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Holly 🍓 Cooper

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They/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ DPhil History student, University of Oxford Researching 20C Black Caribbean community histories ✊🏽

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Join us next Wednesday 28 May, in person at the IHR and online (17:30-19:30) to hear Annabelle Gilmore’s (Birmingham) paper “‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park” @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...
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‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park
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Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
today is the National Day for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. I created this mini guide as a resource to increase awareness, share education, and provide links to resources to get involved. #MMIW #MMIR #NoMoreStolenRelatives
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Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse @drrhianelinor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I won't be at UCU NEC on Friday unless @drjogrady.bsky.social and UCU's SMT resolve the dispute with workers. Not crossing a picket line is a principle of trade unionism as is accountability to members. Sad but proud to contribute to and sign this statement reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...
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Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025
On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…
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BCU UCU @bcu-ucu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s on! BCU @ucu.org.uk members take strike action this Thursday 1st May. Pickets: - Seacole: 8:30 - 10 - Benjamin Zephaniah: 8:30 - 10:30 - Curzon, Parkside & Millenium Point: 8:30 - 12 Rally for jobs and professional respect: 12-1 in front of Parkside Building Teachout 2-3.30 Woodman
BCU UCU strike: Thursday 1st May
Pickets:
- Seacole: Westbourne Rd 8:30 - 10am
- Benjamin Zephaniah: 15 Bartholomew Row 8:30 - 10:30am
- Curzon: 4 Cardigan St; Parkside: 5 Cardigan Street; Millenium Point:
Curzon St, All 8:30 - 12 noon
Rally for jobs and professional respect:
12-1 in front of Parkside Building
Teachout and BCU UCU social:
Woodman, Smoke Room (ground floor) 2-3:30 (teachout); 3:30 on (social)
Bimingham Trades Council Mayday solidarity social in support of BU UCU and other union disputes:
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
It's #LesbianVisibilityWeek. The Supreme Court doesn't get to define who I am, what I can do with my body or who I can love. Lesbianism is liberation & there is no liberation without trans women. British courts ≠ justice. Trans women are women, trans lesbians are lesbians. #UppaQueers #LVW25
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Our Trinity Term card is now complete, and we are so excited to share it with you all. You can find full details of the events on Ox Talks: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
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Leighan Renaud @leighan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social 10th postgrad conference wrapped today and it was everything. We enjoyed the most powerful keynote conversation, and got to hear incredible PG research from a range of disciplines, with delegates from all over the world. I love it here.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Coming up! Our event with pioneering Black British actress, theatre director and drama lecturer Anni Domingo in conversation with Joy Francis, co-founder of Words of Colour. 16 April, South London, £5 tickets here: bit.ly/3QXn2rm
 Anni is wearing a red turtleneck with a cowrie shell necklace and matching earrings against a black/dark grey background. Vertical on the left hand side reads ‘Women Speak Volumes’ with logo against white background. Just below are the Speaking Volumes and Heritage Fund (blue) logos. Top of the image in pale grey text reads ‘Anni Domingo in Conversation’.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Vanished has well and truly vanished from my to-do list as I’ve handed back my proofs. More on launch events in soon, but more info and preorder links here for now. www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...
Front cover for Vanished. Features an ornate frame inside which there is a nineteenth-century print. In the foreground are a turbaned Indian man astride an Asian elephant, and Native and settler standing next to a pine tree. In mid frame, a mastodon skeleton towers over all the other subjects. In the background is a mountainous landscape, with a river flowing through it. In the sky, there is a lonely passenger pigeon. At the top, the author name, and book title are are framed by leaves intruding into the frame. Advance reviews for Vanished. 

Illuminating and disturbing in equal measure. A poignant and powerfully written account of the intellectual revolution that birthed the concept of extinction; a concept deployed to both justify and animate colonialism and even extermination. A vital and important book -- David Olusoga


A marvellous, troubling, moving and important book lit with hope, Vanished is an intellectually acute history of both the idea and the reality of extinction. In a series of fascinating examples ranging from the fates of entire peoples to the remains of a single bird in a museum, Qureshi illumines how our ideas of extinction have been forged and shaped by myriad things, from the intellectual debates of eighteenth-century naturalists to the brutal history of colonialism and the political context of the Cold War. I learned so much from Vanished and am so grateful for it -- Helen Macdonald


A compelling homage to living and extinct beings, Qureshi's masterpiece is a superbly written, urgent and heart racing volume. Unweaving the threads of centuries of teleological explanations, imperial scientific approaches and offering a new path to understanding mass extinction is a stroke of genius. Vanished is enthralling, devastating and yet empowering --
Olivette Otele


