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Maddie Adrasteia
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Maddie Adrasteia @nemesisadrasteia.bsky.social · Sep 25
made this profile to talk about health and probably other stuff
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 6h
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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thatdocphoenix.com
Oh @robinince.bsky.social is the best of us and it’s criminal that he has to resign from presenting on the BBC while Justin Webb and Sharron Davies and all the poisonous people continue without the “difficult” conversations
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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aliceinwunderl3.bsky.social
I am still not over the simple fact that the UK Supreme Court showed flagrant corruption in abusing its constitutional powers to unambiguously invert parliamentary intention and the legal profession responded by being the bunch of unprincipled, cowardly, socially obedient pets they are.
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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ultralaser.bsky.social
jesus christ
notalegalrecord.net Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 12h
residents one town over from my library recently voted for a smaller budget override than the one they rejected in April, which raised the prospect of drastically cutting their library's services, threatening its state accreditation. i was looking at local news and i came upon this and screamed 📚
But something critical emerged in the weeks after the April vote: many residents who voted no simply didn't understand what was at stake. The April election was crowded with contested races for Select Board, School Committee, and Town Clerk. Override messaging competed for attention with candidate campaigns, and crucial details about service impacts got lost in the noise. Local resident Abby Shaw discovered this firsthand when she spent her lunch breaks at the senior center in May talking with residents about the override. Many seniors who voted no on April 1st didn't realize the senior center was at risk. They thought the override primarily impacted schools. When they learned about Council on Aging cuts--the programs and services that form the lifeblood of their daily community--they expressed genuine regret. As Shaw put it, "I had many people this week tell me that they will be in the grave without the senior center."
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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baphomars.bsky.social
honestly loved that for larian but seeing all that at tga when discord ive spent the last couple days being prevented from seeing art my friends sent me because i dont want to give discord my govt photo id was something else
ryanmcdiarmid.com Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 1d
It’s not Larian’s fault but it chaps my ass that because they’re Larian they can have a trailer with a full on orgy in it in the middle of the Game Awards and meanwhile adult content in games everywhere else is getting cracked down on left and right.
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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rattatatouille.bsky.social
Yeah I think Larian isn't in the wrong here, but the fact that there are double standards in the industry where they and other studios get to show off gory and violent games while smaller developers get their stuff banned from storefronts is galling.
ryanmcdiarmid.com Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 1d
It’s not Larian’s fault but it chaps my ass that because they’re Larian they can have a trailer with a full on orgy in it in the middle of the Game Awards and meanwhile adult content in games everywhere else is getting cracked down on left and right.
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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vyriadurav.bsky.social
no I absolutely agree with this and I feel like Larian probably does too. There should not be this double standard, we should have games like Divinity but also games like Horses and be able to talk about them without a paypro going 'mmm icky, but if you're big enough we'll ignore it, possibly'
ryanmcdiarmid.com Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 1d
It’s not Larian’s fault but it chaps my ass that because they’re Larian they can have a trailer with a full on orgy in it in the middle of the Game Awards and meanwhile adult content in games everywhere else is getting cracked down on left and right.
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
idk why people think it's big-brained to look at cases of clear cut, *seething* racism and be like 'of course this is horrible but what about the person doing the racism? what protections do they have?' if poc weren't being thrown in pain boxes and in front of trains i guess i'd be more open but,
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Immigration judges are "pretermitting" huge swathes of asylum claims on the grounds that the person can be deported to a third country instead — one of the explicit statutory grounds for denying the right to apply for asylum.

