José Pablo Iriarte

José Pablo Iriarte

@labyrinthrat.bsky.social

Spec fic author and award-nominated middle grade novelist. Cuban-American ceterosexual enby. They/them. https://linktr.ee/labyrinthrat

3,428 Followers 735 Following 4,002 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.

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8 hours ago

Loved this book!

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My car odometer, registering 88888 miles.

My car crossed a milestone on π day. Bit of a nerdy conjunction.

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1 day ago

There's a Trans Rights Readathon??

Well, I'm pretty privileged and don't need to make everything about me, but, uh, if you just happen to be looking for a nonbinary author of middle grade novels, I do just happen to fit that bill!

It often feels like people forget that about me.

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It’s too on the nose that they’re using Palantir for their his sort of evil.

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2 days ago

Damn, missed my chance to find out in 22.

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(Miami Vice was filmed in Miami, but they'd claim to be in parts of South Florida they *clearly* were not in.)

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I used to catch this kind of goof in Miami Vice all the time. It's a little surprising that some things never change.

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L's watching CSI: Miami, and in the closing shot, a couple of detectives are at the beach, watching the sunset over the water.

In Miami.

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If you've ever wondered how Hitler could have invaded Russia, now you know.

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Republicans are the party of Christian values. Republicans are the party of people who value our supposed founding principals, like democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

More lies that need to be countered when we see them.

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Republicans are good at war. Republicans are good with the economy. DEI gives opportunities to less competent and qualified candidates.

All 100% false, but hardly pushed back against in mainstream discourse.

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Because one of the most frustrating things to me is how we let the right brand themselves in ways that are inconsistent with reality, with the help of the press and with the help of even privileged liberals:

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It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.

This is not a joke.

We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

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Without losing sight of the fact that this is an illegal war, it really needs to be emphasized (particularly when looking at multiple disasters now) that it comes only after hegseth and trump spent the better part of a year weakening us militarily due to their aversion to diversity.

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3 days ago

* all for

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Yep! I'd be off for a writing retreat there. Just not for convincing myself I could weather a nuclear war and be okay.

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(I don't judge anybody who decides to put it to ironic use, however.)

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Ah, this one.

I low key despise the people who built stuff like this. Imagine thinking that you will ride out the end of the world *in luxury*. Imagine thinking that's even *possible*. Imagine being that stupid.

Don't imagine it for too long, though. Just in case it's contagious.

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3 days ago

O_O

I did not know those were a thing!

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OMG I am 100% adopting this.

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4 days ago

💜💜💜

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News - No overdiagnosis of ADHD, say experts - University of Nottingham Experts are warning that far from being over diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment.

Interesting to see that a review with 32 experts published in British Journal of Psychiatry last week found no evidence that ADHD is being overdiagnosed

www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/no-over...

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My FIREFLY books just got banned in Alberta Yesterday the CBC reported that school divisions in Alberta, Canada, just banned 160 books, including two volumes of the FIREFLY series I wrote for BOOM. Here's a quote from Alberta Education Minister...

some news

gregpak.com/my-firefly-b...

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1 week ago
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Orbit Decay by Bella Chacha Orbit Decay by Bella Chacha

Starting a list of MOSTLY random speculative poems from 2025, partly for Hugo Award consideration, mostly because we could all use a touch of beauty:

Bella Chacha's "Orbit Decay," a poem that might be about a relationship, or might be about a star, or both:

www.heartlines-spec.com/orbit-decay-...

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6 days ago

The wealthy farmers that live in the rural part of the White MAGA slum where I reside, have no problem with public handouts for maintaining a county blacktop stretching to their palatial house/ machine shed. If some black kid gets a scholarship to a public college, that’s considered DEI welfare.

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I knew I felt a little off

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3 weeks ago

you have to read to write. a lot. Like you have to read way more than you write for your writing to be worth anything. there are zero exceptions to this

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Describe your plot in five words or fewer - if you dare.

Tween enby challenges temporal knights.

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How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …

“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”

washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

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