Getting old is your 20-year tongue scraper finally breaking, and then ordering multiple replacements to find something that is anywhere near as good as the old one.

Also, realising you grew up in a bubble of relative peace and progressive values that has left you woefully unprepared for the rapid rise of fascism.

But mostly the tongue scraper thing.

@jamesthomson at 51 long years on planet earth, I have now learned that there exists an object called a “tongue scraper” and/or that people scrape their tongues. 🤯