Colette Carroll ♑️ 💙

@carrcole.bsky.social

Set the controls for as far as the mind can think. All hail bright futures. 🇮🇪 🇪🇺

My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.

My first stand up special The Darkest Hour is released today Friday 7/31 at 5pm on YouTube. As befits a man of my age, I’m celebrating by getting a colonoscopy this morning. Please join me for one of those things. You can pick.

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog