Phase Two was an absolute success, maybe even an ASTRONAUT IN SPACE could sign this campaign!
Phase Two of our campaign was an absolute success, and I have successfully rallied new subscribed supporters who had no idea this campaign even existed when I had my emotional outburst during a July 2026 campaign update.
Since my last update, CSV data shows we have successfully picked up an additional two completely organic signatures from Australia directly from my last update without me having to chip in to promote the campaign, with one specifically from Alice Springs (very symbolic to me because of my "Alice Date" protest) so Phase Three is now officially underway despite the loss of our signature from Las Vegas.
Despite my prior complaints about the UK echo chamber, my current UK signatures/supporters are absolutely not a waste and are crucial for our UK domestic goals, and more than 10% of my entire supporter base needs to come from Scotland (the hardest hit and the absolute worst affected UK nation regarding Orthodox holiday recognition), with the 2021 Glasgow video being the smoking gun and St Luke’s Greek Orthodox church in Glasgow City Centre.
Because of Scotland’s educational system and bank holiday setup, with students sitting SQA examinations a month earlier than the rest of the UK, Orthodox residents in Scotland often have to sit exams exactly ON Orthodox Good Friday, so I would advise my supporter base in Scotland to raise this issue to MSPs whenever convenient. Moreover, like the rest of the UK, school terms in Scotland start back up before Western feasts like Twelfth Night/Epiphany and unlike the rest of the UK, even regular Easter Monday is not a bank holiday north of the border, so Scottish Orthodox residents almost never get any bank holidays whatsoever and have to suffer!
My first signature to come from Scotland occurred on my “Good Friday” (March 20th) and the first to come from Edinburgh occurred on March 22nd 2026 (“my” Easter Sunday) itself.
During Phase One, most of our organic signatures outside the UK have come from European regions; we have exactly one sole supporter each in Italy, Serbia, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Estonia and Spain (the world cup winning nation in 2026 and, yes, 2010 the year of the earliest Orthodox Easter). In May 2026 we also later picked up a sole supporter in Cameroon (Africa), Mexico (Central America) and our sole supporter (and first from the Middle East, the UAE, and 25th international supporter overall) signed on 8th July 2026, breaking the “411 signature trap”! Our only Spanish supporter signed on Orthodox Holy Saturday (April 11th).
All five of our current signatures from the US, all three from Myanmar and our first two signatures from Australia occurred very early into our campaign in March/early April 2026 (before the “Alice” date), the first US signature (Texas) occurred on my “Mothering Sunday”, March 1st. We could jokingly pick up supporters in Antarctica (scientists at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station), from the summit of Mount Everest or even the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION!
All of our domestic and international signatures are valued, even those not in explicit targeted international nations like Myanmar, because to convince churches and religious leaders to move the official date of Western Easter to March 22nd for future upcoming years, we need supporters from as many nations and regions as possible.
Despite our recent organic signatures from Australia, our first official promotion of Phase Three will target Dublin, Ireland due to its proximity with the UK. My second targeting region will be Australia, followed by New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.
Our total number of signatures from Ashford, Kent, is now level with Myanmar at three, though all three of the signatures from Myanmar occurred before our first supporter in Ashford signed, which occurred on “Alice in Wonderland Day”, April 5th, 2026 (the “wrong” date for Easter) itself.
Although we have not yet reached a supporter in Canada, I have shared my March 22nd 2026 Easter story with Canada directly through a recent update of my spinoff meta-petition which accidentally secured a sole organic Canadian supporter.
At the time I posted the update titled “2026 – The Year of Three Easters” which I included the image of Australia which I later removed, I only had one international supporter (Texas, USA), with the first supporter in Australia not signing until March 30th followed by the second one on April 3rd “Bad Friday”.
When I posted the update titled “I’m going to be famous for celebrating Easter on 22nd March 2026!” featuring the UK flag thinking I was representing my home country in front of an international audience, I had NOT EVEN secured a single supporter from Scotland (which did not occur until March 20th) or Northern Ireland (which did not occur until Orthodox Good Friday, April 10th), my first supporter from Wales was my 3rd overall.
I find it INCREDIBLY ABSURD that all our current signatures from the US and Myanmar came in before a single supporter in Scotland and Northern Ireland signed!
Most of my supporters in Scotland and Northern Ireland signed primarily throughout April and May 2026 and with the CSV spreadsheet data of my other campaigns, it is weird that my hyper-local London campaign despite the topic successfully reached a sole supporter in the United States (Hawaii) QUITE CLEARLY showing an official US zip code, yet my inactive campaign to reform the timing of US presidential elections for the first Tuesday of any month has simultaneously completely failed to reach a single supporter across the Atlantic, though as this Easter campaign itself has secured US signatures, regardless of whether those supporters are subscribed to my campaign updates the mention of the US electoral reform campaign has indirectly reached US shores.
The end of this month will mark one year since I started purchasing and converting all of those Busy Bee diaries.
Many campaigns about Orthodox holiday recognition which I have signed and overtaken have been set to ‘Local’ to specifically target the New York City Department of Education, however I know that even ‘Local’ petitions on change.org aren’t truly local (i.e. the CSV data from my past inactive campaign to install safety fencing at Surbiton station revealed signatures from Newport, South Wales).
Moreover, this lack of Orthodox holiday recognition is absolutely NOT local to New York City, hence there are many other active holiday recognition campaigns on the platform based in other US states like Massachusetts and Florida and is also a big problem in the UK, despite a lack of UK-based change.org campaigns about the issue. New York City is the “campaign capital” of the US for Orthodox holiday recognition with 200,000 Orthodox residents residing in the city (nearly half of the UK’s entire Orthodox population).
In late 2025/early 2026 I discovered and signed all these Orthodox holiday recognition campaigns, unknowingly signing and only later realising I was unknowingly providing international support for these causes.
Who knows, maybe Emma Tucker’s bin strike petition (which we are pretty much level with) has reached supporters in Antarctica, Mount Everest, and even astronauts on the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION!
Ro---- Miles Ash----- (Mr. Easter)