Crystal Martin
@codermeow
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You ever be writing JavaScript and then realize you don’t fucking know JavaScript?
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Realizing I am old enough to remember paying $525 for rent is really depressing...it's mostly depressing because young folks do not have access to this kind of rent price really anywhere now and that is so incredibly shitty on so many levels for so many reasons.
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@LRNROSE
It be white people too. I’m literally eating a pork steak and drinking a beer why are you telling me about the black kids you mentored and how hard it must be for black kids. Go awwaaaaaaaayyyyyy
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@tinnkky
Listen I’ve been rewatching living single and she has a new hairstyle every SCENE. Queen of the silk press.
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Let me just say this, if you want someone to speak at an event, Do NOT tell them why this is a great opportunity for _them_. I am 32 years old, w/ 2 degrees, and a plethora of speaking experience. I also have a healthy, diverse network. Honey, this is a great opportunity for YOU.
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I agonized over whether I should announce this, but after years of not taking myself seriously as a professional speaker, I finally launched my new website! I believe we can hold pain and joy in the same space. Still gone fight but chu can book me too!
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I have a tech talk on Monday and I’m feeling like just putting Black Lives Matter in every single slide and just be like...yeah so JS promises...Kinda like those promises law enforcement made to protect citizens. Including black ones? Amirite? Mkay black lives matter next slide.
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Your favorite business tech auntie cat mom angry black woman got new headshots 💁🏾♀️💁🏾♀️🙆🏾♀️🙆🏾♀️
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Is anyone else feeling a little…over front end development? I’m five years in and there’s all this complexity and when I’m done I’m just…staring at forms. Just lil form fields taking lil datas that send to lil apis. Am I the only one?
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Hello just came here to say that the respect and preservation of black people and our lives is not political. Me being able to live out my life is not political. A man having his neck kneeled on for 9 minutes is not a political matter. Black people staying alive is not political.
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@huegolden
This depends on the industry you're in...I can say with confidence this is NOT true for non-profit and public service jobs...AT ALL
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I’m tired of tech takes so here’s one…do whatever the fuck you want at any given point. You can give up. You can keep going. You can change directions. You can quit and move to the forest. You can climb the ladder. Just ask for help when you need it and do the best you can.
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Can I just say that I fucking love the sisterhood that is women in tech? I tried to be in a sorority in college but I was too spicy (we won't get into it). But forreal we really take care of each other, I feel so supported.
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Im in Milwaukee and let me tell you, St. Louis is not the Midwest. It is the south.
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Am I the only dev that doesn’t have the slightest clue of what web3 is? I’m tweeting this because representation matters. Devs be confused.
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Lookin tired as hell but I made it!!! So excited to be in Honolulu for my vv first technical talk! 💙💙💙
#jsconfhi
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“I see you, I hear you” is the corporate version of “Thoughts and prayers”
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THERE ARE A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE IN TECH…in case you’re wondering…in case you hear “we just can’t find the talent” IT’S RIGHT HERE
@AfroTech
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I put on makeup and “did my hair” for the first time in weeks please clap👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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And y'all really be wondering why young folks don't want to stay in STL/MO. After what I saw in STL County last week...whew chile.
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I forgot to announce it here we're having a baby in August! Hence all my angsty existential tweets! But seriously, we're so excited and nervous so give us all the advice and must have baby registry items because we also just bought a 100 year old house and we're overwhelmed 😅
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Can someone tell me what it’s like working for a beauty or fashion brand as a software developer. My dream job is to be a developer at fill in the blank girlie ass company. Is it all it’s cracked up to be in my head? Or is it like any other software dev job?
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Can someone explain to me why people who work in tech are afraid of pissing off leaders? Is it job security? Reputation? What is it? Maybe it’s the Detroit in me but titles don’t intimidate me. I don’t want anything so bad that I’ll change who I am or what I believe in for it.
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@_YoungJnr
Does it need to be said, does it need to be said by me, does it need to be said now…
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@DivertedMinds
And this is what breaks my heart...you used to be able to hustle a lil to get by...now they wanna suspend teachers for having onlyfans...I applaud every single one of them because teacher salaries are trash and I know because I had one.
