Mel Lee-Smith | Writer
@melleesmith.com
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Co-founder @recordresistance.com
Co-founder / jr web dev @gazasupporthub.com
Creative writing @melliferamuses.com
Founder @joyfulcreatorsclub.com
Co-founder @recordresistance.com
Co-founder / jr web dev @gazasupporthub.com
Creative writing @melliferamuses.com
Founder @joyfulcreatorsclub.com
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We're not done yet! @ipsc.bsky.social Southeast Branch hosted a march through Waterford today. 🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸
I made a sign for all my Pals, including:
@belal2011.bsky.social
@ilaymedia.com
@itsmeio.bsky.social
@monahijazi.bsky.social
@mamatwins.bsky.social
@shireeninthedark.bsky.social
Ahmed & Motaz
I made a sign for all my Pals, including:
@belal2011.bsky.social
@ilaymedia.com
@itsmeio.bsky.social
@monahijazi.bsky.social
@mamatwins.bsky.social
@shireeninthedark.bsky.social
Ahmed & Motaz
😔 Please help poor Belal and his family if you can
We were flooded by the heavy rain, and the tents do not protect us at all. The water is coming inside the tent and soaking everything, and we can no longer stay inside.
🔴We urgently need help.
🔴 gofund.me/2f400fb2
🔴We urgently need help.
🔴 gofund.me/2f400fb2
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
😔 Please help poor Belal and his family if you can
🥲 please help this sweet family if you can
The situation here is extremely difficult. As winter approaches, the rains are already coming, with roads starting to flood.
Please donate to help keep us warm, fed, and safe through this cold winter 🙏❤️🪽
gofund.me/81080627
Please donate to help keep us warm, fed, and safe through this cold winter 🙏❤️🪽
gofund.me/81080627
Donate to Help Hanaa and her family to evacuate from Gaza, organized by Aimee M
Hello ❤️
My name is Aimee, I live in Berlin.
Given its geographical locatio… Aimee M needs your support for Help Hanaa and her family to evacuate from Gaza
gofund.me
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🥲 please help this sweet family if you can
Reposted by Mel Lee-Smith | Writer
🚨 EMERGENCY AID APPEAL FOR GAZA 🚨
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
For more than a month, we haven’t received any assistance. In the past few days, we were flooded by the heavy rain, and our tent was submerged😭😭😭.
My phone’s camera is very poor, so I couldn’t document anything. We are in urgent need of help.
gofund.me/2f400fb2
My phone’s camera is very poor, so I couldn’t document anything. We are in urgent need of help.
gofund.me/2f400fb2
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
🚨 EMERGENCY AID APPEAL FOR GAZA 🚨
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
🚨 EMERGENCY AID APPEAL FOR GAZA 🚨
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
For more than a month, we haven’t received any assistance. In the past few days, we were flooded by the heavy rain, and our tent was submerged😭😭😭.
My phone’s camera is very poor, so I couldn’t document anything. We are in urgent need of help.
gofund.me/2f400fb2
My phone’s camera is very poor, so I couldn’t document anything. We are in urgent need of help.
gofund.me/2f400fb2
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
🚨 EMERGENCY AID APPEAL FOR GAZA 🚨
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
Please help Belal and his family recover from a recent flood by donating or sharing.
I've been connected with @belal2011.bsky.social and his family for many months. Their fundraiser is one of the slowest I've seen here; they often go weeks without a donation.
my sleep schedule is so messed up ever since the time change. going to bed before 9, waking up at 4.
might as well learn some python i guess, lol
might as well learn some python i guess, lol
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
my sleep schedule is so messed up ever since the time change. going to bed before 9, waking up at 4.
might as well learn some python i guess, lol
might as well learn some python i guess, lol
Timeline cleanse! Go watch this video of Jonathan 🐢
November 12, 2025 Worldly Wednesday creativity prompt 🌈
The oldest known land animal is a 190-year-old tortoise named Jonathan. He lives on the island of Saint Helena, and he’s very close with another tortoise named Frederica.
See the full prompt: joyfulcreatorsclub.com/prompts/worl...
The oldest known land animal is a 190-year-old tortoise named Jonathan. He lives on the island of Saint Helena, and he’s very close with another tortoise named Frederica.
