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On the 1st, newsletter subscribers get early access to my new print collection, un día de hojas de plátano 🖤 The full 3 print collection will be available to everyone on the 5th. Here is the first piece, la mañana: apalanajawá. Join my newsletter to learn more about it: destinytoro.com

framed print of an orange and purple themed painting of a waterfall flowing down a banana leave and vines

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 28/09/2026

I have a little banana tree themed print collection coming soon! If you're a newsletter subscriber, you'll get access to it on Oct 1 🖤 Also last call for borikenmailclub.com to get this month's oracle card mini print in your mailbox 📬

Graphic of a mini print with a colorful ceiba tree illustration, text reads oracle card mini print september, borikenmailclub.com

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 02/09/2026

For new followers, I’m creating a Taino-inspired oracle deck and in each of my seasonal mail drops, borikenmailclub.com members are getting one of the cards as well as following the making of it in newsletters. Join BMC if that’s something you’re interested in! 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 02/09/2026

This month's newsletter is out! If you'd like to read my piece about Project Hail Mary and how it's a movie about disabled relationships, you can sign up and access it in my archive 🖤 buttondown.com/TORO/archive...

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 02/09/2026

This month's Borikén Mail Club oracle card mini print is out! If you aren't a member and would like to receive this and future mail drops in your mailbox, you can join at borikenmailclub.com 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 02/09/2026

"In the coquí, I see several motifs that are used throughout Taino art and design. Some of these motifs may not have originated with observing specifically the coquí and could be just reflections of the motifs' existence throughout nature, which itself is a theme found within the Taino worldview."

An illustration of a coquí frog with the angles of its legs highlighted in red, on the left. On the top right are two photos (taken by me at Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Cagüana) of a ceramic stylized frog made by our Taino ancestors, one highlighting the leg angles in red. Below that are various hand drawn designs using those same angles.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 02/09/2026

Newsletter subs 📣 I normally send my newsletter out on the 1st & this one is a long one, I’m talking about Project Hail Mary from a disability lens. I’ve REALLY enjoyed writing it!! It’s a piece I’ve wanted to write for years, long before PHM. But I’m still editing it, so it’ll go out tomorrow 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 31/08/2026

1/ I asked myself, Did I need to experience all that suffering to finally get to visual art as a path? And David Lynch answered my question. "..people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering...

An abstract waterfall landscape in blues with red and orange accents

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 28/08/2026

1/ "One day, the sun finally breached, illuminating everything. I could finally see a vast landscape with so many creative destinations and paths. It was this moment that suddenly I realized that whole time- for 4 whole years- I hadn't had a horizon. And now I had one. The relief of seeing it...

Photo of a gold and purple sunrise over a Puerto Rican mountain landscape

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 28/08/2026

Checked Deflock for the first time in about 6 weeks and was STUNNED at how many new cameras have gone up in PR in that amount of time. Not surprised, but definitely stunned.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 28/08/2026

Last few days to join borikenmailclub.com in time to receive this mini print in next month's Mail Drop! If you know one person who might be interested in joining, can you send them my website? Having this stable monthly income is essential & word of mouth is the best free way for you to support me🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 28/08/2026

Our endemic & critically endangered Puerto Rican Amazon/Cotorra Puertorriqueña for #AvianAugust 🖤 Our surviving Taino word for them is iwaca. paralanaturaleza.org/conserva/historias-conservacion/cotorra-puertorriquena destinytoro.com #ArtSky #BirdArt #NatureArt #NoAI #IndigenousArt

Illustration of a green Puerto Rican parrot with a red forehead turned to look at the viewer surrounded by various blue silhouetted plants and a dark blue background. Border is red with olive green and light turquoise Taino style designs.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 26/08/2026

1/ "...I describe the ugly phase in a piece of artwork or the hard phase of learning a new skill or the jumbly, unsure period of a project as 'painful but exquisite.' We find this same natural tension in all growth and learning and creative processes. It's an exciting, frustrating...

