Iffy Books | 404 S. 20th St., PHL

Philly 2600 Meetup + Iffy Books 1st Birthday
2022-08-05 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
We’ll be hosting the Philly 2600 meetup on Friday, August 5th.
We’re also celebrating the first anniversary of Iffy Books! There will be cake.
See you there!

Pixel cake by Broccosparagus
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🗓 CLOSED Sunday, August 7th
2022-08-07 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
We’ll be closed on Sunday, August 7th. We apologize for the inconvenience!

✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
2022-08-09 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-16 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-23 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-30 17:00 - 20:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Want to get writing done this summer?
Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 pm every Tuesday for the month of August. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into 3 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between.
BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc. See you there!

⚡️ Mesh Jam 2022 Day 1
2022-08-13 13:00 - 19:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Stop by Iffy Books on Saturday, August 13th for day 1 of Mesh Jam 2022! If you’re curious about mesh networking, this is the event for you. We’ll have talks, workshops, and games all day long. This event is free.
➡️ Videos from Mesh Jam 2022
# Mesh Jam Day 1: Saturday, August 13th
1:00 p.m. Let’s Define a Paper-and-Pencil Chat Mesh with Matty
1:45 p.m. Opening remarks by Steve
2:00 p.m. A talk by Allan Gomez from Philly Community Wireless
2:45 p.m. Intro to Encrypted Messaging with LoRa and Meshtastic with Steve
3:30 p.m. Paper-and-Pencil Mesh Roleplay with Matty
4:15 p.m. Building Off-Grid Networks with Reticulum with Paul
5:00 p.m. Short Talks & Open Discussion
– Agregore Browser, Community Hosting, & Gemini by Paul
– Offline-First Browsing with Offpunk by Steve
– If you want to give a short talk, send an email to iffybooks@iffybooks.net
6:00 p.m. Reception/Work Session with Food & Drinks
All-Day Workshop Sew Your Own Transceiver Pouch with Cat
> Link to Mesh Jam Day 2: Saturday, August 20th

Bleeding Control Basics
2022-08-18 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Presented by Philadelphia SRA, Bleeding Control Basics will go over first aid as it applies to severe bleeding. We will cover scene safety, injury assessment, basic bleeding control, and tourniquet application. This class doesn’t provide any kind of certification, and is just meant to provide essential information to as many people as possible.
This workshop is free.
Register:

⚡️ Mesh Jam 2022 Day 2
2022-08-20 13:00 - 19:00
If you’re curious about mesh networking, this free event is for you. We’ll have talks, workshops, and games all day long.
➡️ Videos from Mesh Jam 2022
# Mesh Jam Day 2: Saturday, August 20th
1:00 p.m. Let’s Build an ESP8266 Chat Mesh with Steve
1:45 p.m. Intro to Hardware Hacking with Nomad & Retry
2:30 p.m. A talk by Alex Wermer-Colan from Philly Community Wireless
3:15 p.m. P2P Messaging with Briar with Paul
4:00 p.m. Let’s make a Meshtastic Network from Iffy Books to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
5:30 p.m. Reception/Work Session with Food & Drinks

> Link to Mesh Jam Day 1: Saturday, August 13th
Are you interested in giving a talk or running a workshop at this event? Send an email to iffybooks@iffybooks.net

💾🌾 Permacomputing Meetup
2022-08-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Our August permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, 8/21 at 1:00 PM EDT. Join us in person at the shop, or via Mumble audio stream!
➡️ Download Mumble
Mumble server: 134.209.32.64
Port: 64738
➡️ Here’s a link to a list of topics discussed at the last meeting.

How to Search for Reproductive Health Info Without Being Tracked with Alison Macrina
2022-08-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
In this workshop, led by Alison Macrina, you’ll learn how to maintain your online privacy while accessing information about abortion and other sensitive topics.
This event is free.

📚 Reading Group: 'Ecotopia' by Ernest Callenbach
2022-08-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
On Wednesday, August 31st we’re reading Ernest Callenbach’s short 1975 novel Ecotopia, about the secession of northern California, Oregon, and Washington and what happens after.
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🍂 New hours start September 1st
2022-09-01 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
We have new hours starting Thursday, September 1st. See you at the shop!
Weds 5–8 p.m.
Thurs 5–8 p.m.
Fri 2–9 p.m.
Sat 12–8 p.m.
Sun 12–6 p.m.

✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
2022-09-07 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-28 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-05 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Want to get some writing done?
Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between.
BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc. See you there!

🎉 Reception at Iffy Books
2022-09-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
We’re doing First Friday a week late! Vox Populi and a few other galleries in our building are have shows opening on September 9th this month, to avoid Labor Day weekend. So we’ll have a reception with drinks, snacks, and music. Hope to see you there!

