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    dadsite boy (alex@dads.cool)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 20:41:02 JST dadsite boy dadsite boy

    The “great” thing about England is that when these articles come out and you google the person who wrote them it’s not something boring like “their dad is a trust fund manager” it’s “their dad is a baron, their grandfather edited the newspaper this appears in, and their family *founded the private Bank of England*”

    *all true of this writer

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      Barney Dellar (he/him) (barneydellar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:47:44 JST Barney Dellar (he/him) Barney Dellar (he/him)
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      • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @onepict @alex Don’t forget, Barclays was run by Ricci Rich and Bob Diamond…

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      Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:47:44 JST Jacek Wesołowski Jacek Wesołowski
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      • Charlie Stross
      • Barney Dellar (he/him)

      @BarneyDellar @cstross @onepict @alex In Poland, of the two leading politicians (who hate each other, but together represent right-wing establishment), one's first name is Donald, and the other's last name could plausibly be translated as Duck. Therefore, Poland has been ruled by a right-wing, corporate-loving Donald Duck for the last 20 years, which may seem funny, unless you live in Poland.

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      Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:47:45 JST Charlie Stross Charlie Stross
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      • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

      @onepict @alex

      I *HAD* to look it up, and while she doesn't have a wikipedia page of her own she's mentioned on her dad's wiki page (Crispin Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer).

      The English establishment is beyond self-parody (even before you get to the likes of Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax).

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      Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 01:47:46 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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      @alex wait that's a real name?

      Just sometimes with names like that, I do wonder if we're in a simulation. Like that name seems so made up.

      Then I remember that England really still is Medieval Fun time land.

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      Gosplan Cosplay :jorts: (gosplan@jorts.horse)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:29 JST Gosplan Cosplay :jorts: Gosplan Cosplay :jorts:
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      • Charlie Stross

      @onepict @cstross @alex https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3122650/Napoleon-Wellington-battle-direct-descendants-revealed-rival-traders-City.html

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        Napoleon and Wellington do battle again as traders in London
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        Descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington, Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte and Arthur Mornington, Marquess of Douro are rivals in private equity firms.
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      Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:30 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @alex I think people tend to forget that when we mean the establishment, some of that establishment came over with the Normans.

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      Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:31 JST Charlie Stross Charlie Stross
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      • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

      @onepict @alex It helps to know that Coutts bank used to hold British banking license 002 (001 was the Bank of England), customer number one was the Monarch, it takes a deposit on the order of a million quid to open an account there, and ... you get the picture.

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      Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:40 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
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      • Nicole Parsons

      @Npars01 @alex the whole claim of the article is also pure bullshit - Gen Z employees are better behaved and hard working when treated well, and aren't as distracted by drugs/alcohol or outright untrustworthy as Gen X (I'm Gen X and can remember how most of our generation where often hungover or either coming down from or still on drugs during working hours, and theft from employers was rife, that was the other side of the "hustle"..

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      Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:41 JST Nicole Parsons Nicole Parsons
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      @alex

      The long history of rich people complaining that no one wants jobs that are low wage with poor working conditions.

      In effect, the rich complain that the poor aren't helping the rich stay rich.

      What happens when workers balk and refuse to participate in a system that immiserates themselves and only benefits one side?

      https://zarah-ceu.org/bitter-years-of-exploitation-domestic-workers-unorganized-labour-struggles-1890s-1938/

      https://daily.jstor.org/how-america-tried-and-failed-to-solve-its-servant-problem/

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      Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:42 JST Nicole Parsons Nicole Parsons
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      @alex

      The wealthy have been griping about laziness in the lower classes since forever.

      Turn the argument on its head:
      "A generation that will never afford a home thanks to a rapacious 1%, has decided to work their designated hours at their designated pay level.

      This is upsetting the leisure class that relied on labor exploitation to keep their wealth."

      https://truthout.org/articles/the-laziness-and-irresponsibility-of-the-working-class/

      https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/nyregion/hamptons-workers-long-island.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik0.WGNI.VneBbrmEVByM&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=u&sgrp=c-cb

      Paul Fairie has newspaper clippings going back 100 years...
      https://mstdn.ca/@paulisci/111511518653607726

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        A Brief History of Kids Today Are Lazy 🧵
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      Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:47 JST Charlie Stross Charlie Stross
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      • Juggling With Eggs

      @JugglingWithEggs @onepict @alex And the privilege to not end up in pokey for illegally travelling on someone else's passport ....

