Leslie Root

All of us are equally shocked

Oh?? Who could have foreseen

"Apparently [assistant director] talked to a bunch of Ukrainian people and determined that it would be a bad idea to sing any Russian songs"

Omg you guys, an update to this 3 weeks after I quit

Triathlon, but yeah it could reasonably be any endurance sport or winter sport

The rugged one was a stonemason and the other one was a ceramics engineer and aerial photographer

Sara the European academic was incredible all-around. I'd read a Chotiner interview of her.

from this fun hate-read archive.is/wlOtc

First, she said, this year’s applicant pool was part of a pandemic baby-boom, which made it larger than past cohorts. And, anecdotally, she told me, many of those babies were the second, third, or even fourth children in their families. (“There are so many families now who have three to four kids,” she said. “It’s becoming a flex.”) Where an applicant’s parents went to school matters, but not nearly as much as where their brother and sister are currently enrolled.

honestly, UES private kindergarten admissions consultants should be asked about birth rate trends more often

Just Colorado things: when your kid casually drops that his classmate's mom came in for literacy week (theme: Olympics) to "talk about her medals"

Abortion seekers sometimes tell us they're going to go to a CPC just to get a free ultrasound to date the pregnancy or confirm it's intrauterine. Even if you are a bad bitch who is immune to anti-choice propaganda, ‼️do not do this‼️ The information you may or may not get is NOT worth it.

just got some data out of disclosure for a paper and it turns out some of it is fucked up in a way none of us noticed and i don't even want to write this stupid paper

everything you post today is so relatable i'm dying

Colorado folks, it's not just in your head, Colorado has experienced one of the largest increases in ICE arrests in Trump 2.0 around the country.

And almost all of this increase is from indiscriminate arrests of people on the street, at their workplaces, at their homes, etc

The uterus is the crawlspace of the body (cramped, full of creepy shit)

I got to see inside mine during a hysteroscopy where they had a screen up and it was so cool lol. They kept finding dead ends in my cervix!

🕯️manifesting🕯️

The uterus is the crawlspace of the body (cramped, full of creepy shit)

Cis people gotta get better at the sacred duty of sadness in solidarity. Your life matters and I'm glad you are here and trans

No!! I'm so sorry Megan ❤️❤️❤️

and now every day i log on here and see stuff like "Texas AG argues it's legal to hunt trans people, gender-affirming medical professionals for sport" and "Pete Hegseth says trans kids can stay in the Scouts, but in special dens that hold meetings in an oubliette"

I know this is well-trod ground but it's literally incomprehensible to me how "we are going to make trans people's lives hell for no reason" became a major legal and cultural project with buy-in from 3/4 of the political spectrum in the last 10 years

Polymarket tweet that says JUST IN: White House officials clarify Operation Epic Fury isn't a war, but a special "combat operation"

the way this hits if you're a russia person....................

sorry let me get out my feelings thermometer

there is good political science research out there, but overall i think of it as the social science discipline where creativity goes to die

A political scientist saying "Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs" and linking to his substack where he presumably makes some sort of case for this

i'm sorry but a political scientist WOULD think this

To him pudel Bite him peper

I have already depicted you as the roundhead curr pudel and myself as the cavalier dog peper

Yeah 2 cases and they don't know where it came from 😬

Yeah the email was blatantly like: spring break! Prom! Graduation! So much fun stuff coming up, right?

o well!!