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Deyanna
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Botanical Illustration | Gardening | Nature | Science | Spooky Stuff | Happily Married w/ 2 Kids
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Deyanna @gardentroll.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hello #PortfolioDay ! I’m a botanical illustrator working in traditional mediums and sometimes digital. These examples are watercolor and ink.
🌱 #SciArt
Watercolor painting of 3 vertically stacked succulents as viewed from above. The top one is a dark green, chunky rosette with burgundy edging and a satin-silvery sheen. The middle succulent is a bright yellow-green rosette with shiny, little leaves and a pup growing out to the left. The bottom one is lime green and rusty red with elongated chunky leaves. A vertically stacked ink drawing representing the parts of a Bur Oak tree. The ink work is a combination of stipple, hatching, and line. From bottom to top, the parts are: Bark, twig, leaf, catkin, flower, and acorn (which is very hairy looking). Ink drawing of a very lumpy pumpkin. The ink work is mostly stipple with some line and hatching. The pumpkin is turned on it’s side so the stem is pointed towards the viewer and slightly up to the right. This thing is seriously crazy lumpy. Image of a watercolor painting in front of it’s subject, a lumpy gourd. The gourd is lying down horizontally and has a bottle-like shape with a curved neck. It is mostly a creamy yellow color with dark green stripes running top to bottom. There’s a good amount of lumps and scuffs/scars.
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tishamark.com
This one is fresh off the easel, inspired by the early #evening light this time of year.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"

Original is available (ships when dry, approx 2 weeks):
tishamark.com/product/low-...

#BlueSkyArtShow #art #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm #painting
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Low Autumn Evening" 8"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). Loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric seascape with earth tones on a dark shore. The sky has orange and gray tones with hints of blue.
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
gardentroll.bsky.social
“Glass Gem” Corn / Maize / Zea Mays
Colored pencil on 11x14 Bristol
#BotanicalIllustration 🌱
Colored pencil drawing of rainbow colored corn and dried husk #SciArt
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
gardentroll.bsky.social
A little something for the Plant People 🌱
riotgrlerin.bsky.social RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 5d
jeff goldbloom: thread
Jeff Goldblum wearing a mustard yellow and orange/tan collared jacket. Flowers that match Jeff Goldblum’s aesthetic.
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
gardentroll.bsky.social
Corn WIP in colored pencil #BotanicalIllustration
Work in progress drawing in colored pencil of rainbow “glass gem” corn cob #BotanicalIllustration #SciArt
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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5g.gay
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
August 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
gardentroll.bsky.social
Process video of hop leaf in graphite
#BotanicalIllustration
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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sculptedreef.com
Hey #PortfolioDay 🙂‍↕️🙌 I'm a Dutch artist who primarily works in marine life themed sculpture 🐙🪸

🏠 SculptedReef.com
💌 Hello@SculptedReef.com
Makana, a hand sculpted clay octopus depicting the species octopus cyanea. Its arms are swirling around its body and it leans back on three of them. Aurora, a sculpture depicting the Caribbean Reef Octopus. A bluish teal octopus with webbed maroon patterns and bright green patches around the eyes. A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus and corals woven from tiny glass beads. A mixed media artwork featuring two hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus and colorful corals woven from tiny glass beads.
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
gardentroll.bsky.social
Large leaf from a hop vine piece in graphite. Almost done. Trying to make a process video to post too. 🌱
Black and white graphite drawing of a leaf with three pointed lobes and palmate veination #BotanicalIllustration #SciArt #Botany #illustration #pencil #graphite #hops
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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lizzywanders.bsky.social
🥺 🥾🌱
Closeup shot of Lego WALL-E looking up with his shiny eye lenses presenting a brown boot made out of bricks in his articulated metallic fingers. A tiny bright green plant sticks out of the boot.
October 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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quiteuninteresting.bsky.social
Really important piece by Roxane Gay: “Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries.” 🎁 link: @roxanegay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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tedcruznipples.com
Trump administration do literally one thing that isn’t comically evil and destructive challenge
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 12
Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.
E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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mamafirefly.bsky.social
just need a few minutes at the bookstore

*she lied
September 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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kakapojay.bsky.social
Posted a thing
Over the past couple of years, I have seen Generative Al creep rapidly into the television industry, and am not fond of it. I don't want a machine to write my scripts. I don't want a machine to make my concept art. I don't want a machine to tell my stories. And have yet to hear an argument in favour of the technology that has any actual merit to it beyond the capitalistic need for cheap and quick output with minimal input. It's here to stay' That isn't enough for me to just wave away the contributions to the climate crisis, the plagiarism and copyright issues, the *horrific* ethical consequences, the workforce ramifications, and especially importantly for me asa science communicator, the fact that it is, by and large, the world's greatest misinformation engine. For anyone else working in science TV specifically - listen to the scientists you work with. Listen to your most dedicated audiences. Listen to the artists who have historically visualised your ideas. Adoption of and excitement for this technology is nowhere near as universal as it seems.
August 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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merriam-webster.com
Does Not Rhyme
-through
-cough
-though
-rough
-bough

Does Rhyme
-pony
-bologna
August 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
ChatGPT and other LLMs aren't about to produce superintelligence, but if this is it, it's still changed the world. Not necessarily for the better.

I did a big picture look at AI, comparing it to search and social media, On business, politics, education, misinfo, ability to grasp reality, and more.
The Third Algorithm
ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse
www.arcdigital.media
August 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Letting Google set the narrative about the environmental costs of "AI" is like letting tobacco companies set the narrative about the effects of second-hand smoke by measuring the health effects of sitting through one neighbor smoking one cigarette.
August 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
“Sisyphus thinks he can outwit death. But the company hive-mind pings him relentlessly, even on weekends, and so he stares at his phone on a Saturday and misses his daughter score her first goal at a soccer game.”
— Pindar, Olympian Ode
Sisyphus’s Inbox
“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore...
buff.ly
August 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
gardentroll.bsky.social
AI put the empty milk carton back in the fridge.
davetroy.bsky.social DT in CT ☮️ 💙 @davetroy.bsky.social · Aug 21
AI left the toilet seat up. 🚽
m1keonl1ne.bsky.social mike☺︎ (discount dracula) @m1keonl1ne.bsky.social · Aug 21
AI doesn't put the carts back at the grocery store
August 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
who is this rorschach guy and why is he showing us all these photos of bjork: thread
August 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
gardentroll.bsky.social
Leaf cutter ants don’t eat the leaves. They use them as fertilizer for the fungus they grow underground. They’re doing agriculture!
mrose.ink Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
Three panel comic: 1st panel: Two crudely drawn stick men: Stick man 1: to make art that is popular you have to be really good at drawing 2nd panel: stick man 2: but if that’s true 3rd panel: both characters are looking at a spot beneath the comic (where the likes are) Stick man 2: why does this comic have thousands of likes?
August 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
doily parton: thread
Dolly Parton wearing yellow and brown. A doily of the same colors.
August 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
gardentroll.bsky.social
My kid and I assisted with the birth of triplets today. It was downright magical.
A baby goat, less than 2 hours old, is sleeping in the arms of a kid in a green shirt. The wee goat is tri-colored, mostly black and brown with white spots on the ankles and a white patch on top of her head. #goats
August 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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johntrterry.bsky.social
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.
July 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM