Gemma Copeland

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.

17.07.2025 14:02 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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...

26.06.2025 11:36 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Conference: Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons.

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

27.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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.

25.02.2025 15:15 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Common Knowledge A non-profit workers cooperative using technology to help social movements build power

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.”

02.03.2025 01:20 — 👍 45    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

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:

17.02.2025 14:44 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

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... 🪐

16.02.2025 14:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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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12.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 174    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 1

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

28.01.2025 07:16 — 👍 29    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 3

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...

28.01.2025 06:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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 👏

28.01.2025 05:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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 👌

28.01.2025 05:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

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

24.12.2024 03:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A few of our highlights from this year

24.12.2024 03:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0