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Blood Knife
@bloodknife.bsky.social
A digital magazine about science fiction, horror, fantasy, and capitalism.
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For 3 years in the 2000s, I was a virtual shut-in, living my life almost entirely online. I didn't go out, rarely socialized, and even stopped bathing. This is the story of how I got out, and my fears for a generation barreling headlong towards the same fate.
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THE REVENGE OF THE REAL: MY YEARS AS A DIGITAL SHUT-IN
Young, stupid, and terminally online at the dawn of the digital era
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October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
KNIFEPOINT #4
ADAPTIVE PARASITE ONTOLOGY
Read it here
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September 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for @bloodknife.bsky.social
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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood Knife
The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?
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February 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Maybe really big publishers won’t care for a while, but smaller/indie presses fucking around with AI covers will soon learn that losing a few hundred readers is actually a huge loss. Saving a few bucks on cover art is nothing if you can’t sell the book.
February 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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one thing i think of a lot is on Cartoon Planet when Space Ghost believes the word "gracias" means "friend" and refers to Zorak as "my little green gracias"
February 23, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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I want to do an entire Hockeypocalypse book in this style, but apparently "this series has sold over 1000 copies with no support" is not a strong enough argument for the publishers that can afford a rate that lets me colour like this and also live.
February 22, 2024 at 2:17 PM
hey buds - blood knife is taking a hiatus til the fall while I deal with some life things. more info in the post - just wanted to say I appreciate you all a great deal, and im excited to get back to the magazine as soon as I can. more soon! 🩸🔪
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February 14, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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And here is some 2023 artwork of mine for the wonderful @bloodknife.bsky.social and @interzone.press
January 27, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Anyway @kjy1066.bsky.social and Kurt of @bloodknife.bsky.social came on the podcast to talk about Omelas response stories: the genuinely good, the bad, and the inexplicable. No, you would not have the balls to rescue the child. www.patreon.com/posts/62671741
Book Club: The Ones Who Yell at Omelas | Rite Gud
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February 5, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Still puzzled by publications that use AI art. If it's cost, you can create quite good illustrations yourself with a little practice & work. And moral angle aside there's something so unserious & insulting about it. Like going to the trouble of taking off your pants only to piss on your own feet
January 11, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.
January 10, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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It's #PortfolioDay again! I'm Jeff Martin, an illustrator and cartoonist. I've had 14 graphic novels published, and also done #ttrpg writing and illustration, with recent forays into video games.

I'm looking for a lit agent, and also welcome illustration and comics work.
January 9, 2024 at 1:25 PM
he folks we have some really cool news coming soon. next couple weeks. some articles to publish coming up and 2 themes to announce, also, but more to come soon! new knifepoint later this week as well. been a bit of a mad dash post holidays so thanks for the patience!
January 9, 2024 at 4:20 PM
This is an absolutely terrific summary of something we have written about often: The way that, despite a nominally "human first" focus, Google's curation and presentation of the internet has distorted it toward a focus on machine readability and empty, boring, unhelpful marketing practices
New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.

The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
January 9, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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reskeet if you agree that he's just a little guy
PIXEL WIZARD

A quick #DTIYS for @alisdaiross.bsky.social
96x96px, 3 colors
#pixelart
January 7, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Listening to Sun Ra with the dog (who seems to be digging it)
January 7, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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I never expected Superhero Dicks and White Woman-on-Bear-Sex to become the defining pillars of my personal brand but I'll take it.
January 6, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Arwen: Great news dad I'm going to marry my boyfriend who lives outside and doesn't have a job and does a lot of foraging and archery
Elrond: uhhhhhh there is a, um, a magical reason you can't do that
January 6, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Profane feminine on cassette from @mollynoise.bsky.social goes hard as shit
January 6, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Seth Dickinson spitting fire in his Clarkesworld interview. Let's hope we can prevent Bluesky from turning out the same way.
January 4, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Huge sale on recent back issues from @interzone.press! Through Jan 14, Interzone 294 AND 295 are just $0.99! weightlessbooks.com/category/for...
January 4, 2024 at 2:07 PM