GFSC's April Roundup
New writers, new stickers, new articles. Here's your monthly roundup to see how the GFSC community is growing including our first livestream (an immersive client simulator x dolmio sauce mascot appreciation crèche) and an interview with the creators of the Vote Out Covid webapp.
Welcome back to blogging. In this past month gfsc.community has evolved into a website that has been online for two months – this alone is worthy of celebration.
In month one you met our writers and for month two we asked them: what are you working on right now? If any divine spark has emerged from the primordial gravy of our writing efforts it's that we want to emphasise making & doing. gfsc.community is an anti-thinktank in that (1) it doesn't advocate for the complete abolition of society and (2) it recognises and celebrates the limits of thinking.
Sadly, the left has monopolised thinking. The brain is now the second wokest organ in the body, after [redacted]. Don't get me wrong, I love my internal life. I have the mental imagining capacities to fully rotate a Rubix cube in my head at 200rpm in 4k 60fps. I feel sick every time I shut my eyes.
But we want to pedestalise doing. Actually making things changes things. Doing anything, creating anything, especially things other people can use or interact with, it all claws back something. It creates territory.
We Did A Livestream!
This month we embarked on the first ever gfsc.community livestream on our new twitch channel. You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers was a live art stream and client mollification simulator. Chat was invited to submit any and all ideas they had for stickers they would like to see in a world and Emma would design them live on stream. As the amount of ideas built up to dizzying volumes, Kim and Sean would combine, reject, interpret and reimagine these ideas to maximise client return before the deadline (getting too sleepy / wanting to stop streaming).
We are currently finalising the artwork and getting these printed. We will be sending them out to all paid subscribers (apart from the ones quarantined for being illegal) so if you were thinking about subscribing it would be a huge help if you can do so now so we can plan quantities. You may wait in a state of vigilant anticipation until then.
The Recap
Apart from the stream, we wrote about some other stuff:
- Micah wrote about YouTube's hostile homepage interface and some strategies to subvert it.
- Sean wrote about designing democracy in a dungeon (alliteration unintentional, but seemingly unavoidable) using rapidly constructed twitch chat bots.
- Kim interviewed Dave from Vote Out Covid to discuss their mini campaign for the May 1st UK elections (and the django webapp he made to help)
- And welcome additional author Olu!
Some of our WIP posts we intended to get published this month are still, well, IP, and will show up next month. It turns out it's actually really hard to write a WIP post without simply wanting to finish the thing.
Hello kindly reader. We are entirely reader supported. If you've enjoyed the posts this month please consider starting a paid subscription so we can keep on doing what we do, and get our weird sticker sheet into the bargain ❤️.
See you in next month's roundup!
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