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Lena of Lune

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🏳️‍⚧️ they/she | Transgender, goth-punk multiclass techno-sorceress/poet of the Internet Wilds. 100% the Problem and queer AF, trying to change the world down in the Mid-South. I do the Politics and Activism: https://lnk.bio/lenaoflune

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · Dec 11

'sup. I'm Lena, and you might want to follow me if you like...

- Trans activism
- Progressive politics
- Playful shitposts
- Software architecture and infosec
- Cute selfies
- The occasional poem

I'm just a girl in the SE US, and I promise I don't bite! Unless you ask me to, anyway. #introduction

A woman with blonde and red hair wearing a leather jacket and red mirrorshades along with a black mock neck shirt.

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 6h

A couple of weeks ago someone stole the Let Trans Kids Bloom magnet off my car.

So I got a bigger one!

I'll never be silenced when it comes to protecting trans kids!

A picture of Lena's Miata, showing a dusty empty spot where her Let Trans Kids Bloom magnet was

Lena, pointing at her new even larger Let Trans Kids Bloom magnet. Suck it, bigots

The Let Trans Kids Bloom magnet on Lena's car, showing how enormous it is

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 12h

As it is, only those in unions realistically have this option and only if the union agrees to the play and has enough funds to keep you and others supported.

Wouldn't it be great if the government gave you this power instead? The freedom to act in your conscience without risking your next meal?

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 12h

With, say, UBI, as a CBS News employee, you can tell Bari Weiss to get fucked and walk without having to worry about your rent or your next meal.

And in a strong union, you can *all* do that and cripple the company.

Capital knows this, which is one reason why they hate financial supports.

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 12h

A rarely discussed benefit of strong social supports for the unemployed (including but not limited to universal basic income) is that capital is less able to chill your speech or push you to compromise your ethics. Why? Because if your boss tries to push you that way, you can leave more readily

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 13h

I really wish that people setting up labelers would have a mechanism to view the evidence for a label; without any way to verify that, it's hard to trust them as all of us are just ghosts in the ether here

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 13h

This is especially true in Memphis, where they're definitely trying to show we're a compliant populace that wants this.

We do not want this.

And we will show up.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 14h

I want a girl with a short skirt and a queeeeeeer red car

Lena with both sides of her hair clipped back. She's wearing a pleated black miniskirt, a shiny red velour top, a black leather jacket, and her stupid little red mirrorshades. She's standing in front of her car, showing four magnets on the left side: the Pride progress flag, Black Lives Matter, Queer as Hell, and Trans Magical Girl

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 15h

When being rich means you never face consequences, you believe you can act with impunity and the rest of us lose faith in law and society broadly.

When I'm in a position with authority over Musk, you better believe bringing him to the "finding out" part is at the top of my agenda

ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

You can't talk someone out of that, because they believe they're in the right.

This isn't an exclusively rural phenomenon, but in areas of high fascist media consumption and limited multiculturalism, the risk to people like me is a lot higher.

I'll take the poor teen over the Holy Warrior any day.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

I don't usually feel safe in rural areas because if I get accosted by some cis white Good Ol Boy, chances are he's not in need. Instead, he's looking to wield power to punish the "t-slur f-slur who I hate because that she's hot makes me gay" or whatever transphobic fantasy he has

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

Two lives briefly colliding in the night and violence was averted through empathy. That's a big reason why I feel safe here; we Memphians work together when the chips are down and we're up against it.

And I think that holds true of most cities, based on my experience.

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

I think I also invoked the Bible in there and he and I ended up having a brief conversation where he told me he didn't have any food and was desperate. So I gave him some cash but I also told him about some people who could help, and I told him I wouldn't call the cops because that'd ruin his life.

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

This was about a decade ago near the University of Memphis a little before midnight. A guy came up to me and flashed a pistol and told me to give him my money and my phone. I calmly (well, as calmly as I could) asked him what he really needed and why he was doing this.

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

On the topic of feeling safe in Memphis (or in other cities I've traveled to), as I've noted in another post, I've been the victim of crime twice in the Memphis area: two break-ins of my car, both of which were in the suburbs (Cordova and Bartlett).

I did once have someone try to mug me, though...

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

My lived experience is that Memphis is a quirky, weird, beautiful city with lots of amazing people! It's not on fire, there's not gun battles all over the city, and it's not full of violence.

But these folks, even the ones who live right next to it, refuse to believe that

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 16h

I get this about Memphis all the time, even from libs sometimes! "Are you okay, it's so dangerous there" or "it's gunshots all the time," etc. It even comes from people living in the suburbs.

And yet here I am, walking around late at night, more afraid of the cops than my fellow Memphians

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 23h

Apparently the trans community dinners I host in Memphis are actually, depending on who you ask:

- Run by one of the local nonprofits
- Run by a local queer magazine
- Run by someone who doesn't live in Memphis anymore
- Run by the city itself

I am amused to no end by this sort of thing

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Care Bears: The Movie

Andrew (Ol' 9 Toes) @mrnos.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's The Trip To Bountiful

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Oscar and Lucinda

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Oh yes! Transmetropolitian is awesome, and Spider Jerusalem is a quintessential rat bastard antihero

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Oscar and Lucinda

Magnolia EEK! @magnoliakeep.itch.io · 1d

John Carpenter's The Thing (1951)

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's John Dies at the End

A very different film than the original... probably

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's John Dies at the End

A very different film than the original... probably

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

Is there a movie that *wouldn't* be made better by adding John Carpenter's to the title? 🤔

Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s Cars

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

The cowork background music right now is a jazzy muzak version of the Mission: Impossible theme and I'm trying very hard to not start giggling

Reposted by Lena of Lune

Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 1d

Hope is like a pilot light.

It burns even when everything around you seems cold.

And it’s enough to start something bigger when the right time comes.

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Ooh, I just caught my first "added to someone's gigantic moderation list" block, in this case for "engaging in drama" 😂

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 1d

Improve a book by adding a muppet

A Farewell to Kermit