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Technology for community liberation 🏳️‍⚧️ gfsc.community gfsc.studio Fedi: @gfsc@social.gfsc.studio Discord: discord.gfsc.studio Posts by @kim.town

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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 6h
From the archive: 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. gfsc.community/community-sp...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 9h
An online community hub which will connect trans communities across the UK by collating news, events and services by and for trans people in one easy-to-reach place. transdimension.uk
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 29/09/2026
The Geeks for Social Change Manifesto v1.0 gfsc.community/the-geeks-fo...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 28/09/2026
Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it gfsc.community/full-meta-ja...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 28/09/2026
From earlier this month: The home is the smallest unit of society. If you want to change the world, maybe take the bin out. After all, if we can't be mutually supportive in our own household, how can we dream of a workable society? gfsc.community/society-begi...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 27/09/2026
"We need our own collectively owned tech infrastructure in the same way we would share a building, a van, or a PA." gfsc.community/we-need-to-t...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 26/09/2026
"YouTube had belonged to Google pretty much from the start, but this is when we got two unskippable ads per video." gfsc.community/can-you-reme...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 25/09/2026
"And so there is apocalypse all around us, all the time, and I'm wondering, what if these things that you just read, what if they're not the apocalypse but they're just what happens?" gfsc.community/alternatives...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 24/09/2026
Alternatives to an Apocalypse: Talking to Friedrich Kirschner gfsc.community/alternatives...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 23/09/2026
If you've hung around us the last few years you undoubtedly will have heard us go on about PlaceCal. But what is it, why does it matter, how can you and your community benefit, and why has it taken us so long? gfsc.community/whats-happen...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 23/09/2026
The one way to hear from us that does not depend on an algorithm is the newsletter. Creators like ourselves are heavily penalised by the algorithm, and it's getting harder and harder to get our message out there. gfsc.community#/portal/signup
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 22/09/2026
"We kept putting people in space, so the Mars felt like a realistic destination, and not just for billionaires." gfsc.community/can-you-reme...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 22/09/2026
One thing on this month, all welcome: Peer Support Drop-in, Tue 22 Sep, 19:00 to 20:00, on Discord gfsc.community/events/
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 21/09/2026
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. gfsc.community/have-you-not...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 21/09/2026
From last month: Ben Swithen, editor of GFSC's podcast and former audio-editor of What the Trans gives some practical and personal advice on how to record your podcast, and how to edit and polish it for release. gfsc.community/how-to-recor...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 20/09/2026
"If we proactively try to do a bit more than what we think is fair, we might end up with the fairest system." gfsc.community/society-begi...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 19/09/2026
"Anarchist pragmatism cuts both ways: we're brilliant at making do, but over time it means we're always on the back foot and never own our means of production." gfsc.community/we-need-to-t...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 18/09/2026
PlaceCal is our free, open source community events platform. Our latest update adds a searchable directory of partners and events, with neighbourhood filtering and a page for every group. gfsc.community/placecal-v0-...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 18/09/2026
"We had, in quick succession, computers in our homes, far better computers in our homes, and the information superhighway." gfsc.community/can-you-reme...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 17/09/2026
At the start of the Century we fixed the ozone layer and the Internet brought us closer together. It seemed reasonable to have hope in a better future. What went wrong? gfsc.community/can-you-reme...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 16/09/2026
How to establish a Community Technology Partnership gfsc.community/how-to-estab...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 15/09/2026
Our main social space is our Discord server. This is a chill community where we talk all things tech and social change, provide tech support and feedback, etc. discord.gfsc.studio
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 14/09/2026
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. gfsc.community/resilience-w...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 14/09/2026
From last month: The first monthly roundup of links from the GFSC Discord, collected by Donna the community bot. gfsc.community/what-the-com...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 13/09/2026
"The main question, when editing a podcast: are you going to leave the pauses, the umms and ahhs, or are you going to cut it together fast, with minimal pauses and a sense of gusto?" gfsc.community/how-to-recor...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 12/09/2026
"You can lay down a whole lot of rules, or you can each try to do slightly more than your fair share and agree to cut each other some slack." gfsc.community/society-begi...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 11/09/2026
"Our platforms and identities are no longer portable: an email address or our own website is something we control ourselves, an Instagram handle is not." gfsc.community/we-need-to-t...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 11/09/2026
We are currently entirely reader supported and welcome one-off or monthly donations to support us in our mission. gfsc.community/support-us/
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 10/09/2026
Last month we spoke to Rachel Collinson, author of The Giving Code, about far-flung topics including the ZX Spectrum, payday loans, New Order and Factory Records, and Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday. You can read about it or hear the conversation on the Geeks for Social Change podcast.
