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Campfire Learn Together, Sunday 10AM CT / 4PM UK. Then & Now's How to Make a Fascist says nobody was hypnotized. We read it through austerity and resentment. Take away what people need. Hand them someone to blame. stimpunks.org/2026/10/15/c...

I have also created an essay plate about metaphoray for Queering Earth, a project I (Helen @autisticrealms.bsky.social ) have been working on with Ryan Boren at @stimpunks.org queering.earth/metaphoray

Stimpunks is not only stimpunks.org. Five smaller sites, each doing one thing the big site cannot. All free, all open-licensed, all made with Helen Edgar. We built them one at a time for a year and never said so in one place. Now we have. stimpunks.org/2026/09/15/o...

queering.earth Queering readings of literature, poetry, art, people and history. A collaboration between Helen Edgar @autisticrealms.bsky.social and Ryan Boren @stimpunks.org morerealms.com/queering-ear...

Bluesky teacher hivemind, I'm looking for examples of concepts in any subject that learners find tricky to grasp, and the creative, amusing, concrete or multisensory ways you've come up with to teach them. It's for a book I'm writing atm. Thanks in advance! Please repost. #EduSky

Hurrah! So proud of working on this animation with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social team including @oolong.co.uk @scrappapertiger.bsky.social @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social Laura Buckland Mason and our fabulous animator @iara-abigalil.bsky.social with music by @SomebodySomeone

Use code RBS20 and get 20% OFF It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School Edited By Rachael Davis, @claruineill.bsky.social , @suereviews.bsky.social With a chapter about Monotropism and Flow by myself and @oolong.co.uk www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...

Launching the Autistic Scholars Project on AutiHub: a free public database of academic publications authored/co-authored by autistic people. 354 autistic authors, 1,799 publications — with daily monitoring for new publications by included authors. autihub.org/en/autistic-...

Autidacts.org is becoming **Autihub.org**, opening the project to a broader range of initiatives focused on the participation and representation of autistic people in autism research and knowledge production. More information in the coming days: autihub.org #AutismResearch #ActuallyAutistic

Came Back Clean — what buried underpants say about soil A thousand people buried two thousand pairs of underpants across Switzerland. The ones that came back cleanest were under lawns — and that is the bad result. starstuff.earth/came-back-cl...

English-Language Autism Terminology Preferences of Autistic People and their Parents in the United States: Clustering Illuminates Diverse Views Dwyer, P., Williams, Z. J., Magnuson, J. E., & Woynaroski, T. G. (2026). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Worth a read!

@stimpunks.org has been busy with our collab StarStuff Zines Our field guide to glimmers. Explore the science, research & history behind some words that describe monotropic experiences found in the book I co-created with @auroraconsulting.bsky.social & F. Goodhall starstuff.earth/under-the-wo...

I published my access rider. It exists so you don't have to guess, and so I don't have to spend the encounter explaining myself instead of doing the work. Remote and async by default. Write it down. No phone calls. Don't touch my wheelchair. stimpunks.org/about/ryan/a...

Tonight if anyone wants to join us in @stimpunks.org Discord 1am UK time, 7pm Central Time.

@edutopia.org does a lot of things well, but I think nailing an animated version of me has to go up to the top of my list. Quite the surprise for me. Here's a short video that details how I arrange my classroom: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvFX...

Fabulous - Have you seen the work I have been doing with @stimpunks.org about Cavendish Space and Caves, Campfires and Watering Holes? stimpunks.org/space/cavend...

Tired of shuffling desks around every time you change the mode of learning from whole-class instruction to groups or solo work? Educator @mrrablin.bsky.social has found a solution—and it involves caves⚒️, campfires🔥, and watering holes🌴.

Watching the culture wars turn to neurodivergence was so predictable.

Thursday's Infodumplings is a scent night. Norah's favourites, Ryan's subscription vials, and whatever smells good in your house. "An invitation for the community to take a whiff." What scents do you enjoy? stimpunks.org/2026/08/24/i...

Sunday at Campfire we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday — one of very few people anywhere who talked about race and neurodivergence in the same breath, as one problem. Two of his own talks. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...

"You don't need an ocean full of hope, but you do need a ripple, you do need a drop, and that is often enough." — Jason Arday Sunday's Campfire is a memorial and a briefing. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...

Sunday we mourn and celebrate Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks. He defended late-identified Autistic and ADHD people a year before the backlash peaked. He was precise and kind. It did not protect him. stimpunks.org/2026/08/22/c...

Sunday's Campfire: a movement practice, not a lecture. Seated tai chi, somatics, a chair stim dance, flamenco. All seated, by design. Aug 23, 10AM CT / 4PM UK stimpunks.org/2026/08/21/c...

