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Leighton Connor

@leightonc.bsky.social
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Co-Founder of Hex Games, co-author of Million-Colored Sun, Leopard Women of Venus, and the ENnie Award-winning Hobomancer. Big Jack Kirby fan. Writer, artist, cartoonist, bon vivant, man about town. leightonconnor.com

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Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You can’t criticize me I already visualized you as the unhelpful zigzag Tetris block and myself as the heroic single line block
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Shelfdust @shelfdust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Doug Moench Presents Batman: The Soap Opera!, by @stevewmorris.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/09/23/d...
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Doug Moench Presents Batman: The Soap Opera!
By Steve Morris There’s not many characters like Batman in media as a whole. He’s existed so long that writers and artists can genuinely take the character, wrap him up in any issues or…
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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 22/09/2026
minor annoyance, but i'm fucking tired, stop calling it talent like some fairy god gave it to me. I was 8, I wanted to draw better, so I started working at it FOR FORTY FUCKING YEARS> It's skill. It might not be the best skill, but it is still something I practiced. It's not something "blessed"
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a little savvy political advice for all you democrats running for office out there: you want voters to think you believe different things than the people they hate and blame for everything
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wonderful news!
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When it comes to civil rights, that slope is a vertical line. You trade away those of your countrymen and you WILL be losing yours. It's only a matter of time.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Doing a BACK TO SCHOOL sale on my site, all prints are at crazy low prices! 8x10 prints for $15, 11x14 for $30, 13x19 at $40! Insane savings! michaelkupperman.com/shop
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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author
We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson
Poul Anderson
Harry Bates
Lloyd Biggie, Jr.
J. F. Bone
Leigh Brackett
Marlon Zimmer Bradley
Mario Brand
R. Bretnor
Fredric Brown
Doris Pitkin Buck
William R. Burkett, Jr.
Elinor Busby
F. M. Busby
John W. Campbell
Louis Charbonneau
Hal Clement
Compton Crook
Hank Davis
L. Sprague de Camp
Charles V. de Vet
William B. Ellern
Richard H. Eney
T. R. Fehrenbach
R. C. FitzPatrick
Daniel F. Galouye
Raymond Z. Gallun
Robert M. Green, Jr.
Frances T. Hall
Edmond Hamilton
Robert A. Heinlein
Joe L Hensley
Paul G. Herkart
Dean C. Ing 
Jay Kay Klein
David A. Kyle 

	

R. A. Lafferty
Robert J. Leman
C. C. MacApp
Robert Mason
D. M. Melton
Norman Metcalf
P. Schuyler Miller
Sam Moskowitz
John Myers Myers
Larry Niven
Alan Nourse 
Stuart Palmer
Gerald W. Page
Rachel Cosgrove Payes
Lawrence A. Perkins
Jerry E. Pournelle
Joe Poyer
E. Hoffmann Price
George W. Price
Alva Rogers
Fred Saberhagen
George O. Smith
W. E. Sprague
G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy)
Dwight V. Swain
Thomas Burnett Swann
Albert Teichner
Theodore L. Thomas
Rena M. Vale
Jack Vance
Harl Vincent
Don Walsh, Jr.
Robert Moore Williams
Jack Williamson
Rosco E. Wright
Karl WurfWe oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J Ackerman 
Isaac Asimov 
Peter S. Beagle 
Jerome Bixby 
James Blish 
Anthony Boucher 
Lyle G. Boyd 
Ray Bradbury 
Jonathan Brand 
Stuart J. Byrne 
Terry Carr 
Carroll J. Clem 
Ed M. Clinton 
Theodore R. Cogswell 
Arthur Jean Cox 
Allan Danzig 
Jon DeCles 
Miriam Allen deFord 
Samuel R. Delany 
Lester del Rey 
Philip K. Dick 
Thomas M. Disch 
Sonya Dorman 
Larry Eisenberg 
Harlan Ellison 
Carol Emshwiller 
Philip Jose Farmer 
David E. Fisher 
Ron Goulart 
Joseph Green 
Jim Harmon 
Harry Harrison 
H. H. Hollis 
J. Hunter Holly 
James D. Houston 
Edward Jesby 
Leo P. Kelley 
Daniel Keyes 
Virginia Kidd 
Damon Knight 
Allen Lang 

	

