Stimpunks Social

A third place is somewhere that isn't home or work and asks nothing of you.

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:07:29 +0000

A third place is somewhere that isn't home or work and asks nothing of you.

The classic one is a watering hole: the talk is the point. A Cavendish Space adds a cave, a campfire, and a door you're allowed to stand outside.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/11/01/a-third-place-needs-a-cave/

Campfire Learn Together, November 1st at 10AM CT / 4PM UK, in the Events Room on Stimpunk…

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:10:19 +0000

Campfire Learn Together, November 1st at 10AM CT / 4PM UK, in the Events Room on Stimpunks.World.

Foucault's Discipline and Punish, read from the bodies it couldn't use: quiet hands, masking, judges of normality.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/10/31/campfire-learn-together-the-production-of-docile-bodies/

Thursday's Infodumplings is a Halloween Hootenanny: a spooky show-and-tell in the Haunted…

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:55:03 +0000

Thursday's Infodumplings is a Halloween Hootenanny: a spooky show-and-tell in the Haunted House on Stimpunks.World. Dress your avatar, bring your chimera, show us something haunted.

Members only. 7PM Central.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/10/28/infodumplings-halloween-hootenanny-in-the-haunted-house/

Campfire Learn Together, Sunday 10AM CT / 4PM UK.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:00:49 +0000

Campfire Learn Together, Sunday 10AM CT / 4PM UK.

Then & Now's How to Make a Fascist says nobody was hypnotized. We read it through austerity and resentment.

Take away what people need. Hand them someone to blame.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/10/15/campfire-learn-together-how-to-make-a-fascist/

Stimpunks is not only stimpunks.org.

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:50:53 +0000

Stimpunks is not only stimpunks.org.

Five smaller sites, each doing one thing the big site cannot. All free, all open-licensed, all made with Helen Edgar.

We built them one at a time for a year and never said so in one place. Now we have.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/09/15/our-sibling-sites/

Came Back Clean — what buried underpants say about soil

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:58:25 +0000

Came Back Clean — what buried underpants say about soil

A thousand people buried two thousand pairs of underpants across Switzerland. The ones that came back cleanest were under lawns — and that is the bad result.

https://starstuff.earth/came-back-clean

I published my access rider.

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:07:39 +0000

I published my access rider.

It exists so you don't have to guess, and so I don't have to spend the encounter explaining myself instead of doing the work.

Remote and async by default. Write it down. No phone calls. Don't touch my wheelchair.

https://stimpunks.org/about/ryan/access-rider/

Thursday's Infodumplings is a scent night. Norah's favourites, Ryan's subscription vials,…

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:06:58 +0000

Thursday's Infodumplings is a scent night. Norah's favourites, Ryan's subscription vials, and whatever smells good in your house.

"An invitation for the community to take a whiff."

What scents do you enjoy?

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/24/infodumplings-take-a-whiff/

Sunday at Campfire we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday — one of very few people…

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:47:29 +0000

Sunday at Campfire we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday — one of very few people anywhere who talked about race and neurodivergence in the same breath, as one problem.

Two of his own talks.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/campfire-learn-together-unlearning-toward-hope/

"You don't need an ocean full of hope, but you do need a ripple, you do need a drop, and…

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:47:05 +0000

"You don't need an ocean full of hope, but you do need a ripple, you do need a drop, and that is often enough."

— Jason Arday

Sunday's Campfire is a memorial and a briefing.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/campfire-learn-together-unlearning-toward-hope/

Sunday we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks.

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:45:42 +0000

Sunday we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks.

He defended late-identified Autistic and ADHD people a year before the backlash peaked. He was precise and kind. It did not protect him.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/campfire-learn-together-unlearning-toward-hope/

Sunday's Campfire: a movement practice, not a lecture.

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:11:51 +0000

Sunday's Campfire: a movement practice, not a lecture.

Seated tai chi, somatics, a chair stim dance, flamenco.

All seated, by design.

Aug 23, 10AM CT / 4PM UK

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/21/campfire-learn-together-seated-tai-chi-transformative-somatic-practices-and-bodily-survival-knowledge/

Do you still have a favorite dinosaur?

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:22:56 +0000

Do you still have a favorite dinosaur?

