Andrew

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WoSo generally, NWSL & Liga MXF especially. Midwest based. Please send book recs or favorite recipes.

Clip of a replay from a soccer playoff match. Bianca St. Georges (in blue, for NC) has the ball, Temwa Chawinga (in red, for KC) tracks back and intercepts her, sending the ball away, but in the process they both end up falling. Chawinga stays flat on the ground, in clear pain, holding her thigh. The other player gets up unhurt, walks directly over to Chawinga, stands above her and shouts down at her with arms out taunting like she just dunked over her or won some boxing match. Super gross. She starts to walk away as Chawinga’s nearest teammates immediately rush in to intervene. Desi Scott starts calling her out, interrupted by rookie Ellie Wheeler, who pushes the back of the player, who falls to the ground, gets up complaining at her poor treatment. Wheeler walks away in disgust as other teammates arrive to keep everyone separated and check on Chawinga.
A screenshot of two people quoting the same post. The original post says, It never fails: you publish a book and within weeks the emails come in: "Hey, I liked your book and all, but on page 257, there's a typo that I want to call your attention to...." I don't understand this impulse to contact authors in this way. The first quote post says, I wouldn't do this for a typo but I did recently read a book about 90s baseball in NYC, which I know a few things about. It had so many basic errors that I was tempted to contact the author and publisher. The second quote post says, The good news is that this will go on for the rest of your life! I'm still getting corections for The Soul of Baseball.
Yes, part of why "being in work" is good for us is that it gives us money to buy things and to enjoy a flourishing life, and that can theoretically be replaced by cash transfers. But some of the benefit of being in work is just about being in work - meeting new people we otherwise wouldn't have done, having a routine, finding personal meaning in the whole thing.
Screen shot of article text: Jason Stockwood, the Labour government’s new investment minister, recently said that a UBI may be a necessary tool to manage the disruption of AI. Higher structural unemployment, higher taxes on those of us who remain in work, and a universal basic income for everyone else is one possible future in a world where AI turns out to be an engine of pure, rather than creative, job destruction. But there is another option, which is to say that if the choice is between extreme limits on what uses we can put AI to and most of us being paid to sit around and do nothing, then we should choose a world without UBI and AI.
Martin @martinavatar.bsky.social • 7h What about the traffic cone tip? I've heard this before and it sounds reasonable (not the pouring water bit, though) Dan Kaszeta FRistS @dankaszet... • 7h It's not bad. Deborah @deborahxoxo.bsky.social • 2h You're not at all helpful. Please offer solutions and advice. The entire point of the original post is to offer some information. I literally got from Google. These are trying times. Your solution is to hoard information. If someone does see what posted, why wouldn't you correct the information?
U.S. Women's National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals) 2026 January Training Camp Roster GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 6) Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 4), Jordan Silkowitz (Bay FC; 0) DEFENDERS (8): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign FC; 5/0), Avery Patterson (Houston Dash; 9/1), Izzy Rodriguez (Kansas City Current; 1/1), Tara Rudd (Washington Spirit; 9/0), Emily Sams (Orlando Pride; 7/0), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; 4/0), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave FC; 2/0), Kate Wiesner (Washington Spirit; 2/0) MIDFIELDERS (8): Croix Bethune (Washington Spirit; 5/0), Hal Hershfelt(Washington Spirit; 3/0), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; 11/1), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; 0/0), Lo'eau LaBonta (Kansas City Current; 4/0), Sally Menti (Seattle Reign FC; 0/0), Sam Meza (Seattle Reign FC; 2/0), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 11/5) FORWARDS (Z): Maddie Dahlien (Seattle Reign FC; 0/0), Jameese Joseph (Chicago Stars FC; 1/0), Trinity Rodman (Unattached; 47/11), Yazmeen Ryan (Houston Dash; 15/2), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 12/4), Ally Sentnor (Kansas City Current; 13/4), Reilyn Turner (Portland Thorns FC; 0/0)
Screenshot of iOS icons. The screen mirroring icon with two rectangles is circled, poorly.
Screenshot of the schedule for the World Sevens tournament, available here: https://www.worldsevensfootball.com/tournament/fort-lauderdale/schedule
Ralph Wiggum in the back of a careening school bus saying “I’m in danger.”
Screenshot of lyrics: I get it, years got the better of you, and washed up dreams All the long relationships suck at the end And now under pressure from the people around You use first person plural We'll do this, we'll do that We plan, choosing just now We'll do this, we'll do that She dribbles you like Messi You wag your tail like Lassie Tell me where we are in this story
One lesson of "The Zorg" is that history and people are complex. The recently fashionable view of American (or Western) history as just one extended hit job, with whiteness always the oppressor and people of color always the subaltern, is ultimately a childish temptation, excusing us from engaging detail and nuance. Humans of all shades have quite often been awful to one another. Our job is to work against that tendency, not to pretend it doesn't exist. And to celebrate those who overcome it, whatever their race.
