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Valla-Ragna
@vallaragna.bsky.social
Fiber artist, paleontologist, cartographer, reenactor, mostly posting Destiny 2 stuff
https://linktr.ee/vallaragna
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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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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
February 15, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Helhest swinging in from Rising with her own Valentine's card for #d2valentines2026 🫶💙💚

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Helhest #DestinyArt #CrimsonDays
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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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
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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*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
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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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
February 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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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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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"
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/
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Ghosts looking for their person like cats in a box set out by the Traveler ♡

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #DestinyGhosts #Grom #Felspring #Glint #Sundance #OCGustav #DestinyOCs
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Showing cool women in palaeoart

子著 based in China, does adorable science communication books
February 5, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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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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creature who has never been given attention in her life (has been given slightly less attention for Less Than One Day bc of Events)
February 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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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!
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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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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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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February 2, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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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
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.
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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Just Queer team things 💫
On to the next site! 👏

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Felwinter #Helhest #Crow #Cayde6 #DestinyArt #BnW #SuitnTie #Spider
February 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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Whats looking at you when you stare at the shadows...?

#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #Felwinter #DarkArt #Blood #DestinyArt
January 31, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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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.
January 28, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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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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Just a little guy
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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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
January 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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#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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