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Dr Kim Foale

@kim.town
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She/they. Studio lead @gfsc.community. Aka kimadactyl. Community organiser, software developer (attempting to retire), researcher. Trans and very tired. Mastodon: @kim@post.lurk.org Work: gfsc.studio WIP blog: kim.town

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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 12/08/2026
tomorrow's world core
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 12/08/2026
just reliased i can't remember the last time i heard someone read out aitch tee tee pee colon forward slash fowrward slash double you double you double you dot
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 30/07/2026
i know everyone's been thinking "my tech politics discourse doesn't have enough astrology in it" i got u gfsc.community/towards-a-lu...
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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 aga...
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 28/07/2026
dispossessed was mine if you want a very obvious political allegory. left hand of darkness is incredibly depressing and cold if that appeals more.
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 28/07/2026
rip gilles deleuze you would have loved calling LLMs organs without a body
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026
in other news a fancy restaurant near me is now advertising a "girl dinner" snacking mezze and all i can say is, our culture is not your costume,
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026
the cult of the individual is more rabid than ever and i hate it
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026
i think a large reason for the current cancel culture and puritan ethics we have now is that you can get somewhat actualised online. and so there's not the same passion to set up and maintain third spaces or to overcome tensions and disagreements as there's no immediate reason to resolve them like.
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026
in the noughties if you wanted to feel actualised politically (or in almost any way tbh) you needed to commit to maintaining a space for that thing that necessarily meant you had to hang out with people and get along with them even if you didn't like them very much
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 21/07/2026
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 could we find alternatives?
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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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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 21/06/2026
prime minister implies the existence of a fibonacci minister
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 04/06/2026
actually bold proposals: - billionares are given a months warning, then anyone left with more than a billion dollars will be hunted down by specialist hitsquads (this might fix the problem in one swoop tbh) - make it illegal to own more than two homes - abolish the stock market - make food free
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 04/06/2026
i think all these ideas were literally being mooted when i was at school
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 04/06/2026
"bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment..." these are incredibly far from "bold proposals", its almost comical how far the overton window has shifted www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 03/06/2026
so who is hype for season 4 of euphoria!!!
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 02/06/2026
ipo? i mean i poo too but i don't tell the world about it
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 02/06/2026
personally i'm happy for the police to be at pride as long as they are throwing bricks at themselves
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 02/06/2026
happy pride month!
Black-and-white photocopied zine illustration. At the top, a parody of 'America the Beautiful' typed out: 'Oh, beautiful, for sissy power that cannot be contained. / We fought at Stonewall decked in drag, we want more fruited plains. / America, America, Gays are oppressed by thee. / When called to fight, we'll do it right, with no apology!' On the left, hand-lettered text reads 'HEY KIDS! RECREATE THIS IMMORTAL SCENE' with an arrow pointing right, and 'PAINT BY NUMBER' below it. A numbered colour key lists: 1. Sissy Chartreuse, 2. Amazon Orange, 3. Pig Blue, 4. Lisping Lavender, 5. Dan White, 6. Off White. On the right is an ink drawing of a police car engulfed in flames, with numbers scattered across it corresponding to the paint-by-number key — a reference to the 1979 White Night riots, when police cars were burned following the lenient manslaughter verdict for Dan White, killer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 01/06/2026
if mamdani was an influencer he'd be banned from entering the UK i stg
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 29/05/2026
How can we fully support people and communities holistically? How can we see them as more than customers to be sold or rented software? We help communities build and own their means of production. More of the manifesto will unfold over this week, but you can read it in full below
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The Geeks for Social Change Manifesto v1.0
GFSC's goal is “help people use technology to do community stuff”. Today we're launching our manifesto for building this real world impact: shared infrastructure over products, capability over deficit...
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 29/05/2026
thankyou so much for having me, my quest to expose everyone to anarchist literature is going well i see 😅
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 19/05/2026
this is my fav game ever prob which you might like too if the premise and graphic design is my passion cards appeal boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12...
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Pax Porfiriana
Build business empire of ranches, mines, rails, troops and banks in Porfirio Díaz era
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 19/05/2026
my favs rn - both arguably TOO streamlined (and therin lies the game) - a bit mind melting the first time you play but these get the most play for me boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21... boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17...
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Import / Export
Run the most successful shipping business by importing and exporting the right goods.
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 15/05/2026
the thing with the green party sweep locally is a lot of these people are very young and never been in politics before but this also means in like 4-8 years they are going to be great candidates for bigger roles this feels like the real death knell for the LP - who is replacing this old guard?
