I must say, I'm heavily intrigued as to what elements of the past Breneir is encouraging us to forget in his latest mailer.

I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone here is petty enough to maliciously submit a vote on someone else's behalf. The only person I wouldn't put it past is Breneir, and he's the "victim".

I don't think it's reasonable to expect either that the offender will, in fact, know who they are, or that they will even see these posts.

So, having seen the ballot link in question (without clicking on it myself), my immediate impression was that it was presented in a way that a reasonable person who is unfamiliar with the voting system might perceive to be completely benign. I don't remember if citizens' names are shown on the ballot page after they enter their personal code, but showing someone else's name can easily be dismissed as an error, if it's noticed at all.

Meantime, I think we also need to take account of Breneir's recklessness. He should by this point be familiar with the voting system, and he sent a link he should reasonably have realized was intended for himself only to a public mailing list.

But, look, we're humans and we make mistakes, and I think the best way to handle this incident is to take whatever Organic steps are necessary to deal with the ballot directly, and then discuss what about the system could be changed to make it more resilient against this kind of human error. Luckily, a new Cosă session is starting pretty soon.

I don't think threatening prosecution is productive here.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on May 31, 2026, 10:27:15 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on May 31, 2026, 09:18:16 AMHi Richard, please ignore the weird welcome by our immigration officials and gladflies. I noticed you are a poet? We have a poetry contest that would welcome your submissions. What would say is the most common thematic element of your writing?

@bluecrystallit

Restated. Welcome to Talossa, Richard.

Mm, you wouldn't know anything about being weird, would you?

It's 'cause they copy-pasted it from their bio on this page:

https://bluecrystallit.uk/the-eminent-editors/

(Funnily enough, a lot of the other editors' bios on this page have weird mistakes as well.)

Yeah, I think it'd be a good idea to alter the link so it doesn't link, even if the text stays the same.

It doesn't look like ChatGPT—way too many grammar mistakes—but it does read like a bunch of self-aggrandizing bullshit.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on January 10, 2026, 01:22:33 PMWhereabouts in Ohio?

Nowhere I stay permanently. I just have an Ohio driver's license.

My current location of residence is within the boundaries of our Big Brother's state of Ohio, which, as far as I can tell, is within the catchment area of the Province of Belacostă.

I think I'd like to make that state of affairs official.

I resign as governor.

You two are perfect for each other.

Apologies for the delay on this.

The XXIVth Nimlet is open.

Under article III section 5, it appears this Nimlet will have 9 seats. 9 Florencian ballots were cast for parties this election, of which 7 were cast for parties that are currently extant, plus a seat for Senator @mximo and a seat for the Governor, who I guess is still me.

The distribution is as follows:
6 seats for the Progressive Alliance
1 seat for the Green Party

The leaders of those parties, @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu and @Breneir Tzaracomprada, are called to nominate residents to hold these seats.

—Iac Marscheir,
Governadeir da Florenciă

Ah, right, on it

https://www.warzone.com/

Another way is to just have everyone who would be running individually be on the same pseudo-party slate, with a maximum number of seats per person, totaling to a contextually-appropriate number, and the rest going unfilled. I'll even pay that pseudo-party's fee.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on December 13, 2025, 09:57:54 PMNot true. The URL stands ready to [campigning]. We are willing to [campaigning] re: [campaigning]. However, the recent [campaigning] [campaigning] to indicate [campaigning].

Welp, I guess this idea's already dead.

The idea isn't so much strengthening individuals as it is to get new parties without pre-existing rivalries to join the Cosă, while giving the existing parties a chance to cool off and take a break from each other, if you like. That last bit is covered by excluding current members of existing political parties from forming or joining new parties.

So, it seems to me that Talossan politics is pretty fractured. The two main parties hate each other enough that one of them nearly formed a government with and gave a cabinet position to an antidemocrat.

These two parties won't be able to form a majority without some kind of reconciliation, which neither seems willing to do. Thus, however the deadlock gets resolved, I'd like to propose the following.

Whenever elections are next held, I propose that every currently extant party in Talossa agree to suspend their campaigns for a period of one Cosă term, with every person seeking membership in the Cosă for that term who normally does so under the banner of a currently extant party instead running as individuals, and every such member thereafter voting according to their conscience, rather than their party affiliation.

I am not currently a member of any political party and have nothing to gain from any party's accession to this agreement. I'm just thinking a reset of some sort wouldn't go amiss.

Don't anybody let it be forgotten how he sees himself.

My guy, it doesn't take anyone casting you as anything but what you are for your authoritarian politics to be objectionable. Absolute monarchists could be the ruling majority and they'd still be repugnant.