And why are we expected to "grow out" of them? Autistic kids infodump about dinosaurs and get ridiculed for it.

Thursday's Infodumplings, 7PM Central. Bring yours.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/19/infodumplings-do-you-still-have-a-favorite-dinosaur/

Week 33: we built six machines to check our own work, then found the edge where they stop…

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:07:37 +0000

Week 33: we built six machines to check our own work, then found the edge where they stop helping. Almost every fault that changed an argument was caught by a human reading.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/16/stimpunks-org-changelog-for-week-33-2026-from-the-gate-to-the-looking-from-the-claim-to-the-credit/

Star Stuff — science and wonder and the beautiful diversity of being.

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:06:40 +0000

Star Stuff — science and wonder and the beautiful diversity of being.

https://starstuff.earth/

Pouring one out for Jason Arday. RIP.

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:23:37 +0000

Pouring one out for Jason Arday. RIP.

So gross, the gleeful bigotry and shitting on DEI — without regard for a life — that precipitated losing him.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-020-00636-w

The Elimination of Waste: on a word that meant one thing in a steam engine and another in…

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:30:13 +0000

The Elimination of Waste: on a word that meant one thing in a steam engine and another in a school

A fascinating and concise history of “efficiency” in the classroom, starting with thermodynamics.

https://starstuff.earth/elimination-of-waste-zine

Five Sigma: how much evidence is enough before you do something to a child

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:29:56 +0000

Five Sigma: how much evidence is enough before you do something to a child

https://starstuff.earth/five-sigma-zine

We had a strong position on co-design and no page for it.

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:14:09 +0000

We had a strong position on co-design and no page for it.

A review of 55 studies using the word found 44% never defined it. 7% did anything about power.

Co-design isn't consultation at the testing stage. It is power-sharing at the architecture stage.

https://stimpunks.org/glossary/co-design/

Today is the last chance to get tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:52:41 +0000

Today is the last chance to get tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference
Hybrid event. Recorded.
14-16th Aug 2026

https://neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autistic-mental-health-conference/?v=7885444af42e

With @neurohubcommunity.org

There is a website we have been building all year that is mostly made of wonder and citat…

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:28:55 +0000

There is a website we have been building all year that is mostly made of wonder and citations.

Tonight at Infodumplings, the tour of ★ stuff — then the floor is open for Star Stuff talk. 7PM Central.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/13/infodumplings-star-stuff-and-the-shelves-we-built-last/

How a story gets smoother than the science, and what reading the primary source puts back…

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:01:11 +0000

How a story gets smoother than the science, and what reading the primary source puts back. Six ways a fact goes wrong, and seventeen worked corrections — most of them ours, published, dated, and fixed in public.

https://starstuff.earth/too-good-to-check

In 2025, 88% of our budget went to program services.

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:53:14 +0000

In 2025, 88% of our budget went to program services.
We spend more than we take in, & reserves (from our own pockets) cover the difference. In 2025, donations came to $6,953 across the whole year — for every dollar a person gave us, we spent $17.64.
Donations needed.

https://stimpunks.org/impact/

New Campfire post. Sunday Aug 16, 10AM CT / 4PM UK.

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:27:07 +0000

New Campfire post. Sunday Aug 16, 10AM CT / 4PM UK.

A school in Rotterdam that teaches climate collapse, then teaches the nervous system that has to survive hearing it.

Boxing. Breathing. Sewing.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/09/campfire-learn-together-head-heart-and-hands-at-the-end-of-the-world/

We publish a changelog every week: what shipped.

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:14:47 +0000

We publish a changelog every week: what shipped.

Starting this week we also publish a reflection: what the week actually cost.

Same seven days. Very different document.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/09/weekly-reflection-for-week-32-2026/

Week 32: we built the thing that remembers for us, published how it works, and gave it aw…

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:18:16 +0000

Week 32: we built the thing that remembers for us, published how it works, and gave it away.

Bus factor 1 is a design failure, and the mechanism is almost never a bus.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/09/stimpunksorg-changelog-for-week-32-2026-from-the-pile-to-the-garden-from-the-claim-to-the-count/

Greetings fellow earthlings.

