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 kinda wanted to ask for pronouns to be added but it feels like a bad time with the ongoing upheaval
edit: If any kind soul would like to contact the pronoun wizard and add sae/saer to the list I'd really appreciate it
If you put them in the mega, someone should be able to contact whoever manages the pronouns (I have no idea who that is). It seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to do. Might take a bit of time until they get to it, though. Also might not.
New pronouns require a small amount of dev time to add, but it's pretty easy normally. My bigger concern would be the ongoing rebase of our customizations onto lemmy 0.19.6. I've asked in the dev chat!
Thank you