@motoridersd I’m Generation Jones (1955-1965)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

#GenerationJones #GenX #BabyBoomer

It’s prolly a good day for some hashtags, huh!
#GenerationJones #SouthernCalifornia #SoCal #DesertLife #EVs #ElectricVehicles #ChronicIllness #AutoImmuneIllness #PsoriaticSpondylitis #Rinvoq #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Abortion #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionIsHealthcare #Adoption #AdopteesOfMastodon #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeRightsAreHumanRights #FamilyPreservation #BLM #Resist #ERA #CancelStudentDebt #FreeEducationForAll #ReadBannedBooks #PunchANazi

I am #generationjones. I was a solid B Student who graduated in #electricalengineering. Raised 4 great kids and adopted a 5th. Married to the love of my life. Finally learning to play the #dulcimer after building on 30 years ago. Former hobby #zymurgist, RIP #picobrew. Trying to make #bitters from homemade #tinctures, #infusions and #extracts. #liqueurs are next. Desperately looking for the return button.

@Crell @ramsey
I'm #GenerationJones. We never got a say. Lumped in with Boomers or Gen X who we have nothing in common with. Probably too late for most of us.

I haven't done hashtags in 4ever, have I? Let's fix that. I'm a #GenerationJones #cishet woman; I live in the #soCal #desert ; I'm an #artist who no longer arts; I'm #married to a super smart, super hot #aviation engineer; I'm a #mom ; I love our #dogs ; I'm a lifelong #liberal & #feminist ; I'm #agnostic ; I'm an #adoptee who is #ProChoice & #AntiAdoption ; I'm an #ally who will put herself between you & a threat; I love #mountains & #rain & #bugs ; I have #psoriatic #spondilitis ; I'm #bald .

#GenerationJones

Since I've moved to a new instance - one I'm running myself - I though I might re-introduce myself.

I'm Jeff Markel (see profile for pronunciation) - he/him. I'm kinda old, kinda not - born on the cusp of Baby Boom I and Baby Boom 2, aka Generation Jones (1955).

I can schmooze, but am basically very shy - f2f, anyway - and very introverted. More than a few hours of f2f interaction are exhausting.

I had one sibling - a sister - who died of pancreatic cancer in 1997, at 45. I lost my dad to bladder cancer in 1991 (age 67), and my mom to breast cancer in 2006 (age 80). So the big-C is ever-looming; my odds aren't so good. But I've lived longer than my sister and my father. Hopefully the string will continue.

My wife and I have been married to each other since 1982. We have 3 "children" (in quotes only because they're long-past childhood), and 4 grandchildren. Two are in NYC and one is in LA. The oldest of the grands is 14 and in full-fledged teenager mode.

I'm Jewish, but also an atheist - if that makes sense. The ethnicity does mean a lot to me. I have always felt a sense of 'other'ness and, although I know that I benefit from white privilege, I no longer really think of myself as "white" because for the people that matters to most do not - and that's perfectly fine with me.

I get obsessed with things. I bake sourdough. I make cocktails. I walk long distances. I develop websites - using Drupal mostly, though I'm now learning React and a few other Javascript frameworks like Sveltekit and Astro - and of course those all have adjacent, and necessary, technologies that I also want to learn. As I used to say in my Twitter profile, when I was still there, I try to learn something new every day.

I've been a software person since the late 1970's. I started out on mainframes - but that's become a distinction without a difference. I've written code in many languages, from Algol to YAML (I tried to think of one starting with Z but Zend is all I could come up with, but that's a company, not a language 🤷‍♂️). Still working, but I do plan to "retire" in the next 18 months or so - in quotes because I will certainly need to do something after that besides sleeping in.

#introduction #introductions #drupal #react #svelte #sveltekit #astro #mainframe #baking #sourdough #cocktails #walking #retirement #website #cancer #fuckcancer #generationjones

@GryphonSK
Even worse for #GenerationJones. Stereo was always munching on my 8-tracks.

And currently on Mastodon, if I click the hashtags, and not counting the ones I've posted, #GenerationJones appears to be winning 8 to 4. Can that be right?

FWIW Instagram shows these counts: #GenJones 100+ and #GenerationJones 1000+

If you are Generation Jones, which hashtag have you been using? (If you are Millennial or GenZ, please fax this to your parents.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones #GenJones #GenerationJones #GenX

@ericcurts @edutooters @edutooter As a late boomer, or #GenerationJones, depending on who you ask, I’m beginning to think I am as complete an amateur on #Emoji use as I was at ‘txting’! https://www.dictionary.com/e/gen-z-explains-emoji-to-millennials/

Fun to know that if one is from #GenerationJones, one can also be considered a #MidCenturyModern.

@k2za @abraxas3d @vk6flab Demographically it varies by country. Marketing-wise, it's made up. Technically, being born in VE2, I am a baby boomer ... OK, I would still be if I was born in the USA. But *socially*, I share very little with Boomers born in, say, 1949. I was never old enough to have been drafted let alone serve in Vietnam. I was *almost* 6 when Apollo 11 got to the Moon, not 20. Some demographic (not marketing!) data at the link.

https://evidencenetwork.ca/the-canadian-baby-boom-years-are-different-from-the-u-s/

#GenerationJones

@abraxas3d @k2za @vk6flab I think it's partly related to the uncomfortable-for-some generational change that's dragging on. Boomers were The Center Of The Universe for *so long* that they are having trouble understanding that they need to move along now. See, for example, making fun of kids that don't know what a dial phone is.

#60thOrbit #GenerationJones #NotABoomer

That's me, right in the middle of #GenerationJones, 1954-1965. Scrape my brain for pop culture of the era.
#undiagnosed
#cPTSD
#ADHD
#autism

@GeoDon @JoParkerBear We need to spread the #GenerationJones hashtag. Also great taste in music. Alan Parsons is the bomb!

@txvoodoo @JoParkerBear #GenerationJones also! I don't feel like I fit anywhere. Mom was a Boomer so how could I be one?

@JoParkerBear Boomer who doesn't feel like a boomer. #GenerationJones should be more of a thing. GenerationJones unite!

… and I myself am a #boomer - or, more accurately, a member of #generationjones - and I am so ready for my kids and my nephews and even grandkids to get electorally engaged and usher us out of relevance. It’ll hurt a little, I’ll admit, but it’s got to happen, and sooner rather than later. It seems like maybe that’s finally beginning