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mrdrleland

@mrdrleland.bsky.social

This is my hill and I'll die on it if I want to.

created October 6, 2023

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Profile picture geestack.org (@geestack.org) reposted

legit thank you for the service journalism @defector.com (gift link) defector.com/how-the-fuck...

3/9/2025, 6:19:47 PM | 18 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shooters shoot.

3/9/2025, 2:24:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gary’s Baby

3/9/2025, 12:33:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn't he training for a kick in the aftermath of a very short cloudburst?

2/9/2025, 10:17:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10 years ago Steph Curry had just won his first championship and MVP. 10 years ago they were Steph jerseys.

1/9/2025, 5:32:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

1/9/2025, 1:26:02 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shams.

30/8/2025, 4:28:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted

one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil

29/8/2025, 11:34:06 PM | 4413 791 | View on Bluesky | view

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_L...

29/8/2025, 4:26:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some critics complain about our country’s descent into fascism. At this table at the NYC Yale Alumni Club, self-proclaimed free thinkers don’t see the big deal.

29/8/2025, 2:26:16 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) reposted

If everybody normal does not internalize that this IS the traditional GOP we will never escape this goofus vortex. They’re republicans doing republican stuff and they like it and it’s fun

28/8/2025, 12:47:45 AM | 98 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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And if a team fouls up 3 and win the game after giving up 2 free throws, the losing team can claim moral superiority and call you unsportsmanlike and whatever else they want, but they're the ones who lost the game and they should stop sending me fundraising emails acting proud of it.

27/8/2025, 5:09:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kevon.

27/8/2025, 2:51:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 2:29:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Find me an Oakland A’s fan who doesn’t want to smash capitalism.

25/8/2025, 1:57:46 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Korver.

19/8/2025, 10:07:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh sure, here’s a guy who watched Robin Good and identified with *Robin Hood*

19/8/2025, 2:08:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh I don’t think that’s fair; many of the people who initially downplayed it are out there saying Nazi shit themselves. You know: you can be part of the solution, or you can be part of the problem.

18/8/2025, 2:30:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two things can be true!

17/8/2025, 4:01:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “hubbub” is not a compound word.

14/8/2025, 3:11:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yo La Quisiera

13/8/2025, 2:24:56 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you checked to make sure you’re not though?

12/8/2025, 3:29:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You seem to feel strongly about this. I see you live in California; have you considered contacting your elected representatives? You can reach Alex Padilla’s office at tel:202-224-3553

12/8/2025, 2:01:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Monkey Wrench Gang.

11/8/2025, 11:43:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Against all available evidence, the schedule makers seem to expect the Warriors to put together an nba roster by December.

9/8/2025, 4:10:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social) reposted

The “goal” is to send “all Palestinian civilians from Gaza City” to “the” “camps.”

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8/8/2025, 11:07:30 AM | 164 84 | View on Bluesky | view

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“NFL legend” www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/Te...

8/8/2025, 5:10:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”

8/8/2025, 3:49:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is a certain kind of educated liberal (I’m looking at you too, NPR) who absolutely cannot express a thought about rap or sports and sound like a human being.

8/8/2025, 3:45:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The NFL.

8/8/2025, 3:44:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel José Older (@djolder.bsky.social) reposted

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

6/8/2025, 1:01:34 AM | 18060 6551 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/8/2025, 4:30:42 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Teens in the row behind me for the 1998 Van Sant PSYCHO remake who screamed at the big reveal.

3/8/2025, 5:13:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Sports” and “being an involved dad” should go together a lot more frequently, tbh.

2/8/2025, 2:17:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Academy of Sciences and its GGP surroundings The pirate supply store at 826 Valencia Any of the commuter ferries Regrettably, the San Francisco Giants and their ballpark The ferry plaza farmers’ market. (The list gets longer if you don’t just mean the 7x7)

2/8/2025, 2:16:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Skill issue.

1/8/2025, 4:25:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hot dog guy meme.

31/7/2025, 2:54:45 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trying to imagine the federal government reading my course evals from Brown.

31/7/2025, 2:53:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam Wang (@samwang.bsky.social) reposted

On the other hand, students at Brown University could take direct action by spamming those comments, making them worthless as a tool of the investigative state. Come on guys, time to think of creative ways to resist this madness!

31/7/2025, 12:07:09 PM | 287 75 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/mrdr...

31/7/2025, 1:50:06 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The bizarro Cyd Charisse dance/dream sequence in Singin In The Rain.

26/7/2025, 6:22:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted

American Jewish institutions will never wash their hands clean of this sanctioning of the murder of children. Of men. Of brothers. Of women. Of aunties. Of grandfathers. Of mothers. Of people. Shande shande shande on all of you

25/7/2025, 6:45:46 PM | 2577 550 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Shame on everyone whose primary concern is the redemption of Israel and Zionism We are supposed to sanctify life, not borders, not violent political institutions SANCTIFY LIFE

25/7/2025, 6:56:32 PM | 393 71 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

Read my latest:

22/7/2025, 11:22:22 PM | 2916 1451 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gerald Henderson James Edward’s Things of that nature

21/7/2025, 6:54:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Oaxaca Guerrero game I attended in the summer of 2019 was a peak baseball experience.

