Author: Ryan Boren
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 30 2026: From the Weather to the Compass, From the Light to the Dark
This week we read the weather out loud. We published a PESTEL and SWOT of the whole organization — strengths to be useful, weaknesses to be trusted — and set it beside our finances and governance, where anyone can check it. We gathered the nine documents we steer by into one place, so you can…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Existential Movement — Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World
“There is a real problem in the way we have created the human environment as well as what we’ve done to the physical environment.” — Existential Movement — Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World, Emmy’s Existential Zone For our Sunday, July 26 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing…
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Infodumplings: Otters Already Know How to Rest
This week we’re making the otters the whole point. We’ll put a live otter cam up on the shared screen, watch mammals do the thing we’re so often punished for doing, and talk about rest as something our animal kin practice openly and without apology. Bring your best rest in the animal world facts and…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 29 2026: From the Word to the Card, From the Bone to the Star
Two front doors opened this week, and neither one asks you to say it out loud. Cavendish Cards lets a child point instead of explain. ★ stuff says you were made of stars long before anyone asked you to earn your place. We also gave a common dread a working name, and found an Autistic…
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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…
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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.
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Campfire Munch Together: Why Don’t Fascists Eat Vegetables?
Some watch-alongs are a snack. This one is a whole pantry. The Leftist Cooks spent seven months and made a video essay nearly six hours long, and we’re going to sit with all of it in one long, gentle marathon. Bring your samefoods and your safe foods, settle your bodymind in, and let a pair…
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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 Sometime around 2003, in a diner, late, over french fries and gravy, a woman named Christine Miserandino got handed a question she’d never been able to answer even for herself. Her best friend — who had gone to…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Om Malik: We Wouldn’t Be Here Without Him
Without my recently departed friend Om Malik, WordPress arguably wouldn’t still exist. Automattic, the company I helped start to support WordPress, wouldn’t exist. Stimpunks probably wouldn’t exist. I sold part of Automattic to fund Stimpunks. We certainly wouldn’t have been able to pay staff all these years without Om. My high-support needs family would be…