diff --git a/.github/workflows/badstrings.yml b/.github/workflows/badstrings.yml
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-name: badstrings
-on: [pull_request, push]
-jobs:
-  badstrings:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: scanning commit message for bad strings
-        run: |
-          #!/bin/bash
-          set -euo pipefail
-          IFS=$'\n\t'
-          message="${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}"
-          
-          strings=($(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/someara/badstrings/main/strings.txt))
-          for i in ${strings[@]} ; do
-            echo "${message}" | grep -v "$i" &>/dev/null;
-          done