I thought about the word play before the actual meaning of the term I try to coin, so I don’t have it really well defined. Maybe modern times are starting to be a bit STEAMpunk, and it could became more so. With the attack on science, education, health care, infrastructure… might be a rise in massive backyard telescopes (they exist, astropunk as fuck), basement medical labs, underground universities, communities taking it in their on hands and repairing roads or even upgrading the potholes with sculptures or fountains and they’re now pedestrian only streets, DIYing solar trams/street cars… I think all of these fit the STEAMpunk theme.