The news is relentless. Our community is in crisis. Coping and Mental Health Helplines stimpunks.org/fieldguide/c... @stimpunks.org If you are in crisis text 50808 in Ireland, 85258 in the UK & 741741 in the US & Canada for free, nonjudgmental 24/7 support

Do you still have a favorite dinosaur? And why are we expected to "grow out" of them? Autistic kids infodump about dinosaurs and get ridiculed for it. Thursday's Infodumplings, 7PM Central. Bring yours. stimpunks.org/2026/08/19/i...

Honoured to have written this for @annafreudcharity.bsky.social Autistic burnout is more than just feeling a little tired. It may also co-exist with depression or be mistaken for depression, which can make it harder to recognise and get the right support. www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh...

As such, the witch-hunt against Jason Arday was a paradigmatic example of “anti-woke”. A politics of cruelty rooted in anti-blackness, driven by the racist right and enabled, sad to say, by various dupes on the centre and even in parts of the left. 2/

Until very recently, the word “woke” conveyed something beautiful: political awakening in the context of the African-American liberation struggle. The way it has been forcibly stripped from that context and transformed into a ubiquitous term of derision is shockingly cruel & inherently anti-black 1/

Week 33: we built six machines to check our own work, then found the edge where they stop helping. Almost every fault that changed an argument was caught by a human reading. stimpunks.org/2026/08/16/s...

Star Stuff — science and wonder and the beautiful diversity of being. starstuff.earth

A public enquiry is desperately needed here. Please consider signing goodlawproject.org/s/533647

Pouring one out for Jason Arday. RIP. So gross, the gleeful bigotry and shitting on DEI — without regard for a life — that precipitated losing him. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am just sharing some crisis support information lines for anyone who is struggling Coping and Mental Health Helplines stimpunks.org/fieldguide/c... If you are in crisis text 50808 in Ireland, 85258 in the UK and 741741 in the US and Canada for free, nonjudgmental 24/7 support

The Elimination of Waste: on a word that meant one thing in a steam engine and another in a school A fascinating and concise history of “efficiency” in the classroom, starting with thermodynamics. starstuff.earth/elimination-...

Five Sigma: how much evidence is enough before you do something to a child starstuff.earth/five-sigma-z...

We had a strong position on co-design and no page for it. A review of 55 studies using the word found 44% never defined it. 7% did anything about power. Co-design isn't consultation at the testing stage. It is power-sharing at the architecture stage. stimpunks.org/glossary/co-...

Today is the last chance to get tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference Hybrid event. Recorded. 14-16th Aug 2026 neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autisti... With @neurohubcommunity.org

Today is the last chance to get tickets for the Autistic Mental Health Conference Hybrid event. Recorded. 14-16th Aug 2026 neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autisti... With @neurohubcommunity.org

There is a website we have been building all year that is mostly made of wonder and citations. Tonight at Infodumplings, the tour of ★ stuff — then the floor is open for Star Stuff talk. 7PM Central. stimpunks.org/2026/08/13/i...

How a story gets smoother than the science, and what reading the primary source puts back. Six ways a fact goes wrong, and seventeen worked corrections — most of them ours, published, dated, and fixed in public. starstuff.earth/too-good-to-...

New Campfire post. Sunday Aug 16, 10AM CT / 4PM UK. A school in Rotterdam that teaches climate collapse, then teaches the nervous system that has to survive hearing it. Boxing. Breathing. Sewing. stimpunks.org/2026/08/09/c...

In 2025, 88% of our budget went to program services. We spend more than we take in, & reserves (from our own pockets) cover the difference. In 2025, donations came to $6,953 across the whole year — for every dollar a person gave us, we spent $17.64. Donations needed. stimpunks.org/impact/

Week 32: we built the thing that remembers for us, published how it works, and gave it away. Bus factor 1 is a design failure, and the mechanism is almost never a bus. stimpunks.org/2026/08/09/s...

Birds cross oceans by using their inner compass. What if we could do the same? A reflection on migration, monotropism, and self-trust. morerealms.com/migration-tr...

Greetings fellow earthlings. Greetings fellow star stuff. Explore our planet and our universe through neurodiversity, mutuality, and belonging. Every piece free to read, print, and hand to someone. starstuff.earth Love you down to your star stuff.

One typeface chosen for legibility, five accents held at near-uniform lightness, and body text that never fades. The visual language of this collection is itself an argument about access — so here it is, with its numbers and its receipts. starstuff.earth/design

One typeface chosen for legibility, five accents held at near-uniform lightness, and body text that never fades. The visual language of this collection is itself an argument about access — so here it is, with its numbers and its receipts. starstuff.earth/design

We all run a system we invented. The alarm labeled with a whole sentence. The one drawer. Tonight at Infodumplings: 10 min on our Knowledge System, then the floor is yours. What gets you through the day? stimpunks.org/2026/08/06/i...