Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦

Bookworm, proud mother of a great daughter, #TorontoBlueJays fan, @torontobluejays and #torontoraptors @torontoRaptors fan and proud Canadian💕

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@maddiecholette @Sportsnet Amazing, congrats!!!!

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Albanians just showed the world how it's done.

The government was selling off prime coastal land and protected islands to Jared Kushner and linked investors for a massive luxury resort turning public beaches and nature reserves into private playgrounds for the ultra-rich. The people said: HELL NO. Thousands poured into the streets under “Albania Is Not For Sale.” Protests turned fiery. They stormed government buildings and burnt down the Prime Minister’s house. This isn’t just about a deal. It’s about sovereignty. It’s about refusing to let your country be auctioned off to foreign billionaires while locals lose access to their own coastline. When elites sell the nation’s future for kickbacks and luxury resorts, the people have every right to push back hard. Respect to the Albanians for refusing to be colonized by cash. Other countries should be taking notes.

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@snufflewort Enjoy Quebec City, it is marvelous!!

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@princessfionaJC @ThrillaRilla369 @LanaManche25694 I am at cutting down stage, down to half a pack, but kind of plateaued at that. Need to find a way to keep reducing

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@EliMcCann I liked the second one

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

Me and the cat watching severe storm roll in, had tornado warnings going off, was a wild storm for sure. Oh and Oreo the cat is at his favourite perch at the left window, lol....storms don't faze him at all

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

This hit home, a lot is very true!

[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.

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

Hey @BlueJays fans, Apple TV has a free 7 day trial, if you want to watch the game tonight😊

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@agirlopinions Absolutely! Law & Order SVU is my go to background show while I am cooking, doing dishes,etc

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@BlueJaysDad Never give up on a game😊

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@jane__bradley @MatinaStevis Welcome to Canada!! Hope you get to explore more than just Toronto, there are so many wonderful parts of Ontario, and across Canada🇨🇦🇨🇦😊

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@jane__bradley @juliamacfarlane @MatinaStevis Make sure you get a good, proper winter coat and boots!!

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@NoDMsPerfavore First Jill, birth mom, died when I was two. Then Carol, stepmother, she died two years ago

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@IWeatherON Got windy, dark, heavy rain and thunder in west London, but it passed pretty quickly. I am seeing reports of a touchdown in Woodstock, is that true?

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@IWeatherON Rain, wind and thunder in London (west end)

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@IWeatherON Rain, wind and thunder in London

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@Smil3yAngel I do for sure, and a constant sense of worry, not knowing what is going to happen next!!

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@Beno10_MFC D

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

Love this, perfect!!!

[Laura @plantyaf_716]

Molson Canadian buys Sabres fans a round to thank them for viral 'O Canada' moment https://t.co/Wl5W4nXU05 https://t.co/Wl5W4nXU05

[Anne Proctor-Counter🇨🇦 @ayym]

@julijays And where did you get it??