mashamasha.bsky.social
This is my hometown in the pfp. I immigrated to the US in 97. Gen X, mother to two millennials. I have a senior toothless cat whom I named Keith. I write code for a living. Hope for my country of birth to lose the war to 🇺🇦 soon.
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I loved the movie for reminding us to do this, watched it twice, will likely rewatch again.
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That's my thinking exactly. Oh, we love vigilante political killings now? You know who else does? Just about every Trump supporter and most of them are armed, now what
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I was so naive to think that it wouldn't occur to anyone to try and do any of those things with a country, and look at the current admin go and prove me wrong. fucking idiot criminals
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That said, he apparently sponsored the Laken Riley act when it was first introduced, so I don't know what to think of that. thecourier.com/news/511816/...
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He briefly considered running for President in (2020 I think?) then decided against it as he didn't want to vacate his Senate seat to be filled by whomever DeWine would have nominated.
It is no longer an issue and I've been thinking about it a lot. That said, I don't know if he still wants it. 1/2
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There is no way he'll succeed.
Granted, the rich kids will either never get drafted or buy their way out of it.
But I don't think he'll get anybody else to comply either.
Source: home country has had draft since before I was born. Expanded it in '23 and a ton of people left the country.
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time seeing a soap! Streets would empty every evening. (I didn't watch though.) Mom called me one evening and one of aunt's neighbors beat me to the phone. Picked it up, said " CANNOT TALK, WE ARE WATCHING THE SHOW" and hung up. She later said she didn't know what'd come over her. The power of art!🔚
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either that or flood the town with a new litter of feral cats every three months. Thankfully it was no longer the case in the 80s and aunt found new homes for all kittens but one, whom she kept.
Second story. In the late 80s Russia showed a Brazilian telenovela on national TV. Everyone's first 4/
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Turned out, it was mom's chore as a preteen and teen kid. It was the late 40s in a war-ravaged town, neutering and spaying wasn't a thing, her mom was broke and working 2 jobs to feed the kids so vet wasn't an option, if vets even existed in 1948 Russia. Indoor cats weren't a thing. It was 3/
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"Yes"
"Good. Now listen to me carefully, I only have three minutes. You need to drown the kittens."
"Mom!!! I cannot drown the kittens!"
"Oh it's easy, I'll tell you how, listen cause I only have three minutes. You take a kitten to the bathroom"
"MOM I'M NOT DROWNING ANY CATS"
(3 minutes end)2/
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I thought the reason why he was firing top-ranking officers is that he's building a loyalist army, out of people who'd have no compunction against rolling tanks down a city street or firing at a protest? I did hope that he has no qualified people to build that loyalist army with.
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And it had business hours?
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A classmate in Finland used to call me on Whatsapp. Last time she called was a couple months ago, so I imagine it still works.
Can confirm Skype works too, I used it once in 2019 to call my school in St-Petersburg when I needed a copy of my diploma made.
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In the early 00s, I worked in a city 20 miles north of where I lived. Job responsibilities included 24/7 on call support. Work would page me and I'd call them back, initially on my landline because I didn't want to rack up minutes on the cell phone they gave me. It turned out to be long distance 😮
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My parents didn't have a home phone. When I was in college, my mom would call me from a pay phone on the evenings when she knew I stayed at our aunt's. One coin got you three minutes of long-distance, so mom would talk really fast and to the point.
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No no, what it really is about is you should never keep books in the bathroom
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Only car I ever owned that shed body parts was my first car, a heavily used Buick Skylark. I bought it for $2,500 though.
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He's talking to a country that valued its freedom above anything else long before his family came into ownership of that emerald mine. I'm sure he'll receive an answer. (Context for the painting: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_o...)
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vice signalling
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Of the who?... Oh well, at least he says we are moral.
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Everyone in the replies is going over the former drug dealers he pardoned or gave cabinet positions to etc. Am I the only one thinking he wants to use it as a bogus charge for the people he wants dead?
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administration" or some similar drivel that my friend reads and decides that all is lost and this is the new order of things that will never change again. And they have the audacity to charge what, $150 for it?
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A close friend reads it daily and then calls me spiraling like I never have from reading my feed here and linked articles/videos, because the way NYT covers what's happening is by normalizing it. "Your world is imploding before your eyes in a bold, off-the beaten-path move by the dynamic new
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My son's been seeing his on an as needed basis and paying him cash and I think I'll probably do the same with the one I used to have before. But I'm lucky to have the cash for it. Not everyone is.
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now that I've had time to think of it, I don't want to see him at all. He has a PhD, has a book out, is a great guy I'd happily be friends with, but our sessions were... bizarre. And I have no other options bc everybody else who takes my insurance is his colleague. So, yeah, fun.
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Found a few whose profiles I liked enough to give them a try. My first choice wasn't taking new patients. My 2nd choice was a nice older man who'd talk about himself for an hour and bill my insurance $300. He now said I don't need therapy anymore but can see me as needed and,
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None of this would have happened if Hooters served avocado toast
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I'm very normie and yes. She's one of the few people trying to lead and to connect with the gen pop (us) to tell us what's going on and what we can do about it.
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A provocative gesture would be punching him in the face for giving what is clearly a Nazi salute. This is a Nazi salute and I don't quite care for what looks like a concerted attempt by the media to normalize it.
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Mine has four teeth and is not afraid to use them
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I hope it comes out of it a reformed country. Going back to same old same old, if that's even possible, will just get us a new Trump a few years down the road.
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Need Phoenix kitty's story please
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Phoenix the cat is the leader we needed in these uncertain times
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Terry Crews in everything I've seen him in so far. Watching Everybody Hates Chris now and I damn near melted into a puddle when they showed him being super into the soaps.
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Going to have to retract my previous post, not only is he doubling down, he also has opinions about Finland (and called me a Nazi fuck in his reply to my comment on this screenshot). Block away, folks, nothing to see here.
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Also your image is missing an alt
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Okay we're done, Jesus fuck what the hell wrong with you
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Any country would be doing and saying the same if threatened by their neighbor.
Exhibit one: a meme that came out when Russia invaded Ukraine and was like "Finland is next"
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Right? I wake up every day wishing my city was more like NYC in that way. At least, where I live now, I can walk to most of the places I need to get to. The suburb I lived in before had wild traffic and no sidewalks on some of the streets. Farther suburbs have no sidewalks at all.
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Anyway, I get it that most of the US is in the "eww public transport is for losers" mindset, but I used nothing but public transport for the first 29.5 years of my life and would be happy to be able to do that again.
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The only time I was a passenger in a car a then-bf's son drove through Manhattan, I prayed for our lives.
Subway rides, though? Uneventful af. The one time I was about to sit in a pool of pee, people stopped me.