Lena of Lune
@lena.realitywerks.com
🏳️⚧️ they/she | Transgender, goth-punk multiclass techno-sorceress/poet of the Internet Wilds.
100% the Problem and queer AF.
Candidate for Shelby County TN Commission, District 13!
Democratic Socialist doing the Work: https://lnk.bio/lenaoflune
100% the Problem and queer AF.
Candidate for Shelby County TN Commission, District 13!
Democratic Socialist doing the Work: https://lnk.bio/lenaoflune
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Lena of Lune
@lena.realitywerks.com
· Nov 1
'sup. I'm Lena, a democratic socialist in the SE US, and I'm running for the Shelby County TN Commission!
You might want to follow me if you like...
- Trans activism
- Progressive politics
- Playful shitposts
- Software arch and dev
- Cute selfies
- Poetry
Let's change the world!
#introduction
You might want to follow me if you like...
- Trans activism
- Progressive politics
- Playful shitposts
- Software arch and dev
- Cute selfies
- Poetry
Let's change the world!
#introduction
Here we go again with CVS Specialty on PrEP access.
Their new claim is that if my primary insurance doesn't cover a prescription, my secondary insurance can't cover it -- which beyond being nonsensical, would completely defeat the purpose of having secondary insurance!
Their new claim is that if my primary insurance doesn't cover a prescription, my secondary insurance can't cover it -- which beyond being nonsensical, would completely defeat the purpose of having secondary insurance!
February 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Here we go again with CVS Specialty on PrEP access.
Their new claim is that if my primary insurance doesn't cover a prescription, my secondary insurance can't cover it -- which beyond being nonsensical, would completely defeat the purpose of having secondary insurance!
Their new claim is that if my primary insurance doesn't cover a prescription, my secondary insurance can't cover it -- which beyond being nonsensical, would completely defeat the purpose of having secondary insurance!
You are, in fact, out scouring the streets to disappear people and deny people their civil rights and due process
Putting a professional face on the bigot kidnappers does not make them professional or not bigots or kidnappers
ICE must be destroyed.
Putting a professional face on the bigot kidnappers does not make them professional or not bigots or kidnappers
ICE must be destroyed.
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
You are, in fact, out scouring the streets to disappear people and deny people their civil rights and due process
Putting a professional face on the bigot kidnappers does not make them professional or not bigots or kidnappers
ICE must be destroyed.
Putting a professional face on the bigot kidnappers does not make them professional or not bigots or kidnappers
ICE must be destroyed.
The new gentry AI push: "Bro, you just need to prompt it harder, bro. Bro, come on, like we just gotta talk it out, bro, just gimme a few ten billions more and I promise you it's gonna be Abundance, like so much Abundance, just like Star Trek, bro
Come on bro, you just gotta trust me"
Come on bro, you just gotta trust me"
I consider it a promising sign of weakness that the rhetoric from the gentry indulging "ai" is shifting a bit from "it's inevitable! Shut up!" to "can't we have a reasonable discussion?"
The way a drunk frat bro pleads with the bar crowd he's been harassing all night not to finally kick his ass.
The way a drunk frat bro pleads with the bar crowd he's been harassing all night not to finally kick his ass.
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The new gentry AI push: "Bro, you just need to prompt it harder, bro. Bro, come on, like we just gotta talk it out, bro, just gimme a few ten billions more and I promise you it's gonna be Abundance, like so much Abundance, just like Star Trek, bro
Come on bro, you just gotta trust me"
Come on bro, you just gotta trust me"
Good morning lovelies
February 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Good morning lovelies
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Feb 12 update: Mayor Young apologized on X. I'm posting it here so you can read it yourself.
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Feb 12 update: Mayor Young apologized on X. I'm posting it here so you can read it yourself.
Oh you got the Clash to rock the Casbah.
I got Deftones to Change (in the house of flies)
I got Deftones to Change (in the house of flies)
Oh you got The Police to murder by numbers.
I got the Clash to rock the Casbah
I got the Clash to rock the Casbah
Oh you got talking heads to burn down the house.
I got The Police to murder by numbers.
I got The Police to murder by numbers.
