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TORO @destinytoro.com · 8h

Incredible work 👇

Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 11h

Oh it’s #portfolioday!

Hi there 👋

I’m an Edinburgh-based illustrator. I love nautical themes, birds and bookish things. I work in Procreate but love a textured analogue feel.

Here’s my website with more info and prints available for purchase spyglassillustration.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 9h

The only ones like Vogmasks that I have experience with is Cambridge Masks. I haven’t looked them up recently but might be worth looking at.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 11h

So it’s been the equivalent of 4 years. A well deserved break, Julia 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 14h

My heart is *thoroughly* broken. He is one of my all time favorites. As a kid in the 90s, he was one of the first artists- along with Coolio and Aaliyah- that broke through the Christian cult barrier I grew up in. His music means so much to me. RIP king 🖤

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 14h

Muchas gracias 🖤🖤🖤

TORO @destinytoro.com · 16h

Bathing in a Birthday Mountain Mist :: 5 Minute Breathers

TORO published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!

ko-fi.com

TORO @destinytoro.com · 16h

All Ko-fi Supporters: you just got the full version of this 5 Minute Breather 🖤 Link below..

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 16h

It's my birthday week 🖤 My wish is to have 20 new Monthly Supporters on my Ko-fi. You get art in your mailbox & help a disabled artist survive. Pretty good deal, if I say so! destinytoro.com/ko-fi

TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

I'm a disabled illustrator in Puerto Rico, I use our native flora/fauna & our indigenous Taino designs in my work.

All my life I've had to share my birthday week with Columbus, and now CK 🙄😒

I'm tired lol

Support an indigenous artist on #IndigenousPeoplesDay:

destinytoro.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 18h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator in Puerto Rico. If you are- or know- a musician, poet, creator that needs a short #NoAI animation for their next project, my portfolio video shows various examples for various budgets: destinytoro.com/animation

Contact me on my website to collab 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

Happy anniversary 🖤🖤🖤

TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

They 1000% go together 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

New prints are up in the shop! Including this piece I first shared for #NoKings in June.

Our Arawak/Taino ancestors were not only the first to be harmed by Columbus and his genociders, but the first to resist. Resistance is sacred.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

La Resistencia | Prints — TORO

This 11×14” print arrives ready to hang in a dark wooden frame. Created for No Kings Day in June 2025 it features Taino imagery and tobako as an offering with the words, "La Resistencia es Sagrada" (R...

www.destinytoro.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

🦜🌀🐚

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#SupportIndigenousArtists

Buttondown @buttondown.com · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Today we're highlighting the super talented Taíno artist @destinytoro.com.
Destiny uses her newsletter to showcase her latest artwork which often incorporates indigenous Taíno designs & stories. Read more about her newsletter & art: buttondown.com/stories/destiny-toro

How Destiny Toro uses Buttondown

Destiny uses Buttondown to showcase her latest creative projects and foster an active community.

buttondown.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

Thank you @buttondown.com 🖤🖤🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

My birthday goal is 20 new Monthly Supporters on my Ko-fi by the end of the month so I can survive. 0/20 so far. I'm tired lol

Support disabled & indigenous artists every day:

destinytoro.com/ko-fi

Graphic of illustrated stickers and postcards labeled with October, November, December and lines and dots decorating the empty space on top of a sunset photograph. "for monthly supporters, destinytoro.com/ko-fi"

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

I'm a disabled illustrator in Puerto Rico, I use our native flora/fauna & our indigenous Taino designs in my work.

All my life I've had to share my birthday week with Columbus, and now CK 🙄😒

I'm tired lol

Support an indigenous artist on #IndigenousPeoplesDay:

destinytoro.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d

Columbus and his expedition terrorized our people and started a genocide that spread well beyond our island communities. Fuck Columbus. Today isn’t yours. #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🦜🌀🐚

TORO @destinytoro.com · Mar 5

"THAT IS WHY WE HAVE TO THROW THEM INTO THE SEA." -Kasike Hatüey
#NoKings

A grayscale illustration of the statue of Hatüey from the side with the text, "That is why we have to throw them into the sea."

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Reposted by TORO

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we call it #indigneouspeoplesday - we don't celebrate monsters: "the Christians...took infants from their mothers’ breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them head first against the crags...roaring with laughter...as the babies fell into the water" - Bartomolé De Las Casas. 🐚🪶

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 2d

Granted I’m not super tuned into new releases, I hadn’t heard a single word anywhere about this lol

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 2d

A, B, C, D

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 2d

I can’t tell you how hard I laughed at this. But congrats to him and glad you got to catch that!!

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 2d

TORO @destinytoro.com · May 28

🧵 Buiti/buenas! I’m a disabled artist in Borikén/Puerto Rico. All of the flora and fauna in my work are based on species here in PR and the Caribbean. I study and incorporate Taino designs 🌀

destinytoro.com

#ArtSky #illustration #NatureArt #IndigenousArt #DisabledArtist #BlueskyPR #NoAI

Destiny is looking at the camera wearing a black KN95, glasses and jewelry with her hair pulled back sitting in a car.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 2d

➕➕ #Stunday Sunday ➕➕

📍Tremé, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2013

Photo of a Black man in New Orleans riding a galloping blurry black and white horse on the neutral ground under old oak trees on an overcast day. The large iconic historic homes of Esplanade Ave are seen in the background.

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Jen Deerinwater @jendeerinwater.bsky.social · 3d

The poverty rate for American Indians is between 25-29%. The national average is 12-15%. Help me get disability accessible, stable housing so I can access the healthcare I need. Please donate if you can, & repost & share w/ 5 people in your network #LandBack #IndigenousPeoplesDay #DisabilityJustice

Donate to Help Disabled Two-Spirit Leader Create Accessible Home, organized by Susan McClannahan

As friends and community members, we’re pulling together fun… Susan McClannahan needs your support for Help Disabled Two-Spirit Leader Create Accessible Home

www.gofundme.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 3d

It's so nice to see you here when you do pop in tho! 🖤

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