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Catholic 🇻🇦; Conservative 🏢; Long-distance dad 🧭; professional writer ✍️; asexual ⬛️⬜️🟪

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7 months
@kitholburn @theyasminbenoit ‘Dysmorphia’ Curious choice of diagnosis.
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7 months
@kitholburn @theyasminbenoit I look at myself and find a set of limbs in the usual configuration; internal organs which appear to be functioning properly and an adequate brain. Nope: no apparent dysmorphia here.
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7 months
@mtnhousewife We’re not all the same. Some of us genuinely would rather “never, nothing, nowhere”.
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4 years
@Patrick_Coffin Friend, I cannot agree. I’m as robust a Catholic as any, but I’ve found too much to admire in the LDS Church and the Book of Mormon to dismiss them out of hand.
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3 years
@emilyialcaraz @JakeLobin Mr Lobjn perhaps should talk it over with our Vietnamese coreligionists, who are firmly persuaded Jesus and His mother were Asian. Meet Our Lady of Lavang -
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1 year
@BobbiGirl77 @MoiraDeemingMP @JohnPesutto 1. Which community? 2. Who, specifically, is being killed? Please identify the person or people.
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11 months
@Melbourne_lurk @PierreJouet @theyasminbenoit @stonewalluk Your reply is a good example. Asexuals like me live in a world that entirely validates people (such as yourself) who feel sexual attraction. By contrast, we are viewed as oddities or unwell and our relationships are downgraded as ‘less than’. This is what we want to change.
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4 months
@GenX_Lesbian So, each believes they have changed but the other has not?
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1 year
@stephjantzen @PeterHotez Sacrifice? You mean, the TikTok videos of dancing hospital staff who clearly had no actual work to do?
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8 months
@4LinesInTime @KosSamaras Saying “parliament will decide later” to a working-class voter who asks “what powers will the Voice have?” sounds like fobbing them off. Worse, it’s saying “just trust us” to people who regularly get cheated and ripped off. I can’t imagine a more foolhardy strategy.
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7 months
@kitholburn @theyasminbenoit I’m long past the point where anyone would want to see me semi-naked (this happens when you’re on the bad side of 40). Not sure I see the relevance though.
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5 months
@fadiquran Why did Hamas launch this war without ensuring supply lines to feed their population?
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7 months
@kitholburn @theyasminbenoit Perhaps, but I’m neither of them. Put simply, I have the usual physique of a man in early middle age with a sedentary job. This self-awareness, I suggest, is evidence of an absence of dysmorphia.
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8 months
@GeromanAT Hey, what happened to that huge hezbollah assault you were touting last night? It went the same way as the colossal avdiivka breakthrough the other day, I take it? Down the memory hole.
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1 year
Send the asteroid…
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3 years
@CatholicAmina St Bernard of Clairvaux, you drew thousands like Amina to the cloister. We ask you to pray for her, whose desire to follow our Lord is a model for the rest of us. Pray that her family will know that her love for Christ does not mean she loves them less. Amen ✝️
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1 year
@RebeccaJones_03 @_CryMiaRiver Dubious. Organisations like the Tavistock NHS Trust infamously did not maintain records of how patients fared post-transition. Evidence of benefit doesn’t get much beyond anecdote.
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8 months
@DlugajJuly @CODWarfareForum @Dpol_un None of that is true. The Third Reich and the Soviet Union had agreed to divide Poland and the Baltic States between them.
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6 years
@GoToSouthAfrica Thanks, but right now Afghanistan is probably safer for someone like me.
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1 year
@realsnoopbailey @LindseyGrahamSC You want to reward Russia’s bad behaviour?
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2 years
@redpilledhomo Genuinely not mocking, but it’s hard not to recall that in the Greek legends, when the Gods truly wish to destroy someone, they give him what he most desires.
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11 months
@JamesRu33 @budlight Give it a rest, bot.
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1 year
@LilahRPGtt @ThePosieParker You sure showed her. I bet you feel like a big tough man now.
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1 year
@Kon__K In the same period of time 103 men have committed suicide. Which loss should we find more shocking?
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5 years
@PaulHic1 Sounds like what my mum and dad would have said!
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5 years
@sickentirade Bless you and her - very sorry to hear it went that way 😕
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5 years
@JDManly18 Wowee! Happy birthday tiger, from Melbourne, Australia! 🇦🇺
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8 months
@TonyHWindsor @DanielAndrewsMP I live in Victoria. What *specific* success did his government achieve?
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3 years
@Corvaier @magaizzyy @jtsmithofficial I can imagine a Martian invasion: “we said take us to your leader” “No really, this is him”
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5 years
@netanyahu Bless you sir.
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8 months
@EndreszAllan @jnbond Cases like this one?
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4 years
@ms_peaceweaver @repreaux It is not their place to decide if the Church is wrong.
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1 year
@PhillipAdams_1 “Some of best friends are …”
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1 year
@DefenceU During the Winter War I think the Finns had a joke - “Our country is small, and there are so many Russians. Where are we going to bury them all?”
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2 years
@KirralieS @DanielAndrewsMP I’m SO glad my kids are growing up outside Victoria.