One of our most innovative historians guides us with grace, humility and conviction through the daunting, tangled thickets of species extinction and human extermination. Qureshi warns us that scientific advancement and enlightenment are not necessarily compatible but encourages us that they can be -- Alan Lester
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The cuts to 632 posts announced by university executives hide behind the numbers. Every post is a person, a valued colleague. We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2
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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Solidarity with all striking workers. As #UCU Edu Committee Chair I'd chair Cradle to Grave (flagship education policy conference) on 29 March. It's sadly been cancelled by HQ citing @uniteucu.bsky.social strike in preceding days. The dispute must be resolved Please sign: tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...
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UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality
Dear Jo Grady, We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the community, urge you to do everything in your power to resolve the dispute with UCU Unite as soon as possible. UCU proudly signed up ...
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
On the 7th March, we hosted our first ‘Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination’ conference! It was a nourishing, reflective & inspiring day & we want to thank everyone for their support 💓 It wasn’t easy, but we made it a reality. We hope to be back in 2026 … @torchoxford.bsky.social
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just been to the launch of this very detailed account of how the Drax family made their fortune through slavery in Barbados, by @Paullashmar. Brexiteer, landowner in Barbados & Dorset & (ironically) anti-migrant former Tory MP, Richard Drax still refuses to apologise or make any form of reparation.
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Tionne Alliyah Parris @tionneaparris.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A Guide to Action ✍️ www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
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A Guide to Action
What can we learn from the lives and legacies of Black radical women? Tionne Alliyah Parris considers how the transnational activism of Claudia Jones, Vicki Garvin and Louise Thompson Patterson offers...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Or alternatively, embattled universities are one of the few bastions resisting the resurgence of fascism?
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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
12 books to help you create a just and sustainable future yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/12-b... It’s my book - DARK LABORATORY
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12 books to help you create a just and sustainable future » Yale Climate Connections
These titles range from memoirs of climate justice leaders to Afrofuturist stories.
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Hannah Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Had my first meeting about PhDs starting in 2026 so I am (again) flagging the free resources on my website, targeted at PhDs in the Arts and Humanities in the UK. This includes an info sheet about applying for PhDs and a PhD proposal template. hannahmarierobbins.com/blog/resourc...
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PhD Resources: PhD Proposal Template PhD Proposal TemplateDownload This is a basic resource specifically designed for prospective PhD students hoping to study in the arts and humanities in UK unive…
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Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My reflections on the importance of queer history, published this week in The Big Issue, have become even more relevant since I submitted the piece just a couple weeks ago. Read it here: www.bigissue.com/opinion/lgbt...
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Our history is way queerer than you think – here's why that matters
For LGBT+ History Month, Justin Bengry explains how understanding our queer history can help combat rising homophobia and transphobia.
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Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference | 6 – 7 June 2025 | University College London Legacies of Section 28: a two-day event exploring the history and legacy of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, 1988. DEADLINE EXTENDED to the end of February royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...
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Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#BLOGPOST: A current member of YHP shares their thoughts on the lack of Black British History in the UK National Curriculum, and how YHP plays a role in addressing this epidemic prevalent in the UK education system. #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿 www.younghistoriansproject.org/single-post/...
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Black British History in Schools: Progress, Problems and Possibilities
As a future Black trainee history teacher preparing to enter the profession in September 2025, I've been reflecting on how Black British history is taught in British schools. While we've made some pro...
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Paula Akpan @paulaakpan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
PR👀FS! She’s definitely no longer a word doc! (uk & us pre-order below, you don’t pay until the book is published in May so did you even truly buy it? Exactly) 🇬🇧 geni.us/WhenWeRuled 🇺🇸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-W... #blackbooksky #booksky #skystorians
Black woman with a shaved head and wearing an orange dress holds up a blue proof of her book, WHEN WE RULEDFive copies of WHEN WE RULED on a pink armchair
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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist is OUT! 🏆 Congratulations to this year's longlisted authors. Explore this extraordinary list and support independent bookshops: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-20... @womensprize.bsky.social
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Position Alert 🚨
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
My wonderful friend Tionne Alliyah Parris has just published a new article on Shirley Graham Du Bois & her use of connectivity as a Black liberatory praxis - pls read and share amongst your networks 🤝🏽 www.miamisocialsciences.org/home/ew1ns9g...
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Shirley Graham Du Bois and Cold War Connectivity in the Struggle for Black Liberation — Miami Institute for the Social Sciences
By Tionne Alliyah Parris
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Paula Akpan @paulaakpan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My book has a cover and she’s just beautiful Published 8 May in the UK and 3 June in the US 🇬🇧 geni.us/WhenWeRuled 🇺🇸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-W...
