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Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. Authenticity is our purest freedom.

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Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have also created an essay plate about metaphoray for Queering Earth, a project I (Helen @autisticrealms.bsky.social ) have been working on with Ryan Boren at @stimpunks.org queering.earth/metaphoray
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Metaphoray
A botanist’s word for the walk, a writer’s word for the same walk, and the gap between what a label can hold and what the plant actually was.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 16/09/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/09/15/o...
Five app icons in a row on a cream background under the heading "Our Sibling Sites": a gold star on black for ★ stuff, a pressed green leaf for Queering.Earth, a green sheltering arch with a rust hearth for Cavendish Space, a green island in a teal sea for the Map of Monotropic Experiences, and three stacked grey pebbles for Penguin Pebbling. Each is labelled with its name and domain.
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
queering.earth Queering readings of literature, poetry, art, people and history. A collaboration between Helen Edgar @autisticrealms.bsky.social and Ryan Boren @stimpunks.org morerealms.com/queering-ear...
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queering.earth A New Cabinet for Post-Normal Possibilities A collaboration between Helen Edgar and Ryan Boren, Stimpunks Foundation “Weird” comes from wyrd, Old English for fate and bec…
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bluesky teacher hivemind, I'm looking for examples of concepts in any subject that learners find tricky to grasp, and the creative, amusing, concrete or multisensory ways you've come up with to teach them. It's for a book I'm writing atm. Thanks in advance! Please repost. #EduSky
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hurrah! So proud of working on this animation with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social team including @oolong.co.uk @scrappapertiger.bsky.social @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social Laura Buckland Mason and our fabulous animator @iara-abigalil.bsky.social with music by @SomebodySomeone
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Use code RBS20 and get 20% OFF It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School Edited By Rachael Davis, @claruineill.bsky.social , @suereviews.bsky.social With a chapter about Monotropism and Flow by myself and @oolong.co.uk www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...
Book cover for 'It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School,' edited by Rachael Davis, Claire O'Neill, and Sue Fletcher-Watson. A mustard yellow band across the centre holds the title in coral text and the editors' names in navy. Above and below, a geometric pattern of triangles, circles, and semicircles in coral, navy, mustard, olive green, sky blue, grey, and white. A small white label at the bottom reads 'A Speechmark Book,' with the Routledge logo beside it.
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Autihub.org @autihub.org · 01/09/2026
Launching the Autistic Scholars Project on AutiHub: a free public database of academic publications authored/co-authored by autistic people. 354 autistic authors, 1,799 publications — with daily monitoring for new publications by included authors. autihub.org/en/autistic-...
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Autistic Scholars Project
The Autistic Scholars Project is a public, freely accessible database that indexes academic publications authored or co-authored by at least one autistic …
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Autihub.org @autihub.org · 21/08/2026
Autidacts.org is becoming **Autihub.org**, opening the project to a broader range of initiatives focused on the participation and representation of autistic people in autism research and knowledge production. More information in the coming days: autihub.org #AutismResearch #ActuallyAutistic
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AutiHub
AutiHub brings together citizen-led, open projects focused on autistic participation and representation in autism knowledge production.The site develops t…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 31/08/2026
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. starstuff.earth/came-back-cl...
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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.
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
English-Language Autism Terminology Preferences of Autistic People and their Parents in the United States: Clustering Illuminates Diverse Views Dwyer, P., Williams, Z. J., Magnuson, J. E., & Woynaroski, T. G. (2026). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Worth a read!
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English-Language Autism Terminology Preferences of Autistic People and their Parents in the United States: Clustering Illuminates Diverse Views - Patrick Dwyer, Zachary J. Williams, Jennifer E. Magnus...
Autism terminology preferences are the subject of considerable debate and various studies, the results of which sometimes conflict. This study examined diversit...
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@stimpunks.org has been busy with our collab StarStuff Zines Our field guide to glimmers. Explore the science, research & history behind some words that describe monotropic experiences found in the book I co-created with @auroraconsulting.bsky.social & F. Goodhall starstuff.earth/under-the-wo...
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Under the Word
Eighteen words for Autistic joy, each with its honest provenance and whatever is actually underneath it — which turns out to be a mechanism for thirteen of them and a person for five.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 28/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/about/ryan/a...
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Access Rider — Ryan Boren
This rider 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. It says how to support my access needs so we both get something…
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tonight if anyone wants to join us in @stimpunks.org Discord 1am UK time, 7pm Central Time.
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Tyler Rablin @mrrablin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@edutopia.org does a lot of things well, but I think nailing an animated version of me has to go up to the top of my list. Quite the surprise for me. Here's a short video that details how I arrange my classroom: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvFX...
