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The Age Buster 🇺🇦

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A bunch of ideas to upgrade the perspective on aging and disobey the stereotypes, compiled by Stefania Medetti, journalist, sociologist, and author

Katılım Kasım 2018
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Mohamad Safa
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa·
This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines. The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines. There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires. On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor. Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us. I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard. There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars. So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections. Anti-aging is not a beauty standard. Authenticity is. @ FeministNews
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Into The Forest Dark
Into The Forest Dark@ElliottBlackwe3·
What was the last book that changed or shifted your perspective on the world? One that made your perspective that much larger? One that made you ask deeper questions? (art by Anna Cunha)
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The Age Buster 🇺🇦
The Age Buster 🇺🇦@TheAgeBuster·
@encore_janine As the saying goes, what matters is how much life there is in your years. Happy birthday from as far as Thailand! (I know we don’t know each other personally, but I love birthdays)
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jacopo iacoboni
jacopo iacoboni@jacopo_iacoboni·
the former Italian pm Conte calls for “a peace negotiation” with Russia, because “we’re democracies and public opinions count, and beyond a certain limit, we cannot hold our own, in this, with states like Russia” It is all so sad and pitiful
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cindygallop.eth
cindygallop.eth@cindygallop·
Me on an early morning walk with @susandanziger in the Dutch countryside yesterday, getting some fresh air before what turned out to be a legal-here-in-the-Netherlands psilocybin trip experience that lasted 9 hours 😮 #GirlsTrip
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The Age Buster 🇺🇦
The Age Buster 🇺🇦@TheAgeBuster·
@IuliiaMendel The problem is the weaponisation of the event. As you can see from the screenshot, @corriere has falsely translated Von der Leyen's comment at the Opera House. She said "We have to honour culture" and NOT "Russian culture"
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Iuliia Mendel
Iuliia Mendel@IuliiaMendel·
Italy’s most treasured opera house, Teatro alla Scala, opened its new season Wednesday with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,” against the backdrop of Ukrainian protests that the cultural event is a propaganda win for the Kremlin during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. .
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Iryna Voichuk
Iryna Voichuk@IrynaVoichuk·
5000 followers. Why is this important to me? Because it means that I’ll be able to tell more ppl about #RussianWarCrimes, especially in #Kharkiv. I’m just an ordinary Ukrainian and it’s important for me to be heard. I’ve found friends here, #NAFO and a lot of support. TY for that
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The Wall Street Journal
Biological age won’t help you live forever, but a ‘credit score for your body’ might prolong your lifespan, some scientists say.
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Martin Hyde
Martin Hyde@HydeM1976·
I finally got one of those ESRC grants everyone’s been talking about. Now I just need someone to come & work with me on it. If you have stats skills & are interested in the impact that living in age diverse areas has on health & well-being please apply swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…
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The Age Buster 🇺🇦
The Age Buster 🇺🇦@TheAgeBuster·
@johnsweeneyroar If Putin is the only one who has the power to do something (attack Ukraine), he’s called a dictator. If Scholz is the only one who has the power NOT to do something (sending heavy weapons to Ukraine). Why he’s not called a dictator?
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