Jack Lowe | Jack | Activity https://jacklowe.com/members/jacklowe/activity/ Activity feed for Jack. Sun, 24 May 2026 19:52:58 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=3.0.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 c8167e231a6658bf6b3dae5412acdf90 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2132/#acomment-2135 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:48:59 +0000 @dex3703 Yes indeed. I hear he’s had Laith Marouf on recently (a person I’ve only learned of recently) so I’d like to listen to that.

Palestinian people aren’t given much airtime in the mainstream though. We often hear perspectives from people who aren’t on the receiving end of the oppression.

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How often do we hear a Palestinian voice answer that question?

We don’t generally get to hear Palestinian people describing their lived experience unless we go looking for them.

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]]> 7de6431749b174374919abdf0d76394d Jack posted an update: And this is a good listen too. What a rare relief to […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2133/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:00:31 +0000 And this is a good listen too. What a rare relief to hear somebody point out that pretty much every system we’ve built needs diesel somewhere along the line for it to function…yes…including wind turbines and nuclear power stations!

Steve Jermy says that he feels like he’s been a lone voice; the likes of Tim Watkins and Jeff McFadden…

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]]> 0 fc74c83c2946b982164ea648dd22104d Jack posted an update: How often do we hear a Palestinian voice answer […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2132/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:42:10 +0000 How often do we hear a Palestinian voice answer that question?

We don’t generally get to hear Palestinian people describing their lived experience unless we go looking for them.

This conversation with Dr Ghada Karmi is brilliant — I’ve learned a lost from listening to her perspective:

]]> 2 fd05ca2272023eea4a539d2e77620f67 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2125/#acomment-2129 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:00:42 +0000 @dex3703 Sheesh. The cards that US Empire know Iran holds. And it’s now baked in.

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😪🎻😅🥳

]]> 46412d8e6aba9111b0b748530ec871e8 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2125/#acomment-2127 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:49:23 +0000 @dex3703 Praise be!

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😪🎻😅🥳

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]]> 4 39932ad725f79c89896316cdcba92db8 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2116/#acomment-2122 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:18:55 +0000 @dex3703 Yes, peeps can’t remember anything these days and have even forgotten that humans have already seen the far side of the moon FFS.
A BBC reporter actually said “this is the first time humans have ever seen the far side of the moon” when commentating on the recent lunar rerun 🤦‍♂️

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It feels hard to believe that an energy shock is imminent when things are still running relatively normally and there’s barely anything hitting the front pages.

However, from the local […]

]]> 1a112bf09c9f13407c5c5cd67df79d53 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2116/#acomment-2118 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:03:50 +0000 @dex3703 All so neatly put, Derek. Your final paragraph particularly resonates.

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It feels hard to believe that an energy shock is imminent when things are still running relatively normally and there’s barely anything hitting the front pages.

However, from the local […]

]]> 2fa39d08f376c7bea57a079d40a76f1e Jack posted an update: It feels hard to believe that an energy shock is […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2116/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:50:09 +0000 It feels hard to believe that an energy shock is imminent when things are still running relatively normally and there’s barely anything hitting the front pages.

However, from the local garage to the general store, I have heard first hand accounts from businesses here in Newcastle that highlight how the energy shock is already unravelling…

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]]> 8 8fe0a62c0ff3c2fd1e78b716cfc092d6 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2109/#acomment-2115 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:50:13 +0000 @dex3703 Tim’s good. Did you hear him as a guest on our podcast recently?
And the severity of all this is finally starting to filter through. It feels like pre-covid times all over again…only worse:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/government-responds-after-keir-starmer-33775623

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Tim Watkins makes some very good points in this recent post.

For example:

“And so, the world is short around a fifth of its flow of oil and gas, along with much else (fertiliser, helium, […]

]]> 5e96723ea91e55b0b7dfc4a84284b58e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2104/#acomment-2113 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:08:12 +0000 @dex3703 Found it, thank you. A comprehensive wiki page too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela

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Hello one and all. While four peeps have undertaken a lunar mission — perhaps the most exuberant repeat/rerun of all time — I’ve been on an altogether different kind of mission; helping a […]

]]> d79dc53ce29174101acddb07f2619562 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2109/#acomment-2112 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:04:46 +0000 @dex3703 Quite.

