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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It looks like a guitar pick to me. 🙃

[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Damn, it looked like candy to me too until I read your comment. Now all I see is candy guitar pick.