In a night vision view of a brick patio with cafe tables and chairs, a duck suddenly enters the frame and skitters to the other side. With purpose. And then back. And then another way. The combination of sound and speed waddling is an ember of joy that will glow no matter the darkness, carry it with you on all your future quests.
Rock musician Alice Cooper early in his career. He has big 80s hair, a black leather jacket with studs, a gentleman’s cane in his hands, and a desperate desire for a road crew with the best uniforms.
A bunch of secret service agents in the palace guard uniform, wearing serious expressions while looking absolutely ridiculous.
A political cartoon with Richard Nixon and the British prime minister walking in front of a line of secret service agents in the new palace guard outfits. The prime minister is laughing and Nixon looks toward him with concern.
A man in a white dress uniform with gold braid and lots of gold buttons in a line around the center of his chest. The collar has gold trim and the letters “W.H.” on each side, also in gold. There is a small police badge over his heart, looking like you tacked a child’s dollar store toy onto a Hapsburg. He is also wearing a funny black and gold hat. It’s got a strange shape, reminiscent of European livery, with the seal of the United States on the front.
A bloom of little lantana flowers, which are clustered together in multicolored rings. It looks a little like part of a reverse rainbow, with the outer rings in a vivid red, transitioning to orange, and then yellow in the middle. The leaves are a lush green.
Mike Watts and Lori Lindsay stand in a commentator booth with a soccer pitch in the background. Both are wearing matching black polos and royal blue curly haired wigs. Mike is speaking earnestly towards Lori, whose eyes are closed while she’s laughing.
A photo of the interior of a cabinet in a hotel room. There is a bar to hang clothes, but it has been mounted about two inches from the back of the cabinet, nowhere near enough room for the coat hangers to fit properly. Instead, the hangers have been swiveled to the side in a chaotic mess. You could technically hang things on them but they would overlap on top of each other and be impossible to quickly see and access. In a triumphant coup des grâce, the plastic holster for the iron is inexplicably mounted where the hanger bar should be, defying your pathetic Cartesian understanding of what belongs where in our world, declaring with the heat of dispassionate gravitas, “Yes, *this* was the choice. Do not complain, do not argue. It is the answer. Pray you never have to learn the question.”
Some garbage “news” account with a fishy name and 14 followers posting a weird article accompanied by an AI illustration of women’s soccer players that is all kinds of messy. There are two balls on the field. The goal is on the sidelines. Some of the faces haven’t fully rendered. Everyone seems to be slightly floating.
A photo of a letter from Target that says, “We haven't seen you in a while, so we're writing to inform you that it is our policy to close Target Circle Card accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. Don't worry, you still have time - simply make a purchase in store or online to keep your account active. If there is no new activity in the next few months, an additional correspondence will be sent to you to remind you of our account closure policy, prior to any action being taken. As a reminder, your current credit limit is (redacted). Don't forget, your Target Circle Card gives you access to some great benefits, including: (snip) We hope to see you shopping soon! Thank you, Target Card Services”
The host of the old Japanese show Iron Chef is speaking gravely while wearing a resplendent dark robe with angular colorful embroidered patch accents and a large ostrich ruff. Is this an echo of the past or a vision of a cyberpunk future? We can only guess. His hand is in the air emphasizing a point, and the subtitle reads, “A forbidden battle.” Something real is about to go down.
A rugby player in a white uniform smiles at her teammate who is breaking through into open field while carrying the ball. They are running nearly side by side, wind in their hair, and joy in the sport.
Screenshot of article text: urging users to "never cede ground in an information war." Those arguments are increasingly frail, though. If there is, in fact, an information war raging on Twitter, Musk is a profiteer. Twitter is what it always was: a money-making venture —just more nakedly so. And it now subsidizes a billionaire who understands free speech to be synonymous with the right to abuse others. (While claiming to champion free speech, Musk has selectively granted it, suspending accounts that are critical of him and firing employees who dissented from his view of how the company should be run)
Inclement definition: unpleasantly cold or wet
Weather map of the United States showing a horrifying expanse of high temperatures across the map. It’s nice in Seattle, at least.
A mathematical diagram of a large 12 with pairs of colored lines radiating down to the smaller numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. A multitude of factors.
Screenshot of two simultaneous posts responding to Colombia tying Brazil late in extra time: “THIS GAME IS DRUGS” next to “THIS MATCH IS ON DRUGS”
A post-match photo of the soccer pitch at the KC Current’s stadium. In the background is a bridge. The players are gathered together taking a group photo, with members of each team intermingled with each other.
