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 technology we need to feel human again. gfsc.community/have-you-not...

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 technology we need to feel human again. gfsc.community/have-you-not...

Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. @kim.town caught up with project founder @dinerismail.bsky.social for an update on the project process and an insight into the tech stack. gfsc.community/resilience-w...

Resilience Web is a campaign and platform that helps social justice organisations create maps of their area. @kim.town caught up with project founder @dinerismail.bsky.social for an update on the project process and an insight into the tech stack. gfsc.community/resilience-w...

Kim responds to a common Discord FAQ: what's the best way to get going with a website? In the start of our new series 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. gfsc.community/whats-the-be...

Kim responds to a common Discord FAQ: what's the best way to get going with a website? In the start of our new series 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. gfsc.community/whats-the-be...

Meet Ben (@benjamilian.bsky.social), 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? gfsc.community/hope-then-ex...

PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks! Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post: gfsc.community/what-we-did-...

PlaceCal livestreams! Accessibility moans! Consensus decision making hate! Podcast revival! Mastodon interview! Ava introduction! Exclamation marks! Find out what we did this summer in our roundup post: gfsc.community/what-we-did-...

Missed our livestream? It's now available as a VOD! We interview Prof Stefan White from Manchester School of Architecture, Dr Jay Stewart from @genderedintelligence.co.uk, Rakesh Prashara from @tippingpointuk.bsky.social and Dr Kim Foale @kim.town from GFSC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=66J5...

Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in an enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (indirectly funding military drones). Discover how she rid herself of Spotify and got into music again, albeit with a distinct lack of witches. gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...

A lot of my personal political project right now is trying to re-materialise tech which has been delibarately obfuscated so we can be sold more shit faster with greater surveillance. Spotify was fascinating to break down and think about the bits that make it up. I'm happy to now be rid of it tho!

Much like Lady Macbeth, Kim has found herself sleepwalking in an enormous castle unclear how she ended up covered in blood (indirectly funding military drones). Discover how she rid herself of Spotify and got into music again, albeit with a distinct lack of witches. gfsc.community/out-damn-spo...

Meet 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. gfsc.community/hello-im-ava/

This is a really great read and pleased some of my insights ended up in it, and there's a lot of insight here.

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.town vents. gfsc.community/consensus-de...

@kim.town caught up with @andypiper.org, 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...

see you in an hour!

What communities are you a part of and how do you connect with them? For our second livestream this Friday from 7:30pm we're looking at the story of PlaceCal, technology that serves communities by aggregating and displaying events in a single place. gfsc.community/how-we-creat...

Accessibility is a vital and increasingly recognised component of design. But what does accessibility actually mean, what happens when requirements contradict, and how can graphic designers learn about accessibility implementation? @undividual.bsky.social dives in. gfsc.community/accessibilit...

Honest insights on #accessibility from a designer's point of view. I was interested to find out that there are alternative standards for colour contrast (APCA v WCAG - sorry for the acronyms, you'll have to read the post).

Accessibility is a vital and increasingly recognised component of design. But what does accessibility actually mean, what happens when requirements contradict, and how can graphic designers learn about accessibility implementation? @undividual.bsky.social dives in. gfsc.community/accessibilit...

Welcome to bsky @genderedintelligence.co.uk!

We've come a long way since we announced this new blog in March. We've done over a dozen posts, launched our first livestream, given talks in London and Edinburgh, and hatched ideas for the weeks and months to come. gfsc.community/our-first-th...

We've come a long way since we announced this new blog in March. We've done over a dozen posts, launched our first livestream, given talks in London and Edinburgh, and hatched ideas for the weeks and months to come. gfsc.community/our-first-th...

Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it Big tech, especially Meta, is synonymous with queer and trans organising. Kim gets into the weeds exploring how this happened, and suggests some routes out of it. gfsc.community/full-meta-ja...

