Joshua “Josh” Leto

@jleto.bsky.social

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I support all kind people. And all kinds of people. I write things and I’d be grateful if you read them. Comics and media focused newsletter: jleto.substack.com (free—Substack gets no money) Fiction and personal writing newsletter: thesorest.ghost.io

Matt Damon as Odysseus, strapped to the mast to not be drawn in by the sirens. He's leaving ecstasy and entering agony.
A picture of a comic book titled “the story of Jesus” with a white Jesus on the cover
Header. A guy in sunglasses from the neck up in the avatar disc. A photo of three bombed out phone stalls with the tag “beast” in them. The text reads “I support all kind people. And all kinds of people. I write thing and fit be grateful if you read them. Then there’s a link to a couple newsletters. Blah, blah, blah…
A paper sign with blue marker writing on a lamppost: “they got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war”
A screenshot of a substack "like" of my most recent Ghostface Killah post. The like is from "Inspirational Quotes" which is clearly a slop account with no nutritive value. (Unlike my substack which has a couple nutrients per thousands of empty calories.)
A screenshot of today’s NYT crossword of clue 46 “it’s in your jeans” with five squares and the 2nd and 3rd filled in with an E and an N.
A comic panel where a character is walking into a glasses shop with a broken window. The shop owner says "Ah! There you are. Almost finished." The panel is laid out nicely with a front room all in black white and grey, and a further room with bright red fixtures around all the glasses and all the frames are bright red. Beautiful!
A google street view of an outer building of the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, CA. It used to have gas pumps, but is now used for something else. It has an outer layer of large brownish stones approximating it being built from stacked stones. It has a dark wood slanted roof and a cool spire on the main building.
A photo of a store after dark. The neon words are missing some letters: Whole DSM ET Is missing the letters needed to make it read Whole Foods Market
Two panels from Spectators. The black and white “real world” is foregrounded and the second panel shows our two main specters in the background in full color.
Photo of Rick Froberg. Holding a guitar and standing on stage.
Screenshot with text changed from “‘As the AI 'grim reaper' haunts more creative jobs, OpenAI's CTO says, "maybe they shouldn't have existed in the first place..if it is not very high quality’” to “‘As the AI 'grim reaper' haunts more creative jobs, OpenAI's CTO says, "maybe OpenAI shouldn't have existed in the first place..if it is not very high qualit’”
Delightful Brian Bolland Action Comics cover featuring Clark Kent sitting at a desk and half of his head has been torn open, exposing wires that indicate that this Clark is an android.
A man standing in the corner of a brick building. He is turned and facing the wall in the corner. He has a black t-shirt, cargo shorts, and blue crocs on.
A clip of today’s Strands from NYT games that could easily spell the word “farts” which would fit the theme.
A photo of the actor Jacob Sewell , a teenager dressed only in shorts, shoes, and a bunny-ear head covering, sitting on a curb on an overpass, the highway behind him. This shot is black and white, and either from the film Gummo or shot during production, as he is in character as “Bunny Boy”.
A screenshot from an NYT article that has the text “Hernandez published her first adventure when he was 22. Now, at 65, he has entered middle age alongside her.” “Her” is Maggie, who is also depicted in the screenshot, in panels taken from Love and Rockets, cropped close to show the short-haired, middle-aged version of Maggie in stunning black and white line art by Jaime Hernandez.
A post with a headline "Rest In Peace, Grandma" and the lead paragraph. This text is sitting over a picture with a casket in the background, and a pamphlet in the foreground. The pamphlet has a photo taken in the 1950s and colorized. The first paragraph reads "On January 11th, while various parts of Los Angeles County burned, we buried my grandmother at Forest Lawn In Glendale. If you looked west or east you could see red-brown skies filled with smoke creating a haze reminiscent of '80s smog. Where she was set down were blue skies and few clouds.
A screenshot of a tumblr(?) post with the words “me going on a stupid little daily walk for my stupid physical and mental health.” Above a photo of an eagle walking, head bowed below his shoulders.
McSweeney’s headline reading: YOUR AMAZON ORDER OF REUSABLE METAL STRAWS IS CURRENTLY ON ITS WAY VIA THE MOST ECOLOGICALLY DEVASTATING ROUTE YOU COULD IMAGINE by J. TAYLOR LEE
The cover for Faith No More's King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime featuring a black, white, and red illustration of a policeman and a barking dog on and near a subway car.
The cover image of RZA as Bobby Digital, with a painting by Bill Siekiewicz with RZA depicted as a cybernetic-ninja-gunfighter-superhero, or something. He's in front of a stylized W for Wu, and some classic blaxploitation motifs, like girls in bikinis, explosions and guns.
DiCaprio pointing meme from Once Upon A Time. It’s Leo holding a beer and a cigarette pointing at a tv off camera
Bluesky promotional screenshot of my account number 1,062,968 and my joined date of September 18th, 2023.
The cover for Scream, Dracula, Scream! by Rocket From The Crypt. It has a white background and a large scorpion.
Tutant Meenage Neetle Teetles
A picture of a beach. It looks a little cold and grey because it is. No one appears to be in the water and there’s just a few people on the sand. There’s a nice rock formation in the background. Most people can’t tell from the photo, but this is south of Morro Bay on the California coast.
Two panels of original art from Dan and Larry by Dave Cooper featuring Dan (a duck) walking away down a road in a devastated landscape with destroyed buildings and debris. Black and white with lush brushstrokes evoking great texture.
The image is just text and a link: “A Short Story About Climate Events, Advertising, Nostalgia, and Free Will”
A pile of letters from outdoor lighted signage laying on the grass. There is no rhyme or reason to the letters, but there is a white "T" and a red "B" and "E" and what looks like a "V"
Ars Techinca headline that reads “Nestle baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugar—but only in poorer countries”
Headline from Ars Techinca reads: Pornhub blocks all of Texas to protest state law—Paxton says “good riddance”
A quote on a gentle blue background from the latest post at jleto.substack.com It's about quotations.
Monk Jam by The Monks from Cavestomp!
A photo of a list of accounts that followed me today. All five are loaded with p@rny photos and on1yfan$ links.
Headline that reads Sam Bankman-Fried to testify in hopes of avoiding life in prison.
Cover of Roberta Gregory’s Naughty Bits #1 featuring her neofeminist archetype
Original art by Jordan Crane. Many birds flying chaotically and the indicia for Clouds Above.