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. open.substack.com/pub/knifepoi...

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KNIFEPOINT #4 ADAPTIVE PARASITE ONTOLOGY Read it here knifepoint.substack.com/p/adaptive-p...

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 10/10 bloodknife.com/culture-war-...

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.

Guitar Wolf 『インベーダーエース "Invader Ace" youtu.be/CiDV1Kbff-U?...

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"

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.

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! 🩸🔪 www.patreon.com/posts/98463696

And here is some 2023 artwork of mine for the wonderful @bloodknife.bsky.social and @interzone.press

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

reskeet if you agree that he's just a little guy

Listening to Sun Ra with the dog (who seems to be digging it)

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.

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

Profane feminine on cassette from @mollynoise.bsky.social goes hard as shit

Seth Dickinson spitting fire in his Clarkesworld interview. Let's hope we can prevent Bluesky from turning out the same way.

controversial opinion but authors shouldn’t be responsible for the marketing of their books

Huge sale on recent back issues from @interzone.press! Through Jan 14, Interzone 294 AND 295 are just $0.99! weightlessbooks.com/category/for...

BURGERPunk: The RPG is now available! I am blown away that this weird, funny game came out of a goofy discussion on the Rite Gud discord. preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

2023 was a weird year, creatively, with ups and a lot of downs, but the thing I'll remember it for is that in the last few months I learned how to program a video game, and now people can download it. Patrons at any non-0 level can play it right now. Please do! www.patreon.com/collection/2...

With the internet age it's really not that hard for someone to crowdfund and pay to have 1-10k copies of a book printed. If you want to only give me 10-18% of the cover price for my book/comic, then it's YOUR job to earn it. I need you for the reach, not to get the books printed

The short story of the day is Riley Tao's queer body horror piece "What It's Like" from @seizethepress.bsky.social . Intense, breathless, and brutal! www.seizethepress.com/2022/04/14/w...

In lots of other businesses you have to pay for an option.

This year, Blood Knife... - Published 36 articles - Paid out almost $8000 to writers and artists - Was read about 480,000 times by nearly 330,000 people Thanks to everyone who supported, subscribed, contributed, and read us in 2023! See you next year!

Whenever I see someone in a car obviously grooving along to some music I can't hear I imagine that it is techno syndrome by The immortals

one of the very first comics i worked on in my career (i was juggling this plus a whole day job) was layouts + pencils for an exhibit on chinese americans for the new york historical society. the comic is now a free educational tool for all new york city public schools ! link below for teachers

In the latest KNIFEPOINT, we're talking extraterrestrial joyrides, cyborg cops, and the strange denizens of the digital abyss. knifepoint.substack.com/p/optimized-...

Technology and the human. Some recent illustrations for the fascinating articles at @bloodknife.bsky.social . Check them out!

Cory Doctorow's THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION is a welcome salvo in the battle for the internet's soul, but one that's saddled with an outdated view of the internet & the extent of corporate control. New from Kurt Schiller bloodknife.com/the-internet...

Cory Doctorow's THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION is a welcome salvo in the battle for the internet's soul, but one that's saddled with an outdated view of the internet & the extent of corporate control. New from Kurt Schiller bloodknife.com/the-internet...

"When the next industrial genocide is committed, it will again be orchestrated and administered by the wonks, the technocrats, and pundits, these self-appointed gatekeepers of culture and morality." PSYCHOPATHIC AESTHETES & THE HORROR OF THE THIRD REICH bloodknife.com/psychopathic...

boy does that sexposition shit seem stupid now that sex and nudity in a movie or show is like a special event and a whole army of smol beans react to anything remotely explicit like they're Estes Kefauver

100%. but part of the issue is that the modern internet & media ecosystem is designed to penalize it. social media emphasizes quick hits; google search is built for instant gratification; people have been taught NOT to browse or read. if it made more money than publishing trash, websites would do it

It's cool when you wake up and discover that a bunch of other people are just as excited as you are about The Big Synthesizer

Our latest episode is up early access for Patreon subscribers! We talk to @kjy1066.bsky.social about sanitized monsters. www.patreon.com/posts/toothl...

J. Ashley-Smith pulls no punches in his collection of parents and children lost in a world of darkness, grasping for meaning and connection, often using the latter as a proxy for the helplessness of the human condition writ large. Zachary Gillan reviews THE MEASURE OF SORROW, from Issue #8.

Review: FOE (2023) is tense, emotional sci-fi that explores a relationship in crisis against the backdrop of a future ravaged by climate change—but which doesn't quite stick the landing. New from Kevin Fox, Jr. bloodknife.com/review-foe-2...

work in progress: lava skull

Details from my art for 'They're not going to make you an immortal internet God" by Norbert Daniels Jr. over at @bloodknife.bsky.social