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New page: A third place needs a cave. A third place is somewhere to be with other people that is not home, not work or school, and not somewhere you have to buy anything. The library has always been both a third place and a Cavendish Space, and this page works out where the two ideas part. It reads Ray Oldenburg's eight characteristics of a third place through caves, campfires and watering holes. Most of them hold. Conversation space breaks: in the classic account the talk is the point, and for a great many Autistic people talk is a price of entry. So a Cavendish third place is a presence space first, where joining in stays optional. The page covers the door you can stand outside, why a third place with no cave is a watering hole with no shade, and why losing free places hits Disabled and Neurodivergent people first. It ends with six questions to ask of any library, club, hall, classroom or Discord server, which are about the place and never a score. It quotes Oldenburg, Silberman's NeuroTribes and Annie Murphy Paul, so its License section says what CC0 does not cover. The full essay is on stimpunks.org: A Third Place Needs a Cave. The page is in the menu under The model.

New page: Cultures of Regulation. On January 11, 2026, Helen Edgar ran a Cavendish Space workshop for the Stimpunks community, part of the research project Building Neurodivergent-Affirming Cultures of Regulation: A Neurodivergent Perspective. It practiced regulation instead of talking about it: a campfire to start, a sensory sock ball made together at the watering hole, ten minutes in your own cave if you wanted it, and back to the campfire to share. The page puts that in our words so you can run one: regulation as embodied, sensory, relational, environmental and interdependent; the three places and moving between them; Neurodivergent love languages as co-regulation; the running order; the sock ball, step by step; and how to do it with the deck on the table. It says plainly that this is not a scale and nobody is rated on it. Helen's slides come with it as a PDF, compressed for the web from 27 MB to 7.5 MB with their accessibility tags kept, and every word on them is on the page too. It quotes Helen in her own words, so its License section says what CC0 does not cover — the quotations and the slides. The full write-up is on stimpunks.org: Building Neurodivergent-Affirming Cultures of Regulation. The page is in the menu under The model, as Cultures of Regulation.

New page: Walk a Cavendish classroom. Stimpunks.World has built the Cavendish Primary Classroom: a mainstream primary classroom for a class of thirty, set up the Cavendish Space way, as an example for people training to teach. This page says what is in it and links you there. It covers the five places in one room; the light, warmth, sound and seats the class can change; a sensory cave that is never a time-out; a day that bends; what the classroom will not do; and where the deck sits on its library shelf. It is in the menu under The deck in use, after Place Explorers.