#gen-x — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gen-x, aggregated by home.social.
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Gen Zers were handed a floppy disk. Their bafflement over how to use it is wild to see.
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Just letting you know that it's totally okay to throw on MacLean and MacLean today, and play that song, you know the song.
With yer hands in yer pockets.
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Tonight’s movie: Beastmaster. One of those movies that reminds me why I fucking love being Gen X. We grew up watching shit like this on a shitty TV and thought it was awesome. No algorithm. No streaming. Just swords, monsters and cable.
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I ordered coffee at the Starbucks drive-thru and the barista asked: "Hot?"
It didn't even register with me and I had to ask her to repeat it.
...aaaaand, look. I know that's a thing.
But, to my ears, it's like driving through a Frozen Yogurt place and having them ask me: "Perfect. And do you want that heated up?"
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Things that have changed in my #GenX lifetime:
- longest peaceful border in the world (USA & Canada)
- composition of the atmosphere
- smoking sections on airplanes
- pot is legal most places
- travel agents are extinct
- people pick up their dogs' poop
- long distance is free but no one wants to talk on the phone
- the supreme Court
- Pizza was pretty much the only delivered food. (In dense cities, Chinese too)
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I showed my Gen Z kids ‘Dead Poets Society’ and their angry reactions to it floored me
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Watching Maximum Overdrive. Machines became self-aware, trucks started hunting humans, and somehow this passed for entertainment in the 80s. Gen X didn’t need safe spaces. We had Stephen King, AC/DC, and homicidal fucking semis.
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Now, singing along with #ArrestedDevelopment 💗✌️🎶🎵
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I was a huge fan of #DigablePlanets.
Absolutely love this.Digable Planets Perform “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” Live | #CadillacChronicles
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I just want to hang out with Chester every weekend.
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There's actually a lot going on visually. Keep an eye out for really subtle environmental humor.
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Sifl & Olly is surrealist comedy genius.
I'm glad I'm finally getting around to watching them in order.
(It's mostly aged well except for occasional outdated language and expired comedy tropes. Super nostalgic.)
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I'll fuck you up, in public, verbally, ya dipshit #GenX sellout cowards. Promise, for the pathetic peons.
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This is related to why I don’t date people my age or older: Gen X is a bunch of bootlickers and always has been.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-is-the-only-generation-that-isnt-totally-freaked-out-by-ai/
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Gen X women are getting loud about perimenopause. It’s time someone calls out the b.s.
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So...after 50 years of thinking that it sounds like "Oona Babba Leeja," I finally had to find out what the hell John Sebastian is singing in the Welcome Back Kotter theme song. Turns out, it's this...
"Who'd have thought they'd lead ya?
(Who'd have thought they'd lead ya?)
Back here where we need ya?
(Back here where we need ya?)"Makes sense, I guess. You're welcome.
#TV #television #genx #music #popculture #welcomebackkotter #classicrock #1970s #johnsebastian #lovinspoonful
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I read recently that Gen X is leaning into booze unlike their younger counterparts. After the Thomas Dolby show in Boston the other night, a fellow showgoer who parked near us mentioned that she'd never seen so many badly behaved people over 40.
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Interview with Mike D: ‘After Yauch died I couldn’t make music. I’d open a computer file and just feel sadness’ #GenX
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/21/mike-d-diamond-beastie-buys-inteview-solo-album-thank-you -
#IYKYK. And IYK, then one of two songs will be in your head all day and all night.
#TV #television #popculture #genx #lashermanasnunez #bananasplits #music #mexico
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#JukeboxFridayNight #hair #MTV #80s #GenX
Does band name count? It's the first thing that popped into my head.
Haircut 100 - Love Plus One (Official Video)
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@MsDropbear42 Oof, goosebumps reading that. I fell in love with Springsteen's The River when I first heard it all those years ago, and now that I am indeed a mid-50s Gen-X-er ... well, that article hit me properly in the feels.