February 12, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Oh you got the Clash to rock the Casbah.
I got Deftones to Change (in the house of flies)
I got Deftones to Change (in the house of flies)
Oh you got talking heads to burn down the house.
I got The Police to murder by numbers.
I got The Police to murder by numbers.
Oh you got crowded house to dream it’s over.
I got the Talking Heads to burn down the house.
I got the Talking Heads to burn down the house.
Oh you got INXS to tear us apart?
I got crowded house to dream it’s over.
I got crowded house to dream it’s over.
February 12, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Oh you got talking heads to burn down the house.
I got The Police to murder by numbers.
I got The Police to murder by numbers.
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Last night, Mayor Paul Young of #Memphis explicitly, directly, and repeatedly misgendered a community member, Brandy Price, who is a trans woman (around 42:40 in my livestreamed video of the event: www.facebook.com/share/v/185F... ).
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Last night, Mayor Paul Young of #Memphis explicitly, directly, and repeatedly misgendered a community member, Brandy Price, who is a trans woman (around 42:40 in my livestreamed video of the event: www.facebook.com/share/v/185F... ).
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Today remains a good day to be a good person and Not. Break. The. Line.
Delete the app! Buy local coffee instead!
Today I'm sipping a lovely cold brew from Just Love Coffee in #Memphis on Madison. What's your favorite local shop?
Delete the app! Buy local coffee instead!
Today I'm sipping a lovely cold brew from Just Love Coffee in #Memphis on Madison. What's your favorite local shop?
February 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Today remains a good day to be a good person and Not. Break. The. Line.
Delete the app! Buy local coffee instead!
Today I'm sipping a lovely cold brew from Just Love Coffee in #Memphis on Madison. What's your favorite local shop?
Delete the app! Buy local coffee instead!
Today I'm sipping a lovely cold brew from Just Love Coffee in #Memphis on Madison. What's your favorite local shop?
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This is hugely anecdotal but I can tell we're in a recession because the '$generation should stop splurging on basic needs' posting has come across my feed.
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 AM
This is hugely anecdotal but I can tell we're in a recession because the '$generation should stop splurging on basic needs' posting has come across my feed.
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One of the contributing factors to this, if you read between the lines, is the PILOT tax abatement that ends at the end of this year. Big box stores pay a lot in property tax, and this is a Good Thing; in fact, I'd make it exponential and add in further assessments for square footage if I could.
It might be silly to some, but a lot of Memphians were really proud of this IKEA. Of all the places they could have put it, they chose us, and they made it huge and cool, calling back to the cavernous furniture showrooms of old.
It'll be missed.
More thoughts, over on my campaign account...
It'll be missed.
More thoughts, over on my campaign account...
IKEA Memphis was the retailer’s first and only store in Tennessee.
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
One of the contributing factors to this, if you read between the lines, is the PILOT tax abatement that ends at the end of this year. Big box stores pay a lot in property tax, and this is a Good Thing; in fact, I'd make it exponential and add in further assessments for square footage if I could.
It might be silly to some, but a lot of Memphians were really proud of this IKEA. Of all the places they could have put it, they chose us, and they made it huge and cool, calling back to the cavernous furniture showrooms of old.
It'll be missed.
More thoughts, over on my campaign account...
It'll be missed.
More thoughts, over on my campaign account...
IKEA Memphis was the retailer’s first and only store in Tennessee.
After more than a decade in operation, IKEA Memphis will close
IKEA Memphis was the retailer’s first and only store in Tennessee.
dailymemphian.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
It might be silly to some, but a lot of Memphians were really proud of this IKEA. Of all the places they could have put it, they chose us, and they made it huge and cool, calling back to the cavernous furniture showrooms of old.
It'll be missed.
More thoughts, over on my campaign account...
It'll be missed.
More thoughts, over on my campaign account...
Post a banger that is not in English.
"Weight of the World," from the (full of bangers) NieR:Automata OST. Keiichi Okabe is an amazing composer and while there's an official English translation on the OST, I usually prefer the original Japanese.
"Weight of the World," from the (full of bangers) NieR:Automata OST. Keiichi Okabe is an amazing composer and while there's an official English translation on the OST, I usually prefer the original Japanese.
