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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk

@mashamasha.bsky.social
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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.

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 13h
Wow, yes I've been following HCR for a while now. Thank you! I'll check it out.
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 23h
Can confirm, as a woman who's attracted to men, only time I really noticed a man at my gym was when a guy would regularly do a full dance routine between sets, just dancing his heart out. And I still couldn't tell you what The Dancing King was wearing
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"using this site as intended, but it being a bad thing somehow"😭
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Last week, somebody added me to their "incites or spreads discourse" list and I've been thinking a lot-ish about wtf it means. Do I join the conversations on here and make them more interesting by joining? Do I start conversations that people enjoy being a part of? Aww shucks. You shouldn't have!💕
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
HAIL JADIS youtu.be/mZgB5D74ivc?...
youtu.be
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew - Official Trailer - Only In Cinemas February 11
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Releasing UK
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe was the first to come out. But both copies of the series that I've owned (in two languages), had The Magician's Nephew come first in the series. It is also chronologically first, so yes kind of a prequel. One of the sets I had looked like this photo:
Photo of a boxed set of the Chronicles of Narnia books, with The Magician's Nephew as number 1.
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hide your wives, hide your pens. Ken is coming
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's the looking at her notes before reading from them that we "have a booming economy" for me 😭
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
*excited about reading the comments+quotes* oh fun
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I went to school there
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Small world, most of my extended family that I have here is from there.
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The play (article is from last year, but the cast did it again last weekend): coolcleveland.com/events/dulci...
coolcleveland.com
“Dulcimer Diaries” Tells the Story of 19th-Century Abolitionist John Brown | CoolCleveland
Serious about the city. Crazy about all it has to offer. Free. Online. Now.
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I was at a play this weekend, and, halfway through, a realization hit me: "What if the Civil War never ended and is still ongoing?" No no, I said to myself, that's not a serious opinion, I'm better off not sharing it with anyone. But how else can one explain whatever this is?
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I never watched, somehow. But I heard Shane Gillis (whose acts I've also never seen) being described as a talented comedian and am very confused right now. This wasn't good, it wasn't even hacky, it's just straight up not comedy
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just looked at your bio and wow. My ex's family was from Tajikistan. They left in the mid-80s after an earthquake damaged their apartment building. Their relatives followed in the 90s, saying they'd escaped war and famine. Last he checked, none of his old friends still lived there. Everyone had left
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, about our future if this *gestures wildly around* continues Not a serious history book, but I was thinking it the other day while looking at the news that it's time for me to reread Moscow 2042 again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_...
en.wikipedia.org
Moscow 2042 - Wikipedia
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Was that supposed to be funny? That's just old man yelling at gym shorts
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I was following her, as it turned out. I have no explanation for this bizarre past behavior of mine.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A brilliant example of the craft of investigative journalism, from the evidence gathered to the descriptions of the people & places. And then there's the story itself, which is horrifying, but ultimately inspiring. God bless this young woman for persisting. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
motherjones.com
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the world's richest man tries to use his social media platform and his AI engine to do the thing thousands of scammers do every day hahaha tell Elon I respect the hustle
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hm I had a great-aunt who died of uterine cancer. They probably didn't check for the benign ones when and where most of my ancestors were alive, so maybe?
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Exactly my thought. There were a lot more. It's just that they didn't feel comfortable enough to start on the ones who look like me until this year
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Stop. Don't. Email me
static.klipy.com
Willie Wonka: No. Stop. Don't.
Alt: Willie Wonka: No. Stop. Don't.