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      Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:48 JST Juggling With Eggs Juggling With Eggs
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      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @onepict @alex

      The first bit to be fair could be any writer…but then:

      ‘I started out life, or grown-up life, anyway, as a journalist on the Evening Standard newspaper in London. There, I wrote about things like the maple syrup diet, doing four hours of cardio a day to exercise like Madonna, and accidentally travelling to Amsterdam on my brother’s passport.’

      Just waltzed into a job at the Evening Standard…like you do, no hard yards on the locals.

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      Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:49 JST Charlie Stross Charlie Stross
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      • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
      • Juggling With Eggs

      @JugglingWithEggs @onepict @alex That bio is SO GENERIC that if you changed "South London" to "North Edinburgh" I could have written it.

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      Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:50 JST Juggling With Eggs Juggling With Eggs
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      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @onepict @alex

      In her own words:

      “Hello. Thanks awfully for coming to visit. I’m a British journalist and author, and I spend most of my time sitting at my kitchen table in South London, making cups of tea whenever I get stuck halfway through writing a sentence (this happens a LOT). Oh ok, sometimes I also have a biscuit. Or five biscuits. And a piece of toast and marmalade.”

      Such a hard life…

      https://sophiamoneycoutts.com

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      coffeenlanguage (coffeenlanguage@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:23:59 JST coffeenlanguage coffeenlanguage
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      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross And her brother's a magician. I love it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/the-aristocrat-magician-who-turned-his-back-on-his-familys-banki/

      "They have three children: the journalist and novelist Sophia Money-Coutts, magician Drummond Money-Coutts, and another daughter, Rosie." also killed me. Oh, Rosie.

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        The aristocrat magician who turned his back on his family's banking empire to do card tricks for The Queen
        Magician Drummond Money-Coutts on turning his back on his family's banking empire to do card tricks - and the stunt that nearly killed him.
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      mcv (mcv@nerdica.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:24:07 JST mcv mcv
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      • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @onepict @alex

      Crispin is not the only one; 8 of her family members have Wikipedia pages. I'm sure she'll inherit her own eventually.

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      Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:24:13 JST Jens Finkhäuser Jens Finkhäuser
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      • Tane Piper ⁂
      • Charlie Stross
      • aoanla

      @onepict @aoanla @tanepiper @cstross @alex It's a telenovela, but in good clothes, and with the stiffest of upper lips.

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      Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:24:14 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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      • Tane Piper ⁂
      • Charlie Stross
      • aoanla

      @aoanla @tanepiper @cstross @alex now I understand why Made in Chelsea and Downton Abbey is so popular with some of the masses.

      This is East Enders level of drama, with lots of money.

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      aoanla (aoanla@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:24:15 JST aoanla aoanla
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      • Tane Piper ⁂
      • Charlie Stross

      @tanepiper @cstross @onepict @alex Ironically, it did, but the other way around. Crispin Money-Coutt's Great-great grandfather, Francis Money, was the son of the *second* daughter of the original Coutts, but complex will shenanigans precipitated by the first daughter marrying an American, which the will specifically ruled as cause for disinheritance (yes...) caused him to change his name by deed poll to Money-Coutts and inherit the wealth!

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      Tane Piper ⁂ (tanepiper@tane.codes)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:24:16 JST Tane Piper ⁂ Tane Piper ⁂
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      • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @onepict @alex That's quite the nominative determinism there. Wonder if it works by deed poll

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      clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 15:24:29 JST clacke clacke
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      • Charlie Stross
      > Has your “posh” name brought prejudice?

      Undoubtedly. My Dad advised me to change it when I went in to journalism, and now I wish I had. I’ve had to develop coping mechanisms.

      > Like what?

      Self-effacement. David Baddiel posted a photo of my book on Twitter, saying: “This can’t be a real person. She sounds like a character from Dickens.” I just replied “Real Person” and ignored the later comments.


      sundaypost.com/fp/questionsfor…

      @cstross @onepict @alex

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        10 Questions for Big House Little House presenter Aidan Keane - The Sunday Post
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        WALK in to most new restaurants, hotels, offices or clubs across the world and the chances are Aidan Keane’s had a hand in it.
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      Richard Rutter (richr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 21:12:50 JST Richard Rutter Richard Rutter
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      • Charlie Stross

      @onepict @cstross @alex Excellent. At least we can blame the French/Danish for all this mess.

