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Self Referential Post

I wrote a self referential post!

It refers to itself in three different ways:

First it describes itself in sufficient detail that a casual observer could identify whether any post is equivalent to my post; although of course they could not be certain that it’s the same instance or even whether it’s identical to my post.

Then it gives the first five symbols of the md5sum of the raw source of the post, bdfad, allowing readers to almost definitely identify posts identical to my post.

Finally it gives a direct “pointer” to the actual specific instance that I wrote:

Self Referential Post

I hope you enjoy them.

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