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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈

@thatidiotmonro.bsky.social

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Award winning (Tesco Values Award - Best shelfstacker 2003/4) musician, carer, father and husband. Evertonian - I blame me dad. No transphobes or other bigots.

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · May 12

Right. Time to do the proud dad bit again. Number 1 son (@cupidschorus.bsky.social) has a new song about to go online, so if you could do me a favour and presave it, that would be lovely. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

Road 36 by cupids chorus

Stream and Save Road 36 - Distributed by DistroKid

distrokid.com

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 3h

If people post "AI" misinformation like the (3-armed reporter being arrested) and refuse to take it down when told, block them. They are toxic pollution of your information.

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 3h

The private notes function on Mastodon is tremendous for that.

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 18h

It's kinda messed up that the woman who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning is cheerleading a foreign country's invasion of her home.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Venezuela has called on the UN Security Council for an emergency session over the US military buildup near its waters.

Caracas warned of a possible armed attack “in a very short time.”

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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 19h

"Bisexual adults were significantly less likely to come out than their LGTQ+ peers, with 47% saying they aren't out to extended family, 38% saying they aren't out to coworkers, 35% saying they aren't out to parents, 28% saying they aren't out to siblings, and 9% saying they aren't out to friends".

How many LGBTQ+ adults are out of the closet? Almost all — with these exceptions

Around 96 percent of LGBTQ+ adults have come out as queer to at least one person.

www.advocate.com

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 19h

My bet's on somewhere in Scotland.

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 19h

There we go... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

www.bbc.co.uk

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 21h

My money's still on Kenneth Copeland.

Kenneth Copeland. A man who should appear on Google image search if you type in "The Devil" and hit the I Feel Lucky button.

In this image, he is pointing at someone and has bulging eyes, a scowl and weid hairy, bruised hands.

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 21h

And they probably still have something similar.

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

Wirral/Merseyside's recycling offer is shocking. They won't even take aluminium foil. www.wirral.gov.uk/bins-and-rec...

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

It's such a tremendous little game. I can't wait to play it more.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow we had a successful game launch in 2025: A thread 🧵

We launched Little Rocket Lab this week, and it's been mega for us. Which is amazing, because well, the industry is bad right now!

So I wanna go through the things we did, in the hope that something here can be helpful to someone here

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 1d

Meanwhile a guy who taught himself Blender (free, open source, runs on your own computer) off YouTube just won the best animated feature Oscar and it's actually beautiful

That's "democratising cinema", not handing unlimited unsustainable resources to people who can't write A Good Post

a black cat with yellow eyes is sitting on a table

Alt: a black cat with yellow eyes is sitting on a waterfall

media.tenor.com

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Oolong Musk 🇵🇸 @curtexplores.bsky.social · 1d

Scum. & if you want proof of that, here's the location of fixed odds betting machines overlayed on a map of poverty rates in. my hometown.

Scum, praying on misery.

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

No, but my kids are (and my wife is non binary), and I really wouldn't be amazed.

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

What? My mum did all of those things (apart from chopping wood). Granted, nobody ever described her as "ladylike," but she never had any shortage of people calling her "womanly."

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

I started reading Michael Palin's Venezuela yesterday. Seems like a good choice now.

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump reacts: "I always loved Maduro!"

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

They didn't. The Venezuelan opposition leader.

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

"Oof" - Oswald Mosley's speech in Liverpool

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

God, I can't wait to see his reaction when Greta and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

Same. Hello, ladies.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

TIL: salamanders and chameleons have a ballistic tongue which can reach speeds of 16 feet per second.

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

BOO Deng or gtfo

Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 1d

It's MOO DENG!!!!

Baby hippo skelly. It had a cute face and not the nightmare fuel an actual hippo skull is

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Not a huge fan of Find Out Now - their polling always seems off-beam. But posting this Westminster poll here purely for that Greens figure:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 2d

I realise I sounded flippant there, but there really should be special rules for all cancer/chemo/radiotherapy patients regardless of prognosis. It's debilitating enough without having to fight for the help you need.

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