Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Can I just say--the bit in that first piece of concept art where the goop is stuck to the invisible shield bubble and not the Cerritos herself is great. 010
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When I was young, and my mom was a stay-at-home parent with three kids, she helped pay our family's bills by providing in-home daycare, in part, this was due to programs like these. 031
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I guess my reaction to this attempt to shame folks for not listening to country is this: Last month my social media was wall-to-wall Dolly Parton memorials. So some country gets into the bubble, at least. 100
Reposted by Alan ScottAllie @rally.luckyraven.cc · 22/09/2026Webtoons is a brand name. People have been calling the medium "webcomics" for about thirty or so years now. I think this distinction is important. 9801286
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026No, you just want to *run* the purity testing committee despite not being a Democrat. Sorry but you don't get to use the Democratic Party--which while imperfect is an actual force for good in this country--to settle your intrafactional conflict with your fellow right-wingers. 000
Reposted by Alan ScottAlys Rujasu @rujasu.net · 22/09/2026This image popped into my head a while back and I just remembered it today so here you go 91940687
Reposted by Alan Scotttinytachyon @tinytachyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026do you think tony gilroy knew that "Revanchsim exists in star wars but its named after a guy called Revan" when he decided to make a show about insurrectionary realpolitik where the main realpolitik guy is called Luthen Rael. do you think everybody in star wars starts talking about "Rael-politics" 823835
Reposted by Alan ScottHarlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026do not vote for transphobic dems. if you want a dem party to continue to exist and become a force for good you have to have a spine. 3705
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This has two major corollaries: 1) If you care about trans rights, you should vote blue 2)Scorched earth policy on anyone trying to make the Democratic Party less good on trans issues. 130
Reposted by Alan ScottWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026the structure of the coalition contains, basically, 4 groups, of which two are “insane wrecker centrists” and “insane wrecker leftists”, and the other two are “sincere, principled liberals” and “sincere, principled socialists”, and the only way to victory is to fight both that left and right fringe 1234
Reposted by Alan ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board. 513247639
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 23/08/2026👀 High praise, as twisted is my favorite Star Kid musical, and the subject matter of this one is right up my alley. 000
Reposted by Alan ScottRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE 343148243449
Reposted by Alan Scotthammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This whole “what if C3PO was your LLM” discourse is actually a great test because supposedly its a robot built by a mass murderer but really its just piloted by an underpaid human inside because its not real AI 110820
Reposted by Alan ScottPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026One of the funniest things about using AI for legal tasks is that a conversation with your lawyer is completely privileged, while a conversation with ChatGPT is literally public404media.co‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion LawsuitChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. 36322
Reposted by Alan ScottTad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I saw this on Facebook, and I feel like it's a joke made for like ten people. I am, however, one of those people, and I love it. 23691201
Reposted by Alan ScottG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15/08/2026One of the most underrated storytelling techniques: lowering the stakes 616614
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If you used a time machine to bring George Washington to the 21st century, he would be speechless. If you brought Benjamin Franklin, he'd look bored and say "Gentlemen, your conveyance is not the first device to have brought me through time, and I doubt it will be the last." 000
Reposted by Alan ScottAlan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As the celebrated author of "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus", I enthusiastically endorse TormentCo's Torment Matrix, a fantastic device that has none of the nexus-like qualities I warned about in my novel. 022
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As the celebrated author of "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus", I enthusiastically endorse TormentCo's Torment Matrix, a fantastic device that has none of the nexus-like qualities I warned about in my novel. 022
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026If it helps, remember that most of the dinosaurs & dinosaur species were dead for other reasons before the meteor ever got there. 000
Reposted by Alan ScottElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 07/08/2026My new political theory: voters value authenticity. In the past, moderation on certain issues signaled authenticity because it does willingness to break with party orthodoxy. In a more poll-tested, Moneyballed era, more extreme positions are now also an authenticity sign. 3254
Reposted by Alan ScottSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 593159690
Reposted by Alan Scotthuck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close. 86211456652
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This is a deeply valuable thread that everyone who might need sleep should read. 010
