Mina Li (she/her)

Education doesn’t automatically make you a good person, which doesn’t mean STEM-only education isn’t a problem. I mean, it’s cliche to say nuance is dead, but…

Incidentally, dealing with nuance is something a humanities education teaches you.

(And don’t get me started on philosophy as a field)

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors. Nice use of passive voice though! derek guy @dieworkwear • 2h i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

no quarter given lmao

really can't imagine bopping my head to a song called "i hate asian immigrants" and then putting my asian immigrant hands on my asian immigrant hips 30 years later and asking the artist, "so you're against asian immigrants?"

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week is a complete takedown of Bari Weiss... and it's thorough and devastating.

And a bit of interesting timing, given that Weiss's new boss, David Ellison (who is talked about in the episode) is trying to buy HBO, where Oliver's show is...

I was just thinking about your fanfic and would *love* to have seen your Axl.

The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.

Kim Suhyun’s I Decided to Live as Me translated into English by Anton Hur

Stamp from In Verso books in Chueca

How fun! Stopped in a Madrid bookstore where I ended up talking with a bookseller about the wonderful @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social and @antonhur.com books they had on display and she when she found out I am a librarian she asked for recent favorites to stock. 😍 #booksky

Relief linoblock print featuring a California Gull standing in the center. There are Sego Lillies around the four corners of the piece, as well as bee hives at the top and below the bird serving as iconography representing the state of Utah.

Reduction block print inspired by the California Gull! 🐦🍟✨
This is the very last print for my Printmaking Pals as the club is now coming to an end.

#art #SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #printmaking

congratulations!

You eat jar sauce

I'll take your word for it. The fumes from 白酒 made me dizzy nearly two decades ago, so I don't think I even tried a sip.

Spread this around. Missouri and Ohio Democrats need at least 100,000 valid signatures to take on Republican gerrymandering maps. This is the fight 🔥

You'd have to let me know on that one--my alcohol tolerance is in the negatives to the point where I only use it in cooking.

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

I need to write about this, but I've been telling people that one reason I still feel somewhat optimistic about the future is that, as a high school teacher, I get a good ground-floor view of just how cooked these monsters are. In terms of preventing cultural changes, they've already lost. 1/

Mike Johnson Blames Shutdown on “No Kings” Protest in Absurd Rant The House speaker is blaming the Republican-led government shutdown on Americans protesting Donald Trump. Make that make sense.

The House speaker is blaming the Republican-led government shutdown on Americans protesting Donald Trump. trib.al/7wSwkPh

Make that make sense.

Hey friends, it's not queerbaiting if Chris, aka Peacemaker, a bisexual, has feelings for a woman. It's not schroedinger's queerness. He's still queer even if he's in a het relationship. Of all the complaints I've seen about S2, this one makes me the angriest.

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

You'll know you have the right one if you cook it and it tastes a bit like gasoline.

they're so fucking exhausting, I just can't with them anymore.

some of these fuckos would plainly rather stand shoulder to shoulder with a dapper, erudite fascist than someone who agrees with them 97% but seems cringe

a term which can mean anything from “having fun” to “has not read Marx” to “is a mom”

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Nah, I've had kale and it's nowhere as bitter.

Oh my godddddd I cannot fucking STAND this shit!!! THERE IS NO ONE WAY TO PROTEST. EVERYONE EVERYWHERE SHOULD PROTEST IN EVERY WAY. STOP WORKING AGAINST YOURSELVES

SORRY TO YELL IN YOUR MENTIONS

Change is only gonna happen if we have protests across all of society and I hope folks can stop this weird gatekeeping behaviour.

Under fascism, folks should keep their focus on fascists. Protest can take many forms and absurdism is generally pretty good at breaking propaganda’s illusions.

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

God bless the frogs.

If you think you have a better way of protesting the crushing wave of authoritarianism, then get your butt outdoors and do it. You can't lazyweb your way to freedom.

The frogs are great.