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Kaleb Medel

@blindedbypixels.bsky.social
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Latino techie with Level 1 Autism living in Austin (for now). Vaguely leftist. Studying Japanese. Aspiring writer and intellectual. Lover of all things related to history, politics, video games, and sci-fi. Partnered with kids (i.e. four cats and a bunny).

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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Maybe this experience is unique to me, or maybe it's because I was diagnosed so late, but... I feel like attempting to communicate with other Autistics is a massivevcrapshoot. We may be able to communicate more easily than if I was speaking to an allistic. But it may also be way harder.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The thing that bothers me most about talking with allistic people is that they all bring their own set of connotations to every word, every phrase, every idea you offer, such that they push their own self-constructed ideas and meanings on your words, rather than just listen to your ACTUAL words.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
it would mean the world if you watched & shared the video for “horseglue,” which is a treatise on the media’s complicity in genocide, authoritarianism and most importantly… climate change. video directed by me and john lee, edited by @jdrllc.bsky.social.
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Ekko Astral - "horseglue" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Ekko Astral
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Shaka when the conkers unboxed
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2025
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Typical AuDHD experience: - Sit down at desk - Remember I left headphones in living room - Leave to get them - Lose train of thought halfway there - Grab sunglasses from entryway instead - Get back to desk - Sit down, wearing sunglasses "What the fuck was I doing"
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Fornand is the clan's Green Speaker, who oversees the Orchard onboard the clan's ark (basically a village in the form of a spaceship). Botany is his primary special interest, such that he rarely leaves it for purposes of comfort.
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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Tell me about your neurodivergent characters! What are they like? What do they mean to you? #WritingPrompt
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
More people need to be awakened to the fact that Mr. Juicy in San Antonio is the best burger place in the entire state, and it's not even close.
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Tribute Games @tributegames.com · 06/06/2025
Join Scott Pilgrim & Ramona Flowers in a new brawling adventure across space, time & Toronto! 🌀🛹 🎮 7 playable characters 👾 4-player co-op 📝 Story by @bryanleeomalley ❌ No vegan powers (sorry, Todd) Scott Pilgrim EX hits PC & consoles in 2026! 🎉#ScottPilgrimEX
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 31/05/2025
i really, really need people to understand that they *didn't* vote for this, no matter how much you insist they did. insisting "they voted for this" elides the information environment that led them to vote the way they did in the first place, the thing that actually needs fixing.
"no one voted to deport moms" being quote skeeted with "yes you did vote to deport moms"
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15/05/2025
Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I used to think that I had an attraction to strong-willed, outspoken women, and I think that is true to some extent. ...But now I just think all my previous partners were secretly autistic. My current partner is just lucky enough to have gotten an actual diagnosis.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Self-identifying as a centrist is perhaps the most cynical and amoral political identity you can have because you're just openly admitting your beliefs aren't really beliefs they're just strategic positions that only exist relative to others in the room you happen to be in
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
As someone recently diagnosed as autistic, but who has faced massive social challenges my entire life, you know what drew the most scorn from allistic peers when I was growing up? Outperforming them academically. Their inability to reconcile my being a 'weirdo' with my actual skill infuriated them.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 04/05/2025
god @tommchenry.bsky.social's stuff hits so hard
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I also think, once you have picked up the pieces, that now is the absolute best time to just follow your fucking dreams
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This isn't a novel idea, but it cannot be stated enough that our country has somehow reached a place where nearly all leadership - government, industry, corporate - are just total incompetent losers who don't understand anything at all, let alone their own jobs. Has it always been like this?
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
All of the entertainment or entertainment-adjacent industries that were so important to me during my lonely, nerdy childhood are just completely evaporating or imploding. I can't man. I just can't.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Reminder that fascism is a loser ideology.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Something I've spent a lot of time wondering about lately, as an autistic person: What is it about human intelligence that makes us so inherently hostile towards other forms of equal intelligence?