This is now happening at large scale nationwide.
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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d-7th.com
holy shit. Women
December 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
nemesisadrasteia.bsky.social
going to be fun to play Cult of the Lamb coop
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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tranoflamancha.bsky.social
Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay Jewish socialist, was not an obscure figure, as much as his deliberate omission from our history curriculum would suggest otherwise. He was world-famous. Adolf Hitler himself publicly called Hirschfeld "The most dangerous Jew in Germany". He was pen-pals with Emma Goldman.
babadookspinoza.bsky.social they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · Jul 4
Almost everyone in the US has seen these photos at some point: Nazi book burnings, seared into our national psyche as the quintessential expression of fascist tyranny. But few people know what books they were burning, beyond the fact that many of the books’ authors were Jewish.
A man throws books onto a raging fire with a crowd nearby. Nazis looking through a pile of books from a ransacked library. A crowd gives the fascist salute in front of a burning pile of books.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
nemesisadrasteia.bsky.social
several years ago I said that the day will come when they find actual bodies in Graham's basement
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you." I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you." I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
Why would anyone, in any circumstances whatsoever, think these are sufficiently normal and widely shared feelings that it would be okay to confess to them in a newspaper article
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you." I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
The idea that Britain is prepared to fight a major war - militarily or domestically - strikes me as considerably crazier and more dangerous than any country of the others floating around, even in an era where the political class has quite clearly gone absolutely bananas across the board.
Sky News 0 @SkyNews • 2h X The UK is "rapidly developing" plans to prepare the whole country for the possible outbreak of war, Al Carns has said Sky's Security and Defence Editor @haynesdeborah and other journalists spoke with the armed forces minister
December 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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fireantprincess.bsky.social
remember when musk banned a bot that tweeted the position of his private jet, calling it “assassination coordinates”?
mharrisondupre.bsky.social Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

futurism.com/future-socie...
Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST
December 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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artofreinav.bsky.social
Shit. My savings are so little, it's low budget dinners for the next few weeks. I've been shouldering food costs & necessities for 2 to 3 people in my fam since last month💔

I'm sorry i have to do this every month. I got pushed to my limits because of the pet bills.

ko-fi.com/reinav
It's a photo of me with filters from Meitu. I'm wearing a hematite necklace, with 2 rose clips in my hair. I have black wavy hair, and i'm wearing dark chocolate red lip clay. A goal on kofi for $740.
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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cmonmaque.bsky.social
He’s worth 6 billion. If he cared about humanity at all he’d immediately give at least 5 billion away. “I wanna solve homelessness in Texas” like fuck it he could end homelessness in Dallas right now for a song but charity, you see, must have an ROI and be negligible from your vast fortune
Key Charitable Contributions & Instances: • $10 Million (2018): Donated to organizations supporting women in leadership and combating domestic violence following an investigation into the Dallas Mavericks' workplace environment, notes ABC News, USA Today, The Washington Post. • Indiana University (2015): Gave $5 million to build a sports media and technology center and $6 million to the rugby team, reports CBS Sports and ESPN. • Dallas Police Department (2016): Donated $1 million to support the DPD and create a safer city, according to Dallas City News. • Matching Fines: Repeatedly matched his NBA fines (e.g., $100k fine to a rare disease foundation in 2014) and even paid $30,000 to an anti-cyberbullying charity for swearing on camera.
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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gienieczko.com
This is a friendly PSA: Mark Cuban was, is, and will always be, first and foremost, a Bad Poaster.
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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cmonmaque.bsky.social
Bold truth
gienieczko.com Mat G @gienieczko.com · 20h
This is a friendly PSA: Mark Cuban was, is, and will always be, first and foremost, a Bad Poaster.
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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cmonmaque.bsky.social
So many people earnestly replying they thought he was better than this. WHY!? Why did you think the rich man was your friend? Your pain means less taxes for him. You fucking fool! He's a billionaire. He's a money junkie! "I hope this addict chooses me over his habit" you fucking numbskulls!!!!
cmonmaque.bsky.social Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d
Mark Cuban is against universal healthcare??? But I thought he was one of the good billionaires 😔
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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joffeorama.bsky.social
"if you want to play the harry potter game you should pirate it instead" or, and hear me out, you could have some goddamn self respect and play any one of the near-infinite number of other games that exist instead. but what do I know? I'm just an attractive genius who's better than you.
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM