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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why don't Americans know what socialism is? Don't they teach history in your schools?
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How can there be any such thing as a Christian nation when Christ said, "My kingdom is not of this world"?
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mount Temporary Glitch, I hope.
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lucky America. I've just paid £2.20 per litre, which works out at $11.25 per US gallon.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It was also the only time NATO's article 5 has ever been invoked, and the whole of NATO came rushing to the USA's aid, only to be belittled and insulted 20+ years later by Vance and Trump. And they wonder why we don't want to join in their illegal, immoral onslaught on Iran.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don't worry Elon, we don't need to watch a film to discern who and what you are. It's already obvious, and if it wasn't, your Siegheil salute clarified it for us.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I desperately hope it's defeated. I'm regularly asked if I want to put DNAR on my healthy, happy, disabled daughter's medical notes. If medics feel free to engage in such illegal disability discrimination now, what on earth will they feel free to do if assisted dying becomes legal?
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You just need a National Health Service like we have in the UK.
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Elohim is plural, and therefore presumably uses the pronoun they.
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Stark difference from how the Just Stop Oil and anti-Palestinian genocide protestors are treated.
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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 · 03/09/2026
These days when you use the phrase BBC "journalist" you have to write journalist in inverted commas.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's what we in the rest of the world are asking.
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Anyway, Rochester was in Kent the last time I looked. 😂
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They forgot the FIFA World Cup.
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Which debate? I've scrolled through several and found no mention of his name.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I didn't hear Farage calling for pure, cold rage against Simon Levy's community. Could that be because he's neither brown nor Muslim? (And just for the record, I do not advocate pure, cold rage against any community).
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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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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
So it's down to the Swedish people, and the rest of us in Europe, to boycott Tesla and not buy any.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Same here in the UK.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
And I'm perfectly happy to receive even such a self-evident message once. But 5 times ???
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I have no idea how to turn them off. I certainly never turned them on.
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Ros Dakin @rosdakin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh the irony when Iran achieves regime change in the USA!
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social
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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
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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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