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  1. Psychedelia Gothique - Dale L. Sproule22 November 2021 at 08:18

    Deleting or marking the Russian spam only seems to increase the flow, so I'm leaving most of it here for now - until it pushes me to the bandwidth limit - whereupon I will delete it all at once. I don't know if this works - or if anything does. I'm thinking of hiring a witch to curse them.

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