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Geeks for Social Change
@gfsc.community
· Jun 24
Our first three months as the Geeks for Social Change Community!
Our grand plot to overthrow billionare technologists and place communities in charge of their own technology is gathering pace. Find out about what we've been up to since we launched this blog, and fi...
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We've come a long way since we announced this new blog in March. We've done over a dozen posts, launched our first livestream, given talks in London and Edinburgh, and hatched ideas for the weeks and months to come.
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Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?
For our next livestream we're speaking with Arby Hisenaj from Common Knowledge about Mapped, a tool for organisers and campaigners that transforms databases and membership lists into interactive maps.
gfsc.community
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?
For our next livestream we're speaking with Arby Hisenaj from Common Knowledge about Mapped, a tool for organisers and campaigners that transforms databases and membership lists into interactive maps.
gfsc.community
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
On Tuesday 25th November from 7.30pm GMT we'll be speaking with Arby from @commonknowledge.coop about the Mapped project's motivations, successes and future. Hope to see you there!
gfsc.community/livestream-a...
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Kim caught up with @zoyander.cc and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it. Check out the interview on our blog!
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street
Kim caught up with Zoyander and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it.
gfsc.community
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Kim caught up with @zoyander.cc and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it. Check out the interview on our blog!
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
Kim caught up with @zoyander.cc and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it. Check out the interview on our blog!
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street
Kim caught up with Zoyander and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it.
gfsc.community
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Kim caught up with @zoyander.cc and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it. Check out the interview on our blog!
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
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Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activities and opportunities which emerged during this year's conker season.
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall
Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activiti...
gfsc.community
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activities and opportunities which emerged during this year's conker season.
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
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Here's me chatting about how and why I started up a zine distro, some thoughts on zines potential as a tool for connection & what I've been working on lately.
Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting @penfight.bsky.social, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters.
gfsc.community/zines-are-fo...
gfsc.community/zines-are-fo...
Zines are for Everyone
Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting Pen Fight Distro, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters.
gfsc.community
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Here's me chatting about how and why I started up a zine distro, some thoughts on zines potential as a tool for connection & what I've been working on lately.
Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activities and opportunities which emerged during this year's conker season.
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall
Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activiti...
gfsc.community
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activities and opportunities which emerged during this year's conker season.
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
gfsc.community/autumn-leave...
Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting @penfight.bsky.social, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters.
gfsc.community/zines-are-fo...
gfsc.community/zines-are-fo...
Zines are for Everyone
Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting Pen Fight Distro, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters.
gfsc.community
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting @penfight.bsky.social, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters.
gfsc.community/zines-are-fo...
gfsc.community/zines-are-fo...
Karrot is a free and open source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. @kim.town caught up with project founder Nick for the lowdown.
gfsc.community/karrot-commu...
gfsc.community/karrot-commu...
Karrot: Community Spotlight
Karrot is a free and open source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. Kim caught up with pro...
gfsc.community
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Karrot is a free and open source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. @kim.town caught up with project founder Nick for the lowdown.
gfsc.community/karrot-commu...
gfsc.community/karrot-commu...
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We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
Building bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obso...
gfsc.community
October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
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Something I've never really considered but seems increasingly important. Especially when we have few platforms, owned by big companies with a vested interest in shaping the narrative.
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
Building bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obso...
gfsc.community
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Something I've never really considered but seems increasingly important. Especially when we have few platforms, owned by big companies with a vested interest in shaping the narrative.
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
Building bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obso...
gfsc.community
October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...
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Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening!
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
Have you noticed it feels louder & lonelier every year?
Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening. Find out about our...
gfsc.community
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening!
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening!
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
Have you noticed it feels louder & lonelier every year?
Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening. Find out about our...
gfsc.community
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening!
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
Find out about our mission to build the technology we need to feel human again.
gfsc.community/have-you-not...
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Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. @kim.town caught up with project founder @dinerismail.bsky.social for an update on the project process and an insight into the tech stack.
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
Resilience Web: Community Spotlight
Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. Kim caught up with project founder Diner for an update on the project process and an insigh...
gfsc.community
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. @kim.town caught up with project founder @dinerismail.bsky.social for an update on the project process and an insight into the tech stack.
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. @kim.town caught up with project founder @dinerismail.bsky.social for an update on the project process and an insight into the tech stack.
