Standing O!

STANDING O!

Well well well, so we meet again, Mic'haglh

Here are the week 23 results (play-offs first followed by consolation rounds)

Tigreux dal Belacostă def. Cjovani Squilats 342.70-208.20
Banqeu da Cézembre Zambonis def. Vuode Villains 452.20-269.30

Gordon Hiatus Support Team def. Manager-less Team 1 398.70-282.60
Cézembrean Amateurs on Ice def. Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis 291.80-237.30
Els Talossaes Rexhitais def. Maricopa Havana Hijinks 321.70-314.50

Here is this weeks schedule

Consolation round

Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis v. Manager-less Team 1
Cézembrean Amateurs on Ice v. Gordon Hiatus Support Team
Vuode Villains v. Cjovani Squilats

Championship Game

Tigreux dal Belacostă v. Banqeu da Cézembre Zambonis

Season complete

5. Els Talossaes Rexhitais
6. Maricopa Havana Hijinks

Good luck to all of the remaining teams.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on March 22, 2026, 07:51:33 PMI'm not sure which language it needs to be stated in to get the point across.

I would vote for it also if you just suppress the 'as opposed to strongmen and personalities' because the point of this law is not this.

Okay, these are printed and I am very happy with them as a result.  I'm just going to keep printing them to build up a good amount of stock, and then send out the ones that have been claimed along with an appropriate number of pips.  In the interests of making this feasible for the long term, pips will be all one color and I'll make a bunch of those too.

REMINDER: if you want to claim the first issue of the only physical award ever given out to Talossans, you're running out of time!  Recruit a friend to the country, or just apply for your award for a past recruitment, and we'll send it to you for free!

I was going to announce this, but I think it's even better for the Funziun appointee to do so!  Huzzah!

We are fortunate to have a good number of people all pitching in to assist on things.  The time and sweat of our volunteers in the Cabinet and the Civil Service are all essential to making Talossa work, and Zirecteir Autófil is a shining example.

I think he's selling himself short by not discussing his efforts a little more.  In the background for the past few months, this is something that has been repeatedly revisited as we've worked to figure out a central issue that left TalossaWare defunct over the past year.  I think people sometimes end up assuming that this sort of thing is simple, but today's announcement is the product of months of work.

I want to thank the Zirecteir for his excellent work, and I can't wait to make a purchase from our store... TalossaWare once more!  Huzzah!

Seems peculiar for something called the "Freedom of Conscience" act...usually that pertains to religious affairs within the state...


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Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on March 04, 2026, 04:38:48 PM

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on March 04, 2026, 03:51:54 PMI'll make that first

Presenting the front of the atrocity I came up with.

Glad you added French, mon ami!


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Good evening all! The Directorate of STUFF, an office of the Royal Civil Service, is pleased to announce the formal re-opening of our TalossaWare store.

The last several weeks have been spent going back-and-forth with Printify's support staff regarding a few technical issues -- several of which were solved using the tried-and-true "turn it off and then on again" method -- followed by bringing the design of several of our products up-to-date with the current official depictions of the national arms, etc. I have purchased one of the simple round flag stickers as a test run; it arrived fairly quickly from Illinois (production location is dependent on your location) and seems to be of good quality! I look forward to putting it on my Super Cub's fairing to carry a little piece of Talossa with me wherever I ride.

I should note that there are a few items that were previously listed for sale in our store that were removed via the reactivation, including Bicoloreu-branded t-shirts. I have not yet re-introduced these, but if someone expresses interest, it's a fairly straightforward process to add things to our catalog now that they are publishing properly.

I would also like to give a heads-up that our citizens in the European Union may still run into some difficulties ordering; there are some extra hoops we need to jump through that I will be looking into in the next week or so in order to ease the European sales process.

Happy shopping!

Vaes cünpartizaes es amíci:

May I begin by saying I'll keep this a bit more brief than my remarks to close our last Convention -- relevant though many of those remarks still are.

Our Union's convention has certainly been a productive one. While certainly not as much of a whirlwind of activity as our inaugural convention, I think it's fair to say this one has shown itself as more impactful. We have officially laid our party's foundation as the Party of Talossan Democracy. We have emphatically declared ourselves to be the Party Against Unrepentant Sexual Harassment (especially when the perpetrator of said sexual harassment dismisses descriptions of his misdeeds as "contrivances"). We have shown the Talossan people both what we are for, and what we are against, and I would think it safe to say both sets of views are ones the majority will find themselves agreeing with when they hear it straight from us, as opposed to hearing it from those who have a track record of misquoting us.

As our Convention ends, Talossa can now begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This Cosă term and its government are passing their halfway mark, and before long campaign season will be well and truly upon us. As Miestră has pointed out, a platform built on long-overdue reform is a very good thing to have, but given the nature of Talossan politics, it may not necessarily have folks lining up at the polling booth when the time comes. As a result, I think it wise for us to broaden our approach just a little bit. The next election will not just be about how big people think the Cosă should be, or what they think about the Senäts' role in Talossa. It ought to be an election about the direction Talossa will take in the future. It ought to be an election about principles.

Our principles, as it happens, are rather straightforward:

• Representative democracy is a good thing for Talossa.
• On that note, increasing the power of the electorate is also a good thing, including at the expense of party bosses.
• Political debate is healthy for Talossa, so long as it is kept polite. It's okay to think that things aren't working as well as they could. Parties that want to stifle talk of change should be viewed with suspicion.
• As much as Talossa should be fun and a little tongue-in-cheek, our political institutions should be sized appropriately for the country, instead of being farcically large.
• Immigration drives are all well and good; retention is what builds a stronger Talossa for the future. We should be trying to recruit from communities that would be interested in what we have to offer, including political simulationists.
• The government should not effectively consist of a single, clearly overworked person.
• Government busywork is not activity, but a veneer of activity over a crumbling foundation. The nation deserves something more substantial.
• Wronging your fellow citizen -- especially when sexually harassing them, but really generally -- ought to come with an apology.
• Doubling down on wronging someone and being not just unrepentant, but combatively so, should earn some ostracism until your antisocial ways are mended. What it should not earn are government jobs.

Over this term, we've reinforced our role as Talossa's Party of Principle. We've secured our role as Talossa's Party of Democracy. Later this summer, with your help and a solid campaign, we'll earn back our role as Talossa's Party of Leadership. I am humbled to be nominated to stand at the front of this group again. I'm proud of our team. I'm once again hopeful for Talossa's future. Thank you.

Yours in Liberty, Democracy, and Progress,

Mic'haglh

Vivadra Talossa Democrätic!

(This Convention is hereby adjourned.)