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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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monstyra.bsky.social
BEHOLD as chosen by yall the #o14 print poll: STAR GAYZERS!

soon to be available at my merch store 💖 #saint-14 #destinyOsiris
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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sketchmatters.bsky.social
I'm terrible at promoting my own store but it's still open and the discount code still works :)
sketchmatters.bsky.social spookymatters 🎃🦇 @sketchmatters.bsky.social · Mar 22
It's open again! 🥳🎉🎊 Reposts are also appreciated!
#art #destiny2
ko-fi.com/sketchmatter...
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
For my 'Evolution of the Earth' class today, on to the Cretaceous Period: ocean life, from plankton to mosasaurs; continental life with spread of flowering plants & dinosaur-dominated ecosystems; plate tectonics & paleogeography; & of course its abrupt end with the big space-rock kablooie. 🧪🦖🦕🪷🪨⚒️
Meme with two-panels: Panel 1 - cartoon dog wearing a hat and sitting on a chair next to a table with a cup on it, while flames consume the room around him; Panel 2 - the dog says "This is fine," but underneath him I've added "Burrowing mammals, insects, birds, amphibians, turtles..."
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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makoredeyes.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 🪶 #birds
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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uahirise.bsky.social
HiPOD: The Shifting Winds of Hellas Plantia

This region hosts remarkably complex dunes like this field in the Hellespontus Montes mountain range. Dunes here migrate both east and west, converging at a central area.

More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_016339_1380
#Mars #science #NASA
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
🕯 📖

#Destiny2Art #Felwinter #BnW #ScintHArt
Image shows a mostly black and white Destiny 2 fanart with the character Felwinter wearing his canon accurate helmet and Iron Truage gloves. He sits in the dark at a table while reading a book. His right arm is propped up on the table edge as he touches the paper in the book, and his left hand is loosely extended forward to ignite the candle on the table with Light powers. The flame is the only color in the art itself, being bright orange. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is at the bottom of the image.
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Some infographics about the Paleontological Research Institution, its continuing impact on research and education, and what is needed to keep this place around into the future after a major donor was unable to keep a pledge.

Keep them in mind! #FossilFriday #givingTuesday ⚒️🧪🦑

www.priweb.org/donate
Infographic about the Paleontological Research institution. 94 years of research here. One of the 10 largest fossil collections in the USA, with 7 million specimens. 1.2 million users of their online content annually, 30,000 in person visitors 1,500 teachers use PRI for continuing education each year link to donate: https://www.priweb.org/donate Infographic explaining that PRI needs to raise 1 million dollars by December 31st to pay off their mortgage, be free of that debt and continue future operations. They have already raised 2.1 million of the 3.1 million needed to pay this unexpected expense due to a major donor being unable to fulfill a long-term pledge
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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sylenth.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
vallaragna.bsky.social
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tkingfisher.com Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 8d
<sigh> Whole lotta people out there who still seem to think they can rules-lawyer their way out of creepy.

I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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annleckie.com
Do Not Cross Picket Lines
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d
No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks

(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 9d
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze). Model of sacabambaspis helsinki
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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vallaragna.bsky.social
Halloween embroidery finally done! Original art by @wendysketches.bsky.social
#embroidery #fiberarts
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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sylenth.bsky.social
"Back with me?"
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Brain has a hold on the fur today 🔥

#Destiny2Art #Felwinter #BnW #ScintHArt
Alt4Me
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
vallaragna.bsky.social
Halloween embroidery finally done! Original art by @wendysketches.bsky.social
#embroidery #fiberarts
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
Let them rest on a cozy afternoon 💫

#Destiny2Art #Felwinter #Felspring #BnW #FoodArt #Tea #ScintHArt
Image shows a grayscale 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 a glimpse of the Iron Truage gloves. He's seen from the chest up with a fur blanket hanging around his neck and shoulders, with his Ghost Felspring nestled into the fur over his right shoulder. His head is turned to the right. A steaming cup of tea is held in his hand, but he holds the cup rather than the handle, which goes untouched. The teabag string is seen hanging from the cup rim. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is at the bottom of the image.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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mostlymammoths.bsky.social
“Each type of fossil has a different story to tell, and these stories complement each other, helping us to reconstruct a more accurate picture of the past. Paleontologists need all these pieces to reconstruct the history of life.” @alinemghilardi.bsky.social
Screenshot of text: “We do not know the identity of the producers of these pellets,” said Alberto Collareta, a co-author and paleontologist at the University of Pisa, “but we know that their behavior has proved quite successful.” In other words, the same type and shape of micro-coprolites have been found in similar tight spaces for hundreds of millions of years. Although large fossils get considerable attention in paleontology, “fossils of tiny organisms, however, often have much more to say,” said Aline Ghilardi, a paleontology professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil who was not involved in the research. She says that smaller creatures and what they leave behind — burrows or bodily waste — can provide detailed stories about environmental changes over time. “Each type of fossil has a different story to tell, and these stories complement each other, helping us to reconstruct a more accurate picture of the past,” she said. “Paleontologists need all these pieces to reconstruct the history of life.”
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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zaliachimera.bsky.social
The wonderful @mizface.bsky.social is gonna be streaming through November raising money for food banks across the US in areas which will be hardest hit by the US government withholding SNAP benefits.

You can find the stream here:
www.twitch.tv/mizface
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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callanbentley.bsky.social
Siccar Point is a touchstone in the evolution of geological thinking: the spot where a human mind first reeled at the depths of geologic time. Visiting it was profound, connecting across the centuries with James Hutton and John Playfair, who connected across the eons with the age of the Earth. ⚒️
Callan at Siccar Point angular unconformity, wearing a bright orange t-shirt and khaki pants, with his left hand on the graywacke and his right hand on the base of the Old Red Sandstone.
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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aartvark.bsky.social
My Vow of the Disciple blanket!
Took over 400 hours to make, and measures approx 7 ft tall and 8 ft wide. Made using corner to corner crochet. Pixel patterns made by me and my spouse 😊
##Destiny2 #Destiny2AOTW #AOTW @bungie.net @brunolouviers.com @dmg04.bsky.social @destiny2team.bungie.net
a blanket made up of pixelated versions of the symbols from the Vow of the Disciple raid in Destiny 2. 25 symbols make up the blanket in a 5x5 grid. The border is two symbols in an alternating pattern.
October 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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scintillant-h.bsky.social
#ArtoberFriends challenge by @redstrawbaby.bsky.social @redstrawbaby.bsky.social @lightbuck.bsky.social @pgharts.bsky.social @yeromoo.bsky.social

Day 28! Spells!

Work smarter, not harder 💪

#ScintHArt #sketch #AnimalArt #ermine
Image shows an ink sketch on lined notebook paper with an ermine wearing a pointed wizard cone hat decorated with iconic five-pointed stars. There is a book open on the floor in front of the ermine, with several objects in the background performing acts of cleaning while in the clutch of magical aura energy. A broom, dustpan and brush, and a blanket in the air folding itself. The artist's signature, "scintillant-h", along with the year "2025" is written on the bottom left of the paper.
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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makoredeyes.bsky.social
I swear I’m not dead (just exhausted)
#destinythegame #destiny2 #fotl #festivalofthelost #makodraws
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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perianth-nixie.bsky.social
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Autumn theme shell for Eva.

October still has no mercy for me. I only believe November will be more merciful.

#destiny2art #destiny2fanart #destiny2
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
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
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
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...
FEEDING AMERICA
October 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM