We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

#TenMinMerlin 18th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 8am 14 entries. Quite the cacophony from the usual crowd 🤠 Stonechat is new but a single unreliable suggestion.

One way to discourage tailgating 🤠

The news that Mandelson failed security service vetting is NOT NEW. The story broke 7 MONTHS AGO. See story below. Keir Starmer and No.10 claim they only found out this week. But the Independent told No.10 that it had two sources confirming he failed vetting - in September 2025. A web of deceit.

Given that the whole thing is built on the theft of other people's work, it seems quite apposite, really.

#TenMinMerlin 17th April 2026, Preston England, GB, 6am 9 entries. All the common favourites. I've yet to actually see a long-tailed tit; the reference image is quite the borb 🤠

#TenMinMerlin 16th April 2026, Preston England, GB, 6am 12 entries. The Blackbird woke me up at 5:30, singing alone but loudly! The last three suggestions are probably mis-identifications; a couple of hits only for each, whereas all the rest occur continuously through the ten minutes.

"a skeleton crew of full time production staff remaining in place to coordinate the hiring of resources on a per-project basis." So only HR. I guess the MBAs think contractors are cheaper than permanent staff. Very short-sighted.

Imagining Vance being excommunicated for heresy...

#TenMinMerlin 15th April 2026, Preston England, GB, 6am 9 entries - all the favourites on the edge of a city 300 miles north 🤠

#TenMinMerlin 14th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 7am 14 entries - Siskin pops up again but indicated unlikely; I can't tell. Goldcrest and Blackcap I've not seen in the area. A good haul though 🤠

So then let’s get this thread started! Matthew Goodwin is speaking in Budapest at 17:00 CEST this evening, at this event hosted by MCC: mcc.hu/en/event/202... And I’m signed up to go. Updates in this thread The tag is: #BadLossBudapest

#TenMinMerlin 13th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 7am 12 entries - all regulars, I've seen all of them over time, except for the Blackcap.

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

6) I am begging you, do not reuse passwords. Get a password manager. Have it randomly generate and save strong unique passwords for every login. Turn on 2FA everywhere you can. Do not let your account be one of the ones that enters this ecosystem.

I can't believe I actually have to say this, but apparently I do: someone who is buying compromised Bluesky accounts from an account reseller marketplace is directly funding identity theft, fraud, and international crime. #BadActorBingo resurrection for an explainer of why:

Street art in St Leonard's on Sea - by the old bathing pool site, Seaside Road. Love it.

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

#TenMinMerlin 12th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 7am 11 entries - Chaffinch throughout again, also the Goldcrest an Goldfinch so I guess they're now as solid as it gets short of actually spotting them. Willow Warbler is new, but just two short hits that aren't obvious when played back.

It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.

#TenMinMerlin 11th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 7am Chaffinch suggested throughout so more likely a good suggestion today. Finches and Siskin have only a couple of hits and I can't make anything out that's definitive amongst everything else.

The Tony Blair Institute should at this stage be regarded as a hostile entity working to directly harm British sovereignty.

Of all the thoughtful reflections inspired by #Artemis2​'s venture into the "unknown", this personal text here might've been one of the most inspiring I read. Recommended perspective.

I'm in a chat with a bunch of wind and solar industry insiders and they're telling me they expect the price of sun and wind to climb to at least $0 per babbrel in the coming weeks

Nice. This is the seat that came up because a Reform Party Ltd councillor was jailed for 12 months for seriously abusive behaviour to his wife. (Reform correctly first suspended him, then fully expelled him on the guilty plea) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

cis women transphobes are as embarassing as they are revolting because they will declare with their whole chest “I am less capable than a man and I demand you treat me accordingly by lowering your expectations!” girl shut the fuck up there’s no gender advantage in CHESS

#TenMinMerlin 10th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 7am Normal catch, most I see regularly in the area. The Goldfinch, Goldcrest, Siskin, and Chaffinch could be wrong; playing back I can't say anything matches the references clearly.

#TenMinMerlin 9th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 7am Usual suspects - but can't really say if the finches and nuthatch are correct. The others are ubiquitous in the area and I see them around frequently. Perhaps I should set up some feeders to be able to visually see them!

This is excellent www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

#TenMinMerlin 8th April 2026, Westfield England, GB 6am this morning - some less common suggestions today; Chaffinch and Siskin. One of the Siskin matches does match the reference calls well. Chaffinch not so clear to me, references are varied and matches are quiet.

Huh. While Google's AI Overview feature is objectively a bad thing and we should all avoid it - read beyond the headline, and in the end this is just an OpenAI vs Google Gemini battle. Note both Anthropic and OpenAI are looking for IPO exits. arstechnica.com/google/2026/...

For anyone interested in Dyson Spheres, this @acollierastro.bsky.social video has you covered, no-one has done it better 🤠 youtu.be/fLzEX1TPBFM?...

At last someone had the balls to map the Kidron & 5Rights standards capture pipeline for the age verification lobby: “The result is a surveillance infrastructure built under the banner of child protection, shaped by overlapping networks, and accountable to nobody.” tboteproject.com/globalfindin...

here's my sales pitch for Farscape if you don't get the reference, A+ television

#TenMinMerlin 7th April 2026, Westfield England, GB This is 5:30am rather than my more usual 7:30am. Dawn chorus - so busy and loud by comparison! Fewer suggestions, but the recording is saturated, with multiple calls overlapping.

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

Linked story - words fail me (at least, those that I'm prepared to type publicly). Travelodge absolutely unsafe for women. By their own words, their security procedures were followed - so it's all on Travelodge for having procedures that prima facie do not provide safety.

I don't go quite as far as archive, but absolutely everything that isn't addressed directly to me gets filtered to a subfolder. Other filters first, then a final catch-all not-To-me filter to a Cc folder, which I skim through occasionally. Thoroughly recommend.

There is, of course, a loud entitled group who would scream blue murder at this but amongst other things it would dramatically reduce fuel consumption. Vehicles are dramatically more fuel-efficient at 55 than they are at 70 (and above, many race from camera to camera at 85).

#TenMinMerlin 6th April 2026, Westfield England, GB Usual crew 🤠 Probably a Herring Gull rather than a Lesser black-backed gull (quite faint, distant). The Mistle Thrush is probably a miss, I think it may have triggered on a bee buzzing by...

And that particular paragraph is in bold, unlike almost all others - it's that important to them. The only other bold body text is the next sentence which is a "no warranty" thing. Also noteworthy, *so many* clauses on things to *not* do with it. Like that absolves them of any responsibility.

Happy Easter!

#TenMinMerlin 5th April 2026, Westfield England, GB Midday catch so quieter. The Robin and Blue Tit fought a busy battle for top top spot, but the Great Tit snuck a call in just as I went to stop the recording 🤠

#TenMinMerlin 4th April 2026, Westfield England, GB Delayed posting - yesterday's catch 🤠

Happy Easter from the bunnies at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire (and us!).

Highly recommend this series of short videos to everyone, to get a good essential understanding of how these tools work and what they actually do.

This is a fascinating exchange for multiple reasons. www.instagram.com/mostlyhumanm... Summary: Sam Altman is shown a viral video of someone asking ChatGPT (in voice mode) to time a run. Even though they stop after just a few seconds, the response is that the run was 10 minutes. [cont.]

It's a day of the week with a "y" in it so of course Reform are lying to you. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

There's a reason this stuff gets dogpiled of course. As others have highlighted, it's selective data and ignores confounding factors. It also assumes the primary goal of the Bluesky team is to give political pundits long reach.