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Geeks for Social What? Our year of explorations and beginnings

All years in recent memory have been grievous and alarming, but here's what we did to make 2025 better and build for 2026. A run-down of GFSC's projects, articles, and methods for making technology which can strengthen communities.

Livestream: What If A Database Was A Map?

Livestream: What If A Database Was A Map?

Book cover titled "The Reflective Workbook for Partners of Transgender People" by D. M. Maynard. Surrounding the cover are pages and covers of similar supportive resources.

Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall

Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall

a bunch of zines and badges laid out. (image repeats further down with more detailed alt text)

Zines are for Everyone

4 people gathering around to take a selfie infront of the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol

Karrot: Community Spotlight

A photograph of Kim (the author) watching themselves on a black and white CCTV screen on the Berlin subwa

Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology

Practice

A colourful meme entitled "DIY Web Revival" with a sparkly muscle doge showing sparkles, "entire site 940kb" etc, and professional modern internet sad doge showing dark and light mode

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 about it, and the pros and cons of each overall category.

A survey asking why I'm leaving Spotify. I've answered "your ceo is investing the profits into military drone AI companies, and you don't pay artists".

Out, damn Spotify!

The cover of the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual, in thin and degraded black lettering on a white background

Consensus decision making sucks

Five members of Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods smiling at the camera after completing PlaceCal training.

How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal

A webpage showing a load of hex codes and horrible colours

Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design

Promo image. Dungeons and Democracy - Can Deliberation Be Fun? There's a picketer with a sign saying: cast fireball please.

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Spotlight

Book cover titled "The Reflective Workbook for Partners of Transgender People" by D. M. Maynard. Surrounding the cover are pages and covers of similar supportive resources.

Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

Kim caught up with Zoyander, Raju Rage and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it.

4 people gathering around to take a selfie infront of the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol

Karrot: Community Spotlight

Four happy people on an allotment on a sunny day. Diner is on the right wearing a green tshirt and has short hair, glasses and a neat goatee

Resilience Web: Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: Mastodon

A taller man and a shorter man both dressed like robots in cardboard boxes. Controls read "shenanigans", "pride", "sillyness".

Vote Out Covid: community spotlight

WIP

A photograph of Kim (the author) watching themselves on a black and white CCTV screen on the Berlin subwa

Our plan to build 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 obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.

A woman checking her phone and laptop at the same time

Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and lonelier every year?

A crowd of varied queers stands around watching a man in a blue sweatshirt read off some notes. There are wine glasses and balloons in the forground, and a big Gendered Intelligence banner

Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

Kim, Sean and Emma showcase a sticker that says Chips and a sticker that says Gravy (vegan)

GFSC's April Roundup

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Promo image. Dungeons and Democracy - Can Deliberation Be Fun? There's a picketer with a sign saying: cast fireball please.

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Intro

a bunch of zines and badges laid out. (image repeats further down with more detailed alt text)

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.

A pixel art image of a sheep whose head is part of their body.

Hope, then Excommunication, and then Hope Again

An iPad sketch showing Ava's face at the helm of a crudely drawn ship "RMS Trans", with three smokestacks. It's approaching a small island covered in guns which are shooting on the ship

Hello, I'm Ava!

Olu's pegboard with various colourful notes on it including a drawing of a fox and some slogans spelt out in scrabble tiles

Hi, I'm Olu!

A colourfu musical instruments surround a set of cards with numbers 1-5 saying "forest, snooker, wine, beige, the pyramids".

How GFSC got to here (Part 1)

A collage of emma's visual diaries

Introducing: Emma!

One of my art pieces that started off as a top down drawing of the coast but transitioned to a desert landscape when rotated.

I, Micah

Practice

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What's the best way to make my personal website?

Out, damn Spotify!

Consensus decision making sucks

How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal

Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design

Spotlight

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Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

Karrot: Community Spotlight

Resilience Web: Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: Mastodon

Vote Out Covid: community spotlight

Livestream

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Livestream: What If A Database Was A Map?

How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers