Tag: infodumplings
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Infodumplings: Take a Whiff
This week Norah and Ryan are co-hosting a scent night. Ryan has a Scentbird subscription and a queue of little vials to work through. Norah is bringing some of her favorites. Neither of us is a perfumer, and that is rather the point — this is two people who like smelling things, sitting in a…
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Infodumplings: Do You Still Have a Favorite Dinosaur?
“Do you still have a favorite dinosaur?” And the question sitting right behind it: why are we expected to “grow out” of our childhood enthusiasms like dinosaurs? Dinosaurs are a popular infodumping interest among Autistic kids, and we are often ridiculed for our enthusiasm — especially as we get older and are expected to get…
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Infodumplings: Star Stuff, and the Shelves We Built Last
There is a website we have been building all year that is mostly made of wonder and citations. It is called ★ stuff, it lives at starstuff.earth, and it is thirty-six zines, eleven field guides, five broadsides, and three playlists that all do the same thing: take one fact that is actually settled — piezoelectric…
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Infodumplings: The Systems That Get Us Through the Day
Every one of us is running a system we invented ourselves. The alarm labeled with a whole sentence because the word “meds” wasn’t enough. The one drawer where the important things go so they can’t be anywhere else. The spreadsheet nobody else could parse. The playlist that means it is time to start now. The…
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Infodumplings: Otters Already Know How to Rest
This week we’re making the otters the whole point. We’ll put a live otter cam up on the shared screen, watch mammals do the thing we’re so often punished for doing, and talk about rest as something our animal kin practice openly and without apology. Bring your best rest in the animal world facts and…
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Infodumplings: Show Your Work, One Card at a Time
Most of what we make, we make in the dark. The half-drawn thing, the spreadsheet nobody’s seen, the mod that only works if you don’t breathe on it, the deck of cards that is fifty-five cards and two blanks and an open invitation to draw the fifty-sixth. This week’s Infodumplings is a show your work…
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Infodumplings: Spoon Theory — An Invitation To Count Your Spoons With Us
“I’ve learned to live life with an extra spoon in my pocket, in reserve.” — Christine Miserandino Sometime around 2003, in a diner, late, over french fries and gravy, a woman named Christine Miserandino got handed a question she’d never been able to answer even for herself. Her best friend — who had gone to…
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Infodumplings: Farming While Beige, or How to Feed Everybody While Being Funny as Hell
Somewhere between a kill floor in Westmoreland County and a phone camera held at arm’s length, a farmer named Chris Newman has been quietly running one of the most coherent structural critiques of America you can watch in under three minutes. He calls the channel Farming While Beige. He talks about race, class, mutual aid,…
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Infodumplings: I Saw This and Thought of You
Penguins give each other pebbles. A penguin will search the whole beach for the smoothest, most perfect stone, carry it across the colony in its beak, and set it down at the feet of someone it has chosen. It isn’t useful. You can’t eat it. It just says one thing, completely: I thought of you.…
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Infodumplings: All the Colors That There Are
Queer and neurodivergent liberation are entwined. We’re celebrating both at once — because for many of us, the two rainbows are one. Tonight’s Infodumplings lands on the opening night of Neurodiversity Pride Week, which runs June 11–17 with Neurodiversity Pride Day itself on June 16, all of it nested inside queer Pride Month. Two prides,…
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Infodumplings: Hot Metal and Cold Light
Type is never neutral. Before the font menu, there was molten lead and spinning film — hot metal typesetting and cold light, and a whole secret language of slugs, mats, and leading. Join us to fall down the typesetting rabbit hole and infodump on the craft that made the printed word.
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Infodumplings: Celebrating Libraries with Lilypad Library
This week on Infodumplings, we’re celebrating libraries — what they are, what they mean, what they’ve been for us — and we’re doing it alongside Lilypad Library, a neurodivergent-created children’s show that Stimpunks is proud to fiscally sponsor. We’ll watch a Lilypad Library episode together. Then we’ll infodump: your library stories, your formative reads, your…