Intergenerational #inequality has always been evident (as one would expect; people accrue assets as they get older), but its getting worse.... for the rich this can be reduced by transfers & inheritance, but for the rest #pensioner poverty beckons....

This is just one more example of how the UK is a society run by the rich, for the rich, with scant regard of the social costs or misery such #class driven politics produces.

#classwar

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/10/pensioner-poverty-fear-of-uk-rise-over-decades-as-under-40s-wealth-falls

A busy #tango weekend ahead.

I haven't once used the words 'I'm bored' since I retired seven years ago.
I'm a fully occupied #pensioner.

#Pensioner tried to set fire to military recruitment office in north Russian town #Usinsk

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2023/04/pensioner-tried-set-fire-military-recruitment-office-north-russian-town

"Enjoy your empty inbox"

What wizardry is this? Avant Ye, demon that possesseth Outlook!

#pensioner
#retirement

Just spent over an hour trying to decide which fish and chip shop to try in #Berwick upon Tweed this week (needs to be takeaway). It's not that easy, which was a shock given Berwick's location ont sea and all. I'm thinking A Corvi even though they don't seem to do a large fish (!). Sacrifices.

I do however continue to love everything about the #pensioner special so beloved of chippies. It's the mandatory serving of bread and butter I suspect. Enough to make the French envious (it's not).

THIS is how cold it is out there: @guardian@twitter.com reading wokerati at least I pay my taxes #pensioner can’t see a bloody thing!

My best pay raise in decades is being a #pensioner. That's the reward of 3 decades of service with all the ups and downs of #corporate life.

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Update on New Years Resolution to type using more than one finger ~

Still one finger… BUT FASTER!!

#pensioner

Medical staff said they would have liked to speak to him … but they didn’t get the chance @SteveBarclay@twitter.com … doesn’t do Geriatric wards …. #pensioner

It's taken 47 years for most of these photos from an East End pensioners' club Christmas party to see the light of day but a pleasure delayed is a pleasure doubled.
Many thanks to the one & only Gentle Author for giving them this show.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/12/19/christmas-at-st-hildas-1975/

#christmas #party #xmas #pensioner #towerhamlets #1975 #eastend

RT @riotgrandma72@twitter.com

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A poignant letter in todays Guardian. I am also elderly and face the same problems.
BUT
I totally agree with the writer. @SteveBarclay@twitter.com and @rishisunak@twitter.com want us to blame #nurses and #ambulance workers.
Well, Toryban scum,you can sod right off! #pmqs #pensioner

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/riotgrandma72/status/1603018339344945157

RT @riotgrandma72@twitter.com

😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷
A poignant letter in todays Guardian. I am also elderly and face the same problems.
BUT
I totally agree with the writer. @SteveBarclay@twitter.com and @rishisunak@twitter.com want us to blame #nurses and #ambulance workers.
Well, Toryban scum,you can sod right off! #pmqs #pensioner

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/riotgrandma72/status/1603018339344945157

😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷
A poignant letter in todays Guardian. I am also elderly and face the same problems.
BUT
I totally agree with the writer. @SteveBarclay@twitter.com and @rishisunak@twitter.com want us to blame #nurses and #ambulance workers.
Well, Toryban scum,you can sod right off! #pmqs #pensioner

😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷
A poignant letter in todays Guardian. I am also elderly and face the same problems.
BUT
I totally agree with the writer. @SteveBarclay@twitter.com and @rishisunak@twitter.com want us to blame #nurses and #ambulance workers.
Well, Toryban scum,you can sod right off! #pmqs #pensioner

The one-fingered typist types …. Tap tap tap oh damn tap tap …#iphone #pensioner

#lonely #loneliness #oldage #pensioner #mentalhealth #mentalillness #alone #widow #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poet

#lonely #loneliness #oldage #pensioner #mentalhealth #mentalillness #alone #widow #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poet

#lonely #loneliness #oldage #pensioner #mentalhealth #mentalillness #alone #widow #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poet

@WildWalker@kolektiva.social @AnthonyFStevens oh I always ask. This is the latest steal. #pensioner

So I'm going to have a bash at introducing myself, now I've been here a couple of days.

It's actually quite hard because, I realise I've been *enclosed*, both by life (I'm #disabled, clinically extremely vulnerable, & have been home-shielding for over 2.5 years due to Covid) and long-term shadow-banned on the birdsite/elsewhere for saying things considered 'Not nice.' For 'not nice' read 'speaking the truth to power'.

To arrive here & be met with engagement & welcome feels new and unexpected. I had 27 notifications this morning, which was both wonderful & a little overwhelming!

For those new to me, I boost a LOT. It's a hangover from my trade union organising days when keeping members informed (I'm a #pensioner now). It's actually lovely to hear I'm doing something right in my environment - it's been so long in exile! #JoinAUnion

I'm hanging with the #Anarchists because, although it's taken nearly 70 years to know it, this is my heart belongs, even if I don't always know the theory.

It's been a real delight to meet other #Cdrama #Kdrama fans on here - especially #wuxia & #xianxia fans - please keep sharing your favs!

I'm especially interested in boosting #diversity. I've learned so much from #BlackTwitter & #IndigenousTwitter over my years on the birdsite - more than I ever learned elsewhere and I really don't want to lose this. Life isn't always comfortable, but the lessons discomfort teaches are worth their weight in rubies. As a white cis woman, I need to keep learning.

Expect #pagan #spiritual content too - my faith is deep-rooted and has a tendency to burst into flower if a seed lands in fertile ground.

I'm told to include a cat in this - so here is one of my feline quartet. This is Trubl👇 when she was younger, and she lives up to her name in every way!

This is a starter intro because, having been curled up tight like a bud, my petals are unfolding slowly.

Thank you all for creating this space where I can do it!