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“every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied” (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈

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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Airplane note: if you have an aisle seat in an early boarding group, you are going to stand up one or two times to let people into your row. Please stop acting like you had no idea people needed to get to those seats next to yours.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
110 years after the British Army executed James Connelly tied to a chair because he couldn’t stand (from a lack of medical care while held captive) and somehow the USA thinks this act won’t create another martyr from the image alone.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The WNBA is the cautionary tale for small rosters. We don’t need to see it also in the NWSL.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Spirit being an afterthought or outright forgotten is not unexpected, but you’d think the NWSL would care about its own championship game.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Could we try Howell and Hershfelt just for fun
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do y’all know what her requested salary increase is or will she wait until the third human arrives to ask for it?
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was not the smartest decision to take a small child (who adored dogs beyond all measure) to the movie theatre to see ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do yell CLEAR THE DAMN BALL a lot at games.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When someone we know first attends a Spirit game, one of the things they ALWAYS say is, “wait, which position does Rodman play again? she was all over!”
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I say this as someone born in Houston, it’s worse while living there because you don’t get the true winter so it’s warmer and more humid for more months of the year, but it’s not always worse than DC or NC for any given game. (The stadium is far worse for 85F+ games, yes, but that’s not tonight.)
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
88% humidity and in the 70s, please, that does not give the Dash an advantage over the Spirit.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve been confused because she and Kouassi did so well together last year, and it feels like they haven’t had many minutes at all together this year.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But if we- oh well. Clearly, some rules are subjective.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think searching for a player by the name they wear on their jersey is a reasonable requirement for a league’s database/website.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’ve been wondering what happened (new partnerships? different licensing?) because so many pro teams have done Hello Kitty games and a bunch of schools have a lot of merch, too.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s hilarious (not really) because everyone I know here who watches it calls it by the original GBBO name, despite Netflix and all domestic USA media only referring to the non-trademark-infringing GBBS, as does the show while we’re watching it.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not yet, she’s got to get at least two more “controversies” to get on big Fox.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
However, today’s medium-difficulty question was “Freddy Adu became the youngest player in modern American pro sports when he debuted for this city in 2004,” and I had that pin down on the exact spot of RFK Stadium in one second.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I like to play the GeoGames set of “put the historical event on the global map” games, and usually the GeoFooty ones are the worst for me because I know very little trivia about men’s soccer, much less “this game took place in that city” events.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because we all needed 2018 flashbacks?
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These turnovers are really exposing the lack of experience.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Apparently they got married “late summer 2025,” so they could have announced it at any point in the past ENTIRE YEAR.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How much more petty and obsessed with her ex could she be?!
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Kudzi Musarurwa @kudzim88.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also, Olivia Miles in MVP and first team all W discussions over Paige Bueckers is egregious. I won't be hearing any arguments against this. Go argue with a wall.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All of these age verification things in apps are ridiculous anyway, but Apple should be able to see that my account itself is over 18 years old. I created it with the desk lamp iMac almost 25 years ago (in what was then iTools on the brand new OS X).
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Literally just said HIT THE WEIGHT ROOM or get better shoe sponsorships
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brazilian players on other NWSL teams are so annoying to face on the field but then their clubs make cute little videos about their wives and families and I will never take for granted how far we’ve come.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At Volvo and the only magazines in the service waiting room are AARP. Not sure whether to feel too old or young.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My wife is from South Carolina and tells me that everyone knows that Gaston is pronounced like the Gadsden Purchase, not like the Beauty and the Beast character.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I understand informational commentary through a foul review is important, but I want to hear the Lynx crowd sing along to “What’s Up?”
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It reminds me of when Trin was away with the national team in 2023 and players would send a pass up the field to where she would have been. Or Ouleye getting injured near the end of 2024.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2014 and 2015 were the only seasons both teams made the playoffs. I’m trying to not be pessimistic for the next month but history is not on the Spirit’s side.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes. And she slipped on the wet field for that foul, too, and then O’Sullivan shoved her in front of the ref and didn’t get a card. (I was not pleased.)
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don’t think I truly appreciated the gerrymandered political situation in Maryland until I started seeing wall-to-wall political commercials for 6-9 months every other year in Pennsylvania. Having to see Scott Perry’s face all the time is very annoying.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I saw something similar at the beginning of the season - someone saying the NWSL should give extra roster spots to Gotham because they would have “10+ games over the rest of the league” - so I wonder if someone added all of the possible 2025-2026 and 2027 CONCACAF games to the 2026 NWSL season.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
(for future reference, it’s the Reign/Legacy game)
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“no need to foul there” who knows, maybe it’s Feminine Energy to push someone on the endline when both the player and the ball are out of bounds
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Louisville please we need y’all to not lose and that includes losing your temper at San Diego’s shenanigans
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean it won’t be a lie when some far-right podcast calls her a record-breaking WNBA player
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s less dramatic now that her hearing is going, but when we progress from “Rosie, please” to “ROSALIND!,” she used to immediately sit down (or up) and be very still.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We got married this year on our 10th anniversary, which was the day that we met. My wife said she wasn’t learning any other dates, we’re sticking with the one.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
on a platter TWICE
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We went to a celebration of life today for @ash12.bsky.social’s godfather, with dozens of (maybe a hundred) people who haven’t seen her for 20-30 years. “This is my wife” is the least number of words necessary to jump over a whole bunch of sussing-out questions.
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Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If Georgia Amoore says it's time for barricades in the streets we're building barricades in the streets
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interestingly, the ethanol-free gas near us hasn’t gotten a lot more expensive, less than a dollar over the past year (there are a few Royal Farms and Sheetz stations with it, we don’t buy from Rutters for Reasons) while the regular gas has jumped up a lot.
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If it weren’t an American-football-style jersey AND right after the 25th anniversary, I think it would probably get by without us noticing over here, but . . .
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Haley Carter @hccarter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Love this story about our players hailing from Africa! www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
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'Africa FC' - What makes NWSL team Washington Spirit so attractive to African players?
Washington Spirit lead the NWSL in having the highest contingent of African players in the league. But what makes the team, and the DC area, so attractive to players from the continent?
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/09/2026
Okay this is once again a VERY SPECIFIC request and I once again ask that if you cannot provide a VERY SPECIFIC answer, that you boost or scroll on. I’m looking for a British tax adviser who can advise on British company ownership and taxes for an American citizen #iykyk
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There is no question with the answer “let younger teenagers play pro in a league struggling with accountability of abuse.”
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Meg @marbenais.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Y’all are not helping my wallet!
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