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+i wanted to know what the redacted portion of a blocked instance that some random fedi instance blocked
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+keep in mind that it spawns 26 threads
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+## Fun facts
+- This is an embarrassingly parallel problem
+- I ran this on a 24-core machine with two threads per core and it used 54% cpu
+- It took ≈31 real-time seconds but ≈14m30s of cpu time on the machine i ran it on