Naomi Kritzer
@naomikritzer.bsky.social
Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
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From the Hugo award-winning author Naomi Kritzer comes a tense portrait of a future we desperately hope to escape.O Lord, deliver us.Doctor Liz has just been...
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My end-of-year publishing roundup: I had zero books and zero short stories come out this year. I did write, I just didn't write anything that came out in 2025.
In 2026 I have a novella coming out from Tor! You can preorder it!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
In 2026 I have a novella coming out from Tor! You can preorder it!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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See, this is the part that worries me. Yes, there should have been justice and yes, it should have been swift. But two weeks? The propaganda machine on the right is destabilizing, reality-warping and cynical. And massive. And organized. There us no analog on the left.
My dad a day after 1/6 was rattled, borderline horrified. Two weeks later he was asking me how I could get so worked up about a walking tour of the U.S. Capitol. Propaganda works!
January 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
See, this is the part that worries me. Yes, there should have been justice and yes, it should have been swift. But two weeks? The propaganda machine on the right is destabilizing, reality-warping and cynical. And massive. And organized. There us no analog on the left.
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I know I have a lot of Minnesotans following me. We are sending whistles to @mspwhistles.bsky.social as fast as we can, but if you are one of my followers/pals and you need some, please reach out to me. 💓 We have a lot of folks making smaller amounts that could go to local groups!
The surge is surging today. Many ppl taken. This is with roughly 500 agents on the ground.
This also means CBP is coming. Extremely bad news.
You saw Chicago in the fall? We’re up.
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This also means CBP is coming. Extremely bad news.
You saw Chicago in the fall? We’re up.
Defend612.com sign up to be in a Signal group if you’re not already.
Defend612.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:36 AM
I know I have a lot of Minnesotans following me. We are sending whistles to @mspwhistles.bsky.social as fast as we can, but if you are one of my followers/pals and you need some, please reach out to me. 💓 We have a lot of folks making smaller amounts that could go to local groups!
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
I stood up off the floor to answer the phone.
Wound up needing surgery 🫠 (I tore my meniscus. I was a whole 22 years old when this happened and everyone was like, "did you hurt your knee playing frisbee? Skiing? Falling on ice, at least?")
Wound up needing surgery 🫠 (I tore my meniscus. I was a whole 22 years old when this happened and everyone was like, "did you hurt your knee playing frisbee? Skiing? Falling on ice, at least?")
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
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January 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I stood up off the floor to answer the phone.
Wound up needing surgery 🫠 (I tore my meniscus. I was a whole 22 years old when this happened and everyone was like, "did you hurt your knee playing frisbee? Skiing? Falling on ice, at least?")
Wound up needing surgery 🫠 (I tore my meniscus. I was a whole 22 years old when this happened and everyone was like, "did you hurt your knee playing frisbee? Skiing? Falling on ice, at least?")
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Monday night at 6pm on Zoom! Invite your friends and neighbors who want to get more involved in protecting their community to an ICE Watch Welcome and Orientation.
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Monday night at 6pm on Zoom! Invite your friends and neighbors who want to get more involved in protecting their community to an ICE Watch Welcome and Orientation.
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Here's the reading list for my Contemporary Dystopian Fiction course in the UofT English department, which starts today!
We start off with @naomikritzer.bsky.social's superb story "The Year Without Sunshine" and Le Guin's classic THE DISPOSSESSED. Excited to do this course. 😊
#booksky #sff 💙📚🪐
We start off with @naomikritzer.bsky.social's superb story "The Year Without Sunshine" and Le Guin's classic THE DISPOSSESSED. Excited to do this course. 😊
#booksky #sff 💙📚🪐
January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Here's the reading list for my Contemporary Dystopian Fiction course in the UofT English department, which starts today!
We start off with @naomikritzer.bsky.social's superb story "The Year Without Sunshine" and Le Guin's classic THE DISPOSSESSED. Excited to do this course. 😊
#booksky #sff 💙📚🪐
We start off with @naomikritzer.bsky.social's superb story "The Year Without Sunshine" and Le Guin's classic THE DISPOSSESSED. Excited to do this course. 😊
#booksky #sff 💙📚🪐
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This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.
January 5, 2026 at 4:47 AM
This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.
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Melissa Hortman would have been a great governor.
January 5, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Melissa Hortman would have been a great governor.
Re-sharing this with alt text added (image appears twice because the text didn't quite fit and is continued on image #2). This is an incredibly important message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Melissa and Mark Hortman.
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Re-sharing this with alt text added (image appears twice because the text didn't quite fit and is continued on image #2). This is an incredibly important message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Melissa and Mark Hortman.
