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Valla-Ragna
@vallaragna.bsky.social
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Fiber artist, paleontologist, cartographer, reenactor, mostly posting Destiny 2 stuff
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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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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Continuing a years old tradition of mine by adding to the Valentines card list the man who technically started the list, I just couldn't draw him sooner 🫶💝

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Felwinter #DestinyArt #CrimsonDays #d2valentines2026
Image shows Destiny 2 fanart with the character Felwinter wearing a fan-made custom design of Warlock robes and armor, complete with his canon accurate helmet, and Iron Truage gloves as he is part of an iconic Valentine's Day card framing. He stands with his arms folded looking forward at you with a rose carefully tucked under one hand. The background has various Destiny Crimson Days themed like candy hearts, red flower petals, & Crimson Days logo imagery. Where the basic card has a single large image in the back of several red bars that criss-cross at the top in a flat-topped peak, Felwinter's card background has one slimmer tall peak and a shorter peak next to it to resemble the known reference of his mountain behind him. Red roses arc around him from behind. There are three large blank rectangles next to Felwinter. Two of them are designated "to" and "from" slots for people's names while the third one reads: "Mountains have always divided people from eachother, but we make the rules in our own homes & you always have a place in mine." The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is seen off to the side of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."
February 15, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Helhest swinging in from Rising with her own Valentine's card for #d2valentines2026 🫶💙💚

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Helhest #DestinyArt #CrimsonDays
Image shows Destiny 2 crossover Destiny Rising fanart with the character Helhest posing with a mass of red roses circling around her while she is part of an iconic Valentine's Day card framing. She's standing partly from the side with her robotic arm facing front & extended back a bit while emitting waves of light blue electricity across the bottom of the image & around her body to create heart shapes out of the electricity. The biggest electric heart forms in her opposite hand as its held up halfway into the electric waves. She looks at you with bright eyes & a smile on her face. There are three large blank rectangles next to Helhest. Two of them are designated "to" and "from" slots for people's names while the third one reads: "Communication lines are secure. We have all the privacy we need." The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is seen off to the side of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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nearfromfar.bsky.social
Have a happy and peaceful Crimson Days! Very peaceful. No ancient centuries-old motive for violence at all.

For the Crimson Days event with @d2artevents.bsky.social
A four part comic. The first panel says "it's ok to ask for help" and features Osiris and Saint 14. The second panel says "you're not a burden" and features Shaxx being presented with many gifts. The third panel says "murder is ok" and features Failsafe sending hearts to Rasputin. The fourth panel says "your feelings matter" and Saladin climbs over the panel boundary with a gun while glaring at Rasputin. Shiro 4 is staying well out of his way.
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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zaliachimera.bsky.social
*dead-eyed stare at the Destiny community*

Excellent article! Touches on a lot of points I've been mulling over but more eloquently. Things like 'content creators who play a game as their full-time job are inherently coming from a different place than the vast majority of player, but get taken as
chhopsky.tv christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv · 5d
Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:

"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"

It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.

loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...
Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work
The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.
loadbearingtomato.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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lisasgardiner.bsky.social
If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday
Multiples copies of REEFS OF TIME: WHAT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT CORAL SURVIVAL in a box that arrived at the author's front stoop and made her smile.
February 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Horner isn’t an isolated case. Some of the bullies and harassers in dinosaur paleo have been found out and kept their jobs, because academia leans on their side. Many other bullies and abusive men continue to do damage because they haven’t been named. This isn’t one man. This is systemic in paleo.
February 12, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Ghosts looking for their person like cats in a box set out by the Traveler ♡

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #DestinyGhosts #Grom #Felspring #Glint #Sundance #OCGustav #DestinyOCs
Image shows Destiny 2 fanart with several Ghost characters, including one O.C. Ghost. Felspring wears a fan-designed shell, Sundance, Glint, Grom, & the O.C. Ghost Gustav are hovering in the open top of a tan cardboard box with a warm purple cloth corner decorated in glittery zigzag patterns along one side of the cloth hanging out of the front of the box. Under the box flap reads in curly letters "to a good home". There are thin pale blue glowing beams loosely connected to both ends of the sentence's first and last letters. The beams curl & loop off the side of the image. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is in the corner of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Showing cool women in palaeoart

子著 based in China, does adorable science communication books
Ammonites assorted Pastel coloured Triassic marine reptiles Jawlesh fish
February 5, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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astahfrith.bsky.social
creature who has never been given attention in her life (has been given slightly less attention for Less Than One Day bc of Events)
black cat lying flat and sideways on a kitchen countertop, staring into the middle distance. there is a white hand in the bottom left gesturing at the cat like “WHAT IS THIS”
February 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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amtuomala.bsky.social
Exciting news! I've been working with @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social to get their catalogue of ebooks available on Overdrive/Libby--and I just got confirmation that it's gone through!

