Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 19/09/2026#WalkmanInMyHead is now playing ‘Xanadu’ by Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra 000
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 13/09/2026#WalkmanInMyHead is now playing ‘Crosstown Traffic’ by Jimi Hendrix 001
Reposted by Mark MortonJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do. 632781880
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 07/09/2026If you watch only one AI-generated video of ABBA eating ice cream while kittens climb all over them today, make it this one: youtube.com/shorts/K7nMq...youtube.comABBA - DREAM WORLD #70s #music #shorts #catYouTube video by playlist xy 000
Reposted by Mark MortonYoko Ono Bot Preservation Group (2017-2025) @yokoonobot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026There is a finite chain of atoms between you and Nicholas Parsons. Give them a jiggle. 7th Jul 2018 | 🔁 15 🩶 25 [url] 001
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 29/08/2026If AI companies are buying up content to train their systems, can we start the bidding on my teenage diaries? I think my thoughts circa 1986 might actually make ChatGPT cry. 000
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 29/08/202680 million National Insurance cards were issued by the UK government between 1984 and 2011. The photo used to illustrate them on Wiki is the one issued to Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person ever convicted in an US civilian court of a crime in connection with 9/11 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacaria... 000
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 15/08/2026Hi. I’m 11 years old wearing open-toed sandals, prone to tripping and wanting to see what was at the bottom of the ravine overlooking the Cetina river in the former Yugoslavia. 100
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 15/08/2026Every day I come past this on the train into Leeds. I really hope it’s the HQ of a McBusted-style Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter slash 1980s British boy band supergroup. 120
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 14/08/2026Things the emergency alert system should be used to warn us about: - Approaching inter-continental ballistic missiles - Wildfires moving into your local area - Episodes of 'Mrs Brown's Boys' being broadcast 120
Reposted by Mark MortonJenOnTheMove 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jenonthemove.com · 14/08/2026Also, that was not an okay use of the emergency system. It's for "shit's going down, you need to act now" situations The risk of wildfires is really bad, yes, I'm not doubting it, but that's not the system to use. 86115
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 14/08/2026I thought I was going to die whilst drinking free coffee in the first class lounge at King’s Cross. #Alert 000
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 05/08/2026I can’t speak a word of Welsh but I absolutely want to watch this. 100
Reposted by Mark MortonMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 04/08/2026This is the literal definition of terrorism. 328175
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 31/07/2026According to www.worldometers.info/world-popula... the population of the UK passed 70 million today. 002
Reposted by Mark MortonKat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 16/07/2026Horse owners, animal staff, neurodivergents, veterans, humans – finally, a consultancy on fireworks! www.gov.uk/government/c...gov.ukFireworks and pyrotechnics in the UKWe are seeking views on the regulation of pyrotechnics and fireworks in the UK. 56537
Reposted by Mark MortonCathy Gardner @cg1999.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Farage is polling third, where there are only two candidates. 713444
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 08/07/2026#WalkmanInMyHead is now playing ‘Fergus Sings the Blues’ by Deacon Blue 000
Reposted by Mark MortonLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 07/07/2026The Times going after people with ADHD on their front page today 3022858
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 07/07/2026“Yo Infantino. Change the score to 27 to zero to the USA.” 010
Reposted by Mark MortonAllan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?" 2255600967
Reposted by Mark MortonSpina Spinetta @spinaspinetta.bsky.social · 05/07/2026"The internet has become so obsessed with outcomes that it's forgotten that creative people actually love creating things." -Susannah Freisen 043
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 03/07/2026A fun thing I can do is create test users in the preview database. This is what AI thinks today’s new creation Pomodoro Waitrose looks like. 100
Reposted by Mark MortonSarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026In a non-jury trial, 3 accused have been found non guilty of the murder of my good friend Lyra McKee. Judge argued that guilt couldn’t be beyond a reasonable doubt. We always needed someone to testify. It never happened. Everyday I think of how much we’ve lost. Her courage and talent. Her laugh.belfasttelegraph.co.ukThree men found not guilty of murdering journalist Lyra McKeeThree men have been cleared of murdering journalist Lyra McKee. 194
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 01/07/2026How many of these include post offices that will now also disappear? 100
