This blog is a record of our work and an invitation to community.
We publish weekly changelogs — a running account of what we built, who we read, and why it matters. We announce Campfire Learn Together sessions, where we watch and discuss talks that deepen our shared vocabulary. We host Infodumplings, a space for neurodivergent people to share what they know and love.
The blog is openly licensed. The thinking is documented on purpose. We believe showing the work is part of the work.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 44 2026: From the Haunted House to Cel Street, From the Suggestion Box to the Site
This was Halloween week on the street. Somebody asked in the suggestion box for a place to share haunted things, and The Haunted House opened in time for Thursday’s Infodumplings. Fantasy Fancy Dress got Halloween rails and chimera onesies, and the CB dressed up for the holidays our community keeps, from Día de Muertos to…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 43 2026
This was the week we started moving home, and moving meant unsaying things. On Sunday alone the street reversed seven of its own refusals, from “no alerts” to the forums’ “words only”. On Thursday the moderators’ desk was allowed a list of everybody, for safeguarding. On Friday we started quoting again, and the office began…
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A Third Place Needs a Cave: Cavendish Space as Third Place
The classic third place is a watering hole. A Cavendish Space is a third place with a cave and a campfire in it, and a door you are allowed to stand outside.
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Campfire Learn Together: The Production of Docile Bodies
For our Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish Explained | How Modern Power Controls Us, an explainer from the political theory channel PolScience. It walks through Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, the book Michel Foucault published…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 43 2026: From the Rented Hall to Our Own Street, From the Storm to the Window Seat
This was the week we started moving home. Stimpunks.World opened forums, and its CB radio learned to notify, edit, reply, and carry direct messages, so our community can leave Discord and Stoat for a place of our own. Our team left rented tools too: the to-do list, the contacts, the grant requests, and the team’s…
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Infodumplings: Halloween Hootenanny in the Haunted House
This week Infodumplings meets in The Haunted House on Stimpunks.World for a spooky show-and-tell. We dress our avatars for the season, bring our chimeras to the house, and walk through it with the lights down. Then the floor is yours: show us your haunted thing, and tell us what it is and whose. For community…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 42 2026
This was a week of building at other people’s pace. Helen’s asks set the order of much of the street’s work from Tuesday to Saturday, and on Thursday they ran from just after midnight until past five the next morning. People testing the CB set its order. Betsy’s lines set the Zibaldone’s, and Jess’s brief…
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Campfire Learn Together: Cogens and Being Ratchetdemic
For our Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two talks by Christopher Emdin: Teaching & Being Ratchetdemic, given at TEDxBerkeley, and his keynote at BMEC 2024, a convening of Black educators held by the Center for Black Educator Development.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 42 2026: From the Yurt to the Reading Room, From the Copy to the Voice
This was a week of building with other people. Helen Edgar built much of her own corner of Stimpunks.World, and her Faery Yurt grew a reading room, a music room, and a wood stove you can keep going. People in our community dreamed up a sandbox and a booth where you draw yourself. People testing…
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Infodumplings: Every Chimera Is Whole
This week Infodumplings meets in The Events Room on Stimpunks.World, and we are talking about chimeras: one creature made out of more than one animal. We get everybody signed up, watch a short video, and make chimeras together. Then the floor is yours: introduce us to your chimera. What is it made of, what is…
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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…