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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 She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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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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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure
#savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑

@lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social

www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...

Saving the Museum

After years of financial troubles and millions of funds raised in support, the Museum of the Earth is still struggling to bridge its multi-million dollar budgetary gap. It needs to

www.ithaca.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to find a local food bank, you can use the website below.

If you’re donating, it’s best to donate money. If you want to donate food, PLEASE donate food you or your family would actually eat, including things like breakfast cereals and snack foods.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

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Large Marge Sent Me 👻 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 2d

You didn’t think you were just getting one dinosaur article from me today, did you?

In another for NatGeo, I dig into how dinosaur “mummies” are preserved - and why there are probably many more exceptional dinosaur fossils out there than we ever dreamed. 🧪

Here's how dinosaur ‘mummies’ are helping scientists solve fossil mysteries

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Lizzylizumab @lizzylizumab.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Asexual Awareness Week

🖤 Oct 19 - 25, 2025
🩶 Celebrate identities
🤍 Build community
💜 Advocate for acceptance

I’m a proud 🖤A🩶C🤍E💜 with some info to share. Take a look ⤵️ and THANK YOU for your support!

AceWeek.org #Asexual #AsexualAwareness #AceAwarenessWeek

An infographic created by @BRIANNAVIEIRA & @THEQTHERAPIST for #ACEAWARENESSWEEK in asexual flag colors black, white, gray, and purple

Understanding Asexuality:

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ASEXUAL?
(ALSO KNOWN AS "ACE" OR "ACES")
There are many different types of attraction including romantic, aesthetic and sexual. Asexuality refers to someone who experiences very little or no sexual attraction to people of any gender.

ACE INDIVIDUALS CAN STILL FEEL...

ROMANTIC ATTRACTION
Desire for a typically romantic relationship with another person

EMOTIONAL ATTRACTION
Wanting an emotional connection with another person

AESTHETIC ATTRACTION
Attraction to someone based on their general appearance

SENSUAL ATTRACTION
Wanting to touch, hold, or cuddle
someone

PHYSICAL ATTRACTION
Where a person finds another person's physique pleasing

PLATONIC ATTRACTION
Wanting to be friends with another person

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · May 13

The reduction of the Velociraptor -
- is finally complete

#art #paleoart #dinosaurs

3 drawings of a Velociraptor showing it with fluffed feathers, under the feathers, and bones

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Valla-Ragna @vallaragna.bsky.social · 3d

Shaniko/Silk blend from Alk&me
2 ply worsted spin
#handspinning #fiberarts

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ReBecca @dinochick.bsky.social · 3d

NPS and USGS booths at #GSAConnects

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Valla-Ragna @vallaragna.bsky.social · 4d

This turned out so amazing! Thank you so much!

monstyra @monstyra.bsky.social · 4d

A skeb graphic full body commission for @vallaragna.bsky.social of her Guardian, Zara!

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monstyra @monstyra.bsky.social · 4d

A skeb graphic full body commission for @vallaragna.bsky.social of her Guardian, Zara!

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 5d

Paleo-plushies for sale at the Paleontological Research Institute booth at the @geosociety.bsky.social meeting! Long line for these cuddly fossil critters - get them while they last!

Colorful assortment of fossil animals represented as plushy figures at the Paleontological Research Institute booth at the Geological Society of America meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Long line of people waiting to buy paleo-plushies from the Paleontological Research institute at the Geological Society of America meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

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Scint-H ⭐️ a Ghosts Destiny @scintillant-h.bsky.social · 7d

I had a specific scene in mind today but i decided to instead prove a point to my brain 💫 it keeps being mean to me when i KNOW i can do this.
It went well enough i let myself get sloppier; im not perfect but im good enough, brain 🥹

#Destiny2Art #Felwinter #ScintHArt #sketch

Destiny 2 fanart ink sketch on lined notebook paper featuring Felwinter's helmet in various tilted angles, thirteen total. The ballpoint pen used for the sketches sits on the left side of paper out of the way. The artist's signature, "scintillant-h", along with the year is written in the lower left corner of the paper.

