This week, Propaganda posted links to the May issue of La C'hronică, on X, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads and r/Talossa.

Your essay's central thesis is fascinating, not an area I could have spoken to, and sheds light on Diasporic Coping Mechanisms that I had never considered. I can, however, speak to the "absence-guilt", having felt it myself when my grandparents died. My Nana died 4 months before I attained citizenship, and her funeral was the day I left for my gap year, and I was unable to attend. It is heartening to me that this is not just something I feel but indeed is part of cultural and spiritual practice in cultures I am not even familiar with, truly eye and soul soothing to me.
Autoethnography is often a fascinating form of study, and in terms of this society's future work, it offers an accessible yet meaningful alternative to wider academic forms of phenomenology. Our pool of potential participants is relatively small, but it offers greater insight than many quantitative studies can capture.
I do, however, have some Peer Review Feedback.
Although not a failing in writing, I do feel that the ontological or philosophical alignment between the specific drumming tradition and the Bon Odori may not quite be clear. To elevate this past the risk of aesthetic extraction, the paper needs to briefly explain if/how these two traditions share a common understanding of rhythm as a spiritual portal or community anchor. Speaking as a media academic, the drum beat and its representation and use in such applications as horror is often used to represent the heartbeat and the feelings on an automatic level of the characters being portrayed, fast for high tension, slow for despair, etc. There is something primal about this, and I'm sure transcendent across many cultures; I just feel that your essay should attempt to state it outright.

To conclude, I find your paper to be an excellent fit for the society. Your qualitative research methods, somatic studies, and advocacy for a structural shift away from sedentary, silent, and internalised sorrow toward active, expressive, and cross-cultural physical performance is truly inspiring. The Talossan culture as a whole lacks some of our funary traditions, and this could be explored further in future study and an opportunity to look into how we might learn from other cultures, considering the diasporic nature of our nation.

I, therefore, as President of The Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, Commend to the peers of this society and call upon its members to second my nomination for Crement Itravilatx to join our ranks as Senior Fellow, having offered a paper as their form of lecture and having attained at least a 2-year college degree. What say we?

I'm back fully, and I've processed the week's immigration applications; today I'll also get the announcement out about the PMPA and TalossAssistants.  Sorry about the delay.  Thank you for everyone's well wishes.

Thank you again for running TCAT!  Always a blast, and it makes me the only person in my friend group who knows who people like Vingegaard are!

And that's pretty much it. See you in about two weeks for the opening of registrations for TCAT France, and don't forget to check Wittenberg for any stray podcasts that might land in the meantime:)

And lastly, as per recent custom, the

ALL-TIME STAGE WINNERS

	Team	Stage Wins	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
	Banqeu da Cézembre (BDC)	53	11	15	20	5	2
	Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	43	6	5	11	13	8
	Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	19	3	4	4	6	2
	Cyclohexane (CHX)	18	-	8	2	5	3
	Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	17	-	3	9	5	-
	Mençeis/Gagnheirs (MMM)	17	5	11	-	-	1
	Cézembre Fieschă (CFA)	16	-	2	9	5	0
	Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	15	12	2	0	1	-
	Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	13	-	7	3	3	-
	Dead Last (DED)	12	-	3	4	5	-
	Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	10	-	-	-	10	-
	Rexhitais/Cantzelerïă (REX)	8	-	1	1	4	2
	Kinetic Racing (KIN)	4	3	0	-	1	-
	Team In The Wind (KIN)	3	-	-	-	-	3
	els Averatxeirs (ATX)	2	-	2	-	0	-
	Valcürïăs (VAL)	2	2	0	-	-	-

Two teams, Ardita and Manilows, took part in at least a TCAT leg but did not win a stage.

A couple of updates to finally complete this edition's coverage.

SIDE CLASSIFICATIONS

As a reminder, the Climbers, Sprinters and Combativity classifications respectively mimic the real life King of Mountains, Points and Combativity classifications (well, the latter doesn't actually exist anymore), by tallying up only the points making up the relevant categories: summit and daily KOM for Climbers, intermediate sprints and daily PC for Sprinters, and breakaway points for Combativity.

And we have a sweep: Cyclohexane wins all three side classifications, thanks to Ciccone (KOM winner), Milan (best placed TCAT in PC) and their plethora of breakaway riders. This is their first sweep and the fourth overall (GHST swept in Spain 2022 and Italy 2025, and MCB swept in Spain 2023). This is also Cyclohexane's third win in the Sprinters's classification, their first in the Climbers' and their second (with a likely points record) in Combativity.

Sprinters's classification (podium only)
Cyclohexane 551
Gordon Hiatus Support Team 367
Els Talossaes Rexhitais 269

Climbers's classification (podium only)
Cyclohexane 718
Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs 699
Team In The Wind 657

Combativity classification (podium only)
Cyclohexane 300
Gordon Hiatus Support Team 100
Cézembre Fieschā 100

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Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 12, 2026, 06:23:59 PMShall we make it official?

If you want.

Shall we make it official?