@ancient-history.bsky.social @ancient-history.bsky.social 
V.H.T. @v-h-t.bsky.social Historien. Si vous me dites que l'arc long a été décisif à Azincourt, je vous éjecte dans les limbes.
https://u-bordeaux3.academia.edu/VincentHaure
Medieval war in Eng. Gascony & medieval urban⚔️ policies
Melissa Ryckman @missoularedhead.bsky.social Historian, medievalist, geek, feminist, mom, crocheter, potter. Order changes depending on day. Associate professor. All my own thoughts (most of which lately are 'wtf'). Desperately trying to do research.
Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social Historian of early Middle Ages, Grandmother, Leftwing, Labour, Leeds, British, European. Emerita Prof University of Liverpool
Carol Barbon @childoflions.bsky.social Uvic student majoring in Medieval Studies, future Medievalist, a fan of paleontology, and a mother of three. (she/her).
J.J. North Wannabe @phillyadam.bsky.social Collector & researcher of English, Irish & Scottish hammered coins minted in the 13th-14th centuries. Member BNS, RNS, ANS & ANA. Cambridge United supporter
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Literature @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they.
// medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture //
https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall
Kordula Wolf @kordulawolf.bsky.social researcher @dhiroma.bsky.social | early medieval southern Italy | Christian-Muslim relations | Mediterranean
Grant Jones @grantosjones.bsky.social Medieval Historian interested in the relationships between the Church and chivalric culture c.1100-1250.
'Parfois au loin se laissait voir / Un feu qui se balance'
Pursue happiness with diligence.
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes.
“There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC
https://linktr.ee/briantylercohen
John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […]
[bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social Broke Project Archaeologist with Alpine Archaeological Consultants. Music (cyphernaut.bandcamp.com/follow_me), author (ORCID: 0000-0001-7987-8227), photography (andrewreinhard.com). Based in Chicagoland.
Dr. Briana Jackson @baladria.bsky.social Egyptologist ⛏ writer ✍️ archaeogamer 🎮gardening 👩🌾 knitting 🧶 Myst 📖 OFMD 🏴☠️ Expedition 33 🖼️ 40 👵
AO3:
- Please Let Me Hold You 🌵🦉
- I Go to the Fenians ☘️
🔗: https://www.brianacjackson.com/biolinks
Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO
Opinions are my own ¬ the views of my employer
Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games
James Sweeting @crazyblue.bsky.social Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth
Principal Investigator for www.vagaboundsresearch.org
PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023)
Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form
www.relativenostalgia.com
www.jsweeting.me
Ian Regueiro Salcedo @arkeologian.bsky.social Soy una cierva albina en @arqueocerva.bsky.social. Con un mando en una mano 🎮 y un pico en la otra ⛏️. Historiador, arqueólogo clásico y sobretodo archaeogamer. En estos momentos sobreviviendo en Italia como PhD en arqueología y videojuegos #archaeogaming
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social Composer and wargame designer.
Composer for Blackheart, RED ECHO, REKKR, the Ruins of Calaworm, and Outer Ring MMO - www.tom-jensen.com
Designer of Missile Threat, War by Sail, Lacquered Coffins, Hind & Seek, Ukraine 2022, Ostfront, etc.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
patguy @patguy.bsky.social Thing that writes, and sleeps. Not that other asshole.
The Sunday Scaries appear weekly at ghoulishdelights.com
pat-harrigan.com
Dr. Kurtis Hanlon @kurtishanlon.bsky.social An assistant professor in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Palacký University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Former lecturer at Yale, UBC. Designated departmental baker (he/him)
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
Janice Liedl @jliedl.bsky.social Historian at Laurentian University (Canada). Researching early modern crime and urban women's lives, but I can never stay away from questions of popular culture & history. Gamer, fan, fibre artist.
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Performance & Pedagogy. I think of myself as an Ethical Paladin but am known for intimacy choreography, larp, immersive theatre, laughing loudly, teaching teachers, adopting dogs, & editing the Journal of Consent-Based Performance
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
ARISE (Arqueologia Interativa e Simulações Eletrônicas) @archarise.bsky.social Página do laboratório de pesquisa ARISE, sediado na FURG e vinculado ao MAE-USP | ⛏️ Archaeogaming | 🎲 Historical Game Studies | 🎮 Métodos digitais
The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social Connecting Modern Societies to Ancient Worlds. Ancient Office Hours Podcast & The Reading Party Podcast. Pnyx Digital Magazine. #history #Archaeogaming #podcasts #reception #digitalhumanities & more!
