Gemma Copeland

It's AI-generated terracotta owl tiles all the way down, forever, folks.

Can you help us support social movements with technology?

We’re recruiting 4–6 founding members to join our Advisory Circle, bringing external expertise and strategic perspective to support our cooperative’s mission.

Apply here: bit.ly/ckadvisory

We're looking for freelance devs with aligned politics to work on some upcoming projects (TypeScript, Next.js, Python, WordPress) at £275/day.

If you're interested and available to start in the next month, email jobs@commonknowledge.coop with a short intro, relevant experience and project links.

The Guardian view on Palestine Action: if red paint is terrorism, what isn’t? | Editorial Editorial: Labelling direct action as an act of terror criminalises dissent, chills speech and redefines nuisance as extremism under the banner of national security

Common Knowledge opposes the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Full thread below

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks to our wonderful organizers and speakers ❤️@janafapa.bsky.social @claraigk.bsky.social
@dscheykopp.bsky.social @annkoster.bsky.social @avilarenata.bsky.social @gemcopeland.bsky.social @franzimartini.bsky.social @atmayer.bsky.social @floprim.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social

We're now on Bluesky! Welcome to workers.coop, the UK based federation of worker-led cooperatives.

Worker cooperatives enable workers to unite and collectively advance their economic, social, and cultural interests.

Btw, another tech “consultancy” I admire is @commonknowledge.coop: “We’re a not-for-profit worker co-op of technologists, dsgnrs, rschrs + facilitators. We work in collaboration with grassroots organisers + communities around the 🌏, using our digital skills to multiply their impact + capacity.”

shado x EEFP presents: How to win an energy embargo for Palestine Join us to reflect on a year of research, actions, and the future of Palestine and Climate organising in Britain.

Join Energy Embargo for Palestine and Shado Mag this Thursday in London for an event asking “How to win an Energy Embargo for Palestine”, supported by the Progressive International.

🇵🇸 Register now:

Excited to start a short course with the Centre of Planetary Pedagogies this week, exploring different models for regenerative practices at the neighbourhood scale with Mae-ling Lokko:
www.centerforplanetarypedagogies.org/courses/seed... 🪐

These Emerald Starlings, today's featured bird on the eBird homepage, are completely perfect.

No notes, no revisions.

(Also: stunning photo by Julien Mazenauer)

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In the UK, R&D has become institutionalised. While advanced skills and infrastructures certainly have an important role to play in building capabilities, innovation also relies on people and relationships. Ideas are sparked, plans are formed, and daring ideas are tried out when people have the space and opportunity to collaborate - and this innovation mindset has existed in Britain before. As historian Anton Howes has noted in the tin centuching innovation mindset "spread from person to person, much like a disease", enabling the culture of the Industrial Revolution.®

Our hypothesis is that innovation starts with human relationships: with the confidence to have a go, to explore, to make something new or take something else apart and show it to your friends, or ask for help and support. Social capital is at the heart of innovation, and the recommendations in this Green Paper set out an approach to strengthening that across the UK, creating a network of Networked Neighbourhoods that power a resilient, sustainable innovation future for everyone. We believe it is possible to rapidly spark a culture of inclusive innovation across the UK, that begins in neighbourhoods and forms a golden network of locally rooted community incubator organisations, supported by long-term investment and clear success measures. As well as creating new innovation potential, this will strengthen social bonds and help build better places to live.

The UK could be home to an irresistible culture of innovation if more people had the space to try things out, get support and investment, make mistakes, have a go, share a wild idea with their friends

View of the beach and ocean, with lush forests in the foreground and a very blue sky.

Two kangaroos standing amongst scrubby bush

A koala in a gumtree

A blackboard recording how many humpback whales have been sighted this season – 4673 migrating north.

Just spent a week on Minjerribah, a sand island off the coast of Brisbane/Meanjin. Admittedly I'm biased but I'm convinced it's one of the most beautiful places on earth. Incredible beaches, teeming with wildlife: in a week we saw kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, turtles, ospreys, gliders...

So much respect for the Greens who introduced the demand for free/cheap transport and seem to have successfully pushed the Overton window much further to the left 👏

Visiting my hometown Brisbane atm and one of the aspects I'm enjoying the most is that all public transport in Queensland is only 50c for everyone.

The policy has been wildly popular and successful since they introduced it and now has bipartisan support 👌

Particularly proud of this essay, on how design practices developed within capitalism can be redirected towards movements for liberation

A few of our highlights from this year