Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on July 21, 2025, 08:16:46 PMAnd that's all there is to it. By a vote of 4-0, reaching the 2/3 majority, the motion is passed. And upon passage of an equivalent motion by the Partì da Reformaziun convention, the Free Democrats of Talossa are dissolved, and the inaugural convention of the Union of Free Reformists begins.

I won't say that this isn't a sad day. Thirteen years ago, I had to bring the Talossan Republic to an end; and ten years before that, the Free Commonwealth of Penguinea. Organisations have a life cycle and it is wise to realise when it is time for an organisation to complete that life cycle. By completion, I mean: an ending which allows a new beginning to take place. Schi Allà en volt we will come to love the new Union as much as we loved the FreeDems.

It has been an honour serving with you; see you on the other side.

Being in the FreeDems has been amazing.  Here's to new beginnings.

GV
ZRT-Free Democrats (Republic and Kingdom) ca. 2011 to 21 July 2025

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 19, 2025, 10:47:19 AM@Danihel Txechescu @GV

Do we have a site where Talossans can peruse our public archives? It would be cool, if we don't already, to have a National Archives site. I was thinking of this last night since the government records of the 58th Cosa will be publicly available in a few years.

Do not call it the "National Archives".  The term "National Archives" is strict and denotes solely the Talossan archives that continue to be withheld from the Kingdom by Robert Ben Madison, who may well have destroyed them by now out of spite (I don't think so, but can't rule that out).

GV, Royal Archivist

As far as I know, AD and I were able to archive the whole of the ProBoards Witt.

ProBoards was still as perfectly functional as it had always been, but we were afraid of ProBoards starting to hold our data hostage in some way (paywall, etc.) or going out of business, taking the forum down forever.

Yes, I need to get my Witt archives put up somewhere.

GV, Royal Archivist

Quote from: King Txec on July 09, 2025, 07:58:01 PMTo the tower with you! There is one king here and it's not you!! :-)

-Txec R

Rohan is mine!

On the merger, I vote për.

- GV

Table MPF's motion for now.  We can wait until after the merger to vote and discuss. - GV

Quote from: Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir on July 14, 2025, 09:35:57 PMI would like to propose, that should the above motion fails, we hold a vote on whether or not, with the state of the party right now, we should dissolve the party under the rules of our constitution, or if we should continue.

100% support - GV

At the request of the Party President, I declare our July 2025 Convention to be OPEN.

Party Leadership will in due course post the agenda for all the proceedings.

Thanks, all!

GV, Party Secretary

Quote from: Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir on May 25, 2025, 05:06:53 PMI see no issues with this and would support this

Neither do I.  I'm good to go.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on July 06, 2025, 05:30:03 AMNo, that was me. I set up this version of Witt and was Wittmeister from late 2019 to June 2020; Eðo took over when I left; I resumed Wittmeistering from September 2022 to July 2024 when Dan T took over; and there was a last, final swap that I don't think we announced publicly whereby I am again Wittmeister since mid-April 2025.

There was also another secret swap.  I am now King of Talossa.  ;-)

61RZ13: Për
61RZ14: Contrâ
61RZ15: Contrâ - If we take this to its logical extreme, humanity should starve itself to death.  We are omnivores.  And if you take a look at my physique, you will know I am an omnivore.
61RZ16: An enthusiastic Për - Istefan Perþonest has always been impartial and reliable.  I'm happy to support his return to the Cort.
61RZ17: Contrâ
61RZ18: Për - I would make everything on Lüc's list optional to answer, save only the residency questions, which are absolutely necessary under our present constitution.  Easy bill to support...
61RZ19: Për

- GV, Fiova

Quote from: Xheralt Del'Encradeir on July 09, 2025, 02:36:17 AMAnything not quoted is agreed with or not contested at this time.

...Ián Anglatzara and I were in the Drama Club and Stage Crew; it's quite likely that was how he first got involved with Talossa.

To clarify, XdE means "Ián Valadier" or "Eif". 

Quote from: King Txec on July 09, 2025, 09:31:54 AMI'd be curious to see the files and I won't reveal real names if that is a concern.

-Txec R

I've put together online editions of everything in my possession except the publicly-available Wired magazine March 2000 article on Talossa (25 years ago??  wow.)

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on July 08, 2025, 09:57:03 PMDo we have them archived somewhere?

I should be able to say "yes", but I cannot do that as of yet.  There is a stupid amount of outdated things I need to get to re Talossa. - GV

AD is right.  There has never been a full policy regarding inclusion in the Library of Talossa save what AD & I thought was "notable".

- GV, Royal Archivist

Prehistory to 25 December 1979: Pre-Talossan Period

26 December 1979 to 25 November 1980: Era 1, ending with the Battle of the Garage

26 November 1980 to the day of Frederic Coriu's first visit in 1981(?) and ending at the end of 1982: The Expansionist Era

Frederic Coriu's first visit to Ben's house occurred in 1981(?) and it was his reaction to Ben's Talossan flag that validated Ben's creative life altogether.  I look at this event as being the third-most-important occurrence in Talossan history after the tragic death of Ben's mom in February 1979 and the founding of the Kingdom.