February 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Post a banger that is not in English.
"Weight of the World," from the (full of bangers) NieR:Automata OST. Keiichi Okabe is an amazing composer and while there's an official English translation on the OST, I usually prefer the original Japanese.
"Weight of the World," from the (full of bangers) NieR:Automata OST. Keiichi Okabe is an amazing composer and while there's an official English translation on the OST, I usually prefer the original Japanese.
Age verification?
This was my first computer
This was my first computer
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Age verification?
This was my first computer
This was my first computer
Paying the tax:
I'm beautiful.
I'm beautiful.
February 10, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Paying the tax:
I'm beautiful.
I'm beautiful.
Them: If you don't understand what the System has tried to do, you can't work within the System to make change
Me: Bold of you to assume I want the System, which failed to make change repeatedly, to continue to exist
Me: Bold of you to assume I want the System, which failed to make change repeatedly, to continue to exist
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Them: If you don't understand what the System has tried to do, you can't work within the System to make change
Me: Bold of you to assume I want the System, which failed to make change repeatedly, to continue to exist
Me: Bold of you to assume I want the System, which failed to make change repeatedly, to continue to exist
So these two people in the future try to save humanity, but turns out everyone's dead already and then the woman dies and the man decides to duel this other woman to the death because of really unfortunate timing
So this plumber eats mushrooms to fight evil turtles to rescue a princess.
February 9, 2026 at 5:59 PM
So these two people in the future try to save humanity, but turns out everyone's dead already and then the woman dies and the man decides to duel this other woman to the death because of really unfortunate timing
My Fantasy is Final and became a Mystic Quest
My Metal Gear is Rising and became Solid
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
My Fantasy is Final and became a Mystic Quest
Not a good look for an infosec training company to start with a maximum password length limit...
February 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Not a good look for an infosec training company to start with a maximum password length limit...
I am deeply amused that I'm in the middle of "American Left-Wing Media and Comedy", "Horror Film Enthusiasts," "Film Critics and Journalists," and "Indie Music Critics and Journalists"
This amuses me greatly because I'm not really that into horror movies
This amuses me greatly because I'm not really that into horror movies
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I am deeply amused that I'm in the middle of "American Left-Wing Media and Comedy", "Horror Film Enthusiasts," "Film Critics and Journalists," and "Indie Music Critics and Journalists"
This amuses me greatly because I'm not really that into horror movies
This amuses me greatly because I'm not really that into horror movies
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr. Who”, or “Transformers.”
February 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr. Who”, or “Transformers.”
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💜 this as a living of Toni Cade Bambara's "the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 8:24 AM
💜 this as a living of Toni Cade Bambara's "the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"
One of the most key skills I've had to pick up (and I'm still working on it) is letting disingenuous attempts to argue roll off me
It's pretty easy here, relatively, but local political figures get a bit more under my skin than I'd like
It's pretty easy here, relatively, but local political figures get a bit more under my skin than I'd like
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
One of the most key skills I've had to pick up (and I'm still working on it) is letting disingenuous attempts to argue roll off me
It's pretty easy here, relatively, but local political figures get a bit more under my skin than I'd like
It's pretty easy here, relatively, but local political figures get a bit more under my skin than I'd like
"Give the people what they want"
And what they want is cute selfies of me in my new glasses
And what they want is cute selfies of me in my new glasses
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 AM
"Give the people what they want"
And what they want is cute selfies of me in my new glasses
And what they want is cute selfies of me in my new glasses
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Behold, my beautiful wife and I at the Memphis Botanic Garden last night for the Memphis Child Advocacy Center's Works of Heart!
I love a fancy date night for a good cause, especially at one of my favorite spots in District 13.
I love a fancy date night for a good cause, especially at one of my favorite spots in District 13.
February 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Behold, my beautiful wife and I at the Memphis Botanic Garden last night for the Memphis Child Advocacy Center's Works of Heart!
I love a fancy date night for a good cause, especially at one of my favorite spots in District 13.
I love a fancy date night for a good cause, especially at one of my favorite spots in District 13.