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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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…
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Monitor Power, Not People
It’s hard for me to celebrate July 4th given the fascist descent the United States of America is hurtling down. Care systems are being dismantled. Life is increasingly perilous for neurodivergent, Disabled, and queer people in this country. Cruelty is the point. Yet, I am reluctant to let bigots define the day and carry the…
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Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — June 2026
June, in a sentence: we named the method, measured the world by it, refused to consent to the system, and traced our lineage back to the people who taught us how.
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Infodumplings: Farming While Beige, or How to Feed Everybody While Being Funny as Hell
Somewhere between a kill floor in Westmoreland County and a phone camera held at arm’s length, a farmer named Chris Newman has been quietly running one of the most coherent structural critiques of America you can watch in under three minutes. He calls the channel Farming While Beige. He talks about race, class, mutual aid,…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 26 2026: From Convergence to Lineage, From the Bloodline to Brighter Days
The crosswalks grew a home this week, and the new ones trace bloodlines instead of resemblances — a folk school and the freedom schools it raised. The home page named who we are before what we do. And a foundation reached out with brighter days in its name.
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Campfire Learn Together: The Dive and the Water — Dolphining, Attachment Theory, and the Broken-Systems Frame
For our Sunday, June 28, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we’re putting two of our glossary entries in the same room and watching what happens. Dolphining is about how a mind moves through a conversation. Attachment Theory — read through a neurodivergent lens — is about how a mind forms safety with other people. On the…
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Ariana Grande, Brighter Days Ahead, Stimpunks, and the Future of Philanthropy
Ariana Grande and the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation are supporting Stimpunks. The Brighter Days Ahead Foundation works to strengthen vulnerable communities by providing direct support to small organisations, prioritising trans and LGBTQ+ advocacy and protection. The foundation directly funds small, grassroots organisations doing care work for communities the world too often treats as disposable. We…
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Infodumplings: I Saw This and Thought of You
Penguins give each other pebbles. A penguin will search the whole beach for the smoothest, most perfect stone, carry it across the colony in its beak, and set it down at the feet of someone it has chosen. It isn’t useful. You can’t eat it. It just says one thing, completely: I thought of you.…