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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 Karrot team member Nick for the lowdown.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Horso?

What we did in July and August

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

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.

Hello, I'm Ava!

Meet our newest author, Ava. She can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute, host a comedy show, and have an anxiety attack on demand. However, the Labour party's anti-trans moral crusade means she is planning on emigrating with these in-demand skills and starting a career as a developer.

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.

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

For our second livestream we're looking at the story of PlaceCal, technology that serves communities by aggregating and displaying events in a single place. Featuring Kim and Sean (GFSC), Rakesh (Tipping Point), Jay (Gendered Intelligence) and Stefan (Manchester School of Architecture).

Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design

Accessibility is a vital and increasingly recognised component of all design practice. But what does accessibility actually mean, what happens with accessibility requirements contradict one another, and how can graphic designers learn about accessibility implementation?

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.