Non-seasonal Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈
@thatidiotmonro.bsky.social
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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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/...
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Rachel Reeves says she’s ending “Motability tax breaks”.
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Rachel Reeves says she’s ending “Motability tax breaks”.
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
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Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
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You could make practically every bus route in England free for the cost of extending the fuel duty cut.
Reeves says petrol is still expensive.
So the 5p cut in fuel duty will be extended until 2026, she says.
Great. So polluters get to continue to poison us. Yet EV drivers get penalised with pay per mile.
🙃
Climate change. What’s that?
So the 5p cut in fuel duty will be extended until 2026, she says.
Great. So polluters get to continue to poison us. Yet EV drivers get penalised with pay per mile.
🙃
Climate change. What’s that?
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You could make practically every bus route in England free for the cost of extending the fuel duty cut.
Joe Biden's been donating to Age UK again.
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Joe Biden's been donating to Age UK again.
As a parent of two young people who've gone through, or are GOING through CAMHS, I heartily endorse this message.
I cannot stress enough how utterly draining the constant fear is, or how exhausting it is to even try and get help.
It needs fixing before it's too late for more children.
I cannot stress enough how utterly draining the constant fear is, or how exhausting it is to even try and get help.
It needs fixing before it's too late for more children.
You must act now. Tackling the mental health crisis is urgent – people’s lives depend on it. 6/6
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
As a parent of two young people who've gone through, or are GOING through CAMHS, I heartily endorse this message.
I cannot stress enough how utterly draining the constant fear is, or how exhausting it is to even try and get help.
It needs fixing before it's too late for more children.
I cannot stress enough how utterly draining the constant fear is, or how exhausting it is to even try and get help.
It needs fixing before it's too late for more children.
Regret to inform that Santa has gone right wing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Regret to inform that Santa has gone right wing.
You only get a bucket full of energy.
he believes what now
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
You only get a bucket full of energy.
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Thought I'd try a little thread about getting ill and all those glorious benefits, worth £20k, we all get.
Now I've never done this or said much about what's up with me but why not, sure it'll make no difference to some but it might others. 1/n
Now I've never done this or said much about what's up with me but why not, sure it'll make no difference to some but it might others. 1/n
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Thought I'd try a little thread about getting ill and all those glorious benefits, worth £20k, we all get.
Now I've never done this or said much about what's up with me but why not, sure it'll make no difference to some but it might others. 1/n
Now I've never done this or said much about what's up with me but why not, sure it'll make no difference to some but it might others. 1/n
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Pointlessly evil.
Disabled people choose these brands bc they come with a guaranteed replacement vehicle WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU'RE DISABLED.
They pay the difference themselves.
So all you've done is tell disabled CEOs/working disabled people that they have to drive a Kia.
#budget #reeves
Disabled people choose these brands bc they come with a guaranteed replacement vehicle WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU'RE DISABLED.
They pay the difference themselves.
So all you've done is tell disabled CEOs/working disabled people that they have to drive a Kia.
#budget #reeves
Luxury cars removed from Motability scheme ahead of budget
The programme has been criticised for allowing people with non-visible disabilities to get luxury vehicles as part of their welfare. The chancellor wants to support the British car market with the new...
news.sky.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Right, doing the saying it out loud so it might actually happen thing.
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Right, doing the saying it out loud so it might actually happen thing.
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
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Graham Linehan found GUILTY of having a banana-shaped head.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but guilty of damaging phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but guilty of damaging phone
Comedy writer Graham Linehan "deliberately whacked" a teenage trans woman's phone out of her hand, a court heard.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Graham Linehan found GUILTY of having a banana-shaped head.
They really want to send anti-genocide and climate protestors to jail without those pesky juries ruining thing.
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
They really want to send anti-genocide and climate protestors to jail without those pesky juries ruining thing.
Christ. 25 years.
I remember it like yesterday, sat in the Families Club at RAF Marham, just before we moved down there permanently. Me and mum were the only Tranmere fans in the place.