March Laumer 
Ursula K. LeGuin 
Fritz Leiber 
Irwin Lewis 
A. M. Lightner 
Robert A. W. Lowndes 
Katherine MacLean 
Barry Malzberg 
Robert E. Margroff 
Anne Marple 
Ardrey Marshall 
Bruce McAllister 
Judith Merril 
Robert P. Mills 
Howard L. Morris 
Kris Neville 
Alexei Panshin 
Emil Petaja 
J. R. Pierce 
Arthur Porges 
Mack Reynolds 
Gene Roddenberry 
Joanna Russ 
James Sallis 
William Sambrot 
Hans Stefan Santesson 
J. W. Schutz 
Robin Scott 
Larry T. Shaw 
John Shepley 
T. L, Sherred 
Robert Silverberg 
Henry Slesar 
Jerry Sohl 
Norman Spinrad 
Margaret St. Clair 
Jacob Transue 
Thurlow Weed 
Kate Wilhelm 
Richard Wilson 
Donald A. Wollhelm
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How had I never seen this appearance of the Morrison-era Doom Patrol outside of the Vertigo confines in ACTION COMICS #666 (!)
Page where a maddened Superman is confronted by Cliff Steele, Rebis, and Crazy Jane (in Black Annis guise)
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Kevin Church (Spooky Remix) @beaucoupkevin.com · 09/09/2026
One more repost. I'd appreciate a read. I went more personal than usual on this.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the most sophisticated large language model is no closer to artificial general intelligence than an alarm clock, and it will never get any closer
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Proud to be the 605th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for A Bit O Troika! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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A Bit O Troika
A street-by-street, door-by-door gazetteer of the Troikan borough of Ripplegate with spider banks, fire cults, population adjusters, and hundreds of other small businesses all mapped and packed with s...
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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
80s Japanese game art clearly influenced by Moebius, Druillet, Corben, etc. slaps so hard. This is one of my favorite illustrations ever.
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A couple more Kirby characters
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J.M. DeMatteis @jmdematteis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If anyone in the history of comics deserves to be called a genius, it's Jack Kirby: artist, writer, visionary. We all stand on his shoulders. Happy Birthday, Jack—wherever in the cosmos you are!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/08/2026
Does anyone else feel like we're in a inevitable crumbling of society where declining living standards, ever increasing crises, and decaying institutions converge? Even worse, the stupidity of the current political system right now makes it all feel so hopeless for at least the next decade.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.
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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My favorite Dolly Parton meme.
A twitter interaction where someone posted a photo of Dolly Parton looking hot as hell in black and red lingerie. Someone else replies to the photo with "Well then wha the hell did Jolene look like???"
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of my less popular beliefs is that you aren't serious about dealing with the problem of our big tech oligarchy if you completely disregard capital punishment for C-suites and founders. Thiel, Zuckerberg and Musk are all guilty of treason by any reasonable definition.
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Chris P. Wolf 🛸 Mostly Offline @chrispwolf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dungeons & Dragons as the industrial meat grinder that turns the plump chicken of The Dying Earth into the pink slime of Dungeon Crawler Carl
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Marvel is doing a crossover with STAR WARS for its 50th anniversary, but ERASERHEAD came out the same year and they're not doing an event... What, just because they don't own it or have any relation to it? Sure. Hm. Very telling.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One must imagine Chief Miles O'Brien happy
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There's a certain type of Democrat who has done quite well for themselves, mostly entrenched leadership and consultants, and they very clearly do not want to see progressive Dem victories, because it will expose the fact that their whole triangulated third-way schtick is based on a lie.
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
FINAL CRISIS RULEZ
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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 06/08/2026
Please boost <3
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
that's cool, i'm planning on having dinosaur chariot races. can your mom make us some pizza rolls?
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ah, Gen Con memories!
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hey look, I'm in these pictures!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My purchases at #GenCon2026!
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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I think a lot of people who remain in fandoms for children's media as adults fundamentally misunderstand what we're saying when we criticize something being "for kids" Yes, children's media can engage with serious, mature topics. But it has to treat them like it's your first time hearing about it.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 02/08/2026
I cannot believe this even HAS to be boosted. It is essential that we protect and catalog this degree of comic history.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/08/2026
Disgraceful actions by @harvard.edu - destroying their writing program at a time when it's needed more than ever as "A.i." undermines everything. Deepest shame on this institution and all the best to @janerosenzweig.bsky.social. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.
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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
THE ODYSSEY shows conservatives' fear reflex is broken. He's a brilliant white war vet, solves every problem, two gorgeous women love him unquestioningly & the narrative doesn't go deeper than his guilt over breaking his god's law, but is forgiven. Essentially a MAGA wet dream. 1/2
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Lala
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I have a new newsletter out, and it's A Great Jumping-On Point for New Readers! Jump on, why don't you?
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Hello, I'm Ricky Imes
Far beyond the fields we know lies the Akashic Library, an unutterably ancient edifice of arcane esoterica. What mysteries will you plumb amidst its endless...
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Isn't it weird that the gap between 1995 and now is about 20 years, while the gap between 1995 and 1965 is about 50 years
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 27/07/2026
Writers are people who have imposter syndrome and main character syndrome at the same time
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Chris Graue {Lo(u)ser} @chrisgraue.com · 27/07/2026
I backed this because I wanted a book, and now I'm getting a bunch of free stuff! You should get in on it too, Chris is my favorite cartoonist
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Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have arts on sale! www.etsy.com/shop/Akashic...
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AkashicMarket - Etsy
Shop Artwork by Leighton Connor by AkashicMarket located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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