José Pablo Iriarte
@labyrinthrat.bsky.social
Spec fic author and middle grade novelist. Cuban-American ceterosexual enby. They/them.
Debut MG novel BENNY RAMÍREZ AND THE NEARLY DEPARTED is a Norton, BSFA, Ignyte, and Florida SSYRA finalist!!!
https://linktr.ee/labyrinthrat
Debut MG novel BENNY RAMÍREZ AND THE NEARLY DEPARTED is a Norton, BSFA, Ignyte, and Florida SSYRA finalist!!!
https://linktr.ee/labyrinthrat
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Just a reminder, if you've got young-at-heart readers in your life who love funny ghost stories. 😊
"The Millay Illusion," by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social.
This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Millay Illusion - Uncanny Magazine
For the whole of the year that I now look back on as the best of my life, Susanna Miller’s act began twenty-three minutes after mine ended. I went first, to warm up the crowd, followed by the dog trai...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"The Millay Illusion," by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social.
This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
This tells you how often I go see a movie in a theater: I just got listings for something called "D-Box"? Is this for real? What in the Hunger Games is this??
Has anybody ever seen a movie this way? Is this cool, a ripoff, or excessively jerky?
Has anybody ever seen a movie this way? Is this cool, a ripoff, or excessively jerky?
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This tells you how often I go see a movie in a theater: I just got listings for something called "D-Box"? Is this for real? What in the Hunger Games is this??
Has anybody ever seen a movie this way? Is this cool, a ripoff, or excessively jerky?
Has anybody ever seen a movie this way? Is this cool, a ripoff, or excessively jerky?
I love it when I'm looking for a branch of a business near me, and I tell their website where I'm located, but they're like, no, no, we know where you are, and give me all the locations in Illinois.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I love it when I'm looking for a branch of a business near me, and I tell their website where I'm located, but they're like, no, no, we know where you are, and give me all the locations in Illinois.
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Can I slip mine in before the deadlines?
I'm gonna do an eligibility post because I don't expect any other publications this year.
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
The Flaming Embusen - Uncanny Magazine
Jero cleared his throat before he continued speaking into the phone. “Up to this moment it could not positively have been asserted that the man, in spite of his tantalizing declaration, was really in ...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can I slip mine in before the deadlines?
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My Persephone story is out today! Check out Flower and Root at @morningtransport.bsky.social !
The Sunday Morning Transport descends again today with a story from J.R. Dawson (@jrdawson.bsky.social) about how the public narrative can miss the real truth. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole story!
Flower and Root
J.R. Dawson brings us this week a bouquet of mythical proportions.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My Persephone story is out today! Check out Flower and Root at @morningtransport.bsky.social !
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latest sham investigation just dropped
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
latest sham investigation just dropped
My love language is sitting next to you in bed, texting you memes.
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My love language is sitting next to you in bed, texting you memes.
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I think by now we have to accept the fact that Waldo is probably dead.
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I think by now we have to accept the fact that Waldo is probably dead.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Dear my tenth grade biology teacher: Maybe you were right, and maybe I wasn't working up to my potential. But you know what? I think YOU WERE.
-o-
Took me forty years to come up with that response, but it's satisfying nonetheless.
-o-
Took me forty years to come up with that response, but it's satisfying nonetheless.
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Dear my tenth grade biology teacher: Maybe you were right, and maybe I wasn't working up to my potential. But you know what? I think YOU WERE.
-o-
Took me forty years to come up with that response, but it's satisfying nonetheless.
-o-
Took me forty years to come up with that response, but it's satisfying nonetheless.
not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet not gonna subskeet
I'm a slower reader than most of my reader friends, but I've been intrigued to note that when I pull up a story in an online venue and switch into my browser's Reader View, which gives an estimate of how long it will take to read, I am faster than whatever they are basing that estimate on.
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm a slower reader than most of my reader friends, but I've been intrigued to note that when I pull up a story in an online venue and switch into my browser's Reader View, which gives an estimate of how long it will take to read, I am faster than whatever they are basing that estimate on.
"Six People To Revise You," by @jrdawson.bsky.social: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...
Sometimes it feels like Dawson is writing specifically what I need to read. But maybe you do too.
#labyrinthratreads2025
Sometimes it feels like Dawson is writing specifically what I need to read. But maybe you do too.
#labyrinthratreads2025
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Six People To Revise You," by @jrdawson.bsky.social: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...
Sometimes it feels like Dawson is writing specifically what I need to read. But maybe you do too.
#labyrinthratreads2025
Sometimes it feels like Dawson is writing specifically what I need to read. But maybe you do too.
#labyrinthratreads2025
It occurs to me that what we grew up thinking were cautionary tales about the hubris of science were actually cautionary tales about the hubris of techbros and their corporations.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It occurs to me that what we grew up thinking were cautionary tales about the hubris of science were actually cautionary tales about the hubris of techbros and their corporations.
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decades of writing near future dystopias and yet so few "some rich dipshits will be stupid enough to read our near future dystopias and try to make them happen" stories
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
decades of writing near future dystopias and yet so few "some rich dipshits will be stupid enough to read our near future dystopias and try to make them happen" stories
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November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Am I . . . am I supposed to cut this part out?
I'm not sure my ordinary scissors will do.
I'm not sure my ordinary scissors will do.
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Am I . . . am I supposed to cut this part out?
I'm not sure my ordinary scissors will do.
I'm not sure my ordinary scissors will do.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
I tend to avoid doctors for this reason. Well, mostly this reason.
I had a point where walking left me in enormous pain. I went to one doctor whose main answer was "stop being fat" and just...didn't ask anyone else about it for a long time.
I tried so many things.
I tried so many things.
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I tend to avoid doctors for this reason. Well, mostly this reason.
I don't know what to make of this Mamdani-Trump visit, and I honestly don't believe you do either.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I don't know what to make of this Mamdani-Trump visit, and I honestly don't believe you do either.
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
Come out Virginia
don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Only the good die young
don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Only the good die young
Jealousy
Turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside
Turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Come out Virginia
don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Only the good die young
don't let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Only the good die young
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Jealousy
Turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside
Turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Jealousy
Turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside
Turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside