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GFSC's community Discord supports people using technology to futher their social campaigns. Kim caught up with Dave to chat about his...

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.

https://gfsc.community/vote-out-covid-community-spotlight/

YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provocative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house....

YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provocative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a surprisingly complicated task. Micah has a crack at it, investigating how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.

https://gfsc.community/can-you-subvert-youtubes-battle-for-your-eyeballs/

You can also support the project by becoming a GFSC subscriber - its all the same pot! https://gfsc.community/

You can also support the project by becoming a GFSC subscriber - its all the same pot! https://gfsc.community/

More about the project and it's background here: https://gfsc.studio/project/trans-dimension/

More about the project and it's background here: https://gfsc.studio/project/trans-dimension/

If you are a funder and are looking at your glaring lack of engagement with trans politics over the last few years (i could name names but...

If you are a funder and are looking at your glaring lack of engagement with trans politics over the last few years (i could name names but won't), or are a private philanthropist looking to support a projet with real revolutionary potential, please do drop us a message.

As a trans-led studio it absolutely sucks that bad things happening are the best time for us to get interest in our projects, but with some...

As a trans-led studio it absolutely sucks that bad things happening are the best time for us to get interest in our projects, but with some financial assistance to get this off the ground we can make some long term infrastructure that allows organising from a place of joy, not disaster.

The Trans Dimension is our fledgeling attempt to create a simple, free, low maintainance grassroots national infrastructure for trans...

The Trans Dimension is our fledgeling attempt to create a simple, free, low maintainance grassroots national infrastructure for trans organising in the UK.

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.

https://transdimension.uk

Full announcement on our blog! https://gfsc.community/you-are-the-client-we-make-the-stickers/

Full announcement on our blog! https://gfsc.community/you-are-the-client-we-make-the-stickers/

Our aim is to combine live art and moment-to-moment design analysis with an extended roleplay over the neckbreaking albatross of client...

Our aim is to combine live art and moment-to-moment design analysis with an extended roleplay over the neckbreaking albatross of client expectations. This is where you come in: we need people to play the role of client.

Your job is to provide a string of incoherent, vague, arbitrary or mutually exclusive demands. You are a vast worm coughing its sickly desires onto a conveyor belt and we shall nurse you back to health with convivial panel discussion and world-beating sticker designs.

In “You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers” our resident artist Emma Charleston will be designing stickers to your exacting...

In “You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers” our resident artist Emma Charleston will be designing stickers to your exacting specifications. Your ideas will be solicited and respected.

However due to time limitations, the extended Sticker Committee (Kim Foale and Sean Morley) will be judiciously rating, combining, interpreting and rejecting your incoming conveyor belt of ideas to meet deadlines and provide optimum client satisfaction.

You Are The Client: We Make The StickersIt's our first live stream! You are invited to join us tomorrow (Wed 16th April) at 7:30pm to...

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers

It's our first live stream! You are invited to join us tomorrow (Wed 16th April) at 7:30pm 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: https://www.twitch.tv/geeksforsocialchange

Meet Olu (@oluOnline): developer, writer, sewer, apprendre français-er, and internet enjoyer. Read about their experiences trying to find a...

Meet Olu (@oluOnline): developer, writer, sewer, apprendre français-er, and internet enjoyer. Read about their experiences trying to find a place in the social enterprise, charity, non-profit and social enterprise worlds, what bought them to GFSC, and their surprising optimism for technology despite it all. #introduction

https://gfsc.community/hi-im-olu/

Sean isn't on fedi but there's a little clip here! https://bsky.app/profile/morl.bsky.social/post/3lmh6yqpg6c2x

Sean isn't on fedi but there's a little clip here! https://bsky.app/profile/morl.bsky.social/post/3lmh6yqpg6c2x

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...

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.)

https://gfsc.community/dungeons-democracy-crowdwork-as-a-design-problem/

Ursula Le Guin famously said its easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. So lets start imagining it: starting...

Ursula Le Guin famously said its easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. So lets start imagining it: starting with friendship.

Find out what we did in March in our roundup post!

https://gfsc.community/gfsc-dot-community-month-one-2/

Happy #TDOV and also Buy A Trans Woman A Pizza day, to celebrate anyone who gets a paid sub today we will get a pizza for a trans woman on...

Happy #TDOV and also Buy A Trans Woman A Pizza day, to celebrate anyone who gets a paid sub today we will get a pizza for a trans woman on your behalf!

https://gfsc.community/

Behold, a mythic lore drop from studio founder Kim (@kim). Read her never-before-told-story (at least, outside the pub) about the various...

Behold, a mythic lore drop from studio founder Kim (@kim). Read her never-before-told-story (at least, outside the pub) about the various elements floating in the existential stockpot that slow-cooked GFSC's primordial soup. #introduction

https://gfsc.community/how-gfsc-got-to-here-part-1/

@jonty trying to get more eyeballs on this, maybe your audience would know someone who can help?

@jonty trying to get more eyeballs on this, maybe your audience would know someone who can help?

We've had an email about a custom #wheelchair fabrication project from someone in #Devon, UK.> I'm looking for 2 things. 1, a...

We've had an email about a custom #wheelchair fabrication project from someone in #Devon, UK.

> I'm looking for 2 things. 1, a person/group who can build me a cheap fullsize working model of the pdf design seating and simple framework for attaching it to wheels, and 2, a person/group who can work with me on figuring out an alternative propulsion system and powered wheels, once I've got the step 1 working model.

Can you help? Drop us your email and will cc info.

https://500mobility.org.uk/

Meet our fingers-in-pies resident record holder, Emma (@undividual). Pies include: teacher, designer, researcher and train-enthusiast. Learn...

Meet our fingers-in-pies resident record holder, Emma (@undividual). Pies include: teacher, designer, researcher and train-enthusiast.

Learn more about her thoughts on the liberatory potential of teaching!

https://gfsc.community/introducing-emma/