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1 year
@rsderrsder @copesint @mbk_center It actually does. The behaviour the Russian people tolerate is the standard they embrace.
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1 year
@RoyallyBelle_ When they were late, every parent could imagine one of them saying “Louis, where the Hell are your shoes?!?”
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8 months
@PeterBotsman It’s an economic basket case. The police force is politicised. The health system is broken. Roads are steadily disintegrating. Public funding has been poured into unnecessary white-elephant public works. Victoria under Andrews is East Germany without the technical competence.
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1 year
@realsnoopbailey @LindseyGrahamSC Not what I asked. Peace now allows Russia to retain the territories it has illegally occupied. Again, it rewards bad behaviour.
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8 months
@GeromanAT Which you swallowed hook, line and sinker. Just like you did with the vast breakthrough at Avdiivka a few days ago.
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5 years
@EU_Commission 🇪🇺 is on borrowed time.
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9 months
@holysmoke I *really* hope the Holy Father doesn’t visit Germany anytime soon, for fear of whom he might praise. No, I’m not joking.
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@Jeanetteandco @KosSamaras “I have no prejudice against working class people” That’s gracious of you.
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1 year
@NawTrouble @DifficultNerd @Coles Ace here rather than gay. Almost by definition my orientation wants to be left TF alone!
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1 year
@panicbutton15 @DefenceHQ Ol’ pedo Scott? You’re that desperate?
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1 year
@ShereleMoody The allegations were tried at considerable public expense, and resulted in an acquittal. You know that.
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1 year
@PaulPrigby @OliLondonTV And yet the parent company hasn’t backed their executives and has sent anyone involved on indefinite leave. Also why their social media has been silent for a month.
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4 years
@CatholicAmina Bless you very much Amina! Can I tell you that I was on the verge of doing something bad when I saw your tweet, and reached for a rosary instead. Thank you!
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5 years
@rockman_2 @SI_Swimsuit I was genuinely surprised to learn Sports Illustrated is still being published. I had a vague idea they went broke in the early 2000s.
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3 years
@KatiHartwig ... all and immediately began getting passengers in our area to move so we could all sit together. Everyone just agreed because the little human dynamo asked them! We sent her a Christmas card for a good few years after that.
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3 years
@debeehr @emilyialcaraz @JakeLobin Isn’t it? There’s really none that aren’t an attempt to paint love itself. Our Lady of Africa is another I like very much
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4 years
@Jellyeater2 @UnironicAtheism @xmslyz If we don’t truly want that, we probably don’t belong there either.
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8 months
@KosSamaras Emphatically agree. The Yes campaign would have passed muster in an Arts faculty common room but would have been gibberish in a warehouse or in a building site.
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2 years
@DragonsHearthAu @saralikeclara This “gift” is made by poor women to rich people, but never by rich women to poor people? There’s something revealing about that, wouldn’t you say?
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1 year
@chirurgeonbb @DrLoupis Cool story bro. Coulda used a vampire though.
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5 years
@AmandeepBhogal If memory serves, the Indian army in WW2 was the largest volunteer army in history. 🇮🇳
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1 year
@emma__jayne14 I don’t think upholding female-only spaces can really be said to be erasing anyone. Who is being erased?
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1 year
@melissaanne921 @bindelj Asexual here. You’re quite correct. Barring rare exceptions, the worst thing we face is being a punchline. Compared with what’s happened to our homosexual friends that’s very small potatoes.
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6 years
@olwenmcg @SheriJWeekes @sighnatasha True. Of course, Scotland is now regarded as the knife-crime capital of Europe, so I'd suggest weapons themselves weren't the problem.
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@KosSamaras Former compo lawyer here. If anything silicosis is harder to forgive than asbestosis. Asbestosis was known to be dangerous from about the 1890s, but “miner’s lung” was known in Roman times. Ignoring the risks was unforgivable.
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2 years
@PatsyRo17443076 @fifyfomum @SafeSchools_UK Quite a leap you’ve made there.
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9 months
@TMc20126277 @abcnews Literally none of those are constitutionally enshrined.
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8 months
@JBFittz @KosSamaras Oh for heaven’s sake. This is anecdata at best. The polls for three months have shown the Voice cratering. The Yes campaign blithely continued as if the polls still showed them in a winning position. Why did they ignore the warning bells?
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3 years
@JoeSilverman7 Kind of surprising: our Vietnamese coreligionists are firmly persuaded his mother was Asian: meet Our Lady of Lavang -
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7 months
@DavidShoebridge Look at the events of October 7. Hamas does not seem to share your commitment to peace.
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1 year
@MichMisiewicz @yanisvaroufakis Hold on there. LGBs are defined by a sexual orientation. T’s are defined by gender identity. I’s are defined by a medical condition and A’s by a non-pathological absence of a sexuality. What conceivable commonality of interest do we have?
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5 years
@FrHilderbrand I heard a priest give a homily where he recalled being on a plane that was flying through a storm. One of the flight attendants asked him if he could “do something Catholic”. He said he agreed and duly took up a collection!
