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I have moved my account from the mastodon.social server to the Writing Exchange, here: @DavidBridger
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This week I'm going to migrate my account from here on mastodon.social to writing.exchange. Been putting this task off for months because it's daunting, the partial brain damage I sustained some years ago making the learning and application of new software etc quite problematic and sometimes bloody upsetting. But it's time for me to make this jump, so here goes....

As of today, in an increasingly facist Britain, refugees' status will become temporary and subject to review every 30 months for all adults claming asylum

Shameful

#asylumseekers

So, just for clarity, Reform has pretty well unlimited money (funded from overseas mostly, shady donations, vastly wealthy bribers), has much of the media spouting their message whatever it is, and has their own TV station GBeebies), as well as the BBC promoting them and their ideas through out their "news" services.

And they still lost a by-election to the Greens. Who are incredibly impoverished by political party standards.

Maybe, they should be dismissed as a minor trivial party that they are.

#WritersCoffeeClub 2nd Mar 2026. Does your overall goal differ from project to project?

I hope my stories are different from one another. I certainly try to make them that way. What doesn't change is my goal to write books so that after the apocalypse, a few copies here and there might find their way into the hands of scattered survivors, who will I hope share my stories aloud with others around the campfire.

#WordWeavers 2nd Mar 2026. Do you write scenes out of order?

I tend to write linearly, on a compass bearing, from a skeleton plan of one sentence per chapter, starting at A and ending at Z. Occasionally, something or someone new and unplanned will occur on the landscape while I'm working, requiring - if I decide to include it - that I insert it somewhere and maybe juggle things around a bit. But mainly I write on my compass bearing.

#ScribesAndMakers 2nd Mar 2026. Do you know your story ahead of time?

Ahead of writing it, yes. I'm a planner. I enjoy pantsing short stories and narrative poems, but when it comes to novels pantsing only ever ends up a hot mess that takes longer to fix than it would to write with a good skeleton plan. Every novel starts with a character or two in a situation. I live with that scene in my head for a while and at some point extend its scope, and sooner or later the story forms in my mind.

You have to decide if you believe there should be international law or not

The Nuremberg trials laid out a very simple idea: the supreme international crime is launching a war of aggression

The UN security council must be rebuilt from the ground up

UN must be wrestled from US control, it must not be allowed to use it as just another weapon, and we must work towards an actual system of international law, one where we are actually equal. the other option is global war

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

Techdirt

A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: https://turisc.github.io/voxease/

#openSource

As a living war survivor, I've been immensely disturbed by the acceleration of violent & illegal invasion attacks, by the biggest terrorist empire in the world - the USA. Their corrupt, evil, inhumane collusion with Israel, along with timing of attack on Iran, after Clintons' testimonies regarding the Epstein Files - increases global instability, which was already pretty fucked up with Gaza, Sudan genocides & now, Iran attacks by Zionazis & Trump regime.

That UAE Sultan & Epstein were talking about getting USA/Israel to attack Iran to further destabilize the ME area, to take more controls of stolen land/fossil fuels resources/assets - over a decade ago. It's documented in the Epstein Files.

I'm immediately blocking anyone/everyone who voices any support for USA & Israel, Zionazis terrorism on sovereign peoples. No exceptions. I can hate multiple evil regime leaders at the same time. I don't harbour safe zones for anyone who defends/supports Trump or Netanyahu or their minions.

Ask your US military friends to quit their jobs or organize for mass refusals to serve a fascist dictator who is also a traitor & selling out USA to foreign human devils.

#BoycottUSA #SanctionUSA #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarSurvivorsForPeace #WarSurvivorsPTSD