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:19:02 +0000

Greetings fellow earthlings.
Greetings fellow star stuff.

Explore our planet and our universe through neurodiversity, mutuality, and belonging. Every piece free to read, print, and hand to someone.

https://starstuff.earth/

Love you down to your star stuff.

One typeface chosen for legibility, five accents held at near-uniform lightness, and body…

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:18:55 +0000

One typeface chosen for legibility, five accents held at near-uniform lightness, and body text that never fades. The visual language of this collection is itself an argument about access — so here it is, with its numbers and its receipts. https://starstuff.earth/design

We all run a system we invented. The alarm labeled with a whole sentence. The one drawer.

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:31:17 +0000

We all run a system we invented. The alarm labeled with a whole sentence. The one drawer.

Tonight at Infodumplings: 10 min on our Knowledge System, then the floor is yours.

What gets you through the day?

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/06/infodumplings-the-systems-that-get-us-through-the-day/

We wrote up what our knowledge base has to do with learning.

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:55:01 +0000

We wrote up what our knowledge base has to do with learning.

Two things worth teaching: help students cultivate a knowledge garden they keep after the term ends, and teach revision control.

Neither of them is "how to use AI."

https://stimpunks.org/space/knowledge-system/

School produces knowledge work for thirteen years, then throws nearly all of it away.

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:14:00 +0000

School produces knowledge work for thirteen years, then throws nearly all of it away.

An essay is written, graded, returned, lost. We don't do that to professionals — a researcher keeps a bibliography, a developer keeps a repository.

https://stimpunks.org/space/knowledge-system/

Distributed, text-first, open-by-default work is an access practice. The open web is disa…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:54:11 +0000

Distributed, text-first, open-by-default work is an access practice. The open web is disability infrastructure nobody labeled as such.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/04/campfire-learn-together-code-for-the-people/#h-free-life-changing-and-available-to-everyone

Sunday Aug 9, 10AM CT: our Campfire watches “Code for the People,” Bao Nguyen's documenta…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:54:01 +0000

Sunday Aug 9, 10AM CT: our Campfire watches “Code for the People,” Bao Nguyen's documentary on open source and the open web.

I helped start WordPress and Automattic. Our practices came out of that work.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/04/campfire-learn-together-code-for-the-people/

Bus factor 1 is a design failure. The mechanism is almost never a bus — it's burnout, a f…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:55:00 +0000

Bus factor 1 is a design failure. The mechanism is almost never a bus — it's burnout, a flare, leave, six weeks where reading a PDF isn't happening.

So we wrote up how our knowledge base works, automation and unfinished parts included.

https://stimpunks.org/fieldguide/it/knowledge-system/

Week 31 changelog: we drew the whole building. A Site Directory, a Style Guide you can li…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:16:10 +0000

Week 31 changelog: we drew the whole building. A Site Directory, a Style Guide you can link to, eight reading fonts, and Terms of Use that welcome reuse.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/08/03/stimpunksorg-changelog-for-week-31-2026-from-the-map-to-the-directory-from-the-warning-to-the-welcome/

New 2 part blog series from Autism Central written by our co-creative director at Stimpu…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:55:01 +0000

New 2 part blog series from Autism Central written by our co-creative director at Stimpunks, Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms).

Part 1. What is Autistic burnout?

Part 2 How to support Autistic burnout recovery

https://www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-what-autistic-burnout

https://www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-how-support-autistic-burnout-recovery

Week 30 changelog: From the Weather to the Compass, From the Light to the Dark.

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:53 +0000

Week 30 changelog: From the Weather to the Compass, From the Light to the Dark.

We published a public PESTEL + SWOT of the org, gathered the nine papers we steer by, and gave the site dark mode. Strengths to be useful, weaknesses to be trusted.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/07/27/stimpunks-org-changelog-for-week-30-2026-from-the-weather-to-the-compass-from-the-light-to-the-dark/

Inclusion isn't a sentiment. It's design.

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:11:01 +0000

Inclusion isn't a sentiment. It's design.

Most spaces were built around a narrow "normal." Ask people to contort to fit it, and distress follows.

A guide to building neurodiversity-inclusive environments:
https://stimpunks.org/design/create-a-neurodiversity-inclusive-environment/

Inclusion is architecture, not goodwill.

