Mina Li (she/her)
@codenameminali.bsky.social
Taiwanese-American SFF writer. Fierce with a touch of Midwestern niceness. Profile pic by Lisa Sterle. Opinions are mine.
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I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
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Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
December 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
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Excellent piece here by Melissa. We need more stories like this one to help show people that true resistance, on the ground, is possible.
Ending 2025 with the grounded sense of hope I picked up in Chicago, as told here:
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Excellent piece here by Melissa. We need more stories like this one to help show people that true resistance, on the ground, is possible.
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set photos make for some challenging, haunting content
December 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
set photos make for some challenging, haunting content
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I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.
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On the bright side, my Junji Ito UZUMAKI rug came today and it looks fabulous in my kitchen.
December 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
On the bright side, my Junji Ito UZUMAKI rug came today and it looks fabulous in my kitchen.
I regret to report that Mom and I tried to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) last night and wound up noping out because it was too overstimulating within the first half hour.
Tbf Mom just had eye surgery earlier this month, so a lot of films/TV is A Lot for her atm
Tbf Mom just had eye surgery earlier this month, so a lot of films/TV is A Lot for her atm
December 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I regret to report that Mom and I tried to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) last night and wound up noping out because it was too overstimulating within the first half hour.
Tbf Mom just had eye surgery earlier this month, so a lot of films/TV is A Lot for her atm
Tbf Mom just had eye surgery earlier this month, so a lot of films/TV is A Lot for her atm
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In celebration of deleting Twitter here's a collection of some of my popularest tweets, now only available here.
December 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In celebration of deleting Twitter here's a collection of some of my popularest tweets, now only available here.
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Conservative American Jews are coming to understand the problem of empowering the absolute worst strains of American Christianity. I’m not sure conservative American Christians, especially Catholics, have gotten there yet.
Trump administration: gonna be a Christian nation from now on
Christians: yay!
TA: so you have to be Christian the way WE say it's ok
Christians: oh shit
Christians: yay!
TA: so you have to be Christian the way WE say it's ok
Christians: oh shit
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Conservative American Jews are coming to understand the problem of empowering the absolute worst strains of American Christianity. I’m not sure conservative American Christians, especially Catholics, have gotten there yet.
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Why I am so hopeful, in a sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Why I am so hopeful, in a sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
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“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
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found the advisor‘s email and wrote in support
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
found the advisor‘s email and wrote in support
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Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
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Books like this end up on "bests" lists not because anyone at the magazine read them but because the PR campaign had the right juice (personal connections). Yes, The New Yorker ...
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Books like this end up on "bests" lists not because anyone at the magazine read them but because the PR campaign had the right juice (personal connections). Yes, The New Yorker ...
Scarf progress: amazing how far 1-2 repeats a day will get you. Yarn was dyed by Wildewood Fibers, who is sadly retired. The colorway is called Dragon's Blood.
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Scarf progress: amazing how far 1-2 repeats a day will get you. Yarn was dyed by Wildewood Fibers, who is sadly retired. The colorway is called Dragon's Blood.
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I’m saving this for the next time someone says to me, “But my book won eight awards! How could you possible review it negatively and be right?”
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I’m saving this for the next time someone says to me, “But my book won eight awards! How could you possible review it negatively and be right?”
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Tell your congressperson to vote YES to impeach this quack! Now's the time!
San Francisco Chronicle: 'RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness'
'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'
By Effie Seiberg
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'
By Effie Seiberg
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness
OPINION: “According to research published by the CDC, 3 in 4 Americans have a chronic illness. That’s nearly 200 million people, and Kennedy is helping none of us,” Effie Seiberg writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Tell your congressperson to vote YES to impeach this quack! Now's the time!
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Bernadette Mayer, from Midwinter Day
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Bernadette Mayer, from Midwinter Day
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Anyway, if you want to help families be able to afford to eat this holiday season and beyond, consider making a regular cash donation to your local food bank.
And if you’re in Chicago, bring by your spare winter gear, books, toiletries, and supplies! We could use them in our mutual aid shelves.
And if you’re in Chicago, bring by your spare winter gear, books, toiletries, and supplies! We could use them in our mutual aid shelves.
December 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Anyway, if you want to help families be able to afford to eat this holiday season and beyond, consider making a regular cash donation to your local food bank.
And if you’re in Chicago, bring by your spare winter gear, books, toiletries, and supplies! We could use them in our mutual aid shelves.
And if you’re in Chicago, bring by your spare winter gear, books, toiletries, and supplies! We could use them in our mutual aid shelves.
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And I’m not pro-commercializing the shit out of holidays.
I just think it’s probably a recession indicator when even corporations are ditching significant sales and events so they can squeeze every penny out of us, rather than their usual song-and-dance every December.
Maybe I’m imagining it idk
I just think it’s probably a recession indicator when even corporations are ditching significant sales and events so they can squeeze every penny out of us, rather than their usual song-and-dance every December.
Maybe I’m imagining it idk
December 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
And I’m not pro-commercializing the shit out of holidays.
I just think it’s probably a recession indicator when even corporations are ditching significant sales and events so they can squeeze every penny out of us, rather than their usual song-and-dance every December.
Maybe I’m imagining it idk
I just think it’s probably a recession indicator when even corporations are ditching significant sales and events so they can squeeze every penny out of us, rather than their usual song-and-dance every December.
Maybe I’m imagining it idk
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Look….. I know I’m an adult so it’s different…… but I feel like this year’s Christmas is the least Christmas-y I’ve ever experienced.
Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.
Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Look….. I know I’m an adult so it’s different…… but I feel like this year’s Christmas is the least Christmas-y I’ve ever experienced.
Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.
Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.