Ryan Boren
@ryanboren.bsky.social
Co-Creative Director @stimpunks.org
I helped start WordPress.org, WordPress.com, WordCamp.org, and Automattic.com.
I helped start WordPress.org, WordPress.com, WordCamp.org, and Automattic.com.
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Ryan Boren
@ryanboren.bsky.social
· Nov 5
🌈♿️ Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People
We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergent and disabled people. Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, creator grants, learnin...
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Howdy. I’m Ryan Boren (he/they), Co-Creative Director @stimpunks.org, a nonprofit by and for neurodivergent, disabled, and queer people. I’m a retired tech worker turned wannabe sociologist.
I helped start WordPress.org, WordPress.com, WordCamp.org, and Automattic.com.
I helped start WordPress.org, WordPress.com, WordCamp.org, and Automattic.com.
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I am overwhelmed and angry and sad, and trying to focus instead on @prisonculture.bsky.social's (paraphrased) mantra: Find your lane. Do the work.
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I am overwhelmed and angry and sad, and trying to focus instead on @prisonculture.bsky.social's (paraphrased) mantra: Find your lane. Do the work.
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The solution to homelessness is not forced institutionalizations.
It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.
Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.
We must fix it together.
It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.
Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.
We must fix it together.
October 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The solution to homelessness is not forced institutionalizations.
It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.
Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.
We must fix it together.
It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.
Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.
We must fix it together.
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Disabled people have been warning of forced institutionalization for years.
They want to lock away anyone they see as “less than”.
Homeless people are just the first targets.
We need affordable housing, healthcare & a basic income.
Help people meet their basic needs & homelessness goes down
They want to lock away anyone they see as “less than”.
Homeless people are just the first targets.
We need affordable housing, healthcare & a basic income.
Help people meet their basic needs & homelessness goes down
October 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Disabled people have been warning of forced institutionalization for years.
They want to lock away anyone they see as “less than”.
Homeless people are just the first targets.
We need affordable housing, healthcare & a basic income.
Help people meet their basic needs & homelessness goes down
They want to lock away anyone they see as “less than”.
Homeless people are just the first targets.
We need affordable housing, healthcare & a basic income.
Help people meet their basic needs & homelessness goes down
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“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link
We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.
thinkingautismguide.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
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E-Book: Monotropism: Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions At Home & School
autisticrealms.com/product/mono...
autisticrealms.com/product/mono...
Monotropism: Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions
“Embracing Monotropism & Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions at Home and School” by Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms). This is a neurodiversity-affirming guide for familie…
autisticrealms.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
E-Book: Monotropism: Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions At Home & School
autisticrealms.com/product/mono...
autisticrealms.com/product/mono...
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I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK...
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...
@ndconnection.bsky.social :)
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...
@ndconnection.bsky.social :)
Call for participants: Join the Neurodivergent Creative Research Community — Neurodiverse Connection
In this blog, Kay Louise Aldred , is calling for Neurodivergent adults to take part in a unique, paid research opportunity that values your lived experience and creative passions.
ndconnection.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK...
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...
@ndconnection.bsky.social :)
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...
@ndconnection.bsky.social :)
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Homeless people are not the enemy.
They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.
It’s the system that’s failing.
Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.
We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.
We need a safety net
They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.
It’s the system that’s failing.
Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.
We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.
We need a safety net
October 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Homeless people are not the enemy.
They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.
It’s the system that’s failing.
Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.
We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.
We need a safety net
They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.
It’s the system that’s failing.
Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.
We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.
We need a safety net
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I'm team "books Covid vaccine the minute they're available" due to facts like this.
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I'm team "books Covid vaccine the minute they're available" due to facts like this.
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We just published "Decolonizing autism research: Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We just published "Decolonizing autism research: Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Changelog: Added quotes from “The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow - YouTube” to our “Enshittification” glossary page.
stimpunks.org/glossary/ens...
stimpunks.org/glossary/ens...
Enshittification
Enshittification describes a pattern of platform decay. It proposes a reason for ubiquitous platform decay and simultaneous platform decay where all the platforms we rely on are going bad. And it…
stimpunks.org
October 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Changelog: Added quotes from “The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow - YouTube” to our “Enshittification” glossary page.
stimpunks.org/glossary/ens...
stimpunks.org/glossary/ens...
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“...the vast majority of philanthropical resources continue to go to the same well-resourced, established organizations that are largely not accountable to ... communities.”
—Lydia X.Z. Brown
We're not the typical. We’re tearing down walls in philanthropy. Donate to us.
givebutter.com/Xgup0e
—Lydia X.Z. Brown
We're not the typical. We’re tearing down walls in philanthropy. Donate to us.
givebutter.com/Xgup0e
Support Our Mission
By Stimpunks Foundation
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October 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“...the vast majority of philanthropical resources continue to go to the same well-resourced, established organizations that are largely not accountable to ... communities.”