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issuing a correction on my previous post describing Vichy Twitter as "the Nazi App," it is now also "the Nazi And CSAM App"
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 2:50 PM
issuing a correction on my previous post describing Vichy Twitter as "the Nazi App," it is now also "the Nazi And CSAM App"
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Imagine if, say, a single rock song, or a comic book, or a role playing game, or a video game, or horror movie, a chocolate bar, a toy, or, say, a person like a librarian or teacher, had an actual direct causal body count like this.... Imagine the furore, the witch hunt in the press, the outrage...
OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Imagine if, say, a single rock song, or a comic book, or a role playing game, or a video game, or horror movie, a chocolate bar, a toy, or, say, a person like a librarian or teacher, had an actual direct causal body count like this.... Imagine the furore, the witch hunt in the press, the outrage...
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This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.
A shitpost so great Billy Joel actually heard about it
January 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM
This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.
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Every single Minnesota news outlet should be shoving microphones into the faces of Demuth, Robbins, Lindell, everyone else running for governor, and every MNGOPer licking trumps ass to ask if they agree with this shit. It’s time we know.
Donald Trump is now reposting videos on Truth Social suggesting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman assassinated.
This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.
This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.
January 4, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Every single Minnesota news outlet should be shoving microphones into the faces of Demuth, Robbins, Lindell, everyone else running for governor, and every MNGOPer licking trumps ass to ask if they agree with this shit. It’s time we know.
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"Oil" isn't a single replaceable good. Refineries have to be very specifically and intensively configured to accept and work with a specific kind of crude oil product. The imprimatur for Venezuela's thick, heavy goopy slop specifically is that there are Gulf Coast refineries capable of processing it
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
"Oil" isn't a single replaceable good. Refineries have to be very specifically and intensively configured to accept and work with a specific kind of crude oil product. The imprimatur for Venezuela's thick, heavy goopy slop specifically is that there are Gulf Coast refineries capable of processing it
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My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds.
I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are.
My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.
I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are.
My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.
I call Tommy Tuberville every fucking week, multiple times a week, because he can be evil but I don't have to let him do it without pushback.
So I don't need to hear excuses. I call the dumbest senator in the country. 😂
So I don't need to hear excuses. I call the dumbest senator in the country. 😂
January 3, 2026 at 7:03 PM
My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds.
I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are.
My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.
I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are.
My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.
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Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
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kidnapped. the word is kidnapped
President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
kidnapped. the word is kidnapped
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Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally
The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."
nbcnews.to
January 3, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
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Minnesotans to most stuck drivers: hey we can help push you out
Minnesotans to ICE: really floor the gas, spinning the tires helps
Minnesotans to ICE: really floor the gas, spinning the tires helps
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Minnesotans to most stuck drivers: hey we can help push you out
Minnesotans to ICE: really floor the gas, spinning the tires helps
Minnesotans to ICE: really floor the gas, spinning the tires helps
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ICE vs ice at 44th and Hiawatha earlier today.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
ICE vs ice at 44th and Hiawatha earlier today.
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i quite like idea that someone on here had of treating any criminal act committed by an ai as having been committed by the ai company’s ceo
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
i quite like idea that someone on here had of treating any criminal act committed by an ai as having been committed by the ai company’s ceo
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Five hours and twenty-three minutes left until all that super-marked-down stuff goes back to full price at midnight Minneapolis time.
There are 74 things left in the shop.
www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...
There are 74 things left in the shop.
www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...
January 2, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Five hours and twenty-three minutes left until all that super-marked-down stuff goes back to full price at midnight Minneapolis time.
There are 74 things left in the shop.
www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...
There are 74 things left in the shop.
www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...
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A brand new year goes well with a brand new story!
My latest story, “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly,” is out now at Clarkesworld!
✨❄️🌨️🌏
My latest story, “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly,” is out now at Clarkesworld!
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Our first issue of the year features stories by Samantha Murray, M. L. Clark, Nika Murphy, James Patrick Kelly, Ju Chu, A. W. Prihandita, and Seth Chambers.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
A brand new year goes well with a brand new story!
My latest story, “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly,” is out now at Clarkesworld!
✨❄️🌨️🌏
My latest story, “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly,” is out now at Clarkesworld!
✨❄️🌨️🌏
So I mentioned yesterday that an Imam in Minnesota keeps a beautiful copy of the Qu'ran for ceremonial use by Muslims elected to offices in Minnesota. But this started in 2016. And Keith Ellison (now State Attorney General) was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2006. 🧵
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 AM
So I mentioned yesterday that an Imam in Minnesota keeps a beautiful copy of the Qu'ran for ceremonial use by Muslims elected to offices in Minnesota. But this started in 2016. And Keith Ellison (now State Attorney General) was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2006. 🧵