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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 19

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

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 19

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!

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 17

Pictured shirt from the MIND MELT collection

Over 40 designs by me at pot8um.com 🥔

pot8um

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

pot8um.com

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 17

Reminder!

Am cute and design cute shirts!

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

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

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

Bilal Mahmood @bilalmahmood.bsky.social · Jul 16

I had the profound privilege of commending Alice Wong, a visionary leader, cultural organizer, and one of the most powerful voices in the disability justice movement.

Through her leadership, writing, & activism she has empowered the voices of individuals with disabilities throughout the nation.

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Yvie Garcia @pazuza.bsky.social · Jul 16

Firing us from jobs for requesting disability accomodations lol 🫠

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 16

When I say the left has an ableism problem, it’s because it’s true.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 15

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?

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 13

After a long time of struggling without my full dose of ADHD meds… I GOT THEM BACK TODAY 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

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

today is a GOOD DAY

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 13

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 🫵

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

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 1

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.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 1

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!

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 30

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?

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 30

History only rhymes because we refuse to learn from it.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 28

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.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 28

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.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 27

Nature, 2022

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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...

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

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