Leslie Root

Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

Book

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 04:58 UTC

men will write papers outside their substantive area of expertise (these are both finance professors) that serve no purpose other than to inflame racism and pronatalist panic instead of... i don't know, i don't even care if they go to therapy, they could do literally anything else

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:59 UTC

I promise this is the only "Biden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever" joke I will make

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:16 UTC

You got a second one?? 😍

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

Ez had a playdate at a house with a black cat and petting it fixed me

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

I need a best friend with a cat

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

Like, do you think we're stupid (yes) (probably justifiably)

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

My thought about the Republican platform abortion plank is that it's a mess, and that's on purpose. They put in moderating language like "late term abortion" (not defined!) and "up to the states" that makes no sense with the extremely strong claim that pregnancies are covered by the 14th amendment.

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

I'm standing in line in the sun 🫠

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:07 UTC

Have some shame!!

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:06 UTC

Sampling ice cream flavors has gone way too far

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:35 UTC

Lol

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

Yes, demographers don't count here

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

I'm involved with the subreddit for people who are terminating pregnancies for medical reasons, and I know the stories from there are very rare events, but hoo boy. If it's not someone I'd want to share the worst day of my life with, it's post-20 week scan or bust for me.

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

I mean, I told family at that point, but if I had another pregnancy I probably wouldn't even do that. Combo of age and knowing more about everything that can go wrong.

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:02 UTC

oh my god i thought you meant 8 weeks (like one month past missed period) and even that is way too soon!!!

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

My parents are in Iceland for the second time. So glad there's a travel destination for elderly Midwesterners

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 03:08 UTC

Mom I frew up

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

And some foil

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 02:31 UTC

Give it up for my dog, currently being driven to the emergency vet bc he ate a corncob

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:20 UTC

Whoa same

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

Remember, every time you shop Whole Foods Market™ by Amazon™ during Prime Week™, Jeff Bezos personally tases a serf. Offer valid for Amazon Prime™ members only.

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

Giant?? Child???

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

"I will simply create a virtual replacement of myself" is the most STEM-brained thing imaginable. Both in terms of thinking it will actually work and in terms of giving zero thought to the threat to the academy it would unleash if it did

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

I love this, had no idea!

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:45 UTC

One today was telling me about how he writes letters to PBS about how we're ignoring the link between carbon and hurricanes, which is at least cuter than some alternatives

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:41 UTC

I wonder if there exists an older white man who wouldn't immediately launch into an overpopulation rant when I say I'm a demographer

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

Oh mama I'm / just having fun / under this rug, it's where I belong

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

It's so good

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

Фрёкен

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

Wow there is a cute café in Taganrog called Фрекен Бок but I think this is the first time I'm seeing it written out in Latin letters

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:16 UTC

There's some good stuff in here but also a lot of misunderstanding of demography brooklynrail.org/2024/07/fiel...

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