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πŸ₯” appalachian autistic artist advocate activist 🌈 she/they β€’ beacons.page/pot8um

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pot8um for the unapologetic, the neurodivergent, the artistic, the immunocompromised, the human.

πŸ₯” pot8um.com

19.07.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My merch collection is getting a revamp with more designs on the way 🀩

Go check out all this cool shit it’s pretty good

Help support a queer content creator and disability advocate rebuilding my little family’s life in our new home 🀠 even sharing this helps!

19.07.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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pot8um for the unapologetic, the neurodivergent, the artistic, the immunocompromised, the human.

Pictured shirt from the MIND MELT collection

Over 40 designs by me at pot8um.com πŸ₯”

17.07.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Me, wearing my red wavy hair in two high ponytails. I’m wearing green glasses and a white T-shirt depicting a mustard yellow melting skull with purple shadows and a warped purple checker pattern behind it.

Text on top of shirt reads MIND: MELTED

Me, wearing my red wavy hair in two high ponytails. I’m wearing green glasses and a white T-shirt depicting a mustard yellow melting skull with purple shadows and a warped purple checker pattern behind it. Text on top of shirt reads MIND: MELTED

Reminder!

Am cute and design cute shirts!

Support a disabled content creator, artist and disability advocate and find something you love in my shop! 🧡

17.07.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure there's anyone out there who deserves recognition and commendation more than Alice Wong. Her work is incredible and she has already changed the world

16.07.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 845    πŸ” 183    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Firing us from jobs for requesting disability accomodations lol 🫠

16.07.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When I say the left has an ableism problem, it’s because it’s true.

16.07.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

The left has an ableism problem.

The right obviously does too. They’re loudly bigoted & closed-minded.

My focus is on the people who claim to be inclusive, progressive and willing to learn, grow and adapt to new information.

Where are leftists when disabled people need them?

15.07.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6
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After a long time of struggling without my full dose of ADHD meds… I GOT THEM BACK TODAY πŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯Ή

if you weren’t sick of me already,
get ready

today is a GOOD DAY

13.07.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Silhouette of person with their arms up in the air in front of a bright sky, the chains connecting their wrists are broken in the middle

Silhouette of person with their arms up in the air in front of a bright sky, the chains connecting their wrists are broken in the middle

I lost access to my ADHD meds in 2023 after I left my provider for putting me at risk by showing up to my appt with covid

I’ve been on half my meds for about a year now…

AND I JUST GOT THE REST OF IT PRESCRIBED!

If I haven’t made it clear already, PREPARE TO BE SICK OF ME 🫡

13.07.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Grok is poisoning the air in Memphis

ChatGPT relies on slave labor in the Global South to train and maintain its servers

Generative AI like ChatGPT is changing our climate and our brain chemistry

None of this shit is worth it

08.07.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Doctors are not gods.

There are plenty of doctors without egos and scientists who have been studying covid for over half a decade. They’re doing the thankless work of recording the far-reaching effects and distributing the info.

In this individualistic hellscape, I’m listening to them.

01.07.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s Disability Pride Month!

Many of you have been disabled by one or multiple covid infections and don’t know it yet.

Many others are aware, though, and have been sounding the alarm for years.

Stop disabling your communities by breathing all over everyone.

WEAR A MASK!

01.07.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tens of millions of kids with long covid.

They didn’t ask for this shit.

We’re failing them every day.

Forcible infections are straight from the eugenicist’s playbook.

When they grow up, they’re gonna rightfully demand answers.

I’ll be firmly planted in their corner.

30.06.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Y’all are out here huffing covid like you have unlimited paid time off and hella benefits at your disposal lmao

The social cost of being the only masked person in a room is higher than the worth of your own health and wellbeing? And the health of those around you? Why?

30.06.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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History only rhymes because we refuse to learn from it.

30.06.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Covid ages the brain 10x faster than natural aging.

If you proclaim to be progressive and inclusive, you should be on the front lines of sharing info about an ongoing mass disabling event.

Here I cover some of covid’s effects, the Semmelweis Reflex, and how to start caring.

28.06.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

If me sharing studies on the dangers of covid scares you bc you’ve been ignoring it for years… is that fearmongering?

Or are you just going thru a personal reckoning and trying to make it my problem?

I’m sharing info that our leaders should be sharing. Take it up with them.

28.06.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank - Nature After infection with SARS-CoV-2, individuals show a greater reduction in grey matter thickness and tissue contrast in the orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus; greater changes in m...

Nature, 2022

idp.nature.com/transit?redi...

27.06.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Covid ages the brain 10 times faster than natural aging.

That’s per infection btw.

It affects everything from spatial awareness to problem solving.

We’re experiencing continuous neurological damage on a global scale.

It’s no wonder people are using GenAI to think for them.

27.06.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Today’s episode is called Buttheads, Broken chair, Bee sting

26.06.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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pot8um for the unapologetic, the neurodivergent, the artistic, the immunocompromised, the human.

Above item is from the KASSANDRA collection

Over 40 collections designed by me

pot8um.com πŸ₯”

26.06.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Me, pointing to my deep maroon shirt depicting Trojan priestess Cassandra, who has windswept red hair and a frantic look. Text surrounding her reads WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE

Me, pointing to my deep maroon shirt depicting Trojan priestess Cassandra, who has windswept red hair and a frantic look. Text surrounding her reads WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE

Well shit. My recliner just broke.

That leaves us with two broken recliners. Time for a reclining loveseat!

Would you like to buy some merch to help us out? All proceeds will go toward a loveseat for our new home πŸ›‹οΈ

🧡

26.06.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much 🫢🧑

26.06.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A neon sign that says WE CAN DO HARD THINGS

Each letter is a different color

W - red
E - pink
[next line]
C - yellow
A - teal
N - pink
D - teal
O - red
[next line]
H - pink
A - red
R - yellow
D - pink
[next line]
T - yellow
H - teal
I - purple
N - pink
G - yellow
S - red

A neon sign that says WE CAN DO HARD THINGS Each letter is a different color W - red E - pink [next line] C - yellow A - teal N - pink D - teal O - red [next line] H - pink A - red R - yellow D - pink [next line] T - yellow H - teal I - purple N - pink G - yellow S - red

I ordered this for our future home before we’d begun any viewings.

I finally hung it up this week.

PJ and I said this thru the winter to help each other stay strong. I get emotional when I look at it. It represents all we’ve overcome.

Shining bright in my new office.

26.06.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently if enough people ignore an ongoing pandemic, that’s what makes it endemic now

Words used to mean things

23.06.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you aren’t masking and pushing for disability rights you aren’t actually as progressive as you claim to be.

Eugenics comes from all sides.

Mask. Up. Now.

20.06.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Despite their so-called progressiveness and inclusion, most leftists don’t care about disabled people.

20.06.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6
My corner office. A pink L-desk with a white PC, a black rolling office chair with a cat’s face and cat ears and a fuzzy Twitch logo pillow, an orange lamp with five large bulbs, and a floral rug with black and white checkered borders.

My corner office. A pink L-desk with a white PC, a black rolling office chair with a cat’s face and cat ears and a fuzzy Twitch logo pillow, an orange lamp with five large bulbs, and a floral rug with black and white checkered borders.

I finally have my own little corner office 😭😭😭

19.06.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for missing my point, random white dude

17.06.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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