See the full prompt: joyfulcreatorsclub.com/prompts/worl...
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Timeline cleanse! Go watch this video of Jonathan 🐢
Please support Hana and her family if you can. ❤️ She's such a kind soul
We are so close.
Just a little more kindness can save lives. We’re only a few steps away from reaching of our goal.
Every donation no matter the size goes straight to food, shelter, and the hope of surviving one more day.
Please, if you can, donate. If you can’t, share. ❤️🙏
gofund.me/81080627
Just a little more kindness can save lives. We’re only a few steps away from reaching of our goal.
Every donation no matter the size goes straight to food, shelter, and the hope of surviving one more day.
Please, if you can, donate. If you can’t, share. ❤️🙏
gofund.me/81080627
Donate to Help Hanaa and her family to evacuate from Gaza, organized by Aimee M
Hello ❤️
My name is Aimee, I live in Berlin.
Given its geographical locatio… Aimee M needs your support for Help Hanaa and her family to evacuate from Gaza
gofund.me
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Please support Hana and her family if you can. ❤️ She's such a kind soul
having one of those Bad Brain Days that makes you feel like 3 raccoons in a trench coat cosplaying as a human being
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
having one of those Bad Brain Days that makes you feel like 3 raccoons in a trench coat cosplaying as a human being
Reposted by Mel Lee-Smith | Writer
This website suspended @drfeda.bsky.social the subject of a documentary premiering this month from Doctors Against Genocide about her work as a pediatrician in Nasser Hospital in Gaza.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This website suspended @drfeda.bsky.social the subject of a documentary premiering this month from Doctors Against Genocide about her work as a pediatrician in Nasser Hospital in Gaza.
Sheryl is 100% on point as per. We do not deify politicians; we hold them to account. We watch what they do, *and* what they say. If your advocacy ends where Bernie's anti-immigrant comments begin, all in the interest of "feeling the bern!", please re-examine, post-haste. ‼️
It is interesting how whenever I raise Bernie's (frankly terrible) record on immigration, people who call themselves leftists immediately jump into my mentions and start spewing right wing anti-immigrant talking points.
Let me be absolutely clear:
Let me be absolutely clear:
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sheryl is 100% on point as per. We do not deify politicians; we hold them to account. We watch what they do, *and* what they say. If your advocacy ends where Bernie's anti-immigrant comments begin, all in the interest of "feeling the bern!", please re-examine, post-haste. ‼️
Dad hit his head
climbing up the dresser,
just like me and my sister did
when we were little:
an excruciating parallel.
#Poem #Poetry #AmWriting #Dementia #DoHashtagsEvenWorkOnHere #OrAmIJustOld
climbing up the dresser,
just like me and my sister did
when we were little:
an excruciating parallel.
#Poem #Poetry #AmWriting #Dementia #DoHashtagsEvenWorkOnHere #OrAmIJustOld
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dad hit his head
climbing up the dresser,
just like me and my sister did
when we were little:
an excruciating parallel.
#Poem #Poetry #AmWriting #Dementia #DoHashtagsEvenWorkOnHere #OrAmIJustOld
climbing up the dresser,
just like me and my sister did
when we were little:
an excruciating parallel.
#Poem #Poetry #AmWriting #Dementia #DoHashtagsEvenWorkOnHere #OrAmIJustOld
Reposted by Mel Lee-Smith | Writer
"Three lifetimes later, you wake to an ache in your left hip."
Mellifera Muses' first commissioned short story — "Quest Started: A Man and His Cat" — is now live!
A Fallout-inspired short story / side quest for my pal Keith:
#AmWriting #WIP #WritingCommunity #ShortStory
Mellifera Muses' first commissioned short story — "Quest Started: A Man and His Cat" — is now live!
A Fallout-inspired short story / side quest for my pal Keith:
#AmWriting #WIP #WritingCommunity #ShortStory
Quest Started: A Man and His Cat | Short Story by Mellifera Muses
'Three lifetimes later, you wake to an ache in your left hip.'
melliferamuses.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Three lifetimes later, you wake to an ache in your left hip."
Mellifera Muses' first commissioned short story — "Quest Started: A Man and His Cat" — is now live!
