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Dr Kim Foale's personal archive. Writing and work on technology, sound, games, and social change.

Kim Foale

Recent Work

GFSC Community

A community blog and infrastructure organisation building bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology.

2025
Live

GFSC Community

Geeks for Social Change gfsc
community technology writing
Nextdoor Nature

How we helped The Wildlife Trusts to create a community web resource to make it easier to 'take action for nature'.

2024
Live

Nextdoor Nature

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts gfsc
software environment community
Gendered Intelligence website and rebrand

A full website migration and rebrand for the UK's largest trans charity, helping them support their users and administrate their workload more effectively.

2024
Live

Gendered Intelligence website and rebrand

Gendered Intelligence gfsc
software design trans
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Recent Writing

Geeks for Social What? Our year of explorations and beginnings
gfsc.community

Geeks for Social What? Our year of explorations and beginnings

Five years ago, I calmed myself with the words 'What a silly year!'. Half a decade later, this still applies.

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Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street
gfsc.community

Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

"I'm so excited that you reached out! I love your work and it means a lot that this project connects with your practice and your communities."

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Karrot: Community Spotlight
gfsc.community

Karrot: Community Spotlight

We emerged out of a dream to build a digital sharing platform for the world, building off the back of the success a great foodsharing platform for German-speaking regions.

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

Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology

We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives.

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Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and lonelier every year?
gfsc.community

Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and lonelier every year?

Technology, on the whole, promises to make our lives happier, better and more connected. But if you look around, it feels like a lot of technology actually delivers exhaustion, isolation and a feeling of being spied on.

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Resilience Web: Community Spotlight
gfsc.community

Resilience Web: Community Spotlight

It's a platform that maps community, social justice and environmental groups in a local area. These maps are created and maintained by the people who live there.

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About Me

I'm Kim Foale, a technologist, sound artist, and community organiser based in Manchester.

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