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Hi, my name is Crystal Martin and I just mustered the courage to watch my
@JSConfHi
talk which has been posted for over a month now. It’s explains asynchronous JavaScript using the natural hair process as an example...And here it is...bye.
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Knives Out Glass Onion is a metaphor for black women in corporate environments. Everyone will gaslight her likes she's crazy until they realize they're all getting fucked as well. The black woman has to lose her mind in a meeting then everyone is like ohhhh yeah she's right.
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VV excited and VV nervous for my talk today at
@AIGAdesign
conference! Just want peeps to know that no matter how many times I do this I still have a mini internal freak out. But I’m owning it! In the words of
@DesignerTi
I’m sassy and badassy! And my glasses match this banner!
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My boss still talks about the day I said to him, “Let me finish.” After he interrupted me mid-thought. It was the first time a woman had done that to him in a meeting and he thought it was so boss. It wasn’t courage, I just have a lot of practice...And I’m from Detroit 🤷🏽♀️
Women: RT if you, too, have had to say in a meeting:
“I’m still speaking”
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Y’all, the talented
@sailorhg
gave an incredible, thorough talk on zine making and I came up with the idea to do one on JavaScript and asynchronous programming and here’s my start BECAUSE I’M SPEAKING MY TRUTH AND IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME. _once I practice drawing_ 😹
#WSC2018Conf
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I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. I applied to speak at this conf on a whim assuming that I wouldn’t get accepted! I was inspired by
@TeamNeem
who told me my next conf talk should be technical and
@sailorhg
who led a zine making wkshp where I created my decrepit party parrot js zine 😹
Regular priced tickets are getting scarce. Make sure to grab yours today to join the fun 🌺
Lets celebrate by sharing more speakers for JSConf Hawaii:
Jenn Creighton (
@gurlcode
)
Hilary Stohs-Krause (
@hilarysk
)
Crystal Martin (
@codermeow
)
Konstantin Raev (
@bestander_nz
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I am sobbing so hard I cannot speak. I didn’t realize I had been holding my breath since June 2020. So many emotions
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How fucked is it that I'm weighing the risk of becoming sick and getting people I love sick and protesting so that I and the people I love ARE NOT KILLED by the police?! Why do I have to make this decision today? It's a lose lose situation and I'm TIRED.
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This is advice I give to young people all the time! You have the right to QUIT! Especially when you’re responsibility free. Quit that job, that boyfriend, drop that class. Just quit.
the secret successful people don't want you to know? you can literally walk away from anything or anyone that doesn't make you happy and start over
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**Taps mic** why haven't we discussed the fact that Cara lost to Tishaura in her own ward?
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@lostblackboy
@KhaliaBraswell
I have talked about starting a scholastic book fund for schools in my city but I want it to 1) ensure the child’s dignity 2) not be used as an incentive but given out to kids who simply don’t have it…even if they are the “worst kid” in the class. Everybody deserves to read
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@gregisenberg
Can you connect me to these 5 billionaires so I could ask them questions that really matter? I'm not even being sarcastic I'm being so serious.
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Today was the first day on the job as a developer that I actually had to fight back tears at work because I was completely overwhelmed and nothing was working. I felt like a total dingbat. FYI My team is awesome and supportive this is my own self imposed pressure.
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This has been a difficult thing to do, but prioritizing sleep is truly life changing.
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The next time I bring something up and a white woman raises her hand and says I don’t experience that I’m calling her right out right there so be ready. You literally cut any argument we have off at the legs when you do that. It discredits us immediately.
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And just to think, growing up I used to be embarrassed by my full lips. Now mfs are paying for them...Couldn’t be me sis
#BlackGirlMagic
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I was single parenting this weekend so I missed all the
@strangeloop_stl
buzz but I am truly sad to have missed the last Strange Loop but happy to have this lil nugget to love on. Being an organizer for the past 7 years has been an honor.
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@MsPackyetti
A little but of both. Kendall understood what he wanted in that moment. Roman needed to look broken so it would be obvious as to why he was not going to be CEO
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If you talking about black people say BLACK PEOPLE.
Don’t say POC unless the convo is about POC in general.
Right now we’re talking about BLACK PEOPLE.
BLACK IS NOT A CURSE WORD.
