Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk
@mashamasha.bsky.social
This is my hometown in the pfp. I immigrated to the US in 97. Gen X, mother to two millennials. I write code for a living. Hope for my country of birth to lose the war to 🇺🇦 already.
When I first came here, I had 0 cats. Now I have 2. Bsky magic.
When I first came here, I had 0 cats. Now I have 2. Bsky magic.
Pinned
I block tankies and the tankie-adjacent individuals who try to Westsplain my birth country and my childhood to me. If this is you, please feel free to block me first. We have nothing to say to each other.
All this and I want to add - and why would we even want to crow about it on social media, when the govt is opposed to every last bit of this kind of action? The time for creating FB events for protests is over. The time for keeping a low profile is now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
All this and I want to add - and why would we even want to crow about it on social media, when the govt is opposed to every last bit of this kind of action? The time for creating FB events for protests is over. The time for keeping a low profile is now.
(checks my heartbeat on both sides) so that's how I get to find out I'm an alien from outer space. Cool cool cool
February 9, 2026 at 8:12 PM
(checks my heartbeat on both sides) so that's how I get to find out I'm an alien from outer space. Cool cool cool
Our taxes at work
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Our taxes at work
Bet there'll be no or the bare minimal AC in these buildings
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Bet there'll be no or the bare minimal AC in these buildings
When I was a smol kid and couldn't remember which is left, I was taught to check where my heartbeat was. That's your left, anonymous contributor. You're welcome if you're reading this.
February 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
When I was a smol kid and couldn't remember which is left, I was taught to check where my heartbeat was. That's your left, anonymous contributor. You're welcome if you're reading this.
I'm old enough to remember that he originally ran on promises to "drain the swamp" and cut taxes. Both super appealing to the libertarian crowd. Two ppl in my immediate family voted for him because of it.
February 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I'm old enough to remember that he originally ran on promises to "drain the swamp" and cut taxes. Both super appealing to the libertarian crowd. Two ppl in my immediate family voted for him because of it.
But all of it makes me introspective. Any strain, any type. None of it makes me social. I agree with you on that.
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
But all of it makes me introspective. Any strain, any type. None of it makes me social. I agree with you on that.
"Masha, are you okay? You haven't said a word for the past hour" and I'd think "it's been an hour already?" Which would also be the only thought I'd have until the high wore off.
Got a medical card in '24, turned out, it was just the wrong strain (and also really shitty quality).
Got a medical card in '24, turned out, it was just the wrong strain (and also really shitty quality).
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
"Masha, are you okay? You haven't said a word for the past hour" and I'd think "it's been an hour already?" Which would also be the only thought I'd have until the high wore off.
Got a medical card in '24, turned out, it was just the wrong strain (and also really shitty quality).
Got a medical card in '24, turned out, it was just the wrong strain (and also really shitty quality).
I dated a guy for two years who was a self-proclaimed stoner, grew his own, and used to hand me a joint the moment I walked into his house to visit for the weekend.
After two years together, I was certain I couldn't handle weed. It shut my brain off. His friends would say things like,
After two years together, I was certain I couldn't handle weed. It shut my brain off. His friends would say things like,
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I dated a guy for two years who was a self-proclaimed stoner, grew his own, and used to hand me a joint the moment I walked into his house to visit for the weekend.
After two years together, I was certain I couldn't handle weed. It shut my brain off. His friends would say things like,
After two years together, I was certain I couldn't handle weed. It shut my brain off. His friends would say things like,
Looked them up, one serves Mexican food and the other American food. Literally zero need to name them the equivalent of "this isn't a (any other cuisine) restaurant".
February 9, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Looked them up, one serves Mexican food and the other American food. Literally zero need to name them the equivalent of "this isn't a (any other cuisine) restaurant".
JFC that's insane
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
JFC that's insane
Oh damn. Yes that's a valid reason. Leave it to humans to spoil a good word.
February 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Oh damn. Yes that's a valid reason. Leave it to humans to spoil a good word.
I didn't know it was a thing, until I told my friend that I'd been bummed about my "potato nose" all through my teen years and she said "are you kidding? You have the nose that my classmates in my NJ private school got plastic surgeries to have!" (I got mine from my v.v. Jewish father.)
February 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I didn't know it was a thing, until I told my friend that I'd been bummed about my "potato nose" all through my teen years and she said "are you kidding? You have the nose that my classmates in my NJ private school got plastic surgeries to have!" (I got mine from my v.v. Jewish father.)
This *1000. Tokens get spent, Laura.
February 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This *1000. Tokens get spent, Laura.
Also the word they're thinking of is the one a past friend told me she'd been called in our community when she, an ethnic Russian, moved to the US with her Jewish husband; "sh&&sa". That is the derogatory term. Tbf, I don't use either, myself.
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Also the word they're thinking of is the one a past friend told me she'd been called in our community when she, an ethnic Russian, moved to the US with her Jewish husband; "sh&&sa". That is the derogatory term. Tbf, I don't use either, myself.
I would love to see another diagram, of people who would casually use a slur to describe a human of any race or ethnicity other than theirs, and the people who think "goy" is derogatory.
February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I would love to see another diagram, of people who would casually use a slur to describe a human of any race or ethnicity other than theirs, and the people who think "goy" is derogatory.
Ohh I didn't know it.
Back when I played words with friends on my phone, iirc it wouldn't let me play either one; "Jew" or "goy".
Back when I played words with friends on my phone, iirc it wouldn't let me play either one; "Jew" or "goy".
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Ohh I didn't know it.
Back when I played words with friends on my phone, iirc it wouldn't let me play either one; "Jew" or "goy".
Back when I played words with friends on my phone, iirc it wouldn't let me play either one; "Jew" or "goy".
I hope everyone on every Dem's campaign team saw or heard "the Epstein class". This needs to become a household term
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I hope everyone on every Dem's campaign team saw or heard "the Epstein class". This needs to become a household term
We're bringing the world together *sheds a tear*
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 7, 2026 at 3:46 AM
We're bringing the world together *sheds a tear*
He did not read that book to the end, did he
February 5, 2026 at 7:42 PM
He did not read that book to the end, did he
Real footage of them beating the crap out of Tren de Aragua:
February 5, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Real footage of them beating the crap out of Tren de Aragua:
Ohh like Obummer 🤮 I thought this lovely trend would have died with the people who started it filling the nations nursing homes and cemeteries. Fortunately, Michael was here to carry on the tradition.
February 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Ohh like Obummer 🤮 I thought this lovely trend would have died with the people who started it filling the nations nursing homes and cemeteries. Fortunately, Michael was here to carry on the tradition.
What? That's crazy. What's his reasoning behind this? As someone from a country that did at one point have its secret service abduct its citizens at night, I can only think of one reason to do it that way; that no one is there to stop you & no one notices it the next day that their neighbor is gone
February 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
What? That's crazy. What's his reasoning behind this? As someone from a country that did at one point have its secret service abduct its citizens at night, I can only think of one reason to do it that way; that no one is there to stop you & no one notices it the next day that their neighbor is gone
Did he come out of the sea perchance?
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Did he come out of the sea perchance?
Thank you for helping me out with my confusion. I was here like "but 67 is elder X?"
February 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Thank you for helping me out with my confusion. I was here like "but 67 is elder X?"