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Opening up as Karaite: Karaism, Judaism, Israel, Palestinians, and Antisemitism 1

Opening up as Karaite: Karaism, Judaism, Israel, Palestinians, and Antisemitism

Earlier this week I got the question, what is my opinion about the ongoing antisemitism?The answer is that this is difficult to answer. To understand, you have to know that Karaites aren’t always seen as equal among Jews, let alone Israelis. And for clarity, I do make a distinction between Jews and Israelis, regardless of …

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The truth about Twitter's verification marks and the easy way to solve it 2

The truth about Twitter’s verification marks and the easy way to solve it

It has been all over the news recently, Musk’s ridiculous decision to make verification marks able to be bought based on a subscription model. At least, in certain countries. The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). This has caused some interesting effects that haven’t been …

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An end to my subtitling, the start of something new 3

An end to my subtitling, the start of something new

The online part of the explanation Since the start of this week, we’ve gotten new financial backers, which will allow me to keep this blog up and running for at least another year. And we finally got to hear from Automattic about the reasons why there weren’t any ads showing up recently anymore. We’ve now …

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I'm pulling the plug but not before saying this 4

I’m pulling the plug but not before saying this

7 years ago, I started this blog. And since 6 years ago, it has been hosted on this domain. This blog has been crucial in parts of my life, including these past few years. Trying to discover some information I wanted to share on this blog, I met my wife, to who I’ve been happily …

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A Look Into My Life: Detained by the police 5

A Look Into My Life: Detained by the police

[Disclaimer: Before I will say what I want to say, I have to note that the event I will be telling about has happened in the recent past. The reason for not sharing the exact date is to protect the identity of the police officers in question. This share is with the permission of these …

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In addition to my selective mutism and autism posts 6

In addition to my selective mutism and autism posts

Earlier today, I shared my blog post about the condition of selective mutism, which I have been diagnosed with. And as the disclaimer reads, it was proofread by a licensed psychologist. However, after publishing, I did get reached out to by a clinical psychologist about the lack of something that should have been noted in …

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A Look Into My Life: When you are unable to speak (selective mutism) 7

A Look Into My Life: When you are unable to speak (selective mutism)

Disclaimer: The following blog post is not intended or implied to be medical advice and cannot be interpreted in such a way. This share is intended to give a factual view of the condition of selective mutism as someone who is diagnosed with it and is only intended for informational purposes. Always seek the guidance …

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What's truly been happening and why we're going on hiatus 8

What’s truly been happening and why we’re going on hiatus

As friends of my dad could have read on his Facebook, we have moved to different license agreements. This is true. But what he didn’t tell all of you is that this is before he is planning to fully abandon this blog and give all of it to me, which I don’t actually want. When …

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There's simply no excuse, yet I'm sorry 9

There’s simply no excuse, yet I’m sorry

The 21st of December 2014, I started out my Twitter profile. Just a teen at that time, technically a child, I started out my Twitter tweeting about what was happening in Donetsk. The choice of this has always been the best I have made, even though it did both good and bad to me. I …

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A Look Into My Life: Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Look Into My Life: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Note: An addition to this post is shared here: https://snowcalmth.com/selective-mutism-and-autism/ In the last post by my son Vlad, you could read a bit about autism spectrum disorder already. As he told, a lot of people tend to think of the obsessive behavior when it comes to it. Similarly, there is a lot of attention to …

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