Sign of ageing: seeing a headline about "Phoebe Gates" and assuming it's a typo for "Phoebe Cates".

#PhoebeGates #PhoebeCates #OldAge

Top DIY renovation tip: Never buy the 35 kg cement bags, even if it works out a few cents less per bag. Lifting 25 kg bags around causes enough back pain.

Fun fact: In India the standard bag is 50 kg. I assume they have much stronger backs.

#Cement #Weight #Heavy #OldAge

Meanwhile #BackInTheUSColony old age in #PuertoRico means poverty, [economic] dependence, and vulnerability

> La vejez en Puerto Rico: pobreza, dependencia y vulnerabilidad claridadpuertorico.com/la-veje… via #ClaridadPR

#MastodonPR #BadEconomy #OldAge #elderly #poverty

#Animals unable to #smell, #see, or #hear their food will sooner or later #starve.
However, researchers have now discovered using #Tyto #alba that #owls #retain their most important sense, #hearing, well into #oldage. According to the authors, owls are capable of #regenerating lost hair cells in the inner ear.

© #StefanFWirth, 2026, Berlin

Reference
B. Krumm et al (2017)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1584

#Photo:
Tyto alba; Wales. 2016, author Alun Williams333, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

myshetland.co.uk/looking-so-mu…

I think the old horses and ponies are looking just right now. I was worried about them too after the harsh winter.

#myshetland #icelandichorses #shetlandpony #shetland #shetlandislands #oldage #oldhorse #summer

Deep into the second series of the fabulous HBO Max medical drama, The Pitt, this line popped out from a character & I wanted to share it for its wisdom & poignancy:

'While every old person knows what it is like to be young, no young person can know what it is like to be old...'

That is not only a truism, but its a really instructive way of understanding the trouble that society often has with ensuring our older members have the best life they can....

#OldAge #politics #society

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#photojournalism
#photography
#Australia
#censorship
#algorithms
#floods
#anxiety
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#OldAge
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Bonus #DadJoke
Q: Why don't bears wear hiking boots?
A: They prefer to go bear-foot.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #DadJokes #Hiking #HikingTrails #Hikers #Regrets #OldAge #Bears #BearsOfMastodon

Nine easy tests to find out if you are ageing well

The trouble with getting older is that it sneaks up on you. One day everything feels as it…
#NewsBeep #News #Fitness #Ageing #Health #iWeekend #Mentalhealth #oldage #physicalexercise #UK #UnitedKingdom
newsbeep.com/uk/573944/

Anarchist Communist Group: **Getting Older under Capitalism**

anarchistcommunism.org/2025/07…

The article below was written by a supportive comrade outside the ACG. We get older. Get used to it. Statistics suggest that the

#News #Ageism #OldAge #Pensioners #Pensions #Seniorcitizens

Couple aged 100 and 102 tie the knot and set world record for oldest #newlyweds.

The bride, 102, and her groom, 100, tied the knot in May after nine years together.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/spous… #age #oldage