Reposted by Leighton ConnorNaomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You can’t criticize me I already visualized you as the unhelpful zigzag Tetris block and myself as the heroic single line block 544461
Reposted by Leighton ConnorShelfdust @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...shelfdust.comDoug 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… 0128
Reposted by Leighton ConnorBlair Shedd @onegemini.com · 22/09/2026minor 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" 0103
Reposted by Leighton ConnorMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This 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 256143826810
Reposted by Leighton ConnorYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026we'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 241665399
Reposted by Leighton ConnorAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a 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 732365
Reposted by Leighton ConnorJacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this 191149454047
Reposted by Leighton ConnorCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When 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. 1940301
Reposted by Leighton ConnorNaomi 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...theguardian.comNaomi 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... 6539021325
Reposted by Leighton ConnorMichael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Doing 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 612754
Reposted by Leighton ConnorKyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author 1082257733
Reposted by Leighton ConnorK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026How had I never seen this appearance of the Morrison-era Doom Patrol outside of the Vertigo confines in ACTION COMICS #666 (!) 2274
Reposted by Leighton ConnorKevin Church (Spooky Remix) @beaucoupkevin.com · 09/09/2026One more repost. I'd appreciate a read. I went more personal than usual on this. 32710
Reposted by Leighton Connortunes 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. 427174343862
Reposted by Leighton ConnorJadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 0333254
Reposted by Leighton Connorshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the most sophisticated large language model is no closer to artificial general intelligence than an alarm clock, and it will never get any closer 372746388
Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Proud to be the 605th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for A Bit O Troika! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...backerkit.comA Bit O TroikaA 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... 000
Reposted by Leighton ConnorNathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 05/09/202680s Japanese game art clearly influenced by Moebius, Druillet, Corben, etc. slaps so hard. This is one of my favorite illustrations ever. 11668150
Reposted by Leighton ConnorJ.M. DeMatteis @jmdematteis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If 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! 827584
Reposted by Leighton ConnorAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/08/2026Does 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. 711116125
Reposted by Leighton ConnorPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When 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. 570582101
Reposted by Leighton ConnorMr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My favorite Dolly Parton meme. 290131893
Reposted by Leighton ConnorRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/08/2026One 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. 872638467
Reposted by Leighton ConnorChris P. Wolf 🛸 Mostly Offline @chrispwolf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Dungeons & Dragons as the industrial meat grinder that turns the plump chicken of The Dying Earth into the pink slime of Dungeon Crawler Carl 49621
Reposted by Leighton ConnorAnnie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Marvel 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. 18722
Reposted by Leighton ConnorZoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One must imagine Chief Miles O'Brien happy 414223
Reposted by Leighton ConnorA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026There'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. 1059094
Reposted by Leighton ConnorBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 05/08/2026that's cool, i'm planning on having dinosaur chariot races. can your mom make us some pizza rolls? 318819
Reposted by Leighton ConnorBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It’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 431124501643
Reposted by Leighton ConnorDoc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I 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. 10580147
Reposted by Leighton ConnorJodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 02/08/2026I cannot believe this even HAS to be boosted. It is essential that we protect and catalog this degree of comic history. 05962
Reposted by Leighton ConnorGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/08/2026Disgraceful 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...thecrimson.comIn Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard CrimsonAs 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. 117355
Reposted by Leighton ConnorRichard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026THE 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 1161
Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I have a new newsletter out, and it's A Great Jumping-On Point for New Readers! Jump on, why don't you?buttondown.comHello, I'm Ricky ImesFar beyond the fields we know lies the Akashic Library, an unutterably ancient edifice of arcane esoterica. What mysteries will you plumb amidst its endless... 021
Reposted by Leighton ConnorAl Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Isn'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 28815
Reposted by Leighton ConnorTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 27/07/2026Writers are people who have imposter syndrome and main character syndrome at the same time 23743143
Reposted by Leighton ConnorChris Graue {Lo(u)ser} @chrisgraue.com · 27/07/2026I 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 2113
Leighton Connor @leightonc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have arts on sale! www.etsy.com/shop/Akashic...etsy.comAkashicMarket - EtsyShop Artwork by Leighton Connor by AkashicMarket located in Cincinnati, Ohio. 000