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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Weekly Reflection for Week 34 2026
I spent the week working on Star Stuff with Helen and hanging in Discord with community. It was a nice rhythm.
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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 perfumer, and that is rather the point — this is two people who like smelling things, sitting in a…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 34 2026: From the Gate to the Criterion, From the Arrival to the Origin
This week ★ stuff added nine zines and five field guides, and the most interesting thing that happened to it was a change of authorship. Three weeks ago its pieces were written after Helen Edgar. Last Tuesday one was built with her. Yesterday one arrived from her, as a draft, and shipping it took six…
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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, race, and belonging, and one on what happens to a good word after an institution gets hold of it. We are…
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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 with a twenty-three-minute seated tai chi and qigong class. We talk about Nick Walker’s work on transformative somatic…
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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…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 33 2026
Helen and I had a great time working on Star Stuff this week. It rewards exploration. I could spend a pleasant afternoon strolling it pages. That’s what I did on Sunday, enjoying what we made. Star Stuff — science and wonder and the beautiful diversity of being. We are all star stuff. This is Ryan’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 — built, in most cases, on the same day somebody thought of them. The broadside form came home from that site to this one as…
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Stimpunks Broadsides
Broadsides — sheets you can put in a hand New on stimpunks.org: printable single sheets, made to be carried into a room and handed to someone.
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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 broadsides, and three playlists that all do the same thing: take one fact that is actually settled — piezoelectric…
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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 Bildung Climate School in Rotterdam, and a Q&A with its founder, Dr. Virginie Servant-Miklos, hosted by our partners at the Human…
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Weekly Reflection for Week 32 2026
This is Ryan’s weekly reflection log for week 32. It’s a companion to the week 32 changelog. This was an exceptionally busy week. The pace was intense but satisfying. I enjoyed being in flow state — head down in zone work. Next week, though, I hope to take it much easier and enjoy the fruits…