Jasmin

🌻🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Recently retired healthcare worker, still fighting the good fight for all oppressed people, lover of dogs and cats.

[Jasmin @halcyanj]

@Seraphinaf5 71

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@gretchemaben Such an amazing adventure!

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@Mimiiben1 I get 5

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@gretchemaben Wow, thank you for this amazing tour of the museum! Munch has been one of my favorite artists since college and your posts are fantastic!

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@adgirlMM Waving hello. I follow you. There are days when your words are what keep me from going over the edge 🙃

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@gretchemaben Keep in mind that you aren’t used to the altitude so your body is having to work extra hard to get enough oxygen.

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@theobsource @SestraHulk One of my favorite scenes of the entire series!

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@SestraHulk Wow, she is incredible!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

We are called "the elderly." But that quiet label hides something most people rarely stop to consider. We are the last living witnesses of a world that no longer exists.

Look at us and you might see gray hair, slower steps, and the patience that time teaches.

But listen to our story — really listen — and you'll realize something extraordinary.

We are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood.

That's not a small thing. That's one of the most breathtaking journeys a human being has ever been asked to make.

We were born in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, into a world still rebuilding from the rubble of World War II.

Our toys were marbles and hopscotch and card games at kitchen tables. When the streetlights flickered on, that was it — childhood adventures were over, and it was time to go home. No smartphones. No streaming. No endless scroll.

We built our memories in the real world. With scraped knees and laughter echoing down streets and friendships formed face to face.

In 1969, we sat in living rooms staring at black-and-white televisions as Neil Armstrong took humanity's first steps on the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of us stood in muddy fields at Woodstock believing — really believing — that music and community could reshape the future.

We fell in love to vinyl records spinning on turntables. We waited days, sometimes weeks, for handwritten letters to arrive. We learned patience because information didn't come instantly. Mistakes were fixed with erasers — not a delete button.

Then the world transformed.

Machines that once filled entire rooms shrank to devices lighter than a paperback. We went from rotary phones and party lines to seeing the face of someone we love on the other side of the ocean — instantly, on something that fits in a pocket.

We watched the birth of the personal computer. The arrival of the internet. The smartphone. Artificial intelligence.

And through every single shift — we adapted.

Not because it was easy. Because that's what our generation does.

We also carry the weight of history in our bodies.

We grew up afraid of polio and tuberculosis. We watched science defeat them. We witnessed the discovery of the structure of DNA, the decoding of the human genome, the transformation of medicine itself. We survived pandemics across decades — and kept going.

Few generations have been asked to absorb so much change in a single lifetime.

And through all of it, certain things never changed.

We still know the joy of a cold glass of lemonade on a hot afternoon. The taste of vegetables picked straight from a garden. The value of a long conversation that unfolds slowly, without a screen interrupting it.

We have celebrated births and mourned losses. Carried the stories of friends who are gone. Watched the world become something our younger selves couldn't have imagined — and found ways to belong in it anyway.

We are not relics.

We are living bridges between two entirely different worlds.

Our memory carries something the modern world needs — proof that progress doesn't have to erase wisdom. That speed doesn't have to replace patience, kindness, or reflection.

So when someone calls us elderly, we can smile.

Because behind that word is something remarkable.

We crossed two centuries. Witnessed eight decades of transformation. Walked from handwritten letters to artificial intelligence — and never lost our sense of what actually matters.

[Jasmin @halcyanj]

@IntrovertProbss Perfect answer to the adage “Go big or go home.”

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@GovTimWalz This is Macy. She is 15 now and even during her most trying puppy shenanigans I never once thought about hurting her, much less shooting her 🥰

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@dog_rates You are a very good boy Cato!

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@aliciaandrz Congratulations! This is such a big deal!

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@angryseattle I saw a patch of blue sky this morning!!!

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@SketchesbyBoze Susan Cooper is one of my favorite authors!

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@sciencegirl I am home.

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@ypeggytambien Wow, that is so beautiful!

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

“It came to me that every time I lose a dog, they take a piece of my heart with them and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog and I will become as generous and loving as they are”. - Diane Keaton ❤️

A great actress & advocate for animals she will be missed