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Tostoini
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Illustrator with a soft spot for odd creatures, graphic recorder, friend of manatees, anthropologist, ND. I wrote&illustrated Fossili Viventi published by Aboca Kids. She/her www.tostoini.it
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Insomma: il Libro Nuovo si intitola Fossili Viventi, esce per Aboca Kids in anteprima al Salone del Libro di Torino il 19 maggio e in libreria dal 30 maggio. Ci sono dentro storie di creature peculiari dal passato e presente del pianeta.
🪱 Who, me? NAH, I'm just a worm. 🪱
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In honor of #garweek, here's the page for Pesce Caimano from Fossili Viventi!
(It's in Italian, but I think that if I did my job right as an illustrator you can guess the contents just looking at the pictures!) #SciArt
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Over the Garden Wall Reanimated premieres tomorrow 🎃
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The etymology of ‘turtle’ is interesting as shell.

'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'

‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today in the the letterbox I found the issue #3 of Versanti Magazine. I've illustrated "Climbing the Hill and Descending the Mountain" an article by Tommaso Ciuffoletti, a story that begins in Wales and ends in Ecuador, with everything in between.
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Dipingere i premi Nobel per lavoro
Dipingere i premi Nobel per lavoro
Dal 2012 Niklas Elmehed è una delle prime persone a sapere a chi vengono assegnati, e i suoi ritratti fanno il giro del mondo
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October 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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STAMPEDE!!!
September 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
MACROFAUNA! MACROFAUNA!! MACROFAUNAAAAA
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age out later this year... such a thrill to put this series together, oh my goodness are you in for a treat :) Hopefully news on events and publicity coming soon! Sloths, cats, rhinos, glyptodonts AND SOOOO MUCH MORE!!
September 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This idiom is so odd. I have so many feelings any given day, the idea of eating them sounds so appealing: bitter feelings and sweet feelings and umami feelings and salty feelings and sour feelings, WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? (And why I feel it just another way of policing other people's food intake?)
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I guess it's not that big of a surprise that I'm a big Moomin fan: I love Jansson way of to see the transcendent and magical in the natural world, the weird, the goofy, the softness that can just as easily shift to the mischievous, alien, unknowable.
September 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Similar to early Twitter, on Bluesky you’ll learn about breaking news before all your friends, BUT here it’s delivered as a series of unsolvable riddles peppered with beautifully rendered fan art.✨
August 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea) is a small bird of the sunbird family, Nectariniidae. In 2015 the Palestinian Authority adopted the species as a national bird.
From every river. To every sea. 🍉

#globalsumudflotilla #cinnyrisosea #palestiniansunbird #sciart
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
August 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Amicə di Roma! Accorri domani alla chiacchiera sui Fossili Viventi all'Estate al Torrione! il 30 luglio Alle 19.30! Abbiamo le bestie assurde per niente estinte! Abbiamo Carola Moscatelli e Francesco Graziosi!
July 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
July 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Aboca Edizioni: ciao Roberta, ci fai un video in cui racconti di cosa parla Fossili Viventi in un minuto e mezzo?

IO (iperventilando in un sacchetto di carta come solo una geriatric millenial abituata a nascondersi dietro le parole scritte e le illustrazioni): 🫡
Fossili Viventi - Roberta Ragona
YouTube video by Aboca Edizioni
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July 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
La newsletter tostoina di luglio, cotta per voi ad alta temperatura nelle più pregevoli isole di calore della nostra penisola! Contiene le date del tour dei Fossili Viventi di luglio, un libro irresistibile e un sacco di puzze.
tostoini.substack.com/p/la-newslet...
July 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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if my ISP actually sold my browsing history to advertisers, then why am I not seeing ads for deep sea isopods near me
June 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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o-oh.. opabinia!! Are those for me? you shouldn't have!
June 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fossili Viventi tra i libri consigliati nella puntata di oggi di Ci Vuole Una Scienza, il podcast de @ilpost.it Post di @emenietti.bsky.social e Beatrice Mautino che ogni venerdì mi spiega come funzionano *le cose* (ampio gesto con le braccia). Daje!
June 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Such a slap in the face to be expected to pay bills in an apocalypse.
June 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
E che se hanno trovato una forma che funziona molto tempo fa, non c'è ragione di cambiarla per cedere alla peer pressure del fast fashion evolutivo!

Un libro che all'affermazione 'però in realtà i Fossili Viventi non esistono' risposte Verissimo! YES, AND e poi parla per 64 pagine.
#booksky
Continuo con consigli libreschi, in italiano stavolta.
Sono molto fortunata ad avere un sacco di amiche che fanno libri belli, quindi procedo a pubblicizzarli:
- fossili viventi di @tostoini.bsky.social è un libro illustrato di animali strani che hanno deciso che l'evoluzione è inutile >
June 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM