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masha

@mashatron.bsky.social

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🐕😺🌲🌫️☕💻🎨🎭🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 software engineer, artist, mom of human, dog, and cat. i love music, the arts, nature, gardening, learning, and going exploring. and coffee. very much love the hot bean juice.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 4d

On top of a tall rhiolite boulder, a beautiful chestnut brown shepherd husky mix dog blissfully smiles while overlooking the East Bay, San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, and a layer of fluffy storybook clouds.

Chestnut brown shepherd dog's dark brown muzzle and snoot coming in for a doggy kiss with a loving eye and soft triangle ear. Blue sky all around.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 6d

Have you ever cracked open a little book called The Constitution of the United States? This is a mad child rape king committing treason while building a tacky ass fake gold ballroom with our money. Holy smokes I used to think The Emperor's New Clothes was too obvious but this something else.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 9d

Alameda

A close up of a beautifully made manhole cover. It says EMPIRE FOUNDRY on the outermost part of the circle, top and OAKLAND on bottoms. Next outermost is a circle of 18 stars. Within that, a circle of thick 12 circles, and an innermost ring of 6 circles.

The lines of the sidewalk cracks radiate out from it, as it has been placed at the corner of four sidewalk squares.

A beautiful brown shepherd dog with an icy blue eye lies happily by the curb, in the deep shade of the awning of Neptune's. There is an adorable take out counter, a dark blue wall, and big windows. Another dog eagerly waits near the restaurant door.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 15d

A group of ripe raspberries, and one pale unripe berry, hanging fat on the end of a tall raspberry cane. The end of the bare brown cane sticks out of the green thicket and bisects a triangle of impossibly blue sky in the upper right.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 15d

A light green tomato vine is in the foreground, encircling two juicy red tomatoes in the center. One has a streak of yellow orange down its side.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 16d

A close up photo of a juicy, bright red raspberry glistening in the sunshine. A smaller, hard yellow green berry is still forming next to it. The berries are sheltered by a sunlit, sawtooth edged green leaf.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 20d

Good morning Blue Sky. It will be one of the hottest days of the year today. The Bay Area is entering its hot, dry fire season now.

A plain glass with finger indents is set upon an old worn dark wood table. It is filled with iced coffee still separated into three layers -- cream, coffee, and cream. Sunglasses and a half eaten banana are out of focus in the background.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 21d

Sunday night and cozy

A person's jean clad knees, on a blue couch cover. A chestnut brown shepherd husky mix dog and an orange creamsicle striped kitty share the couch with a book: Everything She Touched, The Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase. There is a bright floral rug behind them.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 23d

#TeslaTakedown #Berkeley Always so much more fun with music

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 23d

Still out here every Saturday with the Berkeley silver crowd.

#TeslaTakedown #Berkeley #NoKings #NoNazis

Chalk lettering on the sidewalk in front of the stairs up to the Berkeley showroom. It says "doge still killing kids" in pink and blue trans flag colors.

The cement wall alongside the steps at the Berkeley Tesla showroom. Chalk lettering says "BOYCOTT!" in blue and red, and "Nazi Shops Out of Berkeley" in orange and blue

The steps on the way up to the Berkeley Tesla showroom. Chalk bubble lettering in the pink and blue colors of the trans flag says NO NAZIS on the top step and NO KINGS on the middle step.

The other set of steps on the way up to the Berkeley Tesla showroom. Chalk bubble lettering in the pink and blue trans flag colors says BOYCOTT and NO NAZIS and NO PEDO KINGS.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · 29d

Love the Albany Bulb forever <3

A very happy, wet, and sandy chestnut brown shepherd husky mix dog with one piercing blue eye and one warm brown eye sits happily on the beach at low tide..in the distance is the San Francisco skyline, Karl the Fog, and the Golden Gate bridge. The sky is Blue and sunny.

Three stickers on a public trash bin. One shows a dog lifting its leg, peeing copiously upon Stephen Miller's bald Nazi scalp. It says LIFT A LEG On FASCISM RACISM SEXISM. Another has a red circle with a stroke through it over an image of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute at Inauguration 2025. The last is a pawn stars 6 panel meme: 1. They're coming here illegally. 2. They need our help 3. We should help Americans first 4. Then let's help Americans. 5.No! That's socialism!

