In the Autumn of 2019, I was trying to understand of what Don’s power/Mana consisted. I wanted to understand in order to counter how Don Disinfolklore used Twitter to roil humanity’s minds into believing trolls like the Hunter Biden troll or Pizzagate Conspiracy.
At the time I was a diplomat in eastern Ukraine- I could see how Donald’s trolling even then had real world effects on the battlefield.
So of all the gateway concepts to Master/Magister, I chose “trolls and trolling.”
Then, when I formed the hypothesis in the note below about Trolls, Trolling and energy exchange, I became @DecodingTrolls to test the hypothesis and to troll others into perceiving how we become part of the problem when, unthinkingly / unknowingly, we perpetuate others’ trolls, like, for example the idea that Europe and Ukraine are “weak,” in whichever guise such trolls are conveyed.
As emptywheel notes below, trolling and Don’s motivated trolls are CENTRAL to his mana/power. And the key/core/dominant determining troll that yields/yielded Don’s power was about pedophilia (cf. PizzaGate troll that recruited many MAGA adherents to their Magus Donald due to the disgust it engendered, unjustifiably, about his main rival Hillary in the minds of those who fell for the PizzaGate troll).
This is why the public cover up through ‘redaction’ of the Epstein files goes to the core of Don’s Mana/power.
“The very trolls that Donald Trump has relied on since 2016, people like Jack Bysiobieck, people like Benny Johnson, people like Charlie Kirk while he was still alive….
There’s this whole group of trolls and they have been instrumental to Donald Trump’s ability to grab attention and refocus it somewhere else…
In other words, these people, so long as social media, so long as Twitter is viable, they have been able to swamp the public’s fear with Trump’s bullshit and in the process drown out other things.
‘A new report by Reuters uncovered that in the first half of this year alone, President Trump’s family has raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets. This on top of potentially billions more in unrealized on paper gains.’
Now, much of this cash has been coming in from foreign sources, which doesn’t come as a surprise when we factor in.
So they are an instrumental tool to Donald Trump, to his ability to be able to be always the center of tension, but ensure that it’s the kind of, you know, ensure that he can direct the attention where he wants it to be.
‘Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?’
Donald: ‘I think you are a terrible reporter. You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.’
Those trolls, that troll in the effort, is fundamentally tied to conspiracy theories about pedophilia.
Fake worrying about pretend pedophiles is an easy way[…]…
He relies on these trolls. These trolls rely on conspiracy theories about pedophilia. He installs these trolls as the FBI director and deputy director, and he’s stuffed.
And then when he tries to make it go away in July, he can’t, those trolls at first, even the Psobe act…
What happened is that he threatened those same trolls, the same trolls his power utterly lies on, and they stopped chasing Epstein.
But by that point, it has this weight and salience throughout the MAGAbase…
[Don’s chief of staff Wiles is] the same woman who’s telling us there’s no ‘there there’s inside the Epstein files, is also telling us it’s not central to Donald Trump’s power, which not only was it up to the moment in July when he tries to shut it all down, but if you look at what has happened since July, if you look at the way effectively Democrats plus Tom Massey plus Marjorie Taylor Greene have been able to take the speaker’s gavel away from Mike Johnson over and over and over again, it is fundamental to his power right now. “ [From Ball of Thread: Young Playboys Gone Wiles, 19 Dec 2025
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⚡️Trolls are energy (Mana) that only moves when we share them.
Then, we become the troll.
The informational unit (Troll) consumes us as it instrumentalises us to keep it in motion.
Like a virus hacking our mind, the troll uses us to keep their troll moving.
Ruschia’s Nordic troll monarch Putler is very successful at provoking us into doing his mental work.
We are the petrol fuelling the troll, even when we disagree with its content.
That’s the point of trolls like Nigel Porridge, in fact. Their oligarch backers pay to promote their trolls. Then, by reacting and perpetuating the trolls, we fuel and energise that which we think we’re opposing.
We become the Useful I***** of Useful I******.
One solution I’ve found if I must talk about Nigel Porridge or the Chef Wanger Nazi, the Chef of Disinfolklore, of the Chief Sorcerer Putler is to corrupt their monikers.
⚡️Biden Resolved Perennial Plight of the Sorcerer - Can Starmer?
