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@pumpkinstars.bsky.social
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hi im pumpkin. she/her. 🧠🌶️. Asexual. Anti-racist. I like gardens and colors. ME/CFS, hEDS, MCAS, POTS, Fibro. bed tethered. i love people and also people scare me. 🇺🇸

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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 10h
birds 🐦‍⬛ 🎶🐦‍⬛
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 11h
waking up sucks oh jeez waking up sucks so bad haha i am still fixing the things and they will get better but oh god waking up sucks
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i am wind down for sleep now but i wanted to do one important share i have both my hair ties halloween now! for a while it was just 1 purple one which, i counted as halloween. but i use 2 scrunchies, half up and at the base. now i have 2 halloween color! matching and halloween fuzzy socks!!
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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
please? if i can just have some food surety for tonight & tomorrow morning, i can rest and hopefully have enough strength to clean and get settled in my room tomorrow
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Ommer Draven ($-143 net today)⚒️🏳‍⚧♿ @ommerdraven.unitedsyncretic.org · 03/10/2026
Getting desperate fighting the bugs as we get closer to our departure date. Bought some plastic sheeting and PPE to line the inside of the tent separating the infested blankets on the mesh roof from the interior. Three days of rain so I can't disassemble the tarps to remove them now. 🙏⚒️💕💸🏳‍⚧♿💜
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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
please?
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I realized I had a small scratch on my thumb and my first thought was “YES I can use a band aid!!” because I got a ton of cute band aids a couple years ago when I was getting regular peripheral IVs at home, but then I got my central line and stopped needing them. I picked “space” ☺️
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I would like to take a bath, and I think if I had a bit of support I would be able to. Like someone who can make sure the floor of the tub doesn’t have any slippy soap on it or residue. really I think that’s it haha. If I had that I think I could do it.
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been able to play some Hearthstone again lately 🥰 Not a lot and not well. but I can!! and that is really nice. It’s a digital card game like magic the gathering, with characters from World of Warcraft. I used to be able to hit Legend. Now I lose most of the games haha but it’s still fun!
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They have a Halloween Tarot deck! very on theme for October 🖤🧡🖤 5$ or more! if you can donate more please do! you can help someone AND get a tarot reading! They have used their art to help MA efforts like Bex, and I appreciate their art activism 💛💫 ko-fi.com/s/3257772b2f
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1 Card Tarot Reading 🎴 - ovaettr AKA Orion Fern's Ko-fi Shop
You will be given a single card reading from one of my tarot decks. The write-up will be about one paragraph and I will answer any questions you have ...
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HELP BEX! bit.ly/HelpBex @ovaettr.gay · 02/10/2026
I have to save up 100 to pay to my credit card company on October 7th so i have about 5 days to make 100 through my kofi shop is the quickest way to support my work. Thank you for your help #HelpSky #SupportArtists Zines, comics (digital), tarot readings, I'm almost done with my queue too
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Visit ovaettr AKA Orion Fern's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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HELP BEX! bit.ly/HelpBex @ovaettr.gay · 02/10/2026
Additionally Bex needs continued help and $4,200 would meet their goals to get breathing room for another month while they recover from cancer and get chemotherapy soon bsky.app/profile/ovae...
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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
update: $50/$1221 thank you ❤️🌸 please circulate ‼️
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Wylder 🏳️‍⚧️♿ $450/$2300 @wylder.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026
4 Fundraisers, 1 Goal - SURVIVING FASCISM! My Partner & I, A Black Grandma, A Disabled DV Survivor, & A Nearly Housed Friend! (Needs 1k) Throw a quote on any post in this thread to boost outside my circle please! We also do fund splits! "Split" in Notes linktr.ee/wylder (all links)
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🏳️‍🌈43 🏳️‍⚧️He/They ♿Disabled ♾️AuDHD 🖖Geek 💜Surviving on kind donations🙏
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Mair Dundon @quietaction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yea! The quest for Falco’s rent is fully afoot. Thank you for all the support and care. Literally cannot happen without you all 💕🙏🏻🐳🍄🚣🏻 185/700 before Sunday 11 am Pacific All sharing and caring appreciated paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have met some amazing wonderful pharmacists, and all of them are over worked and definitely under paid. They are out there helping people while the companies under support them and under staff the pharmacies, and they help disabled people get relief and treatments 💛 they do so much
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Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tinu had CANCER and was forced to dedicate so much time at the end of her life to crowd funding her hospital bills & chemotherapy. We are doing the SAME to Bex. Tinu’s life was devalued because she was Black & disabled. Don’t do the same to Bex. Bex deserves to live, to rest, to RECOVER.
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Mike Mort @mikeemort91.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first theme this year is #FaerieRealm! #Criptober #CriptoberWeekOne #OctoberArtChallenge #HalloweenArt
Grassy field with a mushroom fairy circle in the background.  Text reads "Fairy Realm" in fantasy script.
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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
miss bea has already anticipated that i’d need help with the monthly minimum for the hospital currently at $0/$1221 for that please circulate this and keep in mind that small amounts add up if this can reach more contributors ❤️ paypal.me/thelongestroad
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Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BEX’s BILLS are OVERDUE!! Rebeka is really struggling to keep up with their medical bills & living costs. They are very far behind with hospital bills, oncology bills & more. Their priority rn is to get the minimum of $1221 paid to the hospital (they owe over $100K in total). bit.ly/HelpBex
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ChronicLoaf @chronicloaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#OctoberArtPrompt #OctoberArtChallenge #Halloween #spookyseason #ChronicLoaf #disability #longcovid #autism #ADHD #Deaf #spoonies #Blind #covidconcious #DisabilityCommunity
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
in a stroke of luck possibly because the universe gave me many bad starts to my yesterday the one medicine i really really needed is available at the pharmacy the same day it was put in and i am so glad for that oh thank goodness
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Once again, your periodic reminder that Benjanun Sriduangkaew / Requires Hate / Winterfox is not a safe person to confide in and is targeting young and inexperienced trans writers who may not be aware of their history of extremely toxic behaviour. It is not safe to interact with this person.
