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From the binder to the vote. From the reader to the peer. From the street to the world.

What we built, what we learned, what we’re doing next. This newsletter pulls from our Now page, where we work in public.

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🧠🌈 September at Stimpunks

From the binder to the vote. From the reader to the peer. From the street to the world.

August was the month we built the instruments. September was the month other people arrived — and almost every sentence we had written about ourselves turned out to have been written for a room with only us in it.

We started by taking our governing documents out of the formation binder. Our bylaws went on the open web for the first time, published before the Board voted on them, with the founder’s-family clause deleted and quoted in full so nobody had to compare two documents. The conflict of interest form went public over our own advice to hide it. The Transparency Log got a page of its own, carrying the board meeting we missed and the empty Treasurer seat alongside the wins. Then, on 29 September, the Board voted. Every decision passed unanimously. Twelve documents are adopted, our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are indemnified, and Mila Krambo is our Treasurer.

The people changed too. Helen Edgar went from contributor to peer across three repositories, and from the last week of the month she can reverse any call on Stimpunks.World that is recorded as Ryan’s. Isha Snow built the first room on our street that somebody built for themselves. David Gray-Hammond let us mirror NeuroHub Community into our knowledge garden. And a special education teacher in Portland emailed a question we could already answer across five corpora and nowhere a person could be sent.

And the work spread out. We began September with two sibling sites on domains of their own and ended it with seven: ★ stuff, Queering.Earth, the Map of Monotropic Experiences, Cavendish Space, Penguin Pebbling, the Why Sheet Press, and Stimpunks.World — the one site we run that is deliberately not careful.

Underneath all of it, one repeated finding. A condition printed right on the equation fell off on the way to the headline. A check reported PASS for five days while driving a browser it never launched. Our own records gave three different answers to how many Why Sheets we have. A contrast checker held the colour somebody wrote down while the screen showed a different one. The small print on every call panel said we keep nothing about a call, and then we started keeping who was in one. The box was right. The paint was wrong. And most of the time, what caught it was a person: Ryan pressing a button, Helen reading a draft, the first real user of a tool, a Board taking a vote.

September, in a sentence: we opened the binder, handed over the keys, and found out how much of what we had written about ourselves only held while nobody else was in the room.

⚡ In 30 Seconds

  • We published our bylaws before the vote, not after it. All forty-two sections, with one sentence deleted from §2.1: the clause requiring every director to be a member of the founder’s family. The page quoted the removed sentence in full. Publishing the governing document before the vote cost nothing, and a log that only records the flattering things is marketing.
  • Then the Board voted. On 29 September every decision passed unanimously. Twelve documents now read Adopted by the Board of Directors on 29 September 2026, our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are indemnified, the Volunteer Agreement went to 2.0, and Mila Krambo joined our About page as Treasurer. The vote to end our private foundation status starts our conversion to a public charity. It does not finish it.
  • Six new Why Sheets and five new broadsides, for the meetings where a decision is being made about a child. Monotropism, at Fergus Murray and Helen Edgar’s request. Masking and Burnout, the first sheet to carry statute. Developmental Pace, Recess and Play, AAC Is Not a Last Resort, and Demand Avoidance. Grades measure output. Access is about cost.
  • The sheets got a press. At whysheet.press you tick what you need for Thursday’s meeting and get back one correctly paginated PDF, assembled in your own browser, with no record anywhere of which sheets somebody put together. Each school sheet has a companion prompt that helps a parent write the letter, with every quotation embedded word for word and no source allowed that it was not given.
  • We have seven sibling sites now, and for a while our own front page mentioned none of them. One footer edit fixed that on every page. Our Sibling Sites describes each in its own words. Three of them ask nothing of you.
  • We built a loud street. Stimpunks.World opened as stimpunks.love with six rooms and no shared design system, then moved house and kept growing: a campground, the Outskirts, caverns, a Town Hall, a CB radio, and a call in every room. A dial on every page lets you turn it up past what your device asks for. Access is the premise of the design, not the brake on it.
  • Ask answers again, from our own published pages, with a link behind every claim. Search now puts our Monotropism entry first for monotropism, which WordPress’s own search could not do in ten tries. And our Privacy Policy is rewritten in plain language — after we changed the site first so the page could say no.
  • The Pattern Library went from 18 published patterns to all 56, and A Pattern Language is now credited on the four pages it shaped, which had never named it. In 1977 its authors wrote that “in a healthy society there will be as many pattern languages as there are people.” That is neurological pluralism, stated by people describing houses.
  • Helen Edgar is a peer now, not a guest. She drafts and publishes on Queering.Earth, commits to ★ stuff and Stimpunks.World directly, and wrote her first Queering.Earth sheet. Wiring in a second person showed us four things that would have broken silently the day she cloned the repository. Nothing was broken by adding Helen. It was broken already.
  • We made never deadname anyone an editorial rule, including inside a citation of work published under a former name. The DOI is what makes a paper findable. The old name was never doing that work.
  • Our checks kept passing while measuring nothing. An overlap check had only ever looked at one screen size while 105 of 108 zine covers were broken on phones. A skip link was yellow on yellow in twenty-one rooms while the colour list said it passed. A check that does not run the thing it claims to measure will tell you the site is fine, every time.
  • We started leaving Notion and HubSpot for tools we can read and keep. Our working documents moved into a shared drive our team garden can show, and our contacts and grant requests went into a trial of EspoCRM, an open source CRM. Copying our email templates turned up two sentences we had been sending people that did not say what we meant.

