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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 6h

I am a (very sporadically active) member of a group I joined two years ago. It's mostly Christian and active in their churches, white, suburban, men and women in their 70s. The group formed to educate itself on antiracism. They recently had a book discussion with questions sent out in advance.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 9h

I'm tired of how the original architects of the shitstorm we're living in all begin trying to get in their god's good graces the minute they get to the age when their time is almost up. No, Karl, you don't get to fuck off to heaven and leave us with this mess you created

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As some of my closer followers know, a month ago I had the unfortunate task of writing an obit and a eulogy for my mother. I had never written either and had no idea how. Went looking for instructions and the amount of work it now takes to dodge all the various AI helpfully trying to write one 4 u

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I couldn't finish the gift article on first try because it made me too angry. But now I did and omg wait till you guys see the construction the author wants to see your young adult children going into. Omg it's so funny I'm not even mad TO BUILD THE FUCKEN DATA CENTERS LMAO OH GOD

Silicon Valley and Wall Street are pouring trillions of dollars into the construction and maintenance of data centers. Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, an economist at Columbia University, projected that AI-related capital expenditures will make up 3.6 percent of America’s GDP each year through 2032, “larger relative to the economy than the major U.S. canal, railroad, electrification, highway, and telecommunications investment booms.” The build-out has created 216,000 construction and contractor jobs over the past four years, Goldman Sachs estimates.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WHY can't we have robots laying the damn BRICKS by the way? Asking as a close family member of someone who *did* graduate in the late 2010s and see the writing on the wall, and *is* trying to make a career in trades, +had in-laws who worked in construction. Ooh I've got stories.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can we find the people who invented and designed the blinking light on your car's side mirror when someone's in your blind spot, and put them in charge of everything? (No reason, just a random observation after driving across town in rush hour and being relieved to see everyone's mirrors blinking)

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wouldn't the reason why AI music sounds "very, very good" be that it had trained on decades of real music and finally stole enough from it to cobble together something that wouldn't sound out of place in a department store or your dentist's office? Support your local artists, not what this is

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wild to post something like this and turn the replies off, when the rest of us need to know 1) what is it and where can we buy it 2) how did kitty get up there

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I caught the tail end of similar to this vibe happening at Mensa events. The boomers were the main perps. People organized into groups, made looking out for each other their taken-seriously job, passed along the names of the guys that weren't safe to be around,

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is also the reason why I'm just now starting to come down from the deep, burning hatred for the mid-90s top 40 music Side note, at my first job, the teammate in the cube next to mine was a Black woman my age who had the radio on all day long and IT WAS A FULLY DIFFERENT TOP 40 W ZERO OVERLAP

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 13/12/2025

Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New, taller bookshelves: 0. Mishka: 1. He meowed for me to take a look. Please forgive the mess on the floor, I'm still in the process of merging my book collection/decor with my parents' (whose bookshelves these used to be) and organizing it all on the new shelves #caturday

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember everyone online saying "we just need to wait for the boomers to die off and then this country will recover". Now starting to hear that Gen X, in fact, needs to also die off (so another 40-50 years). But look at these guys. It's not about generations. We need a reform

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What are the odds, I just watched that episode last night

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hear me out: remake of the movie Overboard, but about this guy dropping his phone into traffic. Then a hot single-dad carpenter, who this guy had pulled a fast one on earlier, brings the guy to the modest apt he rents with his 3 kids and convinces the guy that they're married & these are their kids

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

surprise! there really IS a sinister and deeply evil ultra-rich entity manipulating US politics with space lasers, and it’s not the Jews, it’s Elon Musk.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026

this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh and another thing! Gen X is now ages 46 to 61. Most of us do not, in fact, work our asses off. The oldest of us are either enjoying a senior-level career with kids out of the house, or are retired. The youngest might the working a lot due to being at highest point in their careers/teenage kids.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I suggest we take it one step farther and rename it to "super hyper intelligent technology"

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Remember that I called it first. This is a meet-cute. This is the story they'll be telling their grandkids in late 21st century about how they met

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have no dog in this fight, but I do have opinions! 1) The Post found the "wealthy transplants remodeling the city to suit their needs" narrative and will exploit it to death and I don't like it at all 2) My mom regularly walked across a suburban six-lane road to neighborhood Aldi, for exercise

