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James Zamora, The Egg Aisle, 2024

6 x 6 in

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Is that a bugs life mighty bean...

ough.

Power Item

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Kefir is so sour and so good. What have I been doing with my life

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Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS, 2005)

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Bet this guy feels pretty dumb right about now

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always great to hear my boss say "we're living through the collapse of the american library system" while I'm at my american library system job

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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New York in the year 2025, as seen in John Berkey's cover art for "NYPD 2025" by Hal Stryker (1985)

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Froggy Chair from Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)

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This may be a little heavy or triggering because I am talking about death in a marginalized community so please take that as a warning. Also I'm not a researcher so please reference the sources I link yourself or find more and draw your own conclusions.

I was curious if anywhere in the world had a life expectancy where 30 was more than halfway through it and possibly could be considered 'old'. The lowest life expectancy AT BIRTH (so that includes infant mortality) in the world according to the world Bank is 54 in Nigeria. That's a very sad statistic but by no means is 30 'old' anywhere in the world when referring to the general population. It is more than half the average lifespan in Nigeria and some other countries and that is tragic.

However, to address the priveledge aspect of this question, I took a look at the trans community. A marginalized community sometimes mentioned in relation to this topic for the sad fact of a shorter than average life span.

This isn't a widely studied topic but I found this paper, this article, and this paper. The last is one that mentions the life expectancy of trans women to be between 30 and 35. So in some communities 30 could be seen as old. However that article I mentioned discusses how this data point has been taken out of context and comes from a misinterpretation of data.

It's possible that anon is one of the people misguided by this data point. In any case they'd have to be using old as a term to only refer to their community and that, in my experience, is not how the word old is used. It refers to the general age of people someone has met in their life and regularly interacts with. So yeah it's kind of a weird way to put this.

"30 years old isn't old man" what privilege do you live in where your life expectancy is far past 30 years

This post blindsided me so bad I spent a full minute staring at it in shock

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Komorebi, Duri Baek