Stimpunks now has governing documents a Board has voted on, seven sites that each do one thing, a press for the sheets, and a second pair of hands that can change anything.

🗞️ News

Our Board Voted

At our board meeting on 29 September, every decision passed unanimously, with the whole Board and our staff behind each one. So our governance pages now say what the Board decided, not what it was about to decide. The bylaws, the Conflict of Interest, Whistleblower, Document Retention, Gift Acceptance, and Expense policies, Board Roles & Responsibilities, both onboarding guides, and three forms are all adopted.

The Transparency Log records the rest: the resolution to end our private foundation status, which starts our conversion to a public charity and does not finish it; a move to accrual accounting; a January signing cycle for the conflict of interest statement; and the election of Mila Krambo as Treasurer and director, filling a seat that had been empty. Our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are indemnified now, and the Volunteer Agreement says so in the same words as the page. It still refuses to promise insurance we have not confirmed.

Seven Sites of Our Own

Stimpunks is not only stimpunks.org. Our Sibling Sites introduces the seven smaller sites we have built, each doing one thing the big site cannot. All seven are free and open-licensed, and all seven were made with Helen Edgar at Autistic Realms and More Realms. Six of the seven got new addresses this month. Every one of them now has a changelog you can follow by feed, listed on our feeds page, because a feed collects nothing: your reader asks for a file, and we never learn that it did.

Ask Answers Again

The Ask box went quiet when we stopped paying for Jetpack Search. Its replacement is Claude, from Anthropic, and it searches our published pages before it writes a word. It answers only from what it finds, with a link behind every claim. Its test suite was partly written by the first real question anybody asked it: an answer about being gifted and failing at the same time came back carrying suicide risk nobody had raised. Now crisis material stays out of answers to questions that never asked for it, and a question that does ask gets a crisis line first. Neither Ask nor search logs what anybody asks.

A Teacher in Portland

A special education teacher wrote asking how to start a Neurodivergent student group. The whole answer was already in our garden, spread across five corpora and one PDF kit, with no single place to send a person. Start a Neurodivergent Affinity Group at Your School is that place. Its centrepiece is not ours: the University of Edinburgh’s NEST toolkit, co-designed with Neurodivergent young people, linked and never rehosted. And it argues for mixing ages on purpose: “A senior who has already survived three years of the building is the most credible person in the room to a frightened ninth grader.”

Two Campfires

The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia watched Campbell Walker’s documentary about the death of ownership and extended it to the sentence the film never reaches: administrative burden is DRM for human bodies. Prior authorizations, redeterminations, forty-page appeals with thirty-day windows — nothing hidden, everything disclosed, and the enforcement outsourced to your exhaustion.

We’ve Killed Kid’s Hobbies watched Reptarus On Ice on what happens to a child’s interest the moment an adult can see a return in it. Our synthesis: for a monotropic kid, the interest is not a hobby. It is an organ. And the video’s best line — the ability to be bad at something for two years just because you like it — is crip time, a disability rights claim that does not know it yet.