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Tim Watkins makes some very good points in this recent post.

For example:

“And so, the world is short around a fifth of its flow of oil and gas, along with much else (fertiliser, helium, […]

]]> eaf5e4541b34050693df65c02eede621 Jack posted an update: Tim Watkins makes some very good points in […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2109/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:51:44 +0000 Tim Watkins makes some very good points in this recent post.

For example:

“And so, the world is short around a fifth of its flow of oil and gas, along with much else (fertiliser, helium, sulphur, aluminium, etc.) aside. And this is not just any old oil. It is the high net energy stuff. So that, in energy terms the loss to the economy is far…

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The map is not the territory

The only viable responses are rationing and conservation. And this has to be done before fuel shortages begin… i.e., sometime last month

]]> 4 469640a058f7351a83b1f51f997b6f98 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2104/#acomment-2108 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:40:02 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Truly. Not only that but blissful to really connect with something else.

Now I’m back in the disconnect and the re-entry’s leaving bruises and bumps.

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Hello one and all. While four peeps have undertaken a lunar mission — perhaps the most exuberant repeat/rerun of all time — I’ve been on an altogether different kind of mission; helping a […]

]]> 254f7ef95f2b2a1cd1e6a7334a08f40b Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2104/#acomment-2107 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:36:59 +0000 @dex3703 Yes, like everything else, canal neglect is indeed so maddening. #EIM

Am I right in thinking that there aren’t any high speed rail links in the US either?

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Hello one and all. While four peeps have undertaken a lunar mission — perhaps the most exuberant repeat/rerun of all time — I’ve been on an altogether different kind of mission; helping a […]

]]> 753f0a89b8b1b461a9f0d76609f7f1fb Jack posted an update: Hello one and all. While four peeps have undertaken a […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2104/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:48:06 +0000 Hello one and all. While four peeps have undertaken a lunar mission — perhaps the most exuberant repeat/rerun of all time — I’ve been on an altogether different kind of mission; helping a couple of friends take their heritage narrow boats to Ellesmere Port for the 50th anniversary Historic Boat Gathering.

It was a tremendous expedition,…

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]]> 6 8fbcd555c4cf95a1e83c3a145d366ec0 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2100/#acomment-2102 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:19:35 +0000 Excellent!

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update https://youtube.com/shorts/koRzvWFs_ng?si=OrAXniVizCw64B4x ]]> 0b4219c5afdc0336280e42f8febb393b Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2099/#acomment-2101 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:17:11 +0000 Thank you too…it was certainly an experience! X

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That’s the end of EIM.

Thanks @Jack for making it such a pleasurable experience. Well deserved hot bath.

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]]> 84ee8e4185c230627515aca016f0da74 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2096/#acomment-2098 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:47:08 +0000 @dex3703 We can but dream.

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“It’s such a juxtaposition to see the wildlife and the wilderness, then there’s just industrialisation”

Sea Shepherd are now in the thick of their campaign to expose the mega […]

]]> 1da46f6f06a206d0886953b55dc4b5ca Jack posted an update: “It’s such a juxtaposition to see the wildlife and the […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2096/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:26:00 +0000 “It’s such a juxtaposition to see the wildlife and the wilderness, then there’s just industrialisation”

Sea Shepherd are now in the thick of their campaign to expose the mega industrial trawlers wiping out the base of the food chain in the Southern Ocean.

All I feel I can really do is observe this as yet another layer of runaway absurdity and…

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]]> 2 be2c847549a18dd9324e930cb97a6e02 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2094/#acomment-2095 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:43:12 +0000 Literally laughable

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Take that, straight of Hormuz. We won’t need your stinkin’ oil soon enough 🤪


]]> 65552e422f26a14f200a940d551e45ef Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2088/#acomment-2092 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:10:10 +0000 @dex3703 That’s a very excellent way of describing the sensation in your first paragraph. I feel it more acutely as each day passes.

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“When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its cargo – sometime in the next week – Europe will have just days before its worst ever fuel shortages occur.”

Tim Watkins’ […]

]]> 05ce62fb700cbf61521531f34f6913a8 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2088/#acomment-2090 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:50:54 +0000 @dex3703 Yes. It’s starting to feel like it’s really upon us now.