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Turns out lauren boebert was the one eating cats the whole time.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My state was a battleground, purple one when my family and I came to the US. Apparently was a blue state before that. I live in Ohio. There's no such thing as a safe state, super or not. Even CA and WA have entire communities of hard-right, MAGA voters, some of whom I used to know personally. Vote

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Puff Daddy's 'Vote Or Die' in South Park

Alt: Puff Daddy's 'Vote Or Die' in South Park

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know this is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it pisses me off to no end how, after DOGE cut all the bloat and waste/s, the weather forecasts are no longer to be trusted. I'm now out grocery shopping in pouring rain that my weather app said an hr ago would be a drizzle that'd end soon

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sadly accurate. Imagine, if you will, that it's 1949 and Germany is like "welp it's been a good four-year break, but we're going to try it again now"

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today in "Trump and RFK hate my cat and want him to die" This is from the online pharmacy where I buy Keith's inhalers. Keith is 13?14? years old and has asthma. He was a street cat for most of his life, it seems.

U.S. Government to Potentially Block International Prescription Shipments Starting October 22, 2026

Hi Maria,

Please place all new and refill orders prior to October 9th, 2026.

Beginning October 22, it is possible that prescription medication parcels could be blocked from entering the United States. This change stems from a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection (US CBP) policy on international mail, which will disrupt personal importation of medication.

What’s Changing

Parcels from pharmacies anywhere outside the United States will be reviewed and potentially refused if the medication is also sold in the U.S. This restriction could effectively close the personal importation pathway that millions of Americans have relied on for more than 25 years.

Keith is once again asking, "what the fuck, Donald?"

Photo of a grumpy-faced cat sitting on a bed with the foam letters in front of him spelling KEITH.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Found this when I was cleaning out mom's apartment. I'm fairly certain at least three babies in my family (myself and my both sons) slept on or under it at some point. So, of course, it is now being used by Uncle Keith, because he's also a baby

Photo of a cat sitting on a blue and white blanket that is laid on top of the fitted sheet on a bed

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026

Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”

A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”

Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What in the everloving fuck is dog autism I hate this timeline

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every job has a repetitive component. You'd think a guy whose job used to involve certifying every gas pump in Ohio* would know that. *That was where I first saw his name

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Brings to mind how, anytime in the past 25ish years, at any party that wasn't my work friends' get-together, whenever someone would ask "so what do you do" and I'd tell them, their eyes would glaze over and they'd skedaddle away, muttering "I know nothing about computers"

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At the risk of sounding like "not all religions", it's not all religions. E.g, the reconstructionist synagogue that I joined a couple of years ago stands for all the right causes. I am thinking of other church communities, both in the past and now, that fight the good fight.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Who cares if he pays these out of his pocket, or Lutnick's pocket, or robs graves at night to collect enough valuables to raise the money? I saw the video clip. He said he wants to pay people for voting a certain way. If that's what we are now, I can just pack up and go back to Russia bc same

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wish politicians would understand that, when they throw a vulnerable group under the bus for political points, no matter how tiny and inconsequential the group may seem, it gets all of us voters wondering who's next. My neighbor? My loved one? My family, myself?

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To paint all of you youngsters a picture of how weirdly insulated the workplaces were in my day, I didn't find out about the 9/11 attack until I went to grab lunch, to the only place in the area that had big screen TVs, and was surprised to find it packed at lunch on a Tuesday. Ppl stood in aisles

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When FB first became available for the public (07?) we all joined and started looking for classmates, former coworkers, etc. In 2010-11, I found the woman I was friends with at a job I had in 99-00. She said she was single again, looking, w/o success, "all I want is a good man" & I had just the man

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's not great that we have two parties, one made up of generally normal people—some of whom suck shit—and one made up of literal Nazi freaks, but we do in fact have that, so.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I did good today. (Got a notification about being added to a blocklist called "misogynists", followed the link to the profile of whoever created the list and)

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Holy shit I hate this timeline so much. Anyway, looks like Anthropic execs read the same short story by Sheckley that I did: www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2...

gutenberg.org

Watchbird

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The whole "would you like me to summarize everything for you" reminds me of an old Adam Sandler movie (I know, I know...) called Click, where he comes upon a magic remote that can fast-forward through the boring moments in your life - a meeting at work, a dinner at the in-laws'.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They were at one point, because they were slop at that point. Source: had blog. However 1) we wrote our own slop 2) it eventually either evolved to not-slop, or was abandoned by its authors, or is still considered slop, but more importantly 3)...

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