#generations

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

#today i learned #history #music #generations #truth

[fozmeadows]

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

#millennials #technology #personal #generations #generational change

[lackadaisycal-art]

Family Recipe

#art #illustration #character art #artists on tumblr #original characters #cooking #generational #family #generations #mixed family #kids lit #mourning #death #life after death #Procreate

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

#pokemon #pokemon cards #tcg #kanako eo #espurr #generations #xy

[harmoonix]

Pluto and the big 4 the generations

Pluto in Scorpio generation is to break free from all the things that once were forbidden and banished, to stand up for their power that once was taken from them, to transform the world

Pluto in Sagittarius generation is to normalize things that once were forbidden/canceled/by being more open minded and choosing to be your own guide to this life!! This placement is able to open people's mind and to expand their horizon

Pluto in Capricorn generation is to make new visions about the world & how you can progress at making incomes/succes (Also during these time it was a lot of fight for the political thing/destruction of politics). Bringing new rules!

Pluto in Aquarius generation is about to fight for their own freedom and who they want to be, to be humanitarian, to help the earth, to change for better

#pluto #astrology #astro observations #birth chart #astro notes #astrology observations #placements #astro community #horoscope #ascendant #pluto generational planet #generations #pluto in Scorpio #Pluto in Sagittarius #Pluto in Capricorn #Pluto in Aquarius #Pluto 4

[mrsoulstice]

A mothers love

#a word #black woman #generations #black love #black women

[regyman]

Here we.......GO!!!!!! WOOOOOO!!!

#sonic #sonic unleashed #rooftup run #fanart #art #artist #sega #unleashed #spagonia #generations #sonic generations #artwork #artists on tumblr #sonic the hedgehog

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek: Generations (1994) // Dir. David Carson

#Star Trek #Generations #Star Trek Generations #Star Trek The Next Generation #TNG #The Next Generation #Data #Data Soong #Lieutenant Commander Data #Lt. Commander Dara #Lt Commander Data #Brent Spiner #Geordi La Forge #LaVar Burton #David Carson #ST: TNG #ST:TNG #ST TNG #STTNG #Star Trek TNG #Star Trek The Next Generation Gifs #Star Trek Generations Gifs #Movie #Movie Gifs #Gifs #AVMovie #AVMovieGifs #AVGifs #AVStarTrek #AVStarTrekGifs

[trainerjoshie]

Adoooorable Pokémon TCG XY Generations (2016) - Sylveon illustration by Kanako Eo (removed card text the best I could ❤️)

#pokémon #official art #card art #pokémon trading card game #tcg #pokemon #pokémon xy #pokémon x and y #generations #kanako eo #sylveon #eevee #pokémon eevee #eeveelution #generations full card art #full card art

[mapsontheweb]

The largest generations in each country.

by lingue.maps

#maps #lingue.maps #igsourced #europe #demographics #generations

[blackswaneuroparedux]

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

- Wilfred Owen

An ex-comrade in arms from my former regiment forwarded me this video. It’s been doing the rounds amongst veterans. It doesn’t need any explanation.

Lest we forget...

#video #first world war #remembrance sunday #remembrance #armistice day #soldier #british army #memorial #memory #generations #war #society #lest we forget

[cainhowlett]

Mini print

#art #california #nature #bay area #mendocino #sonoma #printmaking #ink #illustration #mokuhanga #Turkey #pig #boar #portrait #cartoon #blue #cyan #mini #gobekli tepe #generations #linocut #linoleum print #paleolithic

[flotheory]

Get rid of crazy outfits for townies ⬇️

DOWNLOAD at ModTheSims

#the sims 3 #sims3 #thesims3 #sims 3 mods #sims3mod #sims 3 #simblr #s3 #sims 3 simblr #ts3 #flotheory #create a sim #capsule wardrobe #base game #world adventures #generations #ambitions #late night #pets #showtime #supernatural #seasons #university life #island paradise #into the future

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

#pokemon #pokemon cards #tcg #atsuko nishida #flareon-ex #generations #xy

[hopalongfairywren]

As much as I hate 'generation discourse' Nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than older Gen Z/millenials shitting on Gen Alpha now. Like of course there's a lot wrong with using screens to pacify young children, but it's not even critiquing the parentings, nope we've moved on to full on 'this new generation is rotten and doomed' rhetoric about how these literal children and toddlers are gonna be the downfall of society because someone posted a video of a toddler having a meltdown for millions of people to see and find their justified outlet for wishing harm upon young children- I mean, Ipad baby meltdown cringe comps. What kills me though is the irony, all the things Gen Z and Millenials rightfully despised Boomers for- You are doing right now, in your twenty five minute video essay on why some parents neglecting their toddlers means kids these days are all uncultured drooling npcs. Calling the next generation after you stupid and inferior to you goes back to ancient times, and now you have unironic video essays on why Gen Alpha will be the worst generation in history.

I hate ageism.

#ageism #youth liberation #gen alpha #gen z #generations #the second stereotypes for generations became more than silly memes we should have shut that shit down #also those videos adressing the increasing rate of educational issues in gen alpha by calling them stupid rubs me the wrong way #the wren hops

[whereifindsanity]

#b&w #hands #generations