People can’t stop thinking about how expensive fuel will be for their cars and homes and it always feels like a cruel sucker punch when I ask “Never mind the cost, have you considered that fuel/energy might not be available for your car and home?”

I’m not carrying any piety… Read more

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“When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its cargo – sometime in the next week – Europe will have just days before its worst ever fuel shortages occur.”

Tim Watkins’ […]

]]> 76f8be7bfd863c80efde2ddee6d6dc71 Jack posted an update: “When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2088/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:29:48 +0000 “When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its cargo – sometime in the next week – Europe will have just days before its worst ever fuel shortages occur.”

Tim Watkins’ latest missive paints a pretty grim and imminent picture:

consciousnessofsheep.co.uk

A Great Reset of sorts

The current shock is an order of magnitude greater than the shock caused by the 1979 Iranian revolution.

]]> 4 684d3e6b6acadf61a1a4b19295c99c3e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2084/#acomment-2087 Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:25:13 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Darn tootin!

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consciousnessofsheep.co.uk

No way out

My recent conversation on the EIM podcast

]]> 0 ad866e84d62b48a87477baaeaf15aec4 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2076/#acomment-2081 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:34:20 +0000 @Elijah I think that’s what we’re going to get…at least for the foreseeable. Slow and increasingly uncomfortable. But ultimately who knows, eh?

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Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. It feels like we’re about to get some stronger clues, yet it’ll still doubtless be denied…or perhaps it’ll all somehow limp […]

]]> d9087854fad4217e6eacadc29b1808d5 Jack posted an update: James is back with another fascinating conversation […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2080/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:29:34 +0000 James is back with another fascinating conversation on matters spiritual and magickal as they pertain to the material plain to which we’re glued for whatever sliver of time. Joe learned the word “telos” and James entertained us with his Rider Waite Tarot deck. We all like Marmite. Somehow we didn’t talk about the war. This recording is…

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]]> 0 9df4123d7d8b1e8eb51a34324dd1340a Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2076/#acomment-2078 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:31 +0000 @dex3703 Yes.

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Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. It feels like we’re about to get some stronger clues, yet it’ll still doubtless be denied…or perhaps it’ll all somehow limp […]

]]> 783c3883fd32718a9d8aa38810908390 Jack posted an update: Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2076/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:46:19 +0000 Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. It feels like we’re about to get some stronger clues, yet it’ll still doubtless be denied…or perhaps it’ll all somehow limp on, just a lot more expensive.

]]> 5 4557f75b10d9ac74e1db2e921dc6b3c1 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2073/#acomment-2075 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:05:31 +0000 @dex3703 Whatever we do, it’s a cluster cuss.

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“Since 2019, more than 11,596 Starlinks have been launched. Of those, more than 1,500 have already reentered the atmosphere as SpaceX retires older satellites to make room for newer […]

]]> 0db95ae2756235b0ba0ab3f3843fd41f Jack posted an update: "Since 2019, more than 11,596 Starlinks have been […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2073/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:21:41 +0000 “Since 2019, more than 11,596 Starlinks have been launched. Of those, more than 1,500 have already reentered the atmosphere as SpaceX retires older satellites to make room for newer models. Each re-entry deposits about 30 kg of aluminum oxide into the upper atmosphere–an uncontrolled chemistry experiment on a planetary scale.”

Yay humans!

From …

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]]> 2 6c25af54b88bd64ba043087e6d185750 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2069/#acomment-2072 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:39:35 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Ah well

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update Since I made a clip to share the funny beard man’s comments about bum wiping, I noticed that made almost half my YouTube clips about matters fecal.


]]> 4aa51062e4cb957b5ee01e59cec8519e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2069/#acomment-2070 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:35:59 +0000 The water companies should employ him in their PR departments to make their misdemeanours sound palatable! 😂

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update Since I made a clip to share the funny beard man’s comments about bum wiping, I noticed that made almost half my YouTube clips about matters fecal.


]]> f16dd6341b2cd7ab327e08ed98db0dde Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2065/#acomment-2066 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:54:56 +0000 Perwel sums it up.

