Slightly concerning primary school memories from the 80s.

* Our school had an incinerator. Like, they just burnt rubbish while children were learning stuff.

* In grade 7 our teacher brought in mercury so we could play with it. We would push it around our desktops with our fingers. "Learning"!

* The same teacher taught us how to use BIC lighters and light matches. For survival, I guess.

* In the playground were 5 metre tall climbing poles with tyres bolted to them. There was no soft material on the ground.

The 2024 collaboration project is gonna be #citizen #documentarian project to gather and package products of #knowledge.

52 conversations around #ThisWeekIn2004
- what was your daily physical routine (how would you start to get data on this time?)
- what were you thinking (school, work, life)
- what were you feeling (inner world)
- what was going on in the world (outerworld)
- #LessonsLearned 2 decades later

#podcast #rewilding #culture #ElderMillennial

https://www.superversive.co/essays/2024-conversational-product-experiment

I learned how to add a photo to a #TikTok video and now I can’t.

UPDATE: it’s the “Green Screen” feature

Where are my people who were first-time voters in the 2000 election? What fun *that* was!

#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember the brief era between Blackberries and smartphones when, for a lot of money, you could buy a cell phone with a little slide-out keyboard with actual buttons. It could connect to the internet, but doing so cost 25 cents a minute, the screen was tiny and all websites were only built for desktop views, and there were no apps.

I also remember the first ads for Android smartphones.

#HashtagGames
#ElderMillennial
#GeriatricMillennial

#ImNotSayingImOldBut when I was a kid, a fun thing to do on a Friday night was go to Blockbuster and rent a couple of VHS tapes to watch over the weekend

#HashtagGames
#ElderMillennial
#GeriatricMillennial

#ImNotSayingImOldBut I had a very impressive collection of LipSmackers lip gloss as a pre-teen!

#HashtagGames
#ElderMillennial
#GeriatricMillennial

#ImNotSayingImOldBut I casually mentioned $6 happy hour specials to someone I know who's Gen Z (and like me is #CovidCautious), and they looked shocked.

"You remember, before the pandemic," I said.

They shook their head and said, "I turned 21 after the pandemic started. I've never been to a happy hour."

After a bit of an awkward pause, they asked, "Was it nice, being able to go out for drinks for cheap without worrying about covid?"

I replied, "Yeah, it was nice. Things weren't perfect and a lot of the problems we have now were festering, but in the moment, it was nice."

#HashtagGames
#ElderMillennial
#GeriatricMillennial
#covid19
#CovidIsNotOver

#ImNotSayingImOldBut the "save" icon looks like a floppy disk to me rather than being a sign with no referent.

#HashtagGames
#ElderMillennial
#GeriatricMillennial

We're streaming again tonight! I've not done much of RDR2 after getting past the snow, so let's go on an adventure!

Would love to see you at https://twitch.tv/pixelbandits for:

Innuendo
Hijinx
Welcoming inclusive community
People who understand your knees and back constantly ache

#PurpleIntroPost #introduction
Netflix made me a #kpop fan by suggesting I watch a #kdrama sometime in late 2012... after a few dramas I did some googling and realized that these actors were all singers too... and it all went downhill from there. I've been ARMY since debut era and am heavily multifandom leaning mostly towards boy groups.

I dunno what else to write so here's some tags:
#ThaiDrama #AsianDramas #BL #ThaiPop #neurodivergent #ElderMillennial #LGBT

For my birthday, I would love to see some of you dancing (or singing) to some of your favorite boy band songs like this guy. Or… you know, just share something that give you joy. #ElderMillennial #Xennial

My folks mailed me a book titled #LifeBeginsAt40, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
#Turning40 #ExistentialDread #MidLifeCrisis #ElderMillennial #Xennial #Ugh #Oof

Like the proper #ElderMillennial I am I have curled up with a transcendently delicious piece of avacado toast, grapes, & some Earl Grey #tea.

so say we all

New server, new intro post!

I'm Ellie. I live in Nashville but I'm originally from Chicago (and it will always be home even though I'm too much of a wuss to handle Midwest winters anymore).

I'm a musician (bass, woodwinds, mediocre guitar, vox), a writer, and a chef in the vegan niche.

Here is a lengthy blob of hashtag interests, followed by a very appropos music video for my new server: #nashville #chicago #dogs #musician #bassist #writer #scifi #startrek #veganfood #veganchef #farscape #satanist #songwriter #cows #opossums #queer #bisexual #pansexual #malort #indierock #yallternative #altcountry #metal #triphop #eldermillennial #90skid

Also a heartfelt thank you to my last server, indiepocalypse.social, for being the first server on Mastodon to welcome me. Y'all are great.

https://youtu.be/EH982tMBnbQ