Reposted by Mark MortonAndy Fanton @yourpalfanton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Minnie the Minx takes on Mayor Brown's new ballroom in this week's Beano. Any similarities to any ballrooms, living or dead, are purely coincidental. Script by me, art by Laura Howell. 1218
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 30/06/2026Love dogs? Love protecting the UK's critical infrastructure? www.gov.uk/government/n... 000
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 30/06/2026The National Grid report a record power use dip at 0039 this morning. Millions of viewers watching a thrilling penalty shootout in the Germany-Paraguay match make sure they turn off their TVs before ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie’ came on. 000
Reposted by Mark MortonProton @proton.me · 29/06/2026If you use Gmail, you need to read this. Google’s AI, Gemini, can read your emails, attachments, bank statements, etc. For many, this feature was switched on without consent. Here's how to turn it off 🧵 1/ 231159738
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 28/06/2026I wish there was a way to convey the hilarity of a comedy show. But you really had to be there. I lied about being a vicar and loudly suggested (to the hilarity of the audience) that the demonym for people from Canterbury was simply the first syllable of the city’s name. Whilst in said city. 000
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 24/06/2026“The obvious conclusion is that Brexit made Britain ungovernable.” 000
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 23/06/2026Jesse Owens was acknowledged by Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But he was snubbed by US President Franklin Roosevelt who only invited white Olympians to the White House. www.britannica.com/story/was-je...britannica.comWas Jesse Owens Snubbed by Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics? | 1936, Nazism, Handshake, & Franklin D. Roosevelt | BritannicaAfter the 1936 Olympics in Berlin ended, stories claiming that Owens had been snubbed by Hitler circulated widely. What actually happened is complicated. 000
Reposted by Mark MortonWOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Hello. Are you a human musician? Are you a composer? Are you in a band? Solo performer for hire? Librettist? Producer? Something else? If so, then I would really like you to tell me about your music. Please feel free self-promote below. Links and/or descriptions of your work welcome. 769841
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 23/06/2026I’ve just been to the most northerly station on the Northern Rail network. 010
Reposted by Mark MortonMatt Baume 🏳️🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital 123138634856
Reposted by Mark MortonMark @vbloke.com · 20/06/2026It’s only a USB port if it’s on the left side of your device, otherwise it’s a USB starboard. 1030777
Reposted by Mark MortonNatalie Gray @natgrayy.es · 17/06/2026youtu.be/MusyO7J2inMyoutu.beWatch the Football! ⚽ | That Mitchell and Webb Look - BBCSubscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home A sports pundit gives a vitriolic rant about football and why we should all watch it in this spoof advert. David Mitchell and Robert Webb score a goal with a second series of their distinctively daft BAFTA-winning comedy, That Mitchell And Webb Look on BBC Two. There's a chance to learn the ancient art of padlock folding or Padlockigami. A man gets a little too excited about football. There's a staffing problem in an innuendo-ridden 70s hospital. Sir Digby Chicken Caesar goes on another rip-roaring adventure. And some stone-age technophobes are sceptical about bronze. The Mitchell and Webb Look | Series 2 Episode 1 | BBC Two #bbc #MitchellAndWebb 3378
Reposted by Mark MortonSchera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines 242125056544
Reposted by Mark MortonOlaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I’ve just seen two 13 year olds on each other’s shoulders wearing a grown-up size raincoat attempting to access LinkedIn. 821940
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 15/06/2026It turns out that 53 years and 2 months is the age where you start writing your MP regularly (when they are from the governing party) about policies you don’t agree with. 020
Mark Morton @bustingmychops.com · 15/06/2026About as safe and useful as Brass Eye’s Chris Morris locking his kids up in a filing cabinet 000
Reposted by Mark MortonBritish Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 15/06/2026More than half of Muslims experienced prejudice based on their religion in the last year, but three-quarters still feel the UK is a good place to be Muslim, according to a new report, ‘Understanding Anti-Muslim Hostility: Foundations for Action’ by @britishfuture.bsky.social & British Muslim Trust 23320
Reposted by Mark MortonMadeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Interesting mix of responses to the announcement of an under 16 social media ban from charities and researchers. Here's my round-up. Let me know if you spot others.madlinblog.wordpress.comResponses to the under 16 social media ban announcementA round-up of responses from charities to the under16 social media ban announcement. 153
Reposted by Mark MortonLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026This women's group wanted to raise £1,000 to help the victims of last night's attacks in Belfast. It's already at £56,000. chuffed.org/project/1854...chuffed.orgSupport people and groups impacted by racist attacksWe are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. 19797466
Reposted by Mark MortonLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else 12969651557