—Lydia X.Z. Brown
We're not the typical. We’re tearing down walls in philanthropy. Donate to us.
givebutter.com/Xgup0e
—Lydia X.Z. Brown
We're not the typical. We’re tearing down walls in philanthropy. Donate to us.
givebutter.com/Xgup0e
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We’re here for a revival of Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality”. Install this in your soul.
Vernon still shreds. Corey still bellows. The band is tight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY7...
Vernon still shreds. Corey still bellows. The band is tight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY7...
Living Colour – Cult of Personality
Living Colour performs the song Cult of Personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We’re here for a revival of Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality”. Install this in your soul.
Vernon still shreds. Corey still bellows. The band is tight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY7...
Vernon still shreds. Corey still bellows. The band is tight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfY7...
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They are truly making up falsehoods out of thin air because they hate autistic people existing.
I still can't believe a person who is responsible for healthcare in this country said out loud and meant it that a cause of autism is children getting circumcised. I still cannot believe that this is the country, the world, that I fucking live in
October 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
They are truly making up falsehoods out of thin air because they hate autistic people existing.
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Other than the obvious eugenics, I think one of the reasons acknowledging that neurodivergence is actually a normal part of humanity is that it has led to people questioning everything from ableism to child rearing practices to education and even how society functions as a whole.
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Other than the obvious eugenics, I think one of the reasons acknowledging that neurodivergence is actually a normal part of humanity is that it has led to people questioning everything from ableism to child rearing practices to education and even how society functions as a whole.
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It's extremely obvious to me that neurodivergence is why we are able to function as societies at all. And I mean that beyond things like exceptional thinking or hyper fixations leading to breakthroughs. I mean just in the fact that when we care for one another we thrive.
October 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It's extremely obvious to me that neurodivergence is why we are able to function as societies at all. And I mean that beyond things like exceptional thinking or hyper fixations leading to breakthroughs. I mean just in the fact that when we care for one another we thrive.
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But the world tells us (01 01 01 01 01)
No we are not (01 01 01 01 01)
Body or head not (01 01 01 01 01)
Capacity for love not (01 01 01 01 01)
—The Spook School
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
No we are not (01 01 01 01 01)
Body or head not (01 01 01 01 01)
Capacity for love not (01 01 01 01 01)
—The Spook School
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
Behold the Spectrum
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…
stimpunks.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
But the world tells us (01 01 01 01 01)
No we are not (01 01 01 01 01)
Body or head not (01 01 01 01 01)
Capacity for love not (01 01 01 01 01)
—The Spook School
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
No we are not (01 01 01 01 01)
Body or head not (01 01 01 01 01)
Capacity for love not (01 01 01 01 01)
—The Spook School
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
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“Fractals—a way to speak of the patterns we see—move from the micro to macro level. The same spirals on sea shells can be found in the shape of galaxies. We must create patterns that cycle upwards. We are microsystems.”
—adrienne maree brown
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
—adrienne maree brown
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
Behold the Spectrum
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…
stimpunks.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“Fractals—a way to speak of the patterns we see—move from the micro to macro level. The same spirals on sea shells can be found in the shape of galaxies. We must create patterns that cycle upwards. We are microsystems.”
—adrienne maree brown
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
—adrienne maree brown
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
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That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.
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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
He said this out loud.
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
He said this out loud.
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US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
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As always, whenever liars talk about "free speech", the only question you ever have to ask is, "What are y'all doing about sex workers and dissidents?"
YouTube to bring back video creators who were banned for spreading #Covid misinformation. The unfortunate move is said to reflect the company's "commitment to free speech"👇
YouTube to Bring Back Creators Banned for COVID Misinformation
Attorneys said the decision reflected the company's commitment to free speech
www.medpagetoday.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As always, whenever liars talk about "free speech", the only question you ever have to ask is, "What are y'all doing about sex workers and dissidents?"
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This is exactly right. It's happening about the internet itself, too. People are assigning false rose-colored nostalgia memories to the web, describing a "good old days" that elides how terrible and exclusionary the past eras of the internet were.
This whole Y2K Nostalgia feels really unique and strange to me, in that it's being driven almost entirely by Zoomers' imagined version of an era they're too young to remember, while everyone who was actually 13-22yo at the time is universally responding "no, don't bring that back, that sucked."
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is exactly right. It's happening about the internet itself, too. People are assigning false rose-colored nostalgia memories to the web, describing a "good old days" that elides how terrible and exclusionary the past eras of the internet were.
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"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
September 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."