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Leslie R😈😈t

@lesja.bsky.social

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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 R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · Apr 12

"shouldn't the left be engaging with pronatalism" comes up constantly. yeah I'm engaging with it. engaging by saying it sucks!!

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 7h

I mean realistically what it's about is making the public think mifepristone is dangerous

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 7h

People are sharing this with the assumption that it's about abortion surveillance - it's actually about "contamination" of the water supply, which is almost as stupid. Or maybe they're lying and hoping to use it for surveillance, but it would never work. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 12h

That's good to know! It was just some overworked student health counselor I saw 2 or 3 times so... probably not

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 13h

thank you! yeah the emotional effects are def there! i'm super freaked because i have a choir concert tomorrow night and if i don't sleep tonight i feel like i will be unable to function for it (but at the same time setting up a requirement that i sleep tonight seems counterproductive!)

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 14h

1) thank you that's helpful to hear because right now i'm at "if i have even one more 3-hour night i will probably Die" and i think i need to try being less dramatic
2) what did you do at night, i'm finding it's so boring being awake for that long
3) if you no longer have insomnia, how did it stop

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 14h

hormones are so rude!! i hope you figure out something that helps you

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 14h

maybe i should try this again now that i am a grownup (not seeing student health as my PCP)

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 14h

i might try to sauna this afternoon. braised vegetable

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 14h

the last time this happened to me I was in grad school and I went to student health and they just CBT-ed me to try to get me to accept the insomnia and move through it 😭 bro please just give me like one Ambien so I can have a normal night and reset

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 14h

is the answer "have a total fucking meltdown" because that's where i'm at

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 1d

What do you do when you can't sleep for a few nights in a row?

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 1d

What do you do when you can't sleep for a few nights in a row?

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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 1d

me when i fucking GET you

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 1d

old enough to remember when this was called Kremlinology :(

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 1d

Part of what I love is that her analysis of economic policy and its social effects makes "if birth rates do this, the economy will do that" look like the baby brain shit it is

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 5d

I love Melinda Cooper

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Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 5d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 1d

I can record a short video of myself and then just write scripts that an AI avatar of me will say? How about I just walk into the sea

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 1d

the bar is so low, and yet so many people fail to meet it

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 1d

I can't read past the first paragraph as a non-subscriber, but I love that the completely normal and sensible statement, "it's getting dark earlier, remember to watch for cyclists" immediately veers into blaming the cyclists

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 2d

Ohh yeah I know where that is but I never went in 😢 Missed out!

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 2d

What, where is that

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 2d

please don't hurt the drones 😔

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not really connected to it, but yes, there is still a former Toastie Slack in addition to the parenting slack I'm on! I think there might be Toastie Twitter Bluesky starter packs too

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 2d

oh another one is that I became involved in abortion stuff almost entirely through social media. I had done clinic escorting with my IRL bestie in DC, but everything after that, including my current OARS work, came through online connections. also from Toastie Twitter actually!

Leslie R😈😈t @lesja.bsky.social · 2d

finally, there are people who have to get abortions because of problems with the pregnancy, and our rhetoric should not abandon them. these people often feel profound grief. that doesn't mean abortion was the wrong choice; it just means that something really horrible happened to them.