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Live thread. Students and couriers marched from TSU to Government House today over the new municipal licensing surcharge on couriers and small tech startups. Started after Jason Ilyasov's clip on OneDebate ("a tax on the only part of the economy the family doesn't own yet").

Talas people: post what you see. NO NAMES. NO FACES IN PHOTOS. USE A VPN.

Bazar-i Kalan side: some traders closed early and walked with them. My aunt gave free tea to every courier who passed. She says she does not support Ilyasov, she supports bicycles.

clips are everywhere in the bishkek groups. they are singing the anthem?? and then tüntolk??? i'm not crying you're crying

Chicago here, watching every hour. Please be careful, all of you. My sister's boy delivers food in Talas on a bicycle. I told him to wear a hat and not to be a hero. He said, Uncle, it is a bicycle, not a horse.

herald is up and has it: Students march on Government House. read it before attelkom gets slow again. 10 april. 10 april.

In Chatkal they asked me what a courier is. I said: a rider who brings soup. They understood at once and they are on the couriers' side.

IF MOBILE DATA GOES DOWN, IT IS NOT "TECHNICAL WORK". READ "IF WE ARE BLOCKED" ON THE MAIN SITE NOW, WHILE YOU STILL CAN. STAY OFF YOUR NORMAL ACCOUNTS. POST NOTHING THAT IDENTIFIES ANYONE.

Water cannon on Central Square. You can smell the gas at the bazaar. People running into the side streets, still singing.
My phone says no data. I am on my aunt's old computer with the fixed line. If I go quiet, it is the internet, not me.

Nurzhan normal, data works. Talas is dark. Calls go through to friends there, internet no. Everybody I called is home. Calling more.

Anyone from Talas? Lena?

My nephew called by voice. He is home. He says many were taken. He says the bicycle is fine. I sat down for a long time after the call.

What we know from outside: the Herald is putting free PDFs on a mirror and selling paper copies in the street. Attelkom says "technical work". The Synod asked both sides for restraint: "no grievance is served by broken windows, and no order is served by broken heads". Parishes in Talas are told to keep their doors open in the evenings.

still nothing from talas. refreshing this thread like an idiot

Day three. Fixed lines in the centre still work, apparently, if you have one. Nobody under forty has one.

Back. Data came around 15:00. Everyone on my street is home except two boys, and the Legal Defense Guild has them on their list. Aunt's tea urn survived. I am going to sleep for one whole day.

data is back in the centre: Herald. three days. they call it restored.

Attelkom now says it "acted on a directive from the security authorities" and is "legally bound to comply". So: not technical work. Three days. Remember this the next time somebody tells you the internet just broke.

made an account because i read this thread on my friend's phone all week.

i was on central square on thursday. we stopped when they blocked the avenue and sang the first stanza with our hands on our hearts, and then the water came. i lost a shoe. a girl i didn't know gave me her scarf for the gas and i never gave it back, if you read this, i still have it.

friday night we sat in a church, the kashysh made tea and didn't ask anybody anything. my friend was held two days, he's out, the guild helped. no internet, so we wrote the time of everything on our arms with a pen. my grandmother says people did that in 1992. i don't know if it's true but we did it.

october 2023. we were there.

Welcome. Glad you're here, and glad you're home. Keep the scarf.

they SUSPENDED it!!! maksat announced it yesterday. four days before the election lol. more than sixty still being represented by the guild. we keep going

The Lieutenant Governor listened. The system works. Remember to vote on Tuesday.

one year. we were there.

Two years. My aunt still gives every courier free tea on the 12th. She says she will stop when they put up a monument. So never.