real talk: being gen X kind of sucks right now because our boomer parents are all dying, sick, and, or, suffering from dementia. we are a v self sufficient cohort, and proud of it but don't underestimate the shit we're likely going through. as ever, kindness first.

gen X is also discovering illness ourselves. it's a trip, and it fucking sucks.

anyway - every generation gets their time in the barrel. for gen X it is now.

shout out to all y'all that are going through some things. i see you.

Presenting: "Space Karen".

This is Karen Nyberg, who was a NASA astronaut from 1991 to 2020 and logged 180 days in space between 2008 and 2013. In 2013 while stationed on the ISS she sewed a stuffed dinosaur, believed to be the only stuffed animal ever manufactured in space, out of fabric scavenged from Roscosmos food containers and stuffing from a shredded T-shirt.