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
Resilience Web: Community Spotlight
Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. Kim caught up with project founder Diner for an update on the project process and an insigh...
gfsc.community
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. @kim.town caught up with project founder @dinerismail.bsky.social for an update on the project process and an insight into the tech stack.
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
gfsc.community/resilience-w...
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Kim responds to a common Discord FAQ: what's the best way to get going with a website?
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
What's the best way to make my personal website?
Kim responds to the most Freqently Asked Question on our Discord. In the start of our new series on getting started online, we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go...
gfsc.community
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Kim responds to a common Discord FAQ: what's the best way to get going with a website?
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
Kim responds to a common Discord FAQ: what's the best way to get going with a website?
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
What's the best way to make my personal website?
Kim responds to the most Freqently Asked Question on our Discord. In the start of our new series on getting started online, we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go...
gfsc.community
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Kim responds to a common Discord FAQ: what's the best way to get going with a website?
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
In the start of our new series we take a look at what a website is under the hood, the main ways you can go about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.
gfsc.community/whats-the-be...
Meet Ben (@benjamilian.bsky.social), a person with a tale of transphobia, excommunication, lost hope, and the secret joy of failure. How does all this lead to gender gladness, to hyacinths, and to a game called Trans Theft Horso?
gfsc.community/hope-then-ex...
gfsc.community/hope-then-ex...
Hope, then Excommunication, and then Hope Again
Meet Ben, a person with a tale of transphobia, excommunication, lost hope, and the secret joy of failure. How does all this lead to gender gladness, to hyacinths, and to a game called Trans Theft Hors...
gfsc.community
September 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Meet Ben (@benjamilian.bsky.social), a person with a tale of transphobia, excommunication, lost hope, and the secret joy of failure. How does all this lead to gender gladness, to hyacinths, and to a game called Trans Theft Horso?
gfsc.community/hope-then-ex...
gfsc.community/hope-then-ex...
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PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
What we did in July and August!
PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!
gfsc.community
August 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
What we did in July and August!
PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!
gfsc.community
August 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post:
gfsc.community/what-we-did-...
Missed our livestream? It's now available as a VOD! We interview Prof Stefan White from Manchester School of Architecture, Dr Jay Stewart from @genderedintelligence.co.uk, Rakesh Prashara from @tippingpointuk.bsky.social and Dr Kim Foale @kim.town from GFSC.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66J5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66J5...
How We Created A Digital Community Commons: 8 years of PlaceCal
YouTube video by Geeks for Social Change
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August 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Missed our livestream? It's now available as a VOD! We interview Prof Stefan White from Manchester School of Architecture, Dr Jay Stewart from @genderedintelligence.co.uk, Rakesh Prashara from @tippingpointuk.bsky.social and Dr Kim Foale @kim.town from GFSC.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66J5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66J5...
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Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in an enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (indirectly funding military drones). Discover how she rid herself of Spotify and got into music again, albeit with a distinct lack of witches.
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
Out, damn Spotify!
Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in her enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (by indirectly funding a military drone company). Read on to discover how sh...
gfsc.community
August 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in an enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (indirectly funding military drones). Discover how she rid herself of Spotify and got into music again, albeit with a distinct lack of witches.
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
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A lot of my personal political project right now is trying to re-materialise tech which has been delibarately obfuscated so we can be sold more shit faster with greater surveillance. Spotify was fascinating to break down and think about the bits that make it up. I'm happy to now be rid of it tho!
Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in an enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (indirectly funding military drones). Discover how she rid herself of Spotify and got into music again, albeit with a distinct lack of witches.
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
Out, damn Spotify!
Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in her enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (by indirectly funding a military drone company). Read on to discover how sh...
gfsc.community
August 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A lot of my personal political project right now is trying to re-materialise tech which has been delibarately obfuscated so we can be sold more shit faster with greater surveillance. Spotify was fascinating to break down and think about the bits that make it up. I'm happy to now be rid of it tho!
Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in an enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (indirectly funding military drones). Discover how she rid herself of Spotify and got into music again, albeit with a distinct lack of witches.
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
Out, damn Spotify!
Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in her enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (by indirectly funding a military drone company). Read on to discover how sh...
gfsc.community
August 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in an enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (indirectly funding military drones). Discover how she rid herself of Spotify and got into music again, albeit with a distinct lack of witches.
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...
gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...