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPg4XB5zbqoIncmCX1t1oYsXjd75nO2LT?si=5T7Mo_4pJmMp_HRy ]]> 80f91d8e99835f5140fa9f38a64d0ffc Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2060/#acomment-2064 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:01:12 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Because I rarely read this kind of stuff now, I noticed how much it was immediately eating my mind so it felt like a particularly destructive and absurd flavour of pointless; a return to the school playground of ‘he said / she said’ only many times worse.

Feels like Cudenec is really having to try hard to maintain his perception… Read more

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In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/03/11/the-demented-drive-to-industrial-lies/comment-page-1/#comments ]]> b338abf365c0a9591275593c9dfa799a Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2056/#acomment-2058 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:36:16 +0000 @dex3703 I’ve tried to start reading Riddley Walker several times over the years but my reading habits have improved lately, so I gave it another go and have finally cracked it. Another 20 pages to go and have bloody loved it. It’s a book I’ll come back to again and again, I’m sure. I haven’t read Clockwork Orange but, funnily enough, went for… Read more

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James from Hermitix reviews Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

]]> 7870cba6ad33f2ca02612bf7e33181ac Jack posted an update: James from Hermitix reviews Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2056/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:14:00 +0000 James from Hermitix reviews Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

]]> 6 e697b3d38762a0638c127fb8f26ead31 Jack posted an update: In which episode we have a brilliant conversation […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2055/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:40:55 +0000 In which episode we have a brilliant conversation with special guest Tim Watkins whose blog Consciousness of Sheep is essential reading. We cover the multiple absurdities of our collapsing industrial societies, common delusions about energy, lack of governance, the con job that is money, the long descent and all that good stuff.

Our…

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]]> 0 1d612a64bc122afe25edbfec9f585729 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2052/#acomment-2053 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:35:37 +0000 Yes. Good innit? We’re so thick really.

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From Bogna Konior’s The Dark Forest Theory of The Internet, quoting Liu Cixin.

We cant stop the barp 😂


]]> 121eb7853fd2f82a34c8b7e3e5b2c022 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2048/#acomment-2051 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:06:35 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Dubai chocolate

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In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update 🤬🤬🤬 ]]> 5067b55f0c091199621c150e9dd40ec3 Jack posted an update: This is just the pits. The worst episode ever of […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2047/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:20:53 +0000 This is just the pits. The worst episode ever of any podcast. If you heard a worse one than this, please let us know by post.

You might at least enjoy the starling story in our latest barp though:

]]> 0 143e17c29019c1e0d805b2de616b6d8e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2044/#acomment-2046 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:03:32 +0000 @dex3703 I’m so glad I went to see it. At times I couldn’t fathom what I was looking at. I felt so excellently small.

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I’m just back from the outer suburbs to see a magnificent murmuration.

This video doesn’t do it justice but it gives you an idea. There must’ve been tens of thousands of starlings. I […]

]]> 81efa3409e1568aa699a353ef158e032 Jack posted an update: I’m just back from the outer suburbs to see a magnificent […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2044/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:25:24 +0000 I’m just back from the outer suburbs to see a magnificent murmuration.

This video doesn’t do it justice but it gives you an idea. There must’ve been tens of thousands of starlings. I wasn’t prepared for the scale or the proximity.

At the end, they all poured like liquid from a bucket into the reed beds towards the bottom left of the frame. The…

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]]> 2 d0a1c3409e56fa24f503e27dba42f20b Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2039/#acomment-2042 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:41:16 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer IKR…DISSGOSSTIN!

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We were very privileged to host a very erudite and entertaining guest in the person of James, presenter of the Hermitix podcast and Metanomad Blog. Definitely barping above our […]

]]> 418df46de7b747aebb4cefe180130941 Jack posted an update: Book review by James from Hermitix of The Fire Sermon by Darren Allen: https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2040/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:14:09 +0000 Book review by James from Hermitix of The Fire Sermon by Darren Allen:

]]> 0 800ce6b46e6f9ea1482c371547d79784 Jack posted an update: We were very privileged to host a very erudite […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2039/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:23:07 +0000 We were very privileged to host a very erudite and entertaining guest in the person of James, presenter of the Hermitix podcast and Metanomad Blog. Definitely barping above our weight.

Our latest barpathon:

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