I remember it like yesterday, sat in the Families Club at RAF Marham, just before we moved down there permanently. Me and mum were the only Tranmere fans in the place.
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Christ. 25 years.
I remember it like yesterday, sat in the Families Club at RAF Marham, just before we moved down there permanently. Me and mum were the only Tranmere fans in the place.
I remember it like yesterday, sat in the Families Club at RAF Marham, just before we moved down there permanently. Me and mum were the only Tranmere fans in the place.
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Social media is so dangerous that we need to get the entire population to age verify, which is why the Prime minister is reinforcing an internet meme with children too young to be online. According to his own policies.
Please make it make sense.
I tell you, the adults and their damn phones …
Please make it make sense.
I tell you, the adults and their damn phones …
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Social media is so dangerous that we need to get the entire population to age verify, which is why the Prime minister is reinforcing an internet meme with children too young to be online. According to his own policies.
Please make it make sense.
I tell you, the adults and their damn phones …
Please make it make sense.
I tell you, the adults and their damn phones …
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“trans identifying“ is one of the worst possible turns of phrases
it is othering and dehumanizing
saying someone “identifies as having cancer” is tantamount to saying “is lying about having cancer”
i’m not choosing to be trans. “trans” is not a thing i’m ~doing~. it’s just part of who i ~am~.
it is othering and dehumanizing
saying someone “identifies as having cancer” is tantamount to saying “is lying about having cancer”
i’m not choosing to be trans. “trans” is not a thing i’m ~doing~. it’s just part of who i ~am~.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“trans identifying“ is one of the worst possible turns of phrases
it is othering and dehumanizing
saying someone “identifies as having cancer” is tantamount to saying “is lying about having cancer”
i’m not choosing to be trans. “trans” is not a thing i’m ~doing~. it’s just part of who i ~am~.
it is othering and dehumanizing
saying someone “identifies as having cancer” is tantamount to saying “is lying about having cancer”
i’m not choosing to be trans. “trans” is not a thing i’m ~doing~. it’s just part of who i ~am~.
If what I saw last night is true for the rest of the NHS, they're fucked for this winter.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
NHS winter pressures in North West: A&E waiting times and corridor care
Health bosses say plans are in place to deal with rising pressure on services as colder weather kicks in.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If what I saw last night is true for the rest of the NHS, they're fucked for this winter.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
If Keir Starmer is Daddy, I'd tell everyone I was adopted.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If Keir Starmer is Daddy, I'd tell everyone I was adopted.
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
"We have heard the British public's calls to tax billionaires, which is why from tomorrow at 5pm, shortbread topped with chocolate and caramel will be subject to an extra 5% levy."
Milkshakes and lattes to be hit with sugar tax, Wes Streeting announces
Milkshakes and lattes to be hit with sugar tax, Wes Streeting announces
Milkshakes and lattes will be hit with a sugar tax for the first time in a bid to tackle obesity, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"We have heard the British public's calls to tax billionaires, which is why from tomorrow at 5pm, shortbread topped with chocolate and caramel will be subject to an extra 5% levy."
This is my Ray Traylor aftershave. It's a big Boss Man.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is my Ray Traylor aftershave. It's a big Boss Man.
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xkcd is here on bluesky, @xkcd.com
very worth a follow
very worth a follow
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
xkcd is here on bluesky, @xkcd.com
very worth a follow
very worth a follow
Didn't have eight hours sat in A&E on my wishlist for tonight, but here we are. Still, everything's turned out okay and we live to fight another day.
And there's a Maccies at home for me and the lad!
And there's a Maccies at home for me and the lad!
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Didn't have eight hours sat in A&E on my wishlist for tonight, but here we are. Still, everything's turned out okay and we live to fight another day.
And there's a Maccies at home for me and the lad!
And there's a Maccies at home for me and the lad!
You're not my mum...
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
You're not my mum...
Let me take you by the throat,
And ride you through the streets of London.
And ride you through the streets of London.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Let me take you by the throat,
And ride you through the streets of London.
And ride you through the streets of London.