Two aging Sorcerers: Deva Biden vs. Asura / Danava Dæmon Donald.
Fighting for power (Mana) / Sovereignty over our world.
Both Sorcerers know their mantic powers (Mana) fade further and further with every dawn.
Both have apprentices.
How can they know the right moment to empower their apprentice?
How can they be certain that, once empowered with all their Magus Master Monarch’s Magic, the Apprentice won’t destroy their Master/Magister?
How can the Magister/Master immunise themself against treachery by their Minister/Apprentice, should they stand down?
The Plight of the Sorcerer from the first moment Indo-European patriarchal Monarchy began in eastern Ukraine.
The complication is always some variation of:
What if I convey my Mana to my Apprentice Magus, and then they use my own Mana against me?
How do I immunise myself from my ambitious minister/apprentice?
Sorcerer Donald tried to solve his plight, by hanging his Apprentice Magus Pence (out to dry) on Jan 6.
“Pence’s former counsel, told the panel that Pence refused to get into the vehicle after being evacuated from the Capitol, raising concerns that the driver would have taken him to a secure location & thus prevent him from certifying the electoral results.”
Then Sorcerer Donald was convinced by Sorcerer Thiel and Musk to take on their Apprentice Magus Vance, in return for immunity, and $1b+ - a true Devils’ bargain:
Yet, of course, Donald doesn’t trust Vance.
A dæmon recognises other dæmon’s and their apprentices from 1,000 paces.
Donald, once again, like a folktale ingenue has made the same mistake: his apprentice, he’s sure, will betray him.
By contrast, Sorcerer Biden chose his apprentice from good stock.
Apprentice Magus Harris was as loyal as Magus Pence had been to Sorcerer Donald. Wise Sorcerer Biden, unlike Sorcerer Donald, knew the right time to pass on the Right to her.
And it is done.
Contrast too how Sorcerer Putler dealt with his Apprentice Magus the Chef of Disinfolklore Prighozin himself:
England’s anti-mask pro-Covid Sovereign gave his mother Long Covid:
She dies. He gets Sovereignty over all the English as a result.
Shakespeare loved a good succession battle.
Brown agreed a devil’s bargain with Blair, lost his soul over Iraq, then lost Mana (power) almost as soon as he managed to get rid of Blair. Ségolène Royal and Francois Hollande, similarly, destroyed each other. Starmer, current UK PM’s popularity’s in minus figures (manifestly unfairly in my humble opinion). Yet, Ed Miliband his predecessor’s popularity among party members is above 40%. Can Starmer effect a transfer of the crown, before his unpopularity leaves the way open for pro-Russia “Reform” party? This remains to be seen. Ireland’s former prime minister Leo Vradaker, similarly, was unpopular. He surrendered power / mana to one of his deputies, who then did well in the subsequent general election.
On and on, back as far as Indo-European culture’s first empire the Hittites, we have seen issues with Magisters unwilling to surrender power/mana. After 500 years, around 1,200 BCE Hittite destroyed itself over how to pass on power (Mana).
Resolving the Plight of the Sorcerer is THE trickiest magical trick any Indo-European sovereign faces.
Doing so is, perhaps, President Biden’s greatest achievement.
⚡️State of Donald’s Mana - Post Kamala Update.
Donald’s power / Mana depends 100% on his value to America’s top 20 oligarchs. Only value is Donald’s electability.
Donald’s *x’aranah / Mana is a creation of our media space controlled as it is by 20 oligarchs.
Once Donald’s chance of election affects these supporters, Donald falls to earth, as Ancient Iran’s Lord of Death Yima did.
In Iran’s ancient Avesta it is said of the Lord of Death Yima (who corresponds to Odin in Germanic cultures - for whom our Wednesday is named - and Donn in pre-Christian Ancient Ireland):
“For a long time Yima holds the ‘sovereign empire over all the lands,’ and his reign, of untold prosperity, is protected by the *x’aranah / Mana / fake polling data, those marks of divine election which guarantees and expresses the legitimacy of a king.
But one day he commits a sin.
According to the single passage that mentions it in the remaining Avesta, the sin is lying:
Donald’s extraordinary prosperity, Yast 19,33 says emphatically, lasted until ‘he lied,’ until he ‘began to think the lying word, contrary to truth.’”
