Elin McCready
@elinm.bsky.social
collaborator WAIFU & MOM & NEON // associate editor S&P // prof ICREA/UAB // sem/prag/phillang/etc // trans // she/her // easycat // 異界愛者 // 移民
new book coming this month: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031945854
new book coming this month: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031945854
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Elin McCready
@elinm.bsky.social
· May 15
Introduction post. Hi. I'm an academic doing mathematical modeling of meaning, right now mostly social meanings, literature and art, and the edges of linguistic possibility. I do activism around LGBT issues and immigration, organize parties, do art stuff. Mostly in Barcelona, also Tokyo and Berlin.
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Audre Lorde's words, for no particular reason:
"The master's tools... may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those who still define the master's house as their only source of support."
"The master's tools... may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those who still define the master's house as their only source of support."
Trump, Schumer move towards deal to avert US government shutdown, NYT says
U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer moved on Wednesday night to reach an agreement to negotiate new restrictions on federal immigration agents, potentially averting a gove...
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Audre Lorde's words, for no particular reason:
"The master's tools... may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those who still define the master's house as their only source of support."
"The master's tools... may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those who still define the master's house as their only source of support."
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straight up idf playbook
Breaking MS NOW:
Trump's Justice Department has decided there will be no civil rights investigation of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, and instead two units of DHS will investigate their own officers and the man they killed.
Trump's Justice Department has decided there will be no civil rights investigation of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, and instead two units of DHS will investigate their own officers and the man they killed.
No civil rights violation probe into latest MN shooting, sources tell MS NOW
As DHS takes over the federal investigation, current and former law enforcement agents warn that Trump’s DOJ isn’t committed to facts or fairness.
www.ms.now
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
straight up idf playbook
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This is probably the most instructive moment in the evolution of the Democratic Party on Palestine so far— AIPAC is now running ads against one of its (now former) closest allies in Congress, Tom Malinowski, because Malinowski did not commit to *unconditional* support for Netanyahu specifically.
Pro-Israel Group Targets a Former Ally in an Early Congressional Race
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
This is probably the most instructive moment in the evolution of the Democratic Party on Palestine so far— AIPAC is now running ads against one of its (now former) closest allies in Congress, Tom Malinowski, because Malinowski did not commit to *unconditional* support for Netanyahu specifically.
what is the barcelona spanish school equivalent of berlin's babylonia (german integrationschule, queer & lefty)?
January 24, 2026 at 1:24 PM
what is the barcelona spanish school equivalent of berlin's babylonia (german integrationschule, queer & lefty)?
greenland is not really an icy wasteland, but the point still holds
I dunno but in most scenarios where the Mad King orders his army to march into an icy wasteland it doesn’t end well for the King
January 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
greenland is not really an icy wasteland, but the point still holds
maybe we should all, independent of location, move our computing to services that are subject to actual regulation. a useful site:
european-alternatives.eu/categories
european-alternatives.eu/categories
Service categories | European Alternatives
List of all categories on European Alternatives
european-alternatives.eu
January 17, 2026 at 12:06 AM
maybe we should all, independent of location, move our computing to services that are subject to actual regulation. a useful site:
european-alternatives.eu/categories
european-alternatives.eu/categories
omg we failed to send an abstract to a conference bc we only emailed each other and forgot to email the abstract submission site! today was notification day ... shit whoops!
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
omg we failed to send an abstract to a conference bc we only emailed each other and forgot to email the abstract submission site! today was notification day ... shit whoops!
I wonder if some societies are more susceptible to others to twitter-style polarization and cuckoo aggressive brainwashed behavior. If so, what factors does it correlate with?
January 15, 2026 at 12:04 PM
I wonder if some societies are more susceptible to others to twitter-style polarization and cuckoo aggressive brainwashed behavior. If so, what factors does it correlate with?
these are precisely the kind of normalizations that everyone should be pushing back on very very hard
There should be a much, MUCH larger discourse and reporting on how whoever is running DHS' social media is an overt white supremacist who is literally posting Nazi memes on a daily basis. Doesn't matter that it's almost certainly some edgelord 4chan intern; it's still happening and it's obscene.
“We’ll Have Our Home” again is a song that’s extremely popular with white nationalists. It’s all over Telegram. I think the first time I heard it was from a video of a secretive group called the Mannerbünd.
January 12, 2026 at 3:07 PM
these are precisely the kind of normalizations that everyone should be pushing back on very very hard
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This administration is chaotic evil incarnate. Practically every action it's taken has broken at least one law, sometimes many at once. Do you seriously think there's any legislation you can pass that will rein it in?
Get these scoundrels GONE.
Get these scoundrels GONE.
January 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This administration is chaotic evil incarnate. Practically every action it's taken has broken at least one law, sometimes many at once. Do you seriously think there's any legislation you can pass that will rein it in?
Get these scoundrels GONE.
Get these scoundrels GONE.
who will be the first to write a linguistics or philosophy paper showing how the precise kinds of statements issued by almost all european countries after illegal US invasion of venezuela alter social norms to enable more land & power grabs of this kind?
January 5, 2026 at 10:43 AM
who will be the first to write a linguistics or philosophy paper showing how the precise kinds of statements issued by almost all european countries after illegal US invasion of venezuela alter social norms to enable more land & power grabs of this kind?
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"Pronto" dice: Sin tapujos, hacia un nuevo orden mundial imperialista y fascista. Esta señora es la mujer de Stephen Miller, sub jefe de gabinete de la Casa Blanca.
January 4, 2026 at 11:23 AM
"Pronto" dice: Sin tapujos, hacia un nuevo orden mundial imperialista y fascista. Esta señora es la mujer de Stephen Miller, sub jefe de gabinete de la Casa Blanca.
unfuckingbelievable (too fucking believable) U$A
Trump is sullying the good name of the FIFA Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
unfuckingbelievable (too fucking believable) U$A
failed to make either black-eyed peas or soba so far but perhaps this new year day will be the day
January 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM
failed to make either black-eyed peas or soba so far but perhaps this new year day will be the day
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Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
Saga complete: my last box of books is finally released by customs, after 800 emails and 8000 different uploads of scanned documents. I'm happy because this means none of them are getting sent back to Japan, unlike the last time, so I will not have to pay another round of return and re-postage.
December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Saga complete: my last box of books is finally released by customs, after 800 emails and 8000 different uploads of scanned documents. I'm happy because this means none of them are getting sent back to Japan, unlike the last time, so I will not have to pay another round of return and re-postage.
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#NousICREAs2025 | 💬 Elin McCready (@elinm.bsky.social @uab.cat) investiga el significat i l’ús del llenguatge: des del discurs polític fins a l’art i la literatura.
També explora com el cos i la percepció humana donen forma al llenguatge. 🧠📚
https://short.do/9a-8z4
També explora com el cos i la percepció humana donen forma al llenguatge. 🧠📚
https://short.do/9a-8z4
December 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#NousICREAs2025 | 💬 Elin McCready (@elinm.bsky.social @uab.cat) investiga el significat i l’ús del llenguatge: des del discurs polític fins a l’art i la literatura.
També explora com el cos i la percepció humana donen forma al llenguatge. 🧠📚
https://short.do/9a-8z4
També explora com el cos i la percepció humana donen forma al llenguatge. 🧠📚
https://short.do/9a-8z4
merry christmas to everyone but the person whose car alarm started christmas eve at 9pm and continues now 15h later at noon on christmas day
December 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
merry christmas to everyone but the person whose car alarm started christmas eve at 9pm and continues now 15h later at noon on christmas day
such a weird mood to see these cases go on and on, recognizing the room, having sat in that chair as well
「結婚の自由をすべての人に」訴訟、先日の東京高裁の判決を不服として最高裁に上告。原告の山縣さんは「悪夢のような判決でした」。判決後にSNSでヘイト言説が増え、つらい思いをしている当事者がいることに「こうした状況は、人権の砦ともいわれる裁判所の責任です。最高裁には期待したいと思います」。これで一連のすべての訴訟が上告し、いよいよ最高裁へ。明確な違憲判決を下してほしい。
www.bengo4.com/c_18/n_19738/
www.bengo4.com/c_18/n_19738/
同性婚訴訟、合憲判断は「悪夢のようなもの」原告8人が上告「最高裁に期待」東京第2次訴訟 - 弁護士ドットコムニュース
同性同士の結婚が認められないのは憲法に反するとして、当事者が国を訴えている訴訟で、現行法のルールを「合憲」とした控訴審判決を不服として、原告8人全員が12月11日、最高裁に上告した。この訴訟は、全国で...
www.bengo4.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
such a weird mood to see these cases go on and on, recognizing the room, having sat in that chair as well
no words for these people, none
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
no words for these people, none
last seven words describe the feelings of a lot of people in the world right now for sure
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
last seven words describe the feelings of a lot of people in the world right now for sure
Exh(Exh(semantics)) = I am fckng tired
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Exh(Exh(semantics)) = I am fckng tired
interesting to think about this in the context of medical transition. does the second adolescence aspect many people experience extend to brain function / organization also?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
interesting to think about this in the context of medical transition. does the second adolescence aspect many people experience extend to brain function / organization also?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...