Death Valley sunset.

I was terrible at keeping up with posting during our Tucson trip, but I’ll post some highlights now that we’re home. Tired (home bed is best bed), broke (relatively speaking, but we were buying for our entire 2026 show season), and burned out on gem shows (again, relatively speaking lol.) 😝

So here I am in Tucson for the first time in 14 years, and it’s been amazing so far. Last time I was a diamond-eyed gemology student in a lousy marriage; now I’m a business owner with the best partner ever, buying incredible specimens for our 2026 gem show lineup. How things have changed!

Doing art badly is good and sacred

There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up

A zine documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act of censorship (zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...)

Not claimed yet: Buy this framed and matted print and I'll donate proceeds to People Over Papers. Mail day is tomorrow so I can get it out to you that quickly!

Still needing input on this.

So I got into The Art of Planetary Science..!! All three pieces! 😵‍💫 thanks to those who encouraged me to submit (especially @stellerarts.com ) And weirdly since I will BE IN TUCSON on 2/13 I get to drop them off like a normie? 😅 AND see the Kuiper Building/campus? SUPER DUPER YAY

Also sorry I’ve been quiet, things have been a little @&$!$*%#@$ behind the scenes.

Tucson peeps! We will be there for a week in February for as many gem shows as we can fit in, but my burning question is: what’s your favorite place to EAT? 😍

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end! It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

I grew up where the headwaters of the Sacramento River come bursting out of the bottom of (aptly named) Spring Hill. Glacial cold and pure.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

I’m good with my first thing here in 2026 being the reposting of a poem. ‘into the open arms of the air.’

…I’ll take it.

Do I know someone with a good understanding of physics, who is willing to answer a couple of specific questions about the three-body problem, and/or point me to a good explainer on the topic? (It’s for a painting; I’d like to work some equations and/or text into the piece but in a non-stupid way.)

For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD. A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead! 📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/... #Archaeology

Today I reminded myself why I left web design, and how quickly CSS can send your brain from zero to murderous rage. 💀 In other news, I’m rethinking this Shopify page I was trying to make prettier.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Where is everyone making their art vs artist grids?

This needs to get into the fanart communities stat: it looks like Shopify is the connection to this Amazon "Buy For Me" debacle, which could really hurt a lot of folks who sell fan works on their personal site. Type your company name into Amazon search right away (and maybe update your sites, too)

Okay. Help me, friends. Besides the new painting I’d have to send a progress photo of to enter, which of the following #SpaceArt should I submit to TAPS 2026? (Or suggest another one. The top two are already framed.)

Attn space artists, there’s still time to submit!* *I had grand plans to finish a piece in time to enter but, yaknow, it’s the 30th and I haven’t even unwrapped the cradled board I bought so prolly not submitting this year. 😑

look at this absolute hero. may only good things happen to her from this day to the end of time

100% this. 😒

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me

I love the textures in this image so much! I painted it a few years ago, a more abstract-looking piece. #watercolor #SciArt #SpaceArt

Realizing my art vs artist this year would be mostly graphic design and very little painting. No space art at all. 😭 I’m proud of the design work I’ve done for our @rckhnd.com brand. But I haven’t painted in months. Just started unburying my art desk. And that fills me with shame. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Hello from Dead Week. What day is it?

Coral Bells Heuchera Flower #Photography #ColorPhotography #MacroPhotography #Flower #BlueskyArtShow #small

This is so, so beautiful. #raku

I blew off social media lately, and for that I apologize. But I can’t let #ArtAdventCalendar pass without posting at least ONCE! So here’s something different, a photo of a lone surfer, three weeks ago during the King Tides at Cannon Beach #Oregon, just two days before all the flooding hit.

Daniel Craig watching "Beignet Blanc", the Sesame Street Knives Out parody. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZK7y4sQPCJ8

WTAF. Why does his stupid face have to be on THIS as well??

Let's do a giveaway for my new #Apollo11 bootprint hoodies! 🚀 Enter for a chance to win a #bootprint hoodie! Available in 5 colors. ✨ 💫 How to participate: 1) Follow me 2) Enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway 3) Like & repost 🚨 P.S. Hoodies for sale here: sciencesocks.co/products/apo... 🔭🐡🧪🎨

Well, today is shaping up to be a… day. 😣

For day 1 of the #ArtAdventCalendar, one of my favorite pictures I’ve taken

What Danielle’s been designing and manufacturing lately, exhibit A:

#SciArt peeps: I am contributing to a surprise baby shower, a library group gift. Please send me your favorite children’s science/space picture books, I need ideas! Stitching with Science is my first go-to but I like to have options. (Or I might gift two. 😅)

And sometimes we’re still working full-time jobs that pay the bills but don’t feed our souls because we can’t go without health insurance. 🤷🏼‍♀️ the willingness to wreck ourselves and our lives for art is the point. We forgo luxury (and sleep) to keep creating.

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

Yesterday was @rckhnd.com ‘s last vending event of the year, and I’m grateful for the respite. It’s been a wild and joyful ride this year, but Danielle needs a break now. [falls over] Hello, hello… I’m back from nearly-ghosting BlueSky.

Okay peeps, I know I’m OLD (47) but I cannot believe NOT ONE OF YOU a) got this joke or b) chuckled even for a moment. Maybe I’m the only one who had a dad that would shout “RENEW! RENEW!!” at random times when the word renew was used in conversation. 😅

This story is the story we all need today: a good dog finding good people through the kindness of other good people and the remarkable way the internet can still be a force for great good.

New awareness campaign

Today is Sunday and what the world needs is a chonky baby rolling around in a sunbeam. Enjoy our Pippin being his fluffy self. #cats #catsky