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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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Can't help but talking about politics (CW), launching the #InfodumpThursday hashtag @ActuallyAutistic@gup.pe @ActuallyAutistics@gup.pe

Hi, I've just launched the hashtag
on my blog, on Write.As. The goal is both to routinize and normalize infodumping, and to show that autistic people can be productive, as an intermediary goal towards ending productivity and capitalism (as a world order defined by a power imbalance between entrepreneurs and workers, leading to investments as the constitution of a “passive income” by making others work for you) altogether (it isn't needed anymore as most of our work can be automated).

If you won't mind an advice, I don't think that microblogging would be adapted to this use case, for similar reasons that you can't fit a 1-hour conference in your local cafe smalltalk. I'd advise you to start a blog, either on WordPress (please take care of your RSS/Atom feed formatting, that it contains the full blog posts contents), on
Write.As (commercial offer) or on any community WriteFreely instance (such as the Tildeverse's), or even better, on Emacs, as Org-mode documents (that you could convert to the PDF, Markdown, ePub formats, as you'd see fit).

We need to make our communities perceived as productive so they're perceived as globally worth living and thus worth receiving material and financial aid, and nothing would be as contrary to my initial intent as believing in a divide between productive and unproductive disabled people – or believing in productivism at all, as it harms the most vulnerable among us, even in informal social settings where informal productivity and thus social performance are expected. I've seen too many “successful” autistic people feeding this semantic and I'd like to remind them that fully embracing this rhetoric has led in the past Hans Asperger to label autistic people as productive (“Asperger's syndrome”) or unproductive (“autistics”, to be eliminated).

Routinizing infodumping is releasing
me from the burden of keeping a constant pace of longform blog posts (in my attempt at completing the challenge) by setting them as milestone goals. It doesn't mean that it would necessarily (or should) be for you, or that it would fit to every way of being productive. It's a proof for oppressors that we, as a community, can be productive, and thus are fully human, and not an invitation to accept this oppression as temporarily or permanently (due to neurodivergence or/including comorbidities) unproductive people. On the contrary, this is a call to uplift the most vulnerable among us.

Happy infodumping!
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