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Ros Dakin

@rosdakin.bsky.social
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Writing as Ros Bayes: fiction and non-fiction books, poetry, blogs and disability resources. Mother and step-mother to 5 wonderful people, 3 of them disabled. Following Jesus first and foremost.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing 77 countries walked out when Netanyahu rose to speak at the UN General Assembly, The British delegation stayed. I am appalled by and ashamed of the British government for its complicity in genocide and war crimes. This is not in my name.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every time I hear on the radio the phrase "Donald Trump's advisers" my brain does a double-take: he has advisers???
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @onemoregoodman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Criticism of the Israeli state and of illegal settlements in the West Bank is NOT antisemitism. Can we all say this loudly together please.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"LGBTQ+ wouldn't be tolerated in Palestine. Why are you supporting people who hate you?" Because human rights & international laws - against apartheid, genocide & persecution - are not conditional on whether people like us, they are universal principles Never Again, means never again for everyone
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Holly 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mxhollyclara.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am still (11 years later) unable to grasp how the images of little Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on a beach wasn’t the final word on treating refugees with compassion and dignity. How we are we having attacks on the RNLI for saving HUMAN lives being encouraged by our media. I weep for our world.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ed Miliband! The country is with you, even if the right wing newspapers abd their cheerleaders are not.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just want to point out if people had been beaten up at the Green or SNP party conference and their leader had cheered it on. It wouldn't just have been on TV, it would have been on TV non-stop until the election. But for Reform, it barely got mentioned.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just Stop Oil planned to block a road, they got 21 years. Far Right masked thugs actually blocked roads. Not one arrest, nothing.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For those banging on about wanting UK to be a Christian country, here's what the Christian scriptures say: When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as you love yourself. Leviticus 19.33-34
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Can Israel Katz really not see the exact similitude between Hitler wanting a Lebensraum that was Judenfrei and the Israeli government wanting a Lebensraum that is Arabernfrei?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How many other famous footballers have used their position to speak out? Not many, Gary Lineker a true footballing legend.
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Oldman Teeps @oldmanteeps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Any tech company that changes “LAKE ONTARIO” to anything else, should be taxed into oblivion by the Canadian government. No exceptions.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I will point out again Clement Attlee LABOUR PRIME MINISTER. Nationalised Water, Rail, Healthcare and Housing and created more than 2,000,000 jobs working for the Government in just 5 years. That. Is. How. It. Is. DONE
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can't believe all the sarky comments I'm reading about the Big Church Festival tragedy. I've heard reports several times of pilgrims being crushed to death in Mecca but it never entered my head to mock their faith. As John Donne said, "Send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dear Peter Thiel, you're off your trolley. 4 of my family members are alive because NHS saved their lives at no cost except what we'd already paid through taxes. In USA a dear friend died very young while his insurance co wrangled over whether to pay for chemo. www.facebook.com/share/v/18Fw...
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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this but being AGAINST the US funding Israel’s wars & crimes against humanity doesn’t make that person antisemitic. It does place them on the RIGHT side of history. I am against human suffering. I am against those specific humans that cause suffering -not the religion.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nicolás Maduro is being kept in solitary confinement, locked in a 6ft by 10ft room for more than 23 hours a day All because he wouldn't let Donald Trump steal Venezuela's oil The silence from the international community is deafening They don't care about US/Israeli War Crimes
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Who is pulling Trump's strings? Because he isn't actually capable of doing anything all by himself, is he?
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It’s laughable that the U.S. and Israel, the countries nobody trusts because of their history of violence and attacks, are always demanding their victims disarm.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It'll be pretty embarrassing if the dinosaurs went out with more dignity than us. They can't say they knew about the meteor for decades, knew exactly what to do about it, had all the technology and resources to stop it but didn't so five of them could own everything
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No doubt the press who gleefully targeted Jason Arday will now be handwringing as if this was nothing to do with them.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I suppose I don't mind the government messaging me once with the blindingly obvious in case I was too thick to work it out for myself but do they have to do it 5 times in the space of 2 hours?
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plainoldchair @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think we need some kind of foreign exchange program where every American adult needs to live in a functioning social democracy for 6 months, just to recalibrate their sense of what is normal in terms of public services, health care, workers' rights, and so on and so on
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I notice Nigel Farage hasn't called for pure, cold rage against Simon Levy's community. Is that because he's neither brown nor Muslim so Farage thinks his crimes don't matter? (And for clarity, I don't think pure cold rage is ever the right response).
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social “No amount of propaganda should convince you that the systematic murder of 100,000 people—including ~25,000 children—in 1,000 days is self-defense and not a genocide.” M. Safa
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Remember when Israel said it was all about getting the hostages back, that they would stop bombing Gaza once every hostage was returned? It was never about the hostages. It's always been about taking the land of Palestine, genocide, erasing a people. #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The reason we HAVE to keep burning Fossil Fuel is because the richest own it, and it is 'worth' $200tn. If we just stop burning it, that becomes $0. But WE don't have to keep burning it.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Kemi Badenoch should be a comedian. "We support improving social care as long as all the funding comes from the magic money tree."
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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10K views · 394 reactions | Urgent message and call to prayer from Rev. Munther Isaac. ‘Every day we wake up wondering which Palestinian village will be attacked next. We are exhausted. We live in fear and terror.’ Settler violence in the West Bank has become a daily, relentless reality. Families attacked in their homes. Farms burned. People killed. And Palestinians left defenseless with no protection and no accountability. Munther does not want to share statistics today. He is tired of numbers. ‘We’re not numbers. We’re not headlines. We’re talking about mothers, fathers, children, grandparents — with names, with stories, with futures that are being cut short.’ He calls us to pray. Not as a substitute for justice, but because we believe God hears the cry of the oppressed. Then he calls us to act. To speak. To write. To mobilize. To refuse to look away. ‘We owe it to every family living in fear today. We also owe it to our faith.’ | Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice
Urgent message and call to prayer from Rev. Munther Isaac. ‘Every day we wake up wondering which Palestinian village will be attacked next. We are exhausted. We live in fear and terror.’ Settler...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 23/07/2026
When Starmer was PM, the BBC was awash with items saying how business rates were killing the hospitality sector. Now, BBC News is currently putting a negative spin on Burnham’s decision to reduce pub/club rates. But remember, it's YOUR BBC.
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Iran has suffered 3521 deaths and 27,000 injuries compared to 18 American deaths since the war started. A children's school was also bombed. Which ones are the terrorists?
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American Scruffy 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ @scruffygaydc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
FYI, you can be against Netanyahu's war crimes while being for the Jewish people. It's possible.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The reason the world is upset with Israel is because of the 700,000+ innocent Palestinians they’ve murdered. It’s not because they’re Jewish. Hope that helps.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I don’t know how you argue that Saudi Arabia can have a nuclear program, but Iran can’t. The majority of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. This is insane to me.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Israel doesn’t want journalists in Gaza. That’s very telling.
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Phil Groom @philgroom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
How long, O Lord? Lord, have mercy, and bring this evil to an end 🙏
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Revelation 13 speaks of the beast, represented by the number 666, a warmonger who gets vast power and wealth, who recovers from a head wound and builds a huge statue of himself. American Evangelicals, does this remind you of anyone?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every time an American says Communism.
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