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 now have two cats! One was my son's but now he's all mine. I write code for a living. Hope for my country of birth to lose the war to 🇺🇦 soon.
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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.
Became an adult in 1990s Russia. Can confirm. Oh oh story time!!!
My husband, two kids and I lived in an apartment that I was assigned from work (which already put us ahead of most young adults in our town). It was on first floor of a 9-floor building, right across from the entrance.
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My husband, two kids and I lived in an apartment that I was assigned from work (which already put us ahead of most young adults in our town). It was on first floor of a 9-floor building, right across from the entrance.
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People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon
December 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Became an adult in 1990s Russia. Can confirm. Oh oh story time!!!
My husband, two kids and I lived in an apartment that I was assigned from work (which already put us ahead of most young adults in our town). It was on first floor of a 9-floor building, right across from the entrance.
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My husband, two kids and I lived in an apartment that I was assigned from work (which already put us ahead of most young adults in our town). It was on first floor of a 9-floor building, right across from the entrance.
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I firmly believe that it was a setup. She wouldn't have made it to junior year if that was her regular day-to-day schoolwork. She deliberately farted out an essay that reads like it was written by a raccoon who'd eaten a Bible for lunch earlier that day, to get the results that she got.
I’d like to frame that story and hang it in the office of every journalist who’s met my skepticism about rw cancel culture stories with a question like “but then why are there so many of these stories?” (2/4)
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I firmly believe that it was a setup. She wouldn't have made it to junior year if that was her regular day-to-day schoolwork. She deliberately farted out an essay that reads like it was written by a raccoon who'd eaten a Bible for lunch earlier that day, to get the results that she got.
My kids' dad was born in Tajikistan, then moved to Ukraine, then Russia, then here. His childhood friend moved to Israel first, then Germany.
Was chatting with x when I was over there for younger son's bday hang and x quoted this friend as saying there are "too many immigrants" in Germany 🤦🏼♀️
Was chatting with x when I was over there for younger son's bday hang and x quoted this friend as saying there are "too many immigrants" in Germany 🤦🏼♀️
Great insight, also applies to MAGA contempt for Europe but differently. US progressives have an idealized distorted vision of a social-democratic Europe. It is this progressive-imaginary Europe that MAGA hates. Actual Europe, which neither US progs nor MAGA know much about, is collateral damage.
This is a good piece and I agree with all of it. But I'd add that a lot of Americans on encountering Actually Existing England come down with a version of "Paris Syndrome" - a widely recognised phenomenon described as....
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My kids' dad was born in Tajikistan, then moved to Ukraine, then Russia, then here. His childhood friend moved to Israel first, then Germany.
Was chatting with x when I was over there for younger son's bday hang and x quoted this friend as saying there are "too many immigrants" in Germany 🤦🏼♀️
Was chatting with x when I was over there for younger son's bday hang and x quoted this friend as saying there are "too many immigrants" in Germany 🤦🏼♀️
A whole exhibit of nothing but Rousseau! I love him. Do I love him enough to drive to Philly and back in the dead of winter? Maybe? Who knows!
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social on a new show from Rousseau and his “deceit and imagination,” fixing his mental image on canvas no matter what—insisting, for example, that an oversized dog he’d painted in an otherwise fairly normal portrait must be that size.” flaminghydra.com/r/c9218dde?m...
The mighty jungle
David Moore visits the new Rousseau exhibit
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December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A whole exhibit of nothing but Rousseau! I love him. Do I love him enough to drive to Philly and back in the dead of winter? Maybe? Who knows!
I initially thought this was from my new Onion subscription. Rapidly building nuclear reactors with AI.
The email closes with, "Preparing you for the future!" but, if this is the future, we're all gonna die soon right?
Let the drunken orgies commence! It's the end of the world
The email closes with, "Preparing you for the future!" but, if this is the future, we're all gonna die soon right?
Let the drunken orgies commence! It's the end of the world
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I initially thought this was from my new Onion subscription. Rapidly building nuclear reactors with AI.
The email closes with, "Preparing you for the future!" but, if this is the future, we're all gonna die soon right?
Let the drunken orgies commence! It's the end of the world
The email closes with, "Preparing you for the future!" but, if this is the future, we're all gonna die soon right?