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Sep 13

Beautiful brown shepherd husky mix dog with one ice blue eye and one warm brown eye, with a star of white fur on his chest and a curled tail. He sits planted on his haunches on top of a tall rhyolite outcropping, framed by a cloudy gray morning sky.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Sep 13

Twilight garden, 9/9/2025

Three round, yellow lemon cucumbers ripening on a vine that's weaving through a thicket of asparagus ferns.

A vibrant orange pumpkin amongst the vine and leaves.

Two bright orange vibrant pumpkins lie ripe amongst green leaves of tomatoes and raspberries.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Sep 12

Last week; in SF and at the garden

A magazine called In Formation with Hal from Space Odyssey 2001 filling the cover. Tagline : every day computers are making people easier to use. It's on a wooden slab table under galley lighting.

A stack of two magazines on a fancy slab wood counter, in gallery lights. At the top, a copy of Hi - Fructose magazine. The color is delightfully bright pink with a fabulous Martha Rich artwork on the cover. It's a red hare graphic that stares at us with wide eyes and has fur made of varied brush strokes. A speech bubble says I SHOULD EXERCISE.

Selfie with banana peel coming up the BART escalator. The background wall is a field of hexagonal rounded protrusions. I'm wearing powder Blue bose headphones, red raw bans, a white shirt with Kieth Haring 's signature heart on the pocket. My hair is pulled over my shoulder in one long curl.

Small garden harvest on an old, scratched-up, dark brown table. Two bright yellow, round lemon cucumbers and a handful of green beans.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Sep 12

Dog on a tram! Sept 10, 2025
San Francisco, CA

A bright yellow tram with a shiny dark green roof and a red, beautifully lettered crest saying "Twin City Lines". It is one of the many tram cars all over SF that have been sent to us from many different cities. Through the charming, rounded windows, a small fluffy white dog happily rides the tram and smiles for the camera.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please close up shop and end your "publication". This is not journalism, this is lying to legitimize a Nazi antisemite. It would be better for the world and for Jewish people without this propaganda. These are twisted lies that cause profound harm. Charlie Kirk was a bulwark OF antisemitism.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yep, great signature, just like in Jeffery Epstein's birthday book!

www.wsj.com/us-news/jeff...

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Birthday Book Included Letters From Bill Clinton, Leon Black

Former president, Wall Street billionaire were listed along with Donald Trump as “friends” in the 2003 book’s table of contents, which named around five dozen contributors.

www.wsj.com

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Aug 19

Good morning Blue Sky

A chestnut brown shepherd husky mix dog with one warm brown eye and one ice blue eye and a white star on his chest sits happily on his side butt and smiles at the camera. He is atop a large hill of a rhiolite boulder, with bright blue California sky and evergreens beyond.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Aug 10

Oh that sounds delicious. And what a lovely memory of your grandma...

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm back in the beautiful Bay Area after my annual East Coast family vacation (and posting hiatus). This year was special as we visited not only Boston and Cape Cod, but also made a triumphant return to Allagash Wilderness Waterway in North Maine.

A chestnut colored shepherd husky mix with one striking blue eye and one kind brown eye frolics in the gentle, seaweed strewn surf of a beach across the Bay from the San Francisco skyline, Golden Gate bridge, and Karl the Fog.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Jul 26

Our tax dollars pay their salary. They are public employees, accountable to We the People. Their names, salaries, and activities on the job must be a matter of public records. Anything less is scamming our taxes aka your money.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Jul 19

She has the face and words of a clown.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Jul 16

I think about Andry every day. Thank you for remembering him, and I hope you can work to bring him home, as well as everyone unjustly sent to CECOT by this criminal administration.

masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Jul 12

Confused at what possible value "conservative thought" could have. It has proven itself to be nothing but a thin veneer for Nazism, racism, corruption. It seeks to roll back basic progress to before democracy and science. Void of truth, these ideas don't meet the bar for any merit-based institution.

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masha @mashatron.bsky.social · Jul 5

Raspberry season
#gardening #permaculture

A close up of a plump and juicy raspberry illuminated by the afternoon sun, and shaded by vibrant green, serrated-edged, heart-shaped leaves.

Several berries in all the stages of ripeness, from a dark burgundy to a pale, pink tinged peach, hang together from a cluster of bright green, vibrant trefoil leaves with serrated edges.

The sunlight dramatically lights a single raspberry, about to be ripe but still tart. The shadows of serrated, vibrant green leaves frame the beautiful, juicy berry. Other berries, from green to burgundy, are in soft focus all around the frame.

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