Does anyone know what state of online protests and non violent affirmative actions and If there's any options for us that we can pursue? like sure a change.org petition, but like anything like mass emailing in ect?

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on March 12, 2025, 10:45:41 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on March 12, 2025, 04:25:24 PM"es oðreux" -> "es oð." ?

It's ödreux, not oðreux. Hence "es öd."

Ah now that I can do!

Where may one find a ð on a keyboard without copying and pasting?

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on March 12, 2025, 10:54:10 AMI wish to propose a meeting/discussion as to the Royal Society's preferred referencing style for bibliographies.

There being many options to choose from, for example, Harvard, Chicago, Modern Language Association (MLA), APA (American Psychological Association) Et Al.... Or we could create our own style (which would be very us!).

An Example of our own referencing could be:
Talossan Wordsmith Association Theoretical style (TWATS): Number of order of reference, Authors last name, first name, Middle name (if available), Title of cited work, Chapter/section Title, page, year of work cited publication, Media of cited work (cocktail napkin/website/book/ect), City of publication, Province of Publication, Last beverage consumed at time of reference, date of beverage when said consumed, ISBN/Website address/link to pdf or photograph if possible.
In text citation, last name, order of reference, first 3 letters of beverage.

Example: "The answer to Life... the universe....  and everything ... is ... 42" (Adams,1,lem)

1. Adams, Douglas, Noel, "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy",27, 182, 2005, book, London, Cezambre, lemonade, 03/12/25, ISBN 0330438956, can be read: https://www.deyeshigh.co.uk/downloads/literacy/world_book_day/the_hitchhiker_s_guide_to_the_galaxy.pdf 

another example
2. Van der Vegt, Gerben S., Emans, Ben, Van de Vliert, Evert, "Conflicts with Friends: A Multiplex View of Friendship and Conflict and Its Association with Performance in Teams", conclusion, 29, 2001, website, Birmingham Alabama, Maritiimi-Maxhestic, lemonade, 12/03/25, can be read:

Quote from: King Txec on March 12, 2025, 10:58:02 AMI love the idea of creating our own referencing style. I don't love the acronym TWATS though.

-Txec R

Very Understandable as rather clunky and rude, Just couldn't think of many arconyms with T xD

Could we get a talossan short hand for academic writing peroses for the term "And others" or in common short hand "et al"?

I wish to propose a meeting/discussion as to the Royal Society's preferred referencing style for bibliographies.

There being many options to choose from, for example, Harvard, Chicago, Modern Language Association (MLA), APA (American Psychological Association) Et Al.... Or we could create our own style (which would be very us!).

An Example of our own referencing could be:
Talossan Wordsmith Association Theoretical style (TWATS): Number of order of reference, Authors last name, first name, Middle name (if available), Title of cited work, Chapter/section Title, page, year of work cited publication, Media of cited work (cocktail napkin/website/book/ect), City of publication, Province of Publication, Last beverage consumed at time of reference, date of beverage when said consumed, ISBN/Website address/link to pdf or photograph if possible.
In text citation, last name, order of reference, first 3 letters of beverage.

Example: "The answer to Life... the universe....  and everything ... is ... 42" (Adams,1,lem)

1. Adams, Douglas, Noel, "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy",27, 182, 2005, book, London, Cezambre, lemonade, 03/12/25, ISBN 0330438956, can be read: https://www.deyeshigh.co.uk/downloads/literacy/world_book_day/the_hitchhiker_s_guide_to_the_galaxy.pdf 

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 11, 2025, 03:46:19 PMHello, I would like to publish my thesis as well. It concerns UN reform so I doubt it will be of interest to most but would love to participate in this rejuvenation project.

Absolutely! Fundamentally, your offering of a thesis grants you fellowship to the society, whereas we used to only offer lessons, which adds an extra barrier of entry out of your knowledge sharing. And considering our 40% college/university educated population, many of us have at least a specialist subject they can talk about. This the main is a shift away from a of the previous model.

However, the project itself is also intended for a collection of talossan/micronational knowledge, of which we can publish said work together, share with fellow micronations and the wider world, as, each community of micronations operates in a quarzi-terrarium of culture, rules of society, political dynamics that may be of interest to mainline achademaia.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on January 09, 2025, 08:34:06 PMI do thank you for the enquiry,  and apologies for a protracted reply.
I have been, somewhat mootedly, been awaiting any further comments as to forward movement within the society and if any existing members wished to weigh in.
I felt this was important at the the time as I didn't wish to over step, namy on any toes.
I personally has actually been suffering a minor case of writers block of my own, as I feel as president, the precedent of membership of the society is that submitting a piece of work is minimum its of membership, I have found myself as of yet without work to submit to the society. Partly I wanted to build out upon my own masters thesis and see if it where possible to transpose it's nature of cyber-pragmatic tribalism across from intergenerational conflict cultural studies... I have however misplaced my original manuscript, which has made the process daunting and somewhat disheartening. I will strive to have this work produced as soon as I can find new literature to add my current deflated bibliography.

