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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 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ soon.

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Latest posts by mashamasha.bsky.social on Bluesky

There are only two genders: Lampshade and Tripod

26.11.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wanted to write that their pharmacy search now works worse than the one my team wrote for the member portal it made 5 years ago, but that would be incorrect.

Theirs doesn't work at all. Entering zip is step 1, and if that fails, it doesn't let you advance to step 2.

26.11.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was "hmm not-Dan seemed so nice and polite, but didn't even text me back to say it's fine and whatnot, wonder why" reread my text to him again "oh shit"

Willing to bet πŸ’΅ not-Dan would've felt a lot better if I'd just never contacted him again. It's online dating. Everyone's juggling multitudes.

25.11.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Had a meh date over wings and beer. Didn't want another.

My dumb ass decided that ghosting would be rude and I needed to at least text him saying I didn't want a second date. My next started "Hi Dan," then went on to explain the rest.

Dan was the guy I'd gone out with two weeks earlier. 2/

25.11.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The one time I went on a first date with a guy two days after being mercilessly cut off by another guy whom I'd really liked and was shattered by him ending things (such as they were after three dates). Tried to back out of meeting guy #2 because I wasn't in the right place, but he insisted 1/2

25.11.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's not enough hard drugs in the world

25.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, a very fitting name for Secretary Brain Worm

25.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"We had these massive 50 pounds turkeys and then we had them in the ring with these, award-winning fighting bulls. And we made them, we made them fight to the death and the winner was going to eat the loser. And these turkeys, they won and that's how they got to eat the best MAHA-certified beef"

25.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello, sky friends. My younger son, his HS friend, and his boxing-class friend started a band. Enjoy the music videos, if that's your thing. (They are 30, 30, and 25+, and have all been playing for a while. The HS friend was a talented musician in HS.)

www.instagram.com/hungry.ghost...

25.11.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I set up a recurring donation a few months ago. The way it went from least to most reliable source in just a few years, and is staying that way even as the current admin is starting to go after it, is something I wouldn't have believed if you'd told me 10-15 years ago.

25.11.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I noticed is that the AI results are getting more accurate a little at a time. And why wouldn't they, it's been training on our search queries for what, a year now?

25.11.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And keep tabs on the users just in case someone later decides they wants us to.

25.11.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to see the C-suite meeting where marketing head was "well it was a good run, now let's really fuck up their search results when they expect it the least, and see what happens"

25.11.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember its early days when you had to carefully structure your search like you would a SQL query, or you'd get no results. Then one day i asked it something in normal human language and it gave me the result I was looking for. I was, finally, we have a great search engine! That was ten years ago

25.11.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh it is totally both. We are so lucky that they are even less competent than his cabinet and staff were in the first term. We'd all be dead, in camps, or on house arrest with all our assets transferred to our husband or oldest male blood relative, if they had the skills to accomplish their goals.

25.11.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I left one comment on the rice saga here on bsky, 14 months ago. A week doesn't go by that someone doesn't like that comment. The saga is being read and reread, as the prophets foretold.

25.11.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's admit it, we've all had this manager at some point in our career.

With one minor difference - our idiot bosses weren't in command of the most powerful army in the world.

25.11.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have only seen screenshots of these glorious interactions. It was apparently a popular pastime on Twitter.

25.11.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not me, I'm playing the long game here. Going to wait a few weeks, post a pic of latkes, and wait to see what he has to say

25.11.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just when we all thought it couldn't get any worse than it had been in the last century, it somehow did

25.11.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dude's been here six hours. Barely put his bags down and taken his traveling shoes off. And look at him already achieving bluesky fame. Damn.

24.11.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I love cream. I love mushrooms. I tried to love this soup when we first came here, but it was pretty hard to love.

I love green beans too and am not putting that thing on them.

24.11.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please don't tell me how great my life was in the country where I was supposed to fuck my friend's husband if I wanted to buy, with my own money, at above market rate, a goddamn futon to sleep on. /End

24.11.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"I'll see what I can do. Btw my wife took the kids to visit her parents for two weeks. I'm on my own for two weeks. I'm going to stop by later today"

His wife was my friend.

He knocked and rang the doorbell, I didn't come to the door.

My fiance moved in a month later. We slept on the floor 4/

24.11.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They went as far as calling him into our office and telling him he had to help me out. He knew the right people and could set me up with some tables and futons on sale.

We got in his car and he drove me to a couple empty stores in the area.

On the drive back, he hinted that he could help me 3/

24.11.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My parents were willing to spot me the cash, if I could find any furniture on sale anywhere. But I couldn't. You had to know the right people and I didn't. Furniture store was empty.

Women at my work pointed me to a guy at work who'd just finished furnishihg his new place and had connections. 2/

24.11.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In 1991, my turn somehow came up to be assigned an apartment (yay). It was in an old building and in a bad neighborhood, and everyone ahead of me on the list had said no. But I was getting married later that year. I wasn't about to say no.

I had no furniture though.

1/

24.11.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

And doesn't bring new people into this world that their fathers aren't prepared to raise (because nothing will convince me that someone who's "in trouble" is going to do a stellar job raising a large family)

24.11.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Then, at the last holiday dinner dad was able to make to when he was alive (Thanksgiving 2012), I somehow got distracted and failed to stop him from delivering a monologue to my two sons, myself, and my mom, on how the white race will soon stop being the majority and isn't it just awful πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

24.11.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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