Etymologically “truth” corresponds to what “is. That which exists, is positive and not illusory.”
“Rtá” is opposed to “drúh” in the ancient Indian Vedic language.
“Arta” is opposed to “druj” in the ancient Iranian Avestan language.
The idea and form of the signifier “Art” as that which is created which reveals truth stems from this.
In the language of Darius’s inscriptions, drauga, the “lie,” is essentially the attitude of rebels, of usurpers or potential usurpers who deceive the people by pretending to he “king” in place of Darius himself (Darius I (522–486 bce) founded the Achmenaid Empire that ruled Judea, Greece, and other lands for 300 years).
No-one wants to back a loser, especially the billionaire anti-loser class.
⚡️Tulsi’s Nuclear Disinfolklore Trolling
To remind myself why this relates to what we’re going to talk about today, which is Tulsi Gabbard’s meme: And James, I’m 100% comfortable with you using the term “meme.” I use the term meme interchangeably with the term “informational unit” in my work, and also with the term “troll,” where troll is describing the item of Disinfolklore or the item of information.
So, “meme” for me is more than simply the visual image as we have come to think about it. But obviously, when the term was coined—in whatever, it was 1976—by that English philosopher, it described informational units which are communicated in cultures in the same way that genes or the genome are communicated biologically. So I’m very comfortable with that.
I discovered Disinfolklore as a narrative form in Eastern Ukraine. I gradually realized while I was working there, in Russia-occupied Ukraine between 2015 and 2018, that what I was looking at as particular items of Disinfolklore, or particular memes—particular units of information, the quotidian daily ebb and flow of news and newsy stuff—there was a system behind it. So then I began to look more deeply, and I realized that actually, in Russian military strategy, they have this idea of “information confrontation.” This has two elements: the memes (which are the instances of information) but also the “information environment.”
So that’s one path to what I now call a Disinfolklore Galaxy, which would be what Russia created inside Russia-occupied Ukraine. There, every thought you have, every movement you make, every aspect of your reality—from where you work to how you get to your work, to the people you talk to, whether it’s your family or your colleagues—every aspect is injected with what I call Disinfolklore. The idea of ideas melds with the actual substance, the texture of your life.
So unless you profess certain memes, certain beliefs, certain informational units—then if you get them wrong, you’ll lose your job. You’ll be like that ABC journalist who called Stephen Miller “full of hate,” and now he’s lost his job. So this is a perfect example of how the information environment impacts every aspect of your life.
So that’s Eastern Ukraine, where I discovered what I now call the Disinfolklore Galaxy. And the Disinfolklore Universe is made up of many different galaxies. The MAGA Disinfolklore Galaxy has many continuities, many similarities with what I saw in Russia-occupied Ukraine. And then I had this vision in early November 2024, just after the election, that actually what has happened to MAGA, to those who are part of MAGA, was going to happen to all of humanity and all of America first.
And this is where I had this vision, which became the talk I made at the Pirate Party Conference in Munich during the time of the Munich Security Conference, called “Welcome to our Disinfolklore Universe.” And now, of course, we see this same melding of reality in everything to do with America’s relationship to Ukraine, which is primarily why we’re here. We’re interested in Ukraine and Ukraine winning. We’re hoping against hope—though I think most of us understand it’s never going to happen—that America would tip the scales in favor of Ukraine. Now we’re just hoping that it doesn’t tip it against Ukraine.
Ukraine has been central to US politics since 2016 and the Republican National Convention in August 2016. That was when Paul Manafort—whose work led to this war in Ukraine directly, and who was imprisoned for operating as an unregistered agent for Ukraine’s former president—had the commitment to supply support to Ukraine militarily taken out of the Republican National Convention’s platform.
I have posted before—I’ll post it in the purple space, but there is no purple space, but anyway, I posted it before—the exact moment when MAGA went pro-Russia. And now, of course, we’ve seen reported in the last couple of days—Reuters reported two days ago, or Hegseth, I think, actually said it in the Congress yesterday—that there is evidence that the United States would not fund Ukraine militarily next year. And so we see this path from an extraordinary secret effect, which causes a fuss when it’s publicized, to now being kind of mainstreamed and just one of thousands of different memes invading our information space. And the totality of all of these makes up what I call the Disinfolklore Galaxy.
