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thanks Maria! A little bird tells me the epilogue in my piece describes exactly what happened (someone at bsky allegedly read my article and increased their rate limit). I have a name, I need to see if they're willing to go on the record. So even the fix allegedly didn't come from W engineers LOOOL