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      Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 21:12:54 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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      • Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦

      @paezha @cstross @alex

      Kinda reminds me of the time when I referred to the posh kids as cuckoos. Like when you hear Scot's barons going on about how they are Scottish with a cut glass English accent and you know they went to public school

      http://onepict.com/january10012021-cuckoosandempire.html

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      Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦 (paezha@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 21:12:55 JST Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦 Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦
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      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @onepict @alex

      Her lineage puts to shame all those lazy Gen Zeders. God only knows all the hard work involved in being a banker's squirt.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispin_Money-Coutts,_9th_Baron_Latymer

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        Crispin Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer
        Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer (born 8 March 1955), is a British peer who is a descendant of both the well-known Irish nationalist Thomas Addis Emmet and the banker Thomas Coutts. In 2003, he inherited the title Baron Latymer from his father, the 8th Baron Latymer (1926–2003). He was educated at Eton and Keble College, Oxford. He rowed in the World Rowing Junior Championships in 1972 (in the eight) and in 1973 (in the eight and the coxless pair, winning a silver medal in the latter), then he represented Oxford in the University Boat Race in 1975 and 1977, winning the latter. In 2005, Lord Latymer sailed single-handedly across the Atlantic Ocean, on the identical journey his father had taken some decades previously. Following the voyage which raised £40 000 for Save the Children, Latymer wrote and published the voyage in a book entitled Where the Ocean Meets the Sky (Adlard Coles Nautical, 2009), the name taken from the Rod Stewart song, Rhythm of My Heart.Lord Latymer is a retired international Private Banker. He married Lucy Rose Deedes, the daughter of Bill Deedes, whom he has since divorced. They...
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      Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 21:13:03 JST Nicole Parsons Nicole Parsons
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      @alex

      #TranslatedFromTheRepublican

      "Young people are refusing to work unpaid overtime like their parents did

      We will label them 'lazy' until they agree to work for free again

      The young can't afford homes or afford to start families, so our traditional methods of coercive capitalism isn't working like it used to

      The #OccupyWallStreet generation never got launched into life with the help of their parents because the orchestration of the 2008 financial crash wiped out a generation's savings"

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      Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:08:36 JST Jacek Wesołowski Jacek Wesołowski
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      • 🌀bedient Leia

      @Tourma I kinda wish they did that, because the result would be a RIDICULOUS country-wide argument about which one of them should change his name to comply with the copyright.

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      🌀bedient Leia (tourma@mastodon.triggerphra.se)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:08:38 JST 🌀bedient Leia 🌀bedient Leia
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      @jzillw
      Surprised Disney hasn't sued them.
      (That remark is meant only mildly sarcastic.)

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      🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:05:47 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦
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      @ryan @alex Crazier than that. The Money side married into the Coutts money, seemingly by happy accident.

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      Ryan, the Dad Who Loves Coffee (ryan@dads.cool)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:05:49 JST Ryan, the Dad Who Loves Coffee Ryan, the Dad Who Loves Coffee
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      @alex “oh yes, the Money side of the family invented money”

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      let's regular posting (senj@surf.cyberspace.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:17:08 JST let's regular posting let's regular posting
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      @alex love that this is just a lazy find-and-replace of the last 20 years of articles about Millennials, too. Time is a flat circle baby.

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      let's regular posting (senj@surf.cyberspace.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:17:12 JST let's regular posting let's regular posting
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      • Mr. Softie :zc:

      @WhiskeySailor @alex I plucked a random "Millennials are killing X" out of my memory, and damn, they really are doing just that

      https://fortune.com/2023/11/11/diamond-industry-faces-price-plunge-gen-z-uncertainty/

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      Mr. Softie :zc: (whiskeysailor@history.lol)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:17:13 JST Mr. Softie :zc: Mr. Softie :zc:
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      @senj @alex saving time by just "find and replace" MIllennials with Gen Z and you have years worth of articles ready to go

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      Mr. Softie :zc: (whiskeysailor@history.lol)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:17:17 JST Mr. Softie :zc: Mr. Softie :zc:
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      @senj @alex Gen Z and Millennials epic handshake over killing things and being bad workers

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      Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 00:28:53 JST Annika Backstrom Annika Backstrom
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      @alex excellent edit

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      Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:56:44 JST Annika Backstrom Annika Backstrom
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      • hazelnot :yell:

      @hazelnot my first thought was Department of Homeland Security looking at social media at the border 😅 think they know about the fediverse yet?

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      hazelnot :yell: (hazelnot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:56:45 JST hazelnot :yell: hazelnot :yell:
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      • Annika Backstrom

      @annika @alex unless you don't wanna end up on a CIA watchlist 💀

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