Tiah Marie Beautement

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:59 UTC

Hey Folks,

Don't forget that #FiyahLitMag's subs open til July 31, 2024, with guest editor Kerine Wint Themed: SPACEFARING AUNTIES.

It’s time to explore the adventures of bold, fearless women who defy societal expectations and embark on daring space voyages!

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 10:43 UTC

Senior citizen Bingo is no joke. That take the game very seriously. In other news, my maternal grandmother managed to get herself into serious debt playing Bingo. Ah, the secrets you learn after a loved one passes...

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

Today I tried to ride my horse. Instead I mostly cried while Toledo let me hug her. Meanwhile, Tau isn’t finishing her meals. Ziva was her partner in crime. They’d always rush to the door, sitting side by side, when I came home from the stables. Today nobody was there. Tau was hiding.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:01 UTC

Because having control over your own life is a bloody fabulous feeling. Having control within community could also be nice. But let’s not pretend “asking for help” is brilliant even if the people providing said help are lovely.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

Climate change is when your dear dog and her friend dies in winter from the bite of a cobra, who should have been in hibernation. My poor, girl and her friend. It is a terrible way to die.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 05:12 UTC

Next, we’ll be fighting them for water.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 07:40 UTC

Then you find out she was a champion for eugenics, teaming up with Alexander Graham Bell, and then are sad again.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 07:38 UTC

I don't know if cured...as there are some people who just enjoy being otherwise...but it would certainly help.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 07:37 UTC

I got asked to change a word common amongst many disabled to one abeled readers are familiar with. I considered doing it & decided no. It isn't out there, I've used it before in the same publication, and, honestly, disabled writers shouldn't be asked to make things easier for abled readers.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

This is right up there with straw bans, "don't use air con during a heat wave," and reusable bags. Mostly performative, and meanwhile, rather than reduce we've got AI to suck up our fresh water while draining energy. Excellent, excellent. So glad we got our eyes on the real problem...art.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

The inspiration behind Stephen King's Fairy Tale. Or now the gate to the modern Secret Garden.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 18:05 UTC

In late April, Husband did a motorcycle tour. During it, various animals tried to steel his food, including some jackles. But the best was these dassies. A few stood in front of him and performed the ultimate cute act while another slipped behind him and took off with his pepperoni stick. *bows*

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

Send it to the Whataboutism Olympics. Its got strength, beauty, so much potential.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 07:30 UTC

Thank you. Very helpful. And depressing. But confirmed by threats of alpaca farming really should become reality because this bullshit is exhausting. Not that farming isn’t. But at least animals are cute.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 04:56 UTC

Does anyone has a gift link/archive link To WSJ article “AI doesn’t kill jobs? Tell that to freelancers” by Christopher Mims.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:46 UTC

Oh yes. EDS and sporty and my head juggling too many thoughts…I collect bruises as a hobby.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

Oregon childhoods in the 80s and 90s were rather quirky.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

…cont.. And that night, we stopped somewhere in the forest to discover some poor bat plastered to our Crysler minivan’s grill and, poor bat (RIP), but then we made jokes that we now had a genuine Batmobile.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 20:29 UTC

Once upon the 90’s I was in a forest warming up for another day at baseball camp to gregorian chant when I got pulled aside to be informed my grandfather had died. So my parents fetched me on the way to Portland for the funeral & they had to bring me clothes b/c all I had was baseball gear. Cont.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:50 UTC

Great…but how did the vet discover this trick. Or did the cap leap in there and the vet was …sure, okay, if that’s where you want to be…

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:48 UTC

Good for them.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

Wrote 3,000 words for a client in the last two days. Been enjoying the project, very much, thus far.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 08:35 UTC

The youth have not given up.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 04:39 UTC

Part of a South African study abroad test group in ‘99. US universities still cautious due to Amy Biehl. We all had to do a project. Mine was on the AIDS crisis, where mothers were being denied meds to prevent transmission of HIV to the baby. Dr Zuma and, later, Mbeki have so much to answer for.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 04:31 UTC

I honestly can’t believe how many people pull out their cameras during hectic times. But what an amazing memory you have.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

Aircon isn't used a lot in South Africa. Usually fine. But there was one Christmas where we were visiting fam and the temp sky rocketed to past 100F. It was a dry heat but still crazy hot. The unheated pool felt like bathwater at 10PM. Only thing to do - wet shirts and lay in front of a fan.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

I was very delighted to meet my editor and receive corrections for a story I hadn't been told was accepted. So...yay on acceptance. Yay on editors that do editing. Yay that I have my first specfic story coming out in ages because... 2020 arrived and life went sideways in all areas.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:32 UTC

I am very happy Diesel is living his best life.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

When the show got to the Cass Report I started thinking, 'Science Vs debunked this report' - a good listen on an infuriating "report".

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 10:48 UTC

Awww, this is sweet and hilarious. Sorry the rage-roids made it weird.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

Waiting to hear the verdict of your writing is always...well, I'm watching Bridgerton and knitting, so there is that, at least.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

oh hi, me.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 06:14 UTC

"When you pull, you feel the force of the water on the oars; that was my way to scream and let everything out. But then when the oar comes out of the water, I feel that instant release.” - Oksana Masters I miss rowing. Such an excellent way to describe it.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

She did such a nice job today. Seemed to be full of joy. Cleared every 60cm jump the teen pointed her at. It was the teen’s first show.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 02:28 UTC

I avoid all of this with Toledo by keeping her mane short. Not that you could braid it if long. It just turns into whispy straggles. She takes her Appaloosa roots very seriously.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 02:26 UTC

We don’t have to braid for show jumping. I was told there were supposed to be 12 braids, hence the chunks. But I wasn’t told until I was done that they are supposed to be on the right. I just got lucky that’s the side she wears her mane.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 10:23 UTC

Thank you.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 05:44 UTC

The problem with dressage is they want braids in mane. I have suggested we just give Renfri a punk-short haircut like Toledo’s. Teen was horrified. So now I have to do a horse’s hair. Which I find ridiculous. But so are many dressage rules, like snaffel.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 05:41 UTC

Tomorrow I will be doing my first dressage test. I will be riding my daughter’s horse, Renfri (right). I practiced on Toledo, who does not do snaffles. Thus…this might not be my finest moment. Toledo will be there, jumping 60cm with her Wednesday teen. It will be the young lady’s first show.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 17:02 UTC

Gah. What a complicated cesspool of regulations. But I hope a plan can be made for the shortfall so you can have a chair that meets your needs.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

I do the bare minimum there and do not aspire to do more.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 06:41 UTC

Certainly not to paying first responders well. They get garbage wages for such a specialised skill and vital service.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 06:39 UTC

I have also seen false marketing - calling books romance when they just happen to include one. Marketers need to understand that the romance label comes with expectations and it is a poor strategy that might produce initial sales but then results in angry reviews.

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Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

They deserved to be heard.

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