Geeks for Social Change

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

State your assumptions: GFSC's philosophical foundations gfsc.community/state-your-a...

From earlier this month: Blog, newsletter, docs, login, stats and more, on one server for about a tenner. Autistici/Inventati asked for a thousand servers. Here's one of them. gfsc.community/how-we-run-g...

"In the end, the people aiming for quantity accidentally made the best quality pots." gfsc.community/give-up-givi...

"* How I Experience Web Today, an exasperating site which gets better the more you try to actually read the article." gfsc.community/what-the-com...

"If you want to come and chat about volunteering or meet the team, you can just come along to any Monday at 4pm: it’s pretty informal." gfsc.community/autumn-updat...

Geeks for Social Change is a collective once again, with a growing team of volunteers. Here's how you can get involved or support us in other ways. gfsc.community/autumn-updat... @kim.town

From the archive: We’re getting a better idea of our supporters by researching what people actually need from technology. Help us capture a snapshot of your feelings that we can feed into our plan for the coming year. gfsc.community/the-geeks-fo...

State your assumptions: GFSC's philosophical foundations gfsc.community/state-your-a...

A year ago this week: Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting Pen Fight Distro, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters. gfsc.community/zines-are-fo...

Alternatives to an Apocalypse: Talking to Friedrich Kirschner gfsc.community/alternatives...

"Therefore, yes, before people come for me, we are using GitHub and AI to manage this." gfsc.community/how-we-run-g...

"Masterpieces emerged from the sausage-factory approach. If you keep doing something again and again, you learn by experience, you learn the pitfalls and pick up on better tactics." gfsc.community/give-up-givi...

"* Restroom Archive, an archive of 3D-scanned public toilets." gfsc.community/what-the-com...

A collection of news, memes and site recommendations from our community. All the best and all the worst, collected for your delectation and alarm. gfsc.community/what-the-com... @benjamilian.bsky.social

From the archive: YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provocative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. gfsc.community/can-you-subv...

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...

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.gg/EwFHSp8h9h

Karrot is a free and open source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. Kim caught up with Karrot team member Nick for the lowdown. gfsc.community/karrot-commu...

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. gfsc.community/can-you-reme...

"I was doing a lot of work with milk. I was scanning little figurines in milk baths to create 3D models of them." gfsc.community/alternatives...

"One way to do everything, not ten. For example, for deployment we were previously using Co-op Cloud, Dokku and Kamal." gfsc.community/how-we-run-g...

"Adults try a skill, realise they’re no good at it, and give up. Young children don’t worry about that. They keey going. They don't ask whether it's impressive or an employable skill. They persist with it, for the sake of fun." gfsc.community/give-up-givi...

Giving up is easy. Playful learning is easy too, and a lot less frustrating. A low-pressure way to develop almost any new skill. This is how I've developed dozens of practical and creative talents. Now you can, too. gfsc.community/give-up-givi...

What's the best way to make my personal website? gfsc.community/whats-the-be...

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

Three things on this month, all welcome: GFSC Collective Meetup, Tue 6 Oct, 16:00 to 17:00, on Discord PlaceCal Community Organisers Drop-in, Wed 21 Oct, 12:00 to 13:00, online Peer Support Drop-in, Tue 27 Oct, 18:00 to 19:00, on Discord gfsc.community/events/

Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology gfsc.community/our-plan-to-...

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...

"The companies we once called Facebook and Google are now Meta and Alphabet, and they hold more sway than some national governments." gfsc.community/can-you-reme...

"It's like if you think someone might be about to die, and then they do, you can go, “phew, I can stop worrying about maybe this will happen now." gfsc.community/alternatives...

"Over the last few months, we've been consolidating everything at Geeks for Social Change as far as possible so it can be collectively run and maintained." gfsc.community/how-we-run-g...

Blog, newsletter, docs, login, stats and more, on one server for about a tenner. Autistici/Inventati asked for a thousand servers. Here's one of them. gfsc.community/how-we-run-g... @kim.town @getgrist.com

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...

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

The Geeks for Social Change Manifesto v1.0 gfsc.community/the-geeks-fo...

Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it gfsc.community/full-meta-ja...

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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

Alternatives to an Apocalypse: Talking to Friedrich Kirschner gfsc.community/alternatives...

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...

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

"We kept putting people in space, so the Mars felt like a realistic destination, and not just for billionaires." gfsc.community/can-you-reme...

One thing on this month, all welcome: Peer Support Drop-in, Tue 22 Sep, 19:00 to 20:00, on Discord gfsc.community/events/

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...

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...

"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...

"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...