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@NaomiKritzer
SF/Fantasy writer who writes that Mpls/St. Paul election guide. She/her. YA novel CHAOS ON CATNET now available from Tor Teen! https://t.co/Gy7v7jf62a
Nov 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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. Author Ryan North asked Bing who he was married to and it hallucinated a kid and a dog. Anyway, of course I had to try this, so I asked who Naomi Kritzer was married to.
Nov 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
My new book, Liberty's Daughter, comes out today!

fairwoodpress.com/store/p148/LIB…
The cover of LIBERTY'S DAUGHTER by Naomi Kritzer. This is near-future SF about a teen girl growing up in a society constructed by libertarian tech bros. It features mysteries, mercenaries, reality TV, the IWW, an epidemic, and a main character who never sees an obstacle she doesn't start trying to figure out how to get around.
May 14, 2023 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
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.)
Apr 30, 2023 • 53 tweets • 4 min read
At the St. Paul Ward 3 convention. The first couple items on t... There's a balance to be found in making sure the newbies know what's going on and keeping the convention moving and I should probably be more tolerant of the explaining.
Apr 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Apr 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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 😂
Apr 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This story is enraging. (Further links to follow.) Here's the AP article about the recording and the comments that the sheriff and others were heard making:

apnews.com/article/mccurt…
Apr 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
One of the ways in which Google has gotten increasingly useless in recent years is finding me "that article I saw a while back on (topic)"... Anyway Bing just found me that article I saw years ago about faking a Minneapolis street address in fiction:

southtwelfth.tumblr.com/post/567946333… I tried Bing after seeing a news article about how Google was alarmed at the news that Samsung was replacing Google with Bing.

Fyi @Google what we want is for your search engine to work the way it used to and help is find information instead of funneling us to buy stuff.
Mar 20, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Back in 2003, a friend of mine, then an Alderman for the City of Madison, introduced a resolution to the City Council regarding the Chicks (then the Dixie Chicks). I just found the whole text of the resolution in my old files. There'd been a dust-up regarding the Chicks trash-talking GWB.

Mar 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I have a lot of thoughts on this but the first one is simply: welcome to Minnesota, I hope you quickly feel at home here and I'm glad our state can be a safe home to you and your family. Second thought: we need to keep building housing because the people moving here will need somewhere to live.
Feb 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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Feb 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If you are a Gen X'er, have you at some point watched (watched the movie, not just listened to) Pink Floyd's THE WALL? I'm trying to suss out whether in fact everyone in Gen X watched it, or if it was just that everyone I knew watched it. (Including me. I had a boyfriend who was very insistent that I needed to see it.)
Sep 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This story is goddamn amazing. The fact that it was boys, specifically, who saw how their classmates were feeling and decided to KEEP A JOINT LOG.

Middle schoolers! I love these kids. Reading this story made me tear up. They had tried talking to adults and gotten blown off -- just like the teacher had told them would happen.

So they started a Discord channel and called it "Pedo Log" and wrote down every single time he said or did something creepy.
Aug 26, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Working up to ten hours a week is fine. More than about ten and many students start to seriously struggle to pass their classes, never mind take advantage of all the wealth of opportunities college should offer. Let's say you find a job paying $15/hour. That's $150/week before taxes. How much does college cost, hmm, let me look that up OH LOOK A FUCKTON MORE THAN THAT
Aug 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Back when I was in high school, we elected a guy to the student council who turned out not to exist.

The prankster who got him elected had plastered the school with posters saying "JOHN TUTTLE: HE'S EVERYTHING YOU WANT HIM TO BE." The name was a reference to a M*A*S*H episode in which Hawkeye makes up an officer and by the end, everyone believes the guy is real.

mash.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_J…
Aug 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I went today to the new, re-opened Uncle Hugo's, signed stock, and bought some books.

The new location is at 2716 E 31st St, Minneapolis, the former home of Glass Endeavors. A bookcase with some books and a hand-written note labeling He's currently open from 11 am to 4 pm Monday through Saturday, and from 1 to 4 pm on Sundays. He plans to extend to more normal hours at some point in the next month. While I was there, he and several staffers were busy unpacking and shelving books.
Aug 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Women who want elective abortions will travel or get mail-order abortion pills for a safe self-managed abortion.

Women who land in the ER because of a ectopic pregnancy or an incomplete miscarriage are going to die. If a woman is going to die, a physician who performs an abortion can use that as a defense in court. So they'll potentially get arrested, charged, get a lawyer, etc., even if they terminate an ECTOPIC PREGNANCY.
Aug 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When my grandmother needed to see doctors in the last years of her life, she always needed a family member there with her to interpret.

Which was just repeating everything they said, slowly enough that she could understand. Grammie had lost her hearing starting at midlife. Had hearing aids that helped some. But what she really needed was loud, clear (words carefully separated), and slow. Medical providers were happy to yell but wouldn't or couldn't slow down enough.
Aug 18, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Unhappy with the abortion laws in your state? Here's a cool hack more people should know about! In about half the states, the entire legislature and the governor will be up for election on November 8, and if you put Democrats in those seats, they'll re-legalize abortion! Map of US with the following states colored in: Oregon, Cali (I marked all the states where a trifecta is potentially in play, including states where abortion is legal and not under any immediate threat, rather than trying to decide how to classify states where it's legal but threatened if Republicans remain in power.)
Aug 17, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
My mother spent much of her early childhood on a subsistence farm in rural Virginia, with no electricity or running water. This was not that long ago; Mom was born in 1947.

Mom was deeply unsentimental about the whole experience, sometimes to a startling degree. When her friends got all mushy about going "back to the land" in the early 1970s she told them that they shouldn't sign a buyer's agreement until they'd tried peeing in an outhouse at 4 a.m. in January.
May 21, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
So this is a totally random Minneapolis history question and my idle googling has not turned up what I'm looking for, so I'll try Twitter. Back when I first moved to Minneapolis in the mid-1990s, on Lake Street just west of the river (where the West River Commons is now) there was this crumbling former church with a giant sign saying PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD Wednesdays 6 pm Saturdays 6 pm Sundays 10 am.