Suicide by bigot

Indeed, the people I'm running to represent in #Memphis are on the edge of poverty and some have 4 year degrees -- what ties them all together is not whiteness. Not even close. It's economic precarity and having to work multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads and a working vehicle.

Sending police to shield ICE is keeping the peace. “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate .... who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.” — Martin Luther King Jr

My statement honoring MLK Day. I know I'm a white woman and this day isn't about me, but I think it's important for us to honor a great socialist and fighter of injustice, and for those of us who are white to recommit ourselves to service and undoing the harms done to others by racism and injustice

"a good time to transition" … no such thing you know the best time to transition? 'Right Now' you know the second best time? 'As soon As Possible' there is only Now and ~sOmEdAy~

Well, I'm a Democrat and I think this consultant should pound sand. Abolish ICE. It's the moderate position and it's the morally correct one. (This is why I don't take corporate PAC money or listen to centrist consultants. Want to help me transform #Memphis? www.lenachipman.com/donate :) )

Y'know one of the most interesting and "shaking me awake" moments in my transition has been the loss of Technical Authority Privilege I now have to prove I know what I'm talking about as opposed to it just being assumed. Conversely, it's very satisfying to cut a man down in front of his peers

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

One of my partners said that it was going to be hard to pick campaign theme songs from MCR, but I submit that Danger Days is particularly good for this!

I have made two terrible mistakes today 1. Buying a bag of sours 2. Leaving said bag in my presence

Apparently last night at the Kamala Harris event, a TN state senator mistook another trans woman there for me! What this tells me is that our movement is getting attention, and that I need to highlight my style more 😅 Want to join us? Join our Discord here! www.lenachipman.com/discord

This is what happens when you're clumsy and you drop your laptop on your keyboard

"Why are local and municipal politicians so corrupt?" is a question I'm sometimes asked One big part is that these are often "part-time" jobs in terms of pay and staffing as opposed to full-time ones. To augment their pay -- even to survive -- they take honorariums and gifts from wealthy patrons

So executives have finally figured out how the rest of us deal with them. You'd think this would be a lesson about hierarchy and how foolish and incompetent corporate "leaders" are, but probably not

Lena is not amused by getting home 2 hours late

Once again people mistake me for being in my late 20s or early 30s and I love that

Use my memes! Spread them broadly! I look forward to the day when one of my meme posts gets back to me 💖

On the one hand, my flight got delayed and we had to switch airplanes walking across ORD to the new one On the other hand, two people have complimented my hair 💜

Sitting at the Denver airport enjoying a red ale right now, being eepy but cute

I love how my German laptop with the impossible stats also gets ridiculous battery life 96 GB of RAM, 2 TB of SSD, 4070 GPU, 16 cores, and gets 10 hours when just doing basic web and office stuff

💯 One of the characteristics of our electoral system is that it's distributed. This has certain downsides (state level voter suppression) but one notable upside is that it's nearly impossible to prevent elections across the country. The mechanism simply doesn't exist to do it

ALLIES: it's time to take our fight to the next level 💪 Join us on February 2nd at 8:30pm ET to hear from striking Starbucks workers (as well as some special surprise guests 👀🔥) about what's next and how you can be a part of it. RSVP TODAY - bit.ly/sbwufeb

Local parties shouldn't try to ratfuck primary elections by creating rubrics to evaluate candidates that focus far less on policy than on whether you're part of the party apparatus. A fake Dem could easily pass this while a poor leftist would fail. @thetnholler.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com

Shot in the dark: Any oomfs in Denver who are free tonight and want to hang out?

