Ricky Lanusse
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Day 1: Youâre uncomfortable. You cope. Night 1: You donât reset. Day 2: You begin already depleted. Night 2: Your heart keeps working like itâs still daytime. Day 3: The heat becomes less like weather and more like a low-grade illness that wonât lift.
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The Heatwave That Broke Memory
Europe was built for a climate that no longer exists
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/the-heatwave-that-broke-memory?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
2 days ago
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For about ten minutes, heat can look democratic. Everyone complains. Everyone sweats. Everyone becomes a little slower, a little less elegant, a little more animal. Then the equality burns off.
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The Weather Has Entered The Body
Even inside the Arctic Circle, the idea of heat as someone elseâs problem has started to sound ridiculous
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/the-weather-has-entered-the-body?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
7 days ago
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It rained on a glacier in Antarctica this month, in the middle of winter, in the dark. And every part of that is wrong.
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Antarctica Is Done Being the Coldest Argument
We kept it frozen in our heads so we could keep everything else exactly as it was
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/antarctica-is-done-being-the-coldest?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
9 days ago
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A fortune and a body count, spent to arrive back at a door that was already open, except now the same door is chained to a tollbooth, and Iran is the one holding the key.
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The $500 Billion Way to Reopen a Door That Was Already Open
The US went to war to take it all and bought the Strait back at retail, financing included
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/the-500-billion-way-to-reopen-a-door?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
13 days ago
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Five things this El Niño sets in motion. The ocean doesnât create any of them. Each one was already there, wound up tight, and the Pacific is just the thumb that presses down.
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Welcome To El Niño
A warm ocean meets a world already breaking on four fronts at once â and the next two years are where they collide
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/welcome-to-el-nino?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
15 days ago
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A Weakening AMOC Left One Blue Scar On The Map â And Its Consequences Run Pole To Pole
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A Weakening AMOC Left One Blue Scar On The Map â And Its Consequences Run Pole To Pole
Why the worst climate news of the year is a patch of cold water
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/a-weakening-amoc-left-one-blue-scar?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
18 days ago
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This Will Be The Never-Ending War
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This Will Be The Never-Ending War
Nobody can locate the beginning of the circle anymore â and the circle doesnât particularly want to be located
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/this-will-be-the-never-ending-war?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
20 days ago
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What If This World Cup Never Happened?
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What If This World Cup Never Happened?
Seven Eritrean players vanished after a crucial win, and somehow they might be the freest footballers in the world
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/what-if-this-world-cup-never-happened?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
21 days ago
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The easiest way to understand what is happening is to watch that gap: what they say versus what keeps happening anyway.
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The Oldest Weapon In War
Fully operational. Contained. Over. Almost. Fine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/the-oldest-weapon-in-war?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
24 days ago
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This Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Be Quiet. What Comes After Wonât.
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This Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Be Quiet. What Comes After Wonât.
A scar outlives the memory of the wound
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/this-atlantic-hurricane-season-could?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
29 days ago
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There Is No Such Thing as Reopening the Strait of Hormuz
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There Is No Such Thing as Reopening the Strait of Hormuz
You can be inside something your entire life and not know it is a wall until the day it stops letting you through
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-reopening?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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The man shot the bull and is now demanding to be congratulated for the price of beef. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
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Good Riddance, Climate Change â He Said
Climate policy worked just enough to retire the worst-case scenario. Now the man who fought it for a decade is claiming the credit.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/good-riddance-climate-change-he-said?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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Energy Independence Means Needing Less Permission to Live
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Energy Independence Means Needing Less Permission to Live
A system that needs tankers, armies, and emergency stockpiles was never secure
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/energy-independence-means-needing?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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When the AMOC comes back into the mainstream, the coverage will focus on: - Harsh winters over Europe. - Agricultural disruption. - Sea level rise along the US East Coast. All true. All incomplete. The more important story sits near Antarctica.
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The AMOC Is About to Become Famous Again, and Almost Everyone Will Tell the Wrong Story
A collapsing ocean current, a coming media narrative, and the part of the story that flips everything upside down
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/the-amoc-is-about-to-become-famous?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
2 months ago
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And on the seventh day, he rises from the dead and embraces the President in angelic light, and always under the flag, in case anyone had missed the point: Jesus lives in the White House.
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Jesus Trump Is Here To Save Us
Prophecy, violence, and the performance of salvation
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2 months ago
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I Just Hope This War Ends The World
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I Just Hope This War Ends The World
Who begs for immunity when winning?
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2 months ago
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Argentina Just Traded Its Glaciers for a Mining Contract
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Argentina Just Traded Its Glaciers for a Mining Contract
You cannot mine your way to salvation by draining the waters that make life possible
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/argentina-just-traded-its-glaciers?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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A War Over Oil Just Solved the Problem That Thirty Years of Climate Advocacy Couldnât
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A War Over Oil Just Solved the Problem That Thirty Years of Climate Advocacy Couldnât
Watermelons in the sky
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3 months ago
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Vertically integrated denial:
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Big Tech Has a New Excuse for Firing People. Conveniently, Itâs the Same Thing Burning the Planet.
