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pabloista.bsky.social
Pablo 🎧
@pabloista.bsky.social
5.7K followers 5.6K following 4.7K posts
I am different. That’s not less, just different. And that’s enough.” #Autistic Progressive, Pro-LGBTQ, working class, Blue Collar, NHS worker. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Trying to make sense of a world that never made sense of me.
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 8d
We’re in the far right’s crosshairs:
Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Women. Neurodivergents. Muslims. People of colour.

They’re not attacking one group, they’re testing how much hate the rest of us will tolerate. 1/3
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 5h
Now, as we head deeper into Angerland, it’s time for The Wall by Pink Floyd.
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 5h
Heading down to London on the train. Even with noise cancelling headphones, it’s way too busy to focus on an audiobook, so I’ve gone with my go to travel soundtrack: The Head on the Door by The Cure.
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 7h
Under @zackpolanski.bsky.social the Greens have found a more dynamic voice, one that talks about poverty, rent, the NHS, and the climate as class issues.

100,000 people joining a party that stands for hope, solidarity, and sanity in a chaotic political world?
That matters.
Something’s shifting 2/2
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 7h
People are looking for alternatives to the old establishment parties.

The Greens in England & Wales just passed 100,000 members for the first time, their biggest growth ever.
It’s not just a stat, it’s a sign of where people’s hope is moving. 1/2
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 16h
If testosterone’s dropping, maybe it’s not men who are broken.
Maybe it’s the world we’ve built around them. 6/6
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 16h
The “testosterone crisis” isn’t about soy lattes or feminism.
It’s about pollution, exhaustion, and overwork.
It’s about men’s bodies paying the price for an economic system that treats us all like machines. 5/6
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 16h
The right turns biology into ideology.
They say “men are losing their strength.”
What’s really being lost is health, stability, and community, things stripped from working people by decades of greed. 4/6
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 16h
You can’t lift your way out of environmental toxins.
You can’t “alpha male” your way past poverty wages or burnout.
This is a structural crisis, not a personal failure. 3/6
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 16h
Yes, studies show average testosterone has dropped over the past few decades.
But it’s not because men are “less manly.”
It’s because we’re sleeping less, eating worse, working longer, breathing polluted air, and living under constant pressure. 2/6
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 16h
You’ve probably seen it online: “Testosterone levels are falling. Men are getting weaker.”
The right loves this story, but here’s the truth: this isn’t about masculinity, it’s about health, stress, and capitalism. 1/6
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you 🙏🏻
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 1d
We kicked off the @scottishgreens.org election campaign for the West of Scotland today in Largs 💚

Want to help re-elect me and have @caramckeegreens.bsky.social join me in Parliament to fight for people and planet?

Join our movement today greens.scot/join
Fifteen Green activists with flags and posters in Largs
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 23h
New book to listen to, looking forward to this one.
@pierrenovellie.bsky.social very funny guy.
Autism and comedy… now that’s what I call a proper mashup. 🎧
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently, the only Nobel that isn’t scientific is the one that keeps rewarding experiments in hypocrisy. 2/2
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
Gonna hazard a guess here…
The people who win the Nobel Prizes for Science are probably actual scientists.
You can’t just say, “I believe in molecules,” and walk off with a medal.

But the Peace Prize?
Oh, that’s different.
Start a war, sell some weapons, shake a few hands, boom...peacemaker. 1/2
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
Unmasking isn’t about letting go of control, it’s about finding peace inside it.
And maybe the best thing I can teach her
is that we don’t have to fit anyone’s idea of “classic” anything
to be exactly who we are. 3/3
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
She’s learning what I only found out in my fifties:
that masking hides pain, not difference.
That it’s okay to stop performing for a world that never really understood you anyway.
She’s growing into herself while I’m learning to come back to mine. 2/3
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
My daughter’s started unmasking too.
At school she’s not masking like she used to.
At home she lets it all out, the noise, the frustration, the honesty.
We don’t know yet if she’s autistic, ADHD, or both.
But we see something familiar, something that feels like me. 1/3
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
Unmasking isn’t rebellion; it’s recovery.
It’s learning to stop translating yourself into a language that was never yours.
Some days it’s raw, some days it’s freeing.
But every day it’s honest, and that’s enough. 3/3
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
Now I don’t have the energy or the need.
I walk into crowded places and zone people out.
I don’t perform, I just exist.
It probably makes me seem more “autistic” on the outside, but it’s really the first time I’ve been me on the inside.
It’s peaceful, not careless. 2/3
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
For most of my life I walked into rooms wondering what people thought of me.
How I looked, how I sounded, whether I fitted in.
I’d scan faces, mirror their expressions, laugh when they laughed.
It wasn’t vanity, it was survival. That constant self monitoring was my mask. 1/3
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
You don’t defeat fascism by copying its language or pandering to its voters.
You defeat it by standing firm on truth, justice, and human dignity.
That’s not radical, that’s the bare minimum of being human.
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
You don’t reason with hate.
You don’t compromise with cruelty.
You face it, call it what it is, and refuse to move an inch.
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 1d
You beat fascism by standing up to it, not appeasing it.
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Pablo 🎧 @pabloista.bsky.social · 2d
You don’t lose your diagnosis when you say something people dislike.
You don’t gain it when you act “sweet” or “gentle.”
We’re not a stereotype.
We are human, and that’s what makes us real. 4/4
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