Today I'm onsite at the Day Job, and it'll be another day of reminding my coworkers that "no, genAI cannot do that" and "no, you can't just promise a magic problem solving chatbot" 😩

Posting through it, where "it" is a flight from DFW to DEN

Listening to Running Up That Hill on my phone and worried I'll be instantly perma-tagged as adult content by Bsky

I remain disappointed, but continually unsurprised, that techbros fetishize the tech and aesthetic of sci-fi but fail to comprehend or even recognize the social themes that underpin the works they so adore Bluntly, SpaceX has as much in common with Star Trek as my toaster does with a replicator

This, I should note, is an absolutely horrifying argument. "Your group is too small to be protected against discrimination" is not just contrary to constitutional principles, it can be applied to a wide range of other groups -- religious, ethnic, and otherwise. It's overtly white supremacist.

the left has offered solutions: -raising wages -universal healthcare -affordable housing -universal childcare -paid parental leave -action to mitigate the climate crisis if only our leaders supported these wildly popular solutions. people don’t want kids in a world we’re struggling to survive in.

Tonight! Come join our livestream and talk with me! Ask me anything, from the serious (what to do about the occupation of Memphis) to the Extremely Serious (which Mega Man X game is the best) Available on FB and YT Live at LenaLeadsOutLoud as well as Twitch: twitch.tv/LenaLeadsOut...

Despite being up ungodly early for my flight, my nails look great Also, behold my thin, long fingers! I can't credit E for that, so much as they've always been like that

Airport thoughts: It's always the most basic white men with no conceivable sense of style who infantilize the women they're traveling with, telling them they "need to hustle" and "I'm giving you 10 minutes" Take your orange plaid jacket and off-brand golf baseball cap somewhere else

Alas, the first leg of my flight ends at DFW, and for those of you who have had the "joy" of connecting in DFW, you know what I mean when I say I pray the odds are ever in my favor

I take one nap on a plane and then all the resist lib transphobes crawl out of the woodwork this morning 😤

Tired girl at the airport

One day journalists will actually do their jobs and call out liars, risking their access to do so But access journalism is easier than actually doing their job, and they've allowed anonymous sources as a concept to be discredited, so today is not that day, and tomorrow doesn't look good either

Question for you trans folks out there. Have any of you tried to purchase a firearm from an FFL recently and failed a background check, despite having no reasons why you *should* fail that background check? Some of us are beginning to see a pattern of denials that are troubling.

An unfortunate reality of politics is that the club of politicians typically doesn't want others to join their club. Not being like other politicians, I want everyone to join the club -- so I'm happy to offer support, guidance, and help to any leftist who wants to run

Slightly diminish an RPG Ars Mundani

Nobody loves fundraising ads, but I really could use your help if you want to +1 the number of trans woman and transformative leftist leaders in office.

Slightly diminish a game The Rumour of Zelda

Since I mentioned my Astro City with its CPS-II board in another post, I'm consistently amazed at how well oldtech holds up. The Astro in question has its original Toshiba tube and it's clearly Seen Some Stuff; it has a relatively recently serviced Nanao chassis and works great

In case you needed a reminder

Speaking as a trans girl who was really into the romance and shipping parts of yuri... You have my permission to be a girl! I'll even get you your E. Also, since I needed to hear this: if you're worried you'd be an ugly girl, you think you're ugly as a boy already, so you can only go up from here!

Change a game by adding Tom Clancy to it: Tom Clancy's Animal Crossing

What four classic video games do you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are? (I'm excluding pinball and arcade games here; on my Astro City with a DarkSoft multi, I play a fair bit of Puzzle Fighter and 19XX Also I am a terror in Gradius III who abuses the Vic Viper's hitbox 😈 )

One of the more interesting gender things for me has been how I've felt increasingly compelled to have shorter and shorter hair as I've become more comfortable in myself and my nonbinary gender This bob with the sidelocks is great but I feel like I could rock it even shorter if I wanted to

💯 It's as if they read those books and said, "hey, this looks really cool, I'd be *so* cyberpunk, and da5id and Y.T. and Case are *so* awesome," and didn't realize that they'd just be another corp bastard Something something "Don't Create the Torment Nexus," etc.

Slightly diminish a game Mars Vector (This one's for all you math nerds out there)