Kaleb Medel
@blindedbypixels.bsky.social
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).
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.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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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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.
video directed by me and john lee, edited by @jdrllc.bsky.social.
Ekko Astral - "horseglue" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Ekko Astral
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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.
video directed by me and john lee, edited by @jdrllc.bsky.social.
Shaka when the conkers unboxed
all my conkers, unboxed
Hi what
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Shaka when the conkers unboxed
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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...
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.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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...
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"
- 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"
July 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"
- 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"
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.
Tell me about your neurodivergent characters! What are they like? What do they mean to you? #WritingPrompt
July 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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Tell me about your neurodivergent characters! What are they like? What do they mean to you? #WritingPrompt
July 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Tell me about your neurodivergent characters! What are they like? What do they mean to you? #WritingPrompt
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.
Unironically we need more fights about generic food like yesterday’s cola situation which is why I’m going to start one right now:
Whataburger is Texas In-N-Out (a regional fav that has broken containment but is actually mids, and not even the loud kind of mids)
Whataburger is Texas In-N-Out (a regional fav that has broken containment but is actually mids, and not even the loud kind of mids)
July 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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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
🎮 7 playable characters
👾 4-player co-op
📝 Story by @bryanleeomalley
❌ No vegan powers (sorry, Todd)
Scott Pilgrim EX hits PC & consoles in 2026! 🎉#ScottPilgrimEX
June 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
🎮 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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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.
May 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
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Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”
May 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”
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.
...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.
May 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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.
...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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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
May 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
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.
Outperforming them academically. Their inability to reconcile my being a 'weirdo' with my actual skill infuriated them.
May 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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.
Outperforming them academically. Their inability to reconcile my being a 'weirdo' with my actual skill infuriated them.
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god @tommchenry.bsky.social's stuff hits so hard
May 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
god @tommchenry.bsky.social's stuff hits so hard
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I also think, once you have picked up the pieces, that now is the absolute best time to just follow your fucking dreams
May 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I also think, once you have picked up the pieces, that now is the absolute best time to just follow your fucking dreams
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?
Has it always been like this?
May 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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?
Has it always been like this?
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.
I can't man. I just can't.
May 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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.
I can't man. I just can't.
Reminder that fascism is a loser ideology.
that hitler was a fucking coward in the end is one of those details that his contemporary worshippers like to ignore
Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.
May 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reminder that fascism is a loser ideology.
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?
What is it about human intelligence that makes us so inherently hostile towards other forms of equal intelligence?
April 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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?
What is it about human intelligence that makes us so inherently hostile towards other forms of equal intelligence?
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.
What I will say, is - at this point, Autistic people have far more to offer America than America has to offer us.
April 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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.
What I will say, is - at this point, Autistic people have far more to offer America than America has to offer us.
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.
Food for thought.
April 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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.
Food for thought.
He's also fucking autistic!!
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
george lucas, creator of star wars the phantom menace
April 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
He's also fucking autistic!!
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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
george lucas, creator of star wars the phantom menace
April 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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
george lucas, creator of star wars the phantom menace