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Alan Scott

@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Different Alan Scott than the Green Lantern one, but we are both gay. Were I ever actually to get off my but and post stuff, I'd be posting about Tabletop, Comics, Mixology, Current Events, and Retail Management. Sacramento, California, USA.

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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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Allie @rally.luckyraven.cc · 22/09/2026
Webtoons is a brand name. People have been calling the medium "webcomics" for about thirty or so years now. I think this distinction is important.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No, 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.
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Alys Rujasu @rujasu.net · 22/09/2026
This image popped into my head a while back and I just remembered it today so here you go
Three panels. First is a one-handed sword labelled "einhänder." Second is a two-handed sword labelled "zweihänder." Third is an N64 controller labelled "dreihänder."
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tinytachyon @tinytachyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
do 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"
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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
do 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This 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.
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
the 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
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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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.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This 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
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One 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 public
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‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I 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.
Image of ROM #1 from Marvel Comics, but it's "Rom of Finland" instead of "Rom Spaceknight."
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15/08/2026
One of the most underrated storytelling techniques: lowering the stakes
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If 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."
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If it helps, remember that most of the dinosaurs & dinosaur species were dead for other reasons before the meteor ever got there.
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My 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.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I 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)_/¯
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is a deeply valuable thread that everyone who might need sleep should read.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Either 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.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When 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.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/07/2026
if 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"
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In 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.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
At 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lola 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Okay, 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?)
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Okay, 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.
A history screen for a successful slay the spire 2 run, Defect on ascension 5.  Cards include a Storm enchanted with glam, and four Thunders enchanted with clone.
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In case anyone missed my little X-Files point and click daydream
Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and the Lone Gunmen, all drawn in a cartoony style.A hallway of an institute or something like that, with eldritch green light pouring in through a far window.A car crests a hill at night. A figure with a shovel stands by the roadside.My wife and I are watching a little bit of The X-Files again and I've been doodling
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Imagine if you will: a five act point-and-click where you switch between Mulder and Scully depending on what kind of clues and puzzles you're working with. The Lone Gunmen get their own episode during Act 4 but they all move together like a single character. Tone is 70% comedy 30% paranormal horror.

Scully: "Mulder, you can't combine those."
Mulder, trying to tie a stick of dynamite to a taxidermied pheasant using half a shoelace: "Ancient Roman augurs read omens into the flight paths of birds all the time, Scully."

Scully: LOOK AT Enormous Rotating Saucer Hovering Over the Town
Scully: "That's the second biggest weather balloon I've ever seen."

Scully: LOOKAT Fox Mulder's Docs Folder
OPEN Fox Mulder's Docs Folder
Scully: "Ah."
Mulder: "I get those for the articles."
Scully: "Yeah who doesn't love a juicy article."

Mulder LOOK AT Mysterious Skull
Mulder: "Seen this, Scully?"
Scully: "Artificial cranial deformation has been attested in numerous cultures,
Mulder. The practice results in elongated skulls and flattened foreheads."
Mulder: "Does it make the bones glow green?"
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In a particularly sad sign of the times, I'm not immediately clear whether this post is about Iran or Greenland.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It 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.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People 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.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I 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.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/06/2026
PSA 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
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Turns out that nervously wringing your hands and murmuring apologies to racists is unappealing both to normal people and racists.
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
this is my favourite insult of 2026
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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 15/06/2026
So 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...
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Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake. Get messy. 🤯 Get magical. 🪄 Get monstrous. 🦇 We are crowdfunding to add controller support to this queer narrative horror deckbuilder.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Also, there is a currently running Office spinoff that launched last year. I'm assuming he's doing a bit.
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Alan Scott @alanrileyscott.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If 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.
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Trans 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
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The lengths time travellers have gone to to prevent the saxophone being invented are jaw dropping.
A Wikipedia page for the inventor of the saxophone - Adolphe Sax. Sax faced many brushes with death. As a child, he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead.[6][unreliable source?] At the age of three,[6][unreliable source?] he drank a bowl full of acidic water, mistaking it for milk, and also swallowed a pin.[7] He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion[6][unreliable source?] and once fell onto a hot stove.[7] Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying.[6][unreliable source?]

His mother once said that "he's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live".[6
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
the 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
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