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:08:58 +0000

Inclusion is architecture, not goodwill.

Lower the sensory load. Make routines legible. Drop the performance pressure. Then more people take part — not because they changed, but because the space did.

https://stimpunks.org/design/create-a-neurodiversity-inclusive-environment/

"How do I make my classroom / workplace / space more neuroaffirming?"

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:08:34 +0000

"How do I make my classroom / workplace / space more neuroaffirming?"

We wrote the answer down: practical ways to lower sensory load, ease performance pressure, and design for real human variation.

https://stimpunks.org/design/create-a-neurodiversity-inclusive-environment/

Anxiety marks moving toward what matters. Feelings are attunement, not malfunction.

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:10:47 +0000

Anxiety marks moving toward what matters. Feelings are attunement, not malfunction.

Sunday's Campfire: suffering as a signal about the world we built, not a defect in us.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/07/25/campfire-learn-together-the-existential-movement-bringing-wisdom-to-a-turbulent-world/

This week's Infodumplings: Otters Already Know How to Rest 🦦

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:11:24 +0000

This week's Infodumplings: Otters Already Know How to Rest 🦦

Live otter cam, and a talk about rest as something our animal kin practice openly, without apology. Bring your best animal-rest facts.

Thu 7/23, 7PM Central
https://stimpunks.org/2026/07/22/infodumplings-otters-already-know-how-to-rest/

New zine — The Council of All Beings.

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:35:07 +0000

New zine — The Council of All Beings.

We're made of the same exploded stars as the soil, the river, the beaver. So multispecies justice isn't charity — it's the universe convening with itself.

https://starstuff.earth/the-council-of-all-beings-zine.html

A new home on the web for a simple, radical idea: there is no correct configuration of a…

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:54:20 +0000

A new home on the web for a simple, radical idea: there is no correct configuration of a human being.

★ stuff gathers zines, field guides, a manifesto, and more — love that isn't conditional on your productivity, diagnosis, or ability to pass.

https://starstuff.earth/

Cavendish Cards, from Stimpunks: a neuroaffirming deck for neurodivergent and Disabled ki…

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:47:31 +0000

Cavendish Cards, from Stimpunks: a neuroaffirming deck for neurodivergent and Disabled kids and the people alongside them. Pictures and words for how you feel and what helps — so you can show, not explain.

https://cavendish.app/

New Star Stuff zine: Warriors and Weirdos — AURORA as a way of being star stuff. The alie…

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:27:27 +0000

New Star Stuff zine: Warriors and Weirdos — AURORA as a way of being star stuff. The alien who came home, the mothership's invitation, refusing the cure, stimming in the open. Eight spreads, her songs embedded. @auroramusic

https://starstuff.earth/aurora-zine.html

★ stuff is our new microsite — zines, a field guide, a manifesto, a playlist — built on o…

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:35:48 +0000

★ stuff is our new microsite — zines, a field guide, a manifesto, a playlist — built on one line we keep coming back to: Love You Down To Your Star Stuff. 💫

https://starstuff.earth/

Most of what we make, we make in the dark.

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:53:39 +0000

Most of what we make, we make in the dark.
Thursday's Infodumplings is a show-your-work night: put the unfinished thing where the people who love the same thing can find you. Scenius, not genius.

7PM Central 👇

https://stimpunks.org/2026/07/14/infodumplings-show-your-work-one-card-at-a-time/

Wellness grifts move into the gap medicine leaves. The chronically ill and neurodivergent…

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:17:33 +0000

Wellness grifts move into the gap medicine leaves. The chronically ill and neurodivergent, disbelieved for years, are who the pipeline is built to catch.

A marathon Campfire watch-along. Samefoods welcome.

https://stimpunks.org/2026/07/11/campfire-munch-together-why-dont-fascists-eat-vegetables/

🍄 The mycelial worldview is punk.

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:18:34 +0000

🍄 The mycelial worldview is punk.

Sunday's Campfire: two short films on fungi & mycelial networks — punk science, punk law, and an intelligence with no commanding center.

Sun July 12, 10AM CT · Discord

https://stimpunks.org/2026/07/08/campfire-learn-together-the-mycelial-worldview-is-punk/