I checked this too.

*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.

*No other* party logo displayed.

In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.

Image of a section of the sound recording display. Shows a complex mess of multiple sounds on top of each other.

And could you all please sing one at a time? 🤠

#TenMinMerlin 21st April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 6:30am

14 entries - first 7 and Great Tit are very common. Song Thrush is big in a patch of woodland a mile away. Blackcap and Chaffinch still not seen. The Siskin match doesn't sound like the references, nor do the several Marsh Tit matches.

me: here is the feature i just made

them: how did you do it so fast? did you use ai???

me: *did not use ai but also wants to keep my job* i used ai….. the normal amount

Worth reposting again 😁

Heh. Just went to to like and repost the original - only to see I'd already done so, presumably months ago 🤠

RSPB on the risks of bird feeders, and how to set up and manage them responsibly.

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

#TenMinMerlin 20th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 7am

14 entries - all regular suggestions. Was thinking about setting up a bird feeder to maybe get eyes on those I've not seen - however the RSPB advises against until November due to risk of spreading trichomonosis.

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

Or do the ironing.

1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.

WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)

that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - Sentinel Colorado "What's the point of me reading it if it's already correct anyway, and you didn't write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?" said Phelps.

Luddite pedagogy ♥️ sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorize...

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map ALT: a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map

*cough* Angela Rayner got hounded relentlessly by the press and then got sacked *cough*

Tice ‘happy to put things right’ after ‘he failed to pay £100k in corporation tax’ Mr Tice said last year Angela Rayner would resign if she had “any moral decency” after admitting to underpaying stamp duty

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.

He's now offering to "put things right".

Go on then Richard - resign.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

#TenMinMerlin 19th April 2026, Westfield England, GB, 6am - oops, 44 minutes!

20 entries due to distraction 🤠
Marsh Tit and Warbler surely mis-identifications. Warbler hits could be Blackbird? I haven't physically seen a Siskin, Chaffinch, Goldfinch or Goldcrest in the area (doesn't mean much).

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 🤠

Concerns Mandelson failed M16 vetting for US ambassador – but was appointed anyway The prime minister is facing serious questions after claims he ignored warnings from the security services to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador

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.

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

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