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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 7d

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

Understudies by Greg Egan

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't it just? My mate Liam, who put together that zine, is great at creating simple little critters like that.

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 4d

What I picked up at Wellington Zinefest:

Left to right from top to bottom:
Bent Zine - Liam Goulter (ed.)
Yella Haws - Ned Wenlock
Lost Cels - Thomas Oates (ed.)
Get Home Safe vol. 1 - Achille Segard, Genevieve Rae, Amber Clausner, Éimhín O'Shea
Monochromanticism - Tomollusk
World's Stupidest Slogans & Wellington Ramen Odyssey - Mina Ziner
Tales of the Windy City issue 1 & 2 & " Have Several Questions": Comics, Fanart & Autism - Callum Robertson

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats! Well deserved!

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PIMP-alotti-RIZ @attyboy.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to share that I will be moderating a panel at this years @furrystudies.org conference in Tacoma, WA on Halloween! I stepped on to help organize the conference after speaking at it last year and it’s been really near and dear to me. Tickets for in person and virtual attendance are available!

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barroo @averycutedog.bsky.social · 5d

bandcamp friday again! buy my new album if you want heylol.bandcamp.com

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 6d

New zine debuting tomorrow at Wellington Zinefest. More highlights from my dream journal. A sequel to 2023's "Large Birds Try Their Luck". Weighs in at a whopping 48 pages.

Grab one between 11:00 and 16:00 at the Vic Uni campus on Vivian St.

Zine in a window. Title reads "Border Collie Watching Anime on a Laptop, and other dreams", above a drawing of a border collie with big anime eyes.

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 6d

New zine debuting tomorrow at Wellington Zinefest. More highlights from my dream journal. A sequel to 2023's "Large Birds Try Their Luck". Weighs in at a whopping 48 pages.

Grab one between 11:00 and 16:00 at the Vic Uni campus on Vivian St.

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh! I'll keep an eye out tomorrow.

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M. Cromwell Artist > BLFC Dealers Den @marandart.bsky.social · 6d

"Beach Queen"
7.5"x7.5" paint pens & acrylic on reclaimed wood

Soledad love being big! She love being big and beautiful and on beach!!!

An anthropomorphic giant anteater woman in a floral bathing suit sits cross legged on the sand, flexing and posing in a satisfied way

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Trofe @jtrofe.com · 7d

Mad Max creator George Miller stuns with latest revelation: "That's a typo, his name is supposed to be 'Immortal Joe'"

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 8d

Happy birthday Michael!

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 11d

If you want to pinch any of the dark-mode and mobile-scaling code from my website, please feel free: milesdavitt.net. I think my CSS is labelled reasonably well.

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 13d

Currently reading "Surface Detail" by Iain M. Banks.

Tree Trunks from "Adventure Time" is in Hell (specifically Hieronymus Bosch's depiction thereof).

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Wolve @wolvexo.bsky.social · 14d

digging through archives. comm I did for @milesdavitt.bsky.social way back

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 13d

I still treasure this drawing.

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 18d

Zine excerpt

A picture of James Gandolfini with his arms crossed. His head is twinned, one floating off to his left. Below reads "I found myself high up in the canopy of a forest of tall trees. Every branch was an enormous thorn."

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 18d

Earlier this year, I was at the chemist's getting a COVID booster, and when the dude about to give me my vaccine pulled up my name to check my details, he asked me, "Hey, are you that Miles that makes zines?"

plæst[이]k @plaest2k.bsky.social · 19d

i had a doctors appointment to talk about hormone stuff and before we got started, my doctor was like "hey so um. are you like. the artist sloane? on twitter?"

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19d

a beautiful woman once approached me in the lobby of a hotel at SPX and asked "are you Gretchen Felker-Martin?" and when I said I was, she blushed and said "I love your Hannibal shitposts"

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 20d

Hopefully none of the contestants kill and eat each other this year.

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · 20d

There's a lot of shit that sucks right now, but please know that Fat Bear Week kicks off next week, and voting for Fat Bear Junior is open right now.

explore.org/fat-bear-week

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Miles Davitt @milesdavitt.bsky.social · Jul 4

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 21d

trans people aren't the downfall of civilization no matter how many monster truck show people who pivoted to blasphemous megachurch spectacles say so. they weren't right about pokemon cards or e-drugs or whatever, they're not right about this. it's a stalking horse for social domination by losers

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Dobes @dobescrusher.bsky.social · 21d

Wolf in Woods- minimal collage with cut paper shapes. I was originally tempted to draw in more details onto the wolf but ended up liking this as-is. #collage #traditionalart #art

a collage with paper cut out shapes cconstructing a gray wolf with white legs and a white face, overlaid onto magazines cut-outs of a kale leaf, wood, and also wrapping paper with victorian-era bird and floral designs.

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 24d

Various sketchbook drawings, August 2025

A single image containing two separate scanned images from a sketchbook. At top, a drawing of three anthropomorphic wolves walking hand in hand; the first two are mammals and the third is a pooltoy. The first two say, "We're not poly!" The pooltoy says, "Unless you mean it literally." The second image shows a bipedal digitigrade wolf carrying a large Winco-branded sack on his back. He spots a sign which reads "Attention- From June 1 onward, you must use reusable gunny sacks."

A single image containing two separate scanned images from a sketchbook. The first is a three panel comic. The first panel reads "WAYS OF COMPARTMENTALIZING" with a wolf holding up a camera, saying, "viewfinder." The second panel has three separate characters speaking in speech bubbles, with the first and third censored. The second can be read: "Insisting on one language." The third panel features a calendar with several colored marks on multiple days, but never overlapping each other. A wolf reads "Keeping friendgroups separate."

The second image shows a horse with an enormous canid mouth happily approaching a bowl of largely granular food which has HORSE written on it. A bag of horse food is present to the right of them. It reads "For Beautiful Life- Oat Horsemeal"

A hybrid shark-canid creature holds up a bag titled "Shark Hoover CHUM BAGS." An anthropomorphic shark vacuums with a shark-shaped vacuum cleaner.

A page of doodles dated August 31st, 2025. At top are seven views of milk cartons. Milk 2%, Milk 1%, Milk 0%, Milk -1%, Milk Summer (thong design), President Milk (Brazilian-style presidential sash design,) Safety Milk (seatbelt design.) Below these, an anthropomorphic fox holds out his hands, facing the viewer, stating "This can be a good thing or a bad thing." Around him, various canids are pictured holding snouts and expressing themselves.

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Auryn @lordpook.bsky.social · 25d

Eileen Townsend's review of Room Party is out now in Artillery Magazine! Eileen isn't a furry, but she is my bff, and she really, really GETS IT.

Featuring @attyboy.bsky.social @flausch.bsky.social @scribblechicken.bsky.social @zubrovich.bsky.social @julianahuxtable.bsky.social @elfboys.com & more!

FURRY ARTISTS WILL REMAKE THE WORLD - Artillery Magazine

artillerymag.com

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