Naomi Kritzer

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

HEY SAINT PAUL MN VOTERS:
Vote Yes on City Question #1!!!

www.voteyesforafairerstpaul.com

I'd love to hear your thoughts sometime, maybe in person. I don't know if there's a way to do multi seat RCV that's less annoying/confusing but I'm not any kind of RCV expert.

Agate's New Womens Shelter auction Support Agate and its newest facility - The Valiance! At the top, click "Overview" to see the main page and "Auction" to see auction items.

Agate is opening a new building with apartments and shelter space and are having a silent auction to raise funds.

One of the baskets includes handmade items, a gift card from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and signed copies of @naomikritzer.bsky.social's Catnet novels.

Bids close Thursday at 4:45pm.

None of my individual fibroids was that big but I had a whole lot of them. Like a biiiiiiig bunch of grapes hanging out.

I had to wait a similar amount of time for my hysterectomy but that was because we had a pandemic (!!!)

Mpls for the Many Chair Chelsea McFarren had this to say about Frey’s campaign running on a successful program he’s currently defunding: “Once again, Jacob Frey is running on a lie. He’s actively campaigning on what has been a successful citywide program that he is simultaneously defunding. If Jacob Frey’s own budget is passed, Stable Homes, Stable Schools, as we know it, won’t exist at this time next year. But Mayor Frey isn’t concerned with the communities that could benefit from this program in the future, he’s only concerned with optics. His priority isn’t making sure that this program is funded, his priority is getting re-elected. Jacob Frey’s entire two terms of “leadership” have been lip service: telling our communities what they want to hear, while only prioritizing the interests of his corporate mega donors.”

Mpls for the Many Chair Chelsea McFarren- “ Jacob Frey is running on a lie. He’s actively campaigning on what has been a successful citywide program that he is simultaneously defunding. His priority isn’t making sure that this program is funded, his priority is getting reelected"

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I am pretty sure the only race I still need to write about is the St. Paul mayoral race! (If you think there's something I'm forgetting, please let me know, but also check my website before you chime in! There's a search function.)

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Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, District 5 Steffanie Musich is the incumbent and is running again. She was not endorsed at the City DFL convention, probably due to the walkout of all the Frey supporters in a failed attempt to break the quor…

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, Ward 5.

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OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Heh. He left that whole thing as a comment on my blog. Guess he wanted to put it up somewhere people couldn't reply to him. (I didn't, but one of my other readers did.)

YouTube video by Becketwood Cooperative Minneapolis Mayoral Candidates Forum - Becketwood Cooperative. 10-6-25

Haven't watched this yet but apparently Becketwood had a mayoral forum with Jazz, Omar, DeWayne, and Jacob, and moderator Tane Danger would repeat questions until he got an actual answer.

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There are an awful lot of dudes and I wound up not talking about that because I decided I didn't want to research everyone's gender identity or risk misgendering someone.

(In theory I think MapLight is a great idea. In practice I can basically never get the information I'm looking for and I don't know why.)

Is there a way to get MapLight to cough up data for a specific candidate for the 2021 cycle? (It pretends there's a way to do this but doesn't want to actually do this. Maybe I'm the problem. Maybe it's just me.)

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, District 6 Cathy Abene is the incumbent and is running again. Her opponent, Ira Jourdain, has the DFL endorsement, probably in large part due to the walkout at the City DFL convention of all the Frey supporte…

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, District 6.

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I know Minnehaha Falls are not in District 4 but I'm adding these photos mainly so that the links on Bluesky look better, I'm using only pictures I have personally taken, and I just don't take all that many pictures of scenery.......except for Minnehaha Falls, which I will photograph anytime I go.

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, District 4 This district is currently represented by Elizabeth Shaffer, who is running for the Ward 7 City Council seat. I don’t like Shaffer; she is central to all my current grudges against the curren…

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, District 4.

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the thing that made it 56F instead of the 75F it was yesterday at this time

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, District 1 This district is currently represented by Billy Menz, who dropped out after not getting endorsed at the DFL City Convention. On the ballot there are two Dans: Dan Engelhart (DFL-endorsed)Dan Miller…

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, District 1.

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Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, At-Large Everyone in Minneapolis will have this race on their ballot, and it’s a bit of a doozy in terms of “complicated history” and “lots of candidates,” so buckle up. I am p…

Election 2025: Minneapolis Park Board, At-Large.

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The back of a sleeping black cat's head

Bad news for me, a person who would like to go to bed: a cat went to bed first and by bed I mean my lap

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

This cold front would piss me off so much if I'd run a marathon this morning 😂

updated patriotic symbol

everyone should always say please and thank you to LLMs!

because it costs OpenAI millions of dollars to do so

I finished listening to the Klein/Coates podcast, and it is honestly fascinating and widely misunderstood: it isn’t about Klein putting forward any particular politics as much as it is an intervention, by a friend, for someone who has lost their political rudder in the wake of defeat. 1/

wealthy futurists would rather worry about supporting a hypothetical vengeful future AI than supporting very-much-non-hypothetical very-possibly-soon-vengeful poor and downtrodden humans

they need to take fewer lessons from LessWrong and more lessons from the French Revolution

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.