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Lena of Lune

@lena.realitywerks.com

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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 · 1h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

"GenAI generated production code"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 2h

That means, as noted in the quote post, you need to *earn* those votes. Take a stand, hold your moral ground, and get people excited in what you believe.

Or you'll continue to get trounced by fascists who have strong, clear, and utterly evil beliefs

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 2h

So, they were shocked and surprised when "low-propensity voters" in the base showed up in droves for their opponents, overwhelming the tiny Mythical Swing Voters.

Maybe swing voters mattered in the past.

What matters now is activating people who believe in you and getting them to the polls

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 2h

There's this belief by Dem consultants that there's this Persuadable Middle of mythical swing voters -- the elusive Kitchen Table Issues Family of 2.3 Kids Who Are Only a Little Bigoted -- that one need only win over to win. This is based on a belief that only voters who regularly vote will vote

SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 3h

10000% fuck "swing voters" elections are won by exciting your base that actually fucking believes in things. I personally voted for Kamala but do not hold anything against anyone who felt they couldn't. Votes are a matter of consent and Democrats need to fucking *earn* that not demand it.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 2h

That said, Pope Siren Song would be an awesome song title

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 5h

It's gonna be great when those living in the US will have to present vaccination proof to travel to these countries, or be quarantined

The US is definitely "winning" now 🙄

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 5h

I'd like to say I'm a "Knight of the Thimble" but based on work experiences since coming out and how much glee I take in putting misogynistic "software architects" in their place, I think I'm actually an "emasculator"

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 13h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 5h

TIL literally just now, driving from Pittsburgh to just outside Chicago and not avoiding tolls will cost you about $42 in tolls

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 5h

These techbros want to seem so serious and so powerful, but in the end, they're weird little spoiled, bigoted nerds who were given too much money and an inflated sense of their own competence and relevance.

What I'm saying is, Thiel should have been given more swirlies instead of infinite resources

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 5h

I feel like I should end every speech I give with not, "Thank you, you're powerful, and I love you all," but rather that plus, "And also, fuck ICE."

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Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 5h

Mash up bands:

The Polyphonic Police

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 6h

Mash up bands:

Kool and The Sugar Hill James Gang

Reverend Lucifer Johnson @protestcheese.bsky.social · 6h

Mash up bands:

Bel Biv DEVO

Lena of Lune @lena.realitywerks.com · 5h

"Except when it comes to state violence (jailed for having consensual sex when trans), persecution by having health care taken away, or exclusion from bathrooms, changing rooms, and the like." - The UK government

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 12h

‘Everyone, everywhere, should have dignity and respect. No one should face violence, persecution, or exclusion because of who they are, or who they love, or how they express themselves.’

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

Fun story, I've actually said that exact sentence in a non-playful way when someone was being a shit to someone in our presence

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

Every time I sit down at a table with more than two or more of my partners and we sit on the opposite side from someone else, I have the burning urge to say, in a bad Jersey+New York accent,

"My partners and I would like a word."

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

"Let's make it so it's not 'oh you need to come out' but 'are you fun or not?'" - one of my partners

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

This is (basically) the design, created from my extremely rough design by Mary (Valhalla Tattoos) at Rose Quartz Body Modification in #Memphis

The design of a succubus womb tattoo, featuring hearts, the gender anarchy symbol, and the symbol of Pisces, representing the alchemical process of Projection (transmuting a lesser substance into a higher form). The symbolism implies that through gender anarchy, I achieve the Philosopher's Stone and transmute myself into a higher form. More lewdly, it implies something about those who have sex with me

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

Don't get me wrong, I love my new womb tattoo, but it's definitely one of the more awkward places to have a healing piece of ink

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

What does LGBT stand for? Wrong answers only:

Lazily Gaming Before Tripping

(eerily) Emily 👻 @developher.net · 1d

let’s go buy titties

👻 thespian lesbian 🧟‍♀️ (acetaminophen confit) @chatagp.bsky.social · 1d

What does LGBT stand for? (Wrong answers only)

Let's Go Bee-movie Torrenting

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

Help my friend out?

Bloo @sacrebloo.bsky.social · 1d

Want to support a #queerscientist? I’m headed to the Entomological Society of America’s conference in November and need assistance.

Venmo & PayPal: @bloomitchell

My flight/hotel/registration is paid for, but I still need funds for food/uber. Please consider sharing to help me out!

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

Unsolicited slick pick

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

Unsolicited wick pic

Reposted by Lena of Lune

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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

It's wild what estrogen does! Sometimes I scarce believe it myself that I'm this amazingly hot woman, but then I look at a pic or in the mirror in the morning and it hits me how much happier I am 💜

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

Antifa's primary coding scheme is Christmas songs, particularly those really irritating earworms you can't get out of your head and that they play over and over again in stores.

"ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU" has been confirmed by Antifa's founder's girlfriend to be their primary comms and--

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 1d

🎶I saw mommy kissing antifa
Underneath the mistletoe last night🎶

Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa sends messages using ultrabright headlights. Outlaw those and you'll cripple their communication.

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

Happy National Coming Out Day, friends!

Let me come out to you: I'm polyamorous, bisexual, transfeminine, nonbinary, panromantic, and extremely queer.

Coming out isn't easy, especially if you're trans. But it literally saved my life, and it might save yours, too.

(Also check out this glow up!)

Len standing in her office wearing a black dress, black leather jacket, boots with trans pride laces and trans pride knee high programmer socks

This dork, omg, sitting in a car wearing an oversized T-shirt, sitting in a car, pretending to be happy for the sake of a picture. What an egg.

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