Azul, I thought I would give a brief update on recent database login issues.

In the first instance, an MZ directly visited the Clark voting page without being logged in. The page did not tell him he wasn't logged in, but rather informed him he did not appear to be an MC or Senator. I fixed the issue by adding a hint telling users to log in first.

Unfortunately I forgot a slash in the login url, which caused a second MZ to be redirected to a nonexistent page when attempting to log in from the Clark voting page. This was also promptly fixed. Logins from any other point of the website worked as expected.

These are the only confirmed reports of bugs involving logins. Last month, I assisted one MZ who was unable to log in but they simply were using the wrong credentials; and in one recent instance I was unable to determine what was causing login issues for another MZ, as when they retried logging in under my supervision they no longer had issues.

Users who experience issues with any part of the database are encouraged to reach out to me - we'll troubleshoot them together and your detailed feedback greatly helps solving your case quickly.

Voting on the July 2025 Clark (the third of the 61st Cosă) is now open, until the 21st of the month, at 19h30 TST.

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/3 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/5/58/July2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

MCs and Senators can all vote on the new Database using the credentials I sent you earlier: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

If you wish to vote on Wittenberg, MCs can vote here and Senators can vote here. Please do not vote any other way or on any other thread.




Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Members of the Cosă, you can cast your votes on the First Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/3 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/5/58/July2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

Senators, you can cast your votes on the Second Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/3 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/5/58/July2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

The call for bills for the July 2025 Clark (the third of the 61st Cosă) is now open. You may post a link to a bill's Hopper thread underneath in the usual fashion, provided it has passed the Hopper according to Lex.H.2 and you are entitled to Clark bills.

I will accept for Clarking any such bills (except for any that fall foul of H.2.7) that are presented between now and June 30th 11:59 PM TST, as I will begin assembling the Clark on the CEST morning of July 1st.



Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretary of State

WHEREAS, El Lexhatx Title C Article 1.2.2.2 states:

"Other questions on the Talossan Census shall be identical to the questions on the last census. These questions may be changed by the Chancery, either of its own volition or on request from the Seneschal, but any changes shall be approved by the Ziu, without needing to go through committee."

WHEREAS, a biennial Census is due this summer; and

WHEREAS, several points regarding the current set of questions were raised following the last Census in 2023; so

THEREFORE be it enacted by the King, Cosa and Senäts in Ziu assembled, that the first Census following passage of this Act shall contain the following questions, pursuant to El Lexhatx Title C Article 1.2.2.2 and in addition to those provided by C.1.2.2.1:

• Gender, with the listed options of Male, Female, Nonbinary, and Other
• Age, with the listed options of 14-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, and 60+ years
• Civil Status
• Household size, expressed as a range from 1 to 10+
• Industry, instructing respondents "choose category that best describes your occupation" and with the listed options of Agriculture, Arts, Business and Finance, Clergy and Community Services, Construction and Trades, Education and Childcare, Engineering and Computer Science, Healthcare, Homemaking, Hospitality and Food Services, Legal Services, Manufacturing, Military, Sales, Sciences, Transportation, Unemployed, and Other.
• Ethnic self-identification
• Religious Affiliation, with the listed options of Buddhism, Christianity (Orthodox), Christianity (Protestant), Christianity (Roman Catholic), Hinduism, Islam (Shia), Islam (Sunni), Judaism, Nonreligious, and Other.
• Education Level
• Household Income, with options allowing for a wide range of answers and denominated in both louise and euro and United States dollar equivalents.

• Location of physical residence, with a suggestion respondents reply down to the precision required by provincial catchment legislation.

FURTHERMORE, the Chancery may privately contact respondents whose place of residence doesn't match their current provincial assignment to advise them of their right to move to their province of residence if they so choose.

Uréu q'estradra så,

Sir Lüc da Schir, Secretary of State

Voting on the June 2025 Clark (the second of the 61st Cosă) is now open, until the 21st of the month, at 19h30 TST.

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/2 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/0/06/June2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

MCs and Senators can all vote on the new Database using the credentials I sent you earlier: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

If you wish to vote on Wittenberg, MCs can vote here and Senators can vote here. Please do not vote any other way or on any other thread.




Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Members of the Cosă, you can cast your votes on the First Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/2 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/0/06/June2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

Senators, you can cast your votes on the Second Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/2 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/0/06/June2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

The call for bills for the June 2025 Clark (the second of the 61st Cosă) is now open. You may post a link to a bill's Hopper thread underneath in the usual fashion, provided it has passed the Hopper according to Lex.H.2 and you are entitled to Clark bills.

I will accept for Clarking any such bills (except for any that fall foul of H.2.7) that are presented between now and May 31st 11:59 PM TST, as I will begin assembling the Clark on the CEST morning of June 1st. (Annoyingly, once again I might have commitments because there's Pride this weekend. I will try to do as much work in advance as possible to avoid delays in opening the Clark.)



Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretary of State

So Glüc and I finally met in person over the last weekend, with TCAT scheduled to begin in less than a week...

What better coincidence to record the fourth installment of Centraseiră in person - Talossa's beloved(ish) occasional podcast (mostly) about the Talossan Cycling Association Tour!

This is going to be a fair deal more cycling-centered than episode 3 - there's still ten minutes of general chat if you're down for that at the beginning. If cycling is not your thing though, I do kind of want to record Episode 5 in the (not too distant) future, and cover more Talossan topics.


In this episode:
- Lüc admits to the existence of kompromat involving raw herring;
- Glüc yawns loudly (I cut that out, you're welcome);
- Lüc gets guilt-tripped over taking part in Talossachess;
- Glüc also wants to guilt-trip you all into doing a game night;
- Lüc recounts getting spanked (in boardgames);
- Glüc is happy about the composition of the TMT20 final, less so about the order.

But mostly:
- We discuss our weekend together in the Netherlands up to that point;
- We briefly discuss TMT20 results and other chatroom activities;
- We play our usual Velogames credits guessing game for the upcoming first leg of TCAT 2025, shadowing Giro d'Italia 2025.

We hope you enjoy - and remember signups for TCAT Italy 2025 are open over in the Chatroom!

Voting on May 2025 Clark (the first of the 61st Cosă) is now open, until the 21st of the month, at 19h30 TST.

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/1 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/5/5a/May2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

MCs and Senators can all vote on the new Database using the credentials I sent you earlier: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

If you wish to vote on Wittenberg, MCs can vote here and Senators can vote here. Please do not vote any other way or on any other thread.




Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Senators, you can cast your votes on the First Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/1 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/5/5a/May2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

Members of the Cosă, you can cast your votes on the First Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/terms/61/clarks/1 (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/5/5a/May2025Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

The call for bills for the May 2025 Clark (the first of the 61st Cosă) is now open. You may post a link to a bill's Hopper thread underneath in the usual fashion, provided it has passed the Hopper according to Lex.H.2 and you are entitled to Clark bills.

I will take any such bills (except for any that fall foul of H.2.7) that are presented between now and the publishing of the Clark, no earlier than the TST morning of May 1st.



Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretary of State

Azul, by the powers conferred unto me (I guess) as Cunstaval of Atatürk, seeing as the province hasn't formed an executive or a House of Commons in many moons, I would like to step in and help get things organised, or at least attempt to do so.

The most recent elections for the House of Commons resulted in 4 votes for the Progressive Alliance and 3 votes for ¡Avant!. Pursuant to Article II.1 of the Constitution of Atatürk, the House of Commons will have 20 seats and so this translates to 11 seats for PROG and 9 for AVANT, after rounding each to the nearest integer.

I invite PROG leader @þerxh Sant-Enogat and AVANT leaders @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be  to apportion their seats as required by Article II.2 (to adult Atatürkeys, without a Talossan criminal record, and who have voted in the most recent General Election).

Azul. All seats of the Cosă having already been filled, first of all, welcome all and thanks for agreeing to serve as Members of the Cosă!

It is my pleasure to hereby open nominations for the post of Túischac'h, to serve until the dissolution of the 61th Cosă (ideally an MC would do this, but the outgoing Túischac'h is no longer an MC.)

The rules governing the election of a Túischac'h are found under Lex.H.4.4:

Quote4.4.1. Should the position of Túischac'h be vacant and a majority of Cosă seats be filled, any Member of the Cosă may either nominate one eligible person for the office of Túischac'h, or second such a nomination made by another Member of the Cosă.
4.4.2. Members of the Cosă may not nominate or second multiple different nominees.
4.4.3. Should the Secretary of State determine that an eligible person has been nominated and seconded by members currently representing an absolute majority of seats in the Cosă, the Secretary of State shall declare the person to be duly elected as Túischac'h, to serve until the Dissolution of the current Cosă.

