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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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
18·10 months agoReadFanon is trans? How much more based can you get?
Yeah, I’m an enbie who hasn’t figured it all out yet but maybe agender spec? Still learning, always learning.
I feel like it’s pretty common with AuDHD. When given the chance to think about gender perhaps we take a bottom up perspective to see how this “gender” thing feels. From that point of view it’s pretty easy to see it doesn’t exist but it’s fun to try out different expressions.
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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
i dont know how to talk to people irl aghhhhh
u so real rn
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
Edit 2: KITTY NO!! DONT STEP THERE!!!
KITTY NO!! DONT STEP THERE!!!
oof i can feel the pain sorry
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.
I love being a woman. I love my community. I love my trans girlfriend.
I am down 70lbs since january and have hit my first goal weight and by BMI i am no longer obese just medically T H I C C. And a little saggy skin but that’s okay just more potential injection sites!
I have figured out how to get instagram to show me trans cuties and lesbians and now i understand how people can use instagram so much!! Starting up upload my own positive vibes and trying to help make the younger ones feel safe.
Love you all, thank you so much for helping me get here :)
Hello new trans mega
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
✨
that moon yearns to be howled at
Awoouu (wolf Howl)
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF
HRT Moments
Just 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.
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I’m a little scared for the future as I’m on pills but the possibility of losing access to them is looking more and more real. I really don’t like needles and I feel like I’d be in trouble if that’s my only option for HRT. I hope I can find a based trans comrade to help me if that comes to pass
Gels are fairly affordable as diy
Oooh I forgot gel existed. I’ll keep that in mind
I know sublinguals are also a thing and with this in mind, would something like candies you suck on or dissolve in your mouth work? Imagine taking pop rocks laced with E.
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I understand, dear comrade. This is a very valid fear. There are possibilities for diy hrt should this come to pass. Estrogel is not difficult to make, and we have communities can provide our hormones amongst us should the state start restricting our medical care. Not saying that there will not be lean times, but there is a way forward.
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Thank you comrade, I needed to hear that
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We’re gonna get thru this.
Feeling so much queer joy today 💖
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!
fuck yes! This makes me so happy. Transness shall continue unabated. Ever forward! 
We need more trans fox girls!
Let me show you in to the trans furries.
Trans furries are great
What about trans shark girls?
a second uninstall has hit tiktok
reason being
i 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
Yikes I’m glad TikTok didn’t send me to that side.
yeah… sometimes i have a bit of a problem with hate watching brainwormy shit which becomes a feedback loop
anyways, trying to improve. might try to get in contact with some irl friends since my partner will be gone for a week. honestly probably just need some
it’s overall been a negative experience for me and I’ve mostly kept it uninstalled for the last year or so. i justified it for a while because it shows me cool gay people but the comments on so much of it are just awful and i don’t have the self control to not look at them
completely agree. i’ve seen some of the worst hate speech in some comments and i’m so much more sensitive about it now too
yeah, it manages to be on the level of like, 2008 youtube somehow which is wild. i guess the fact it’s a bunch of kids could be a factor? idk but the algo definitely is kind to hateful comments but simultaneously censors you if you decide to be mean in response. feels like i can’t say shit on there but bigots have free reign as long as they don’t say bad words. “acab” gets autoremoved lol
Might just eat cookies for dinner
DONT EAT THE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!! THEY ARE POISON TO DOGGIRLS
Lies
please, we eat biscuits here not cookies
says the catgirl traitor, just trying to keep the chocolate chip cookies all to yourself *growls* /nsrs /lh
I would never keep all the chocolate chip cookies to myself, that’s ridiculous (says with a suspiciously chocolate covered mouth)
valib
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 joke—I’m just a straight cis dude in all but name.
If you think you are a straight cis dude in all but name, you are probably not a straight cis dude. No matter what others think, the only thing that matters is how you identify, or how you want to be. How you identify, or wish you were, or even may struggle to see yourself as, is how you are, and if that means you’re queer and trans, then you are and that’s valid.
misgendering, dysphoria
Ugh 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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the mind transphobe is just the worst, sorry you have to deal with that comrade
!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!<
know the feeling
Solidarity, comrade
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I just want a big sister!<
Welcome to Lemmy! Spoilers look like this:
::: spoiler CW text Spoilered text :::Resulting in:
CW text
Spoilered text
There is a little button on the web interface (I don’t know if you use an app), an ! in a diamond or tilted box (see the bottom of the trans mega thread post), it will insert the spoiler code for you
Huh, the app I’m using (Sync) has an entirely different way of adding spoilers.
I think sync originally was made for reddit.
Yeah, that makes sense. On my end, both methods make spoiler text.
Anyway, I’ll try and change it, so it works for everyone else
Yea. I originally though you were manually writing it like that because you had gotten used to e.g. Discord.
transness will continue until morale improves
transness will never end o7
TRANS WILL LAST BEYOND THE END OF TIME
Many people are saying this
