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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  • hexbee [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    What is the consensus on cheap/easy facial hair removal?

    I’d also like to know

    toriel-blush

    How hatecrimed will I get if I just go to a random place that does laser hair removals on terf island? How do I find out if they’re ok?

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      if you’re worried you could search (probably on Reddit) for recommendations from trans people. but I wouldn’t be that worried, trans people make up a decent part of their clientele and laser techs are God’s strongest allies in my experience. likely to be a pretty friendly environment and even though it’s terf island UK doesn’t seem to be at the stage where I would genuinely have those concerns yet, you’re allowed to just use the service.