Notices by TayFoNay, PsyD ☕️ (tayfonay@beige.party)

In the 1960s Albert Ellis broke off from the psychoanalytic groups that dominated psychology and came up with a new theory - Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy.

In this he wrote about how people often say to themselves “I must do this” or “I must not do that” and he legit called it “musterbation.”

Ordered a new hat on Etsy

My 13 year old daughter went up in rank in Shotokan to high purple belt, so one step behind me. She’s fully prepared to throat punch any guy who says “your body my choice.” I’d like to go back in time and pat 2016 me on the back for enrolling her.

Mark Zuckerberg’s compound on Kauai is an obvious sore spot for the locals. As you drive north along the main road you go past the back edge of it, where he’s bought a huge section of Kauai’s pristine northeast coastline. There are these stupid “private property” signs in Facebook blue. He raises cows that he feeds macadamia nuts from the trees he planted, you know to be normal. Zuck also grows various other foods, and recently built a bunch of “treehouses” for his friends to live in either when they visit or when the world goes to shit. He hires a lot of the local contractors so it’s hard for other projects to get done in a place where resources are already quite limited. He makes them sign an NDA to work there. There’s a public beach in front of his land where you can still get to with a little hike and climb and I guess recently Zuck started having his security harass locals trying to swim or go fishing at the beach, even though all beaches are public.

I like to imagine one day all the locals who he hired, and have intricate knowledge of the place, since they fucking built it, stage a revolt. They take it over, free the cows, eat the fruit and macadamia nuts, and have drunken parties in his 2 mansions and those fucking treehouses. While he cowers in his concrete bunker, never able to emerge to see that pristine land again.

Pretty sure my ability to shitpost is broken. I use humor to cope and there’s literally none in me. Maybe it’ll come back.

@cstross @Urban_Hermit :1000: I was watching the other people taking in the displays of his stuff, and reading the curated stories about his life and work and wondered if they were having a similar experience as mine (mostly disgust) or felt in awe of his “genius.”

@cstross @Urban_Hermit That’s some good perspective. Still an asshole.

Visited the Freud museum when I was in Vienna last month because I think it’s required for psychologists should you find yourself in that city. His apartment was big and spacious, especially by European standards, with multiple large rooms for living and his office area across the hall.

He had a live-in servant who, among other things, greeted his patients and got them settled in the waiting area. As we made our way through his office spaces, next to the coat hook room we came to a much smaller room with a tile floor. I’d guess it was maybe 1.5 meters x 2 meters in size.

The placard on the wall said this was the room the woman slept in. She’d lay a mat down each night and basically sleep on the floor in a closet. Meanwhile here’s his waiting room, basically next door to where she slept. Thus, solidifying in my mind that Freud was an insufferable asshole.

Husband was snoring so I got out of bed to go downstairs to sit on the couch next to my dog who is now snoring

Took my 13 yo daughter to the doctor today for an ongoing sinus thing and when the nurse asked her about her last menstrual period I got real fuckin twitchy. It’s a routine question I’ve answered hundreds of times but now? I need to teach her how to decline answering it.

Sign: Meat Raffle Today!

@thomcat Wisconsin AF

Drove over to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore last night to see the #aurora. Looking north, Chicago is off in the distance to the left. I caught my friend’s tripod setup in this shot. The bright golden color at the bottom is light pollution from Chicago picked up on the long exposure. We got there just as Mother Nature put on a dazzling show of reds and purples. The green was quite muted and not really as visible to the naked eye.

I never thought I’d say “popped over to Indiana to see aurora” in my lifetime.

Couldn’t help myself with this one

My grandmother had this old medical text from 1920 in her house called “Life, Health, and Vitality” that I took when she passed away. Was flipping through the sections on women’s health and am pretty sure this book informs the GOP’s policy making

My son is very proud of his first baby habanero pepper

#gardening

Instilling confidence with my team this morning

#leadership

Did I buy this sign? Yes, yes I did.

@farah “Clearly he’s having trouble processing this” I gotta take a walk

Guys, The Onion is back in print. Just signed up for a year subscription to relive my 20s when I’d grab a free copy before hopping on the L

If you want to sign up you can on their home page:

https://theonion.com/