Colour image of Njinga (ruler of Ndongo & Matamba) on a blue book cover against a lighter blue background. The cover reads ‘when we ruled, the rise and fall of twelve African queens and warriors, Paula Akpan’
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My colleague Kesewa John has organised a screening of the Dominican film 'Sugar Island' at Goldsmiths next Tuesday (4 Feb) evening, followed by a special Q&A with its director Johanne Gomez Terrero. Attendance is free, but you need to register. All welcome. #filmsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky
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History on Film: Sugar Island (2024)
Join us for a FREE, bespoke screening of a stunning new Dominican film, Sugar Island (2024). For ne...
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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is today! Currently waiting to board my flight to Belfast, my first time in the city since January 2020.
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Tickets for our 2025 Conference are now live: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-... With this, we are excited to announce our amazing keynote speakers, who will be speaking on a panel on radical future-proofing archival praxis ✨
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s out!!!! Huge huge gratitude to all of our co-authors, whose brilliant contributions you can read here, and especially to my wonderful co-editor @teadevotee.bsky.social without whom this literally would still be a series of notes in my email inbox.
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Finally watching Junior Bake Off and it’s genuinely healing something in me. These kids have such a strong grasp on their emotions, as well as being so ambitious, and unabashed. I’m so proud of them all 😭
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Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Tickets available now my Rebel Sounds talk @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street. I’ll be talking about the history of protest song as political instrument, from 1970s Nigeria, to contemporary Ukraine... all the while playing some cracking tunes. www.waterstones.com/events/rebel...
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Rebel Sounds: Joe Mulhall Returns | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Rebel Sounds: Joe Mulhall Returns today.
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hilary Term will also see the return of our Writing & Meditation workshops! Open to the entire community, these sessions work as a focused writing space to get those words down! 🙌🏽
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Our Hilary Term Card is now live 🙌🏽 The first 3 weeks of term will be dedicated to conversations around the Rhodes Must Fall movement, as it enters its 3rd year ✊🏽 We also have an exciting line-up for the theme ‘Music as Method’ 🎶🎤 Finally, we will close the term with our 2025 Conference ✨
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I missed my chance to exclaim Goodness Gracious Me! Meanwhile, a lovely person sent me a gift link. So please do share. on.ft.com/3Wfhmf8
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We’ve had some amazing abstracts so far! Keep sending them in 🙌🏽🙌🏽 This has the potential to be the best conference for radical race scholarship of 2025 👀👀
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Deadline for our 2025 Conference call for papers is on MONDAY at 12pm, noon. Thank you to everyone who has submitted an abstract so far! ⭐️ Colleagues, friends, comrades, please share far and wide 🙌🏽
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢CFP Deadline! The deadline for our conference with #HistoryLab+ and History UK, 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis', is next week! Abstracts of 200 words are due on Friday 17th January. For more information on the conference, please see the link below... ihrhistorylab.wordpress.com/teaching-in-...
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Teaching in a Time of Crisis
CFP: Teaching in a Time of Crisis As we begin another academic year, history feels both more fragile – and more essential – than ever. In a world of global pandemics, political unrest, …
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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In 2025, I’d like to invite people to purposefully read more dense and/or complex prose. There is nothing wrong with reading slow or reading something multiple times. There’s no shame in looking up the definition of words or writing out plot events to analyze their importance.
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 31/12/2024
Reminder: the deadline for the final round of the Study Abroad Studentship scheme is next Tuesday, 7 January 2025, 4pm.
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I read some amazing books in 2024! Out of 58 books, I rated 13 of them 5 stars 🌟 Here’s to more brilliant reads in 2025!!
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I’ve just withdrawn from my panel at the OLF. Joyce is an absolutely chilling character: on record as saying that ‘every one of those [trans] people is a huge problem to a sane world'
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Shame on you Oxford Literary Festival
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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Rajesh Thind @rajeshthind.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Great to see our series ‘#Defiance: Fighting the Far Right’ nominated in Best Documentary Series category at @Broadcastnow Awards 2025! Congrats to all the other nominees. And thanks, as ever, to the people who trusted us to help tell their stories.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Now the agreement’s been signed, I’m really excited to announce I’m (officially) writing my first monograph, ‘Progressive Politics, Popular Culture, and Public Memory in Contemporary Britain’, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. #skystorians 🗃️ #polisky
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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
When the colonised speak they instantly transform from victims to threats to the coloniser. Most of all for the ‘liberal’ coloniser who moral foundation is built on ‘caring’ about victims AND whose political raison d’etre is to serve as controlled opposition for the Empire 1/3
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In 2025, can we all agree to stand up and stop accepting the weaponised incompetence of our male colleagues? No accountability, no self awareness, I’m over it
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TheGentYYC 🇨🇦 @thegentyyc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Your #BlueSky update: the other site was not missed for even one second again today.
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a group of people are sitting on a porch and one of them is saying `` bye , felisha ! '' .
Alt: Famous Friday scene, Ice Cube saying "bye Felicia," as Chris Tucker waves her away
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