What we did in July and August
PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!
Dr Kim Foale
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 she rid herself of Spotify and rediscovered her love of music, albeit with a distinct lack of witches.
Consensus decision making sucks
Oscar Wilde once wrote that “the problem with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings”. Possibly there is no greater culprit for these lost evenings than the scourge of consensus decision making, Kim vents.
Community Spotlight: Mastodon
Kim caught up with Andy, Mastodon's new comms lead, for a chat about the Fediverse's poster child. Find out more about the future of the project, how they feel about Bluesky, and how you can get involved.
Our first three months as the Geeks for Social Change Community!
Our grand plot to overthrow billionaire 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 find out how to join us.
Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it
Big tech, especially Meta, is synonymous with queer and trans organising. Kim gets into the weeds exploring how this happened, and suggests some routes out of it including GFSC's own Trans Dimension initiative.
How to establish a Community Technology Partnership
Let's retire the endless magic bullets and solve problems together instead. Kim lays out a methodology for how we can start building technology by thinking about people, not products: and guess what, it's rooted in ✨ existing community networks ✨.