🌱 The Very Basics of Seed Saving with Goda Trakumaite
2022-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Learn how to gather, clean and store seeds from your favorite plants so you can grow them again next season! We’ll cover introductory info about what’s interesting and important to consider when saving seeds, and work hands on with plants like tomatoes, squash, and common herbs.
Led by Goda Trakumaite, a gardener and farmer with years of experience.
This event is free.
Registration:

💾🌾 Permacomputing Meetup
2022-09-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Our September permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, 9/18 at 1:00 PM EDT. Join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #3E, PHL) or via Jitsi audio stream.
➡️ Jitsi Stream Link

📚 Postponed! Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
2022-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
We’re postponing the reading group until next month. We apologize for the inconvenience!
➡️ Link to the new event page
On Wednesday, September 21st, October 19th, we’ll discuss our first collection of short stories, Multispecies Cities, which gathers work from writers across Asia and the Pacific to imagine futures that emphasize the importance of interspecies justice.
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🕳 Networks of Philly with Mike Dank
2022-09-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
On Saturday, September 24th at 2 p.m., Mike Dank will give a presentation on the hidden internet infrastructure that surrounds us in Philly. Hope to see you there!
➡️ Link to video
➡️ Link to slides

Philadelphia’s network infrastructure is messy, clumsy, and often unseen by the general public. Wandering the streets, you may get a vague understanding of what’s going on—a manhole cover sits unassumingly on the crosswalk, or maybe a mysterious box with an antenna sits high upon a wall in a back alley, humming into the night. Under your feet and above your eye line, data is soaring by through brightly-lit fiber cable and ethereal radio transmission. The city is alive, but few may ever understand to what extent.

networksofphilly.org
@netsofphilly on Twitter
Networks of Philly on GitHub

RSVP (optional):

Security Culture for Activists Workshop at FDR Meadows
2022-09-29 18:00 - 19:30 | FDR Meadows Picnic Grove, 1954 Pattison Ave. at PDF Park, Philadelphia, PA, United States
At this workshop we’ll discuss strategies for maintaining privacy when working on activist projects. We’ll focus on ways location data from your phone can be used against you, and how to keep you and your friends safe.
➡️ This workshop is part of Meadowfest, a series of events at the FDR Meadows from September 24th to October 2nd. Click here to learn more.

Philly 2600 Meetup
2022-10-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
The next Philly 2600 meetup is Friday, October 7th at Iffy Books, starting around 6:00 p.m. See you then!
The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people.
Philly 2600 has been meeting since the early ’90s, and was one of the first 2600 meetings started by 2600 Magazine. 2600 meetings are open to all technology enthusiasts who want mingle, teach a topic, learn something new, or hang out with like-minded people. We meet in a completely public and open area to keep things as safe and accessible as possible.
➡️ Philly 2600 Code of Conduct
Photo: CC-BY from freefoodphotos.com

📦 “How I Moved House by Bicycle” with Nelson Chu Pavlosky
2022-10-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
On Saturday, October 8th at 2 p.m. EDT, Nelson Chu Pavlosky will give a presentation on how he moved from one house to another entirely by bike. It was a 12-mile trip uphill, from South Philly to the Mt. Airy neighborhood. Hope to see you there!
➡️ Video link

VisiData Workshop with Dave Slinger
2022-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
At this workshop you’ll learn about VisiData, a lightweight command-line tool that can help you explore just about any kind of dataset, from spreadsheets to databases. Led by Dave Slinger.
VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
➡️ What is VisiData?
➡️ Video Stream Link
Register:

'Choose Your Own Adventure: Inventing a Form to Fit Your Content' with Tenacity Plys
2022-10-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Found-document fiction can be dismissed as a gimmick, but Tenacity Plys’s new novella Family Curse – Field Notebooks (1880-2020) proves that when the form fits the content, that’s when the magic happens. Ten will give a reading, then discuss how xe crafted the form to fit the content while developing the story. Plus, xe’ll give a writing prompt so you can try out the same principles yourself!
➡️ Video Stream Link
📔 They say in town that every generation, fairies lure a member of Virgil’s family into the local woods, never to be seen again. Virgil doesn’t really care about that; they’re just squatting at their aunt’s vacant house during quarantine. But one night, they’re awoken by a knocking at the back door that leads them into a tangle of family secrets, and a mystery that’s as heartbreaking as it is chilling.
📔 To avoid disappearing themself, Virgil has to piece together journal entries from three generations of their relatives, who all spent their lives wondering why their siblings were taken. If Virgil can solve the puzzle, they won’t just save themselves — they’ll put more than a hundred years’ worth of family history to rest. This story of a neurodivergent family’s struggle to understand themselves is by turns spooky, funny, sad, and hopeful despite everything.
👤 Tenacity Plys is a nonbinary autistic writer based in Brooklyn, with publications in Hobart, Ethel, Bullshit Lit, Alien Buddha, Word Gathering, and Pif Magazine. Xir Pushcart-nominated story “I Love My AI Son” will be featured in Alien Buddha’s Best of 2022 anthology at the end of this year. You can find more of xir work at tenacityplys.com!
Saturday, October 15th at 2:00 p.m. at Iffy Books

💾🌾 Permacomputing Meetup
2022-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.), 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, October 16th at 1:00 PM EDT. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #3E, PHL) or via Jitsi audio stream.
➡️ Jitsi Stream Link