ArchaeoPlays @archaeoplays.bsky.social They/them. Disabled/chronically ill Minecraft YouTuber, & archaeologist (aka: Dr. Heather Christie). Early medieval Scotland specialist & glass bead nerd. Lead Researcher for Carved in Stone. https://linktr.ee/archaeoplays | email: archaeoplays@gmail.com
Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social 🤓 Co-Founder @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social; 🎤 Ancient Office Hours podcast; 🇬🇷 Classics PhD student @ Bristol Uni; 🎮 studying transmedia adaptation & classical reception in The Last of Us; ☀️ Luceo Non Uro 🔥; ☕️ tea connoisseur
Dr. John R. Legg @legg.bsky.social Historian and college professor. Really interested in Native American history and Digital Public History. Trying to learn trumpet. Photog.
www.johnlegg.org
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
School of Innovation & Technology @sit-gsa.bsky.social The School of Innovation & Technology at The Glasgow School of Art
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Nick LaLone @nicklalone.com Applied researcher in emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
Currently working on some #ttrpg research to better emergency management workforce development in #wargames and #seriousgames
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf- S Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social Environmental historian and game designer; mom to an amazing boy and animals.
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
www.hajjtrail.com/game
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Vacceo_coffee @vacceopal.bsky.social 
Pablo @vacceo.bsky.social Iberian hermit, keeper of the dead, remembrancer, narration devourer. Sworn to the black and red. I teach Anthropology at the University of Valladolid and, sometimes, I even write about games and myths.
Bego @diniekes.bsky.social Niña-Kratos
Rutxi García @rutxigarcia.bsky.social Profesora en la UCLM. Investigadora en videojuegos, arte, historia y educación. Integrante de @antifaeduca
Lecturer at the UCLM. Video game, Art, History and Education Scholar. Memeber of @antifaeduca
#gamestudies
Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social Appalachian academic. Medievalist. Mom. Maker-in-training. Vikings/Women/Labor/ Identity. Chaotic good gnomish bard. She/her. Per uni attorneys: "'opinions expressed here are my own' so it is clear" I am "not representing an official university position.
Jeremy Best @besthistories.bsky.social Historian of modern Germany. Colonialism. Religion. Games. Holocaust educator. Determined to save history. He/him/his. All views my own.
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Meghan Sullivan @celticqueenmeg.bsky.social Video Games, History, Pizza! 🍕💕 Email: megnhistory@gmail.com Website: https://www.historyngames.com
Zeljko Kos - Making Pompeii: The Legacy @zzeljkokos.bsky.social Solo dev, working on city builder Pompeii: The Legacy. Programmer and game designer since 1999. Co-founder of LGM Games & Overseer Games, owner of Siscia Games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/Pompeii_The_Legacy/?utm_source=bs&utm_campaign=h2
Clare Chang @cyyclare.bsky.social 1st year Classics PhD student studying Narrative in Petitions from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Generally interested in all things related to narratives and stories and novels
Avid Mobile Game Player (currently fixated with Path to Nowhere & Reverse 1999)
Robert C. Engen @robertengen.bsky.social Senior lecturer in war studies at Deakin University, working on the PME command and staff course in Canberra. 🇨🇦 in 🇦🇺, not going back.
Military historian turned war studier turned wargame designer. Also a “pretty good but don’t quit your day job” artist.
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay and #medieval set #TTRPG, and idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
criticalplayorg @criticalplayorg.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for The Center for the History of Video Games, Technology, and Critical Play at CSU, Long Beach (criticalplay.org) also @criticalplayorg@mstdn.social
Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social Stevan Anastasoff, former White Dwarf writer, and video game designer: Warhammer Online, For Honor, Assassin's Creed, and many more. Now working on Tales from the Mabinogion, a game about Welsh mythology using Welsh as its principal language.
Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social Ancient History @unitrier.bsky.social | 🇱🇺 in 🇩🇪 | 🐈🐈 | Roman & Hellenistic monarchies & courts | late antiquity | Roman republic | 🏛🏺& video games | memes | not a classicist | https://bitly.cx/PLDno
The ArchaeoGaming Collective @archaeogameco.bsky.social A gaming and archaeological conference to share #archaeogaming based research and gameplay with a broader, virtual audience worldwide.
