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Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. Authenticity is our purest freedom.
Distributed, text-first, open-by-default work is an access practice. The open web is disability infrastructure nobody labeled as such. stimpunks.org/2026/08/04/c...
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…
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We wrote up what our knowledge base has to do with learning. Two things worth teaching: help students cultivate a knowledge garden they keep after the term ends, and teach revision control. Neither of them is "how to use AI." stimpunks.org/space/knowle...
The Stimpunks Knowledge System as Curriculum
We built a knowledge base for ourselves and then wrote down how it works: The Stimpunks Knowledge System. It holds our research library, our notes, and our highlights. It indexes itself, audits…
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School produces knowledge work for thirteen years, then throws nearly all of it away. An essay is written, graded, returned, lost. We don't do that to professionals — a researcher keeps a bibliography, a developer keeps a repository. stimpunks.org/space/knowle...
The Stimpunks Knowledge System as Curriculum
We built a knowledge base for ourselves and then wrote down how it works: The Stimpunks Knowledge System. It holds our research library, our notes, and our highlights. It indexes itself, audits…
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Sunday Aug 9, 10AM CT: our Campfire watches “Code for the People,” Bao Nguyen's documentary on open source and the open web. I helped start WordPress and Automattic. Our practices came out of that work. stimpunks.org/2026/08/04/c...
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…
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Bus factor 1 is a design failure. The mechanism is almost never a bus — it's burnout, a flare, leave, six weeks where reading a PDF isn't happening. So we wrote up how our knowledge base works, automation and unfinished parts included. stimpunks.org/fieldguide/i...
The Stimpunks Knowledge System
A shared, self-maintaining home for our research library and our organizational knowledge — and an answer to a question we take seriously: what happens to everything we know when the person holding…
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Delighted to join @writingthedawn.bsky.social as Creative Support Lead alongside @barbmel.bsky.social & team A space where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet. Neurodivergent-led community for writing, creating & sharing — LGBTQIA+ & neuro-affirming, anti-racist. Follow to find out more
Writing The Dawn@writingthedawn.bsky.social · 2d agoWelcome to Writing the Dawn — where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet. A neurodivergent-led community for writing, creating & sharing. Neuro-affirming, anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ affirming. Workshops, coaching & body doubling coming soon. Looking forward to connecting soon!
Week 31 changelog: we drew the whole building. A Site Directory, a Style Guide you can link to, eight reading fonts, and Terms of Use that welcome reuse. stimpunks.org/2026/08/03/s...
Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 31 2026: From the Map to the Directory, From the Warning to the Welcome
This week we made the building easy to walk. We published a full Site Directory — every section, every page, nothing hidden behind a menu you have to guess at. We broke the House Style Guide out of it...
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New 2 part blog series from Autism Central written by our co-creative director at Stimpunks, Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms). Part 1. What is Autistic burnout? Part 2 How to support Autistic burnout recovery www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh... www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-ho...
Blog: What is autistic burnout? | Autism Central
Helen Edgar looks at understanding autistic burnout and how you can support autistic family members who may be going through this.
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Delighted to have a new 2 part blog series published with the amazing Autism Central team! Check out all their fully funded workshops and resources! Part 1. What is Autistic burnout? www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh... Super work from @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social and Autism Central Team
Blog: What is autistic burnout? | Autism Central
Helen Edgar looks at understanding autistic burnout and how you can support autistic family members who may be going through this.
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Delighted to have a new 2 part blog series published with the amazing Autism Central team and @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social ! Part 2 How to support Autistic burnout recovery www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-ho... www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh...
Blog: How to support autistic burnout recovery | Autism Central
Helen Edgar looks at autistic burnout and shares tips on what family members can do to help support recovery.
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Inclusion isn't a sentiment. It's design. Most spaces were built around a narrow "normal." Ask people to contort to fit it, and distress follows. A guide to building neurodiversity-inclusive environments: stimpunks.org/design/creat...
Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment
Collected herein are ways of creating neurodiversity inclusive environments in education, healthcare, and everywhere based on research and lived experience.
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Inclusion is architecture, not goodwill. Lower the sensory load. Make routines legible. Drop the performance pressure. Then more people take part — not because they changed, but because the space did. stimpunks.org/design/creat...
Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment
Collected herein are ways of creating neurodiversity inclusive environments in education, healthcare, and everywhere based on research and lived experience.
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"How do I make my classroom / workplace / space more neuroaffirming?" We wrote the answer down: practical ways to lower sensory load, ease performance pressure, and design for real human variation. stimpunks.org/design/creat...
Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment
Collected herein are ways of creating neurodiversity inclusive environments in education, healthcare, and everywhere based on research and lived experience.
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Week 30 changelog: From the Weather to the Compass, From the Light to the Dark. We published a public PESTEL + SWOT of the org, gathered the nine papers we steer by, and gave the site dark mode. Strengths to be useful, weaknesses to be trusted. stimpunks.org/2026/07/27/s...
Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 30 2026: From the Weather to the Compass, From the Light to the Dark
This week we read the weather out loud. We published a PESTEL and SWOT of the whole organization — strengths to be useful, weaknesses to be trusted — and set it beside our finances and governance,…
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This week's Infodumplings: Otters Already Know How to Rest 🦦 Live otter cam, and a talk about rest as something our animal kin practice openly, without apology. Bring your best animal-rest facts. Thu 7/23, 7PM Central stimpunks.org/2026/07/22/i...
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…
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Flowing in the afterglow. Monotropism, Autistic Burnout, and a connection to chemistry inspired by @oolong.co.uk today. morerealms.com/flowing-in-t...