If your library uses Overdrive/Libby, you can now request that they acquire The Map and the Territory as an ebook!
A screenshot of the Overdrive search interface, showing a search on the key word "tuomala" and the book The Map and the Territory by A.M. Tuomala available to request as a library hold.
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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makoredeyes.bsky.social
For folks in the contiguous US: my dad has donated two 6x6” oil paintings for auction to benefit his local art museum and maybe I’m biased but they’re GORGEOUS. Please look, bid, or share for a good cause and some damn good art

www.32auctions.com/organization...

(2nd link in comments)
River's Bend
Auction item 'River's Bend' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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nazfx.com
A friendly quetzalcoatlus 🩵🩷

Plush pattern for patrons till Feb 5

#plushie #plush #plushart #dinosaur #quetzalcoatlus
February 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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kevinrages.bsky.social
#destiny2
February 2, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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dinochick.bsky.social
This. I’m *not* going to get into it here, but there have been & ARE STILL many problematic & predatory people. We try to keep people safe & keep an eye out for people. When you are young it’s easier to not always understand what situations you might be walking into. Not apologizing for anyone
t-s-sci.bsky.social Dr. Tanya Samman @t-s-sci.bsky.social · 16d
Um, yes it really was bad during that time, sorry to say. A few exceptions, but even some grad students were to be avoided. The whisper network was a lifeline for many of us.
jdpardo.bsky.social J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 16d
Currie and Gould definitely meet that standard, and people like Jenny Clack and Chris Brochu played prominent roles in various popular TV documentaries. It wasn't really all bad. Others weren't creeps or predators but just have reputations of being irresponsible in the field.
February 2, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Just Queer team things 💫
On to the next site! 👏

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Felwinter #Helhest #Crow #Cayde6 #DestinyArt #BnW #SuitnTie #Spider
Image shows a black and white Destiny 2 fanart with the characters Felwinter Helhest, Crow & Cayde-6 wearing suits & ties on while in a warehouse full of crates. The crates chiefly have Spider's business logo on them but then have an intrusive Vanguard lable slapped over his logo. Felwinter and Helhest stand in the foreground, where Felwinter has a notepad in his hand as he looks over at the globe being hologram projected out of Helhest's prosthetic robot arm, which she smiles down at. In the background Cayde sits atop stacked crates as he leans back with his arms folded behind his head, his eyes closed, & his ankles propped up on Crow's shoulders as Crow sits on a lower crate stack. Crow looks over his shoulders with a wide pressed mouth in annoyance. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is at the bottom of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."
February 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Whats looking at you when you stare at the shadows...?

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Felwinter #DarkArt #Blood #DestinyArt
Image shows Destiny 2 fanart with the character Felwinter in his canon helmet & an unidentifiable black shirt amid an abstractly symbolic piece of a very dark nature. In a nearly pitch black room Felwinter is seen standing from the side with water-like waves of sparking pale blue light washing down his shirt. The bottom half of is helmet is gently shifted from a metal gray to a solid white. He's looking up at a person seemingly standing on the ceiling who's tilting their head "up" to look down at Felwinter. The person is made of dark shadows and outlined in red and red-orange bright light, also being in his entire eye socket, in a Rasputin reference. Streams of what appear to be blood are pouring steadily from the top of his head all the way to the bottom of the image, with red energy sparkles trickling down through it all. Behind his head is several dark red spike shapes with the ends neatly leveled off in resemblance of a warsat. A similar shape is seen in shadows across the top of the image. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is at the bottom of the image behind Felwinter with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."
January 31, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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arctomet.bsky.social
For those who need to know (which includes certain astronomers): "sand" as a term in geology is not based on composition. It is a term based on the size of the clasts. Here is the Wentworth scale we use to demarcate the names of the different size classes.
Wentworth scale showing the demarcation between different grain sizes and the names for the type of sediment at that size
January 28, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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starlightvex.bsky.social
makoredeyes.bsky.social Mako @makoredeyes.bsky.social · May 15
I feel icky reblog my art and tell me you like it.
I just called these Dinky Damiens on tumblr. Think we’re keeping that lmao. I like how they look all assembled together on a page
#makodraws #damien-14 #destinyart #destiny2 #destinyoc #aotw
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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toadally.bsky.social
Just a little guy
A dimetrodon among a grove of horsetails
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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purpletarakan.bsky.social
been a bit since i drew this guy, but you bluesky folks gotta see him too

Beautiful, beautiful Damien-14 belongs to @makoredeyes.bsky.social

#Destiny #Destiny2 #DestinyTheGame #DestinyArt #Destiny2Art #commision #artcommision #art #digitalart #robotart
Digital art depicting drunken exo/robot Damien-14 sitting in a puddle, one hand wrapped around a yellow „Caution! Wet!“ sign
January 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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nhmbryozoa.bsky.social
#FossilFriday Sections of fossil echinoids, including a ‘heart urchin’, in a Miocene limestone used in a wall in Adelaide, South Australia.
January 23, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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sandyheth.bsky.social
Really exciting to get some press coverage on our Prototaxites paper @instmolplantsci.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aberdeenshire fossil dating back 410 million years joins museum collection
Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 9:54 AM