A Fallout-inspired short story / side quest for my pal Keith:
#AmWriting #WIP #WritingCommunity #ShortStory
Mellifera Muses' first commissioned short story — "Quest Started: A Man and His Cat" — is now live!
A Fallout-inspired short story / side quest for my pal Keith:
#AmWriting #WIP #WritingCommunity #ShortStory
being vulnerable on the internet ain't for the faint of heart
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
being vulnerable on the internet ain't for the faint of heart
Bless their hearts… justice for all the folks whose work was ripped off.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Bless their hearts… justice for all the folks whose work was ripped off.
Every time I see a post about centering a div, I can't help but feel old, because I remember <center>.
Why did they deprecate that, anyway...
Why did they deprecate that, anyway...
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Every time I see a post about centering a div, I can't help but feel old, because I remember <center>.
Why did they deprecate that, anyway...
Why did they deprecate that, anyway...
Reposted by Mel Lee-Smith | Writer
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
Been working my butt off on @recordresistance.com's SNAP Resources page. Now includes:
- 60+ food banks / programs across the US
- National resource locators
- Timeline of events and court orders related to SNAP cuts
- Documents archived by our team
recordresistance.com/special/snap
- 60+ food banks / programs across the US
- National resource locators
- Timeline of events and court orders related to SNAP cuts
- Documents archived by our team
recordresistance.com/special/snap
SNAP Assistance and Resources | Record Resistance
recordresistance.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Been working my butt off on @recordresistance.com's SNAP Resources page. Now includes:
- 60+ food banks / programs across the US
- National resource locators
- Timeline of events and court orders related to SNAP cuts
- Documents archived by our team
recordresistance.com/special/snap
- 60+ food banks / programs across the US
- National resource locators
- Timeline of events and court orders related to SNAP cuts
- Documents archived by our team
recordresistance.com/special/snap
You shouldn't need a fucking law degree to decode what the federal government is doing with SNAP.
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
You shouldn't need a fucking law degree to decode what the federal government is doing with SNAP.
me trying to keep up with all the SNAP court orders so i can document them for @recordresistance.com and create a timeline
a cartoon character from spongebob squarepants is sitting on a table with his mouth open .
ALT: a cartoon character from spongebob squarepants is sitting on a table with his mouth open .
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
me trying to keep up with all the SNAP court orders so i can document them for @recordresistance.com and create a timeline
Part of my work for @recordresistance.com tonight has involved researching each state's response to the SNAP cuts
Interesting to see how many states are complying with the court orders, versus how many are just...burying their proverbial heads in the sand.
Interesting to see how many states are complying with the court orders, versus how many are just...burying their proverbial heads in the sand.
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Part of my work for @recordresistance.com tonight has involved researching each state's response to the SNAP cuts
Interesting to see how many states are complying with the court orders, versus how many are just...burying their proverbial heads in the sand.
Interesting to see how many states are complying with the court orders, versus how many are just...burying their proverbial heads in the sand.
Reposted by Mel Lee-Smith | Writer
I have 7 slots left for this! Just send a receipt, don’t forget the note on paypal!
Our friends Wings and Aji up in northern New Mexico need some help distributing grocery gift cards for people in their area who lost SNAP. I'm sending $50. I'm going to make and post a fruit or vegetable drawing of choice for the first 10 people who match my donation.
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I have 7 slots left for this! Just send a receipt, don’t forget the note on paypal!
Now THAT'S what I call a headline! 👏👏👏
If dereliction is vandalism then Dublin City Council are vandals & should be treated as such #DerelictIreland
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Now THAT'S what I call a headline! 👏👏👏
To see *South Carolina* flipping seats is crazy.
Dum spiro spero ✊
Dum spiro spero ✊
SC and MS flipped local Republican seats during an off-year election; there is HOPE for our democracy!
Sleep well tonight. America spoke with the power of its vote!
Sleep well tonight. America spoke with the power of its vote!
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
To see *South Carolina* flipping seats is crazy.
Dum spiro spero ✊
Dum spiro spero ✊
Documenting this switch up on @recordresistance.com lmaooo
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who has been almost singularly focused on Mamdani over the last six months, congratulated him on his win in an unusually (for him) short tweet.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Documenting this switch up on @recordresistance.com lmaooo
