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Israeli companies are facing increased advertising costs on Meta platforms due to a decline in effectiveness of their ads.

Israeli companies spent between $1.8 and $1.9 billion on Meta advertising between 2023 and 2025, with decreasing effectiveness. Israeli firms have been identified as top advertisers on Meta, including gaming companies, IT services firms, content marketing companies, and brick-and-mortar e-commerce suppliers.

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Leaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers

For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the w…
Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)

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Freedom Flotilla Coalition: Israel Abducts Madleen – BREAKING #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/freedom…

Freedom Flotilla Coalition: Israel Abducts Madleen - BREAKING - Palestine Chronicle

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced that the Israeli army boarded its ship Madleen, which was headed to Gaza, and contact was lost.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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Here’s a thoughtful piece from @mononcqc, well worth reading. It says things I hadn’t heard yet articulated so well.

One thing I appreciate immensely: the way Fred’s analytical approach centers humans instead of tech, and takes the subjective experiences of human developers •seriously•.

Fred’s summary in the quoted post gives the core idea, but the larger piece has many sharp thoughts and rewards close reading. I’ll quote a few in the thread below.

1/ hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/1146536…

Fred Hebert (@mononcqc@hachyderm.io)

Why do some people have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it? What the latter group does is create tons of scaffolding to properly restrict LLMs, and acquire new skills to cope with all the unpredictable stuff they might do.
Hachyderm.io
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Paul Cantrell

“I fall in the baffled camp that thinks better designs are possible.” … “I don’t expect my calls to be heard. Selling sci-fi is way too effective. And as long as the AI is perceived as the engine of a new industrial revolution, decision-makers will imagine it can do so, and task people to make it so.”

ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-…

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The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools…
ferd.ca
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Paul Cantrell

These pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm…

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/gen…

Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.

10/


Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!

You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…
Pivot to AI
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Welkin7

What can they do? They control neither of the chambers, the House and the Senate. They have aquiesced to putting Judges on Supreme court who had a particular bent. They gave sky high inflation, people requiring to hold 3 jobs to put food on the table and oh forget about owing a house. All the while enriching the rich.

Let us wait for mid-terms and see what they choose. Some ideological nonsense or real life bread butter issues.

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Welkin7

@violetmadder
The alternative is violence. Violence never helps. It will only make matter worse. And yeah Dems have given for too long lip service to things that actually matter and done nothing about it.

There is a need to keep the peace. This too shall pass. DJT and his policies are impermanent. This can be fixed without resorting to radical methods.

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The view today from Grand Teton National Park. For more information nps.gov/grte/index.htm and americanalpineclub.org/grand-t… and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit American Alpine Club and National Park Service #grandteton #climbing #wywx #wyoming #trees #mountains #snowruler
Trees and mountains fill this view from Grand Teton National Park. Tucked away in the trees are two of the cabins found at the Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch. Snow can be seen in the mountains in the distance, while an alternating black and white snow ruler stands in the vegetation in the foreground. The sky is generally blue with a few white clouds here and there.

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Keep your eye on Trump's attempts to use the National Guard to put down the protests in Los Angeles. Yesterday he praised the National Guard for doing this - but the 2,000 troops he ordered to the area hadn't even arrived yet!

Instead, it was Los Angeles Police Department and ICE agents involved in the fighting in the neighborhoods of Compton and Paramount.

I have long thought Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act to federalize the National Guard as protests against him grow - thus reducing the power of state governors to stop his actions. Instead, the directive signed by Mr. Trump on Saturday cites another law:

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…

This allows the president to control National Guard forces if “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States", and use them "in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws.”

From what happened in Hong Kong and elsewhere, I'm not at all optimistic about violent street protests being able to stop an authoritarian regime. Instead, the regime thrives on violence, since that's a sphere where it has the upper hand. The regime will also try to tip nonviolent protests into becoming violent by using excessive force and/or propaganda that claims the protests are more dangerous than they actually are.

