/2025, 10:19:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

How quickly we went from "Biden can't unilaterally cancel all student debts" to "King Conald can do literally whatever he wants including using the military for domestic policing"

26/8/2025, 10:01:19 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

It's bait and it works.

26/8/2025, 9:48:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

*Dear Leadering intensifies*

26/8/2025, 7:17:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

He's just so fucking pathetic

26/8/2025, 7:14:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Dalton (@daltonator.bsky.social) reply parent

The stupidest president in history hired the stupidest cabinet in history. We are being led by morons.

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