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I'm mot going to engage with the RFK Jr. speech from earlier this week, since I fundamently disagree with every aspect of its framing and don't think it's worth entertaining. What I will say, is - at this point, Autistic people have far more to offer America than America has to offer us.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
For the most of US history, the vast majority of people have actually HATED police. It's only in the modern era that a large portion of the population have been duped into supporting them. Food for thought.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
He's also fucking autistic!!
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rstevens 👻💨 @rstevens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
you know who made billions of dollars off your childhood and didn’t turn out to be a piece of shit? george lucas, creator of star wars the phantom menace
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Where do I petition RFK Jr. to give back my 18 years' worth of taxes? Being autistic, It's news to me that apparently I'm not supposed to be paying them!
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
My partner and I rewatched the whole series around New Years' (our first together). While the prequels have some serious script and acting issues, I can't argue they aren't one person's wholly realized artistic vision, and there's still something fun about that.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Picked this up for research on a personal project (novel) I'm working on right now. #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #sff #scifi
A picture of the philosophy textbook "American Indian Thought" edited by Anne Waters, with a sharpie resting on the cover.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In the interests of Autism Awareness Month, I figured this was a good time to explain my own journey. Especially because there are probably a number of late diagnosed people who can relate to the experiences I've had.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
happy confederate surrender day to all
a cartoon of a union army soldier drinking a water machine jug of rebel tears, against a painting of union army troops marching past a burning atlanta
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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Reminder: if you're talking about autism without making reference to stress or anxiety, then you're missing out on a fundamental issue for many autistic people. Anxiety is the (almost inevitable) result of being autistic in a world that doesn't understand, accommodate, or accept neurodivergence.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
check this shit out motherfucker (i impose tariffs on every country in the world and tank the economy, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do)
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startmenu @startmenu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Metaphor ReFantazio is a once-in-a-generation RPG. Its stunning world and smart combat system act as the backbone for its deeply political story filled with excellent characters. @basicallilexi.bsky.social reviews. www.startmenu.co.uk/home/review-...
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Review | Metaphor: ReFantazio - A Manifesto For A Hopeful Future — sonicmenu
Metaphor ReFantazio is a once in a generation RPG. It’s stunning world and smart combat system act as the backbone for its deeply political story filled with excellent characters. Lex Luddy reviews.
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selfcaregamer @selfcaregamer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
we absolutely need autism acceptance AND awareness. I just could really do without the puzzle pieces. I'm no puzzle to be solved, I'm just autistic
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2025
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/04/2025
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/03/2025
the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As an autistic leftist (who normally loves studying chaotic periods of history/politics like this) who is living in Austin with my autistic partner, I'm not even really sure what to do at this point. Do I try to take a stand in Texas? Are we better off trying to move to another country altogether?
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It kinda seems like the individualized pressures of a late-capitalist system have become so intense that people are more worried about protecting their own interests than defending the integrity of our system or constitution. Maybe it was always going to end this way....
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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
the world we've built has no idea what to do with genuinely smart people
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Am I curious about my exact genetic makeup (esp. how much is indigenous Mexican? Absolutely Would I ever trust a tech company with that information? Absolutely not.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I think the thing I've come to appreciate the most since being diagnosed with ASD - and getting to know the ND community here on bsky - is how diverse autistic people really are. Not that I expected everyone to be the same, but like, we're definitely all still individuals with our own perspectives.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Throwing this out for #booksky - can anybody out there recommend good, faithful, analytical books exploring philosophies of indigenous peoples (especially from the Americas)? It's for a thing I'm working on.
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
PSA: Art and the imagination are important towards ideating an optimistic future! I want to see what people are making!
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Kaleb Medel @blindedbypixels.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I don't know if all other autistic people experience this, but for me, one of my biggest struggles is that any significant change in my body chemistry spikes my anxiety like crazy. A hair too much caffeine in the morning? Straight to anxiety jail.
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