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MissMeliss

@melysse.bsky.social

Writer. Podcaster. Book reviewer. Word-ninja. Bathtub mermaid. Kayak junkie. Blue dot in Florida. #feminist. The #beach is my happy place. #startrek is my favorite universe. #Coffee is my higher power.

230 Followers  |  464 Following  |  289 Posts  |  Joined: 10.08.2023  |  1.8511

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Morning Has Broken

#MusicAdvent #alphabetical by band/artist name (first or last) Day 3: This one is a childhood favorite.

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03.12.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think this is totally valid. Great choice!

03.12.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aww. Thank you.

03.12.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's Oh So Quiet

#MusicAdvent #alphabetical by band/artist. Day 2: BjΓΆrk:

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02.12.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fead an Iolar (The Eagle's Whistle)

#MusicAdvent Day 1 #AdamAgee and #JonSousa

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02.12.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TBM-2512.01 – Dog Days of Advent: Clock | The Bathtub Mermaid Get more from The Bathtub Mermaid on Patreon

Welcome to the Dog Days of Advent. I made a list of prompts, and wrote a bite-sized story for each one. Today’s prompt is β€œclock.”

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02.12.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m in.

01.12.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: Death of a Billionaire, by Tucker May For a first novel, Death of a Billionaire is remarkably polished, deeply entertaining, and packed with personality. I turned the final page already hoping this is only the beginning of a long writi…

Just reviewed @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social 's debut novel DEATH OF A BILLIONAIRE. Spoiler alert: I loved it. www.bibliotica.com/2025/11/revi...

30.11.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mermaid Minute: Thanksgiving 2025 | The Bathtub Mermaid Get more from The Bathtub Mermaid on Patreon

πŸ§œβ€β™€οΈ Dive into the complexities of Thanksgiving with your favorite Actual Woman of the Sea. This episode is a blend of humor and heartfelt reflections on gratitude, grief, and the joy of sharing. Perfect for your holiday listening! #Thanksgiving #MermaidMinute

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27.11.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure we did, but it was on that Other Platform and therefore doesn't count. If you want to make it truly original, alphabetical first letter of first word (in lyrics not title)

27.11.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Three weeks picking a costume for one night?
Under the water, we call that Tuesday.
#CostumeCrisis #SpookySeason #SeaHumor #HalloweenHumor #OceanObservations

24.10.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have the HD blu-ray and I never noticed this. How cool!

22.10.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
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21.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2179    πŸ” 485    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 138

Even in the movies, scenes of the White House getting blown up by invading aliens or terrorists feel emotionally unsettling.

It’s the People’s House after all.

So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.

22.10.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10901    πŸ” 2786    πŸ’¬ 495    πŸ“Œ 97

Ooh, I'm so verklempt. The holodeck! It's an energy-to-matter converter, using force fields and holographic emitters to make solid, breathable environments. You can have a whole planet, right there! But, God forbid, the safety protocols fail, and then whoosh, you're eaten by a holodeck lion!

07.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

A really great self reflection here. Our future tries to teach us to see ourselves each as Heroes on the Heroes Journey to change society, when instead we need to see ourselves as part of a community shifting and changing. Individual and community need to be balanced - not one over the other.

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I live in Florida. My reps respond with, "Thanks for your call. We disagree." It's so disheartening.

22.10.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Midnight. The fridge light. The whisper of β€œjust one bite.”
You raid your fridge; we raid the reef.
Everyone’s pretending it’s fine.

#MidnightSnacks #SpookySeason #SeaHumor #OceanObservations #LateNight

22.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mermaid Minute: Why do landwalkers pay admission to walk through other people's sad goodbyes. Let's talk about haunted houses.

20.10.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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Mirror Mirror – The Bathtub Mermaid

I've been really bad about posting here, mostly because most of my apps don't have an autopost function for BlueSky. But on my podcast,I'm 1/3 of the way through a 31-day horror story called MIRROR MIRROR. I hope you'll check it out: www.bathtubmermaid.com/category/pod...

09.10.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TBM-2509.19-Sea-and-Stars | The Bathtub Mermaid Get more from The Bathtub Mermaid on Patreon

Tonight I have not just one story, but threeβ€”threads of salt and myth, memory and resistanceβ€”woven from sea and sky.

#audio #talesfromthetub #essays #shortstories #flashfiction #pirates #ghosts #mermaids #storms #startrek

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21.09.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Past time. #impeachorremove

21.09.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. But let’s not forget: Some of the sharpest swords, fiercest tempers, and cleverest strategies belonged to women.

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #memedelmare #talklikeapirateday #talklikeapirate #annebonny #maryread #femalepiratesruledthewaves

21.09.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All that fuss about machines to visit the past or peek into the future. But mermaids? Honey, we’ve been at it for centuries…

Video clip by #VectorFusionArt via #123rf

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #memedelmare #tidetravel #timetravel

15.09.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’―πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

09.09.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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September 8th is a double holiday: Star Trek Day and World Ampersand Day. Now, I know what you’re thinking: β€œSure, Star Trek makes sense β€” but what’s an ampersand?”

Link: www.patreon.com/posts/tbm-25...

#audio #short #humor #mermaidminute #startrek #startrekday #worldampersandday #ampersand

08.09.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you unlock the secrets of the keys before the enemy does?
Join the mission in The Bulls of Bashan. @lonestarlit.bsky.social
#LSLLBullsofBashan #TexasAuthor #LoneStarLit

Read my review and enter the giveaway here: www.bibliotica.com/2025/09/revi...

08.09.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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27.08.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TBM-2508.26 -Mermaid Minute Bonus: 19th Amendment | The Bathtub Mermaid Get more from The Bathtub Mermaid on Patreon

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So today, we remember the women who marched, protested, and risked it all to crack open those voting booths. And we also honor the ones who had to keep fighting long after 1920, because justice doesn’t always arrive on time.

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