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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

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 7m

And they probably still have something similar.

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

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 · 3h

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

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

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

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Oolong Musk 🇵🇸 @curtexplores.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

Donald Trump reacts: "I always loved Maduro!"

Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 9h

They didn't. The Venezuelan opposition leader.

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 10h

"Oof" - Oswald Mosley's speech in Liverpool

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 21h

Same. Hello, ladies.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Fuck's sake. What's the point in having it if you can't get special treatment? 😉

Sounds, though, like they've just done a paper-based assessment - possibly your medical paperwork/evidence was really high quality?

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

I mean, you should be on special rules, depending on your prognosis. Should be automatic enhanced rate for Daily Living.

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

Christ. The last *checks notes* FOUR YEARS have not been kind to him wiki.apterous.org/Rhys_Benjamin

Rhys Benjamin - Countdown

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

Not where I'm from, but I did spend a few years near Hunstanton.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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

Why the fuck do all yanks in a position of power dress like a comic book dad from the 1950s?

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 2d

that's right Kash and all we have are Mids

Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."

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

‘blessings on those who come and go’

Like yer Da at Mr Magoo's.

John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 1d

This door at Eastwood church in Essex dates from about 1150, which is extremely rare. The hinge has an inscription which (more or less) says ‘blessings on those who come and go’.

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 1d

If anyone fancies chucking me a follow on YT plz do so, I been stuck about 20 under 500 for a MINUTE and it's doing my tits in

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slutty gecko loop #shakeittothemax

YouTube video by KSC - Kinell's Sinister Cinema

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