My Venus print just arrived. For anyone on the fence - Absolutely stunning, I'm in literal shock over the beauty of it!

Caught in cosmic alignment. This red arc is a distant galaxy, its light bent into a glowing partial Einstein ring by a massive galaxy 2.7B light-years away. A rare lensing gem spotted by a citizen scientist. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Nayyeri et al

Caught in cosmic alignment. This red arc is a distant galaxy, its light bent into a glowing partial Einstein ring by a massive galaxy 2.7B light-years away. A rare lensing gem spotted by a citizen scientist.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Nayyeri et al.

*now* it’s complete

This is a photo of a moonlit night.

On Mars.

With tiny Deimos shining in the Martian night sky.

Photographed on 1 March 2025 at 4:27 am local time.

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER SMOOSHER

Deep‑sky astrophoto of a dense, glittering globular star cluster set against a dark, sparsely starred background. I laid in the field while taking this, overthinking about everything as usual. This time felt different, a thousand emotions burning inside much like the stars themselves in my photo. A night where I felt too much, but where the stars felt back at me. There's an empty inside me now, one that I can't fill with my partner who loves me, and friends who like me. A deep longing, an eternal loneliness. A darkness between the stars. Maybe if I take enough star photos, I can fill that void with light, fill that space with the shape and thought of you... and other fun lies I tell myself.

“The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.”

- Beth Revis

Astrophotograph of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) interacting with companion galaxy NGC 5195, surrounded by a dense star field.

Whirlpool Galaxy, M51

Yeah it's an amazing game, 10/10 for me personally - I'm working my way through Ender Magnolia too and it's also incredible!

Rediscovering What Being Online Means To Me - Psyche Plays Do you remember when we used to blog? Like, properly blog. I’m not talking about writing articles for the sake of creating “content”, or selling products, or whatever. I’m talking about sharing the little bits and pieces of our day that made us smile, but in long-form. Connecting with people across the globe, not because an algorithm told us to, but organically. Finding each other in the weird reaches of the web and caring about what was going on in each other’s lives. Whether it was on a website like Livejournal (or its many predecessors and those that followed), or your own self-hosted website — with a cool layout and a mysterious description of yourself, and your own network of people listed in the side with interesting names — we used to feel like a strange, distant community. In recent years, all of that has been replaced by algorithmically generated “content” and people writing SEO-optimised memes. Everyone is vying for attention and numbers rather than connection. I know that I have been guilty of it too, due to the nature of being a “content creator”, but man, it sucks. Even now, as I write this post, a plugin tells me that my SEO is a red sad face, and my readability “needs improvement” because my sentences are too long, and my paragraphs are too big, and I’m talking too much and oh my god shut up! I’m old by internet standards Intellectually, I know I’m not old, old. But I come from a time on the internet where I’d post almost daily on a private Livejournal account about some absolutely mundane stuff. And you know what? Mundane though it might have been, I feel like people cared about it. My friends had their own self-hosted blogs and little networks of people and they all shared stories about their days. Everyone would make an effort to comment on each other’s stories, just to have a momentary connection with someone that might be half a world away. It felt like the words came from the heart, because we weren’t putting all our efforts into being noticed and marketing the most palatable versions of ourselves. We were just trying to make friends and share a bit about our lives. Now, social media has all but replaced traditional blogging, and blogs mostly exist as a way to serve ads and generate as much revenue as possible. And I think it goes without saying, but social media is a hellscape at the moment. Algorithms make everything more impersonal. Everyone is fighting for their posts to get “engagement”, even if that means only posting things that feed the machine. Hate and toxicity generate more clicks and more responses. Moderation is not a high enough priority. The biggest social media platforms are owned by billionaires and Very Bad Men™, and other Very Bad Men™ are in charge of entire countries and are doing everything in their power to tear down the good in the world. I did not expect to see a time where our online communities would become so fractured and lost. And while all of that is very serious and scary, it has also made me miss the days of writing a post just for the sake of sharing and connecting with people. I miss not caring about whether my words would generate clicks or growth or engagement. I miss just connecting with people on our day to day lives. Sadly, I need to use social media for work, at least for now. I even occasionally use it for pleasure, for some reason. But I’d really like to start using this space specifically to share more authentically. To connect with people I’ve met, and find a way to break free of the monotony of trying to make a post that has the right keywords and the right hashtags and isn’t too long but isn’t too short and is memeable enough that people want to engage with it and and and… Time to reconnect In a time when it feels like our identities are under threat, I feel like it’s incredibly important to stand up and create something. To build connections and networks and communities in a long-lasting way that cannot be broken down by the whims of men with too much money and power. So that’s what I’m going to do. I want to rediscover what it means to be “online”. I plan to start using this site more, and while I plan to return to writing reviews, opinion pieces, and streaming tips and tricks, I also want to share more personal things like we used to. Like we’re humans. If you want to stay up to date with what I post here, I’m looking at solutions to make that easier. I’m also creating a monthly newsletter, which will be a fun and creative endeavour but will not be a “let me sell you all these things” kind of post. Think, here’s what I got up to this month, and some cute photos of my cats. If that sounds like your vibe, cool. If not, that’s okay too. I need this for myself, so I’m going to do it. I’ll let you all know how I get on.

I wrote something! I'm rediscovering what "being online" means to me. I miss sharing about my life & gaming & stuff I care about just because, rather than chasing an algorithm.

With social media in the state that it is these days, I want to scale back to that.

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The Skater’s tricks dealt damage to the Moon.

hekki grace David Lynch 🥲

you were an incredible inspiration to us

I hope it goes well for you Psyche!!!

COZY AF

Oh hell yeah, I've been waiting for this 👀

😁😁😁

It's beautiful

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Seeing Tifa on a billboard and immediately veering across six lanes of traffic

She's so pretty!!!

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

- Return of the King

"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him...

"We are poor technology. The human body and brain? Too capable of storing clutter. Too desperate to hold onto things. You just have to move forward."

- Mother, 1000xResist

What if I just use this entire account to post beautiful book and game quotes? I don't have anything really important to say otherwise 😂

"The pain of your absence is sharp and haunting, and I would give anything not to know it; anything but never knowing you at all (which would be worse)."