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Malthe Sigurdsson

@malthe

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Chief Design Officer at @joinhandshake . Previously @Stripe , Rdio (RIP), Skype (RIP?). Danish. Pronounced 'Mahl-tah'.

San Francisco, CA.
Joined January 2007
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Malthe Sigurdsson
9 years
Literally curled up on the sofa with a good book. Oh, to be 8 years old again. http://t.co/XyFKx5tG8Z
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8 years
Genius. @mortenjust made a text editor that only allow the 1,000 most used words in English.
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6 years
It's GDPR eve! Don't forget to put out milk, cookies, and a signed consent form for the EU Commissioner!
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9 years
In Denmark, "helicopter parents" are called "curling parents", which I think is a) a better expression b) hilarious. http://t.co/x17slGfE3e
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4 years
*Update!* Friday is my last day at Stripe. 2,026 days later and I’m exceedingly proud of what we’ve done—what a company, what a ride, what an opportunity! And yet still so much to do :) Thank you to the team and thank you, pjcbwdps! <3 4ever.
@malthe
Malthe Sigurdsson
9 years
*New Job Alert* I'm going to Stripe to become Head of Design. Am excited and sincerely #humbled + #blessed . To the stars!
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OK yeah so hi, one more update—I’m coming *back* to @stripe as “Head of Craft” on @lil_dill ’s team to help drive our continued focus on craft, beauty, and quality. Looking forward to working with many for the 1st, and a bunch of the old crew for the 2nd (or 3rd!) time! 🙏📷🫷
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
*Update!* Friday is my last day at Stripe. 2,026 days later and I’m exceedingly proud of what we’ve done—what a company, what a ride, what an opportunity! And yet still so much to do :) Thank you to the team and thank you, pjcbwdps! <3 4ever.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
7 years
Young Confluence
@mixtapekevin
𝔐𝔦𝔵𝔱𝔞𝔭𝔢
7 years
Your rap name is young + the reason you cried last
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2 years
OK fine whatever, but you *cannot* left-align a centered logo stack like that.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
New job just dropped! So happy to join @joinhandshake as Chief Design Officer! Getting started on the right career is way too much of a dark art, and much too dependent on who you know and which school you went to —
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Malthe Sigurdsson
8 years
No biggie, just a new logo and new site — and I'm totally :cat_with_heart_eyes:. See for yourself — .
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4 years
New & improved — unreasonably great work by a relentless team that goes the extra mile and then says "let's go a bit further". :pray-hotdog: → @micaelaballew @krithix @tkhakbaz @bdc @thomasdegry @destroytoday @narrowd @tatsvc @billlabus @alex_norcliffe
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
Worst haiku ever.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
Ah, yes, the Scandinavian design aesthetic, I would recognize that anywhere.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
So, today sure has been a day … full of hard work, so pretty normal. Say, I'm looking for a Head of Product Design at @stripe . Is that you or someone you know? →
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Malthe Sigurdsson
1 year
Been a tough month for balloons tbh.
@nytimes
The New York Times
1 year
Breaking News: A woman accidentally knocked over a balloon dog sculpture by Jeff Koons at an art fair in Miami, causing the $42,000 artwork to shatter, witnesses said.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
My wife and I vacation differently.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
So, once again, Stripe squeezed ten years into one, but made it seem like just one month passed. Here’s to many more!
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
ex—and I can't stress this enough—cuse me?!
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CBS News Bay Area
5 years
All across the Bay Area this weekend, the warm fall weather will bring out many thousands of male tarantula spiders looking for females partners.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
2 years
If you, like me, have thoughts, feelings, & opinions about career levels for (product) designers, please join Joel and a bunch of others on Monday!
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Malthe Sigurdsson
2 years
It's 5pm in the Bay Area and they sounds of millions of people switching from Zoom to Google Docs echo through the valleys and villages.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
2 years
Extremely excited to start rolling out a refreshed brand design for @joinHandshake . Thanks to @LiAnneDias , @manualcreative , and everyone else involved for their unwavering, diligent work 🙏
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
Not retired, just resting a bit! :) Thanks to the Design team folks at Stripe for the lovely book of memories, which my family laughed at and quote “didn’t understand”. (Unrealistic beard expectations illustration by @tyler_thompson ). Miss you all!
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
“Oh what a cool sound, what is that?” — the sweet, sweet innocence of my kid hearing the Slack notification sound fot the first time.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
You guys… … … ...
