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All the best things about London by locals. London Lifestyle #Blogger. Travel, Food & Drink, Hotels, Beauty and fashion. #travelblogger

[MyLondonGuide @MyLondonGuide]

They say that in London, we are monitored by cctv every few steps. This seating area in Euston Station takes the prize. I counted 8 cameras pointing at this space. Bonkers.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

We stand united against hate

RT if you agree 💚

[MyLondonGuide @MyLondonGuide]

Well done London. 500,000 people on the streets.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Ignore GB news. Ignore Twitter.

Britain is full of good, kind people who want to build a better kinder world.

Today showed that.

[MyLondonGuide @MyLondonGuide]

London strong.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Half a million in London today. The largest anti-far right march in British history.

56 billionaires own more than 27 million of us. They built the crisis, bankrolled the hate, and bought Reform UK.

The streets belong to us - not to Farage, not to Musk, not to their money.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The clocks went forward an hour in the UK last night, which means it's time for an important question:
Is the clock on your oven...

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf.

This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone.

And it's making you a worse person because of it.

Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would.

That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear.

It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on.

Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one.

The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started.

Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product.

This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens.

Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing.

You're right. They're wrong.

Even when the opposite is true.

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

A Chinese student built an interesting app using vibe coding that visualizes nearly 5,000 artifacts in the British Museum from 99 countries around the world.

The app shows:
• When these artifacts arrived
• Which country they came from
• And how the distribution would look if all artifacts were returned to their countries of origin.

[Spencer Kelly @spenley]

This is how thieves can swipe your bag without you noticing. I lost my passport and my devices, so couldn't fly home. Later I'll share what happened next, including how I tracked down some of my possessions, how you remotely wipe your devices, how I got an emergency travel document, and how amazingly kind people were to me.

Please share this video, and you might save someone else from going through the same thing.

Thanks
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#robbery #mugging #barcelona

[MyLondonGuide @MyLondonGuide]

Now I need to see a video of this.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Five African grey parrots were removed from public view at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in the UK after repeatedly swearing at visitors and laughing together.

The parrots—Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade, and Elsie—were donated by different owners but quickly bonded.

[Morden Station @MordenStation]

Friday 6th March 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Underground Station

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇦🇪🇺🇸 Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just published an open letter to Trump. It's brutal.

"Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?"

Al Habtoor's a major figure: billionaire, former diplomat, outspoken political voice in the Gulf. When he talks, UAE leadership's listening.

His questions:

* Was this your decision or Netanyahu's pressure?
* Did you calculate collateral damage before firing?
* You placed GCC countries at the heart of danger they didn't choose
* Your "Board of Peace" initiatives were funded by Gulf states. Now we're getting attacked. Where did that money go?
* You promised no wars. You've conducted operations in 7 countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Venezuela
* 658 airstrikes in your first year back = Biden's entire term (which you criticized)
* War costs $40-65 billion for operations, possibly $210 billion total
* Your approval rating's down 9% in 400 days
* Americans were promised peace. They're getting war funded by their taxes

The sharpest line: "Before the ink has dried on your Board of Peace initiative, we find ourselves facing military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go?"

Al Habtoor's not some random critic. He's establishment. Connected. When UAE elites start publicly questioning Trump's decision-making, that's America's closest Arab allies saying "we didn't sign up for this."

The letter ends: "True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward achieving peace."

@KhalafAlHabtoor

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Doris is a four-year-old Texel ewe on a fell in the Lake District.

Doris is, according to several recent opinion pieces, destroying the planet.

Let's check in on Doris.

6:30am - Doris began grazing. The fell she is grazing is semi-natural upland grassland. It has existed in this condition for approximately eight hundred years because sheep have been grazing it continuously for approximately eight hundred years. Without Doris, the coarse grasses outcompete the finer ones. The wildflowers disappear. The skylarks that nest at ground level lose the open sward they need and abandon the site. Doris does not know what a skylark is. She has found some good grass near the wall and that is the full extent of her agenda.

7:45am - Doris walked into the bog. This was not the plan. There was no plan. Doris extracted herself, turned around, and regarded the bog with the expression of an animal that has decided the bog started it.

9:00am - Doris found a gap in the wall and went through it. She was now in Brian's field. Brian's field is, by any measurable standard, identical to Doris's field. Doris is aware of this and does not consider it relevant.

10:30am - Doris was returned to her field. The farmer repaired the gap. Doris watched the repair with the focused attention of an animal taking measurements.

11:15am - Doris rolled into a dip in the fell and got cast. This means she ended up on her back and could not right herself because the weight of her fleece shifted her centre of gravity past the point of recovery. She lay there in the dip looking at the sky with the composure of an animal that has decided the sky is quite interesting actually.

11:40am - The farmer found her, righted her. Doris walked away at speed. No acknowledgement. Complete dignity. As though the last twenty-five minutes had happened to a different sheep.

1:00pm - Doris grazed the area around the base of the dry-stone wall. The grazing keeps the vegetation short enough that the wall's base stays dry and frost doesn't work into the joints and expand. The wall is two hundred and sixty years old. It will outlast everything currently being written about livestock farming if the vegetation around it is managed. It is being managed by Doris eating grass. Doris does not know she is doing conservation work. Doris has found something particularly good near the fourth stone from the bottom.

3:00pm - Doris produced manure. The manure will feed the soil microbiome. The soil microbiome will grow the grass. The grass will grow back where Doris has grazed it. The grazed areas will remain open enough for the tormentil and harebells to survive. The tormentil and harebells are why people drive three hours from Manchester to walk on this fell.

This system has no external inputs. It has been running since Texel sheep were brought to these fells from the Netherlands in 1970 and discovered the gaps in the walls shortly afterward.

5:00pm - Doris lay down. The fell was quiet. The skylarks were still up. The wildflowers were still in the turf.

5:47pm - Doris found a new gap. She was in Brian's field again.

Brian has started keeping a log.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Heathrow Airport @HeathrowAirport]

Due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East and resulting airspace closures in the region, a small number of flights at Heathrow have been cancelled or delayed.

Passengers are advised to check with their airlines for the latest information on their flight.

[MyLondonGuide @MyLondonGuide]

Might be a good idea but i will miss the convenient bus stops on Oxford st for the surrounding areas. Where will they all divert to?

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

NEW: Our vision to transform Oxford Street into a world-class, fully accessible pedestrian avenue is moving forward.

We’re transforming it into a global destination for shopping, leisure and outdoor events - attracting visitors and creating jobs. https://t.co/MhqjRHusui

[MyLondonGuide @MyLondonGuide]

The pelicans of St James park are being quarantined on duck island due to Avian flu. Visitors are told to help keep them healthy by not feeding the birds.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Happy Lunar New Year, London. 🏮

We’re celebrating the Year of the Fire Horse and the incredible contribution of East and Southeast Asian communities to our city. From culture and food to business and charity, London is richer because of you.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

London came alive today for Lunar New Year ✨

From the parade to the Trafalgar Square stage, it was an incredible celebration of culture and community.

Wishing everyone a Year of the Fire Horse filled with progress and prosperity.

[MyLondonGuide @MyLondonGuide]

Celebrate Lunar New Year in London with these free events. 🏮🧧🏮

📍 CNY Parade -Trafalgar Square, 22 Feb, 10am
📍London Museum Docklands, Sat & Sun
📍 Old Spitalfields Market, Sat & Sun
📍 National Maritime Museum, Sat
📍 Duke of York Square Chelsea, Sat 11-4

#YearOfTheHorse