Ruben

37.5% - In penalty shootouts in all competitions for #NWSL teams, Aubrey Kingsbury has saved 37.5% of the on-target penalties she has faced (9/24). All other goalkeepers have combined to save just 17.2% (20/116). Different.

this team truly might be the end of me

I love the Washington Spirit

Filed for future use.

Gift Monday said "too small"

IT’S SPIRIT TIME LET’S FUCKING GO

this is why i hate when the league acts like it has to #girlboss to gain credibility. fam, look at what we just witnessed. there's nothing like this league, and that's all because of the players. it is my dream that one day they have leadership that understands this, and acts like it.

i am so very sorry but marta can never retire, 95th minute in a playoff quarterfinal clinging to a 1 goal lead and she uses every ounce of energy she had left to sprint damn near the whole pitch and win a late penalty, then gives the spot kick to luana. i'm over here just being a puddle of emotions.

It's not even the skill, it's that at age 39 at the very very end of this high-demand playoff game, Marta found the energy for a 60? yard sprint on the ball, beating multiple defenders *for pace* to win the penalty

that’s right

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

two guys in overalls look at a bald woman lying on a bed in a basement, in a scene from Bugonia

two people lying on the ground in conversation, in a scene from Sorry, Baby

painting of a dog feeling blue, in a scene from Paterson

the shape of a woman is seen through a rain-covered window, giving her a blurry and uncertain appearance, in a scene from The Cremator

favorite first watches of October

Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025)
Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor, 2025)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)

The Anti-Trans Grifters Are Coming For The NWSL | Defector In July, the Guardian reported that the NWSL had quietly allowed its policy on the participation of transgender players, established in 2021, to expire. The scrapped policy used the testosterone level...

NWSL players have been swept up into a storm of transphobia and racism. What will the league do about it?

I do think it's very funny that she tried this grift one day after getting bumped due to Dick Cheney dying and then the election results across the country showing transphobia is a clear losing stance

tweet by mattie lubchansky: ‘personally i do NOT like it that the original charter of new york city states that the mayor must be "of limited intelligenfe and poccefing the sparke of madness"’

the downside is I’m devastated that we can no longer use this tweet, which was one of my favourites

I like to see bad people fail

it really sucks to see the NWSL catapulted into the culture wars but it also feels like a huge sign that the league's strategy of staying quiet and hoping it all goes away doesn't work, both in terms of staying out of hot-button territory & ensuring players' environments are as safe as possible

Doctors Reveal Dick Cheney Burning Through At Least 3 Hearts Each Week JACKSON HOLE, WY—A team of doctors responsible for the care of Dick Cheney revealed Thursday that for the past few years, the former vice president has burned through a minimum of three hearts every w...

Doctors Reveal Dick Cheney Burning Through At Least 3 Hearts Each Week

NWSL has been standing still and hoping no one notices, and in all likelihood a Black player who stood up for others — in the absence of proper moral leadership from the league — is going to have the right-wing rage machine aimed directly at her.

And everyone saw it coming.

opening sentences from mary earps’ piece in the guardian: There were three huge talking points from the 2023 World Cup. One was the unspeakable kiss that Spain's football federation president Luis Rubiales planted on Jenni Hermoso as she collected her gold medal, which would later lead to his resignation and prosecution. The other two talking points both related to me.

iconic tweet from a twitter bird bot account: I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?

CARSON PICKETT GOAL MACHINE

Werner Herzog’s New Book Tackles The Problem Of Truth | Defector You might think of Werner Herzog’s new book, The Future of Truth, as the story of two animals.  On the front cover, you see the silhouette of a lone penguin, somewhere in the middle distance, setting ...

good review of Werner Herzog’s book, which is about the dangers of AI, going on long walks, and a cube-shaped translucent pig stuck in a sewer grate

🥲🥲

saw it again last fall and was tearing up so bad when the kid finally gets to have a proper farewell with her grandma

how could you not

YouTube video by Janus Films THE LOVE THAT REMAINS - OFFICIAL TRAILER

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ0f... new hlynur palmason on the way

The next head coach of the Seattle Reign.

Ocean waves, Bob, ocean waves