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(one example of what I mean by buses being shitty: decided to take 2 trains and a bus home from last year's no Kings. Trains performed great and I arrived at my bus stop on time, only to find out that bus had left 7 min early and next one was in an hour. Wtf is this left early? Illogical)
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
People have been begging for more rail for decades now. There's a chart of what our extended rail system could look like that's been circulating on Reddit forever. The metro area leadership needs to just give it to us already
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My city has a public rail system that is efficient, heavily used, trains run on time (lol), but it ends at near suburbs and even there, most train stops aren't in walking distance for most. Outside of that, we have park&ride (where a friend's car was broken into while he was at work) & shitty buses
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ooh that's good thinking. Hadn't even occurred to me, I was just "yay clearance"
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I feel that we're past "these guys are freaks" and at the point of "we are all mad as hell at what's happening to the country and to us. How do we fix it and make sure it doesn't happen again in 2-4-6 years?" "Haha look at these clowns" worked until the clowns started killing people for real
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thank you both again. Ordered five pairs. I thought I'd never get to wear new jeans again, the prices are way up from what they used to be and I'm difficult to shop for to begin with (need a higher than usual# inseam). The 2-3 pairs I have now are all thrifted
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I need jeans and will look them up. What did your wife's value end up being lol
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John HELL Roberson @jlroberson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff follows the dictum I spoke years ago which is when they go low that's when you kick them in the head
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I mean offline is FAR! three miles one way, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways. You can't expect someone to say "I'm going offline" and then immediately do it
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I checked, they're not offline, but just said it an hour ago that they really need to get there
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My sources tell me that Spencer Pratt is three weasels in a trenchcoat. I have all the sympathy. No weasel should be plucked out of their natural habitat and forced to write long missives on X dot com. Let us all bow our heads and pray for the innocent animals 🙏🏼
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But heaven forbid there's a woman in a public bathroom or locker room whose looks don't fully meet Nancy's standards of feminity. Priorities, amirite?
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They want to do the fucking slave ships I hate this I hate this so so so much
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*till their late 50s. Not the 1950s in which case they would've never met and I wouldn't be here typing this
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"She took the kids, whom I love and miss spending time with. I was the primary parental figure in their lives, what's wrong with her that she took that away" - this guy and definitely not Claude
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To be fair, when mine were young, the % of the time when I fell asleep in the middle of reading them a bedtime story was prob 100. Most of those times, I continued reading while asleep. Still beats having a robot tuck them in while I'm in my home office approving a PR or smth important like that
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My parents had never seen an offer of extra hours, a night shift, weekend work or cutting a vacation short to work, that they could say no to. They lived in the USSR/Russia till late 50s, but thought workaholism was the American work ethics (and were kind of right)
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I was taught early in my US career that work is a place where we have to go to earn money, paid vacation time, and healthcare access, so we can spend all these things on things that really matter; ourselves, our loved ones, our community. Had to unlearn what my parents had taught me re work
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh yeah sorry I didn't clarify that the past tense is because I switched to Deezer last year because of Spotify running ice ads at the time. They dropped the ads later but I'm already used to deezer
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
She took 5,714,285.7142857 fewer trips to Starbucks, ez pz
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"if you already cut Starbucks out of your life years ago to save money and money is still tight, then, idk, maybe stay away from your fridge, you wastrel. Did you know Jesus fasted for 40 days straight, no food, no drink, in the desert, without AC btw so turn that off too"
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Meanwhile, I hated the spotify algorithm! "Hey, we noticed that you listened to this one Russian song from the 80s once because it reminded you of a college boyfriend. Here's a playlist of 2025 Russian chanson that we will keep playing at you until you pull over and turn the whole app off"
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Become unwashable
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I see the party of meritocracy is once again out there with new fresh ideas like quotas and handing out jobs to any applicant who fits their preferred demographics
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Saw a clip of him in an interview on here yesterday and my first thought was "wow Jeff has gotten chonky" but we are about the same age and I did too, so I let it slide
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Isn't that pretty much the reasoning behind every genocide in history? I assume this is a copy of another one of their posts, in which case, oof
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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Interesting how most of the people saying it were themselves born on stolen land, something they had no control over, just like the settler babies. Yet they are still alive and plan to continue in that way for the next 70ish years
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