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/...
One time, when we were very drunk, we phoned 118118 - who were, at the time, professing to answer any question - exactly how big a gnat's baw hair was.
Reader, they did not know.
Reader, they did not know.
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 AM
One time, when we were very drunk, we phoned 118118 - who were, at the time, professing to answer any question - exactly how big a gnat's baw hair was.
Reader, they did not know.
Reader, they did not know.
He looks like the bastard love child of Tom Davies and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
we need to go back to athletes not trying to be fashionable
January 26, 2026 at 1:18 AM
He looks like the bastard love child of Tom Davies and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Ban mobile phones from the Commons chamber. How can you run the country when you're distracted by a screen?
Ban phones throughout the school day, Phillipson tells teachers
Ban phones throughout the school day, Phillipson tells teachers
The education secretary says phones should not been seen during lessons, breaktimes or lunchtime.
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Ban mobile phones from the Commons chamber. How can you run the country when you're distracted by a screen?
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And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:17 PM
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
Because they're tired of having so many MPs
Why has Labour blocked Andy Burnham from standing as MP?
Why has Labour blocked Andy Burnham from standing as MP?
Mr Burnham formally requested permission to stand for the contest on Saturday.
news.sky.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Because they're tired of having so many MPs
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Nothing says loyalty to Jair Bolsonaro like finding increasingly weird ways to end up being hospitalised.
Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
🚨⚡ Um raio atingiu bolsonaristas em Brasília nesta tarde. Eles estavam aguardando Nikolas Ferreira no Memorial JK para um protesto pela soltura de Bolsonaro quando um raio atingiu a praça. Três bolsonaristas foram para o hospital.
January 25, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Nothing says loyalty to Jair Bolsonaro like finding increasingly weird ways to end up being hospitalised.
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Jesus godamned tapdancing Christ.
Do not fucking reskeet the still shot of Alex Pretti being shot. I don’t care if it’s being used to show parallels to the Nazis
Fucking put a godamned warning on that image. Jesus. What is wrong with you people.
Do not fucking reskeet the still shot of Alex Pretti being shot. I don’t care if it’s being used to show parallels to the Nazis
Fucking put a godamned warning on that image. Jesus. What is wrong with you people.
January 25, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Jesus godamned tapdancing Christ.
Do not fucking reskeet the still shot of Alex Pretti being shot. I don’t care if it’s being used to show parallels to the Nazis
Fucking put a godamned warning on that image. Jesus. What is wrong with you people.
Do not fucking reskeet the still shot of Alex Pretti being shot. I don’t care if it’s being used to show parallels to the Nazis
Fucking put a godamned warning on that image. Jesus. What is wrong with you people.
Wait. Have the Lib Dems' graphmakers defected to us?
Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform.
Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Wait. Have the Lib Dems' graphmakers defected to us?
RIP to whoever's been buried in the foreground there.
January 25, 2026 at 2:19 PM
RIP to whoever's been buried in the foreground there.
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I can't find anything in the acts of Parliament that establish Combined Authority Mayors that even allows for a mayoral by-election. The nearest thing I can find is that a Deputy Mayor must take on the Mayor's functions in the even of a vacancy.
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I can't find anything in the acts of Parliament that establish Combined Authority Mayors that even allows for a mayoral by-election. The nearest thing I can find is that a Deputy Mayor must take on the Mayor's functions in the even of a vacancy.
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Full Labour statement on why Burnham was blocked.
January 25, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Full Labour statement on why Burnham was blocked.
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Brianna was not murdered by a phone. She was murdered with knives by two 15-year-old kids who grew up in the toxic atmosphere of British society, fed by the media and government.
We know this because phones are not capable of penetrating human skin 28 times, across her head, neck, chest, and back.
We know this because phones are not capable of penetrating human skin 28 times, across her head, neck, chest, and back.