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📊 Impact Snapshot

📈 Reach

  • 5.2k Bluesky followers, plus 2.5k on Facebook, 1,652 on Instagram, 857 on Mastodon, 783 on LinkedIn, 558 on Threads — counted on 16 October, the day the Impact page was refreshed, and up on Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn and Threads from August’s 1,599, 843, 734 and 554
  • 1,584 pages published on stimpunks.org by the end of Week 40, up from 1,481 on 9 August — counted from our own mirror of the site
  • 7 sibling sites on domains of their own, up from 2
  • ★ stuff grew from 80 zines to 111, from 22 field guides to 25, and from 13 collections to 17
  • Queering.Earth went from nothing to 15 sheets in its first month
  • 790,000 characters of our library recovered from ten books that had been image-only scans, and 600 of the library’s originals now open directly in our team garden

🧾 Publishing Output (September, Weeks 36–40)

🔖 Headline Publications

✨ The Month in Themes

September had five movements. Here’s how they fit together.

Week 36 — From the Condition to the Headline: The Qualifier Fell Off on the Way Out

The source was more careful than the coverage, every time — and on this site, the week went to putting our own governing documents where anybody could check them.

The condition is printed on the equation, and it comes off in transit. Rainbow Serpents and the Laws of Thermodynamics found the entropy law printed in a physics review with the label (isolated system) attached to the formula itself. Then the same shape in five more fields. Solar is the cheapest electricity in history for projects with low cost financing that tap high quality resources. A dandelion root opens a channel seventy micrometres wide. The UN’s map resolution claimed only “a more accurate representation of the sizes,” and every outlet reported a swap to a more accurate map. The failure is transmission, not scholarship — and four of the week’s sharpest corrections were of our own pages.

A check that measures the wrong property passes, and hands you a number while it does it. Every ★ stuff page got a <main> landmark in the morning, and by the afternoon twenty-four of them had a landmark containing nothing. The new “exactly one landmark” check passed all twenty-four, because exactly one is true of a landmark that contains nothing. The fix was not more checks. It was a check that asks the property that matters: is the page’s own heading inside the landmark?

The bylaws came out of the binder. We published the bylaws for the first time, before the vote, with the founder’s-family clause deleted and quoted in full. We published the conflict of interest form over our own recommendation to hide it — that recommendation confused a public page with public answers, and Ryan said so. We wrote down what it costs to sit on our board, including the list of things we refuse to ask for: no give-or-get, no wealthy contacts, no being non-Disabled or performing wellness. And writing staff and volunteer onboarding found a gap nobody had gone looking for: Article V indemnified directors and officers, not volunteers. That became an eleventh decision for the Board.

And two sheets for two meetings. Monotropism exists because Fergus Murray and Helen Edgar asked us to turn their booklet into one, and the attribution was the part that had to be right. Masking and Burnout exists because a community member’s son was refused an evaluation on the grounds that he was doing fine — at grade level, high-masking, and already out of school for half of fifth grade because of Autistic burnout. It quotes the two federal regulations that name exactly that situation, because the refusal it answers is a written decision whose stated reason those regulations forbid.

Publishing the governing document before the vote costs nothing, and a log that only records the flattering things is marketing.

Week 36 Changelog, Stimpunks Foundation

Read Week 36 →

Week 37 — From the Gate to the Instrument: Checks That Never Ran the Thing

A site that did not exist on Sunday went live, and auditing two sites against one specification showed how many of our checks had been passing without measuring anything.

A site in an afternoon. Queering.Earth is a Stimpunks × More Realms site reading art, literature, poetry, politics, people, and history through a queering lens, built as the deliberate opposite of ★ stuff: a herbarium sheet in daylight against a night sky. It held twelve sheets by Saturday, from Rossetti to the flower codes to attention that will not redirect. Helen Edgar declined the byline on her own sheet, and she was right, because the site’s own colophon already said a specimen is collected, not written. Sheets have labels, not bylines.

The instrument, not the thing. Three browser checks reported green for five days while driving a browser they had never launched. The overlap check had only ever measured one screen size, while 313 collisions sat across 103 pages on phones and 105 of 108 zine covers were broken there. A reading panel shipped with two green lights and could not be opened by a human being, because every check skipped the one step that was broken. The site never changed across three runs of the tap-target audit; only the instrument did. The fix is never another check. It is a check that runs the real thing: a real pointer, a real screen width, a browser you started yourself.

