Author: Ryan Boren
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Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — September 2026
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…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 41 2026
Every day we worked this week turned up a fault that had been quiet until then. On Sunday a search result stopped short of the three rooms it needed, and nothing in the output said so. On Monday the kitchens’ allergen engine had been telling three bánh mì they held no gluten. On Tuesday three…
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Campfire Learn Together: How to Make a Fascist — Austerity + Resentment
For our Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing How to Make a Fascist, a video essay from the history and philosophy channel Then & Now.
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Infodumplings: Just Enough Truck
A community member asked for this one, and it is a very good rabbit hole: kei trucks, the tiny Japanese work pickups that have been turning up on American farms, job sites, and gas station lots. Then the floor is yours: if a kei truck turned up in your driveway tomorrow, what would you build…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 41 2026: From the Kitchen to the Pub, From the Source to the Page
This week Stimpunks.World got somewhere to eat, drink, and sit down. Hey, Good Cookin’ is a community kitchen where nobody is turned away. Pekoe and Purrs is a cat café where every cat is waiting for a home. Brew and Stew is a woodland tea room lit by its own wood. And A Quiet Pint…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Job Still to Be Done
For our Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two conversations from the THIRTEEN archive: Maya Angelou talking with Bill Moyers in 1973 about being a Black woman in America, and Maya Angelou talking with James Baldwin in 1975.
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Weekly Reflection for Week 40 2026
This week other people arrived, and each arrival tested something we had written when it was only us. Isha Snow sent the first room anybody built for themselves, and our own tool refused it three times, once for doing exactly what our prompt asked. David Gray-Hammond’s site arrived, and showed that every site without a…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 40 2026: From the Proposal to the Vote, From the Headcount to the Handle
This week our Board voted, and our governance pages stopped describing what it was about to decide. Twelve documents are adopted, our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are indemnified, and Mila Krambo joined our About page as Treasurer. On Stimpunks.World, the street became a place people meet: a Town Hall with a door for every kind of…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 39 2026
The faults that cost the most this week looked like virtues. For five weeks a sentence said Esmx the Porkypine was not ours to redraw, about a character we commissioned and hold the rights to, and it read as scrupulousness. A line filing us among the people a town pushes to its edges read as…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 38 2026
The week a second person arrived, everything that had only ever been checked by one of us turned out to have been checked by nobody. A search config correct on exactly one machine. Nine publishing hazards kept in one laptop’s memory. A scroll threshold that shut out most of the windows the feature was built…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 39 2026: From the Street to the World, From the Box to the Paint
This week the loud site got a new name and a lot more street. Stimpunks.Love moved house to stimpunks.world and became Stimpunks.World: a campground past the treeline, an Outskirts past the last streetlight, and, by Saturday night, Arlesglad Caverns underneath it all, for everything that needs things to stay the same. It gained a CB…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 38 2026: From the Reader to the Peer, From the Argument to the Letter
This week the estate stopped being one person’s. Helen Edgar moved from contributor to peer across three repositories — the knowledge system, Queering.Earth, and ★ stuff — and the Map of Monotropic Experiences, which is her own artwork, got a site of its own. Five domains came into existence or changed hands: penguinpebbling.app got an…