Flowing in the Afterglow: Autistic Burnout & Monotropism
Autistic burnout, monotropism, meerkat mode, AuDHD, neurodivergent reflection, liminal states, executive dysfunction, flow state
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Cavendish Cards, from Stimpunks: a neuroaffirming deck for neurodivergent and Disabled kids and the people alongside them. Pictures and words for how you feel and what helps — so you can show, not explain. cavendish.app
Cavendish Cards
A calm, no-scoring deck for naming sensory and interaction needs. Point at a card, or lay a few.
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A new home on the web for a simple, radical idea: there is no correct configuration of a human being. ★ stuff gathers zines, field guides, a manifesto, and more — love that isn't conditional on your productivity, diagnosis, or ability to pass. starstuff.earth
Star Stuff — Love You Down To Your Star Stuff
Zines and field guides on the science of belonging — we are made of star stuff, and we belong not despite our differences but as them. Love You Down To Your Star Stuff.
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One of my favourite artists of all time Aurora has opened up about the impact of neurodivergence (from 2025) www.thenews.com.pk/latest/13831...
Aurora gets honest about impact of neurodivergence on career
Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora is opening up about being neurodivergent.Aurora has previously hinted to fans that she’s neurodivergent, which means her brain functions differently from a...
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Read more in @stimpunks.org e-zine starstuff.earth/aurora-zine #weirdpride #starstuff
Warriors and Weirdos
AURORA as a way of being star stuff — the alien who came home by gathering a tribe of Weirdos, not by being cured into fitting. On feeling alien, the mothership, Warriors and Weirdos, refusing the cur...
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New Star Stuff zine: Warriors and Weirdos — AURORA as a way of being star stuff. The alien who came home, the mothership's invitation, refusing the cure, stimming in the open. Eight spreads, her songs embedded. @auroramusic starstuff.earth/aurora-zine....
Warriors and Weirdos
AURORA as a way of being star stuff — the alien who came home by gathering a tribe of Weirdos, not by being cured into fitting. On feeling alien, the mothership, Warriors and Weirdos, refusing the…
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Why even the "spiky profile" still measures us against a grid of neuronormativity — and what a constellation of intensities offers instead. autisticrealms.com/the-constell...
The Constellation of Intensities: Neuroqueering the Spiky Profile | Autistic Realms
Why even the "spiky profile" still measures us against a grid — and what a constellation of intensities offers instead.
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Most of what we make, we make in the dark. Thursday's Infodumplings is a show-your-work night: put the unfinished thing where the people who love the same thing can find you. Scenius, not genius. 7PM Central 👇 stimpunks.org/2026/07/14/i...
Infodumplings: Show Your Work, One Card at a Time
Most of what we make, we make in the dark. The half-drawn thing, the spreadsheet nobody's seen, the mod that only works if you don't breathe on it, the deck of cards that is fifty-five cards and two…
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Screen reader users can navigate from heading to heading. If HTML headings are used correctly, this allows users to get a basic outline of content and find the information they’re looking for. The highest heading level is <h1> and <h6> is the lowest. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
<h1>–<h6> HTML section heading elements - HTML | MDN
The <h1> to <h6> HTML elements represent six levels of section headings. <h1> is the highest section level and <h6> is the lowest. By default, all heading elements create a block-level box in the…
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Wellness grifts move into the gap medicine leaves. The chronically ill and neurodivergent, disbelieved for years, are who the pipeline is built to catch. A marathon Campfire watch-along. Samefoods welcome. stimpunks.org/2026/07/11/c...
Campfire Munch Together: Why Don't Fascists Eat Vegetables?
Some watch-alongs are a snack. This one is a whole pantry. The Leftist Cooks spent seven months and made a video essay nearly six hours long, and we're going to sit with all of it in one long, gentle…
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A short reflection from @stimpunks.org Solidarity Sesh today about otters, sensory regulation, and existing in parallel, and what watching them together each week teaches us autisticrealms.com/stimpunks-so...
Stimpunks Solidarity and Otters | Autistic Realms
A reflection from Stimpunks Solidarity Sesh on otters, monotropism, and co-regulation, and what watching them together each week teaches us
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I am VERY excited to be joining @stimpunks.org this Sunday in our Campfire Learn Together: The Mycelial Worldview Is Punk 4pm UK time in Stimpunks Discord. All welcome - FREE stimpunks.org/2026/07/08/c...
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-fiv...
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🍄 The mycelial worldview is punk. Sunday's Campfire: two short films on fungi & mycelial networks — punk science, punk law, and an intelligence with no commanding center. Sun July 12, 10AM CT · Discord stimpunks.org/2026/07/08/c...
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…
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It's five years today since Dinah Murray died, one of the founders of the theory of monotropism. I've written a tribute to her & to everything monotropism has given me & our community Many thanks to @oolong.co.uk and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social for the inspiration morerealms.com/monotropa-un...
Monotropa Uniflora & Monotropism: A Tribute to Dinah Murray
Monotropa Uniflora & Monotropism: A Tribute to Dinah Murray
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Disabled people are damned-if-we-do, damned-if-we-don’t. Survival, or existence, is damnation by a deeply ableist society from @stimpunks.org Inspired by Grue, J. (2023). The double bind of social legitimacy: On disability, the sick role, and invisible work. stimpunks.org/glossary/dis...
Disability Double-bind
In so many ways, disabled people are damned-if-we-do, damned-if-we-don't. Survival, or existence, is damnation by a deeply ableist society.
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