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Rethinking Classroom Seating With Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes
YouTube video by Edutopia
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fabulous - Have you seen the work I have been doing with @stimpunks.org about Cavendish Space and Caves, Campfires and Watering Holes? stimpunks.org/space/cavend...
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⛺️🔥 Cavendish Space: Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes for Dandelions, Tulips, and Orchids
Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction.
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 26/08/2026
Tired of shuffling desks around every time you change the mode of learning from whole-class instruction to groups or solo work? Educator @mrrablin.bsky.social has found a solution—and it involves caves⚒️, campfires🔥, and watering holes🌴.
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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Watching the culture wars turn to neurodivergence was so predictable.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 24/08/2026
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? stimpunks.org/2026/08/24/i...
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Infodumplings: Take a Whiff
This week Norah and Ryan are co-hosting a scent night. Ryan has a Scentbird subscription and a queue of little vials to work through. Norah is bringing some of her favorites. Neither of us is a…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 23/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...
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Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday
"What we are bereft of is care." For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity,…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 22/08/2026
"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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...
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Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday
"What we are bereft of is care." For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity,…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 22/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...
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Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday
"What we are bereft of is care." For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity,…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 21/08/2026
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 stimpunks.org/2026/08/21/c...
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Campfire Learn Together: Seated Tai Chi, Transformative Somatic Practices, and Bodily Survival Knowledge
For our Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are not just watching. We are moving. This session is a practice, a reading, and an argument, in that order. We start…
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The news is relentless. Our community is in crisis. Coping and Mental Health Helplines stimpunks.org/fieldguide/c... @stimpunks.org If you are in crisis text 50808 in Ireland, 85258 in the UK & 741741 in the US & Canada for free, nonjudgmental 24/7 support
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Regulation & Coping
Here are some people, tools, concepts, and techniques that help us cope as embodied beings.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 19/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/19/i...
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Infodumplings: Do You Still Have a Favorite Dinosaur?
"Do you still have a favorite dinosaur?" And the question sitting right behind it: why are we expected to "grow out" of our childhood enthusiasms like dinosaurs? Dinosaurs are a popular infodumping interest among Autistic kids, and we are often ridiculed for our enthusiasm — especially as we get older and are expected to get "serious," which usually means focusing on what we can make money at. So that is Thursday. No video, no slides, no expertise required. Bring your dinosaur. Bring the thing that was your dinosaur. Bring the enthusiasm you were told to put away, and tell us whether you actually did.
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Honoured to have written this for @annafreudcharity.bsky.social Autistic burnout is more than just feeling a little tired. It may also co-exist with depression or be mistaken for depression, which can make it harder to recognise and get the right support. www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh...
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Blog: What is autistic burnout? | Autism Central
Helen Edgar looks at understanding autistic burnout and how you can support autistic family members who may be going through this.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As such, the witch-hunt against Jason Arday was a paradigmatic example of “anti-woke”. A politics of cruelty rooted in anti-blackness, driven by the racist right and enabled, sad to say, by various dupes on the centre and even in parts of the left. 2/
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Until very recently, the word “woke” conveyed something beautiful: political awakening in the context of the African-American liberation struggle. The way it has been forcibly stripped from that context and transformed into a ubiquitous term of derision is shockingly cruel & inherently anti-black 1/
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 16/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/16/s...
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 33 2026: From the Gate to the Looking, From the Claim to the Credit
This week ★ stuff stopped being a pile of zines and became a library. Twenty-three numbered zines, five field guides, seven printable sheets, thirteen collections, and six automated checking gates —…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 16/08/2026
Star Stuff — science and wonder and the beautiful diversity of being. starstuff.earth
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Star Stuff — Love You Down To Your Star Stuff
Zines and field guides on the science of belonging — we are made of star stuff, and we belong not despite our differences but as them. Love You Down To Your Star Stuff.
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A public enquiry is desperately needed here. Please consider signing goodlawproject.org/s/533647
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 15/08/2026
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. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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No one can see me cry: understanding mental health issues for Black and minority ethnic staff in higher education - Higher Education
Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities continue to experience differential outcomes within the United Kingdom (UK) mental health system, despite increased attention on the area. The trauma of…
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am just sharing some crisis support information lines for anyone who is struggling Coping and Mental Health Helplines stimpunks.org/fieldguide/c... If you are in crisis text 50808 in Ireland, 85258 in the UK and 741741 in the US and Canada for free, nonjudgmental 24/7 support
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Regulation & Coping
Here are some people, tools, concepts, and techniques that help us cope as embodied beings.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 14/08/2026
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. starstuff.earth/elimination-...