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Colectivo Recuperando El Aire @recuperandoelaire.boriken.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

A veces fallan las palabras para tratar de explicar que estamos volando un avión sin sensores adecuados en cuanto al COVID. Pero sigue siendo la verdad. #puertorico

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 24/08/2026

I'm currently writing all about this for my free September newsletter! If you'd like to read it, it'll be out on the 1st. You can sign up for it at destinytoro.com 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 24/08/2026

1/ "The question isn't 'What would Taino art look like now?' The question is, 'What does Taino art look like now?' It looks like many things; it doesn’t have to look like historical recreations of Pre-Columbian art because we aren’t. The legacy of Taino art persists in many forms...

Image of a hanging framed print of an expressive blue themed Puerto Rican landscape

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 21/08/2026

Our endemic woodpecker/Carpintero de Puerto Rico for #AvianAugust! Also called inriri, a surviving Taino name for these sacred birds present in our origin stories. destinytoro.com #ArtSky #BirdArt #NatureArt #NoAI #IndigenousArt

Art of a Puerto Rican woodpecker with a red throat and body and a white stripe across the eyes above the beak. Bordered by a Taino inpired geometric design: yellow triangles in the center and corners with blue dots and red diagonal lines connecting them.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 21/08/2026

"My friend (illustrator) Haley Brown reminded me this morning that part of our job as artists is to go into the underworld, into these transitions and build these internal bridges. The art we share with the world is the result of that." buttondown.com/TORO/...

Photo of Puerto Rican mountain landscape at night

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

Y'all better bring Dr. Johnathan Flowers back because he didn't do anything & received no communication from bluesky on his suspension. #freeflowers

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 20/08/2026

📣 BMC members, get your vote for next month's mini print in by tomorrow night at 9pm ET 🖤

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 03/08/2026

This month’s borikenmailclub.com mini print is the glowing- dare I say ethereal!- endemic Gaeotis flavolineata or Puerto Rican Semi-slug 🖤 If you’re not a member and would like to receive this in next month’s Mail Drop, be sure to join by the end of this month!

A mini print of an illustrated Puerto Rican Semi-slug on a photo of greenery and a blooming flamboyán tree. Text "august, borikenmailclub.com"

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 18/08/2026

📣 BMC members, this month's newsletter is out! Be sure to vote on next month's Oracle Card Mini Print by this Friday 🖤

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Borikén Mail Club: August

Vote on next month's Oracle Card Mini Print!

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 17/08/2026

📣 borikenmailclub.com members: August's BMC newsletter is running a few days behind! No big reason, just taking my sweet time with it, moving naturally slow in the summer heat 🖤 Should be in your inbox today or tomorrow.

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(JMG) @jmgart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hello lovelies. Today is my birthday, and I have one request. If you see this post and we aren’t connected, could you take a look at my media tab and see if any of my #art speaks to you? I would love to grow my #community a little bit more today, and it’s free! 💕

Close up of a neurographic tree and vibrant sun in shades of blue, purple, red, yellow.

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Amy Guidry, Artist @amyguidryartist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm on a roll! Been taking more photos so I've got another quick painting process video from start to finish. "Presence" Acrylic on canvas 20" x 16" #art #painting #surrealism #tigers #paintingvideo #nature

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 15/08/2026

Me, looking around: Where’s Mama? Me, looking up: #caturday 🐾

Photo of a tuxedo cat sleeping in a blue bed on top of kitchen cabinets. Only her paws, black bean toes, and lower legs are visible as they hang off the edge.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 14/08/2026

The endemic Adelaide's Warbler/Reinita Mariposera for #AvianAugust! I always modify art challenges to be specific to species here in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 For Avian August, I'm doing 1 bird per week. destinytoro.com #ArtSky #BirdArt #NatureArt #NoAI #addBirder