I do endeavour to start some form of advertising presently, in hope of having some form of competition or wider call for papers for what hopefully become a Micronational sociological journal, for which I at least intend to include my own work. I also hope to hear back from some correspondence at the his majesty's foreign office as to necessarily clearance to engage in international diplomatic efforts to try and gain a wider audience and submissions. I have not however been directly granted said diplomatic permission.

All this is in view of his majesty's year of community plans.

In update, I have found my previous thesis and intend to publish my introductory work "Lemon Juice Robbery, Corpo-personal feuds, Bubbles within Bubbles, Caveman jocking and The Terrarium that is Talossa" sometime in the next month, currently standing at 2300 words, and that's just the literature review mostly. 

Quote from: Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM on January 19, 2025, 10:35:29 PMSenior Fellow Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM
- A.A. Liberal Studies
- B.S. Business Leadership (Magna Cum Laude) w/ Minors in Religious Studies & Criminal Justice
- M.A. Museum Studies (w/ Honors) w/ Specializations in Museum Administration & Curation 

As a senior fellow, what are your thoughts as to the Rejuvenation plan?

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on January 16, 2025, 10:59:17 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on January 16, 2025, 07:59:24 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on January 15, 2025, 07:16:34 PM

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on January 15, 2025, 06:50:02 PMI agree that a year long cosa would be to ungainly as half the fun is the elections.

Can you please elaborate on what would make our elections ungainly with them being conducted annually?

@Tierçéu Rôibeardescù

Tierciu, I look forward to your response as I am genuinely curious what is ungainly about a longer term. Feel free to respond in private if that is better for you but I want to understand the opposition beyond "elections are fun for some."

Just from experience the "vim" is often lost, depleted and or exorsted by Clark 5/6 that it feels like everything starts dragging its feet. By that point, a coalition has often broken up or just stopped responding, leaving some branches of government out of action until new appointments, which are often made peicmeal at and around election.
I do agree that elections arnt always fun as it tends to brig out both the best and worst of our politics.

I personally quite like the "Proportional Provincial voting" cosa idea, a lot more of a parliament style of a "big pants" nation. It would be interesting to work out the right balance so that more and less active provinces are indeed fairly proportioned. I would force party's to actually have better accountability to the provinces too than the current system, how that will manifest is yet to be determined.
I agree that a year long cosa would be to ungainly as half the fun is the elections. I do think there should be enough time in each cosa to enact somthing big, say, sending a cube sat to space, or a key reform, but then also the challenge of doing it quickly and in time for an election, as if you run out of things to do it gives chance for apathy. Running out of time is better then running out of things to do, and can be built on after the fact if necessary, outside of party leanings.

As a non vegetarian, yet of a family where vegetarianism was practiced and passed down 4 generations, from the days of "The Cranks",

We still make tomato bake, a very simple recipe, consisting of 2 tins of chopped tomato, 1 poured first into a baking dish, a layer of oats to cover, marjoram dashed across,a layer of cheese, followed by the second tin with yet another 2 layer of oats then cheese (kinda like a super basic lasagne).

Basic yes but delish 😋

How about Space Hiking, Rocketry and Universal Bumbalings & Buildings of Exploaration and Royal Yacht club... Or SHRUBBERY Club for short

I do thank you for the enquiry,  and apologies for a protracted reply.
I have been, somewhat mootedly, been awaiting any further comments as to forward movement within the society and if any existing members wished to weigh in.
I felt this was important at the the time as I didn't wish to over step, namy on any toes.
I personally has actually been suffering a minor case of writers block of my own, as I feel as president, the precedent of membership of the society is that submitting a piece of work is minimum its of membership, I have found myself as of yet without work to submit to the society. Partly I wanted to build out upon my own masters thesis and see if it where possible to transpose it's nature of cyber-pragmatic tribalism across from intergenerational conflict cultural studies... I have however misplaced my original manuscript, which has made the process daunting and somewhat disheartening. I will strive to have this work produced as soon as I can find new literature to add my current deflated bibliography.

I do endeavour to start some form of advertising presently, in hope of having some form of competition or wider call for papers for what hopefully become a Micronational sociological journal, for which I at least intend to include my own work. I also hope to hear back from some correspondence at the his majesty's foreign office as to necessarily clearance to engage in international diplomatic efforts to try and gain a wider audience and submissions. I have not however been directly granted said diplomatic permission.

All this is in view of his majesty's year of community plans.