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 practices — his dissertation is in our library, and there is a recent ninety-minute…
"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 "serious," which usually means focusing on what we can make money at. So…
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 […] The post Weekly Reflection for Week 33 2026 first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation .
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 a new Broadsides library. And we rewrote our own Impact page and every…
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. The post Stimpunks Broadsides first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation .
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 bone, stellar nucleosynthesis, phase transitions, tidal force falling off with the…
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 Restoration Project. The post Campfire Learn Together: Head, Heart, and…
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 […] The post Weekly Reflection for Week 32 2026 first appeared on Stimpunks Foundation .
This week we built the thing that remembers for us. The Stimpunks Knowledge System went from nothing to a working system in seven days — a shared, self-maintaining home for our research library and our organizational knowledge, mirrored to two places the whole team can reach. Then we documented it in the IT Field Guide, argued it as curriculum, and gave it away as a template anyone can take. Along…
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 specific mug. The note-taking setup you have rebuilt four times. The rule about not…
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, and practices we run Stimpunks on came out of that work The…
