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@ritaolds.bsky.social
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"come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed." an essayist + a novelist. somewhere (not) writing my debut novel.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stop calling people migrants. People, all people, have a right to move.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
meeeeeeee!
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i am nervous. but i'mma try to bundle up!
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i mean...finally?
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
and ofc @indeedagem.blacksky.app, we gotta have a date <3
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
going to see stevie wonder in chicago. me and chicago go together real bad!
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ya’ll coming to ATL pride 👀
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
😂🤣
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the way i need some perimenopause raps right neow. basically fuck errthing and errbody by especially these hormones. there's a lane LOL. and on the verge of taking a much older man with ED for all he got because i am tired.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
truly.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
911-0024
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
finding old friends in the same spot as you left them is oddly affirming and heartbreaking at the same time. idk, i saw more for them than the cults they are stuck in and binge drinking every weekend. there was a flicker of possibility and i guess it died.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
using my free will to take a book-binding class this fall.
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KawsdeEJ @ejandnobrandy.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
I don’t care who it is nobody will make me feel bad about being in the bed lol
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hallo-kween @thekutekween.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The anti-mutual aid crowd needs to hear this message but I know they won’t give af either way so it’s like preaching to the choir “Your financially struggling friends and family are going to die“ #HelpFolksLive2026
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
favorite ice creameries: 1. handel’s. HANDS DOWN. had in in youngstown, ohio & now its in ATL. if you near on, do yourself a favor & get it. 2. jenny’s. distant second, but she’s tasty.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i expect Black men to see it differently. i think he could have explored that without a biracial woman or Black man still in love with a white woman who’s brother did what he did. but to each their own.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the sheets are pretty but line drying linen sheets are a pain in the ass 🫠
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Michael Brown II @miekbrzy92.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You're doing a lot of reading but not a lot of thinking.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
now if this is book number two, i'll let Cebo Campbell know he inspired me lol.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
honestly wanted her off the team lol.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
hmmm, i can see where you get that. i read it as he has no love for Blackness, but deeply believes he does. it's evident in how he can't even write fictional Black identity outside whiteness.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
okay, i will and report back!
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
*invisible ink* great choice. lol. but truly want folks to form their own opinion. so that's what you are getting yourself into. it's marketed very different from what was written.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i feel so seen lol.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i saw all of the Black women supporting Sindey's racist ass have some racial esteem ANNOYING AF. i may keep going then... i just keep thinking: girl go to the water with your auntie and be amongst the whites, whatever is left.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
as a writer, it is well-written and i get that everyone gets something different. so definitely not saying don't read it. you may see it differently. but i can't really get past the socio-political lens, especially for an afro-futurist, speculative novel. like this is what you imagine...?
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
chileeeeeeeeeeeee, never ever ever beating the allegations.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
trully may not finish. they just got to Mobile, AL and i am not feeling it AT ALL. the convos have been interesting around the book.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i expect men to have a very different experience tbh. what was insightful for him?
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i haven't finished. but it is HARD. been having great discussions about how maybe whiteness still being centered is the point. but the Afro-futurism i want to read. and no real characterization of Black women besides being mules for men and biracials lol. nope.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
give it a try! peers have said it's a real look at how long it may take the white gaze to disappear, even after white people do. (it's only been 1 year in the book) and how whiteness/racialized power takes root in biracial people. see for yourself. but KNOW it's not a uptopia void of whiteness
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
classism, ableism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, texturism, colorism, the Black church™, racial hierarchy, and internalized ideas about race were right there to explore in a world with no white folds--and yet, whiteness was centered. and i'on like that.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
have ya'll read Sky Full of Elephants? it's not quite the read i expected when i think of a world where all white people disappear. centering a Black man in love with the ghost of a white woman, and a racist biracial woman who gets racial esteem from Black women...was a choice.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
not a problem. it's really the solution.
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Demi @demi0186.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026
my problem is that i will listen to the same 5 songs on repeat for 2 months straight.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"string, we're wallace at? look at me. where's wallace at, huh?" 🥹
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
lol fr!
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
i use Pinterest. it's rough as folks don't add to it much. what's your business though? the most basic answer it to add tons of aesthetic pictures that link your product or service.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
game of thrones season 6 > before 3-4 were favorites but jon snow's arc. THE BATTLE OF THE BASTARDS > fuck the bolton's forever. sansa + reek's arc > arya learning to be a faceless man. daenerys actually ruling? man, oh, man. bran's storyline was boring. idk about the first children.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
tommen baratheon (lannister) was a weak ass bitch.
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Queer Gold 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙌🏾 (she/they) @queergold.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Black and/or trans people, we are enough, despite what this world signals about our worth. We deserve better.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
awww thanks boo. i am doing it.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
i saw that and was so confused. with ozempic and co, we/folks finna have a tough time not being thin again.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
chat editing draft one of a manuscript is humbling. defending plot choices. and staying open is...something. i was not expecting this to be so hard.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
watching joffrey's fate on GoT was so satisfying.
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Tré @tre.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026
the longer I stay single, the stranger the idea of integrating my life with someone else's feels.
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
" come celebrate. with me that everyday. something has tried to kill me. and has failed."
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
why this tickle me?!
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a ghost @ritaolds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
sounds right.
Results for an AI test. The Union Organizer.
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