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1 year
@ComradeTyneside @SCynic1 You’re a “relative of a member of the NUM”? That’s even less reflected glory than saying “my grandfather was at Iwo Jima”. Go and actually achieve something with your own life, if you can.
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1 year
@QueenStodge @hesbianbigby @Megacherv No. The meaning of words and the rules of English grammar do not change because of a person’s self-perception.
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4 years
@DanCarter1990 @guyverhofstadt It might not be an option. If Britain survives, the EU is in trouble. If Britain prospers, the EU is finished.
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11 months
@Mike___Kilo @theyasminbenoit Women must feel remarkably uncomfortable around you.
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1 year
@rsderrsder @copesint @mbk_center Not being a US citizen I couldn’t say. In any case, how do crimes committed by Americans against Iraqis justify Russian crimes against Ukrainians. Get lost vatnik. Try not to think since you’re clearly not very good at it.
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4 years
@Beth_Alize Insisting on supervised visitation as part of the divorce arrangements. Yes, I was going through a bad time and might have done something stupid to myself, but it stings that she didn’t know I’d rather have died a hundred times than ever hurt my daughters.
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4 years
@glyndore @MichelBarnier Want to stay? Britain has left. It’s over.
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1 year
@yodaberg Not sure I agree. Absent any particular rule in ACT law, they’re evidence relating to the allegations. If she’s told the counsellor one thing and says another in the witness box the jury needs to know.
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2 years
@CrimsonJGlory1 @wartranslated Really? (I didn’t know}. Just … wow.
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5 years
Any chance of a RT, @sam100marine , to mark the funeral of another WW2 veteran? He was stretcher bearer Christie Johnstone of the 2/8 Australian Field Ambulance and served in North Africa and New Guinea.
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11 months
@honesthans4 @MalesOfReddit It’s an odd thing but … it’s only in the last few years I’ve come to understand my own asexuality. But, the women I’ve worked with or been friends with kind of seemed to know I was safe to be around late at the office or in a car etc. They just seem to have known before I did.
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1 year
@JoyfulAllison I love the church, but it has flaws and this sort of thing is one of them. Attending church as a divorcee is a good way to feel like you’re radioactive ☢️ ☣️
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7 years
@jhbushart54 @Salon @Cernovich I'm with you - I was waiting for the punchline!
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1 year
@ArthurM40330824 Yawn. Arthur’s real name is Ivan and he lives in St Petersburg. Silly little vatnik.
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4 years
@JoeSilverman7 @AOC I’m not sure she realises that “1984” was a novel and not a “how to” guide.
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1 year
@AdamKneale1 @lesstenny No. They were never called that.
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6 months
@Bamalawyer @orenbarsky Gaza hasn’t been occupied since 2005. Thanks for playing.
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4 years
@JackEllingsen @bueller_tom @ErnieDingo1 Fun fact for you: it’s still assault.
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5 months
@SuDharmapala @AlboMP They’ve been attacking *any* ship that came within reach.
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7 years
@obianuju @politicalelle I may be just an Australian white boy, but if an African or Pacific Islander wanted to try out how I live I'd more view it as a compliment!
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11 months
@Crikkt @theyasminbenoit And yet, here you are.
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11 months
@mirre03ks @GicAriana They don’t exist. Russia could, if it wished, refer the matter to the ICC. It could lead evidence of this in the case against Russia in the ICJ. It has chosen to do neither. What does that tell you, Sergei?
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3 years
@TheresaZoe Maybe it’s because I grew up around cattle, but I can’t fathom why people think breastfeeding is immodest, or indeed even interesting to watch. It’s about as erotic as watching someone scratch their ear.
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@Viangbua1983 @theyasminbenoit @DiversityRM Put it this way: if I’d known about asexuality by the age of (say) 17, I’d probably have made much better relationship choices, I’d have felt less out of step with the world for much of my life, and perhaps even made different career decisions. I’d have understood myself better.
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11 months
@budlight It’s a metaphor for your management team ignoring how your brand is cratering?
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1 year
@aussiecamel9745 I’m afraid there’s only one piece of detail which is sufficient: the bill which PM Albanese says this referendum will empower him to pass. Without that, I cannot make a reasonable evaluation of the proposed voice and therefore must vote no.
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3 years
@RawsonLana Let me guess... you work in the public service or don’t work at all?
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1 year
@LindaBurneyMP If (4) is true, Minister, then the amendment is defective. It allows the Voice to be given functions beyond advice as well as actual powers.
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8 months
@emma__jayne14 Indeed. One wonders why Hamas chose to do so.
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8 months
@blakandblack Unfortunately, the government’s detail-free approach in framing the referendum meant it was impossible to find out the things I wanted to know. This meant the rational decision was to vote no.
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8 months
@KosSamaras Interesting insight. One gets the sense that the campaigns are almost a sideshow with only the already-committed paying much attention.
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11 months
@Mike___Kilo @theyasminbenoit Maybe you should exercise some self control, Mike.
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5 years
@MCITLFrAphorism @BVMConsolatrix I genuinely respect Fr Martin for his energy and devotion, but on this I think he has gone wide of the mark. Ultimately, for all people (straight, gay or Callithumpian) the first and greatest of all sins is pride.
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