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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Corporate Adventures Coworker Manager: Hey (Pumpkin) and other coworker, could one of you answer the email in the shared inbox? Let me know if you need answers. Me: …the one asking which charge code to use? Which I do not know about bc I am not finance? CM: …I don’t know either. I will confirm.
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tired and low words also, hot. overheat is a concern. sometimes. but i will be ok. the work talk i give was a lot out of me. concentration and being focused to say the right thjngs yes yes. plus other things. i need to take out the trash but too tired
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was in a book club and we read “me before you” about the cute girl caretaker of the rich neck down paralyzed man and I called out a lot of the ableism. i didn’t know all the terms for why it was wrong but i knew it was wrong. this was before i knew I was disabled and got worse disabled. proud!
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Tired 🌈🏴‍☠️✨🔇♿🇵🇸 @flintsponytail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if anyone could help me out with buying a new box of facemasks so I can at least try to avoid the worst of it please, please let me know. I'm so desperate. I can't leave due to my health and nowhere else to go.
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i came across a pinterest thing about an anime show and realized I stopped watching it randomly the episode ended with the main character dying really really suddenly At the time it was the last episode available and I was like “huh. that’s a weird way to end a show.” 🫣 apparently it continued
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i use the scary celebrex bc period cramps suck and it’s ok occasionally. 2x a day every day is what is giving my mouth and teeth problems. gotta balance relief enough to function with the side effect risks of all my meds anyways. and i need to work one more day before the weekend crash
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2.8 years ago I only needed 1L of saline on a cool day. I needed more saline over time as I declined. And also yeah, I needed more saline when the temperature was high haha. I like being able to see these kinds of things. @guavahealth.bsky.social is really cool, even if my illness is not.
Data of my total number of IV liters intake (y axis) plotted over temperature (X axis). Data from January 2024 to September 24 2026. Summary at the top, max temperature less than or equal to 81.9 F on 241 days, IV saline median value 2. Max temperature over 81.9 F on 159 days, median IV saline 3. The graph shows 5 dotted lines for the saline on Y axis. The higher the temp on X axis, the more saline. same as previous graph, but a data point for 1 liter of saline a day is highlighted to show it is from January 21, 2024 max temp 61 F
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
haha. My guava app shows my decline in various data. I remember when I was “new” to being this sick and then new to different tracking methods. exploring options. but now I have almost 3 years of data, and I can see my decline. Like needing 1L of IV a day back then to 3L a day now. #NEISvoid
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Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bex is very far from 100% Can we get them to 70% today? They also owe the hospital the monthly minimum of ~$1200 (DUE TODAY!) Please circulate & contribute so they can catch up & get the treatment they need! They have stage 3 cancer and doing everything they can to stay alive.
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I could have done better in my speech today, now that it’s over and the excitement is past sometimes I am thinking “oh no i forgot to say X” but really, I am just so glad I could do it at all, and get through all the points!! 30 minutes of continuous talking!! I did that, me!! I did a big share!!
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melody | Stenography VTuber @melodywisp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
halloween yay! 🥰
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
my roomie is so fast she’s like a super human to me. I hear the shower on and then the hair dryer and then she’s out the door so fast it is just so fast haha and she does this like every single day?? super human strength, stamina, and speed.
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
one of my bosses grew up in poverty i knew there was a reason why I liked them so much haha. they get it. (I have multiple people I consider a boss of mine at work bc I “report” to multiple people? i have to do what everyone says. yeah.)
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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please? i still need $15 🙏🏽 i could also use a little for painkillers + food and then i also need to see my doctor tomorrow (need a ride please) $80 or so would cover it 🙏🏽
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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the rest is due next week, please please contribute if you can and share so it can reach others
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ChronicLoaf @chronicloaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is the 1st day of our October Art Prompt and month long Disability Community #lHalloween festival!🎊 Hop into the #ChronicLoaf stream to enjoy the #FaerieRealm theme with us this week! mzelo.com/app/rooms/ch... #longcovid #chronicillness #OctoberArtChallenge #HalloweenArt
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
aww shiz I have to give the check for rent to the mailbox but yay my last time struggling bc @ommerdraven.unitedsyncretic.org can do it next month if I feel icky! yay helping each other
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i did a talk today to some people and then i had another meeting later and I had to tell them i used up all my words already at my talk so I cannot anymore haha luckily the meeting leader is cool and gets it and knows me. yay. so I am contribute in the chat i am tired yes yes
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anxious coworker / current work bestie she is so cute, she attended my talk about accessibility, AND she made her dad watch it too haha!! His response was “I hope (your team) keeps you” because we are so awesome. the talk went well!! but I was a bit breathless a few times. It was a rough start
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
jitters pre talk jitters it’s happening eeee
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have to give a talk soon and my internet is spotty , my coworkers aren’t responding, and the presentation is wrong but also locked so i can’t change it to fix it
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the document won’t let me make updates and they changed a ton of stuff i don’t agree with. idk if i can present this. idk if any of them will see this in time.
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
haha I grabbed my supplement container and one of the boxes opened and fell out. which is known to happen and i need a new one but when it did i was like “it really is just one of those days isn’t it”
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
oh hello, period i should not be getting. why?? why today lol why. I also woke up with a headache and cramping shoulder. this is the one day I need to have it together to give a speech to my coworkers about accessibility ughhhh
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pumpkin @pumpkinstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
wake up the day of my talk at work and the internet is broken ☹️
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