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The live thread is for what happened. This one is for after. What do you see in your street, shop, bus, class, now that data is back?

Bazar-i Kalan: half the stalls now have handwritten signs "CASH ALSO ACCEPTED". After three days with dead card machines nobody trusts the terminal. My aunt has a new sign: "CASH. TEA FREE FOR COURIERS. NO POLITICS AT THE COUNTER."

Taxi side. During the three days the app was dead, so drivers went back to the old way: stand at the corner, shout the district. Old drivers were happy, young drivers did not know the city without the map on the phone. One boy drove me as a passenger to show him the way to the Old City. I paid nothing. He paid me in cigarettes. I don't smoke. I sold them.

I bought a paper map of Talas at a kiosk on Friday. The kiosk man said I was the third today. He has not sold a map since 2011. He looked moved.

tsu: police at the main gate all week, two cars. they don't do anything, they sit and eat sunflower seeds. we walk past. it's like a staring contest that nobody can win. lectures normal. half the class is quiet. two from my group are still on the guild's list

From Nurzhan it is all strange. We had no cut, we watched Talas go dark on the news and on this forum. My eldest wants to go to TSU next year. Now I don't know. Then I think: they also sang the anthem. Children who sing the anthem are not dangerous. Maybe I am naive.

You are not naive. Send him.

My sister says there is a rumour in her building that there will be a curfew from 22:00 in the centre. Is this true? I have told her to be home early anyway. Please, nobody take risks to answer.

I have heard the curfew thing every day since the 15th, from a different person each day, with a different hour each day. 21:00, 22:00, 23:00. Nothing official. Nobody stops anybody. Tell your sister to be home early because it is cold, not because of the curfew.

There is no curfew order published anywhere. For a curfew they need a decree, and a decree has a number. A rumour does not have a number. If anyone sees a number, post it here and I'll read it.

There is no curfew. Everything is normal. Please, those who were on the square, which faculty are you from? Only so I can send best wishes.

lol no

She said no. I also say no. You know where the probation button is, and so do I.

everyone's on tulpar now because the foreign apps crawl herald says so too. gg wp attelkom

Night in the centre is very quiet now. Gendarmerie van at Central Square every night, engine on, nobody inside looks at anything. I pass four times a night. They know my car now. One night one of them waved. I waved back. We are now friends who don't talk.

Our office installed a "backup internet". It is a fixed line in the meeting room and a sign-up sheet. Thirty people, one cable. The boss is very proud. This is how the economy adapts.

Día de Muertos procession on the 1st. this year more people than ever from the city. a lot of young people with tsu scarves. they put candles for nobody in particular. the horse walked, nobody said anything. it was a good night, a sad good night

levy suspended (posted in the other thread). on the street today couriers honking at every corner. one courier rode past tsu with a speaker playing tüntolk. the police at the gate pretended not to hear. i think they also liked it

Election day passed. Nobody talked about it in my car. Not one passenger. Everyone talked about bread, rent and football. 92 and something percent. My passengers are 0 percent interested.

Two months. The "cash also accepted" signs are still up. My aunt says she will never take hers down. She says a sign is cheaper than trust.

Police car at the tsu gate gone since New Year. Students noticed in one minute. The sunflower seed shells are still there. Somebody made a little sign: "they were here".