Here are 198 methods of nonviolent action compiled by Gene Sharp in his book The Politics of Nonviolent Action:

aeinstein.org/198-methods-of-n…

(1/2)

A police officer uses stun grenades as officers approach protesters gathered around the Los Angeles Federal Building after multiple detentions by ICE agents in downtown Los Angeles on Friday January 6, 2025. (Reuters/Daniel Cole).

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions – The White House MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES SUBJECT: Elimin

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Tiota Sram

both violent and nonviolent protests are necessary together. In all successful regime changes both have existed side-by-side, even if they've usually criticized each other a lot. MLK wouldn't have succeeded without the threat of Malcom X (instead, the Klan unopposed would have been able to crush the nonviolent arm). Of course, Malcom X wouldn't have been able to stage a revolution either.

That's not an example of regime change, but India is, and Ghandi needed the violent resistance just as much as they needed him. Modern Syria is probably another good example, though I'm less familiar with the details, I do know that peaceful protests precipitated the actual rebellion phase, and they were likely important in demonstrating the weakness of the regime that emboldened the rebels who eventually succeeded. Also it wasn't marches on the streets, but other forms of nonviolent resistance doubtless contributed to the crumbling of Assad's security forces, who weren't directly defeated militarily.

Thankfully, as in the civil rights movement, significant change short of full regime change can happen without a full-on rebellion, but violence in the streets is absolutely necessary. And if there isn't sufficient street violence now, we're headed towards either more successful violence by the state (which is already systematically killing immigrants) or at least a full-on rebellion. We should be cheering the much-less-lethal street violence against fascists we've got now in hopes things don't get worse, while also organizing massive peaceful resistance.

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Jihad: Israeli enemy storming of Madeleine, arrest of those on board flagrant violation of Intel law saba.ye/en/news3496227.htm

Jihad: Israeli enemy storming of Madeleine, arrest of those on board flagrant violation of Intel law

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine has confirmed that the Israeli enemy forces' brutal storming of the Madeleine ship, using military means, endangered its passengers and used force to arrest them.
www.saba.ye

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1/EU governments should firmly condemn Israel's illegal maritime kidnapping of the Madleen crew and demand their citizens are freed immediately.

This morning, the Israeli military boarded and seized the Madleen—a civilian vessel delivering a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza—and kidnapped its crew.

Many of those on board are citizens of EU member states. Those governments—along with all others—should unequivocally condemn Israel's illegal actions and demand the immediate release of their citizens

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Jellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0 before it's final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!


WIP release notes:
notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_fe…

This is the first release that uses the new EF Core database mapper. If you'd like to help test this release, please remember to remove all plugins to make debugging logs as easy as possible.


Release 10.11.0 RC1 · jellyfin/jellyfin

🚀 Jellyfin Server 10.11.0 RC1 We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0! This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0...
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Jellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/40833329

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0 before it's final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

WIP release notes:
notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_fe…

This is the first release that uses the new EF Core database mapper. If you'd like to help test this release, please remember to remove all plugins to make debugging logs as easy as possible.


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2025-06-09 15:59:05

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Jellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released


We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0!

This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0 before it's final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!


WIP release notes:
notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_fe…

This is the first release that uses the new EF Core database mapper. If you'd like to help test this release, please remember to remove all plugins to make debugging logs as easy as possible.



Release 10.11.0 RC1 · jellyfin/jellyfin

🚀 Jellyfin Server 10.11.0 RC1 We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0! This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0...
GitHub

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> Amazon Shuts Down Smart Home for a Week Over Racist Slur Claim

… and cancels all of the "books" that the customer "owns". Because the delivery driver thought the doorbell was racist.


Amazon Shuts Down Smart Home for a Week Over Racist Slur Claim

The tech giant admitted it had made a mistake after a user was locked out of his devices for a week over an alleged racist remark heard by a delivery driver.
Aleks Phillips (Newsweek)

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Israel Intercepts Freedom Flotilla and Detains Over 30 Activists in International Waters telesurenglish.net/israel-inte…

Israel Intercepts Freedom Flotilla and Detains Over 30 Activists in International Waters - teleSUR English

The Israeli navy intercepted the Madleen, part of the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, detaining over 30 activists including Greta Thunberg.
teleSURenglish

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I don't usually post a lot about Windows, but a number of my customers have been having problems with LibreOffice just not doing anything when trying to start it.

