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Dr Kim Foale

Dr Kim Foale

Manchester, UK

Kim (she/they) is an experienced practitioner working/living/surviving/thriving at the intersection of tech, research, community, and activism.

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Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and 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 mission to build the digital and physical infrastructure people need to feel human again.

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

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 insight into the tech stack.

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.

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What we did in July and August

PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks!

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!

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.

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

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.