The highly anticipated #AGCon will return in 2026!
https://archaeogameco.weebly.com/
Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social Archaeologist, educator, science communication. Also talk a lot about games and media, art, politics, and labor issues
Cullan James @cullanjames.bsky.social Yaps about history, memory, politics, digital media, film/television, the works
🇺🇸 in 🇨🇿
Doctoral researcher in media studies | MA Slavic Studies | MGPS Global Governance and International Law
Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
Richard Cole @richardcole.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Futures at the University of Bristol (Bristol Digital Futures Institute) and co-director of the #BristolDigitalGameLab
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Klara Sterczewska @klarast.bsky.social PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Rev Dr John Plus Dr Mary @revdrjohn.bsky.social PhDs in history and theology of Jihad in Islam/Xnty in Syriac and Arabic and other topic, ex-academics, historical wargame designer and retiree. Our identities concealed due to threats and doxxing.
Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social She/her. Dr of digiarch, ethics, archaeology, and archaeogaming. I restore old houses, write for games, and talk a lot about my dogs and about tacos. On the job market!
ORCiD: 0000-0002-3109-4555
FKA: Gingerygamer
Web: meghandennis.com
Mercator (OUT NOW!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social Run shops, make items, haggle for profit, and explore ancient cities from South West India to Rome.
Grab it on itch and Steam!
Stephan Friedrich Mai @wicquefortdiary.bsky.social Privat hier. Historian (early modern period). Knowledge, diplomacy, politics/conflict and war, gender, and history represented in digital games. PhD project: social construction of diplomatic knowledge (A. de Wicquefort)
Mike "Silph" Hall, PhD arc @silphcolapras.bsky.social PhD Student at UArk in "what if history, but video game?" (Cultural Studies, but predominantly DH and Archaeology)
MA DH
Melodic Death Metal Leftist #TesticularCancerSurvivor they/them
Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist. 
Florian Nieser @fnieser.bsky.social Medieval literature studies, Digital Humanities, Game Studies - Work and Research in the field of critical AI engineering and transmediality (he/him)
Pascal @pascaliensis.bsky.social Bayesian librarian & attribution historian
Boolean engineering since 1995
P&RP my own : about citation, information literacy & tabletop role-playing games
«Citez-vous les uns les autres»
Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism
Martina Fuchs🔜 SPIEL Essen @missbaybee.bsky.social Boardgame Podcast The Fux from Fux und Bär (yellowgeekbear.bsky.social) Köln
Jury Member of Spiel des Jahres, Educator (she/her)
"Welcome to the magical realm of a board game enthusiast, where every post feels like an invitation to a party you never knew.
Robert Houle @rjhoule.bsky.social History professor, disc golfer and board-gamer who believes the echoes of the past weave through the present. It’s our job to understand them, in all their brilliance and awfulness.
Tijana Rupcic @ferejatina.bsky.social Energy historian by profession ⚡️video game scholar by obsession 🎮 caffeinated cryptid by necessity 👾
Assistant Professor at Polish Academy of Sciences 🇵🇱
Ragnar Holm Fellow at KTH 🇸🇪
Games and Gaming Lab (UofGGamesLab) @uofggameslab.bsky.social An ArtsLab Research Lab promoting cross-disciplinary research & education from tabletop to video games. We explore innovative uses of #games & #gaming to help people make ideas fly like bicycles, @uofglasgow.bsky.social & beyond! Follow/Like ≠ endorsement.
Abe Stein @abestein.bsky.social A Geek in Sports Clothing. Founder of Look | Think | Move. MIT, Haverford. (He/Him). Go read The LTM Zine lookthinkmove.com/zine
Tim Peacock @drtimpeacock.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History & War Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social
& Director @uofggameslab.bsky.social. Space, Nuclear, Games, AI, Politics. Helping to make ideas fly like bicycles! Views mine. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/timothypeacock
Ariana Ellis 💀 @writingmedieval.bsky.social (She/her) Medieval/Early Modern PhD @UofT History I Writer I Social/Sensory history I DH I Death studies I Video games I Puns!
Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Grip Fast Gameworks @gripfastgame.works Our Game >>> https://goingforthbyday.com 🎮
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Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/gfgw 🚂
Website: https://gripfastgame.works 🌐
Ylva Grufstedt @ylvagrufstedt.bsky.social Finally (?) made it to Bluesky. Historian focused on on digital public history, historical game studies, game production and cultural heritage. PhD in shenanigans.
Your Bookish Boyfriend @bookishboyfriend.bsky.social Spicy account for the thirsty book boys (and anyone else who wants to look 😘)
18+ only NSFW content
🏳️🌈💍 taken
Follow on insta for book content
https://www.instagram.com/your.bookish.boyfriend?igsh=MW5weDJzYnE2Ym5yeQ==