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Sham Jaff
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Journalist. Berlin. I write a newsletter bringing perspectives from Asia, Africa, the Americas to mostly Western audiences. Sign up on www.whathappenedlastweek.com
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 13h
“Smart people don’t like me.” — Donald Trump
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 14h
Waiting for the AI meme apocalypse.
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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 15h
Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 14h
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
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I’m seeing a lot of “wow, look at all these Gen Z protests”-articles that lump all of these very legitimate protests in very different countries together. Just because young people lead them, and most use the One Piece logo. This is lazy journalism.
The One Piece Generation
The protest movement inspired by anime is fueled by frustration. Madagascar’s Gen Z is done waiting for light, water, and change — and they’re not afraid to say so.
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what happened last week @whlwnews.bsky.social · 1d
If you read today’s issue, you now hopefully have a good amount of skepticism, maybe even EWWW towards Takaichi, or “potentially Japan’s first female prime minister”, as other media call her.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 2d
My newsletter is finally on Bluesky! Show some love? 😘
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what happened last week @whlwnews.bsky.social · 2d
Roses are red, and the skies are blue. I am finally here, and so are you.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 2d
Any Kurds from Georgia here?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d
Feels like the entire world is protesting something right now.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d
I think the Van Jones comments prove sth we've all been noticing: a lot of commentators have turned off their very human responses to the very real images of dead children in Gaza to continue being able to legitimize what's happening. You can only escape them by completely shutting down emotionally.
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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 4d
Ich sag’s ja nur ungern, aber jede Person, die was mit Medien macht, sollte sich Gedanken darüber machen, wie abhängig man von der Reichweite bestimmt US-Plattformen ist. Das gilt nicht nur für soziale Netzwerke, sondern auch für Crowdfunding, Podcast-Hosting & Newsletter.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 4d
Jede Partei ist eine Umverteilungspartei. Die Frage ist, an wen.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d
Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings
Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings
Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 6d
Frage an die Community: Suche Expert*in für ein Gespräch über die juristische Einordnung der Global Sumud Flotilla.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 6d
Citizenship isn’t a universal shield. Its value depends on geopolitics, race, class, and whether your government sees you as worth the cost of protecting. #GlobalSumudFlotilla
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 6d
Nothing on German TV on the Sumud Flotilla. Even if not for Gaza, not even for their own citizens. Watching Arabic news instead.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 7d
No, I will not fall for this. Charlie Kirk mastered rage bait. He was not a good debater. He did not argue in good faith, and he was absolutely not open to anyone else’s ideas.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 7d
An observation: Big liberal podcasts in the US spend a lot of time dissecting the “correct strategy” for Democrats. Of course, public discourse shapes politics, but wouldn’t their platform be more effective spotlighting concrete causes and events rather than debating endless hypotheticals?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 7d
As a journalist, my scariest horror movie is post-hoc narrativization. It's hard enough to "describe reality", but when people (or institutions) build a neat story about something after it has already happened, my ears perk up, and I'm on the edge of my seat. Much of journalism these days does this.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 7d
For more nuance: There is also some speculation that is tied to Trump’s recent comments about retaking the Bagram airbase and U.S.–China competition over Afghan minerals like lithium, copper, and possibly uranium.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 7d
"The Taliban have yet to give an official reason for the shutdown." They don't need to. We already know it's about control. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shut down internet
For many women, the internet was their last resource. An internet shutdown threatens to end this.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 8d
Bin so sad, dass ich alle meine Follower bei mastodon.lol verloren habe. Oh well. Bin wieder da und gebe Mastodon nochmal eine Chance. mastodon.social/@shamjaff
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 8d
Wer ist auf Mastodon? mastodon.social/@shamjaff
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 9d
Generalstreik.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 10d
Proteste sind moralisch wichtig, aber politisch oft ein stumpfes Schwert.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 10d
AfD verliert alle Stichwahlen in NRW, und damit gute Nacht.
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