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 10d

Ooops the stars aligned (or misaligned) and I'm opening commissions for custom ceramics! Would you like a loaf tray of your pet? A babushcat? For me to remake a piece I made in the past that you missed out on? Or do you have a different idea? Email me and we can discuss it!

a bunch of ceramic plates on a dark green background - most are shaped like cats, curled up or loafing, but there's also a fox and an owl. they're all in tones of orange, brown and greens

a bunch of ceramic plates on a light blue background. Most is shaped liek cats - loafing, curled up or cat faces but there's also a fox and a small dish with a tiger. They're all in tones of blue and white.

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social · 10d

On National Fossil Day, we celebrate the scientific and educational importance of paleontology and our responsibility to conserve fossils for future generations. Today, October 15th, 2025, is the 16th Anniversary of National Fossil Day!

#NationalFossilDay

www.nps.gov/subjects/fos...

National Fossil Day (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 11d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Scint-H ⭐️ a Ghosts Destiny @scintillant-h.bsky.social · 10d

He could be in normal clothes
But nah 💫

#Destiny2Art #Felwinter #ScintHArt #sketch

Destiny 2 fanart sketch on lined notebook paper with the character Felwinter wearing a fan-made custom design of Warlock robes and armor, complete with his canon accurate helmet, Iron Truage boots, and Iron Truage gloves. He stands leaning up against the side of a car with his left elbow propped up on the roof and the right is holding the handle of a gas pump nozzle into the car's tank. In leaning against the car he has his left foot pulled in front of him to cross and rest on the right ankle casually.

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Kendra, scary version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 11d

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11d

One surprisingly heartbreaking thing about living in these times is seeing young people who finally made it to college/graduated/got a job/achieved the thing they’ve worked so hard for… just watch their opportunities disappear. And it’s even worse because absolutely none of this had to be happening.

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Crafty Cernunnos @cernunnos.bsky.social · 19d

Finished the pumpkin! 🧶 🖋️🍀

A small knitted square in orange yarn with a pattern of a pumpkin on it in purl stitches.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 21d

You weren’t “low-maintenance”.

You were starving yourself of care.

You weren’t “resilient”.

You were burned out.

You weren’t “bad at intimacy”.

You were forced to perform it.

They thought you didn’t want connection.

But you needed it more than anyone.

That’s autism.

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Valla-Ragna @vallaragna.bsky.social · 21d

Happy birthday!

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Valla-Ragna @vallaragna.bsky.social · 22d

Just because you can't now doesn't change what you have done.

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NPR @npr.org · 24d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Shaxx Motivation @shaxxmotivation.bsky.social · 23d

Hey.

I’m proud of you.

Take a break, get some water and a snack for floor time.

You’re doing great, sweetie.

Love you.

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Zara 🏳️‍🌈 @zaravarin.bsky.social · 29d

This year has been a rollercoaster, y'all; after an unexpected warehouse move & inventory shuffling, all while still working on multiple active projects & navigating the state of commerce (& tarriffs 🙄), we're happy to have our storefront back up and running!

Our team has put in so much work 💪

Dual Wield Studio @dualwieldstudio.bsky.social · 29d

With new adventures on the horizon, we're ecstatic to announce that our storefront has officially REOPENED! 🎉

Dragon Age preorders shipping, handling cost updates, and team changes--read all our Dual Wield Studio updates here: https://bit.ly/3KlSFL4

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Runesael Flynn @runesael.bsky.social · 24d

✨Time for more lizards and more mechs!✨

The charity fundraiser for the #AACR continues, so if you'd like to stick tape to me, get a silly sketch, or get art of your OC? For a donation, you can! (Or, order me to *not* paint!)

Live 1515 EST. :) (Nowish!)

#ttrpg #art #aacr #playersvscancer

WIP Concepts of the Ph'nib (1 ft tall lizard / gecko people) for stations and starships. Two blue lizards wear variations on white armor and black jumpsuits, a green lizard wears teal armour with a black and red and purple body suit, and a crested basilisk type lizard wears a deep blue and red uniform with red and gold trim.

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