A reading of "the Big History" imho clearly shows the workings of Ben's mind: the death of his mother directly or indirectly led to the founding of Talossa.  Also, everything I've said regarding Ben's mother here is public knowledge Ben put into his public writings.  May she continue to rest in peace.

1979 to 1982 saw as foils to Ben the names Daniel Laurier and Bob M. (the latter competed in the Olympics in swimming for Barbados).  It was not until 1983 Ian M. came on the Talossan scene, becoming not the most important foil Ben ever had (that was Dan), but certainly the most colorful (as Ben put it, "mostly red, white, and black").

1983 to Ben's re-coronation in 1988: The IM Era (for lack of a far-better name). 

I have seen every extant issue of IM's "Talossan National News".  If you have yet to do so yourself, you are officially required to do so.  This is the era of IM's greatest creative output in Talossa, the era of early Davron, King Dobberpuhl, and the legendary King Florence.  Talossa got a whole bunch of stuff out of its system during this time, and it came to a peak and an end at Ben's re-coronation in September 1988 (month?).

That event was the last great gathering of Talossa from its earliest years - sorta like the 1974 Academy Awards from what I can tell.  Davron was there.  Dan L. was there.  IM was there.  I'm pretty sure Cona was there, too. 

We internet-Talossans can never truly know what it was like to have been in-person and in Ben's wider-than-just-Talossa friendship network in Milwaukee.  For better or worse, going online in the 1990s changed Talossa forever.

Very late 1988-November 1990: This is the time when Talossa came the 2nd-closest to going under.  The National Destiny Referendum (name?) in November 1990 saved the country.  In the end, no-one wanted Talossa to go the way of the Dodo, and with that, the stagnation of the past two years came to an end.

1990 is also the year that saw IM come out of the closet.  His time as an independent political force in Talossa in opposition to Ben ends here and even in 2004-2005 never truly returns.  This was the Talossan political equivalent of an earthquake.

December 1990 - to ca. 1995: Resurgence in Talossa.  IM is PM during part of this time and revitalizes the country in a way no-one has before or since.

1995-1996: Beginning of the Cybercit Era.  The first internet-citizens are brought on-board, and they all buy into Ben's creative direction for Talossa.

1997-1998: The next wave of Cybercits come to Talossa.  Not all of them buy into Ben's creative direction for Talossa and wish to do Talossa in somewhat their own way, while keeping well within the Talossan representative-democratic-monarchist structure and system.  The Uppermost Cort's vetoing the citizenship process for Miestra Schiva is infamous.

1997 sees what I believe to be the first mass-exodus in Talossan history: Miestrâ and certain others, I think.  I don't have my notes in front of me, and this is before my time.

1998 sees the second mass-exodus from Talossa: Dan Wardlow and others in dramatic fashion.  Dan burns his Talossan materials, and with them go much documentation of Talossa's earliest Cybercit past.

June 2001: the next mass-exodus - this time the third Liberal Party of Talossa.  Ián Anglatzara is among those who flee.

Not sure about "eras", but Ben in the end is the one who incites all the mass-exoduses that have ever been from Talossa right up to the day I write this screed.

More soon,

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 21, 2025, 01:41:26 PM...As the Reunision era is tied to the honorable work of King John...

Oh dear, oh dear...  King John's "honorable work" only began because of Miestra Schiva making the first move in December 2011 to get the ball rolling. 

Never forget that from 2005 through 2011, John *refused* - either through channels public or private - to try to get us "down south" to come back to the Kingdom.  He rightly saw us as a legitimate threat to the way he wanted to do Talossa, and by societally blocking our return, he succeeded until the Kingdom grew so stagnant (along with far-more moribound Republic, I might add) that in order to keep it from going into a permanent coma, he consented to the influx of people from the Republic and the energy he rightly knew we would bring, even at the cost of the way he wanted to do Talossa.

Logic and common sense dictates a swift return of the "republicans" to the Kingdom immediately or very soon after Ben's abdication and exit.  John had at that time tremendous political and societal sway over the country, and he used that power effectively, fostering and continuing the Ben-started culture of the 'republicans' being the next thing to demonic evil in the world.

John absolutely *refused* to give us "down south" any grace whatsoever about the domains and Wittenberg, succeeding in planting in the minds of many newbies the idea we were the bad guys right along with Ben.

(You can tell I get worked up over this - lol.)

As to "eras", I'll put my thoughts into a reply to this post.

I've read this, and everything seems fine.  Go with it. - GV

Quote from: Sir Lüc on June 08, 2025, 08:37:39 AMAzul. You appear to have no fewer than four registered accounts. I have rationalised them so that your most recently used one is "GV".

Please visit https://wiki.talossa.com/Special:PasswordReset and enter your username (GV) to receive a password reset link.

LOL - I knew I had more than one.

Quote from: King Txec on June 01, 2025, 08:22:35 PMTwenty one years is quite the milestone. I would honor this moment while wearing the Sash of the Republic, we're it in my possession.

-Txec R

John needs to mail it to you, right?