This is the fix: Compatibility Mode

#libreoffice #windows
RT: video.retroedge.tech/videos/wa…

matthew

2025-06-09 17:09:00

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Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of an application in Windows 11 - LibreOffice fix


Some people have had trouble opening LibreOffice on Windows 11. Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of the application seems to fix the issue (or at least be a functional workaround).


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Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of an application in Windows 11 - LibreOffice fix
Some people have had trouble opening LibreOffice on Windows 11. Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of the application seems to fix the issue (or at least be a functional workaround).

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Expert explains how Zelensky is trying to divert Ukrainians’ attention from real problems en.news-front.su/2025/06/09/ex…

Expert explains how Zelensky is trying to divert Ukrainians' attention from real problems

Maxim Vaskov, a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies and head of the Centre for East Slavic Studies at the Southern Federal University, said on the air of the Opinion programme on News Front that Volodymyr Zelensky was trying …
newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)

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Remember kids, there's more to the #fediverse than #Mastodon! One of these days even the Fedi.Tips account might even acknowledge that. You can restrict the visibility of your posts in pretty much every Fediverse platform out there, **not just Mastodon**.
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Redwood National and State Parks this weekend. Learn more at nps.gov/redw/index.htm and savetheredwoods.org/blog/wildf… and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #phenology Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #cawx #redwoods #lily #ocean
A brilliant orange flower set against the deep greens of the redwood forest. This is a lily from along the trail in Redwood National and State Parks yesterday. The flowers are just beginning to open at this elevation, which is approximately 400 feet above sea level and about a mile from the Pacific Ocean. (Perhaps a Tiger Lily, Columbian Lily)

Wildflowers of the redwood forests | Save the Redwoods League

If it’s spring, it’s wildflower season. Wildflower season is one of the best times to experiences California’s great outdoors. Here are some favorites.
Garrison Frost (Save the Redwoods League)

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Sent a support ticket to a #service that I #subscribe to expressing my disappointment that I couldn't seem to do very basic things with their product/ service.

Bitch-ass #CustomerService #rep replies back scolding me for not viewing the "#onboarding #video".

Ok.

First off, if you have a product or a service and you only provide a "video" to teach your customers how to use your product, well... fuck you.

Videos don't work for everyone. Some of your customers might be deaf, or visually impaired.

Second, if you need a fucking #TRAININGVIDEO to teach your customers how to use your product or service you have flat out FAILED in every conceivable way.

Your product or service should be intuitive enough that your customers don't need a training video to learn how to use your product.

(I'm looking at you #ORACLE!)

Anyhow, rant over.

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Tehran warns against anti-Iran resolution by IAEA en.mehrnews.com/news/232845/Te…

Tehran warns against anti-Iran resolution by IAEA

TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA) – Iran has warned that it will take retaliatory measures if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopts a resolution against the country in the Monday session of its Board of Governors.
Mehr News Agency

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Israeli Forces Seize Gaza-Bound Madleen Ship, Kidnap Activists On Board #Palestine qudsnen.co/israeli-forces-seiz…

Israeli Forces Seize Gaza-Bound Madleen Ship, Kidnap Activists On Board

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel has intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists, kidnapping those on board while describing the sh
Editing Team (Quds News Network)

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The Huajiang Canyon Bridge in China, slated to be the world's highest suspension bridge, is set to open in 2025. It employs advanced construction methods, including a satellite-navigated cable system. The bridge aims to significantly shorten travel times, stimulate local economies, and represent China's engineering achievements.

youtube.com/watch?v=bw6wY1WUSe…

#china #technology #infrastructure


China's ENORMOUS Huajiang Canyon Bridge

China’s Huajiang Canyon Bridge is a world-record-breaking marvel—taller than the Burj Khalifa, heavier than two Eiffel Towers, and promising to transform a r...
YouTube

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@NotImpressed@mas.to @palestine@a.gup.pe If only some of that sentiment would turn against #Meta, #Facebook, and #Instagram!