Esther Ghey is facilitating the rewriting of history. The circumstances of Brianna’s death are being rewritten to obscure the fact that she was murdered for being trans. It is mentioned not once in this article.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bereaved parents fear delays to social media ban could harm children
The mothers of Brianna Ghey and Jools Roome say Ofcom needs to do more to protect young people.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Brianna was not murdered by a phone. She was murdered with knives by two 15-year-old kids who grew up in the toxic atmosphere of British society, fed by the media and government.
We know this because phones are not capable of penetrating human skin 28 times, across her head, neck, chest, and back.
We know this because phones are not capable of penetrating human skin 28 times, across her head, neck, chest, and back.
It's a bold strategy for Labour to let Jonathon Ashworth - a man who helped gift Donald Trump the US Presidency and lost his own seat in Labour's landslide victory - run in this by election, but I'm all for it.
January 25, 2026 at 12:37 PM
It's a bold strategy for Labour to let Jonathon Ashworth - a man who helped gift Donald Trump the US Presidency and lost his own seat in Labour's landslide victory - run in this by election, but I'm all for it.
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🟩 It’s Greens vs Reform in Gorton and Denton!
🚪First door knocking session COMPLETED!
🚪First door knocking session COMPLETED!
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
🟩 It’s Greens vs Reform in Gorton and Denton!
🚪First door knocking session COMPLETED!
🚪First door knocking session COMPLETED!
Turn Gorton Green. Don't allow Labour to let the far right in.
Labour's ruling committee, which is stuffed full of allies of Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney, has just blocked Andy Burnham from standing to be an MP in Gorton and Denton.
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
January 25, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Turn Gorton Green. Don't allow Labour to let the far right in.
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There are only three kinds of people who think AI is great.
1) Scammers
2) People being scammed
3) Paedophiles
1) Scammers
2) People being scammed
3) Paedophiles
cannot put into words how fucking bleak that subreddit is
January 2, 2026 at 9:44 AM
There are only three kinds of people who think AI is great.
1) Scammers
2) People being scammed
3) Paedophiles
1) Scammers
2) People being scammed
3) Paedophiles
"He died doing what he loved the most: being a wonky-faced cunt." - Me, when Glinner finally goes.
January 25, 2026 at 10:44 AM
"He died doing what he loved the most: being a wonky-faced cunt." - Me, when Glinner finally goes.
Weirdly, "Don't worry, I've got Mountain Rescue on speed dial, just in case." is NOT the most reassuring thing I've heard this morning.
Fucking kids 😆
Fucking kids 😆
January 25, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Weirdly, "Don't worry, I've got Mountain Rescue on speed dial, just in case." is NOT the most reassuring thing I've heard this morning.
Fucking kids 😆
Fucking kids 😆
"Where was he during the Corbyn years?"
Well, he was the second most powerful elected official in the Labour party, for one.
Well, he was the second most powerful elected official in the Labour party, for one.
January 25, 2026 at 10:18 AM
"Where was he during the Corbyn years?"
Well, he was the second most powerful elected official in the Labour party, for one.
Well, he was the second most powerful elected official in the Labour party, for one.
If my neighbourhood were erecting barricades, I would simply not donate my pissy old mattress.
January 24, 2026 at 8:42 PM
If my neighbourhood were erecting barricades, I would simply not donate my pissy old mattress.
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3d printers are so cool bc the world was really lacking in shitty plastic things to throw away and sit in a landfill forever
January 24, 2026 at 8:08 PM
3d printers are so cool bc the world was really lacking in shitty plastic things to throw away and sit in a landfill forever
It took me two seconds to type "gas mask" into Amazon, and that's in the UK. Pam Bondi is fucking thick.
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It took me two seconds to type "gas mask" into Amazon, and that's in the UK. Pam Bondi is fucking thick.
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Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
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"The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation ... State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026."
Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man; DHS officials say he was armed
A bystander video shows several agents wrestling with the man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm as protesters gathered at the scene: “Ple...
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation ... State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026."
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So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like:
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
January 24, 2026 at 5:35 PM
So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like:
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back