Welp, I finally got around to looking at it; @swoontower.bsky.social & @fortheglorykc.bsky.social lost the I-35 Cup to @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Final 2025 pts tally: MNUFC: 8 pts ATXFC: 7 pts SKC: 1 pt I suppose this means @crugglez.bsky.social & I actually have to turn this into a trophy?

You had me at "queer Mad Max Shakespeare show" 🤩

To Kat's point, I have always said that the easiest thing to do in the face of reports of gendered violence is nothing. People desperately want to do nothing. And pushing them to do literally anything is seen as an attack.

Ok, the past three weeks have been an absolute blitz but I’m finally at the point where I’m not stressin’ about it anymore: - New job - Caesar + Antony + Cleopatra is officially opened (5 more chances to see it!) - Austin FC offseason is officially in-swing Come to my show! tinyurl.com/WSSPCAC

WHO’S MADELINE

heard y’all like Eugene V. Debs www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2347-e...

Rome knows how to party

Predicted lineup and formation vs LAFC tomorrow night.

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

JUST LIKE WE WANTED ALL ALONG. ILIE HAS NEVER LOST AGAINST A FORMER CLUB WE'RE THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD WE'RE UNSTOPPABLE.

Eastern Conference (+Seattle) Decision Day was WILD. Awesome. Stoked for the second half of the night.

I could not find it on the fly! Everyone go listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

hey @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social - what's the best way to get @susannahfuller.bsky.social to chat on @swoontower.bsky.social with @crugglez.bsky.social and me? We met y'all super briefly (and barely held it together, playing it cool!) when you were in town for All-Star Weekend!

i was not prepared for what it was, not least bc everyone is hitting a wildly different beat here

Would love to hear the @mlspa.bsky.social perspective on this - the "giving players a bigger platform to provide visibility and garner more followers/endorsement opportunities" angle is one I hadn't recognized. At the same time @bradstuver.com is our most popular & most visible player, so it tracks?

Hey @travishelwig.bsky.social / @darrendmiller.bsky.social / @hafosafo.bsky.social will y'all sign this for me after we win tonight?

The greatest team in the world sweeps LAFC tonight. #AustinFC

put it in the louvre

Fs in chat for Skate.

This weekend, the Austin FC supporters group @losverdesatx.bsky.social is hosting a watch party for the RSL game (9/27 at 8:30pm CT) at Fast Friends brewery. They’ve partnered with Walgreens so you can get your flu shot at the watch party!!!

Do my bones smell like me the way my skin does?

Extremely frustrated this morning that there are parents of autistic children who may be (again) wondering if they caused this. It is not. There’s zero scientific evidence to support the claims made by the administration. Even if there were, this will never be on you.

trains are magic and it’s so embarrassing that the richest country in the history of the world is all “high speed rail? nah we don’t need it”

The last week for #AustinFC KING @bradstuver.com: 210 minutes played 39 shots faced 9 saves 2 goals conceded 18 recoveries 79 touches 2 Fundraisers 1 Live @progresstexas.bsky.social Podcast Recording 1 @andrew-wiebe.bsky.social Apple TV Interview 1 Cornhole Champ 3peat

dudes rock

One positive thing you can do this morning is cancel your subscription to any media outlet that talks glowingly about a white supremacist. Those organizations are telling us who they are, and who they’ll support as the purges accelerate.

the most controversial statement you can make in this world right now is that it’s bad that israel is committing a genocide

First games on our new Yarro Studios Gamefold Table! Bananagrams, First Ascent, then we started in on Murdle!

Actual Blueskyism is noticing that the account making shitty posts under the name of the controversy pundit who peaked 30 years ago has tiny numbers and not bothering to QT, whether it's real or fake

@tombogert.bsky.social / @empiregass.bsky.social / @cboehm.bsky.social / @mattdoyle.bsky.social / other MLS sickos: Could Michael Ndiweni be Superdraft eligible? Could he also be on someone's Discovery List, since he was a pro in Europe? Could/Would he be the first Discovery List Superdraftee?

idk if i've been this excited for a video game since the THPS 1+2 remaster, which ended up bad, but I can't WAIT for Skate 4.

Dragon Con was awesome. Mike Colter is ENORMOUS, but he had my back when it counted - he told @crugglez.bsky.social to let me be late sometimes. Massive thanks to @aasifmandvi.bsky.social for helping me fill time while waiting for Katja and Mike's coffee orders. 👀

waiting for the running to happen. also, i'm fuckin' DESPERATE to see how long it took him to vault that wall.

🇨🇭 Welcome to the Ex-Verde club Nicky Beloko! 🎉 Beloko returns to the Swiss 1st division with FC Lausanne-Sport, where he once spent a brief stint with their U16 squad. ✍️ He registered 0/0 goals/assists over a total of 0 minutes in his 29 days at Austin FC. www.austinfc.com/news/austin-...

Shit. With the Premier League coming back I need a ML algorithm to block all skeets referring to the Arsenal LB/midfielder from the "MLS" feed on Bsky plz. So annoying tryna talk about soccer and having to scroll past takes on this rando footballer in the feed instead.

how does anybody ever manage to do anything. it's terrible

We take "Meet the Team" Day very seriously! 🤣

I share "White Flight" with students when I want them to understand that people didn't reject public services (esp. education) because they were ineffective. They rejected them BECAUSE they were effective but benefitted all and not a select group. So, they formed private options to limit benefits.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Listening to @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social's first show today, finally. @empiregass.bsky.social have you checked out Thred? We partnered with them for costume pieces with @walkingshadowshakespeare.com and it was SUPER easy: rentwiththred.com

ay @soccerwisehq.bsky.social / @tombogert.bsky.social / @susannahfuller.bsky.social make sure y'all get out to Paprika (6539 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78752) before you leave town; it's officially @swoontower.bsky.social's favorite taco spot in town.

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is dregs a top 3 best austin band? yes imo

There's only 1 team to cheer for in Saturday's El Tráfico, and it's #LAFC. From www.latimes.com/sports/socce... :

If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.

When people ask , “What’s better In and Out Burger or Whataburger?” The correct answer is P.Terry’s

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

OK! Our Swoontower episode this week is up, and somehow we did a very long preview of the LAFC match tomorrow with the boys over at @hafosafo.bsky.social, despite neither of us really fully understanding what we've seen out of our team this year.