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3 years
How it started: How it's going:
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Malthe Sigurdsson
9 years
*New Job Alert* I'm going to Stripe to become Head of Design. Am excited and sincerely #humbled + #blessed . To the stars!
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
Hey @SlackHQ — ⌘K *has* to be "make selected text a link". It's the law. (Or, ideally, do what Notion does: With text selected, pasting a URL = make text a link!)
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Malthe Sigurdsson
8 years
I guess maybe 2016 doesn't totally suck?
@ValaAfshar
Vala Afshar
8 years
Tilly's first couple of minutes wearing a bionic hand; choosing when to close the fingers and how fast.— @openbionics
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
@CaseyNewton "Why can't we edit tweets?"
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
Two things to convince you to immediately come and work at Stripe. 1) We *actually* erase the whiteboard when the meeting ends. 2) We have these trays by the printers:
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
Untitled artwork. Pixels on screen, ca 2019.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
I truly don’t know where it came from, but Dad Level III unlocked this morning when I heard myself say “It doesn’t cost anything to be nice, you know”.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
While I'm of course no Afghanistan expert, I did spend some time there almost 20 years ago. Not sure it makes sense to call the entire population of a country kind and beautiful, but that was my feeling then and memory today. They have always deserved better.
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11 months
Found some old Rdio swag.
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3 years
This is gorgeous work.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
As I come home from work, the middle kid has taken to asking me "How many meetings did you have today?". Listen, buddy…
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Malthe Sigurdsson
7 years
Strangely moving.
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7 years
Life, in six charts.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
Nothing "micro" about this :) Congrats, folks! Everyone else, please come work here!
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Tatiana Van Campenhout🌲
5 years
I had the pleasure to design the new @stripe jobs micro site alongside some amazing peeps: @thomasdegry @narrowd @schlakman @HillaryBenzell and many many more!
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
Oh, would you look at that! Had to double check the dates, though, as I could have sworn it’d been either 3 months or 30 years.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
If you’re looking for ideas on what to do doing lockdown, my wife is currently running 100 miles … by running up and down Mt Tam 16 times!? 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰
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5 years
In the true spirit of an Estonian, Danish, and Irish Thanksgiving, we're making 24 pounds of potatoes for 17 people.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
The sheer disrespect of my children calling them “Josh trees”.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
An ancient riddle.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
This thing lives in my neighborhood and would you look at it.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
4 years
I’m a guest in this country but I still think of it as home and I can still say that it’s broken. This won’t fix it, but hopefully we can together.
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6 years
You know how the first time you walk from the elevator to your hotel room, and then when you walk back it's like 1/3rd the distance? Still thinking about that.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
8 years
Two words: Soylent. Foodtruck. Get on it, San Francisco.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
2 years
Current status.
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3 months
@edzitron It's giving…
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2 months
@katienotopoulos The most concerning thing about stuff like this is how disappointing it is that kids let themselves be influenced by this kind of dullard.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
God bless America. *fighter jet formation flies over tweet*
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Google Trends results for 'when is the fourth of July'
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2 months
@jdan Spoiler alert: The problem is that the bodies are not aligned, in a stakeholder-sense.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
7 years
It's a day that ends in "y", so we launched a thing — . Fans of funds flows and design alike, this is for you.
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6 months
@dieworkwear No way that kid is 84 years old.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
My calendar, my life.
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1 year
Oh so you like layers? Name three of them.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
Even I, a non-sports person, know that this is a largely positive comment. Superstar or not, if you're a good human who gets things done, we'd love to talk — malthe @stripe .com.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
15 days
Next week will be my last at @joinhandshake . I’m so proud of and happy about all the progress of the last 3 years—most importantly building the amazing design team! Thank you 🙏 to them, my xfn buddies, and ofc to @GarrettLord , @benmchristensen , and @scottringwelski ! 🫡
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Malthe Sigurdsson
9 years
Thank you, Rdio and people at Rdio — we fought the good fight much longer than anyone ever predicted and I'm proud of you and us. #rdiostrong
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1 year
@sdw they're gonna do a SICK 32" curved monitor ofc.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
+1 — a well-done logo wall is an all-too-rarely seen art.
@kylietimpani
Kylie Timpani
3 years
shoutout to the designer who had to eyeball the comparative proportions of all these logos #AppleEvent
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Malthe Sigurdsson
7 years
I'm at a wedding and I don't know what the hashtag is and I'm too embarrassed to ask.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
Looking forward, butterflies in my stomach (hopefully not literally, but you never know with those guys).
