524522 Zoozve

This asteroid is smaller than a kilometre and it’s unique in that its a quasi-satellite of Venus, because while it orbits the sun its orbit is the same length as Venus and roughly aligned, meaning that it follows it like a long distance shadow. Zoozve is known to be very elongated too.

My fav thing about Zoozve itself is the cute origin of its name: A podcast host’s kid had a solar system poster on their wall with a moon of Venus labeled, and contacted NASA confused about it because no ‘moons’ of Venus were known to exist. He called it Zoozve but it was a misinterpretation of 2002 VE (a more typical name for an asteroid). https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve And this eventually led to the asteroid being formally named Zoozve.

Every ~8 years it makes a close approach to earth, roughly ~0.05 AU (from wikipedia), and the next approach like this is today November 2 2026! Hoping it gets another observation and maybe more is discovered about it.

(This was inspired by the previous megathread about favourite celestial bodies.)

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  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

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  • userse31 [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    (Looks up from phone.)

    “Where… Where those romantic adjacent thoughts?”

    Just fricken… Idk. Found a woman kinda charming and my subconscious casted sapphic vibes onto her.

  • BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    7 hours ago
    dysphoria, slur

    Looking in the mirror before my shower. I guess this is it huh. Destined to look like some f*ggot. How fucking disappointing. My facial hair back from the last time I shaved. My Adam’s apple out. My entire disgusting face. My penis. My gut. I don’t look like a woman at all.

    What is wrong with me. Why did I have to be born into this. Into being trans.

    suicide ig

    How I wish I was dead instead of looking like this.

        • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          5 hours ago
          CW SI

          I get that. I transitioned at 35. I’m a survivor of sexual assault as a teenager. I have CPTSD from domestic violence as a child. I only got diagnosed with Autism and ADHD this year. I’ve had terrible OCD for years.

          I’ve wanted to kill myself for probably more years of my life than I haven’t, probably 15-35. I’m really glad that I didn’t , because holy shit the life I live now is so good. But way back there deep in the suffering I would have never thought I could get here.

          So I’m rooting for you Bounti. And I don’t want you to kill yourself.

  • DBL [They/Her]@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    9 hours ago

    First Message Here

    Hello everyone, I hope it’s okay that I post in here as I’ve never seen a Lemmygrad account post here before. I just really want to write out and share my experience with someone as I don’t have a great support network IRL that I can talk to about gender.

    I just went to a couple clothing stores earlier this week and tried on some feminine clothing for the first time… Why didn’t anyone tell me that clothes can make you feel good??? AAAAAA Everything I’ve worn before this has always just been completely utilitarian: Pants and a plain color shirt with no decals. I’ve never felt happier about the way I looked then I did in those changing rooms. Yaaay for feeling euphoria for the first time! I instantly bought some cute clothes, and I’ve been wearing them every day since and feeling sooo good.

    In addition to that I’ve been doing some thinking. I’ve been going by They/Her in online spaces for a little while now and have had some talks with my partner about my gender. And now after trying on those clothes I think I have a better understanding of the relationship I want to have to my gender, and I can finally admit to myself that I’m trans. YAY. I just got off the phone with my local gender health and wellness clinic where we talked about getting me started on HRT. I’m so excited.

  • Better_with_Gender [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    12 hours ago

    Makeup Pens that you have to sharpen confuse me. It a pen, you don’t sharpen pens.

    Pencils, now those can be sharpened until they are impractically small to hold.

    Anyway I wore makeup yesterday for the first time in ages and it felt comfortable, plus seeing people stop and look at me while I walk by weirdly good.

    • scrungus [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      10 hours ago

      (vibrating with the energy of a thousand very-intelligent )

      Actually you did used to have to sharpen pens back when they were still made of bird feathers. The tip would dull with use and you had to shave it off again to get a new point. There are still small knives called pen knives that were originally designed for it. I guess you could argue that quills =/= pens though shrug-outta-hecks

      (None of this has to do with your comment, I’m sorry but you activated my fun fact sharing response and I got excited)

      Regardless, I’m glad you got to break out the makeup and turn heads!

      • Bolshechick [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        8 hours ago

        I guess you could argue that quills =/= pens though

        Well, the quill was the whole instrument, “pen” refered to just the tip, which you did have to sharpen (what we would now call the nib). “Pen” started to refer to a whole writing instrument only with the advent of fountain pens (with what we now call dip pens, “pen” refered to the disposable metal tip and the stick you plug it into is a “pen holder”

  • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    14 hours ago

    inside of you there are two wolves

    one wants the classic probably unattainable slim petite hourglass figure

    the other wants to be 250lbs of muscle that can bench press a bus

    you are literally me

    two-wolves-1 two-wolves-2

  • sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    14 hours ago

    Well I have a new anti-depressant prescription, but I also simultaneously have one of the worst chronic anxiety episode of my life. How fun. It’s gonna be an epic battle. Hopefully my medicine can win.

    On a side note, I might actually need therapy so I don’t get anxiety attacks at the mere thought of disappointing an authority figure. This internship which I am not even getting paid for shouldn’t have such a hold over me.

  • inTheShadowOf [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    14 hours ago

    Finally found a local job after moving. Tbh I was kind enjoying the neet life and wouldn’t mind it going longer, but everything I do has totakr me closer to getting surgery. No time to spin my wheels now.

    During the two months working remote and one month out of work, I did play a bunch of games:
    • Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave (Leda’s path)
    • Fuga 1
    • Anomalith
    • Duck Detective 1 & 2
    • Aigis: The First Mission (P3 prequel)
    • Catto’s Post Office
    • Thank You Bus Driver
    • Monark
    • Blood Lily: Killers Can’t Sink a Yuri Ship

    And of course some multiplayer:

    • Slay the Spire 2
    • 100% Orange Juice (slept on this way too long)
    • Splatoon 3
    • The Ascent
  • SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    11 hours ago
    surgery dysphoria

    idk what scares me more, changing myself w surgery or staying the same. how much have i just gotten used to shit that screams man? rather than hyper analyzing my face and looks i feel like i just blocked it out for years and now i have no conception of what i look like or what i want to look like

    otoh an mri tech said my nose looked like it was already touched up so maybe my massive fucking neanderthal brow bone doesn’t matter? (insane cope)

    for context i had surgery for other reasons and didn’t recover right so i basically spent years trying to fix this problem that i now am dealing with (diminished but still) for the rest of my life. the idea of that but on my face or genitalia is fucking terrifying

    • nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      11 hours ago
      spoiler

      I thought I’d have to get used to a new face after ffs and would be able to tell analyze what’s different every time I looked in the mirror but no. I went from looking at myself (negative) to looking at myself (positive). Like rationally I can point out what was done surgically and I still have my authorization that lists out everything somewhere and I can feel the scars on my scalp and in my mouth so I have physical evidence that something happened… but my brain is like “this is how you always looked but you like it now” and who am I to argue?

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      14 hours ago
      spoiler

      We’re much harsher on ourselves than other people are. Ive told people Ive had surgery and want more and they say “what?? But you look so femme already” 🤷‍♀️ its also for me, yknow?

      But theres definitely an aspect that youve looked MUCH closer at your own face than anyone else will and dysphoria is painting a different picture for you than may be “objective” (whatever that means).

      • SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        13 hours ago
        spoiler

        both parts of this make sense. my partner says the same thing about not needing any and i haven’t done anything besides hrt yet. i love them but also i don’t think they’re exactly objective either, but you’re also right neither am i. fuck me this sucks.