“Accessing a queer or trans social life, especially for younger people, is now synonymous with Instagram and WhatsApp accounts. And for older people or just those who don't want to be on Instagram all the time, its very difficult to find out what's happening.” 🥺

Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it Big tech, especially Meta, is synonymous with queer and trans organising. Kim gets into the weeds exploring how this happened, and suggests some routes out of it. gfsc.community/full-meta-ja...

Our stickers for supporters are back from the printers and looking AMAZING, @undividual.bsky.social knocked it out the park!! Going out to all paid subscribers v soon, still available while stocks last! gfsc.community#/portal

Our stickers for supporters are back from the printers and looking AMAZING, @undividual.bsky.social knocked it out the park!! Going out to all paid subscribers v soon, still available while stocks last! gfsc.community#/portal

new @gfsc.community blog from @kim.town about Community Technology Partnerships is out!! gfsc.community/how-to-estab... What is a CTP, I hear you cry? "The CTP approach aims to be a route to go back to square one and work out what problems we're trying to fix in the first place."

Let's retire the endless magic bullets and solve problems together instead. Kim lays out a methodology for how we can start building technology by thinking about people, not products: and guess what, it's rooted in ✨ existing community networks ✨. gfsc.community/how-to-estab...

New writers, new stickers, new articles. Here's your monthly roundup to see how the GFSC community is growing inc our first stream (an immersive client simulator x dolmio sauce mascot appreciation crèche) & an interview with the creators of the Vote Out Covid webapp. gfsc.community/gfscs-april-...

New writers, new stickers, new articles. Here's your monthly roundup to see how the GFSC community is growing inc our first stream (an immersive client simulator x dolmio sauce mascot appreciation crèche) & an interview with the creators of the Vote Out Covid webapp. gfsc.community/gfscs-april-...

We got interviewed by @gfsc.community talking about our work, #CorsiRosenthal boxes, #Django web apps, @democracyclub.org.uk and more! gfsc.community/vote-out-cov... Remember, you can get involved at voteoutcovid.org.uk before 1st May 2025! #CovidIsNotOver #UKPol #Covid #LongCovid

GFSC's community Discord supports people using technology to futher their social campaigns. Kim caught up with Dave to chat about his Vote Out Covid campaign's goals for the 1st May UK elections, their Django webapp, and building Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. gfsc.community/vote-out-cov...

YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provacative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a complicated task. Micah investigates how a browser extension might take away the house's edge. gfsc.community/can-you-subv...

The Trans Dimension is our fledgeling attempt to create a simple, free, low maintainance national infrastructure for trans organising. We've been unfunded for over a year now but could easily get it off the ground again if people donate or support the project. transdimension.uk

The Trans Dimension is our fledgeling attempt to create a simple, free, low maintainance national infrastructure for trans organising. We've been unfunded for over a year now but could easily get it off the ground again if people donate or support the project. transdimension.uk

tonight!!!

Baby’s first livestream please come!

in my new role as gfsc's livestream consultant i have stayed true in my unfaltering commitment to bad ideas

Oh God, Emma's 'streaming', what have I done (this could be great or it could be terrible)

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers GFSC's first live stream is tomorrow, Wed 16th April at 1930 UTC+1! We invite you to cross to the other side and play the heinous client hectoring their long-suffering creative team. Go on, give us a follow on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/geeksforsoci...

Meet Olu (@olu.online): developer, writer, sewer, and internet enjoyer. Read about their experiences trying to find a place in the social enterprise, charity, and social enterprise worlds, what bought them to GFSC, and their suprising optimism for technology despite it. gfsc.community/hi-im-olu/

Heckler war stories do very well. Imagine an organised insurrection. Sean (@morl.bsky.social) 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.) gfsc.community/dungeons-dem...

I love this piece and the fact that the first time Sean tried it, everyone died basically as soon as it was possible to die Great times

hullo. My latest post with GFSC. In which I detail the design nightmare of working on Dungeons & Democracy, a livestream (and maybe one day live show?) in which players use trade union decision making procedures to navigate a simple Dungeon.

Heckler war stories do very well. Imagine an organised insurrection. Sean (@morl.bsky.social) 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.) gfsc.community/dungeons-dem...