I LOVE BEING BLACK.
IF YOU TALKING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE SAY BLACK PEOPLE.
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@fairyfemmes
honestly I feel like people really truly are singularly tweeting for clout. some of the REACHES I saw...people tweeted that stuff because they knew it would do numbers...
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@KiaRichards_
I make moves like I DONT have a husband with an affluent background and a tech salary. Always have always will.
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Ok cats out da bag. Me and Eliot are moving to Boston this week! I have lots of feels about leaving STL (esp MO right now jfc) but it’s time! I’ll probably post more feels later. Anyway I has no friends there so gimme! I’ll be staying with Slalom and transferring to Boston!
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Broke my “gangstas don’t cry at work” rule today. BECAUSE GANGSTAS DO WHAT THEY WANT INCLUDING CRYING ON SCREEN.
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Who do you all see as black and brown thought leaders in business and tech? My company loves Simon Sinek and Brene Brown and I'm trying to bring a fresh perspective. I mentioned
@ArlanWasHere
@6Gems
and
@MorganDeBaun
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All the men in this thread telling her how to do this is hilarious and also y'all trash 😹
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Remember that time when a black person was killed and their killers were not arrested for their death and then you went to work and no one mentioned it?
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Tech life tip for the day: Walk away and phone a friend. If you're struggling with something walk away. Please do it. If you don't you'll waste precious time. Also take your meds. Ok love you bye.
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Shout out to
@WriteSpeakCode
! I started writing this talk during the "Speak" day of the conf. I was feeling self-conscious about not being "techy" enough to give a tech talk and all the women there said, "You are an expert on something, now talk about it!"
#OwnYourExpertise
#WIT
Men in tech -- want to support women in tech? Amplify their voices:
@TEDxStlWomen
@codermeow
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I miss my fucking friends man. At 24 it was fun to have all my friends living in "cool cities". But now at 34, if somebody said I had to move to the middle of Nebraska but it meant all of us being together, I would do it. These past two years have been so isolating.
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Say it louder for all the well meaning white folks in the back!
Diversity efforts directed at all women tend to help white women — but not women of color
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I has a question. Is it a developer thing to tell someone what you do & have them quiz you on language/platform specific things or does that only happen to women appearing/non white/non dude appearing people? I had a guy ask me how I call methods in...web components. Like. In JS.
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@auntieeva07
sweet jesus I saw this at the exact time my brain was like STOP SCROLLING AND LOOKING FOR INFO ABOUT COVID! Signing off right now...
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@wokeSTEMteacher
I'm going to take it upon myself that if you are not currently working in a classroom or have never worked in a classroom your advice is unwanted. You have no idea and to come into this thread saying report it to the superintendent is quite frankly hilarious! ::ex-city-MS-teacher
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Last night I had the privilege to be at a dinner with
@ArlanWasHere
& I asked her if ever she plays by “the rules”. I ask this because as a black woman in tech you’re often told to be yourself...but not too much. Leave some of that black girl magic at home. This was her response.
Be yourself so that the people looking for you can find you.
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I kinda just hate dunking on junior devs...even the terminology junior devs is cringe at this point.
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Here’s a cute kitten napping for your timeline. You need this.
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.
@WriteSpeakCode
is a true example of RADICAL INCLUSION. If you are confused on how to make a conference inclusive to EVERYONE, take some time to learn from this conf! I am so inspired and filled with gratitude.
#WSC2018conf
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People really be lookin at me crazy when I ask for classes as gifts...YES I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE MY OWN COLOR PALETTE AND EMBROIDER JACKETS AND CROCHET A SWEATER AND PAINT WATERCOLOR ANIMALS AND BAKE BREAD.
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I have so many words, but I'm still recovering & settling into vacation mode to do it justice, but I just have to say I am SO grateful for the experience I had at
@JSConfHi
I did my very first technical talk & I couldn't think of a more supportive environment for me to go for it!
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@warrensirota
I certainly don’t think dependency injection is too clever. I do think abstracting out things too early is. I also think really cleverly chained es6 methods are insane. I want to write code that someone 2 years from now can read from left to right lol.
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There’s nothing I love more than when people think that I’m advocating for myself when I’m actually advocating for others. My people taught me that progress only happens when others are brought along. My track record shows I’m never just looking out for myself. Believe that.