Yes to every crawler, which makes attribution the whole ask. Ryan’s decision, stated on both sites: read it, quote it, index it, train on it. And in the same days we found we had been redistributing two typefaces with no licence and crediting their designers to a search engine. Fraunces is by Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi; Newsreader is by Production Type, and the credit now comes from the fonts’ own metadata, so it cannot drift from the files.

And the names that came off. A Field Guide to Missing Names sorts eleven pieces of work by how the name came off, because “she was not given credit” is not one event. Fourteen Kinds of Doing argues that a byline is a data structure with exactly one field — and names the failure in our own house: credit here is well kept for sources and poorly kept for labour. Ryan also caught a collision on the Monotropism side of our work: monotropy is John Bowlby’s attachment term, and writing it for a theory of attention hands a reader ranked caregivers and innate deficiency. A published address changed with it.

A check that does not run the thing it claims to measure will tell you the site is fine, every time.

Week 37 Changelog, Stimpunks Foundation

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Week 38 — From the Reader to the Peer: The Estate Stopped Being One Person’s

Five domains came into existence or changed hands, the Pattern Library was finished, and the fault that kept turning up was our own record disagreeing with itself.

Wiring in a second person is how you find what was already broken. The ask was simple: Helen clones the repository and works the way we do. Four things would have failed the moment she did, and every one of them silently — a search index that reports an empty folder as an empty folder, a nightly backup announcing success while nothing left the machine, a guard counting deleted files at an index that shrinks by modification. The tools that only one person may run are limited for concurrency, not permission, and reading was never restricted at all.

A number you can only believe is not a measurement. We had three answers to how many Why Sheets there are. One page described four Cavendish zones and another described five. A checker reported 64 of our own files as Helen’s, because it printed a total and never its members. And Ryan named the thing that had made every link check untrustworthy: on stimpunks.org a 301 is usually WordPress guessing at a slug, not a link resolving. On this site a redirect is a failure, not a pass. A link to a page that does not exist yet keeps its slug and says (planned), so it heals itself the moment the page ships.

A Why Sheet makes the argument. The letter is what actually gets sent. whysheet.press launched with every sheet print-first, assembled in your own browser. The companion prompts help a parent write the letter, and every quotation they may use is embedded with its attribution, because an invented study hands a school a free reason to dismiss a parent in a room where they are already outnumbered. Three new sheets went up: Developmental Pace, Recess and Play, and AAC Is Not a Last Resort.

Careful is load-bearing, and it is not the whole lung. The Map of Monotropic Experiences, Helen’s artwork, got a home of its own with My Monotropic Map: four marks, no score, no counts, and no route out. Cavendish Cards became Cavendish Space, with a tool that takes a room as input and prints signs for the door. The Pattern Library reached all 56 patterns. And on Saturday, stimpunks.love opened as the one site we run that is deliberately loud — a site made by Disabled people is allowed to be loud.

A number you can only believe is not a measurement.

Week 38 Changelog, Stimpunks Foundation

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Week 39 — From the Street to the World: The Box Was Right, the Paint Was Wrong

The loud site got a new name and a lot more street, and every check we built for it found something already live.

A check that reads the box is not a check of what a person sees. A colour list said every colour passed, while the skip link — the first control a keyboard user meets — was yellow on yellow at 1.00:1 in twenty-one rooms. A test confirmed a video frame existed while it drew at zero by zero. Toys answered every press, into a region off the top of the screen where nobody could see it. Every one of them passed, and every one was found by Ryan pressing a button. So the new checkers measure what renders: 6,353 pieces of text against the ground they actually sit on.

We changed the site first, so the privacy page could say no. Before writing a word of the new Privacy Policy, we checked every script stimpunks.org loads and everything it keeps. Google Analytics went. Google Fonts went. A page on stimpunks.org now fetches no fonts from anybody else. The page that describes all this opens with six lines and ends with what we cannot promise, because a description can go out of date faster than the thing it describes. And Ask answers again, from our own pages.

Can’t, not won’t. Demand Avoidance became our eighteenth Why Sheet, and the glossary page that had held eleven quotations for four years without a word of its own now opens with an introduction. The sheet’s design decision is that it never asks the school to accept the label. Ask for the practice, not the diagnosis.