So that’s my main teaching, for want of a less grand word: that when we are, as we all are, tuned into these individual memes and informational units on the day-to-day, actually what is being arranged around us is what I call a Disinfolklore Galaxy. This is just as powerful as that which surrounds and embeds and encapsulates the people who went MAGA and the people in our own lives who we know went MAGA. And it’s nothing about intelligence or education or learning or really any of these things that we think of. It’s a deliberate attempt to hack people’s brains and minds and to surround them in this—what the Russians call—an information environment, in which all of these different memes exist and are operating all the time to ensure that we do or don’t do what those who are creating it want us to do.
And so I bring up Paul Manafort because he is the dark force behind much of the division in Ukraine between 2004 and 2014. And there is the irony of the people he worked for and MAGA claiming that the Maidan was a US-engineered coup, when the very person who supported Yanukovych—who, according to his daughters whose texts we saw publicly, arranged the massacre on the Maidan in February 2014—was Manafort. Because at the time, the current Polish foreign minister was in Kyiv trying to tell the demonstrators, along with Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, to pipe down and accept—to make a deal, basically—with Yanukovych. But Yanukovych fled. And Paul Manafort now works for Donald Trump.
We don’t see him in the public light, but we did see him at the National Convention last time. And what we see now with Tulsi Gabbard’s talk or video about nuclear war... this has all of the hallmarks of this same game plan, the same playbook that is going on. So that’s the link between Ukraine and America. It’s a multi-layered link. And on the positive side, we have the one force in the world who can actually confront and defeat this, which is President Zelensky.
That’s the overall conception of how my Disinfolklore perspective helps me understand what is currently going on in the United States, where these demonstrations by the president and illegal orders are trying to create Disinfolklore which affects the minds of ordinary citizens who don’t know which way to go. And Tulsi Gabbard is throwing in with her speech, her nuclear speech, a very potent weapon—a statement of intention, is how I read it—with her idea that elites don’t care about nuclear war because they’ve got shelters.
And so I have the “Welcome to our Disinfolklore Universe” speech, which I made in Munich at a Pirate Party Conference. And note, the Pirate Party itself is an example of the unreal melding with the real. So they have an intuitive sense... just as Elon Musk dresses up in superhero costumes, the Pirate Party began as a party of protest, and pirates from literature, from art, became part of their moniker, the folk heroes of pirates. They were going to be the pirates. So it was appropriate that I made the speech there.
And then since then, I’ve worked carefully on detailing the whole idea, this whole aspect of the Disinfolklore narrative method, narrative form, and Disinfolklore analytical methods. So it’s many different things which concern the Disinfolklore Universe. And then today, when I saw Tulsi Gabbard’s “Nuclear Ashes” speech, I decided, okay, I’m going to apply the method.
This is a 12-tool method, which is an algorithm which we can learn in our own minds to try and interpret any informational unit, any meme—whether it is a photograph, or whether it’s a picture... We see them sometimes in the English info space, and probably we’re seeing them in Northern Ireland at the moment, where there are riots because two alleged immigrants have allegedly attempted rape. And as a result of this, we see this tumult and communal riots.
This is this perennial theme in Disinfolklore and indeed in Indo-European thought, where outsiders—immigrants or outsiders—come into the inner realm and they affect the fertility of the inner realm. So it’s either the sovereignty or the security or the fertility; it’s always one of those three themes. And these are the essential archetypes in Indo-European societies, according to some of the great theorists of Indo-European language and linguistics and religions.
And it’s always interesting to me that since I’ve realized this, then we see that we can use this as a tool for analyzing whether it’s riots in Ballymena in Northern Ireland... I haven’t seen this yet, but it’s not going to surprise me if Telegram is somehow involved in stirring this hatred. And so I decided to apply the methods because it should be useful to us to try and understand: what is Tulsi Gabbard doing? We see it. It comes up on our Twitter feed. And this is what I am trying to do. I’m not trying to write academic theses here. I’m trying to understand what the people who are leading our communities are doing or trying to do, whether it’s in Ukraine, or whether it’s the Russians.
