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Naomi Kritzer

@NaomiKritzer

4 Mar

I keep mentally writing AITA reddit posts on behalf of Harry and Meghan.

"My grandmother rules my entire family with an iron fist. I grew up that way so I was basically used to it -- until I married a wonderful woman and they were so nasty to her and suddenly I could see how awful they were. We moved 5,000 miles away to escape. AITA?"

"My family is trash-talking my wife to the press in a bid to keep me from talking about them publicly. WIBTA if I go ahead and do the interview I've got planned?"

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Naomi Kritzer

@NaomiKritzer

2 Mar

I wrote about some of Dr. Seuss's lesser-known books back in 2015, and if any of the people currently wringing their hands over Dr. Seuss being "cancelled" have ever read "Scrambled-Eggs Super" or "McElligot's Pool" I will EAT MY HAT.

bitterempire.com/not-dr-seuss-b…

I want to note for the record that it's also not "cancellation" when the people you've entrusted with your literary legacy think that it's in the interests of your literary legacy if some of the books you wrote are allowed to be forgotten.

It is, in fact, entirely normal for a famous and successful writer to have books that stay in print and books that do not. There's a lot of stuff that doesn't age well. Sometimes you can do revisions, sometimes you just let the book slide into obscurity.

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Naomi Kritzer

@NaomiKritzer

28 Feb

https://twitter.com/PhD_femme/status/1365899727720615936

I miss regretsy and cake wrecks and the idea that these sites would be internet 1.0 has turned me to dust where I sit

https://twitter.com/PhD_femme/status/1365899727720615936

USENET: internet beta release
Check it out, this website tells you whether their coffee pot is full or empty: 1.0

We're on like Internet 4.3 before we even get to LiveJournal.

It is genuinely weird to contemplate how long ago HamsterDance was.

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Naomi Kritzer

@NaomiKritzer

21 Feb

https://twitter.com/pamina_q/status/1296157886280859656

I was pondering Internet communities and how certain portions can get really toxic and weird and was thinking about mothering dot com. This thread talks about the straight line that led a depressing number of people from "natural parenting" to QAnon.

https://twitter.com/pamina_q/status/1296157886280859656

When I was a new mom, in 2000, there was a store in St. Paul that sold breastfeeding supplies that I went to, and they also sold Mothering magazine, and I wound up subscribing briefly and finding my way to the discussion boards.

I was a regular poster there for a while. I don't actually remember how long -- after a few months I discovered another community that was a better fit, then moved on from there to a break-away community. (This was a super common experience for an online mom at the time.)

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Naomi Kritzer

@NaomiKritzer

19 Jan

So since we're talking about music and Joe Biden can I tell you how much the Hamilton song "Wait for It" makes me think about Joe and also about Joe Biden vs. Aaron Burr.

"Death doesn't discriminate / between the sinners and the saints / it takes, and it takes, and it takes."

Weeks after Joe Biden was elected to his first term in the Senate, his wife and daughter died in a car accident.

Of his surviving sons, one went on to die of cancer.

The other, Hunter, has struggled with addiction. To try to hurt Biden during the campaign, someone released texts sent between Joe and Hunter while Hunter was in treatment.

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Naomi Kritzer

@NaomiKritzer

18 Jan

I was pondering the fact that on Tuesday we're going to see 8 gazillion Les Miserable "One Day More" gifs and found this delightful flashmob performance from 2014.

I hope flashmob musical performances make a roaring comeback in 2022.