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
Speaking of nice things, we're looking for experienced Design Managers at Stripe —come work with the wonderful people who make what it is (& me). I promise it'll be hard, fun, & rewarding —
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4 years
Looks like the dogs’s gyro stabilizer is acting up again.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
7 years
Making a lounge chair for @simmy & Hannah, and decided I want to document the process. Here's v0.01 in SketchUp, roughing out the structure.
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2 years
I'll give you "Jif" for Gif, if you give me "Gira" for Jira.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
Adding a fourth item to the list of hard problems in computer science: Google Groups permissions. (The other three being naming, cache invalidation, and external monitors).
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Malthe Sigurdsson
7 years
Today's positive feedback at @stripe design: "I don't want to look at anything else ever again".
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3 years
Very interesting! The fine folks at Handshake found that students of color prefer virtual career events — less stress, fewer snap judgements →
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2 years
Thanks to the vaccine, I get a government-mandated 15 mins for quiet contemplation in the middle of a Safeway.
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2 years
Caught myself pressing the right arrow to fast-forward in a Zoom meeting.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
6 years
A proud moment of parenthood.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
8 years
"Join our webinar" is ancient Greek for "Remember to unsubscribe and delete your account."
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
♫ It's beginning to look at lot like … Thanksgiving … ♫
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5 years
Sorry to burst the bubble, but compared to what we *need* to do, Stripe has done very little yet. And even more excitingly, who knows exactly *what* to do or *how* to do it? I have more hard work and responsibility than most people would want —
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
Terrible to hear about the passing of Mike @mkruz — a smart, accomplished, and passionate design leader, but more importantly the kindest person you've hopefully met. Rest In Peace, Mike. My heart goes out to his family.
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6 years
Early presidential election slogan prediction: “Hindsight is 2020”.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
7 years
"Fintech"?
@joncoopertweets
Jon Cooper
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White House sources say Trump is cursing up a storm - ranting and raving. Yelling at staffers & using the "F" word. He's losing it tonight.
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5 years
Hey friends at @StravaSupport — could we not use the words "may have died" in your Safety Contact view? Ty!
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Malthe Sigurdsson
5 years
It seemed the height of laissez-faire cool when I some years ago saw a bunch of L.A. people go into a Palm Springs pool in *with* credit cards in their pockets (to use at the pool bar). It’s taken me since then to work up the courage to try it. New cards take 7–10 days to arrive.
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3 months
@sm My theory is that temporarily looking after N-1 kids, where N is your actual number of kids, is the easiest easy mode ever.
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@sm Hah, yes. Still waiting for science to solve this.
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Malthe Sigurdsson
3 years
What I'm doing on a Friday night? Oh nothing, just hosting a 1 hour conference call on my iPhone for RiteAid and Anthem Blue Cross to agree that I have health insurance.
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3 years
How do you say "cease & desist" in Swedish?
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5 years
Ah, yes, the Occupations That Exist In The World.
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9 years
Serious question. Where can I find Apple Music? Is it one of these? http://t.co/GTNaaRmoG9
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4 years
For me to make Sesame Chicken, a big piece of parmesan cheese, and to stay up as long as he wants to — birthday wishes of an 11yo-to-be.
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6 years
California life — “Kids, put on a jacket, it’ll be cold in Costco.”
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6 years
The most beautiful poem.
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6 years
Google Calendar has this new notification bug/feature that simulates what my days *feel* like.
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6 years
Absolutely wonderful work from @tatsvc & @thomasdegry on — as well as @maddie @tarstarr @kurrik + everyone else on the product. <3
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1 year
Read the room, aquarium.
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1 year
@dyett @stripe Yes they are — but without taking anything away from them, it's less about the design team, and more about the company *wanting* to do it, and being able to *recognize* what cool shit is (and yes, (therefore?) being able to attract/retain people with this level of skill).
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3 years
Made some updates to . So, so (so!) impressed with Figma and the libraries of Icons8 made quick work of it (and OK, good old Illustrator for some vector work — nothing else makes sense to me).
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7 years
Nobody does bleak like Amazon.
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5 years
Lord, grant me the confidence of the man who says in his ad “by now you’ve probably heard of my podcast”.
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4 years
Breaking out the strategic reserves tonight.
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8 years
May I please present to you, the world's most dismissed dialog.
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