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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.

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

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).

A webpage showing a load of hex codes and horrible colours

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?

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

Heckler war stories do very well. Imagine an organised insurrection. Sean has had one of his worst ideas ever, and can't wait to play it with you and 50 of our closest friends. (This is emphatically not a criticism of democracy as a concept.)