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tayfonay

@tayfonay@beige.party

Clinical psychologist & academic refugee. Former underpaid Associate Professor. Mom of 2. GenXennial? Navigating the great enshittification.

Things I like: cycling, hiking, beaches, Vonnegut, people who aren't shitty, owls, Jackie Chan movies, IPAs, the color orange, It’s Always Sunny, Norway, dark chocolate, John Mulaney, octopuses.

#teamOrca
#LRRR2024

Header: Stamp in all Caps "Not on microfiche"
Avatar: pacific octopus

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tayfonay, to random
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#aurora somewhere west of Madison WI, 12:50 am

tayfonay,
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Red just appeared 😳

tayfonay, to random
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northwest of Chicago 9:50 pm

tayfonay, to random
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Every once and a while I peruse finn.no, the website in Norway where you literally can buy anything, to daydream about buying a cabin in the middle of the mountains by a fjord where I can frolic with the trolls and whatnot. And I find shit like this:

https://www.finn.no/bap/forsale/ad.html?finnkode=352170723

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

tayfonay,
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@RickiTarr Chicago-ish. I've lived in both the suburbs and the city so I'm going to lump them together.

Pros:

Chicago is a beautiful city with anything you could probably think of available to do. Like it's too much to list but a few: world class restaurants to family run dives with equally delicious food, diverse AF, tons of history, tons of cultural things to do, etc.

Lake Michigan - big, calm (usually) and fresh water with golden sand beaches

Mostly progressive, though there are red pockets in the suburbs with your usual nonsense. But you don't see a lot of Trump regalia or flags flying, so there's that.

Cons:

The rest of the state of Illinois is mostly farms of corn and soy as far as you can see. So road trips from here require driving considerable distances to get anywhere interesting.

Winters can suck, but with climate change they're getting easier (yay?)

Fucking flat as a pancake. If we had some hills to hike, this place would be perfect.

Suburban sprawl.

The Bears.

tayfonay,
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@RickiTarr Notice I didn't say crime because that whole narrative is a load of conservative talking point bullshit. Yes, we have crime. Yes, it's bad. But we're not even in the top 25 per capita in the US.

tayfonay,
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@RickiTarr lookin' at you and your violent crime rate, Arkansas

tayfonay, to random
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Going to drive a few hours north into Wisconsin tonight to try to see some aurora. Or as us FIPs say, “stormin’ the cheddar curtain” 😎

purplepadma, to random
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Well my meeting with the pro-bono psychotherapist was a bust. He doesn’t believe in bipolar and thinks it’s basically a marketing ploy by Big Pharma. So that’s really not a good fit with me and my worldview, the diagnosis makes sense of my experiences in a way no other explanation has. Guess I will have to shop around for a therapist.

tayfonay,
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@purplepadma WTF? Allow me to apologize on behalf of my profession

purplepadma, to random
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Miss Cinnamon is home! Our neighbour saw her sauntering down the close then she jumped over the side gate miaowing. She seems absolutely fine and not hungry. So relieved, thank you for all your good wishes

tayfonay,
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@purplepadma Miss Cinnamon doing the walk of shame

So glad she’s home

tayfonay,
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@purplepadma Mmmhmmm

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Saturday is my 16 year wedding anniversary and the "traditional" gift is wax, so I'm thinking of leaving some used Q-tips in the bathroom #romance

tayfonay,
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@LoganFive wait, is this a thing?

tayfonay, to random
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All my toots today are in David Attenborough’s voice

TheJen, to random
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Once more, huge shout out thank you to @GottaLaff for aggregating and live posting the various reporting on the trump trial.

It saves me so much time having to flip between reporting.

It's so nice.

tayfonay,
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@TheJen @GottaLaff just had time to read through all of the posts. Whooo, boy. Thank you for documenting all of... that. Might I suggest a long walk in nature with some birds and spring flowers to detox your brain.

tayfonay,
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@GottaLaff @TheJen Soon.

Kierkegaanks, to random
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In a time when the western world is so divided it’s on the brink of civil war, there are still two issues that unite everyone: You don’t shoot puppies in the face. And who ever came up with this useless brainfart and forced it on us needs to pay

tayfonay,
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@Kierkegaanks I just throw the whole bottle on the ground now

tayfonay,
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@Kierkegaanks I haven’t seen these caps in the US, only over in Europe. I suspect Americans would take this as an attack on freedom and come up with a totally clever insult like freedom fries was

tayfonay,
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@Kierkegaanks I first encountered them in Ireland and was like "oh, this is clever, so people don't lose the caps all over the place" and then I drank out of the bottle.

tayfonay,
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@Kierkegaanks they only drink from the finest crystal glassware

tayfonay, to random
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Happy birthday @Alice 🎂

Sigmund Freud was also born today. But more importantly for civilization, 20 years ago today was the final episode of Friends.

tayfonay, to random
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There are a bunch of holes in the ground in our yard by the trees, with remnants of cicada chimneys, or where the nymphs are making their way up to the surface and are like get this fuckin dirt out of my way but in a very symmetrical, columnar fashion.

Soon.

https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/category/behavior/chimneys/

tayfonay, to random
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Out of all the fucked up stuff in Baby Reindeer why is it that Martha types “sent from my iPhone” on all of her emails that rises above everything for me?

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The subconscious is the part of the brain that makes you crave sub sanwiches.

tayfonay,
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@the_etrain I’m a psychologist and I approve this toot

tayfonay,
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@the_etrain Making some good progress

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