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Fields of Mistria

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Elderly is basically like 70-75+. Definitely 80+.

So to reorient ourselves: if your grandma is 80 in 2026 she was was 20 in 1966 (and if she lived in the US) it is ENTIRELY possible she spent some portion of her youth dropping acid, smoking weed, participating in the free love movement, and protesting the Vietnam war. Hippies are old now.

When we imagine the broad perspective and life experiences of old people we have to keep in mind that old people are now baby boomers, the greatest generation is almost entirely gone. I honestly hate the named generation convention where we neatly divide everybody up by what are ultimately pretty arbitrary years, it's all marketing bullshit. HOWEVER it is true that there was a tremendous culture shift in the 20th century, which deeply altered a lot of cultural norms in a fairly short amount of time. Old people now really do have a meaningfully different cultural perspective than old people two decades ago did.

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Mail is no longer automatically postmarked with the date you drop it off. Instead, the postmark now reflects the date it’s first processed by an automated sorting facility — which can be days later.

If you mail something right at a deadline, the official postmark could be later than your drop-off date and may be considered late.

If mailing date matters to you, go inside the post office and request a hand-stamped postmark.

its not a "native version of nonbinary" or a "native version of bigender"

thats not what it means, that’s not what it’s ever meant

two spirit is an pan-tribal term coined by indigenous people in 1990, for indigenous people, to replace the term berdache, an offensive term that white settlers applied to indigenous people that fell outside of the western lens of gender and sexuality

two spirit isnt a "native version of nonbinary" because two spirit doesnt inherently mean someone is nonbinary. some of us are, but so many two spirited people arent. many people in our community also choose specifically not to label themselves with terms like nonbinary, gay, bisexual, etc, and solely use two spirit or another term from their tribe or language

we can be anything and everything and nothing you've ever imagined