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The Donor Whisperer: an interview with Rachel Collinson
Kim spoke to Rachel Collinson, author of The Giving Code, about her work helping charities find the right donors, the boring admin which is necessary to effect social change, and her role in bringing…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 10/09/2026
Our entire organising lives are mediated by billionaires who hate us and fund our enemies. We deserve better. A write-up of my talk on... WAACLEX? (can we make that a thing?) at the Anarchist Studies Network conference. gfsc.community/we-need-to-t...
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 09/09/2026
Who was the best prime minister of your lifetime? Are they all ruled out by default? (This may be a question which gets easier the more decades you've lived -- or perhaps not)
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 08/09/2026
How do you feel about payment for house chores? We all have a different ratio of time and money available, and this way you can give your available money for someone’s available time. gfsc.community/society-begi...
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Society Begins at Home: Do the Dishes, Change the World
The home is the smallest unit of society. If you want to change the world, maybe take the bin out. After all, if we can't be mutually supportive in our own household, how can we dream of a workable…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 07/09/2026
It's a brand new Monday. How's about a Monday morning mega-meeting? Talk to each other. Give each other credit. Discuss the week gone by, the week ahead, your plans and concerns. Don't succumb to self-defeating dismay. Don't give pressure or blame, but do ask questions, most especially “how?”.
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Mega Meetings: a no-pressure model of accountability
When the world has left you weary, what are your top tips for doing something and not nothing? How can you summon the oomph for your creative or community projects? And how can you do that without…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 05/09/2026
There are many things I wish I'd done differently at uni, but the one that I'd tell my student self: keep on top of the washing up. Even if it wasn't all my doing. There were 5 of us sharing one kitchenette, and I wish I'd aimed to sort 50% of the manky plates, rather than aiming for a fair 20%.
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Society Begins at Home: Do the Dishes, Change the World
The home is the smallest unit of society. If you want to change the world, maybe take the bin out. After all, if we can't be mutually supportive in our own household, how can we dream of a workable…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 04/09/2026
The home is the smallest unit of society. If you want to change the world, maybe take the bin out. After all, if we can't be mutually supportive in our own household, how can we dream of a workable society? gfsc.community/society-begi...
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Society Begins at Home: Do the Dishes, Change the World
The home is the smallest unit of society. If you want to change the world, maybe take the bin out. After all, if we can't be mutually supportive in our own household, how can we dream of a workable…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 30/08/2026
Who here has a favourite moon? Mine is Luna, the moon of Earth. I always wanted to visit as a child, but now I appreciate it from a distance. If you went there it would all be billionaires and space-toilets. Kim has a more powerful vision of the moon. Behold: a lunarpunk practice!
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Towards a Lunarpunk Practice, Part 1: The Sun
Big tech is a modern day sun-empire that everything orients itself around: even the alternatives. How can we banish the golden geese, re-enchant our tech practice, and make all this stuff feel fun…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 29/08/2026
The games industry is a big one, and it's easy to feel like an intruder. How'd I get in? In truder window! In actuality, I got in by making the games I wished existed and meeting a community of other people in the same situation. Here's a story of impostor syndrome, and of Trans Theft Horso.
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Between Solitaire and Monopoly: Finding Community in the Games Industry
The games industry is a big one, and it's easy to feel like an intruder. How'd I get in? In truder window! In actuality, I got in by making the games I wished existed and meeting a community of other…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 28/08/2026
After we interviewed Angelina & Ed from Bidston Observatory, I kept thinking of it a lighthouse and wondering "why did they build it so far from the coast?" They both have powerful lenses on the top floor which does science! However, what *actually* happens at BOARC is rather more astonishing!
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BOARC! It's Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre
Ben caught up with Angelina and Ed from the Bidston Observatory, a hub of creative and technological arts
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 27/08/2026
We recently discontinued our own Mastodon server, but haven't left the fediverse behind. We're over on Sunbeam City now. Here's what we learned about hosting our own Mastodon, the issues which came up, and the reasons we still have hope for it. gfsc.community/why-we-disco...
