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Naomi Kritzer naomikritzer.bsky.social Profile picture
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Oct 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I heard a news story on NPR this afternoon about a coal mine owner who has spent years lobbying against restrictions on how much dust miners can inhale who has now developed black lung disease.
There are people who make bad decisions for themselves and pay the price. And it sucks and if it's someone I know and like, I'll be very sad.
But there are also people who make bad decisions for everyone around them. Who make it clear they don't give a flying fuck what happens to the people around them. And yes: we all have a different response to THOSE chickens coming home to roost.
Here's the story (from West Virginia Public Broadcasting) about the coal mine operator with black lung.

wvpublic.org/energy-environ…

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So I have mostly abandoned Twitter for the other site but this was too hilarious not to share. Microsoft Windows has added an uninvited "Copilot," which is the Bing AI, because of course it fucking has.
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FYI: my actual husband's name is Ed and he has very little in common with Shawn Otto, who is the husband of former Minnesota State Auditor Rebecca Otto. Naomi Kritzer is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger who lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota1. She is married to Shawn Otto, a science advocate, filmmaker, and author. They have two children and three cats. Naomi Kritzer is best known for her short story “Cat Pictures Please”, which won the Hugo Award and the Locus Award in 2016, and her novel Catfishing on CatNet, which won the Lodestar Award in 20201. She also blogs about local politics and elections on her website.
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Nov 21, 2023
My new book, Liberty's Daughter, comes out today!

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The cover of LIBERTY'S DAUGHTER by Naomi Kritzer.
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May 14, 2023
I got totally sidetracked from this, but I wanted to share my pictures from the Doors Open Minneapolis event this weekend. This is a thoroughly cool event that started in 2019, then went on hiatus for several years for obvious reasons, then returned this year.
There are tours of all sorts of odd things. I freaking love weird tours, so this is very much my kind of event. (As a kid, I got to tour a sandwich bread bakery in my town with my Girl Scout Troop and still have fond memories.)
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Apr 30, 2023
At the St. Paul Ward 3 convention. The first couple items on t...
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The first time I ever went to a convention (SD 62) I had a friend who could say helpful things like "just vote yes to this one."
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Apr 30, 2023
You know the thing that's the funniest about this guy's rant is that the "far-left progressive agenda" stuff Minnesota is doing are things that are overwhelmingly approved of by Americans.
Like 60% of Americans support legal recreational weed, 60% supported legal abortion BEFORE the SC tossed RvW (that number had gone up). I couldn't find numbers on a conversion therapy ban but 80% of Americans think conversion therapy is garbage.
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Apr 19, 2023
Given the many people in red states looking for a safe harbor as their homes become increasingly dangerous to them, I'm going to say that constitutional amendments guaranteeing a right to an abortion and equality for LGBTQ+ people would be a good first step to bringing people in.
A whole lot of additional investment in affordable housing would be a good one, and then maybe an "awwww our winters aren't THAT bad" PR campaign 😂
Back when we were losing a lot of tech workers to California I remember a billboard campaign that ran in Silicon Valley -- one had a picture of some northwoods scenery and said "Two hours of driving really ought to get you somewhere better than work," or something like that.
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