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Valla-Ragna
@vallaragna.bsky.social
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Fiber artist, paleontologist, cartographer, reenactor, mostly posting Destiny 2 stuff
https://linktr.ee/vallaragna
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Valla-Ragna @vallaragna.bsky.social · Jul 30
Just realized it's world embroidery day! I've been very prolific in the last year, I'll attach a few photos of pieces from the last year. #worldembroideryday2025 #embroidery #fiberarts
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t-s-sci.bsky.social
Paleontologist: Oh, you mean like Ross from Friends?
mixedlinguist.bsky.social Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 1d
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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kohler.bsky.social
'Tis the season once again!

Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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sketchmatters.bsky.social
SOON
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)
Digital illustrations of the prehistoric jawless fish Anglaspis, Doryaspis and Drepanaspis.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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makoredeyes.bsky.social
Cold days are tough when you’re made of metal. #makodraws #damien-14 #destinyart #destinyOC #destiny2 #exo
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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mahoukarp.com
Prehistoric Pals 🦖🦕
#art #dinosaurs
Illustration of a set of prehistoric animals, they are generally round and squishy looking. Animals Featured: Brontosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Stegosaur, Tyrannosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Ankylosaur, Pterodactyl
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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tlalolin.bsky.social
You'll be visited by 3 spirits

The three spirits
White background with three block models labeled a, b and c a is divergent and shows seafloor spreading b is convergent and shows subduction and the formation of a volcanic Arc and see is strike slip and shows two blocks sliding side by side..
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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paleontologizing.bsky.social
I made an infographic for this very reason!

Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
"YOUR TURKEY IS A DINOSAUR" infographic, featuring the skeletons of a Velociraptor and turkey, helpfully labelled with osteological features which turkeys (and all birds) inherited from their theropod ancestors. It's grayscale for easy printing at home!
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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nearfromfar.bsky.social
"Grief walks with me like an old friend now."

Based on the Rise of Iron lore tab, Ghost Fragment: Mysteries 3. Lord Saladin's old friends are with him, even if he doesn't know it.
The white outline of Lord Saladin and eight wolves walks through a pine forest. The wolves walk with him like they know him. Mountains loom in the distance with the Iron Temple situated in the middle peaks. Overtop of the whole scene, the faint shadow of a large black wolf is visible with tears dripping from its face and a broken dead Ghost held gently in its mouth.
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Is it fate or design that forges the path you're on? Can you even be sure?

#Destiny2Art #Felwinter #Valkyrie #ScintHArt
Alt4Me
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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arctomet.bsky.social
xkcd.com/3171/
Geologic Core Sample
xkcd.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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wendysketches.bsky.social
Mermay’23/Season of the Deep scribbles to close out the season with! These were fun!! ☺️🦀💕
Destiny 2 characters, Mithrax and Eido redrawn as cartoon crabs. Destiny 2 character, Eramis, redrawn as a cartoon crab. Destiny 2 character, Ghost, redrawn as a cartoon starfish. Destiny 2 characters, Eris Morn and The Drifter, redrawn as a cartoon anglerfish and sea snake (respectively).
August 17, 2023 at 3:48 PM
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wendysketches.bsky.social
Bonus, unfinished o14 fluff for Season of the Deep 💜💛
Destiny 2 characters, Saint-14 and Osiris, redrawn as a cartoon sea turtle and lion fish (respectively).
August 17, 2023 at 3:50 PM
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sylenth.bsky.social
(drawn with fountain pen inks and a bit of gouache for highlights)
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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monstyra.bsky.social
BEHOLD as chosen by yall the #o14 print poll: STAR GAYZERS!

soon to be available at my merch store 💖 #saint-14 #destinyOsiris
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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sketchmatters.bsky.social
I'm terrible at promoting my own store but it's still open and the discount code still works :)
sketchmatters.bsky.social spookymatters 🎃🦇 @sketchmatters.bsky.social · Mar 22
It's open again! 🥳🎉🎊 Reposts are also appreciated!
#art #destiny2
ko-fi.com/sketchmatter...
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
For my 'Evolution of the Earth' class today, on to the Cretaceous Period: ocean life, from plankton to mosasaurs; continental life with spread of flowering plants & dinosaur-dominated ecosystems; plate tectonics & paleogeography; & of course its abrupt end with the big space-rock kablooie. 🧪🦖🦕🪷🪨⚒️
Meme with two-panels: Panel 1 - cartoon dog wearing a hat and sitting on a chair next to a table with a cup on it, while flames consume the room around him; Panel 2 - the dog says "This is fine," but underneath him I've added "Burrowing mammals, insects, birds, amphibians, turtles..."
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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makoredeyes.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 🪶 #birds
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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uahirise.bsky.social
HiPOD: The Shifting Winds of Hellas Plantia

This region hosts remarkably complex dunes like this field in the Hellespontus Montes mountain range. Dunes here migrate both east and west, converging at a central area.

More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_016339_1380
#Mars #science #NASA
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
🕯 📖

#Destiny2Art #Felwinter #BnW #ScintHArt
Image shows a mostly black and white Destiny 2 fanart with the character Felwinter wearing his canon accurate helmet and Iron Truage gloves. He sits in the dark at a table while reading a book. His right arm is propped up on the table edge as he touches the paper in the book, and his left hand is loosely extended forward to ignite the candle on the table with Light powers. The flame is the only color in the art itself, being bright orange. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is at the bottom of the image.
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Some infographics about the Paleontological Research Institution, its continuing impact on research and education, and what is needed to keep this place around into the future after a major donor was unable to keep a pledge.

Keep them in mind! #FossilFriday #givingTuesday ⚒️🧪🦑

www.priweb.org/donate
Infographic about the Paleontological Research institution. 94 years of research here. One of the 10 largest fossil collections in the USA, with 7 million specimens. 1.2 million users of their online content annually, 30,000 in person visitors 1,500 teachers use PRI for continuing education each year link to donate: https://www.priweb.org/donate Infographic explaining that PRI needs to raise 1 million dollars by December 31st to pay off their mortgage, be free of that debt and continue future operations. They have already raised 2.1 million of the 3.1 million needed to pay this unexpected expense due to a major donor being unable to fulfill a long-term pledge
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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sylenth.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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tkingfisher.com Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18d
<sigh> Whole lotta people out there who still seem to think they can rules-lawyer their way out of creepy.

I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 AM