20/7/2025, 2:55:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every day I log on here hoping to see that Jonathan Kuminga has been traded, and every day I find instead our nation’s ass-over-teakettle crash into fascism, so I guess the joke is on me.

18/7/2025, 6:06:54 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

15/7/2025, 5:16:04 AM | 538 272 | View on Bluesky | view

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The minute W named that Department, it was on this path.

15/7/2025, 3:22:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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(Whispers): See also Radiohead

14/7/2025, 4:09:43 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Myron J. Clifton (@deardean22.bsky.social) reposted

New York City’s mayoral race is taking up all the oxygen but the most consequential mayor in the nation is Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass who is defending her city, the state, and the nation against federal fascism. More democrats should be speaking up for her- including NYC folk 1 of 2

13/7/2025, 8:56:05 PM | 157 59 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uh yeah fuck that.

The website academia.edu defaults to opting scholars into AI-generated summaries. Screenshot of the opt-out.
14/7/2025, 3:04:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He never misses the chance to talk shit about brown immigrants or university professors, either, but guess who he’s visiting in Southern California.

14/7/2025, 12:30:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

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Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

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12/7/2025, 8:18:30 PM | 13353 6533 | View on Bluesky | view

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The ADL is not going to recover from Jonathan Greenblatt.

11/7/2025, 3:58:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin Biba (@erinbiba.bsky.social) reposted

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

9/7/2025, 6:07:49 PM | 3121 1826 | View on Bluesky | view

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All the cool experiments on Ways and Means, or all the playing to strengths on Roll It Out and Hurry Home?

9/7/2025, 3:49:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m not.

9/7/2025, 3:47:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Burmila (@edburmila.bsky.social) reposted

I checked because I could not believe this one was real and folks, this is real.

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8/7/2025, 8:36:46 PM | 4734 1095 | View on Bluesky | view

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If “Devin Carter, Dario Saric, avd two seconds” is the best offer, I guess we’d better buckle up for another six months of this.

7/7/2025, 3:23:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can you defame a duck by saying it quacks like a duck? Actually, can you defame a duck at all? Do ducks have civil rights? What to a duck is the Fourth of July? I have a lot of questions.

4/7/2025, 4:46:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

3/7/2025, 7:14:24 PM | 13025 3101 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ahem.

3/7/2025, 4:34:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You did this with 6 outs left to get, didn’t you.

3/7/2025, 4:06:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Certified Warrior Killer.

2/7/2025, 4:38:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not tonight I think

2/7/2025, 3:19:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/7/2025, 4:50:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The ADL is not going to recover from Jonathan Greenblatt.

1/7/2025, 2:40:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Depends what they get back for JK.

1/7/2025, 12:39:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shut up, dork.

1/7/2025, 12:36:34 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you have a short reading on genre you’d assign to lower division undergrads or advanced high school seniors? I have found this more challenging than I’d expected.

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Zionism: A People Reborn - New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/zionism-peop...

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The virgin predictive model vs the chad policy paper.

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I’m Not There? Quite good.

29/6/2025, 3:47:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) reposted

If you’re an elected Democrat talking shit about Zohran you deserve to lose every ounce of power you have which sadly doesn’t matter because the type of Democrat you are brought us to this fascism in the first place.

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Like the 1975 Warriors in reverse.

23/6/2025, 3:15:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thinking about doing a bit where I come on here and scold people for spoiling Game 7, which I am recording.

23/6/2025, 12:17:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6 tips to avoid putting on a clown costume and looking like a fucking clown.

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Boy, just wait until the people who think antisemitism on campus is a big problem get a hold of this story! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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They have so many clean towels in hotels.

21/6/2025, 3:51:18 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damn, even with those Mexican flags I was told were toxic imaging?

20/6/2025, 4:00:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As NWA said: We all said, “fuck you, bitch” and kept goin’.

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This is a question for a children’s librarian. (The most helpful humans.)

19/6/2025, 12:47:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The second bit is only true because he made Gavin the Guy Shit-talking Trump and not the Guy Hanging with Charlie Kirk.

18/6/2025, 4:06:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean yes obviously but also it sure would be nice.

18/6/2025, 12:36:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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God, imagine if I could do this to Jews with shitty politics. (The way Jews with shitty politics do it to me.)

17/6/2025, 9:35:11 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Turns out the pedants were right about the difference between “can” and “may,” I guess.

17/6/2025, 4:54:39 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t know this was a thing and now I have a lot of choices to reexamine.

15/6/2025, 7:45:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So, evangelical Christianity took shape in the 18th century. Remind me who conducted the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades, and why they did it?

15/6/2025, 4:32:31 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Got up early yesterday to throw a football 30 feet in the air repeatedly and dislodge the toy my kid had gotten stuck in the tree in the backyard.

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Took my kid to the baseball game on the ferry, ran into an old friend doing the same, gave him the whole speech about how it’s the best way to get to the baseball game, which—here’s the point—he was already doing.

15/6/2025, 3:48:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“If you see agitators, alert law enforcement” Gavin my man what if I told you

15/6/2025, 12:04:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are we sure he didn’t dress as a cop because he was coming from work?

14/6/2025, 4:01:29 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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So much for the tolerant left!

14/6/2025, 3:25:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Padilla was present, but didn’t vote.

13/6/2025, 7:56:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is James Wiseman erasure.

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