Mel Lee-Smith | Writer

divest!

gonna trust the cybersec experts on this one

Ohhh my god. Sounds about right tho. Shareholders will do anything to protect their stupid investments.

Fuck YouTube in general, they took their mask off a few years ago and have been actively evil toward creators ever since. What can we expect from an alphabet owned venture...

🎉 12 Aug 🎂
This year, my birthday wish is not a gift…
It’s hope, safety, and a future for my family ❤️
💌 You can be part of it ⬇️

[DONATE HERE PLEASE]👇🙏

www.gofundme.com/f/Help-Hanaa...

@mommunism.bsky.social

Stylized pink graphic promoting a birthday fundraiser for Hana Al-Lulu, in partnership with Mel Lee-Smith. Circle portraits of Hana and Mel with thick pink borders take up most of the image. Hana's photo at the top shows her wearing a head covering with black frame glasses perched on top. Mel has short black hair and is wearing blue eyeshadow with matching glasses and a black blouse. The text reads, "Birthday fundraiser for Hana & family in Gaza. Celebrate Mel & Hana's birthday week 10-16 August by donating to Hana's fundraiser!"

@deshanalulu.bsky.social's birthday is a day after mine next week 🥹🩷

So I'm running a special fundraising push to celebrate our birthday week!

Please help us make some birthday magic for Hana and her family 🎁

7-day goal is $580

Can you help us reach it?? 🩷

gofund.me/bfc8169b

Since I recently discovered me and @deshanalulu.bsky.social are birthday neighbors, we're running a special birthday fundraiser all next week 🥹🩷

our 7-day goal is $580

Help us get an early start on making some birthday magic for Hana and her family! 🥳🎁

We 🩷 you Hana!

gofund.me/bfc8169b

Israel's war?

Try Israel's genocide.

Call it what it is.

I'm tired💔
I'm hungry😭😭
We have lost every beautiful thing that once gave us hope..
This war has taken everything our smiles, our dreams, our peace.
All that's left is pain and silence.

gofund.me/2f400fb2

all in your own time my love!! i'm not going anywhere ❤️

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

Even sugar has become unaffordable.
In Gaza, 1kg now costs 500 shekels.
My parents are elderly and need something sweet daily to stay strong.
We survive on so little… everything feels impossible.
Please help us protect the most precious thing we have — our parents, our strength.

donate🙏here👇 please

🫂🫂🫂🫂

Headshot of Mel Lee-Smith, freelance writer and social justice advocate. She has short, black curly hair. She's wearing blue eyeshadow with blue and black glasses, as well as a black sheer blouse with blue and pink embroidered flowers. Her chin is resting on her left hand.

My new profile pic is proper authorly.

Also, new (to you) hair. I've had it cut and dyed like this for a couple months, just lazy on taking selfies and updating.

BTW, this (almost) exists now:

bsky.app/profile/mell...

Roadmap:

- v0 (what you see above): Just make it exist
- v1 - Add a masterlist of vetted campaigns from as many places as we can possibly find

Big thanks to everyone contributing to this project.

Y'all please help us amplify! 🙏

@mommunism.bsky.social
@leftistlawyer.com
@ipsc.bsky.social

Featured campaigns:

@belal2011.bsky.social
@deshanalulu.bsky.social
@motaz-family51.bsky.social
@itsmeio.bsky.social
@mamatwins.bsky.social
@monahijazi.bsky.social
@shireeninthedark.bsky.social

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Screenshot of the Gaza Support Hub website homepage. The navigation bar is black and includes the site title as well as links to Home, Campaigns, and FAQs. The text reads: Gaza Support Hub is a volunteer, citizen-led effort to support and uplift the people of Palestine. On top of the genocide inflicted upon them, Gazans and Palestinians are being silenced and suppressed on social media. Meta, X, Microsoft, and Bluesky are all complicit in the censorship of Palestinian voices and those who support them. Bluesky's moderation policies, in particular, have seen hundreds of Palestinian accounts banned and permanently deleted. Palestinians rely on Bluesky — a channel which has billed itself as "the good place" compared to other platforms — to raise money for food and medicine. Gaza Support Hub was built in direct response to Bluesky's willful ignorance of an open letter (signed by thousands of users, including us) urging them to revise their harmful policies. This website is currently under construction. Our goal is to offer a space of general support. It will include mutual aid campaigns and stories of Palestinian families, as well as an honor roll and obituary section where families can honor their loved ones properly. Most importantly, once a fundraising campaign is vetted and added to the Gaza Support Hub, it won't be removed. Even if Bluesky removes your account, your fundraiser will still be here, and we'll still be working to get it in front of as many people as we can." Following the text is "Campaigns" with cards showing Palestinian families in need.

Screenshot of the Gaza Support Hub website homepage. The top reads "Campaigns" in black text. Following the text is a gallery of 8 cards, each showing a photo of a Palestinian family in need. The website footer includes links to Home, Campaigns, and FAQs, as well as a copyright.

Gaza Support Hub will go live soon.

A volunteer, citizen-led effort to support & uplift Palestinians.

Built in direct response to Bluesky's willful ignorance of our open letter.

Once a campaign is added, it will never be removed.

And we'll still be working to share it with as many as we can.

wtaf is the logic behind this anyway. leftists should know how marginalized people are (mis)treated by law enforcement/the legal system in the first place, that's advocacy 101.

Men, I want y'all to read this whole post by the aptly named Dr. Insensitive Jerk.

And I want you to imagine that it's aimed at you.

Because let me tell you, as a woman and victim of domestic violence and misogynistic abuse.

It's harmful.

It's scary.

Men.

Talk to your mates.

what the actual fuck.

Please help these sweet babies if you can. ❤️

Indeed, Sherine, my trainer and friend, needs your help and support, and she is in dire need of it, just like the rest of the people of Gaza. I ask you to donate and continue to support us, please 🙏🏻💝

Alaa and the twins are getting so thin. I'm really worried about them. I know you're overwhelmed by these messages and want to appeal to you to help save them.

chuffed.org/project/help...

Donate to Help Belal and family get treatment outside Gaza, organized by Sheika Mushundusi Update – 25 May 2025 My name is Bilal Ashraf. I’m a 14-year-o… Sheika Mushundusi needs your support for Help Belal and family get treatment outside Gaza

Hi, friends
We are still waiting for the aid they promised
But until this moment, we have seen nothing.
Just empty words, while our hunger grows and hope fades.
#hunger
#war
#death

gofund.me/2f400fb2

Yeah, it's tiny. Someone else made this map so people can visualize it better. If you're good at map scale (I'm not) you should do this for wherever you live in the world...so people can imagine what it's like for 2.5 million people to "live" there, after 85,000 tons of bombs were dropped in it

Hi! Are you still interested in helping out with this project? :)

@joyouscoding.com are you still interested in helping out with this project? :)

Are these the same people who cry that taxation is theft? 🤔 WTF is this, then!!

It was a dark, terrible night. The killing never stopped.
Bad morning from Gaza 🇵🇸💔🥀

Please check it out and help us support @deshanalulu.bsky.social by sharing!

Tagging some folks I think might be interested:

@mommunism.bsky.social
@leftistlawyer.com
@nora.zone
@limbischessystem.bsky.social
@anna-orridge.bsky.social