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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. Democratic Socialist doing 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.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 18m

"Never trust your teachers or the government that employs them, because they give you AI slop and call it a lesson"

Or maybe, "You cannot escape GenAI"?

Or perhaps, "Everything is a joke"?

I mean, these are sort of subtext when seeing how livers conserve slightly simpliced water

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 25m

Indeed, there's four Black politicians that I know of in the Memphis area who are very anti-trans, one of whom quite vocally so (Rep. Parkinson, TN-98).

And yet, he often works to support education

People are complicated in how they navigate systems of oppression

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2h

So you will sometimes find a brown politician who repeats the fascists' talking points on trans people---or hell, even on illegal immigrants, because THEY came to the West "the right way" when the legal restrictions were looser and their parents could afford it.

We best stop being shocked by it.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 57m

Lol! But in the case of a Sam Altman company, I think the ruined term is appropriate

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 7h

Okay, hear me out, and I know this is a hot take for some: Leisure Suit Larry '87.

Look, those old Sierra games kinda sucked for many reasons, including parser fights, and LSL was that unique combination of unfunny and misogynistic that topped even Space Quest II

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 7h

I'd love to be proven wrong here, but I suspect the experience will be similar to mine. The parents of these kids will have to spend hours without support finding another provider with availability and that's covered by their insurance from a quickly constructed list.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

Will Fenway Health do better? I doubt it. For a practice to dismiss some of its most vulnerable patients suggests that they're not going to go through the costly and time-consuming case management efforts of validating insurance coverage and availability for another practice.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

...and a phone call informing me that I'd get that letter, that my new doctor would need to fax over a request for medical records, and I'd better find one soon because my next appointment was cancelled.

None of the doctors on the list I received were accepting new patients.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

In my case, my doctor decided to go into concierge medicine and dropped any of his patients who weren't going to cough up the thousands of dollars a year for it. (Evidently concierge pays better than Medicaid/Medicare.)

The "continuity of care" was a mailed photocopy of a list of some other PCPs...

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

Regarding Fenway Health's egregious abandonment of trans kids, I know there's snippet where they commit to continuity of care (i.e., finding providers and telling people about them).

Speaking as someone who got "continuity of care" notification from a doctor in the past, this is... less than useful

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

Look sometimes I write poetry about politics too 😅

In all seriousness, getting people excited about what could be when we're magnificent is the best feeling

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

I live for the moments when
I'm talking politics
I start bouncing on the balls of my feet
I'm yapping passionately about
Universal child care or
Functioning mass transit or
Memphis being more awesome

And their eyes light up
And they start bouncing
Because for a moment
They feel the light of hope

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

(For those playing at home, the reason I bring up originalism is because this case is at SCOTUS, and several of the justices are big into that "theory." The quoted post is a great thread that touches on how dumb it is that we've gotten to this point.)

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 8h

This here is as clear an example as any of why "originalism" is unserious and intellectually dishonest.

In historical context, obviously 14A and 15A are about race -- specifically, protecting Black people's rights against egregious abuses by whites!

Incredibly stupid times, indeed

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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

Narrator: They were, in fact, usage-maxxing

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

If that is true, please explain this: bsky.app/profile/esqu...

As this quoted post sounds very much like Fenway Health, in Massachusetts, has in fact backed down and is restricting access to health care for trans kids.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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

Do you want selfies of cute girls? Because leaving me at the office after 5pm is how you get selfies of cute girls

Lena leaning against the wall at her office's balcony, wearing a fit of a pleated black miniskirt and a ruched tied white blouse

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

See, this is what private Discord servers are for -- you can be wildly, absurdly, just ridiculously lewd and have people appreciate you for your music and your witty takes

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

Yes, those screenshots are definitely showing that people are pissed at Weiss leading CBS News because of *checks hand* antisemitism

Certainly not because of what they actually say about her extremely documented utter lack of competence and partisan hackery

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

Oh my, I'm sure those are spicy, to put it mildly...

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

Their hotness keeps them warm even in the iciest of settings, which is why I wear short skirts and crop tops even in the dead of winter 😅

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

I think this is pretty common for trans women of wealth or income. The corruption of class convinces these women that they're better than the rest of us. This is especially true if they were already inclined that way by way of a burning desire that they weren't trans

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

I genuinely think Ari Drennen does not think of trans people who exist below a certain tax bracket, yet insists on generalizing her incredibly narrow and limited worldview to the experiences of a population pushed out of the formal economy worldwide.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 18h

I'd love wifi in mine, maybe 5G support, remote control...

...wait I already have options for the latter 🤣

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 19h

Communist Designer Vaginas, my new post-punk trans emo band, with singles including "Hot Wet Bourgeoisie Action," "Pick-Me Tango," and "Trans-Politics Irony (Why the White Trans Girl Gentry?)"

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

💯

This is especially true in cities currently under siege by out of control police and the menace of ICE -- such as Memphis, where our electeds have largely rolled over and preemptively complied.

I will *never* do that. I've seen too much abuse, and been abused too much, by cops already

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops

Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

www.burnsnotice.com

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

Adding to my fun today is being informed that because my new primary insurance (Anthem) doesn't cover Apretude PrEP, my secondary won't even try.

You'd think these companies would give out PrEP like candy to avoid the cost of HIV treatment, but apparently not