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 15/05/2026
it's one thing to have limited options within the parliamentary labour party it's quite another to say we don't have any good MPs so we need to pluck someone from the list of 70 million people who not in the parliamentary labour party post haste, and not even bother with a candidate list
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 15/05/2026
if you're ever in any doubt about the labour party's commitment to white patriarchy, remember they could have picked literally anyone in the country to fast track to PM and they picked... andy burnham, with seemingly zero consideration to other options
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 13/05/2026
Dunning Kruger cup lifetime achievement award winner 2026
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 13/05/2026
This has been a big penny drop for me on Starmer's psyche. I think starmer assumed when he got in that he was the next Blair, a generational PM who would leave a lasting legacy. He's turned out to be a useless drone but the cognitive dissonance must be killing him observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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Keir Starmer: I want 10 years in No 10 and will fight my ...
The prime minister sets out his project of ‘renewal’, which includes a scheme to open up Europe for young people, admits Labour needs to act on its election drubbing, and questions donations to Reform...
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 11/05/2026
nathan fielder is that you gudtrip.com
gudtrip.com
Home
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 11/05/2026
started watching supernatural, forgot how ubiquitous lip gloss was in the noughties
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 10/05/2026
this would not be too hard to make as a little self hosted service for printing at home if any mystery rich people are reading this and want to fund me. i mean it would be a bit janky but the bits and pieces all exist! guess the corpo version would be "spotify for news", weird that doesnt exist
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 09/05/2026
oh and lets not forget the brilliant backup plan: get a man who came fourth out of five in one labour leadership election and got one third of jeremy corbyn's votes in another who has no discernable policy differences to starmer to somehow become an MP and then somehow win a GE
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 09/05/2026
Community & Impostor Syndrome in the Games Industry gfsc.community/th/ The games industry is a big one. It's easy to feel like an intruder. Ben writes: Here's how I got into game-development, and three events which showed me the merits of community and cooperation in this solitary line of work.
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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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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 09/05/2026
reading this as a tweet about me lol
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 09/05/2026
starmer saying he "takes responsibility for the election losses" and to prove it, appointing an advisor who miserably lost the only general election he stood in very funny and on brand
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026
im gonna blog about all this soon as we discontinued the gfsc server and this is one of the many reasons why the other one is that if someone replies to my posts with porn then presumably that now lives on my server and could get me prosecuted under UK law its honestly a minefield
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026
chosing to intepret the chips as ur pals :)
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026
e.g. a selfie i posted get picked up by nazi servers and people started photoshopping it into porn and reposting it across multiple servers. it was only because i was on at the time it started i could nip it in the bud. litearlly nothing prepared me for that + there was nowhere i could turn for help
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026
yeah its not just moderation tools as much as like, a moderation ecosystem, support services and so on. i think the manual pages need to warn you about some of the things that can happen to you if you run a server too. everything is 100% focussed on the technical and not social side rn
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026
i know this is a joke obvi but moderation on mastodon feels like an absolute afterthought to me. i dont think fedi is suitable as a serious tool for mass use until people figure out what it looks like sadly, esp given OSA and the like
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026
old macdonald is actually a woman you sexist fucks
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 01/05/2026
Community infrastructure: what it is, and how GFSC plans to fund it. gfsc.community/our-social-b... - a new blog post by @kim.town
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How GFSC plans to sustainably fund community infrastructure
My last post we explained what GFSC does and why. Now the practical bit: how do we actually pay for it? And to answer that, we need to talk about something we've lost: shared distribution.
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 04/05/2026
what idiot called it grindr and not msm messenger
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/04/2026
what's the betting wes streeting goes to work for palantir the second he gets voted out of office
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 22/04/2026
yeppp ive emailed autonomic
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 19/04/2026
wow ive played a load on pandanet and had no idea! very very cool
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 13/04/2026
gonna tell my grandkids this was microsoft copilot
inflatable rubber pilot from the movie "airplane"
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 13/04/2026
hey just remembered i pitched for this and didnt hear back, i take it this means im not selected? 😅 all good just good to know either way!
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 12/04/2026
wrote a thing about what i've been working on recently gfsc.community/our-vision-f...
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Our vision for the ‘community’ in community technology
Our goal is to help community organisations do things together rather than individually. Each project is a different expression of that. Read our plan to build shared community infrastructure.
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 05/04/2026
the main reason to be on there imo is that its cool not having your social media posts owned by a corporation but its not enough by itself as a hook ive spent the last 6 months trying to engage people not already on there for whom that is a draw to start a new server together, its a tough sell
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