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Why we discontinued our Mastodon server
After three years of running our Fediverse server, we're shutting it down. Not because we've given up on the Fediverse, but because it isn't safe or sustainable enough for a community org like ours…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 26/08/2026
"...There’s also the very public case of private companies contracted by the NHS to ‘federate’ many different datasets - including Palantir, which trains their system in the context of war and genocide in Palestine."
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How health technology is replacing care with surveillance
Surveillance technology in health and social care like Oxevision is intrusive, coercive and not fit for purpose, and much of its development links to warfare. Why is it being commissioned, and where…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 25/08/2026
I'm off to Köln tomorrow to exhibit a game at GamesCom. I recently wrote about how to release and promote a game, linked below - and I stand by the core: sell the sizzle not the sausage! (Whether or not my game goes down well in Germany, I've heard they're broadly pro-sausage)
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Sell the Sizzle not the Sausage: How to Release Your Game
Making a video game is easier than ever, but how do you release it into the world, put it up for sale and get it noticed? A guide on how to get your game out there, by an award-winning solo game…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 22/08/2026
Rae groups donors by their values - Hobbits: comfort, safety, familiarity, tradition. A cosy life - Elves: focused on the bigger picture: harmony, restoration, beauty, battling evil, new ideas and change. - Dwarves: the finer things in life, luxury, being seen to do amazing things.
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The Donor Whisperer: an interview with Rachel Collinson
Kim spoke to Rachel Collinson, author of The Giving Code, about her work helping charities find the right donors, the boring admin which is necessary to effect social change, and her role in bringing…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 21/08/2026
Perhaps the biggest thing Silicon Valley has done is make technology appear invisible. The cloud as a literal metaphor that encourages us to think of technology as immaterial, intangible. Seamless: you can now access a web app without needing to know a tech person or get your hands dirty yourself.
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Towards a Lunarpunk Practice, Part 1: The Sun
Big tech is a modern day sun-empire that everything orients itself around: even the alternatives. How can we banish the golden geese, re-enchant our tech practice, and make all this stuff feel fun…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 20/08/2026
Everyone is already a tech person: a poster is technology, a well-run meeting is technology, and “I’m not a tech person” is a cultural barrier we want to break down.
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 18/08/2026
"In my own attempts at systemic change, a lot of it is just really, really boring. What’s more boring than LIBOR rates, interest rates between banks, legal changes, making little bots to interpret them, paperwork, FOI changes? It all sounds boring." So how did these boring actions bring down Wonga?
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The Donor Whisperer: an interview with Rachel Collinson
Kim spoke to Rachel Collinson, author of The Giving Code, about her work helping charities find the right donors, the boring admin which is necessary to effect social change, and her role in bringing…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 17/08/2026
Geeks for Social Change's podcast has returned this month with an in-depth interview with Rachel Collinson of the donor whisperer, discussing winnable battles and winnable campaigns in a world which sometimes feels full of defeat. You can find it on all good podcast platforms, or even on Spotify.
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 14/08/2026
Kim spoke to Rachel Collinson, author of The Giving Code, about her work helping charities find the right donors, the boring admin which is necessary to effect social change, and her role in bringing down Wonga. You can read the full piece on our blog, or find it on the revived GFSC podcast.
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The Donor Whisperer: an interview with Rachel Collinson
Kim spoke to Rachel Collinson, author of The Giving Code, about her work helping charities find the right donors, the boring admin which is necessary to effect social change, and her role in bringing…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 09/08/2026
“In a spectacular society, visibility does not emerge from existence but from the orientation toward power.” - Alice Sparkly Kat Power comes from closeness to big tech, the sun we orbit. How can we resist the sun’s logic and make technology in the image of the moon? What would lunarpunk look like?
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Towards a Lunarpunk Practice, Part 1: The Sun
Big tech is a modern day sun-empire that everything orients itself around: even the alternatives. How can we banish the golden geese, re-enchant our tech practice, and make all this stuff feel fun…
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 08/08/2026
Whenever we write about PlaceCal, this is who I imagine.
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 07/08/2026
Disadvantaged communities aren't broken things to be ‘fixed’ by outside experts – they are the source of solutions and are already engaged in their own liberation.
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