I think it's time to build up our defences should the need arise...what say you, Baron Seneschal?

MM

For the second time this month, federal agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the control of President Donald Trump and Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem have executed one of their own citizens in the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Independent analyses by reputable news agencies indicates that these murders were committed without the backing of law.  The victims, poet Renee Good and ICU nurse Alex Pretti, were acting within their rights and did not pose a threat to their killers.

The Kingdom of Talossa condemns this political violence by the Trump regime in the strongest possible terms.  Such actions are a clear attempt to intimidate legitimate protestors and observers.  The perpetrators of such actions must be held accountable.  If domestic authorities will not act, then international agencies should bring the killers and their commanders to justice at the Hague.

Talossans should speak up against these street executions, demand justice for the perpetrators, and support those who fight for their freedom.

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on January 24, 2026, 10:46:50 AMLinux From Scratch builder here. These days most of my machines/servers are Debian/Ubuntu. Sadly, the few remaining Gentoo servers I had had been decommissioned, but those were a joy.

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Quote from: Heinrich9 on January 24, 2026, 10:29:28 AMomg the king!!

:-)

-Txec R

Quote from: Quedéir Castiglhâ on January 24, 2026, 08:38:11 AMWhat a fascinating show. I wonder if the Star City spinoff is still a thing?

Yep, the Star City spinoff is still happening. Filming was recently completed, now in post-production with an expected premiere in mid-or-late 2026.

Legally, the Immigration Minister is supposed to report to the Ziu "the number of any immigration applications received since the last report which did not proceed because failing to fulfil the requirements of this section."  This has typically happened "on the fly," but that's a fairly significant burden for the Minister of Immigration.  And if doing this stuff is hard and annoying, then it's going to burn people out or make them resent their service.  So I've tried to come up with a new approach, and I'd like Ziu feedback.

Because the new system outputs to a spreadsheet, there's a lot of automatic stuff we can do with the data.  One of those is summarizing any given month.  So the system is now configured to produce the following with a single click:

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For the month of: December 2025
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Incomplete: 2
No Wittenberg: 4
In progress: 1
No petition: 0
Total applications: 7

'Incomplete' refers to those applications which were not filled out correctly or completely, and which were returned with an explanation.  Further details are available on request, but the most common ommission is social media information.  'No Wittenberg' refers to those applications which were complete, but in which the applicant did not go on to make an account on Wittenberg.  'In progress' refers to those applications from the month which were complete and in which the applicant is still being considered.  'No petition' refers to those applications which were complete and considered, but for which no petition was received.  Neither 'no petition' not successful naturalizations will appear for the current month or last month.

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All of this is automatically assembled, including the BBCode for formatting.  This makes it very easy to get a snapshot of immigration in any given month.  The above report is for the last week of December (when the system was updated and this information became available).  We can also get a snapshot of a larger span of time.

The next step will be to integrate all of this into Infotecă so that it's all automatically updated regularly, the same way the basic information is available, but for now, we want to make the Ziu aware that this information and equivalent will now be easily available to them.

Linux From Scratch builder here. These days most of my machines/servers are Debian/Ubuntu. Sadly, the few remaining Gentoo servers I had had been decommissioned, but those were a joy.

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Quote from: Heinrich9 on January 23, 2026, 07:31:00 PMI know most people use Windows, but I wanted to know if anyone uses a Linux distribution. I personally use Linux Mint.

My main machine is Windows, but my laptop is ChromeOS (which is Linux!) and my other laptop is Ubuntu.

Interesting. And I also find it interesting how the prime minister actively responds to others hahahah. Thank you

I'm a Mac guy but use Windows and ChromeOS at work.

-Txec R

omg the king!!

Quote from: King Txec on January 23, 2026, 11:08:58 PM

Quote from: Mximo Malt on January 23, 2026, 08:00:32 PMMaybe as a colloquial term we should call it the "Pengwing Award" :)

MM

Just as a point of protocol, typically discussions within the Coletx are among members. I'm sure the Squirrel Viceroy won't object too loudly, but just keep the norms we operate under in mind S:reu Malt.

-Txec R/REH

Apologies, Majestas. I just wanted to make a Benedict Cumberbatch joke.

MM