See what happens when you just put your foot through the ball? It goes into the net!

Stutter stepping on a PK should get you disqualified idc

Algeria/Austria is in KC, are we sure Vlatko isn’t coaching in this game? This strategy of playing for a tie in the last group stage game looks a little familiar.

Twenty-three years ago was Lawrence v. Texas. Thirteen years ago was United States v. Windsor. Eleven years ago was Obergefell v. Hodges. And eight days ago I married @ash12.bsky.social. I am so glad we have the right to a legal marriage but it shouldn’t’ve been so recent of a civil right.

Happened in Baltimore and I hope John Waters is having a nice day today

Okay Maryland and West Virginia (and Virginia if they get over themselves), got to team up to teach the rest of the country the whole song, not just the chorus!

I think Ochoa is the first men’s World Cup player older than me (by a few months) to see the field this tournament!

AYITI

Apparently Harry Wild is trying to appeal to me even more (because Jane Seymour as a retired literature professor turned private detective in Ireland wasn’t enough?) by bringing in Joe Lando for a Dr Quinn Medicine Woman reunion.

Very interesting since after the 2019 World Cup, @ash12.bsky.social decided that Paris is like NYC and Lyon is like Philly, primarily from vibes.

This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

We would have been missing this year’s Pride game because it’s at the same time as our (gay!) wedding, but it looks like some of the team didn’t want it to happen anyway. I’m glad team management called it and will go ahead with the Pride events instead, but it hurts to see this today.

The best #GoToGames success story advances to the next level today when @ash12.bsky.social and I get married, ten years after she sat next to me at the @washingtonspirit.com v @orlandopride.bsky.social game.

Dear @washingtonspirit.com, @heyspirits.bsky.social, all Spirit fans, gays, and people who like meet cutes. @marbenais.bsky.social & I are getting married today and the love story is a meet cute of luck, the Spirit, and #PlexWeather #RiseUpDC #SpiritNation #GoGays

As always, @ussoccer.com, see how good it looks when a team keeps the same home kit design? (Yes, they change the shade every so often, but it’s always recognizably orange.) Please fully bring back the Waldo jerseys (having finally seen one in person, the waves this year aren’t it).

For anyone new to soccer: Yes. The ref pretends to record stoppages and give a semi-accurate estimate but it’s just vibes. He makes up a number. It is several minutes short of the real number. Everyone accepts this for some reason.

I understand why Ragtime chose the Prologue for the Tony performance, but y’all should’ve been blessed to see Joshua Henry and Nichelle Lewis do “Wheels of a Dream” on national television.

CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL wins for best choreography!

Two days until I can start worrying about the outdoor wedding weather forecast! (We have plans for precipitation; the only real concern is if it’s too hot for our fifteen-year-old dog to attend.)

I’ve called her the Straight White Hope for years. I didn’t have a problem with her off the court until it became obvious that she wasn’t going to push back on her “fans” who used her to publicly hate and harass Black and queer players. She needed to shut it down immediately. She didn’t.

“It’s an Indigo Girls concert, we should be able to have a WNBA ticker for the audience” - @ash12.bsky.social

Don’t call yourself an ally unless you’re rolling up like A’ja Wilson with lesbian cakes.

Texas and Tennessee are playing in the softball semifinals in the battle of the oranges

@annetheriault.bsky.social We are going to Québec City in a few weeks; do you know if they have Montréal beef and/or sesame seed bagels there?

We’ll take winning the last game before our wedding (on the tenth anniversary of meeting at a @washingtonspirit.com game) with two goals from two out players, thanks Leicy & Hal

Person behind me in line is suggesting cheesesteak pupusas and perhaps the Philly Union would like to experiment?

The @washingtonspirit.com continue to excel at scoring when I’m on the concourse.

But really . . . have y’all tried liking women? Just think about it!

First, please go sign.

As a blessed and apostolic addendum to the pope's encyclical, I went hideously, inexcusably deep on all the petty shit he left out

Sheetz has better hot food than either Royal Farms or Wawa. (Royal Farms is the best for everything else.)

Okay, since it was used in The Devil Wears Prada 2, what is ‘gorpcore’ and why is it in the listings of almost all my eBay saved search results?

While we’re all in our feelings about losing yet another championship game . . . since we met at a Spirit game in 2016 at the Plex, would “We Found Love” [in a hopeless place] be a good song for a wedding playlist?

And that absolutely WILD second goal is why I have a Kouassi jersey, y’all can’t sleep on her anymore!

Our county has giant industrial zones, so we have commercial paper and plastic recycling manufacturing companies nearby. I don’t trust that Penn Waste actually recycles anything we put out at the curb, but a for-profit company isn’t taking (actual) tons a day without using it. It is sadly unique.

I have five pints left of their cannoli ice cream in the basement freezer.

God bless Amtrak, “if we have to ask you more than one time to move your belongings off the seat next to you, you will be off at the next stop.”

Would it kill the Mystics and the Spirit to win on the same matchday

Waiting in line for CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL and feel a bit underdressed in my flannel shirt and jeans behind the green velvet and sequin blazers, but we do need representation from all parts of the queer community.

Finally going to a talk at the Tenement Museum in person after watching the livestreams when at home.

Trying to get foam (or cotton, just not feather) pillows at this hotel and they delivered a barely-mini-fridge which narrowly fits in the room. Okay, great, but where are the pillows?

Apparently some glasses manufacturers think -4.00 is a high prescription and that’s cute but my eyes haven’t been that good in over a decade.

There’s a cybertruck getting mulch alongside me and I would bet a large amount of money that my Volvo station wagon can fit more bags.

The fact that I cannot call a store IN MY TOWN and talk to a person IN THAT STORE is infuriating. Spend five minutes going through the “training AI assistant” only to get a call center because “individual stores don’t have the capacity to answer phone calls.” Just don’t list a phone number then!

Pro tip for BWI: both A and B terminals have Gachi House of Sushi locations, which have grab & go hot food (the ramen and udon just take an extra minute to get hot water added) for the absolute best quality and speed combination of any food place in the airport.

I truly hate how much TSA tries to gaslight us, even at PreCheck. “You always have to [some new random thing]!” I went through this exact same checkpoint a week ago, y’all are lying to my face.

YAY RORI!

Every actor is excellent in this production of Ragtime, but the label of “generational talent” is an understatement for Joshua Henry’s performance as Coalhouse Walker, Jr. - not winning the Tony would be the greatest travesty since the 2017 awards. youtu.be/1XQtMnPz1AQ

Of all the little details for a wedding planning website to get wrong, pluralizing a name ending in S was not one I expected.