Illustration of a yellow and gray Adelaide's Warbler perched on a plant. Border is green blue and dark gray Taino inspired designs.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 11/08/2026

Interested in books completely written (and illustrated) by a human? Check out my published works which range from fantasy to horror to mystery! Full descriptions and links here: www.helenwhistberry.com/book-links

Image of 10 books covers for books by Helen Whistberry: Wren's Aria, shows a brown wren among red poppies; Roadkill, shows a highway with animal skeletons on it; The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere, has a black cat playing with an old-fashioned sailing ship; When Your Heart is a Broken Thing, has a white rabbit crying red tears and a red rabbit with skeleton exposed crying blue tears; Once Upon a Wave of Witches, with co-author Eli Belt, has a green kraken tentacle sweeping through turbulent blue waves; The Tail of Nightshade, has a gray mouse among purple nightshade blooms; The Melody of Trees, has a red fox among twining tree branches; The Weird Sisters, has a full moon behind tombstones with a hand visible lying on the ground; The Avenging Angel, has a full moon behind a mansion; The Ghostly Groom, has a full moon behind a tombstone with a black bird on top of it.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 10/08/2026

🧵 Buiti/buenas! I’m a disabled artist in Borikén/Puerto Rico. I make artwork of our nature and indigenous stories 🌀 destinytoro.com #ArtSky #illustration #NatureArt #IndigenousArt #DisabledArtist #BlueskyPR #NoAI

Photo of Destiny with long brown hair, glasses, red lipstick, a black dress, and a handmade metal Taino inspired necklace in the studio

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

decades of people quoting mary oliver's "tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" religiously only for them to answer it with "generating ai images."

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 07/08/2026

An Indigo Bunting/Gorrión Azul for #AvianAugust! I always modify art challenges so they rep species here in PR 🇵🇷 For Avian August, I'm doing 1 bird per week. Gorrión Azul is a wintering bird in PR, next week will be an endemic, ¿Puedes adivinarlo? destinytoro.com #ArtSky #BirdArt #NatureArt #NoAI

Painting of an indigo bunting standing on abstracted muted gold, pink, and green leaves/plant, bordered with a Taino inspired blue and gold line and dot design. Gorriones Azules are not endemic to Puerto Rico, but they do migrate to winter here.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 03/08/2026

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hating life at the moment for putting me in the unfortunate position of needing help. It's a really crappy feeling to be in this position, but here I am. Over the last 6 years, my body has been kicking my ass in every conceivable way and it has taken a toll on our lives. ko-fi.com/johnniejae#s...

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Support Johnnie Jae ❤️

Indigenous stories, media, and art by Johnnie Jae! Your support helps share Native perspectives with the world and keeps the lights on at home.

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 31/07/2026

My next newsletter is going out in the morning! Even when I- or you!- spend some much needed time off of social media, my newsletter always goes out on the 1st (& another on the 15th for Borikén Mail Club members!). If you'd like to stay in touch that way, you can sign up at destinytoro.com 🖤

Photo of a Puerto Rican person with long brown hair, glasses, red lipstick, a black dress, and a metal necklace in their art studio

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 27/07/2026

This is the last week to join borikenmailclub.com in time to get July's mini print in the next Mail Drop! Still working toward my goal of 20 new members, have 13 more to go 🖤

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026

We lost Denise Oliver-Vélez today. ¡Palante¡

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 11/07/2026

📣 artist friends w severe ME

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 10/07/2026

qrp your bird art! 🐦‍⬛🖤

Photo of a mini print with a colorful bird, with handwritten text "pájaro bobo menor/mangrove cuckoo, coccyzus minor"

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TORO @destinytoro.com · 01/07/2026

New Mail Drop! 📬 Learn more and join at borikenmailclub.com 🖤

A graphic with 2 colorful mini prints and a third blurred out with text "oracle card mini-print". They're labeled July, August, September and borikenmailclub.com

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