Let the drunken orgies commence! It's the end of the world
My new Dr's office has positive affirmations posted in it 💗
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My new Dr's office has positive affirmations posted in it 💗
Can we test it by burying AI and then, if it comes back on the third day, we agree to worship it, if it doesn't, oh well
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Can we test it by burying AI and then, if it comes back on the third day, we agree to worship it, if it doesn't, oh well
Cleaning the oven. The cleaner reminded me of the cringiest joke someone emailed me once in the 90s. Took me 3 years into menopause to even get it. Couldn't find it online (thank dog) so here goes.
A man comes to a Dr saying he just got married, but is having problems in bed. He comes too fast 1/
A man comes to a Dr saying he just got married, but is having problems in bed. He comes too fast 1/
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Cleaning the oven. The cleaner reminded me of the cringiest joke someone emailed me once in the 90s. Took me 3 years into menopause to even get it. Couldn't find it online (thank dog) so here goes.
A man comes to a Dr saying he just got married, but is having problems in bed. He comes too fast 1/
A man comes to a Dr saying he just got married, but is having problems in bed. He comes too fast 1/
My holiday magic tips and tricks:
I do gift exchanges with friends. You just need to watch how much you spend, it's easy to dump a wild amount of $ w/o noticing.
I go to a holiday fair in my city to get gifts for said exchanges
And to a local bookstore to buy cards for the card exchange
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I do gift exchanges with friends. You just need to watch how much you spend, it's easy to dump a wild amount of $ w/o noticing.
I go to a holiday fair in my city to get gifts for said exchanges
And to a local bookstore to buy cards for the card exchange
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December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My holiday magic tips and tricks:
I do gift exchanges with friends. You just need to watch how much you spend, it's easy to dump a wild amount of $ w/o noticing.
I go to a holiday fair in my city to get gifts for said exchanges
And to a local bookstore to buy cards for the card exchange
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I do gift exchanges with friends. You just need to watch how much you spend, it's easy to dump a wild amount of $ w/o noticing.
I go to a holiday fair in my city to get gifts for said exchanges
And to a local bookstore to buy cards for the card exchange
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I had my first magical Xmas at age 43. It can be done.
We'd all left religion. I'd just ended my first post-divorce relationship. The kids were at their dad's. Even the dog wasn't home. It was just me, in a treeless house, no chores to do, on the couch watching Xmas vacation and it felt glorious.
We'd all left religion. I'd just ended my first post-divorce relationship. The kids were at their dad's. Even the dog wasn't home. It was just me, in a treeless house, no chores to do, on the couch watching Xmas vacation and it felt glorious.
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I had my first magical Xmas at age 43. It can be done.
We'd all left religion. I'd just ended my first post-divorce relationship. The kids were at their dad's. Even the dog wasn't home. It was just me, in a treeless house, no chores to do, on the couch watching Xmas vacation and it felt glorious.
We'd all left religion. I'd just ended my first post-divorce relationship. The kids were at their dad's. Even the dog wasn't home. It was just me, in a treeless house, no chores to do, on the couch watching Xmas vacation and it felt glorious.
Of all recent developments, somehow, the enshittification of LinkedIn enrages me the most. I mean, look:
2013 - I get a message from a former CIO, with his number and a lunch invite, that led to the job I have today. The lunch was an interview/offer.
2021 - FB reaches out and interviews me 1/
2013 - I get a message from a former CIO, with his number and a lunch invite, that led to the job I have today. The lunch was an interview/offer.
2021 - FB reaches out and interviews me 1/
December 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Of all recent developments, somehow, the enshittification of LinkedIn enrages me the most. I mean, look:
2013 - I get a message from a former CIO, with his number and a lunch invite, that led to the job I have today. The lunch was an interview/offer.
2021 - FB reaches out and interviews me 1/
2013 - I get a message from a former CIO, with his number and a lunch invite, that led to the job I have today. The lunch was an interview/offer.
2021 - FB reaches out and interviews me 1/
When my HS friend who is now a pastor and get his paycheck from US evangelicals, wished me "to be surprised by joy" for my birthday this year, this must've been what he meant, because I'm sure as shit surprised by the joy that this human being, raised by humans, is not ashamed to speak in public abt
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
When my HS friend who is now a pastor and get his paycheck from US evangelicals, wished me "to be surprised by joy" for my birthday this year, this must've been what he meant, because I'm sure as shit surprised by the joy that this human being, raised by humans, is not ashamed to speak in public abt
This is scary. My country of origin wasn't forthcoming with info, and I assumed it'd revoked our citizenship when we left, like it used to do before. It didn't. I found out six years after our passports expired.
