Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot.

She had fallen into obscurity, but was noticed by a Twitter user in 2019 and was redrawn as a fox girl. But as it turned out, Xenia was originally meant to be male! The original creator, Alan, was cool with this, saying "It matches the transition of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know" and "And sure, you made her trans!".

So now we have a trans Linux mascot. And I think that's neat.


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  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    7 days ago

    You, you have won the internet. Can I just say this? My heckin' doggo and I both are applauding and tipping our collective fedora

  • bolshevikLovelace [she/her]
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    7 days ago

    with all the privacy that i've had with my partner away i...

    ...cried endlessly for two days while watching Wandering Son.

    why tf did i tell my doctor the effect i wanted most out of hrt was more feelings?? this shit's too much (jk crying is euphoric)

  • morte [she/her]
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    6 days ago

    Id really like to start taking voice training seriously but i find it so hard to do it consistently like so much in my life (thanks adhd). Ive been thinking a lot about what sort of voice i want too but im not sure how to achieve it really. Getting gendered correctly when i tried to use a higher, friendlier and more traditionally feminine voice but its not what i really want really? I think i want something like a cross between the two voice actors for V from cyberpunk. Mostly staying at my current register or even a little deeper maybe with some of the growl from the male VA but with like a distinctly feminine sound but still reaaaally fuckin cool like the female VA. Is such a thing even possible?? Am i poser for wanting to sound like a videogame character?? How would i even achieve this

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
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    14 days ago

    I managed to stumble across a person who happened to be an auDHDer like myself in a game just now out of blind luck. They had very similar academic interest to mine so we had a fabulous yap session/taking turns infodumping session.

    It was pertinent to the discussion at the time so I mentioned the anarchist Ivan Illich's work to them and they were immediately very interested in his stuff. It was definitely in keeping with my "Chuck 'em leftwards and hope they land somewhere good" strategy.

    Apparently I still got it in me.

    Also Linux stay winning

  • morte [she/her]
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    13 days ago

    Ughhhhhhhhh the waitress at the cafe im at is a super fucking cute trans girl. I look like dogshit right now and i dont know how to talk to people irl aghhhhh

  • morte [she/her]
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    10 days ago
    politics, politics

    AOC removed her pronouns from her twitter bio lol even the most left wing dems are snivelling liberal cowards

  • Saoirse [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    12 days ago

    Hello mega thread I got gay married. I am now in a rather nice municipal records office submitting my papers so that the stinking landlord legally cannot stop me from moving in with my partner.

  • naom3 [she/her]
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    13 days ago

    My tits really hurt. I guess this is just something that happens when I get a cold now

    Edit: god this really feels like a monkey’s paw curse. Jokes on them though cause I can take it madeline-stare

    Edit 2: KITTY NO!! DONT STEP THERE!!! kitty-cri-screm

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    12 days ago
    cw: dysphoria

    fucking awful day today, staring at the workplace mirror hating my face, my hair, my skin, my shoulders just fuckfuckFUCK this shit

    why couldnt my transness be diagnosed before puberty ruined my life goddamnit

  • belligerentkitten [they/them, it/its]M
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    8 days ago

    fucking white queer libs i am so fucking done i was on this nice ace kink server, with my partner partner notices a sus profile, and i autotranslate the hebrew on it, and it's a clear zionist. i even asked my friend who speaks hebrew and he told me it was an israeli nationalist slogal. i alert the mods about this, and the mod i speak to says they'll talk to the other mods.

    they tell me to suck it up and they won't do anything. it's not a political space after all (LIKE FUCKING HELL IT ISN'T). this was already too far but i didn't do anything, except privately explain to the mod that this was the wrong decision and why, and ask they convey that to the rest of the mod team.

    next day a mod shuts down a conversation that drifted into politics.

    so i just fucking posted a song in solidarity with palestine, announced i was leaving because the server is tolerating zionists, and left. wish i'd posted screenshots of the mod convo before i left but hindsight is 20/20 i guess. i was told afterwards by a member that this guy had been much more vocal about his zionism on another server and caused a whole drama.

    just. how hard is it to not include reactionaries in queer spaces? this place would boot out anyone who came in with fascist profile shit. zionism is a form of fascism but somehow that doesn't count? like no fash but sure, you support an ethnostate actively committing genocide, why don't you come into our safe space? well great, now there is no safe space. i loved that place. it was the only social space i felt safe in a sexual sense.

    does anyone have a recommendation of a queer kink discord server than does not include zionists?

  • Anvil_Lavigne [she/her, they/them]
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    11 days ago

    note to self : don't use any kinda trans lingo outside trans spaces. got some dude trying to start shit elsewhere cuz i said a character was gender monke-rage