The friendly edit will arrive. Stimpunks.Love moved to stimpunks.world, and most of what we wrote down for its rooms was a refusal of something kind. The Healing Checkpoint refuses earn, deserve, recharge, productive. The Dopamine Dress-Up Den draws nobody’s body. Swaying Sweetgrass kept an unauthorised reading of Braiding Sweetgrass off the page even though every chapter would have played, and let Robin Wall Kimmerer’s own voice be the fire. Take less than the page could. And the street’s rule about photographs of children was rewritten when it turned out to block a teenage volunteer from consenting for herself, because nothing about us without us has no lower age bound.

The box was right. The paint was wrong.

Week 39 Changelog, Stimpunks Foundation

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Week 40 — From the Proposal to the Vote: A Sentence About the Site Goes Out of Date With It

The Board voted, the street filled with people, and the sentence that kept going false was one of ours.

The Board voted, and our pages caught up. Twelve documents adopted, our Co-Creative Directors indemnified, and Mila Krambo elected Treasurer. Changing a Status line was not enough: the bylaws page still said “not yet in force” in bold just above it. And the Town Hall’s Board room on Stimpunks.World, which carries our governance text word for word, refused its own old words the moment they went false. A copy that can notice when its source has moved is the only kind worth keeping.

Change the promise in the open, or keep the thing it promised. The Mission said nothing on the street is counted, and nine hours later a tree was counting water. Ryan kept the number and changed the promise to nobody is counted, and then again, when a stairwell kept a highest step, to the numbers on the street belong to nobody. When calls started keeping who was in them, every call panel stopped saying we keep nothing. The code was the cheap part. The promises were the cost.

When the first real person fails the check, check the check. Isha Snow’s NeuroHome is the first room on the street somebody built for themselves, and our import tool refused it three times. All three reasons were ours — one of them a gap our own prompt had told her to leave for a photograph. The tool changed. Every choice and every word in the room is hers. On the same street, seeing became the same switch as being seen: you see who else is in a room only once you let them see you, by handle, with no count.

The domain is not the byline. David Gray-Hammond’s NeuroHub Community joined our knowledge garden, credited post by post, because it runs guest authors. Wiring it in found that our concept pages had filed Queering.Earth and the Map of Monotropic Experiences under our name alone, when both were made with Helen. And our team began moving out of Notion and HubSpot, into tools we can read here and edit there.

A sentence about the site is part of the site, and it goes out of date with it.

Week 40 Changelog, Stimpunks Foundation

Read Week 40 →

🗺️ New to Stimpunks? Where to Start in September’s Work

September produced a lot. Here’s a guided path through it.

If you’re walking into a meeting where a decision is being made about a child:

→ whysheet.press — tick the sheets you need and print one packet

→ Demand Avoidance — for the child who has already been called defiant

→ Masking and Burnout — for the child who is “doing fine”

→ AAC Is Not a Last Resort — for the child being told they need to talk first

If you teach, and want to do something this term:

→ Start a Neurodivergent Affinity Group at Your School — by and for Neurodivergent students, diagnosis not required

→ Recess and Play — recess is regulation, and withholding it takes movement from the child who just showed you they need it

→ Developmental Pace — behind is information about the ruler, not the learner

If you’re a funder, board member, or partner doing due diligence:

→ Bylaws — published before the vote, adopted on 29 September

→ Transparency Log — the missed meeting and the empty seat next to the wins

→ Board Roles & Responsibilities — what we ask of directors, and what we refuse to ask

If you design rooms, schools, or workplaces:

→ The Pattern Library — all 56 patterns

→ Zone a room — what your room can hold today, and what to change

→ Sensory Gradients

If you want to know what we do with what you tell us:

→ Privacy Policy — six lines first

→ Our feeds — follow every site without giving anybody your address

If you need somewhere loud, or somewhere to play:

→ Stimpunks.World — turn the dial up, or down

→ Penguin Pebbling

→ My Monotropic Map — four marks, no score

If you need something to read that is only for delight:

→ Young Readers — read-alouds for young children, held to the same bar as everything else

→ Queering.Earth

→ We’ve Killed Kid’s Hobbies — and the right to be bad at something for two years

🧭 Written for a Room With Only Us in It

The most significant thing about September was not a publication. It was who else turned up.

We write a great deal down about ourselves. What the bylaws require. How many Why Sheets there are. Which sites are ours. What the Mission promises. What a call panel keeps. In August we built instruments to check sentences like these. In September the instruments were joined by people, and the people found more.

