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Geekery

This Is The Last Queer Your Tech

It’s been a pleasure writing your technology column for the past half a decade. Keep it nerdy, queermos.

By A.E. Osworth| July 1, 2017 | 39 Comments
Geekery

6 Useful Tech Tools for Pride

Six pieces of technology that might be useful as you parade, protest and party.

By A.E. Osworth| June 24, 2017 | 9 Comments
Geekery

5 Platforms For Paying Indie Creators (And Getting Paid Yourself)

Are you an independent creator of some kind? Do you love independent creators of various stripes? Well here’s how we can fund the creators that make the internet our happy place.

By A.E. Osworth| June 17, 2017 | 6 Comments
Geekery

Four Totally Weirdo Apps That Are Useful and Fun

The world can only be described with that upside down smiley face emoji; here are some apps that make like the 20th century Dadaist movement had smartphones.

By A.E. Osworth| June 10, 2017 | 3 Comments
Geekery

Art-ificial Intelligence: Amazing AI That Paints, Composes and Makes Movies

While we’ve known for years that AI likes a good cat video, the examples of AI entities showing us their artistic side have reached a critical mass.

By A.E. Osworth| June 3, 2017 | 15 Comments
Geekery

5 Technologies I Wish I Had Known About Before I Started This Move

LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES.

By A.E. Osworth| May 27, 2017 | 11 Comments
Geekery

Four Affordable Games with Weird, Escapist Worlds For Escaping To

These games were low or no-cost investments for me that have yielded hours of forgetting exactly how bad things are right now.

By A.E. Osworth| May 20, 2017 | 8 Comments
Geekery

3 Apps to Help You Make the World Better

Three more apps made for the Resistance as we continue to rail against the corrupt white nationalist regime that has taken hold in the U.S.

By A.E. Osworth| May 13, 2017 | 2 Comments
Geekery

Phishing’s No Phun; Here’s How To Resist The Bait

You may have heard about the big Google-Docs impersonating phishing scam this week, and there are a lot more out there. Here’s how to protect yourself.

By A.E. Osworth| May 6, 2017 | 3 Comments
Geekery

8 More Women Gamers on YouTube and Twitch

Because you can never have a stable of too many awesome folks making video game videos without the heaping dose of toxic masculinity.

By A.E. Osworth| April 29, 2017 | 6 Comments
Geekery

11 Women Gamers Who Let You Watch Along on YouTube and Twitch

You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.

By A.E. Osworth| April 22, 2017 | 33 Comments
Geekery

TV On Your Tech: Every Which Way to Watch TV Without Cable, Compared

Between network shows, streaming-service originals, and your favorite sports, it’s tough to find a TV option that lets you watch everything you care about — especially if you don’t want to pay a huge cable bill or own a TV. Here are your options, broken down by cost, offerings and LGBT content!

By A.E. Osworth| April 15, 2017 | 48 Comments
Geekery

Backup Your Queer Tech To The Cloud

You should backup your computer. Here are four cloud services that’ll help you do just that.

By A.E. Osworth| April 8, 2017 | 6 Comments
Geekery

10 Tap Games for iPhone, Rated By Their Inevitably Fleeting Relief of My Low-Grade Depression

A brief journey through the clicker games that have, if only briefly, buoyed me through ennui, ranked very subjectively by how effectively they distracted me from the always-looming malaise that dogs my every step!

By Rachel| April 2, 2017 | 37 Comments
Geekery

The Republican Push to Gut Internet Privacy Rules (and What You Can Do About It) Explained

Why Senate Joint Resolution 34 matters and what you can do about it.

By A.E. Osworth| March 25, 2017 | 6 Comments
Geekery

Cee and Chloe Do Lesbians Who Tech (for the First Time in Four Years!)

In which Autostraddle tech duo Cee and Chloe revisit Lesbians Who Tech and have loads of thoughts about how it’s grown and where it might grow next.

By cee| March 18, 2017 | 6 Comments
Geekery

Four Soothing Games for When You Need to Plug In and Chill Out

Games with pretty graphics and awesome sound design that go nicely with tea and relaxation.

By A.E. Osworth| March 11, 2017 | 24 Comments
Geekery

Apps For How We’re Working in 2017, The Year of Limited Bandwidth

The name of the game is clean and distraction-free. Apps that are especially good for working in these distracting times.

By A.E. Osworth| March 4, 2017 | 18 Comments
Geekery

Will Uber’s Very Public Sexual Harassment Debacle Actually Change Things For Women in Tech?

Are we finally moving past the storytelling phase and into doing real things to combat sexism in the technology industry, or is this Uber fiasco more of the same?

By A.E. Osworth| February 25, 2017 | 7 Comments
Society + Culture

5 Options for Banking Institutions (With Apps!) That Aren’t Funding DAPL

It can be tough to find a bank that’s not funding the Dakota Access Pipeline and that also still has the technology infrastructure you need. Here are a few places to start!

By A.E. Osworth| February 18, 2017 | 19 Comments
Geekery

How To Use The Internet To Contact Your Representatives (Even When the Phone Lines Are Jammed)

Not all of us have 12 hours to redial and redial and redial every single phone number for every single district office for every single one of our representatives, so here’s some advice that might help you get your message through to your representatives.

By Keely| February 11, 2017 | 12 Comments
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