Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 28/01/2025One of the best things about London. Walking into a world class university like the LSE after work, for free, and listening to a lecture about how a new economy - bringing power to the people - could emerge. 000
Reposted by Shafi MusaddiqueMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I'll be doing a live Zeteo Zoom town hall with the one and only Greta Thunberg at 3pm Eastern today (2 and a half hours from now), talking climate change, LA wildfires, Gaza, and more. Join us and ask your questions in the chat! To subscribe and then register:zeteo.comLIVE Q&A with Greta Thunberg *Today*! Register NowMehdi and the world's best-known climate activist will be discussing the California wildfires, the state of the global climate crisis, and her fight for justice from Palestine to Western Sahara. 141026132
Reposted by Shafi MusaddiqueLisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 14/01/2025How can EU tackle big tech? 1. Speed up DSA probe. 2. Pressure Ireland. 3. Use the existing EU rules "to switch big tech’s algorithms off at a stroke.....People, rather than big tech’s algorithms, would again decide what they say/see". By tech expert/litigator www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comBig tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny RyanThe latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council... 07729
Reposted by Shafi MusaddiqueSam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 05/01/2025I’m putting together a Substack on Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia. Sign up to read it 👇🏻 writesbright.substack.comwritesbright.substack.comSam Bright | SubstackInvestigations and insights about the rich, right-wing, and powerful. Click to read Sam Bright, a Substack publication. 35423
Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Just reading the headline is shocking enough. When will this get any better?theguardian.comNearly two-thirds of working private renters in England struggle to pay rentExclusive: Shelter poll shows housing crisis is causing hardship even for those with jobs 000
Reposted by Shafi MusaddiqueRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/12/2024It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828. 1284900766
Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery in London is quite something. Bringing together VVG's paintings spread over the world under one roof. Including two "sunflower" paintings - one of them leaving the USA for the first time since the 1930s. 000
Reposted by Shafi MusaddiqueLiterary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 20/12/2024“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin 225253504945
Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Hello new followers! I'm a journalist covering minorities in Europe. Just returned to the UK after a year and a half in Estonia. A former life investigating human rights abuses in garment factories. Mostly I love joining the dots between people and movements 110
Reposted by Shafi MusaddiqueHistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 19/12/2024In the spirit of sharing, we’ve put together a little list of the best historical things to stream this festive season (according to historians). What would you add to the list? 🎄🎁🍿 open.substack.com/pub/histfest...open.substack.comThe best historical shows (and a couple of films) to stream this ChristmasIn the spirit of sharing, we thought we’d put together a little list of the best historical things to stream this festive season (according to historians). 44818
Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Well. This feels like 2010 Twitter all over again. Hello... World. 020