The bylaws required every director to be a member of the founder’s family, and there had been no family member on the board since the founder’s spouse resigned — the governing document was describing an organization we are not. Deciding to publish it is what made that visible. Our policies routed decisions to a “Board Chair,” because we had written them from our own website, and the bylaws call the office President. Helen cloning our repository would have broken four things, silently. Isha Snow followed our prompt exactly and was refused by our own tool. David’s site arriving showed that every site without a label had been quietly filed as ours. The Board’s vote made a copy of our governance wrong on a site that is not stimpunks.org. A teacher’s email showed that the garden held an answer it could not hand over.

None of those sentences was careless. Each was true of the room it was written in, and that room had fewer people in it.

What worked against it was not one thing. It was three.

Write it where it can be read before it is decided. The bylaws went up before the vote, with the deleted sentence quoted in full. The conflict of interest form went up with its questions public and its answers private. The Transparency Log carries the missed meeting and the empty seat. Publishing early is not generosity. It is the cheapest time to be corrected.

Make copies that check their source. The Board room on Stimpunks.World refused the old words saying the bylaws were only proposed. Every sibling site’s feed is built by the same code as its changelog page, so there is no second account of the history to go stale. The press checks its sheets against the live pages. A copy that cannot notice its source has moved is a second document, and nobody maintains a second document.

Give the other person the power to change it. Helen can reverse any call on Stimpunks.World recorded as Ryan’s, and says so in the commit rather than being refused. Personal rooms on the street take its conventions as they develop, and a convention nobody likes goes to the Town Hall. A teenage volunteer consents for herself. The Board votes. Nothing about us without us is a rule about who holds the pen.

We kept building checks this month, and we will keep building them. A contrast checker that measures what renders. A print check that prints the page the way Ryan’s browser did. A check that refuses a superlative in a comedy club’s billing. Every one of them catches things a person would not. But our checks see the site the way a first-time visitor sees it, and the faults kept turning up where the people who use it most actually stand.

Broken systems, not broken people. And a sentence about the site is part of the site.

Receipts: Working in Public

We default to open whenever we can.

🔭 What We’re Doing Next

🏛️ Governance

  • Finish the conversion to public charity that the Board’s vote started. Until it is complete, the private foundation rules still apply, and our policies say so
  • Run the first January signing cycle for the Conflict of Interest Statement
  • Keep the Volunteer Agreement honest: it promises indemnification now, and it will not promise insurance until we have confirmed it

📄 Sheets and the Press

  • Keep the Why Sheets, the broadsides, and the press in step — a new sheet is a release, with its own entry in the press’s feed
  • Keep every quotation checked as a string against a source we hold, including the places a caption misheard a word

🌍 The Street

  • Keep Your Room open to anybody who wants to build a room of their own — Isha’s was the first, and the tool has now met a real person
  • Use the Town Hall for the meetings it was built for

🌱 The Knowledge Garden

  • Keep crediting NeuroHub Community post by post, and keep every site’s label honest about whose words it holds
  • Write the right to repair glossary entry that the Normalising Dystopia Campfire found missing — A dishwasher you cannot repair is an insult. A wheelchair you cannot repair is a house arrest.
  • Keep working the backlog of library files still known only by the filename they arrived with

🛠️ Tools We Can Read and Keep

  • Finish the EspoCRM trial with the rest of the team before anything is committed
  • Keep our working documents readable in the team garden and editable in one place only

💸 Funding & Sustainability

We are building the infrastructure we wish existed. If this work matters to you, help fund it, partner with us, or share the tools with someone who needs them.

One Good Line

A communication system is not a reward for proving you deserve one.

AAC Is Not a Last Resort – Stimpunks Foundation

📚 Three Things Worth Revisiting

In case you missed them — or they’re newly relevant:

  • Bylaws — published before the Board voted and adopted after it, with the deleted founder’s-family clause still quoted on the page so you can see exactly what changed. Share it with anyone who wants to see what a small nonprofit’s governing document actually says.
  • whysheet.press — eighteen Why Sheets and twelve broadsides, assembled into one packet in your own browser, with no account and no record of what you chose. Send it to the parent who has a meeting on Thursday.
  • Start a Neurodivergent Affinity Group at Your School — written because one teacher asked. Forward it to the teacher in your life who keeps meaning to.

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