The protagonist from “Caps for Sale” sitting on the ground against a tree in a hilly green rural landscape. He is wearing a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat.
Another hack account posting the article: Headline: Ben Shelton's soccer-star girlfriend Trinity Rodman falls sick due to extreme heat while training ahead of Washington Spirit's next match Opening line: Ben Shelton will have to face plenty of challenges when Wimbledon starts, but his girlfriend, Trinity...
Some hack article about Trinity Rodman with the line: “Ben Shelton's Girlfriend Trinity Rodman Overcomes Extreme Heat During Intense Soccer...”
The natural nuclear reactor at Oklo formed when a uranium-rich mineral deposit became inundated with groundwater, which could act as a moderator for the neutrons produced by nuclear fission. A chain reaction took place, producing heat that caused the groundwater to boil away; without a moderator that could slow the neutrons, however, the reaction slowed or stopped. The reactor thus had a negative void coefficient of reactivity, something employed as a safety mechanism in human-made light water reactors. After cooling of the mineral deposit, the water returned, and the reaction restarted, completing a full cycle every 3 hours. The fission reaction cycles continued for hundreds of thousands of years and ended when the ever-decreasing fissile materials, coupled with the build-up of neutron poisons, no longer could sustain a chain reaction.
These sorts of mishaps are not unheard of, says Marsollier. The LHC is located outside of Geneva. "We are in the countryside, and of course we have wild animals everywhere." There have been previous incidents, including one in 2009, when a bird is believed to have dropped a baguette onto critical electrical systems. Nor are the problems exclusive to the LHC: In 2006, raccoons conducted a "coordinated" attack on a particle accelerator in Illinois. It is unclear whether the animals are trying to stop humanity from unlocking the secrets of the universe. Of course, small mammals cause problems in all sorts of organizations. Yesterday, a group of children took National Public Radio off the air for over a minute before engineers could restore the broadcast.
A vintage advertisement for Jarts, a yard game played by throwing sharp metal spikes through the air towards a plastic ring on the ground some distance away. This game, marketed to children, was responsible for more than six thousand injuries severe enough to be treated by a hospital emergency department - and that was just in eight years. Society eventually realized this was a horrible idea and banned the game.
A baby girl sits on a pitch with a soccer ball in front of her. This is a stupid April Fool’s post, apologies.
A soccer player runs up to a rebound from outside the penalty area and strikes the ball so hard and straight that the goalkeeper can’t save it even though it was struck from so far away. NWSL
A full lunar eclipse is visible against the dark night sky. Rather than looking yellow white, the moon appears red. The vague grey shapes of the moon’s oceans are visible, mostly, but if you zoom in at all it gets so fuzzy that it looks more like a radio telescope image of an object millions of light years away. Or that new image of Pluto. Nothing so exotic, though, just the moon through a cheap telephoto lens that clips to a phone. It’s silly, but was fun to try.
A soccer player forces a turnover, weaves through a crowd, fakes a shot causing a defender to side to the ground while the player dribbles around her, firing a shot a moment later surprising the final defender and goalkeeper.
As various players for the KC Current women’s soccer team arrive for preseason duty, a camerawoman surprises them with a game to challenge their accuracy, tossing a soccer ball towards them with the objective of them kicking the ball with one touch and hitting a water bottle that is standing upright on the sidewalk. Onscreen graphics rate the result. Coach Vlatko surprises us at the end by receiving the ball, juggling it in the air for several touches, then capping off the sequence with a kick, nailing the water bottle. I did not know he could do that.
2025 PRESEASON ROSTER, PRESENTED BY СРКС Goalkeepers (4):Lorena (NYR - INT), Laurel Ivory, Clare Gagne, Evan O'Steen (NRI - U-18) Defenders (10): Alana Cook, Kayla Sharples, Hailie Mace, Gabrielle Robinson (SEl), Izzy Rodriguez, Regan Steigleder, Mallory Weber (NRI), Ellie Wheeler, Katie Scott, Meila Brewer (NRI - U-18) Midfielders (7): Debinha, Vanessa DiBernardo, Bayley Feist, Claire Hutton, Lo'eau LaBonta, Jereko (INT), Rocky Rodriguez Forwards (7): Temwa Chawinga (INT), Michelle Cooper, Alex Pfeiffer (SEI), Nichelle Prince, Bia Zaneratto (SEI - INT - NYR), Mary Long, Ava Tankersley (NRI) KEY: INT - International Player NYR - Not Yet Reported NRI - Non-rostered Invite SEI - Ended 2024 season on Season-Ending Injury List U-18 - Under-18 Non-rostered Invitee
The painting American Gothic, with a sober, unsmiling husband and wife farming couple looking at the viewer. The man is holding a pitchfork, which is about where I’m at when it comes to gambling ads infecting the sports landscape. I just smile more is all.