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THESE COMPANIES DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU. I've always known this but to see it play out is really just so eye-opening. I always say, at the end of the day we are dealing with institutions designed to make a profit, it's not malicious, it's just that entity's intended purpose.
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Listen up ladies. It would be really great to see you on the frontlines for black lives as well. FEMINISM IS ABOUT EQUALITY FOR ALL OF US. IF WOMEN ARE IN CHAINS WE ALL ARE.
White women kneeling during the anthem to protest “rape culture” is highjacking a movement you took no risks for. You didn’t kneel in solidarity to protest the murder of Black people, don’t co opt & make it about your victimization. That’s white supremacy in the name of feminism.
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I mean...look at this face! What the heck how is she so cute?! This may be the first posed picture we have together where she isn’t moving.
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Ok if you follow me on Instagram you saw these, but I have to share because I’m so proud! These are my Chocoberry crunch macarons and yes they are as good as they look! It’s winter and kinda quarantine and I’m back on my
#lifedesignsprints
experimenting with all kinds of stuff!
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Ok we need to cancel all meetings before 10 am this week this is unnatural 😭
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Tech conference speakers...when did y'all start charging $10,000 plus? Because I feel like I'm underselling myself. I have a whole TEDx Talk.
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How can I talk about JavaScript right now as if it is important? Excuse me while I melt into a pile of pointlessness.
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Raise your hand if you invested in
@Backstage_Cap
despite the fact that you have no idea what you're doing, but believe in this?! 🙋🏾♀️
We’re going to reach our $5M max within the next 24 hours. When we do, some of y’all are gonna tweet me and say “I was on the fence, can I still get in?” And I’m going to have to say “no, we have reached the SEC max.”
Don’t let this be you. Head over to 🪂
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@amberleejo_
Homegirl was tweeeeeakin. It was honestly hard to watch she was acting strung out.
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I love when white people are like, yeah just go to rural Missouri with your white husband and get the vaccine, you're eligible! LOL...REALLY JUST LOL.
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@TheHusayn
everybody keep saying Hayley Williams...somebody catch me up iono nothing about her
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I have no career aspirations right now and part of me is kind of ok with it. This is the literal first time in my actual entire working life that I'm not reaching for something. It's weird. It's awesome. It's weird.
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I'm realizing the main reason I never do tech side projects is configuration...the set up is so annoying. And you just have to get over that hump to get to the juicy stuff...I know, some say, that is the juicy stuff... to that I say...harumph!
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@IanColdwater
Not the verified men giving you advice on being verified with FAR LESS FOLLOWERS THAN YOU! What in the world?!
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I’m doing my talk on mindfulness meditation today at
@WriteSpeakCode
and I’m excited and so nervous and... bah! I’m remembering the wise words of a friend “Crystal, you do realize there will not be a tiger waiting on the stage to eat you.”
#WSC2018Conf
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I’m 32 today and I’m in a first class train car and realized today I like Whiskey Sours and it’s a good day. Also, check out this photo of a lil salt marsh somewhere in Rhode Island!
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Giving my first technical talk in a week and I'M NOT FREAKING OUT AT ALL. THAT IS SARCASM. SEND HELP.
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I had an amazing first day at
@strangeloop_stl
! This is my 4th Strange Loop and my 3rd year as an organizer. I have so many feels I don’t even know where to start! It’s like tech Disneyland. 😬😬🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️💃🏽💃🏽 can you tell I’m tired? 😹
#strangeloop
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Hi I made cookie dough that needs to sit overnight and it’s been 2 hours and I haven’t eaten any. Please clap.
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One year ago today, me and my best friend finally had the chance to celebrate our love with our closest friends and family. It was hands down the best day of my life. Happy 1 year banger wedding anniversary and 1.99 years of marriage! Eliot, I love you forever and ever amen.
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Also this is not a dig on STL I love my second city home…it’s juuusttttt not Midwest…the air too thick by May 🤣
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My public speaker friends...I NEED YOUR HELP. What do you do when you're tired of hearing yourself talk and everyone wants you to talk about BEING A WOMAN in ______? And you're having a meltdown because you hate your talk?
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