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!

(Reminder: topic locked - if you want to vote on Witt, use the separate Cosă and Senate voting threads listed above)

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 Clark has been compiled and is in the process of being published.

Quote from: Munditenens Tresplet on April 29, 2025, 04:18:53 PMAnd I don't think the CRL cannot comment on the Sense of the Ziu language, but I wonder if the sense that electoral ballots cast remain completely secret even from administrators will be understood to work in conjunction with existing language that could conceivably provide those cast ballots to the EC in an unlikely event they are needed.

That is a good point. For the record, currently, there is no way to completely reveal a secret ballot from the frontend; you can either see just the metadata or just the anonymised ballot content, and those are presented separately so that it's impossible to link one and the other.

I suggest to @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC she could replace that provision with something like:

"that any and all balloting systems should be engineered so to make impossible to reveal a voter's choices even to administrators, if chosen to be secret, except for investigating on potential irregularities as provided by law or directed by the Judiciary"

Also an enthusiastic Per from me.

In the interest of giving the newly-elected presiding officers - @Munditenens Tresplet and @þerxh Sant-Enogat together with A-X @Dr. Pôl dal Nordselvă - as much time as possible to clear bills off the CRL, I will be more flexible than usual with Clarking deadlines and accept bills Clarked as late as the morning of May 1st.

The First Clark may be slightly delayed as a result, to no later than the TST evening of May 1st (so pretty much a delay of at most 12 hours)

That makes it 117 seats for @Munditenens Tresplet , who I conclude is therefore duly elected as Túischac'h for the 61st Cosă pursuant to Lexh.H.4.4.3. Congratulations!



Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretary of State

It doesn't fall upon me (well, upon anyone technically) to proclaim the winner, but in the interest of getting this done ASAP so I can go on and make all necessary changes in Witt and the Database:

That makes it a majority of Senators (Sant-Enogat, Valcadac'h, Grischun, Davinescu, Somelieir) nominating @þerxh Sant-Enogat for Mençei. Pursuant to Standing Rule 2.3, he is therefore to be considered duly elected as Mençei. Congratulations!

That makes it 97 for Tresplet.

Current tally: Alexandreu Davinescu 63, Munditenens Tresplet 88

Seats needed for election: 101

Yet to vote: @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN , @Barclamïu da Miéletz , @Iac Éovard Valadeir , @mpf , @Muhammed Yasir

So done.

Done!