Category: Events
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Campfire Learn Together: We’ve Killed Kid’s Hobbies
For our Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing We’ve Killed Kid’s Hobbies, a video essay by Reptarus On Ice about what happens to a child’s interest the moment an adult can see a return in it.
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Campfire Learn Together: The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia
For our Sunday, September 6, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia, Campbell Walker’s documentary about the death of ownership — how it happened, who took it, and why nobody shouted. The film’s thesis is one sentence long and it is about…
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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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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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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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Infodumplings: The Systems That Get Us Through the Day
Every one of us is running a system we invented ourselves. The alarm labeled with a whole sentence because the word “meds” wasn’t enough. The one drawer where the important things go so they can’t be anywhere else. The spreadsheet nobody else could parse. The playlist that means it is time to start now. The…
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Campfire Learn Together: Code for the People
For our Sunday, August 9, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Code for the People, Bao Nguyen’s documentary about open source, the open web, and the people who keep both from closing. This one is personal. I helped start WordPress and Automattic, which appear throughout the film — and the philosophy, processes,…
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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…