Essay5W

If you watch junk, read junk, and listen to junk then you will write junk. Guaranteed! To write great essays you need to read great essays.

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

Whoever designed wet wipe packs where you pull one out and four come with it should have been put in charge of ATMs.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[The Adventurous Soul @TAdventurousoul]

I am still laughing! 😂

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

The United States if it had been colonised by Britain

[Essay5W @Essay5W]

@GenghisMFKhan @CRTorn Did he adopt a 10b5-1?

[positive side of X 🌞 @positivityofx]

Life is more beautiful when you have friends who know how to be friends.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Following a significant motorcycle incident, Austrian chef Peter Lammer devised the "Standing Ovation": a ceiling-mounted frame in his kitchen that restores his mobility and alleviates strain on his legs.

[Greg Barton @gregbarton.bsky.social @gregjamesbarton]

"In all the weeks of this Epstein horror, this is the moment with which I am most struggling: that accusations of child abuse won't get authorities out of bed, but accusations of sharing trade information will, & I want to howl to the heavens with anger"

https://t.co/kD2kgaOwIv

[dan barker @danbarker]

Incredible photo.

You'll see this a hundred times over the next week, but unlikely many will credit the photographer.

Well done, @philnoble1

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power & privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice may finally have its day.

[Essay5W @Essay5W]

@HonTonyAbbott 9 months after a federal election and the Liberals still can’t get their act together. Not a policy to be seen. Shameful. Too many egos.

[Essay5W @Essay5W]

@sciencegirl I’m with Miss Norway 🇳🇴 I don’t care if you’re a Norwegian Olympian bronze medalist - you cheated - you’re dumped.

[Essay5W @Essay5W]

@James_J_Marlow Just because an astrophysicist hasn't visited Mars doesn't mean they can't be an expert on black holes. Their research is based on data and mathematical models. The value of their work lies in their analysis and insights, not their personal space travel experience.

[Essay5W @Essay5W]

@AdamKinzinger His pants are up to his elbows 🤔

[Tara Dublin aka Winona Spyder™️ @taradublinrocks]

Whoever made this is a fucking legend

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

British TV anchor @KamaliMelbourne of Sky News with a moving, personal response to Trump’s posting of the racist clip of the Obamas.

I know Kamali just a little. I’m proud of him for saying this — and sad we’re in a moment when he has to.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump posted a disgustingly racist video depicting the Obamas as apes.

Are my Republican colleagues going to continue to bend the knee to a racist, authoritarian president who wants the American people to bow down before him?

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Sen. Bernie Sanders on President Trump's call to nationalize elections: "The idea that anyone would trust for one minute this guy running an honest election would be beyond comprehension. Not to mention that obviously he has not read the Constitution of the United States, which has states running elections, not the federal government."

[DonkeyBlue13 @DonkeyBlue13]

@kaitlancollins is a badass. A journalist that’s not afraid to ask pertinent questions and doesn’t allow crooked politicians to demean her. She is also a wonderful role model for young women and girls. That’s way more than we can say about anyone in the White House in 2026. 😍

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Not one White House correspondent had the courage to come to the defense of Kaitlan Collins after the pedophile president attacked her for asking a legitimate question about the victims in the Epstein files. NOT ONE.