I don't know how long you've been gone, but a lot has happened recently!  Assuming you haven't checked in since your last post in September:

Politically: there was an election, and the Progressive Alliance won the most seats but not quite a majority.  We had a coalition with the IDF, and then their leader (who's still figuring things out) said some ignorant stuff and we broke the coalition but they continued to support us.  We also have a coalition with the Independent Greens in some kind of way, and we have a confidence-and-supply agreement with the URL.  So the Green Party is the Opposition right now, mostly because none of the other parties with form any kind of alliance with a party led by a sex pest.  Oh, and I'm the Seneschal.

Legally: there have been some big reforms, such as getting rid of the Seneschal's ability to permanently make new laws, adding a check to the immigration system by mirroring applications to an independent account, and changing the Cosa to only 20 seats in size (this hasn't come into effect yet).

Culturally: the music contest TMT finished up, hockey is in the playoffs, there's a new political science institute, the prime minister's patriotic award is set to be the first physical award sent to Talossans, we're systematically investigating and reporting back on other micronations with volunteers,  and we're making promotional videos now.

That's all that comes to mind off the top of my head.

Quote from: Carteir Montagnhă on April 13, 2026, 09:46:43 PMhello everyone, lately, i haven't been really active or engaged with any of my fellow Talossans due to personal reasons.

today, i would like to know what has occurred, basically anything, any kind of event, so i can catch up with everybody else.

thank you!

Okay so I made a concept for a Talossan driving licence card for example.

hello everyone, lately, i haven't been really active or engaged with any of my fellow Talossans due to personal reasons.

today, i would like to know what has occurred, basically anything, any kind of event, so i can catch up with everybody else.

thank you!

Great. Thanks.

-Txec R

Okay, at this point I have printed out 40, which is probably plenty enough for years to come. I'm going to have an announcement sent out to everyone to let them know about the availability, with pictures, and then we'll aim to get them sent out by the end of next month.

I'm currently working 72 hours a week, with Sunday being my only day off, and I'm usually doing stuff that day (laundry, groceries...today I went and had my taxes done), so you shouldn't plan anything around my schedule, lol

I didn't record it. It seems like it will be more casual and fun if informal and not recorded. I don't want people feeling like any information they share about their life during a casual chat is going to be available on the internet forever, you know?

Weekend mornings are usually a good time for this for me, and I think for the king. Do those work for you, or should we try to find a different time for people on a different schedule?

Is this going to be made available to watch? I would like to have participated, but I was at work.

Okay, the Minister of Technology has set up a tweak on the current user structure and implemented the opposition email account.  I have set up the immigration system to automatically mirror applications directly to it, and I'll monitor it for a week to make sure it's working correctly.  Once we're confident, I'll hand off the account to you, Your Majesty, and you can change the password and share the info with the Leader of the Opposition.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on April 11, 2026, 01:28:59 PMIt was fun!  I'll give more notice the next time, and hopefully we'll get more people to join :)

There was plenty of notice, I was just inconvenienced at the worst time possible.