Kissie Time

“I visited the pumpkin patch yesterday and decided to bring home a pumpkin that in shape appeared to be a penguin. Friends and family were mystified until I started painting him.“

by Volensblood

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Predictive pattern classification can distinguish gender identity subtypes from behavior and brain imaging

"[We were] able to predict both trans women and trans men as distinct gender groups, with prediction accuracies above chance level for all four groups"

Cerebral Cortex, Volume 30, Issue 5, May 2020, Pages 2755–2765

low poly animals in the sims are my favourite cryptids

Worm on a string but in a form of bee colony. They pollinate plants and love to sleep by cuddling together in flowers

Solis Lacus: The Eye of Mars : As telescopes around planet Earth watch, Mars is growing brighter in night skies, approaching its 2020 opposition on October 13. Mars looks like its watching too in this view of the Red Planet from September 22. Mars’ disk is already near its maximum apparent size for earthbound telescopes, less than 1/80th the apparent diameter of a Full Moon. The seasonally shrinking south polar cap is at the bottom and hazy northern clouds are at the top. A circular, dark albedo feature, Solis Lacus (Lake of the Sun), is just below and left of disk center. Surrounded by a light area south of Valles Marineris, Solis Lacus looks like a planet-sized pupil, famously known as The Eye of Mars . Near the turn of the 20th century, astronomer and avid Mars watcher Percival Lowell associated the Eye of Mars with a conjunction of canals he charted in his drawings of the Red Planet. Broad, visible changes in the size and shape of the Eye of Mars are now understood from high resolution surface images to be due to dust transported by winds in the thin Martian atmosphere. via NASA

Springtime willow tree and Eurasian Jays, a view from my window.

Bruce Ackerson - Spaghetti Night, 2020

European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)

© James Yates Photo

A quiet moment.