Renewal process w expired passport looked nearly impossible. Revoking 1/
Renewal process w expired passport looked nearly impossible. Revoking 1/
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is scary. My country of origin wasn't forthcoming with info, and I assumed it'd revoked our citizenship when we left, like it used to do before. It didn't. I found out six years after our passports expired.
Renewal process w expired passport looked nearly impossible. Revoking 1/
Renewal process w expired passport looked nearly impossible. Revoking 1/
I feel like a complete fool now because I assumed it was her way of "witnessing" to her peers and teachers; something I was also taught how to do in my brief time as evangelical (like in this photo).
This isn't the 80s anymore and what she's trying to do here is a lot more sinister, it turns out.
This isn't the 80s anymore and what she's trying to do here is a lot more sinister, it turns out.
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I feel like a complete fool now because I assumed it was her way of "witnessing" to her peers and teachers; something I was also taught how to do in my brief time as evangelical (like in this photo).
This isn't the 80s anymore and what she's trying to do here is a lot more sinister, it turns out.
This isn't the 80s anymore and what she's trying to do here is a lot more sinister, it turns out.
It is rated 9.1 on IMDB.
I looked up IMDB's top rated shows of all time and it is a list of classics. Only a handful rated 9.1 or higher.
What is happening
I looked up IMDB's top rated shows of all time and it is a list of classics. Only a handful rated 9.1 or higher.
What is happening
So there's this show about the life of Jesus, The Chosen, and as the actors are young men and this is television, it's pretty much Christ and the Twelve Snacks. My mom has said some things about Jesus that had me raising my eyebrows.
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It is rated 9.1 on IMDB.
I looked up IMDB's top rated shows of all time and it is a list of classics. Only a handful rated 9.1 or higher.
What is happening
I looked up IMDB's top rated shows of all time and it is a list of classics. Only a handful rated 9.1 or higher.
What is happening
Reposted by Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk
Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
The identical twin brother of MAGA Texas Rep. Troy Nehls is hoping to replace his brother in Congress after Nehls announced his retirement on Saturday.
MAGA Rep. Tries to Hand Seat to Literally Identical Successor
Trever Nehls is hoping to replace his brother, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, in Congress.
trib.al
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
"I get tired when I'm around exhausting people, but hanging with loved ones helps me recharge. I also sometimes need to be on my own."
"What kind of depraved being even are you? Are you extravert or introvert? Make up your mind ffs. There are only two verts (vertices?), as God intended."
"What kind of depraved being even are you? Are you extravert or introvert? Make up your mind ffs. There are only two verts (vertices?), as God intended."
learning about “omniverts” and “ambiverts” and i think we need to take the ability to make up words away from some people
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"I get tired when I'm around exhausting people, but hanging with loved ones helps me recharge. I also sometimes need to be on my own."
"What kind of depraved being even are you? Are you extravert or introvert? Make up your mind ffs. There are only two verts (vertices?), as God intended."
"What kind of depraved being even are you? Are you extravert or introvert? Make up your mind ffs. There are only two verts (vertices?), as God intended."
Ok I need to be offline more, I goofed that one really hard. I meant to say I have a son who was A COLLEGE FRESHMAN in 2011 lmao what the heck
I was 44 telling people Keith's age that they were too old for me. Meanwhile there Keith was with a woman my son's age.
I was 44 telling people Keith's age that they were too old for me. Meanwhile there Keith was with a woman my son's age.
I was on dating apps in 2011, telling people Keith's age that no, the age gap was too big for me to date them, and I have a son born in 2011.
If I were him, I would simply never mention it again to anyone.
If I were him, I would simply never mention it again to anyone.
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ok I need to be offline more, I goofed that one really hard. I meant to say I have a son who was A COLLEGE FRESHMAN in 2011 lmao what the heck
I was 44 telling people Keith's age that they were too old for me. Meanwhile there Keith was with a woman my son's age.
I was 44 telling people Keith's age that they were too old for me. Meanwhile there Keith was with a woman my son's age.