And the Russians just show us what this leads to, because they’ve created this nightmare inside Russia—as has the CCP, and North Korea and Iran as well, to another extent. These are all communities which are deeply embedded in this Disinfolklore, where they use these stories to hack the minds of their population.
So I applied it to the Tulsi Gabbard video because it’s archetypal Disinfolklore, really, what she’s doing there. The moment I saw the aesthetics, I thought of the video a Ukrainian friend from Eastern Ukraine sent me about a year into the war, which is a really strange artifact. And she was just asking me, “What do I make of this?” She didn’t really understand it, but she felt attracted by it. It was a man in a very kind of 1970s aesthetic, like we might remember from seeing the news in the 1970s. But he was talking about ultra-hyper-modern things. He was talking about how war in Ukraine was going to lead to an environmental catastrophe throughout the world and really we should be focused on global warming.
And the aesthetics of Tulsi’s video reminded me of this because what it did was just communicate this mood of darkness, like being in the forest, of just feeling “off.” And it’s so cynically and carefully produced, even her hair. I haven’t paid much attention to her because I do try and control who enters my mind. So this is, in fact, the first time I’ve probably ever watched anything consciously by her. But to see this grey hair strand, which is kind of reminiscent of The Munsters—it’s deliberate archetyping as a witch, as a witch. To put us in that space, our minds in this negative space. And then, of course, the imagery which is flashed up. So her background in terms of the aesthetics, the darkness, and then the imagery of the ashes.
And to someone like me who tries to control what goes into my mind, this came out of nowhere. I don’t really understand why. What prompted it in terms of the news cycle? Or if it is just an emanation... maybe someone knows about this, knows about the background to this. Is she responding to something? Or is this just an artifact which has been pumped into our space? In which case, either way, really, it is a very deliberate announcement to me, in my interpretation, of what we see going on in the activation of the National Guard, the military parade in DC, and all of these factors we see going on in America. She is announcing that this coup, which they are prosecuting at the moment and have been since the 2020 election results were first disputed... they’re really going for it now. They’re not happy with how things are going.
So I applied the archetypal Disinfolklore literacy tool to it, and I got to this idea of her deliberate archetyping herself as kind of a witch-like figure. Like someone will remember the character in The Munsters... I don’t know. I can’t remember. Can anyone remember? Anyway, with the gray hair, the kind of wisp of gray hair, and the archetypes of nuclear war, of ashes, of elites. So it’s just replete with archetypes.
The Incoming/Outgoing Troll Radars, which is the second tool. So that, obviously, when you’re on Twitter, should always be switched on, because everything there could be a troll; it could be there to affect our emotions and hack our rational thought processes. But the overall idea that it communicates is fear and this negative mood which has the power to overcome our radars, so that we allow this in—even just wondering, “Why is she talking about nuclear ashes?” And it goes into our inner mind, and we start getting worried. And this triggers different thought routines which we have and traumas which we have. And these are being deliberately provoked by the aesthetics, by the mood, by the words, by her expression, by the strangeness of this coming from the head of—what is it, 16 national intelligence agencies?—the United States. So this is as “inner realm” as you get, as Deep State as you get. And here she is archetyping herself as not part of the elite, which she says has nuclear bomb shelters and therefore is trying to spark a nuclear war. Which obviously itself is a nonsense, because just because you’ve got a shelter doesn’t mean necessarily you’re going to spark a war.
And so then the third tool is Looking for the Mana in the Meme, which is trying to look for the energy. So the energy is communicated through the mood, through the darkness, through the messaging. But what is she actually saying? And I heard a discussion—a few discussions today—about what she was saying, and lots of people have different interpretations of it. And obviously, it works on so many different levels. But for me, the ultimate energy of it is a statement.
So “Mana” for me is an energy, an energy in memes. So you just look for: what is the energy? The different levels, is it negative, positive? What’s it saying? What’s it doing? What’s the intention? And for me, the intention there is to say: “We are going to protect you. If you surrender to us, we’ll protect you from this nuclear war which the elite, which the outer realm people, want to spark.” And for those of us who don’t fall for that, the message is: “We’re so powerful that there’s nothing you can do. There’s nothing you can do anymore. You’re powerless; we’ll arrest you. The army will shoot you.”
