Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

@thordis @alice

depends on who's slicing whether I'm millennial or X; I don't really feel a part of either clade tbh.

@thordis @chopsstephens I identify as ‘other’, or weird.

@thordis Oops, you're half right, it's mostly "the olds" (millennial+). 🥲

@hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis ostensibly it's centered around us being born into a totally analog world that still played outside all day without supervision and movies and TV had production values still and there were Rolodexes, but then we were still young enough for the flip to a digital society to be able to implant itself in our lives in a way that the Lead Paint Generation and Gen X was just a little too old and inelastic for. Some of them could, but not overall.

@thordis Mid-Boomer. Too young for Woodstock so it's not fair to lump us in with them.

@AlexCorby that's making a comeback in the US right now! Doublethink and Newspeak are like central pillars of the current administration.

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@thordis Old people don't understand those categories.

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put it this way, I'm old enough to not have a bloody clue as to what your poll means

@alice @thordis
not all communists are cat girls I guess ‍️

just the ones you and I browse

there are also neuro-divergent people talking trains

and nude-o-divergent people looking to get railed

there's a fair few Scottish servers 󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

some animal rights activists

some Green Party people

some game developers are just cishet non-furry nerds... though maybe some of them are 'eggs'

but there's a space for heterosexuals, cisgenders, and non-imals too ️

I think broadly its a bit of a refuge for left leaning outcasts from an increasingly right wing society, but that's part of its charm

being on team diversity makes for less of a bubble though. in fact you can find someone to argue with fairly easily. but be kind always x

@szczurtorebkowy @thordis Xennial ‍️

@Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis

That's funny, cos that description is almost word for word the standard description of Gen X, apart from the bit at the end.

But hey, us GenX-ers are used to having our experiences misappropriated - when we're not being completely ignored/forgotten, of course. It's the other main generational cliche about us, apart from our endless snark and weary cynicism. ‍️

@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis I don't feel lucky. I feel like I'm watching all my hopes and dreams be torn down for good, just as they were about to finally be within reach. The stuff I worked toward my whole life... I worked toward it for nothing. All the angst, trying to be good enough for my parents and then my children, only to find out it was pointless because it doesn't matter what I do or did. The world has turned to a giant dumpster fire, and I don't know how we will ever climb out of it.

@thordis No idea (and don't care), born in '65.

@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis Sorry, that was really effing gloomy and I shouldn't drag other people down with that talk.

@alice @thordis

@thordis 1964 In the House! Boomers rule.

@szczurtorebkowy @thordis me too

@thordis not American do these generational groups don't apply

heads up mate! better days will come. you're not alone 🫂

@thordis Late Gen X. One year later born and I'd have been a millennial.