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The Elimination of Waste
Thermodynamics proved that waste is mandatory. Then the word efficiency left the engine room without its ceiling, and arrived in a school.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 14/08/2026
Five Sigma: how much evidence is enough before you do something to a child starstuff.earth/five-sigma-z...
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Five Sigma
Physics demands one-in-3.5-million odds before saying a particle exists. We use one-in-twenty before deciding a child must be changed. How much evidence is enough?
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 13/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/glossary/co-...
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Co-Design
Co-design means the people affected by a design hold power over it — from the beginning, not at the end. Co-design isn't consultation at the testing stage. It is power-sharing at the architecture…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 13/08/2026
Today is the last chance to get tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference Hybrid event. Recorded. 14-16th Aug 2026 neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autisti... With @neurohubcommunity.org
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2026 Autistic mental health conference - NeuroHub Community
Please share on your social media to spread the word! Prices start from £50.00 33% discount on all ticket prices for NeuroHub Community members Join the community for free here Contact our Admin team ...
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 13/08/2026
Today is the last chance to get tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference Hybrid event. Recorded. 14-16th Aug 2026 neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autisti... With @neurohubcommunity.org
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2026 Autistic mental health conference - NeuroHub Community
Please share on your social media to spread the word! Prices start from £50.00 33% discount on all ticket prices for NeuroHub Community members Join the community for free here Contact our Admin team ...
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 13/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/13/i...
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Infodumplings: Star Stuff, and the Shelves We Built Last
There is a website we have been building all year that is mostly made of wonder and citations. It is called ★ stuff, it lives at starstuff.earth, and it is thirty-six zines, eleven field guides, five…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 11/08/2026
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. starstuff.earth/too-good-to-...
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Too Good to Check
How a story gets smoother than the science. Six ways a fact goes wrong, seventeen worked corrections — including our own — and why the primary source for an Autistic life is an Autistic person.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 10/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/09/c...
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Campfire Learn Together: Head, Heart, and Hands at the End of the World
For our Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two videos about the same school and the same argument: a half-hour documentary about the…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 10/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/impact/
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Impact
Impact is not a scorecard. Impact is change that makes life better for people in real conditions. This page shares how we think about impact — not with vanity metrics or compliance numbers — but with…
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 09/08/2026
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. stimpunks.org/2026/08/09/s...
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 32 2026: From the Pile to the Garden, From the Claim to the Count
This week we built the thing that remembers for us. The Stimpunks Knowledge System went from nothing to a working system in seven days — a shared, self-maintaining home for our research library and…
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Birds cross oceans by using their inner compass. What if we could do the same? A reflection on migration, monotropism, and self-trust. morerealms.com/migration-tr...
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Birds cross oceans by using their inner compass. What if we could do the same? A reflection on migration, monotropism, and self-trust.
Birds cross oceans by using their inner compass. What if we could do the same? A reflection on migration, monotropism, and self-trust.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 08/08/2026
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. starstuff.earth Love you down to your star stuff.
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Star Stuff — Love You Down To Your Star Stuff
Zines and field guides on the science of belonging — we are made of star stuff, and we belong not despite our differences but as them. Love You Down To Your Star Stuff.
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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 08/08/2026
Finally starting to explore the relatively newish @stimpunks.org digital garden, and what I'm seeing is lovely! Here's a zine extending the concept of murmurations, for instance: starstuff.earth/no-one-is-th... Also an engaging write-up of the design system their pages use: starstuff.earth/design
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No One Is the Leader
Emergence and the murmuration: a flock has no captain, and the whole exceeds the parts. You are not a checklist of deficits — you are the murmuration. And our best collectives are leaderless flocks, n...
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 08/08/2026
Thanks for exploring. The Star Stuff site has been a fun way to experiment with ideas that have been rattling around our heads that don't really fit the main website. /ryan
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 08/08/2026
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. starstuff.earth/design
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The Star Stuff Design System
One typeface chosen for legibility, five accents held at near-uniform lightness, and body text at 18.84:1 — a design system that reads its own values as an argument about access.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 08/08/2026
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. starstuff.earth/design
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The Star Stuff Design System
One typeface chosen for legibility, five accents held at near-uniform lightness, and body text at 18.84:1 — a design system that reads its own values as an argument about access.
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 06/08/2026
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? stimpunks.org/2026/08/06/i...
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Infodumplings: The Systems That Get Us Through the Day
Every one of us is running a system we invented ourselves. The alarm labeled with a whole sentence because the word "meds" wasn't enough. The one drawer where the important things go so they can't be…
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