This person, in her mind:
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This person, in her mind:
The bean dish reminded me of a guy I dated who never had any produce in the house, and said he hated vegetables.
Mind you, the man could cook! Grew up in the South and worked at a BBQ place all through college.
He told me his mom's idea of a side of veg was microwaved beans and carrots from a can
Mind you, the man could cook! Grew up in the South and worked at a BBQ place all through college.
He told me his mom's idea of a side of veg was microwaved beans and carrots from a can
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The bean dish reminded me of a guy I dated who never had any produce in the house, and said he hated vegetables.
Mind you, the man could cook! Grew up in the South and worked at a BBQ place all through college.
He told me his mom's idea of a side of veg was microwaved beans and carrots from a can
Mind you, the man could cook! Grew up in the South and worked at a BBQ place all through college.
He told me his mom's idea of a side of veg was microwaved beans and carrots from a can
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Scorpions (80s)
ДДТ (80s)
Radiohead (twice in the 2010s)
Pine Leaf Boys (2016. Look them up)
Nathan-Paul and The Admirables (amazing local artists. Look them up)
Scorpions (80s)
ДДТ (80s)
Radiohead (twice in the 2010s)
Pine Leaf Boys (2016. Look them up)
Nathan-Paul and The Admirables (amazing local artists. Look them up)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Virgin Mobile '08
Wu-Tang '24
Pink Floyd (no RW) '94
Chuck Berry '09
Tori Amos '97
Virgin Mobile '08
Wu-Tang '24
Pink Floyd (no RW) '94
Chuck Berry '09
Tori Amos '97
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
NiN
Orbital
Soundgarden
Tom Petty
David Byrne
NiN
Orbital
Soundgarden
Tom Petty
David Byrne
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Scorpions (80s)
ДДТ (80s)
Radiohead (twice in the 2010s)
Pine Leaf Boys (2016. Look them up)
Nathan-Paul and The Admirables (amazing local artists. Look them up)
Scorpions (80s)
ДДТ (80s)
Radiohead (twice in the 2010s)
Pine Leaf Boys (2016. Look them up)
Nathan-Paul and The Admirables (amazing local artists. Look them up)
Realized that the way I define my family isn't normal and that most people don't do holidays with their ex-spouses.
Yes, "we all agreed" includes my ex. The man I barely agreed on anything with when we were married to each other. That's big.
Yes, "we all agreed" includes my ex. The man I barely agreed on anything with when we were married to each other. That's big.
This, btw, (that it needs to be regulated) was something my entire family agreed on last night; first thing we all agreed on in a long time.
Apparently I cannot remove myself from the list.
Apparently I cannot remove myself from the list.
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Realized that the way I define my family isn't normal and that most people don't do holidays with their ex-spouses.
Yes, "we all agreed" includes my ex. The man I barely agreed on anything with when we were married to each other. That's big.
Yes, "we all agreed" includes my ex. The man I barely agreed on anything with when we were married to each other. That's big.
Last night one of y'all had too much tryptophan and added me to a list of people who hate people who use AI. This is bogus. I think AI is the tech with great potential to improve our lives; and that the amount it's being regulated rn (ZERO) is bad and needs to be a lot higher.
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Last night one of y'all had too much tryptophan and added me to a list of people who hate people who use AI. This is bogus. I think AI is the tech with great potential to improve our lives; and that the amount it's being regulated rn (ZERO) is bad and needs to be a lot higher.
Latkes
Mount Rushmore of foods that taste better the next day is a great idea
Beef Stew
Gumbo
Chicken Adobo
What's the 4th one?
Beef Stew
Gumbo
Chicken Adobo
What's the 4th one?
What’s your Mount Rushmore of foods that taste better the next day?
Inspired by making gumbo tonight
Inspired by making gumbo tonight
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Latkes
Someone please help me understand. If it is a net positive for humanity, then why are the people currently leading the process of actively pushing it on all of us, also the people who would gladly push humanity into a, to quote one of them, wood chipper if it makes them an extra couple of bucks?
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Someone please help me understand. If it is a net positive for humanity, then why are the people currently leading the process of actively pushing it on all of us, also the people who would gladly push humanity into a, to quote one of them, wood chipper if it makes them an extra couple of bucks?