My own vote:

Own nominations:
1. Ska/reggae songs
2. Songs in French
3. Metal songs

Other peoples nominations:
1. Eurodance/Eurodisco
2. Songs that include unusual time signatures
3. Indie rock
4. Songs with no lyrics
5. Songs that mention the weather
6. Songs about historical events
7. Songs in invented language
8. Covers of original songs
9. Jazz/big band

Ok, nominations are closed. We now proceed to voting on the proposed categories.

Like last time, we shall be using single transferable vote, and I shall be calculating the results manually using excel (so if any politically minded Talossans are interested in the feasibility of this, pay attention).

This system is designed to result in somewhat equal representation for different factions (or music preferences) even when proportional representation is not possible. However, it is also really designed for a situation with more voters than candidates, which we don't have. In this particular case, there is a rather large risk everyone just votes for one of their own categories, resulting in a 7-way tie, which can be resolved by random chance, but that wouldn't yield a particularly satisfying result.

So instead we will cheat a bit, by artificially inflating the number of voters by giving everyone who nominated categories two votes, 1 including and 1 excluding their own suggestions.

In order to do so everyone who nominated songs will be asked to rank their own suggestions and all the others separately which will be interpreted as one vote with their own suggestions listed first followed by their other votes and one vote with only their votes for others suggestions.


Therefore

How to vote

A If you submitted any category suggestions.

1. Rank your own suggestions in order of preference.
2. Rank at least 5 of the other suggested categories in order of preference.

B If you did not submit any category suggestions

1. Rank at least 5 categories in order of preference.

Deadline
The deadline will be exactly one week (168 hours) from now

Suggested categories
You can vote on the following categories:

- Covers of original songs
- Songs with less than 5000 listenings on Spotify
- Songs in invented language
- Songs that include unusual time signatures
- Songs with twin guitars
- Songs about historical events
- Commercial jingles
- Ska/reggae songs
- Metal songs
- Songs in French
- Songs that mention the weather
- Songs with no lyrics
- Songs sung by puppets
- Hymns/spiritual songs
- Indie rock
- Jazz/big band
- Eurodance/Eurodisco

The 5 selected categories + the recent songs category will be the categories in which we create a top 25 of songs for the TMT special edition 2025.

After some rest in August, I reposted today some messages about our heraldic traditions and the Royal Talossan College of Arms, on X/Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Instagram, r/Heraldry and r/Micronations

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on August 13, 2025, 09:07:59 AM

The Consequences Act

WHEREAS, the Ziu has barked, but we must be ready to bite,

THEREFORE, the Ziu directs that Title J of el Lexhatx, which currently reads

shall be amended to read

FURTHER, there shall be a new subsubsection 7.2.11 within Title A of el Lexhatx, which shall read as follows:

Uréu q'estadra så
Alexandreu Davinescu (MC-PROG)

@Sir Lüc , please move this to the CRL.

Side note: I am unhappy you can no longer quote a quote.

I believe so, yes.  I'll edit the draft to reflect your suggested changes.  I still do not agree with them, but I can live with the compromise.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on August 26, 2025, 11:19:50 AMI believe Þerxh was playing white.

yes, I've only understood 2 hours later what to do in this situation :-D

On a personal note, I will be voting against the Seneschal's effort to restrict parliamentary questioning, since it doesn't make sense.  If a terpelaziun inspires discussion among legislators, that's a good thing.  This discussion can suggest solutions, identify additional problems, offer historical context, and so on.

Forcing MZs to make a separate thread to do these things will discourage them from doing so, and if they do, will make it harder to follow the conversation since it will now be split.  The suggested change will only make Ziu oversight more difficult and more confusing, the opposite of its stated purpose.

As it stands, the rules already require an orderly conversation -- an MZ asks a terpelaziun and no one is allowed to comment until after it's answered and that same MZ responds.  This change makes things worse.

When it comes to CRL approval, this seems fine to me in form and function, and I vote to approve.

Stage 8 Monzón Templario -> Zaragoza

Boring sprint stage. Not much to write about except Philipsen (BDC/DED/GHS/REX/VFL) getting a second stage win. CHX's Elia Viviani originally finished second but was relegated for deviating from his line during the final sprint. The only other TCAT riders to get points were Mads Pedersen (DED/MCB/PTM, 9th) and Guillermo Silva (GHS).

Logically, Dead Last gets a second victory thanks to Philipsen and Pedersen, although having banked so much on two expensive sprinters they might regret Pedersen once again having a somewhat muted showing (14th, 6th and 9th in the three flat sprints, and 2nd in the uphill sprint of stage 3). They still leapfrog Cjovani (jointly with MCB) and set themselves somewhat clear of the tight four-team group completing the upper half of the standings. The biggest upside mover is however els Rexhitais, who lift themselves off the bottom of the standings - so far TCAT had not been particularly kind to them with the early loss of Axel Zingle depriving the team of its second sprinter before he could score much.

Standings after stage 8:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	3556	+380
2nd	(+1)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	2990	+406
3rd	(+1)		Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	2742	+181
4th	(-2)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	2707	+82
5th	(+1)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	2679	+328
6th	(-1)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	2656	+166
7th	(+1)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	2282	+287
8th	(-1)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	2177	+92
9th	(+2)		Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX)	2082	+297
10th	(-1)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	2053	+103
11th	(-1)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	1996	+94

Today, Week 1 ends with a long hilly approach to the only categorised climb of the day, a category 1 summit finish at Valdezcaray ski resort. It could very well be another day for a successful break, seeing as the main GC contenders (Vingegaard, Almeida and Ciccone) seem to be in no rush to get stage wins for their respective reasons.

Oath sent over.