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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[–] 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    politics, politics


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

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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?

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    cw: dysphoriafucking 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

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I need pussy

    either bottom surgery or someone else's pussy i need both tbh

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    One week of HRT today and all that's really changed is my balls hurt

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Feeling so much queer joy today πŸ’–

    I'm SO glad I made it passed the initial excitement phase. I was so worried that I was only doing this because it's exciting, and, once the excitement wore off, I wouldn't be interested anymore.

    But the absolute normalcy of my gender is SO much better. When I can present fem in front of my friends and hear my pronouns just as a normal fact of life rather than something I have to build up courage for, it just HITS.

    The more I come out of the closet, the more real it all feels, and doubts start melting away. I honestly can't wait to try E!

    kel-bliss

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hello new trans mega kirby-wave

    I went for two different walks today and my legs are feeling p o w e r f u l

    Night walk had a pretty moon view hex-moon ✨

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    HRT MomentsJust gave a woman her first injection! She has been on pills for a while, and wanted to give injections a try. I love doing this for my trans comrades. It is really intimate and fun.
    screm-pretty trans-heart

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    My friend just sent me a decade old photo of myself when I had a huge beard. Just wearing swim shorts. I'm having complicated feelings.

    Like, idk... I'm handsome, but it's okay to think you're handsome and still want to transition. Sometimes feels like I'm fucking something up.

    I mean, I look at recent photos of me in makeup/dresses, and I'm still handsome/pretty, but... Idk, it would've just been easier I guess.

    Also I had super hairy legs. REALLY glad those are gone. I had actually forgotten what they looked like lol

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I texted a couple of my local trans friends about having some sort of friendsgiving thing the weekend before regular thanksgiving. I used to get invited to those in college and I miss them. Kind of to my surprise, everyone was really excited and like 3 people volunteered to help cook. I'm honestly so happy I have queer friends who I can recreate college with lol.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Gonna logout and touch-grass for a while, comrades. Got some things I need to do. Be back soon! Make sure to keep the cis down in my absence. trans-heart leslie-shining

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I were to ever look at myself in the mirror and see a pretty person, I'm not sure if I'd have the emotional bandwidth to be able to control what happened next.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    We need more trans fox girls!

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    sadposting, misgenderingFeeling a bit depressed. Last weeks were very overwhelming. Every day of the genocide I feel more and more trapped and sick that we’re allowing it to happen and almost nobody senses the urgency to stop it. And the people that do sense the urgency are called β€˜annoying’, β€˜counterproductive’ or β€˜radical’ while they get beat up by the police. Barely have energy left to be upset when a guy I work with keeps calling me β€˜babe’.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My sister is complaining I inherited our mom's hair genetics and she didn't, but like, at least you inherited her chromosomes, don't think you should complain madeline-stare

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think my feet have changed because my winter boots from last year no longer fit. Which on one hand cool because estrogen is working, on the other hand now I need to buy new/used winter boots

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Hear me out; what if we just gave everyone with treatment resistant depression and dissociation a taste of HRT and saw what happened?

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Might just eat cookies for dinner doggirl-smug

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have, once more, been extremely gay sappho

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    transness will continue until morale improves bridget-vibe

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Looking back I'm surprised how long it took for my egg to crack. I watched the Korra avatar and was wishing I was a lesbian, saw the Netflix Shera and wished I was able to transform into a woman and be a lesbian with Catra. Also watched some anime where a guy cross dressed for like one episode and I was wishing I could "cross dress" myself. Wild how oblivious I was

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    misgendering, dysphoriaUgh I just misgendered myself and it sucks and now I'm conceptualizing myself as a dude which is frustrating. I want to go back :(

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    trans friends: relaxing to webfishing

    me: queueing cs2 to unwind

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Sinophobia, angyThey erased my girl 😭 😭 😭

    "first they came for the genderfeels culturefeels traumafeels character, and I said nothing..." aubrey-bat

    xi-plz

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    a second uninstall has hit tiktok gender-reveal

    reason beingi really thought that if i carefully curated my algo then i could avoid the shit that burnt me out in the first place.

    while there's so many trans users on there i'll miss seeing, the feed equally rewards engaging in content that I like and dislike. end result being a fuck-tonne of radfems talking mad shit about anyone that's not a cis-white woman. the general uptick in 4b bullshit (australian state media even had a fucking article about it) isn't helping that either...

    so i think the healthiest thing for me to do rn is to just disengage


    imma try to work past my lifelong posting anxiety and lurk less, i have gay takes that must be heard

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    The radical left has converted me from a puppygirl to a catgirl :3

    Edit: my PFP was briefly slightly nsfw hope nobody saw that

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    feeling sad and lonely :(The loneliness and executive dysfunction are most noticable for me in the weekend. I have all this free time, two whole days where I can do whatever. But I have no friends to hang out with, and no motivation to do anything other than scroll through social media and think about how bad my life is catgirl-cry

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    unchecked transphobia! at the Irish web fishing server:( just got the game and now I never wanna play it again. im prejudiced against the country folk on this island ngl. fuck me for wandering out of overtly communist online spaces for like, 20 minutes i guess lol. it's bad out there.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Met a frog friend on the window of the gym outside in front of the treadmill I was using FrogPog

    (also I think I'm developing a crush on somebody there and it's the first time I've felt kinda like that about someone in like half a decade and idk really how to feel about it. I'm really ruminating hard about "wait we're they just being nice or was there something there?" I'm really bad at this but they're really cute and I just feel like a gross ogre talking to them by comparison and can't get a read on the tone of our interactions. Their smile seemed genuine to me though and they're friendly? Idk) creature

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Continuing to struggle with the feeling like I don’t belong, neither as a trans person or even more broadly as a queer person. It feels like a jokeβ€”I’m just a straight cis dude in all but name.

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    [+] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    !CW Venting, social dysphoria:!<

    !Feeling kind of shitty and just generally lost in my transition. There's a lot of stuff about it that feels daunting and that I don't know how to move forward with. Lately I've been wishing I had a cis girl friend who could help me out, and be a kind of 'big sister' I could go to for advice. But most of the women I'm friends with are very butch, and haven't felt super equipped to help me. And the one friend I have who has been able to help, moved multiple States away, and while she's been able to help me with some stuff, the distance has impacted our friendship, and I'm just feeling sad about the whole thing!<

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    I haven't posted the last couple days, but I have been feeling good. Like myself again. Just haven't had a lot to say or talk about. There's been a couple things on my mind, but they're not really worth getting into (especially when overall I'm doing well). But, in good news, a friend reached out to me. This is the friend I came out to a little while ago, but we hadn't talked since then. Sounds like he just got busy with life stuff. Also, going to do something I've been needing to do for a little bit now but have been putting off cat-trans

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