Leslie Root

@lesja

reproductive justice for all, solidarity forever. demographer, asst prof of research at CU Boulder, inveterate and not particularly professional poster. на носу очки, а в душе осень

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Leslie Root@lesja· 28d

i love to check in on X and it's Lyman Stone complaining that fertility doctors don't make people do years of other treatments before IVF, and then someone is like "what are the other treatments though" and then someone else replies with this

No idea how the standard guidelines perform or what they are but I'd bet the success rate of eating more (especially eggs), holding and smelling live babies, and abdominal massage, in improving cases that aren't clearly hard biological infertility would be in the double digits.

Leslie Root@lesja· Jul 12

"why did we disappoint Mr. Wigglesworth" idk why don't I have a flying car like the Jetsons?

Leslie Root@lesja· Jul 12

1) Lyman Stone has bad tweets that he should be canceled for. 2) Falling birth rates are a neutral social fact, and it is bad to produce guest essays that argue that we are in big trouble and cannot consider migration, and that the future will be so much better with "fertility renewal"

Leslie Root@lesja· Jul 12

They finished!

My parents standing on a beach. They are both wearing Great Lakes Challenge shirts but my dad's is from 2018, reportedly because he got Frosty on this year's somewhere around Ann Arbor

Leslie Root@lesja· Jul 11

I'm sorry, what? "Why did the population stop doubling every 25 years like it was in the 18th century? Mr. Wigglesworth would be very disappointed in us!" This is not a serious person

Leslie Root@lesja· Jul 7

I love it so much when the bee balm blooms and the bumblebees start visiting. It makes it feel like some things are working out.

Another bumblebee on a purple bee balm flower

Leslie Root@lesja· Jul 5

Did anyone else call these Belgian waffles growing up?

A fried, crisp cake in a flower shape covered in powdered sugar on a paper plate. I swear we'd get these at the county fair and they were called Belgian waffles but the internet thinks they're "sugar waffles"

Leslie Root@lesja· Jul 4

No summer camp today, so the child helped with the challah

Challah on a table where dinner is being eaten

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 30

have to take an AI training for work and

AI Final Knowledge Check
Test your knowledge with this difficult final quiz on advanced artificial intelligence concepts, risks, and governance.
1. What is the most effective way to protect your personal information from being used to train an AI's future "brain"?
A. Asking the AI not to remember what you said.
B. Only using the AI on weekends.
C. Locating the "Data Controls" or "Privacy" settings to opt out of model training.
D. Typing in all caps so the AI doesn't recognize your voice.

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 30

Not to drag this person for a good point, but Christ, just say 80s kids vs 90s kids. Generations aren't real, you don't have to use them

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 28

I'm making contrast pockets 👁️👄👁️

A side seam pocket in a warm large-scale abstract fruit print on a pair of medium blue pants. The pocket is puckered open so it looks like a mouth

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 26

guy at the party meme. person in the corner is presumably on birth control and is saying "they don't know i'm not currently able to get pregnant". Dancing couple #1 is saying "yeah dude they don't know that about me either" and Dancing couple #2 is saying "where my luteal phase girlies at" (because you are infecund during your luteal phase)

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 25

I'm obsessed with the prairie coneflowers, they're so cute

A vase of daisies, showy fleabane (purple), and prairie coneflowers (yellow, with very elongated centers)

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 23

Hard to say why, but his name is Banjo and his nickname is Lewis. Also answers to "Mr. Boy".

Banjo, a tan dog of vaguely pit bull-like shape with black and white face markings, rests his chin and front paw on a pillow, looking slightly forlorn, which is also known as "lewising"

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 22

"I would rather never have existed than face the loss of my grandmother" is admittedly a pretty big problem, but not the kind of problem you think

A Twitter screenshot originally posted by Moira Donegan where some user is reacting to news of Anne Hathaway's pregnancy by saying "can we not normalize having kids at 40? My parents had me at 40 and my Oma will never know the adult version of me"

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 22

Good cloud

Cloud in the east reflecting, pinkly and goldly, the sunset in the west

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 19

well folks it's shaping up to be another gut shabbes

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 18

Tag yourself I'm SSRIs and sunscreen

"infertility maxxxing for women," apparently unironic MAHA shit. A collage of assorted non-MAHA-coded and also honestly kind of random things, like birth control, being vegan, being a boss babe, HIIT, cold plunging, semaglutide, perfume, cosmetics, bath products, polyester underwear, and dating a soyboy

Leslie Root@lesja· Jun 15

I finally closed my Photobucket account and downloaded all my photos (from my long-defunct blog from when I lived in Russia), so here are some sick balalaika album covers from the burned CDs of balalaika repertoire my balalaika teacher gave me