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Colin Carlson

@colincarlson.bsky.social

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Planetary epidemiologist at Yale. Thinking about thinking about thinking about writing a book about viruses. Look, I made a hat: carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • gbcc.study

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 28

brennan lee mulligan edited "there is no corner of my heart i would not turn over to the world for rfk fired"

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 6h

Every true poster on this site probably has the capability to take over their local chapter of the dem party, and i know this because posters already ate the republicans from the local level up

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 6h

this post is literally just for @ctrlalttim.com

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 6h

just drew two of the same card?

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 6h

my 50 state electoral strategy is to nationalize, in every small town in america, one very small shop called Absolute Last Resort Sandwich and Pizza, which is open until 4 am and is absolutely not tolerable before about 12:30 am but works fine as a last resort if everything else is closed

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 7h

it's all about time now open.spotify.com/track/7ydcWS...

Time

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 7h

not Hombre Lobo, which is "I am actively having, reflecting upon, or planning a long-term entanglement with a married woman" music. but perhaps Blinking Lights and Cautionary Tales?

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 7h

normally i would say this is a post for like three people but everyone on this website is 35 to 42 years old so: Eels is "pet in the hospital music"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 8h

"let's do the fucking nuzzi." that's a two things you could do. just putting it out there if anyone is looking to do a sort of classic "two things"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · May 29

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’

The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10h

Showed up to visit my cat before surgery and apparently I have to wait an hour. Anyone wanna smoke in the parking lot

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

Fun fact: Mike Lawler is the co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Extreme Heat Caucus. So when you talk about bipartisanship in climate or public health, just remember that their foot soldiers are texting each other about gas chambers.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Hey remember when Lawler and his flunkie Republican trolls tried to weaponize anti-semitism against actual Jewish people like me?

Yeah, fuck off forever.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

the URL implies the existence of the worst imaginable SNL character of all time

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 13h

Yay this paper is now published in Empirical Software Engineering!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

god damn dude i'm so excited for this, congrats

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

I'm talking to like two people right now, and neither of them read my posts anyway, so who cares. But I'm disappointed in you

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

I am so fucking tired of seeing people I respected in the energy and environment world talk to this guy like he's some sort of quirked up riddlemaster and not just a run of the mill fucking ideologically-empty right-wing content creator

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

It's really not hard to figure out that the answer is "they're scared." So I think when you see someone engage flippantly on this, the presumption should be "they're laughing that they're scared," and that presumption should probably follow them forever, and WHY DO SOME OF YOU ENGAGE WITH HIM

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 15h

Frying brains online

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 14h

This is so cool! I'm really excited to read this cc @jbyoder.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 14h

The problem with cats is it's that you're borrowing money from the mob. You pay $50 at the door to get a cat with 1.3 ears, and then five years later, boom, the same cat suddenly asks for $13,000.

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