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Renita

@thatgirlrenita.bsky.social

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She/her 💜🏳‍🌈 DuPage Co, I love Chicago. Writer, editor, photographer, baker. Likes to write. Loves to be right. Tries to be kind. Wants to pet your dog. Previously Indiana and Philly.

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · Nov 11

I've gotten a few new followers lately so let me introduce myself. I'm Renita, I live in the western Chicago suburbs. I'm a Xennial, a copywriter, a dog mom. Queer, love to bake, raised Mennonite, former journalist, aspiring photographer. I dislike the Oxford comma.

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 8h

Who is "you all"? I'm not part of this. I was just correcting your misgendering. Move along.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 9h

I truly do not care about whatever dumb argument you're having with yourself I just want you to gender people correctly

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 10h

Yoshi spent 90 minutes this morning throwing up stomach acid so I took him to the vet and the general consensus is he's basically a raccoon and needs to stop eating things he finds outside. He's fine.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 10h

I've literally only heard of it because of people over 25 asking wtf it means

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 10h

Some dumb youth meme I don't even know

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 10h

They. Nora's pronouns are right freaking there.

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 10h

a close up of a child 's face with the word lies written on it

Alt: a close up of a child's face with the word lies written on it

media.tenor.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 19h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 17h

Also funny :)

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 17h

I almost never correct it but I think people using balling instead of bawling is one of the funniest homonym mistakes.

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

We lived near Philly so I guess I wasn't as plugged in with the Lancaster crowd :)

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

Faine has a lot of followers lol

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

Shoofly pie and Amish peanut butter pie are missing but I've never had raisin pie??

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks I hate it

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

I have had my issues with Durbin especially but I'm glad they're showing up here

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1d

o I need to bring in multiple sales these next three days [today through Sunday].

Wings has a ton of work up, a lot of it very recent. The holidays will be here before you know it.

Shop here: wingssilverwork.com.

Order here: wingssilverwork.com/contact/.

Thanks.

wingssilverwork.com

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

Just remember you can be a best-selling author with a critically acclaimed Hulu adaptation of your book to your credit and it might still not be enough to impress your mother 😂

Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 1d

Last but not least, my mom's all-time biggest Twitter banger, which somehow got back to her through her senior citizen friends and caused her to email me saying "Apparently I am twitter famous!" Thanks for always being proud of me, keeping my ego in check, and making me laugh at the very same time.

Tweet from Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing Jan 18, 2018
No one like a mom to keep your ego in check
[screenshot of a text convo]
- Morning mom! I thought you might like to see this week's NYT bestseller list.
(screenshot of the Hardcover fiction list, showing Little Fires Everywhere at #4)
- Great, going to brunch downstairs in a little while. Love you.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry Celeste. May her memory be a blessing.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

This is probably why I have three opened jars of peanut butter in the pantry.

Mine: biting into a crisp, perfectly sweet-tart apple.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

I hate when I bite into an apple and it's half mushy brown spots. Bleh. Can't even give the rest to the dog because they don't seem to agree with him.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

It's certainly a sound that gets me out of bed in the middle of the night! And he's a very good bed sharer. But even so lol yes.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 1d

I would tell you under oath that I woke up suddenly at 3 am to the sound of Yoshi gagging like he was about to throw up. Heard it twice. And yet, no barf in his crate. Thought he was whining to go outside. No, in fact he wanted to get into bed with us. Okay buddy.

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Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 2d

Five months since my layoff. I'm not giving up or anything but the market is just rough. I have a part time gig that should be extendable and other possibilities out there. So I'm choosing peace - to not freak out or get down on myself. I'm working hard at what I have and the right thing will come.

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 2d

I had no idea there were legal documents called "prayers", as a side note

Renita @thatgirlrenita.bsky.social · 2d

Do you mean summer 2026? It's very unclear, "this" summer has passed.