Azul, with much regret the Chancery, having noted that the citizens noted below have failed to vote or respond to a national census within the last two years, issues the present to serve as Writ of Termination pursuant to Article X Section 5 of the Organic Law.

• Aladna la Mha-Coca (#255)
• Mark Sidahl (#297)
• Andy Park (#541)
• @Seiken Zeap (#546)
• Nicholas Burman @NRB (#548)
• Bayan Peikari @stymphalides (#560)
• Ahmad Mufid Marhaen @A.M. Marhaen (#564)

Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

With the election certified, it's my pleasure to open seat allocations for the 61st Cosă.

The seats to be allocated are:

¡Avant!: 93 seats ( @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC , @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN )
Progressive Alliance: 63 seats ( @þerxh Sant-Enogat )
Green Party: 27 seats ( @Breneir Tzaracomprada )

As a reminder, the maximum number of seats that can be held by a single MC is 22. Offlist MCs can hold no more than 1/3 of a party's seats collectively, and each can hold at most as many seats as were awarded to a list candidate.

The Independent Conservative did not present a party list and as such, their 17 seats are automatically allocated to @Munditenens Tresplet.

Azul, with a fresh term of the Ziu fast approaching I would like to set out some (mostly minor) changes in procedure. I realise I am a little early but I am likely to forget otherwise. I may also add other minor clarifications before the First Clark begins.


1. Separate voting threads in separate boards; Royal Assent

Quite simply, the Cosă will receive a Cosă-only voting thread in the Cosă board, and the Senate will continue having a Senate-only voting thread in the Senate board. I will open both threads personally - no need for Senators to do so themselves anymore.

The Lobby will still receive a central stickied and locked thread for posting the Clark and redirecting to the two voting threads; this central thread will be unlocked after voting ends so that the King may signify his Royal Assent or Royal Veto to each bill that passed. To comply with Lexh.H.2.6, it is also my intention to provide the King with an enrolled/engrossed(?) PDF of each passed bill that he can print and physically sign, if he so wishes.


2. Electronic voting on the new database

Obviously electronic voting on the Clark will be encouraged and made available. I will personally contact each MZ as soon as they are appointed to ensure everyone has a database account they can use to vote,  and eventually to propose bills directly (and of course to use any other database function as they become available). In general, you should expect the new database to be able to do everything the old one did, and more - feature ideas/requests are always appreciated.


3. Bill handling in the Hopper

The Hopper is only for bills; "ideas" or threads for general discussion will be moved to the Lobby, for the sake of order and of precisely determining Clarking/committee eligibility. You are then of course welcome to post any and all bills who spring up from that idea or discussion to the Hopper.

I will comply with H.2.1.9 and H.2.1.9.1, as I already started doing, by moving any bills that are explicitly withdrawn to the Archive and tagging them "Withdrawn", and similarly with any bills that lay dormant for approximately two months (ie. two Clarking chances declined, so to speak) and tagging them "Abandoned". Please note that withdrawn and abandoned bills carry no prejudice and can simply be re-posted and Clarked again, as those same articles themselves state, except that of course you may not Clark the same bill twice in the same term, generally speaking.

Bills that pass committee* but do not get immediately Clarked will return to the Hopper and be tagged accordingly, so the CRL board always contains only those bills that are actively being examined - as per the above, you effectively have two months to Clark a bill that has passed committee before I consider it withdrawn. You also, of course, may not substantially alter a bill that has passed committee and then directly Clark it.

*: As per H.2.1.6, passing committee means either getting a CRL recommendation, or 30 days in the CRL without recommendation.


4. Minor details about Clarked bills

Government, opposition and private member's bills will continue to be treated the same, but will be numbered in that same order on the Clark (ie. Government bills will receive the lowest numbers, and so on).

The new Database will bring back support for Resolutions of the Senate and Resolutions of the Cosă to be added to the Clark. Previously, RS had been voted on separately and in a few rare occasions, so those are useful and this should hopefully be helpful if only once in five years; of course, RC are not really a thing anymore, but in principle, if you want to Clark an RC, you can. (Actually, I'm now thinking that the VoC would kind of be an RC...)