Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 12/08/2026just 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 141
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 30/07/2026i know everyone's been thinking "my tech politics discourse doesn't have enough astrology in it" i got u gfsc.community/towards-a-lu...gfsc.communityTowards a Lunarpunk Practice, Part 1: The SunBig 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... 030
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 28/07/2026dispossessed was mine if you want a very obvious political allegory. left hand of darkness is incredibly depressing and cold if that appeals more. 020
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 28/07/2026rip gilles deleuze you would have loved calling LLMs organs without a body 021
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026in 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, 050
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026the cult of the individual is more rabid than ever and i hate it 030
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026i 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. 120
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/07/2026in 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 110
Reposted by Dr Kim FoaleGeeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 21/07/2026How 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?gfsc.communityHow health technology is replacing care with surveillanceSurveillance 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… 001
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 04/06/2026actually 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 030
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 04/06/2026i think all these ideas were literally being mooted when i was at school 100
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/...theguardian.com‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survivalGlobal report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions 120
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 02/06/2026personally i'm happy for the police to be at pride as long as they are throwing bricks at themselves 041
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 01/06/2026if mamdani was an influencer he'd be banned from entering the UK i stg 000
Reposted by Dr Kim FoaleGeeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 29/05/2026How 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 belowgfsc.communityThe Geeks for Social Change Manifesto v1.0GFSC'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... 021
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 29/05/2026thankyou so much for having me, my quest to expose everyone to anarchist literature is going well i see 😅 020
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 19/05/2026this 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...boardgamegeek.comPax PorfirianaBuild business empire of ranches, mines, rails, troops and banks in Porfirio Díaz era 000
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 19/05/2026my 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...boardgamegeek.comImport / ExportRun the most successful shipping business by importing and exporting the right goods. 100
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 15/05/2026the 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? 000
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 15/05/2026it'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 100
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 15/05/2026if 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 100
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 13/05/2026This 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...observer.co.ukKeir 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... 220
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 11/05/2026started watching supernatural, forgot how ubiquitous lip gloss was in the noughties 020
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 10/05/2026this 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 130
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 09/05/2026oh 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 020
Reposted by Dr Kim FoaleGeeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 09/05/2026Community & 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.gfsc.communityBetween Solitaire and Monopoly: Finding Community in the Games IndustryThe 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 ... 165
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 09/05/2026starmer 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 131
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026im 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 010
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026e.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 010
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026yeah 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 110
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 07/05/2026i 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 010
Reposted by Dr Kim FoaleGeeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 01/05/2026Community infrastructure: what it is, and how GFSC plans to fund it. gfsc.community/our-social-b... - a new blog post by @kim.towngfsc.communityHow GFSC plans to sustainably fund community infrastructureMy 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. 111
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 26/04/2026what's the betting wes streeting goes to work for palantir the second he gets voted out of office 010
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 19/04/2026wow ive played a load on pandanet and had no idea! very very cool 020
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 13/04/2026hey 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! 000
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 12/04/2026wrote a thing about what i've been working on recently gfsc.community/our-vision-f...gfsc.communityOur vision for the ‘community’ in community technologyOur 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. 001
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 05/04/2026the 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 020