Screenshot of a self-described sports media account posting an article yesterday, Dec. 22. The article was written in November about the NWSL semifinals, which were also in November. Clear bot behavior.
A women’s soccer match where the attacker gets a great shot on goal through the defenders, the keeper blocks the shot but another attacker gets the rebound and shoots from even closer. The keeper somehow blocks that shot too, but the force behind the shot keeps the ball moving up and behind the keeper towards the empty net. In the last second, a quick-thinking defender steps and stretches a high kick, sending the ball away to safety, saving the goal by millimeters.
A photo of a sculpture of a woman. The sculpture is on a pedestal with a plaque that reads “A Young Lady marble, probably 1450/1475, with later alterations PROBABLY FLORENTINE Widener Collection 1942.9.112” The type is all small, except for PROBABLY FLORENTINE for some reason, which originally made me think the artist wasn’t exactly sure who they were sculpting.
Fans of the Orlando Pride stand behind a purple and black flag with the crest of a black swan in the middle.
Lynn Williams stands off in goal against Casey Murphy who is standing at the penalty spot, but the roles are reversed. Lynn’s arms are outstretched, a bold warning that Thou Shall Not Pass
Months earlier, the Current privately urged Port KC not to advance the garage — largely out of fear that it could impede the team's ability to expand CPKC Stadium beyond 11,500 seats. Team co-founders Chris and Angie Long first raised that prospect, telling The Wall Street Journal in July they were "already planning to expand the stadium by thousands of seats, probably after the 2026 World Cup" because of the stadium's success in its inaugural season. In an Aug. 22 letter, obtained by the Kansas City Business Journal, Current President Raven Jemison told Port KC CEO Jon Stephens that the team is "actively looking" to expand CPKC Stadium's capacity. She said PCA's garage and resulting uncertainty for the Current could adversely affect plans for further riverfront investment.
A man wearing a glorious costume that has a neck that appears to be a ring of ostrich feathers. He speaks, and the subtitles read “A forbidden battle.”
The flag of communist East Germany. Three bars, black red and gold, with a central seal made up of a ring of wheat with a hammer and architect’s compass in the middle.
ESPN FC Women's Rank methodology and voting panel explained We polled 18 women's soccer experts from around the world. Current and former coaches for top-tier clubs teams or national teams, general managers, administrators and journalists were asked to anonymously pick their top 50 players of 2024. Using a ranked ballot, each No. 1 vote was worth 50 points, and each No. 50 vote was worth one point. At the end, we tallied up the points to get our list. While our 2023 ranking was a runaway for last year's No. 1, Aitana Bonmatí, as she was chosen No. 1 on nearly every ballot, this year was much more competitive: Seven different players landed at No. 1 on the ballots of at least one voter in our panel.
A soccer player taunts her opponent by standing with both feet on top of the ball, motioning for the defender to come after her. The defender approaches to stop her, and the player hops off the ball, dribbles a couple touches forward, then fakes her defender out so throughly that she loses her balance and falls forward while the player dribbles calmly and quickly past her to set up a cross for her teammate. Then, the secondhand embarrassment is too much for me and I look around for any blanket to hide under, it will be days before I show my face in public again.
Israel first criminalized incitement to terrorism in 2002, for reasons that now sem unthinkable. Lawmakers believed - as many Israelis did - that they needed to rein in ultranationalist Jews. In 1995, the climate of incitement against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin led directly to his assassination by a Jewish extremist. Israel's laws about speech were then a mishmash of antiquated statutes, some of which came from the British Mandate period. When the courts failed to clarify things, the Knesset decided to step in. Incitement entered the penal code. When the topic of incitement came back to the Knesset 14 years later, in 2016, Israeli politics had inverted. Netanyahu - who in 1994 marched in front of a coffin painted with the slogan Rabin Kills Zionism - was in power. Itamar Ben-Gvir - who had brandished the hood ornament from Rabin's limousine to a TV reporter, promising "We got to his car, and we'll get to him too" - was a rising politician on his way to a post as a minister. Under Netanyahu, the Knesset voted to widen the jaws of the 2002 law. Speech that might have seemed "innocuous" could now be criminal, the University of California, Berkeley, law professor Elena Chachko, who has written about this law, told me.
A political yard sign in a lawn strewn with autumn leaves. The text reads: “Harris-Walz: obviously”
A screencap of a scared racist who knows he messed up.