Bluesky · Hashtag

#boomer

161
posts · 30d
69
users
5
posts / day
2.3
posts / user
+ 69% vs last week

#boomer is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 69 people shared 161 posts with it — around 5 a day. Activity is up 69% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 2 with 26 posts.

#boomer posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #boomer

☘️MaryCate☘️Votes☘️
@marycateismary.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
I don’t have to read the article bc I’m a #Boomer. I lived this. We protested, marched, sat in for these things & now we have to watch it all being destroyed. I’m sad & angry at the same time. I’m anxious & depressed, too! This is t the America my dad & 7 uncles fought for in European Theater.
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Bernd von Mallinckrodt
@vonmallinckrodt.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
Wenn Du alt wirst … Viele verwechseln Alter mit Stillstand. Dabei liegt in Erfahrung oft der #SchlüsselZumWandel. Wer #Boomer pauschal verurteilt, verpasst die Chance, mit ihnen gemeinsam #BrückenInDieZukunft zu bauen. Dein letzter Fehler ist Dein bester Lehrmeister! Boomer als +-Beispiel!🖖
Das Bild zeigt einen älteren, ernst blickenden Mann mit grauen Haaren und Brille, der in einem gut beleuchteten Raum mit einem Fenster im Hintergrund steht. Er trägt ein dunkelblaues Sakko über einem hellblauen Hemd. Links im Bild ist ein Zitat eingeblendet:
„Nicht die Boomer sind das Problem, sondern eine alternde Gesellschaft, die sich am Status quo festklammert, wenn Wandel Mut erfordert. Wer alle Boomer pauschal verurteilt, verkennt, dass gerade erfahrene Köpfe Brücken bauen könnten – wenn man sie lässt.“
– Bernd von Mallinckrodt
Die Komposition vermittelt Ernsthaftigkeit, Nachdenklichkeit und die Würde des Alters.

Image Description (English):
The image features an older man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a navy blazer over a light blue shirt, standing in a softly lit room with a window in the background. He looks directly into the camera with a serious, thoughtful expression. On the left side, a quote is overlaid in German:
“Not the Boomers are the problem, but an aging society clinging to the status quo when change requires courage. Those who condemn all Boomers fail to see that experienced minds could build bridges – if only they were allowed.”
– Bernd von Mallinckrodt
The scene conveys a tone of reflection, dignity, and intergenerational responsibility.🖖
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Silkabelli (cittadina UE 🇪🇺)
@silkabelli.eurosky.social
3 days ago
Ja wieso tun jetzt eigentlich immer noch fast alle so, als wäre den Planeten für nachfolgende Generationen unbewohnbar machen das Gleiche wie falsch parken? Hackt’s bei euch? #Boomer #Generationengerechtigkeit
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Rhuta Bhayga
@rhutabhayga.bsky.social
2 months ago
As someone born at the very tail end of the #Boomer generation, I always chafed at being called a boomer. Now I know that I - and others born at that time - are members of the #GenerationJones. And we really *are* special 😎
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%, with interest accumulated at the rear of the loan… the house would have never been mine.
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.
Repost from @JanP
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