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Infodumplings: Show Your Work, One Card at a Time Most of what we make, we make in the dark. The half-drawn thing, the spreadsheet nobody's seen, the mod that only works if you don't breathe on it, the deck of cards that is fifty-five cards and two blanks and an open invitation to draw the fifty-sixth. This week's Infodumplings is a show your work night: bring the in-progress thing, the unfinished thing, the thing you've been poking at for months and never shown anyone. Not the polished portfolio piece. The draft. The mess. The version with the seams showing....

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 28 2026: From Working to Resting, From the Quiet and the Dark to the Otters A rest week. We let the weekly events carry it and took the recovery in the gaps. Our friends at the Lilypad Library launched their Kickstarter. Helen wrote about otters. Fungi work in the quiet and the dark, and this week, so did we....

Infodumplings: Spoon Theory — An Invitation To Count Your Spoons With Us "I've learned to live life with an extra spoon in my pocket, in reserve." — Christine Miserandino…...

Campfire Learn Together: The Mycelial Worldview Is Punk For our July 12 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two short films about fungi, mycelial networks, and the people who think alongside them — a six-minute overture and a thirty-five-minute documentary, forty-one minutes in all. Together they carry an argument we already live by: that the way fungi grow, decompose, connect, and refuse the world as given is not just good ecology. It is a worldview. And that worldview is punk....

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 27 2026: From the Tangle to the Map, From the Machine to the Root The AI pages got a map this week — a front door, a split, and three new crosswalks. Underneath them, a root: Dinah Murray, whose monotropism-and-computing work is the bloodline of everything we say about machines. And a crosswalk handed us a name we'd been missing — relational opacity, the right not to be fully decoded....

Campfire Learn Together: Two Masters at Two Pianos For our July 5, 2026, Campfire Learn Together, we are watching two of the greatest pianists in the history of Jazz sit at two enormous grand pianos and talk about the ones who came before them....

Monitor Power, Not People It's hard for me to celebrate July 4th given the fascist descent the United States of America is hurtling down. Care systems are being dismantled. Life is increasingly perilous for neurodivergent, Disabled, and queer people in this country. Cruelty is the point. Yet, I am reluctant to let bigots define the day and carry the celebration....

Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — June 2026 June, in a sentence: we named the method, measured the world by it, refused to consent to the system, and traced our lineage back to the people who taught us how....

Infodumplings: Farming While Beige, or How to Feed Everybody While Being Funny as Hell Somewhere between a kill floor in Westmoreland County and a phone camera held at arm's length, a farmer named Chris Newman has been quietly running one of the most coherent structural critiques of America you can watch in under three minutes. He calls the channel Farming While Beige. He talks about race, class, mutual aid, decolonization, and the physics of how markets eat themselves. This week we're pebbling his reels at each other and following the thread all the way down: from "there's no shame in the protein you can afford" to the seizure of a food economy by the communities it's supposed to feed. Bring your appetite. Bring your rage. Bring a snack....

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 26 2026: From Convergence to Lineage, From the Bloodline to Brighter Days The crosswalks grew a home this week, and the new ones trace bloodlines instead of resemblances — a folk school and the freedom schools it raised. The home page named who we are before what we do. And a foundation reached out with brighter days in its name....

Campfire Learn Together: The Dive and the Water — Dolphining, Attachment Theory, and the Broken-Systems Frame For our Sunday, June 28, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we're putting two of our glossary entries in the same room and watching what happens. Dolphining is about how a mind moves through a conversation. Attachment Theory — read through a neurodivergent lens — is about how a mind forms safety with other people. On the surface they're about different things. Underneath, they're doing the same work, asking the same question: what does the environment make possible, and what does it punish?...

Ariana Grande, Brighter Days Ahead, Stimpunks, and the Future of Philanthropy Ariana Grande and the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation are supporting Stimpunks. The Brighter Days Ahead Foundation works to strengthen vulnerable communities by providing direct support to small organisations, prioritising trans and LGBTQ+ advocacy and protection. The foundation directly funds small, grassroots organisations doing care work for communities the world too often treats as disposable. We recognise that work. It is our work too....

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 25 2026: From the Clinic to the Machine, From the Watch List to the Action From a model of distress to the architecture of a machine, Week 25 gave the method a name — ARLES — and read three bodies of research against it, finding the same shape each time. And the watch list became an action....

My pride’s a riot, it’s not a parade. My pride's a riot, not a parade. This Autistic Pride Day arrives ornery. The right to live in community is being dismantled on every front at once — behaviorism rebranded as care, eugenics said out loud, the institution waiting at the end of every cut. Neuronormative domination is the key problem of our time, and it is coming for us as queer, neurodivergent, and disabled people on all fronts. We're tired. So very tired. Spoken about, written over, pathologized — flattened into checklists and outcomes, drowned out even during Pride Month. And still we choose to live proudly. It is deeply subversive to live proudly while the world soaks us in shame. The closet can only stop you from being seen. It is not shame-proof. Neither are we. So this year, I'm going to shake it off. Get down. It's hootenanny time....

Why Sheets: Pushing back on the status quo, so you don’t have to do it alone. Families are asked to justify what should be obvious. Why Sheets make the case for you — free, editable, open-licensed, and ready for the room....

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 24 2026: From the Threshold to the Frontline, From Converging Toward to Refusing to Consent From research that arrives near the door and stops at the threshold of systemic action to an editorial that crosses it, Week 24 worked the line between the environmental layer and the systemic one — and named who keeps getting priced out of the room....

Community Living Is Being Dismantled on Every Front at Once The right of disabled people to live in their own communities is being taken apart. Not in one place, and not by one ruling. On both sides of the Atlantic — through courts, through budgets, through quiet rule changes that never make the news — the systems that let disabled people stay in their homes are being pulled down at the same time. This is not a series of accidents. It is a direction....