Leighton Connor
@leightonc.bsky.social
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. http://leightonconnor.com
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
STATUS REPORT UPDATE
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
STATUS REPORT UPDATE
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A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
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refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …
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November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
Art by @perplexingruins.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Art by @perplexingruins.bsky.social
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Here's the first update on my Kickstarter campaign for The Prison Pits of Larubia. Get the inside scoop, even if you're not a backer!
Update 1: We Have Begun Our Descent into the Prison Pits · The Prison Pits of Larubia
Hello, and thanks for backing! The Kickstarter launched yesterday and already we're more than halfway funded. Obviously I won't be able to sleep peacefully until it's fully funded, but 60% is a good s...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Here's the first update on my Kickstarter campaign for The Prison Pits of Larubia. Get the inside scoop, even if you're not a backer!
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I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
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Drew some #DaveCockrum LSH designs a few years back
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Drew some #DaveCockrum LSH designs a few years back
The Prison Pits of Latinos Kickstarter launched TODAY! Get excited!
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Prison Pits of Latinos Kickstarter launched TODAY! Get excited!
You’d heard that Larubia was a great city to visit, but somehow—surely it was all a misunderstanding!—you were arrested and sentenced to hard labor in the prison pits outside of town. Now you and your friends have no armor and no weapons, just the rags on your back and pickaxes for mining.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You’d heard that Larubia was a great city to visit, but somehow—surely it was all a misunderstanding!—you were arrested and sentenced to hard labor in the prison pits outside of town. Now you and your friends have no armor and no weapons, just the rags on your back and pickaxes for mining.
Holy guacamole, this thing's gone live!
The Prison Pits of Larubia
An Old School pulp sword & sorcery adventure for the Million-Colored Sun RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Holy guacamole, this thing's gone live!
I’ve updated the text on the pre-launch page, check it out!
Coming soon: The Prison Pits of Larubia
An Old School pulp sword & sorcery adventure for the Million-Colored Sun RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I’ve updated the text on the pre-launch page, check it out!
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The great @bernietheflumph.bsky.social has turned in the final cover illustration for The Prison Pits of Larubia! Isn't it pretty? This joins the evocative drawings @perplexingruins.bsky.social did for the interior. Gonna be a good looking book! #ttrpg #osr #fantasy
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The great @bernietheflumph.bsky.social has turned in the final cover illustration for The Prison Pits of Larubia! Isn't it pretty? This joins the evocative drawings @perplexingruins.bsky.social did for the interior. Gonna be a good looking book! #ttrpg #osr #fantasy
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This. Always this.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This. Always this.
The great @bernietheflumph.bsky.social has turned in the final cover illustration for The Prison Pits of Larubia! Isn't it pretty? This joins the evocative drawings @perplexingruins.bsky.social did for the interior. Gonna be a good looking book! #ttrpg #osr #fantasy
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The great @bernietheflumph.bsky.social has turned in the final cover illustration for The Prison Pits of Larubia! Isn't it pretty? This joins the evocative drawings @perplexingruins.bsky.social did for the interior. Gonna be a good looking book! #ttrpg #osr #fantasy
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
This Kickstarter is launching SOON, click to be notified when the big day arrives!
Coming soon: The Prison Pits of Larubia
An Old School pulp sword & sorcery adventure for the Million-Colored Sun RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This Kickstarter is launching SOON, click to be notified when the big day arrives!
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I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
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New York City is home to about a million Muslims—nearly a quarter of the country’s entire Muslim population. Yet epithets such as “extremist” and “jihadist” are used to describe Zohran Mamdani with such regularity that they’re hardly notable anymore.
What Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for Mayor Reveals About Being Muslim in America
The Islamophobic attacks on the candidate carry the weight of history and the urgency of the present.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New York City is home to about a million Muslims—nearly a quarter of the country’s entire Muslim population. Yet epithets such as “extremist” and “jihadist” are used to describe Zohran Mamdani with such regularity that they’re hardly notable anymore.
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“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969 in office)
― President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969 in office)
Someone once said something to the effect of "you don't have to take white people's money. Give them someone to look down on and they'll empty their pockets for you" and it's really fucking sad how true it continues to be
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969 in office)
― President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969 in office)
There's a Halloween sale on, and you can get 10 different games of mine for 50% off! Dang, that's some savings!
Includes such favorites as the mini-game Save Dave! and the paranoid surreal spy RPG Project 8Ball.
Includes such favorites as the mini-game Save Dave! and the paranoid surreal spy RPG Project 8Ball.
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There's a Halloween sale on, and you can get 10 different games of mine for 50% off! Dang, that's some savings!
Includes such favorites as the mini-game Save Dave! and the paranoid surreal spy RPG Project 8Ball.
Includes such favorites as the mini-game Save Dave! and the paranoid surreal spy RPG Project 8Ball.