Tamara Bates

mother, knitter, very slow runner, reinventor of self, would-be homesteader. my grandmother was born in the Transylvanian hills. (she/her)

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@RolandOrzabal_ Since the dawn of time, it seems!

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@Zoya_ki_batein 30 years ago, I was at a party at a grad student pub and some guy grabbed my ass on the dancefloor. I kept moving away and he followed me. Finally I turned around, shoved him, and yelled at him. He laughed at me, like I was nuts. But every woman in the pub clapped and cheered.

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@mentalist1708 @luvhuss There's lots in between. There's bound to be mixed feelings if someone wants to have a baby, but (for any number of reasons) not now.

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@MJMcKean Oh no!!

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@AmbroseXchange @soigomaa But (physical) dominance isn't bravery.

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@13Cunterella @ABC That bit's in quotation marks, so he used the wrong word, not the author of the article.

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@MayorOfSnark @ABC Well, maybe you should look into getting yourself on the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints so this kind of thing doesn't happen again. I'm sure we'd all sleep better.

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@MayorOfSnark @ABC Regardless, my point was that the living human isn't required to perform miracles to be canonized.

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@MayorOfSnark @ABC People don't perform miracles. Miracles are attributed to them after they are dead. So if you pray to the Blessed Carlo to cure your mom of some incurable disease, and your mom is cured, it is deemed to have happened through Carlo's intercession, and as proof that he's in heaven.

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@BMWinPTown @ABC He was 15 when he died. In 2006.

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@sokv33 @ABC It's not one day. In Canada, at elections at all levels of government, we have advance polling days and, wait for it... mail-in ballots. Some jurisdictions also have electronic voting. 🤯

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@HackedOffHugh They were protecting your children, though. Child abduction is real. And as a single parent who spent years under the threat, from my ex, that my child would be taken, over the border and not returned, I am very relieved to know they are asking children questions.

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@StephenKing Not crazy, just wrong. Nature's most perfect food is the avocado. And dates, Medjool dates.

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@MJMcKean Indeed. But Jitterbug Perfume is his very best. It's one of my favourite books.

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@m_millsey I know more than a few women who wouldn't say no to a super-bright, big-ass flashlight as well.

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@clairecmc She doesn't understand how we conduct elections in Canada either.

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@atrupar As a Canadian, albeit not one of her friends, I can attest to the fact that this is not how elections work in Canada either.

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@crazyinlife10 @atrupar No thank you. Canada doesn't want her or her son.

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@m_millsey Are these the same grandparents they were willing to sacrifice to COVID?

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@keaninloomis Congratulations!!!