Mark Boyd

@markboyd.bsky.social

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Mostly here to talk about how to build open digital ecosystems where everyone can participate and co-create (platformable.com) and to share my queer fetish comedy fiction (akamarkboyd.com). He/him 🏳️‍🌈📚

Screen shot of event ticketing startup luma that has a similar logo design to eurosky
Screenshot of a webpage section when right-clicking to save a link and seeing a menu option from Firefox that includes "Copy Clean Link" that removes everything after the ? when copying the link
54 year old man in a crop top and short shorts for pride nyc 2024
Cori Crider and Robin Berjon standing in front of a slide showing the arm wrestling meme with “breaking monopoly, enforcing law” on one bicep and “building alternatives” on the other with freedom in between
Polinho Mota from Datalabe describes how citizen generated data encourages data activists to lead local community data management practices
Ruha Benjamin at MozFest 2025 talking about areas of unlearning
Robin Berjon speaking in front of a meme slide showing democracy drowning and EU Commission doing nothing except publishing an applied AI strategy
Cori Crider from Future of Tech Institute at MozFest 2025 describing how breaking up monopolies is a creative act that generates new structures and opens new opportunities
New York Post newspaper cover with the headline “Skimp on the Barbie” after tariffs expected to raise prices of consumer goods like dolls.
A photo of the exhibit at the Jewish museum in Berlin that shows scrolls by year listing all of the laws introduced to prevent Jewish people from participating in society.
UK Prime Minister speaking at a podium with the UK ans US flags behind him and the subtitle caption reading “there’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom”
Quote from the Simpsons episode: Krusty’s 29th anniversary special, where he sees then-President Clinton in the audience and says “I campaigned for the other guy, but i voted for you!”
Black cat Charlotte looking demurely with her fromt paws crossed, sitting up on a bench (photo taken by Aaron Boyd-Rochman)
Graph showing ghat out of 6.6 usd billion spent by OnlyFans users, 5.3 billion was shared back to creators and the remainder used to pay operating expenses and taxes, with 0.48 billion recorded as profit
Screenshot of coverage of us news page on the guardian website with headlines that equate Harris and Trumps positions (both expected in Pennsylvania, where do each stand on issues etc)
Hard thule branded mauve laptop sleeve
Collection of books im reading including two Adrian Tchaikovsky, some exercise health books, some queer history, charlie jane anders and ted chiang short stories and some business books