This is not another story about AI
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/big-tech-has-a-new-excuse-for-firing?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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Nobody Has Done More For Renewables Than Trump
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Nobody Has Done More For Renewables Than Trump
Turns out the fastest way to sell solar panels and electric cars is bombing a country for its oil reserves
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3 months ago
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The Population Bomb Is Dead â The Emergency It Was Pointing At Is Not
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The Population Bomb Is Dead â The Emergency It Was Pointing At Is Not
The man who warned the world about too many people lived long enough to watch the crisis flip
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3 months ago
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The Biggest Threat to Global Stability Is the Country That Claims to Guarantee It
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The Biggest Threat to Global Stability Is the Country That Claims to Guarantee It
We can all see through your bullshit
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/the-biggest-threat-to-global-stability?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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Zack Labe
about 1 year ago
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data. "As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basicâmeaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
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What If This War Is What The World Needed?
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What If This War Is What The World Needed?
Two curves that crossed a decade ago, and only one of them is still falling
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3 months ago
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The Energy Lockdown Has Started
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The Energy Lockdown Has Started
The war in Iran didnât just block a shipping lane. It started dismantling the infrastructure the world runs on.
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3 months ago
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Enough is the one thing the current economy has never been able to sell
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What If This War Is What The World Needed?
Two curves that crossed a decade ago, and only one of them is still falling
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/what-if-this-war-is-what-the-world?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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El Niño: The Upcoming Stress Test We Arenât Ready For
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El Niño: The Upcoming Stress Test We Arenât Ready For
The Pacific is heating again and the world order is about to feel it
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4 months ago
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A Writerâs Wound
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A Writerâs Wound
They don't kill writers, they just let them bleed out
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4 months ago
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M Meerkat
5 months ago
ONLY BECAUSE THEY GOT CAUGHT......... đ
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CryptoCrush: The Obvious Connection No One Is Talking About
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CryptoCrush: The Obvious Connection No One Is Talking About
When Bitcoin lost its moral alibi
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5 months ago
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You're Already Living Through the Crash
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You're Already Living Through the Crash
So what the hell do we do with this?
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5 months ago
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The Imperial Plan to Burn Down and Take Over Patagonia
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The Imperial Plan to Burn Down and Take Over Patagonia
Fire, law, and the machinery of conquest coming for my homeland
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5 months ago
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The Hottest Three-Year Stretch Humanity Has Ever Cooked
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The Hottest Three-Year Stretch Humanity Has Ever Cooked
This isnât random chaos. Itâs predictable escalation.
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6 months ago
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The 'Disease Of More' Has Broken The World
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The 'Disease Of More' Has Broken The World
Borders don't mean much when energy and legitimacy start running short
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6 months ago
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Climate Change is Dead
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Climate Change is Dead
The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world
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6 months ago
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Antarctica Is At The Center Of Our Predicament
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Antarctica Is At The Center Of Our Predicament
The world we know depends on ice that is already vanishing. The timeline might be uncertain â the outcome is not.
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6 months ago
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Today, Antarctic Sapiens, a four-person, three-continent project, needs your modest collaboration to stay alive.
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6 months ago
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The Trees Know
7 months ago
Do you think that the oligarchs know this, that time is short, and that is why they want to go to Mars or why, like Zuckerberg, they build $127 Million bunkers?
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Antarctic Sapiens Is Evolving â And Youâre Part of the Reason
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Antarctic Sapiens Is Evolving â And Youâre Part of the Reason
Weâre becoming the newsletter we always meant to be
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6 months ago
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Emily Atkin
7 months ago
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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AIâs water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregonâs nitrate pollution crisis.
https://heated.world/p/data-centers-arent-just-guzzling
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Antarctica: The Things That Undo Us Rarely Start Where We Can See Them
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Antarctica: The Things That Undo Us Rarely Start Where We Can See Them
Wrecking storms from underneath
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7 months ago
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In a Blinded, Overheating World, Hope Still Lives in the Cracks
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In a Blinded, Overheating World, Hope Still Lives in the Cracks
Sparks of defiance amidst the fire
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7 months ago
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We Tried to Save Elephants â and Ended Up Choking the World
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We Tried to Save Elephants â and Ended Up Choking the World
The trouble with our inventions is how far their shadows travel
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8 months ago
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Does COP Even Matter At This Point?
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Does COP Even Matter At This Point?
And yet, without them, no one would even bother pretending
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8 months ago
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How to Erase Eight Kilometers of Antarctic Ice in Just Two Months
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How to Erase Eight Kilometers of Antarctic Ice in Just Two Months
After the greatest collapse in modern history, Brazil is ready for the next chapter of climate theatre
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/how-to-erase-eight-kilometers-of?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
8 months ago
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This time, history had no reference point. 2025 wasnât a bad season. It was the year Patagonia, burdened by human atmospheric madness, never turned white.
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La Niña Just Erased Patagoniaâs Winter. What Will She Do to the North?
The climate doesnât do "typicalâ anymore
https://open.substack.com/pub/rickylanusse/p/la-nina-just-erased-patagonias-winter?r=271e6q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
8 months ago
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The Atlantic Ocean Circulation is Breaking Down
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The Atlantic Ocean Circulation is Breaking Down
The only disagreement is when, not if
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8 months ago
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The Paris Agreement Wasnât Meaningless â Just Painfully Human
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The Paris Agreement Wasnât Meaningless â Just Painfully Human
Congratulations: Weâre Slightly Less Cooked!
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9 months ago
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The louder he roars, the smaller reality feels in his echo chamber.
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Heâs Right â Climate Change Is Indeed the Largest Con Job Ever
This is louder than any warning weâve ignored
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9 months ago
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Sun Day
9 months ago
TODAY is Sun Day! âŽïž Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. âïž Join an event near you today:
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