Reposted by Alan Scottescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Either you're a weird freak about the most vulnerable among us or youre an empty soulless husk willing to hand over said vulnerable people to said freaks if you think it'll get you 1% more votes from the South Hitlersville district and either way you are not to be trusted in a democracy, full stop. 022827
Reposted by Alan ScottGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026When Dems attack Trump's corruption, is that "leftist" or "moderate"? It's neither. People need to stop trying to map everything on to these ludicrously simplistic little templates, which are just designed to facilitate factional infighting and build online followings. 25976228
Reposted by Alan ScottFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/07/2026if there's been one key theme for me of the last decade, it's been "wow, a lot of people with power and influence seem to care way more about worrying about hypothetical threats than doing anything about or understanding very real and non-hypothetical threats that are happening right now" 845868
Reposted by Alan ScottGingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 317255036965
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026In fairness, I'd say the two are related. We like bright colored things b/c they stand out in our gray-by-other-peoples-choices houses, and then perpetuate the gray because it doesn't clash with out brightly-colored things. 000
Reposted by Alan ScottStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026At the end of the day, we're going to have to make the Affirmative Action Woke Officer Corps (tm) conservatives imagined real. If every four to eight years you get your career stalled if you're not a right-wing white Christian male, those will be the only people who go career military. That's bad. 11748147
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lola Bunny from Space Jam is basically the most unnecessary character in existence. Loony Toons already has a rabbit who's eye-catching in a dress, and his name is Bugs. 020
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Okay, I just found out about this today, and I'm blown away by the math of it. Is there a general name for this family of figures (for which this example would be n=7 and a yin yang would be n=2?) 010
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Okay, this run was just disgustingly good. Glam-enchanted Storm as my very first reward, and the opportunity to clone a bunch of Thunders. The Spire didn't have a chance. 000
Reposted by Alan Scott𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026In case anyone missed my little X-Files point and click daydream 9140611219
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 08/07/2026In a particularly sad sign of the times, I'm not immediately clear whether this post is about Iran or Greenland. 041
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It feels like Pelosi was also actively invested in keeping the Republicans on the other side of the Rubicon. She was more invested in making sure a supposedly cooked Trump could be an albatross around the GOP's neck than in getting the bipartisan support a successful impeachment would need. 000
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 30/06/2026People do not have to jump through all your hoops and do a special dance to earn queerness. And that goes just as much for the normies as for the rest of us. 000
Reposted by Alan ScottJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I agree with the take that you actually couldn't make Blazing Saddles today because it has too many jokes about how racist white people are. 129773
Reposted by Alan ScottIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/06/2026PSA to people on Instagram: people who don’t have Instagram can’t see your posts! They see a login prompt. That information about your business or your event? Literally inaccessible 181171454
Reposted by Alan ScottElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Turns out that nervously wringing your hands and murmuring apologies to racists is unappealing both to normal people and racists. 211413
Reposted by Alan Scotthorror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026this is my favourite insult of 2026 120957
Reposted by Alan ScottTheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 15/06/2026So excited that the video game adaptation of Monsterhearts is back to crowdfunding, and it looks like it's already funded! This is a super neat take on adapting PBTA mechanics to a video game, and I'm really excited to see the full game. (Demo's out on Steam!) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...backerkit.comMonsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned LakeMonsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake. Get messy. 🤯 Get magical. 🪄 Get monstrous. 🦇 We are crowdfunding to add controller support to this queer narrative horror deckbuilder. 2127
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Also, there is a currently running Office spinoff that launched last year. I'm assuming he's doing a bit. 100
Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 13/06/2026If you get holes in one pair of socks, that means you need new socks. If you get holes in *all* your socks, that means you need new shoes. 110
Reposted by Alan ScottVicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Trans folks: as best you can, tune out the headlines, spend time with one another, build friendship and community. This wave is going to break: their political projects have never been less popular. Were gonna make it through this year and on the other side all our enemies will fall. Stay alive 31427357
Reposted by Alan ScottThe Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The lengths time travellers have gone to to prevent the saxophone being invented are jaw dropping. 1121777
Reposted by Alan ScottWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026the dignity of the office is the duty of the President to maintain, not of the people to respect, regardless of anything else about the President or political circumstances 120126