And then the fourth tool is the Inner/Outer Realm Imminences. Every item of Disinfolklore... whether it’s a picture of a dark-skinned individual ogling a classic European female—I see this trope often in the English information space. It’s about inner realm/outer realm migrants coming in to take away the fertility of the inner realm, the daughter of the inner realm people. And that’s really what migration is doing [in these narratives]; it’s taking away the security in our communities.
And this “inner realm/outer realm imminence” was very deeply embedded in her message to us. It was a minute and 20 seconds. But the main message to us is: there is an elite who have nuclear bomb shelters who will be protected. And they are the ones stirring the nuclear war. She could have easily said, “This is Russia, this is the CCP,” but she didn’t. She left it open to interpretation—which in itself, from my perspective, is a statement that she and the people she’s working for are all working together. Whether it’s her boss, the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, the North Koreans... all of these nuclear powers. So she could have said that they were the ones who were threatening us—you know, a Ronald Reagan type thing, where these are our enemies, or even an “axis of evil” type thing. But she didn’t use this. She left it to the interpretation, to the MAGA interpretation. And this has been very deeply built on decades of this idea, especially in America, of the cities being lawless lands, where the MAGA base living in safe communities—generally speaking, in nice sort of... certainly the people I know or my relatives who’ve gone MAGA are quite wealthy and quite safe. But even from a young age, they’ve been banging on about how unsafe the cities are. And now I see what’s happening in LA, or in the information space about LA, is built on this decades-old idea that you have the “outer realm” there.
So then the fifth tool is this idea which I got from the Dalai Lama and the great psychologist Paul Ekman, who did this amazing work which is available online called Atlas of Emotions. And in it, they have this system which I adapt into the Disinfolklore Analytical Method called Trigger-Experience-Reaction.
So any of the emotional journeys that we go on each day—we go on thousands of emotional journeys, millions perhaps each day... whether it’s as we’re going down our timeline, which is an obvious way of illustrating this. We see pictures. I mean, all of us who are experts in filtering and responding to information in a way that perhaps we don’t understand how amazing we are at this now, simply by being on Twitter. We have so many different algorithms to filter out things in our mind and not to let them into our inner mind. But ultimately, we’re being brought on oodles of emotional journeys. And obviously, this goes on in real life as well, in work, or with our spouses or children or even our pets, or even just walking down the street as different stimuli bounce off us.
But it’s this timeline of emotions that the Ekman/Dalai Lama cognitive model describes: Trigger-Experience-Reaction. So there’s a trigger, we experience a feeling of disgust, of sadness, or these five emotions, and then we react to them. And obviously, the message is that once you separate the experience—the sadness—from the reaction, you can avoid actively falling for the troll or sharing that experience. Sharing Disinfolklore, sharing that image, as we talked about last time... of someone who’s, you know, they’re trying to... at the moment, there’s a lot of stuff about this conference in Moscow, where these famous people have gone to. And a lot of us have shared the pictures of them, for instance—which is, from my perspective, part of the purpose of this conference. So we react to this experience by sharing it.
So with the Tulsi Gabbard thing, for me, the experience I had was curiosity. And my reaction to it is this conversation—well, not really a conversation, it’s a monologue. But hopefully, maybe we might have questions or reactions to what I’ve triggered. But for me, as soon as I saw it, I was like, “Okay, let me apply the Disinfolklore Analytical Method to it.”
And then the other six tools... which I won’t go through now, like the Code of Positive Trolls. But the most important one really in it for me was the... well, I suppose the generosity. There was nothing generous in what she was saying. There was nothing positive about it. It wasn’t even a cynical attempt to please us. It was a cynical attempt to put us at dis-ease. And for that reason, it’s a perfect example of Disinfolklore and what I mean by Disinfolklore.
As indeed is what we see when Russia sends missiles into Ukraine... and then show... or does a human safari, which is what we talked about the other week when the UN reports came out, where they’re actually using Telegram to send the FPV footage out there. They’re boasting about... they’re creating Disinfolklore. So this is the same thing which I saw in Eastern Ukraine, where reality—the pictures of burning cars in a tiny area of LA—are being used and repeated repeatedly by the mainstream media and used as a pretext to create what I call the Disinfolklore Galaxy, to really depressing ends unless more of us sort of wake up to it.
So that’s kind of what I have to say.
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