❄️ We’re closing today (1/19) at 4 p.m.!
We're closing at 4 p.m. on Friday, January 19th due to forecast snow. Sorry for the inconvenience! The TOOOL lock picking meetup scheduled for tonight has been rescheduled for next […]
Iffy Books | 404 S. 20th St., PHL
hacking, free culture, gardening, zines
We're closing at 4 p.m. on Friday, January 19th due to forecast snow. Sorry for the inconvenience! The TOOOL lock picking meetup scheduled for tonight has been rescheduled for next […]
On Sunday, January 21st from 1 to 3 p.m. we're hosting a workshop on the audio synthesis program SuperCollider, led by William Hazard. This workshop assumes no prior knowledge of […]
On Sunday, January 21st at 3:30 p.m. we’re hosting a darning workshop and mending session. Total beginners welcome! Here’s our darning how-to zine. Register:
Face masks required! Presented by Untitled Medical Collective in association with Philly SRA, Bleeding Control Basics will go over first aid as it applies to severe bleeding. We will cover […]
On Thursday, January 25th at 6 p.m. we’re hosting an intermediate soldering class. We’ll have soldering irons and solder to share for free, as well as DIY electronics kits for sale. […]
On Friday, January 26th from 6–9 p.m. we’re hosting a meetup run by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Open Organization of Lockpickers. > Come join us for our monthly open pick night at […]
Join us from 1–3 p.m. on Saturday, January 27th for the first meeting of the Direct Solar Power Working Group. (We can change the name if people don’t like it.) […]
We're postponing this event for a month or so. Check back soon! On Saturday, January 27th, 3:30–5:30 p.m. we're pleased to present DJ Mixing 101, a workshop led by PILLAR 5. […]
The Blue Agave Revolution: Poetry of the Blind Rebel comprises magical realist and speculative fiction from the co-authors, an imprisoned Indigenous freedom fighter and a life-long anti-imperialist and decolonizer of […]
On Wednesday, January 31st at 7:00 p.m. we’ll meet to discuss the novel The Obelisk Gate (2016), the second book in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy. Hope to see you […]
Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer […]
> The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people.
The Model Internet Club meets again on Saturday, February 3rd, 1–5 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. The network is up and running! We now have a DHCP server, a DNS server with […]
We’ll continue discussing the book Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict by Phil A. Neel. Email us at admin@phillysocialists.org for more details. This group is open to anyone […]
On February 7th and February 10th we're hosting a free cassette mixtape recording session. Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we'll help you record it to an audio cassette […]
Join us Wednesday, February 7th for an event from DC215 / Hackers' Assembly. This month Ben Sylvester will give a talk titled "Open Source Tools for Web App Pentesting." This […]
On Thursday, February 8th at 6:00 p.m. we’re running a soldering workshop for beginners! Anyone can attend for free, but you’ll need to buy a circuit board with components for $6 to […]
On February 7th and February 10th we're hosting a free cassette mixtape recording session. Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we'll help you record it to an audio cassette […]
Share the love with origami and love letters! Learn different paper folding how-tos and make various Valentine's-themed origami pieces to share with your loved ones! Decorate thank you and love […]
Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer […]
On Friday, February 16th from 6–9 p.m. we’re hosting a meetup run by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Open Organization of Lockpickers. > Come join us for our monthly open pick night at […]
On Saturday, February 17th at 3:30 p.m. we’re hosting a meetup for fans of federated services such as Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, BookWyrm, and PeerTube. Hope to see you there! Masks […]
We’ll continue discussing the book Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict by Phil A. Neel. Email us at admin@phillysocialists.org for more details. This group is open to anyone […]
Our current book for the Neo-Luddite Reading Group is Race After Technology (2019) by Ruha Benjamin. We'll meet Tuesday, February 20th at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the introduction through chapter […]
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 6 p.m. Face masks required! Presented by Untitled Medical Collective in association with Philly SRA, Bleeding Control Basics will go over first aid as it […]
On Thursday, February 22nd at 6 p.m. we’re hosting an intermediate soldering class. We’ll have soldering irons and solder to share for free, as well as DIY electronics kits for sale. […]
Join us from 1–3 p.m. on Saturday, February 24th for the second meeting of the Direct Solar Power Working Group. Our plan is to discuss & experiment with methods for […]
Join us on Saturday, February 24th at 7 p.m. for a talk by Larisa Kingston Mann on her book Rude Citizenship Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial […]
Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, February 25th at 1:00 PM EST. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or via Jitsi Meet. […]
On Wednesday, February 28th at 7:00 p.m. we’ll meet to discuss the novel The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany. Hope to see you there! A member of an alien […]
On Thursday, February 29th at 6:00 p.m. we’re running a soldering workshop for beginners! Anyone can attend for free, but you’ll need to buy a circuit board with components for $6 to […]
> The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people.
In North America, we call plants that lived here prior to European colonization Native Plants. They evolved over tens of thousands of years to coexist with the soils, animals, insects, […]