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Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People

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  1. What You’ll Find Here
  2. Why It Matters
  3. Latest Updates
  4. Changelogs

Stimpunks builds in public.
We document what we’re working on, when we did it, and why it matters.

This isn’t a boring revision history. It’s a living map of our collective labor, grounded in community care, neurodivergent experience, and radical transparency.

Some changelogs are technical — fixes and tweaks. Some are cultural — new language, new tools, new frameworks that shift how we think and work. All of them matter because they show the work of iteration, correction, and growth.

Whether you’re a contributor, a donor, an educator, or someone just trying to understand how we got here — this page is a window into the actual process of building Stimpunks.

We believe that default-to-open documentation is part of accountability, respect, and community trust. This is where you can see that belief in action.

What You’ll Find Here

  • updates to site content
  • new resources and guides
  • policy changes
  • structural enhancements
  • bug fixes and layout improvements
  • reflections on community feedback

Every entry links to published changes and often to discussions or context, so you can follow not just the what but the how and the why.

Why It Matters

In many organizations, work happens behind closed doors and is only visible once “finished.”

Stimpunks does the opposite. We show the process. We show the learning. We show the edges.

This Changelog is part of our accountability infrastructure — so the community can see:

  • how priorities evolve
  • how decisions are made
  • how feedback shapes outcomes
  • how transparency leads to trust
  • “Stimpunks in motion — all the updates, in public.”
  • “The work, the learning, the changes — documented.”
  • “Open development. Open accountability.”

Latest Updates

This week we kept building the Stimpunks ecosystem into something more portable, more practical, and more structurally honest.

We deepened our work on power, coercion, and compliance culture, adding new real-world stakes to The Cult of Compliance and the Policing of the Norm. Systems of power are not abstract. They are enforced.

We expanded our philosophy of free, life-changing public knowledge—the library tradition, the open source tradition, the liberation tradition.

We continued to evolve Cavendish Space as a living pattern language, spinning out a new standalone page: Neuroqueer DIY: The place where we belong does not exist. We will build it.

We published a run of new work on Relational Pattern Languages, including a glossary entry and a careful sidebar on Indigenous influence and relational pattern thinking.

We significantly expanded the Systems of Power pathway, strengthening the lens that helps us see inequity as structural, not personal.

We launched Zine Walls as a new format: low cognitive load, high signal, poster-ready declarations you can tape up anywhere. This week we published zine walls for ADHD, Autistic identity, and Sensory Experience.

We expanded the Enable Dignity pathway, reinforcing a core Stimpunks commitment: accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual.

We pushed forward our access infrastructure work with major expansions to:

And we published a new practical resource: the Sensory Checklist Gallery—printable lily-pad blocks for making spaces safer right now.

This week was about turning philosophy into infrastructure:

Power named.
Dignity centered.
Patterns shared.
Access made portable.

We keep building at the edges.

This week was about infrastructure, scaffolding, and making Stimpunks more usable in the real world.

We did maintenance where it matters, fixing broken embeds on Dolphining, a page that’s been drawing significant traffic.

We expanded our public story with new additions to A Brief History of Stimpunks, including an “In a Minute” version and a timeline view — making our origin easier to hold and share.

We strengthened the editorial backbone of the site by adding extensive further reading to the House Style Guide, along with new accessibility-centered sections on form design, punctuation as pacing, and how our style choices serve cognitive access.

We refreshed the Field Guide with a clearer layout, new subpages, and new intros — building it into a more navigable toolkit rather than a loose archive.

We published major fundraising infrastructure for 2026: our Goal Stack, our Fundraising page, and our approach for the year. Sustainability is part of access work.

We expanded the Encyclopedia with a new Memory Craft section, exploring how humans have always used story, grouping, and visual structure to support memory — and how lily pads function as modern illuminated-manuscript scaffolding for neurodivergent readers.

We continued building Cavendish Space into a full ecosystem: a Why Sheet, a clearer glossary definition, a project hub, and new work on how Cavendish Space supports authenticity.

We deepened our core language of neurological pluralism, updating Dandelions/Tulips/Orchids and adding a plain-language definition of neurological pluralism itself.

We expanded our Covenant — our community commitment to learner safety, truth, and care — because culture is also infrastructure.

We added first-pass OKRs to the Now page to make our work more transparent and trackable.

And we continued evolving our front-page lens, adding new briefs on meritocracy myths and emergence: designing conditions where better worlds appear.

This week was about turning Stimpunks into a more coherent commons:

More navigable.
More teachable.
More accessible.
More durable.

We keep building at the edges — with lily pads, pattern languages, and dignity-first design.

This week was about public infrastructure: fundraising, transparency, governance, and the scaffolding that makes Stimpunks sustainable and trustworthy.

We published the Stimpunks Fundraising Manifesto and launched the Care Infrastructure Fund on Givebutter — grounding fundraising in dignity, mutual aid, and systems-change rather than charity narratives.

We added operational clarity with a new Volunteer Internet Access Policy, and continued building the Field Guide as a practical resource for real-world support, including updates to Coping resources and online community links.

We strengthened organizational transparency across the site:

  • updated Frequently Requested Information
  • posted our latest 990-PF
  • published a Changelog
  • added a Transparency Log to the Now page
  • published new governance policies on effectiveness and conflict of interest
  • began roughing in a 2026 budget plan

We also published our Charting Impact page, articulating how we define effectiveness outside the traditional charity measurement frame.

On the front page, we expanded how newcomers enter Stimpunks:

  • added “Stimpunks is a DIY Humanizing Rebellion”
  • launched the new “Our Lens” briefs section
  • added audience-specific “Stimpunks in a Minute” intros for donors, educators, healthcare workers, community members, and people seeking help

We continued deepening our editorial and cultural infrastructure:

  • expanded Scrollytelling and added it to the Style Guide
  • added new sections on comics/webtoons pacing and gutters
  • published The Tenets of Stimpunks
  • clarified identity-first language, including why we write Autistic

We also expanded our Learning Space work with new purpose, mission, and core educational beliefs rooted in human-centered, trauma-informed, self-determined learning.

Finally, we published both A Brief History of Stimpunks and our January 2026 Changelog — continuing our commitment to default-to-open documentation.

This week was about building the bones:

Transparency.
Governance.
Sustainability.
Storytelling.
Entry paths.

We keep building a commons that can hold us.

Changelogs