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2025-06-09 16:14:39

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#Israel #toxic
@palestine

Some good news
"...Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions"
"Despite Meta’s unprecedented support for Israel during the war in Gaza, including its complicity in mass censorship of pro-Palestinian content and criticism of Israel...global consumer sentiment is turning sharply against Israeli brands"

dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data…



Leaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers

For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the w…
Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)

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#Israel #toxic
@palestine

Some good news
"...Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions"
"Despite Meta’s unprecedented support for Israel during the war in Gaza, including its complicity in mass censorship of pro-Palestinian content and criticism of Israel...global consumer sentiment is turning sharply against Israeli brands"

dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data…


Leaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers

For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the w…
Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)

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#Israel #toxic
@palestine

Much needed wisdom from Caitlin Johnstone:

"The more Israel’s supporters hate you, the more likely it is that you are a decent person. Say what needs saying and wear their outrage as a badge of honor"

caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/0…


Offending Zionists Is Good, Actually

It is good for evil people who desire evil things to be upset by your words and deeds.
Caitlin Johnstone

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President Maduro: The People Nominated Their Candidates for Municipal Elections orinocotribune.com/president-m…

President Maduro: The People Nominated Their Candidates for Municipal Elections

In another act of participatory and democratic engagement, the Venezuelan people nominated their candidates for the municipal elections to be held on July 27, according to the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Microsoft will release a portable Xbox with ROG later this year. It will run a cut down version of windows 11. Your thoughts?

#Microsoft #Xbox #portable #pc #handheld #windows11 #steamos #Linuxgaming

  • This marks the end of SteamOS on portable PCs (1%, 2 votes)
  • More competition is always good (20%, 25 votes)
  • LOL 😂 (59%, 74 votes)
  • No strong opinion, don't really care (19%, 24 votes)
125 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago

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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) lashed out at President Trump and taunted Border Czar Tom Homan amid violent Anti-ICE riots in downtown Los Angeles.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/a…


"Arrest Me, Let's Go!" A Panicked Governor Newsom Taunts Border Czar Tom Homan Amid Anti-ICE Riots (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

          California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) lashed out at President Trump and taunted Border Czar Tom Homan amid violent Anti-ICE riots in downtown Los Angeles.
Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform forecasts, better predict landfall, and improve understanding of storm dynamics and precipitation evolution – see Figure 1. The tropical cyclone community has leveraged […]

NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones

Earth Observer Staff (NASA Science)

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Russia’s Efforts To Return Displaced Ukrainian Children To Their Families Discredit The ICC korybko.substack.com/p/russias…

Russia’s Efforts To Return Displaced Ukrainian Children To Their Families Discredit The ICC

It’s always tragic whenever children are displaced or orphaned by conflict, but evacuating them from the front lines and giving them proper care isn’t akin to “abducting” them, let alone when they’re later returned to their relatives.
Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)

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#LDH Poitiers @LDH86@piaille.fr

" #URGENT - #APPEL À RASSEMBLEMENT 18h30 MAIRIE POITIERS
L’heure est grave. #Israël a attaqué la #flottille humanitaire “ #Freedom” dans les eaux internationales, avec 6 ressortissants français à bord, dont certains membres d’équipage. Cet acte constitue une #violation grave du #droit international et s’inscrit dans une #politique que nous dénonçons comme génocidaire envers le #peuple-palestinien.
ldh-france.org/130-organisatio…

130 organisations demandent la protection de la flottille de la liberté et la fin du blocus de Gaza - LDH

Communiqué commun dont la LDH est signataire
communication (LDH)

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🔴 Comment l’État a confisqué le marché de la souveraineté numérique


#politique #GAFAM #souveraineténumérique

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🔴 Comment l’État a confisqué le marché de la souveraineté numérique

L’État a repris la main sur la souveraineté numérique.
Tariq KRIM (Éditions Cybernetica)

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#Art #Mural #StreetArt

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