José Pablo Iriarte

Just a reminder, if you've got young-at-heart readers in your life who love funny ghost stories. 😊

Here's a direct link to House Dem's Judiciary Cmte report. The executive summary begins: "A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s." democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I should post something on Insta about my schedule for #FAME (doubt highly that's a working hashtag here, but w/e) but then I'd need to find some snazzy background images, type my text into a separate app, edit in images of my book covers...and I'm just so tired. And this is why I hate Instagram.

We seem to like redemption arcs where bad people don't bother to acknowledge the bad things they did, let alone make restitution, but instead just say, "That was a long time ago, I want to be part of the group now," and we go, "Well get in here, ya big galoot" and give then a hug and forgive all.

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The midterms will decide who is running election mechanics in 2028, the next presidential cycle. Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, and Ohio are just some of the states with open contests for secretary of state.

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

chat is this bad?

Ugh.

While I'm here, a small reminder that I have a new novella at Clarkesworld this month, one I'm very proud of. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

tfw you're writing at the coffee shop and notice the person at the next table staring at your screen

cool, cool

I don't understand why every time James Talarico texts me, it's from a different number. Is he . . . on the run? Are these burner phones? ARE YOU OKAY JAMES

I even made a little video. Happy almost Halloween! aletheakontis.com/bibliography... #Halloween #BookSky #Witchsky

I'm so glad I still have a functional copy of Write Or Die. It's such a load bearing little part of my productivity.

Thank you NYT readers for supporting this work. Please read it. And share it with your own social media posts. Accountability matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

. . . . Okay, but how? How can any republican run on this? Against a democrat? They have had the power to do something about this and have chosen not to. (If an answer's in the article, I don't know, because it's behind a subscription wall.)

Good morning from American politics wapo.st/4ieRiLA

This won’t be reported widely, but Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a second time. Still nobody has been held accountable for this man’s death.

REMINDER you need to spread the word so that a SHIMMER BADGER and BELOVED EDITOR can get real groceries, maybe including some nice roots or grubs, wait, I'm being handed a note www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

Protect girls sports: At least one trans kid per team or automatic disqualification. Let's move that overton window baby.

I'm at a writers conference, but I took an hour or so break from programming to work on the WIP and had a really productive little sprint that I'm still jazzed about. Over 800 words!

For some reason my reskeet from this morning seems to have disappeared?

Another thing about That Ad is that she says it’s hard for a mother to say this about her own daughter, which I mean, no it’s not? If you’re an awful mother who also hasn’t spoken to her in almost 5 decades then no, it’s very easy to say anything like that for you, about someone who is a stranger

this is either a - fraud, just fraud, they will spend 50mill of 1.2bn on "dog research" and pocket the rest b - incredibly misguided 'genetic' research based on long discredited alpha behavioral science to make like a super asshole dog c - animal abuse d - feeding dogs to the army one at at time

And so begins the A Scout is Loyal media blitz! will-ludwigsen.com/2026/10/22/w...

It was the Dunning of tymes, it was the Kruger of tymes.

When was the last time you heard somebody mention Godwin's Law?

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

Friction is so important to creative work that people *add* friction to allow themselves to do it. Just one example: meter, in poetry. You create a framework that restricts you, that limits you, in order to give your thoughts a scaffold within which to build.

Doing something I REALLY don't have time to be doing right now because I know that right now I remember this task, and if I don't do it right now I 1000% will forget all about it until it's late.

:-/ I think these questions I just got for an upcoming panel are LLM generated.

Today is International Pronouns Day. Using someone's correct pronouns is an important part of respecting their identity and helping everyone feel included. At NION, we believe in respecting and celebrating people's individual identities, and treating others as we would wish to be treated 🩷

omg omg omg burn it all down

O_O

Looks like I'm passing out quite early tonight. Okay, fine, body, but you better thank me for this tomorrow.

This is perhaps the most decadent cookie I've ever had. It collapses under its own decadence, to be entirely honest--the frosting makes the cereal go staleish. It will take me a while to finish this, because it's frankly overwhelming.