Steve Voght

Steve Voght

@voght.org

Soccer, science, Seattle. I do stuff in the background to improve immunology research and for Sounder at Heart.

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Tickets are going fast for Sunday’s Reign game - basically nothing left on the east side or lower SE corner, but they’ve opened additional upper sections behind the south goal. Weather should be great, don’t miss seeing the Tiny Dragon in person one last time! www.reignfc.com/news/ways-to...

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Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

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Anti-trans bigots are coming to NWSL games looking to provoke violence or other incidents that could go viral. This is the back-up plan: harass and endanger anyone who stands up to them. NWSL is going to have to contend with this. Kicking the can down the road will put too many fans at risk.

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there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

Reign fans, stay alert and have a plan if any of these shitlords show up at Lumen next Sunday. You know where in the stadium to find a lot of handheld signs on short notice if needed

Taylor Vincent@tayvincent6.bsky.social

Some hateful folks in the North End have their messaging blocked by flags and lead to a “Trans Lives Matter” chant

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Sending employees a phishing test email telling them they are getting rings then making them take cybersecurity classes instead should be a 1 year suspension for Dolan MINIMUM. Jail time would be better.

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social

If you're a connoisseur of on-brand James Dolan pettiness, grudge-settling, and ham-fisted dumbassery, have I got the article for you www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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Hey, at least none of them own a women’s sports team, right? Right???

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com

The Browns, Bengals, Guardians, Reds, Blue Jackets, Cavaliers, Crew, and FC Cincinnati. The owners of every single pro sports team in Ohio have all donated to Vivek Ramaswamy. And not a single one has spoken up about his recent ad. www.foiaball.com/p/ohio-sport...

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Lots of things can be decided this weekend in the NWSL. The POR-NC and SEA-UTA games on Friday night could clarify much of the playoff field

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Wacky Wednesday WoSo fact … Maddie Mercado of @reignfc.com is the first NWSL player to score 10+ goals in one season without a single one of those goals coming from her right foot! She's got 5 header goals, 5 lefties … plus 3 game-winners.

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Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Oops! Someone grabbed the Mondesir kit...but I still have a James-Turner kit, a Dahlien kit, and a Fishel kit! Same deal! Choose the incentive on the right, donate the appropriate amount to help kids get the healthcare they need, and I'll send you your chosen kit! bit.ly/CGELGW26

Glenn White@justicar.xyz

Do they? Would they love to own a match-worn and autographed kit top with Pride numbers? Help kids get the healthcare they need? Maybe win a really cool prize to boot? Donate $200 through the incentive on the right on my Extra Life page, and I'll send you this kit top! bit.ly/CGELGW26

I suppose at this point it shouldn't be a shock that the government isn't following its own published guidelines on these things bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Jeff Kassouf@jeffkassouf.bsky.social

More info: Three Zambian #NWSL players are expected to miss several games due to CDC travel restrictions after playing an Olympic qualifying game in Uganda, barring an unlikely government exception being granted. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Zambia played in Uganda, which has travel restrictions due to the current Ebola outbreak. If this CDC page is accurate, if people are healthy upon return to the US they're asked to monitor for symptoms for three weeks but there's no quarantine www.cdc.gov/ebola/situat...

cdc.govInformation for Travelers Returning from Ebola-Affected AreasWhat to know if you are returning to the United States from DRC, Uganda, or South Sudan.
Jeff Kassouf@jeffkassouf.bsky.social

The #NWSL just sent out the following statement about availability of Zambia internationals this weekend.

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I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

John Bistline@bistline.bsky.social

Nepal passed 5% battery electric vehicle share in August 2021 and is at 75%. The U.S. passed 5% in October 2022 and is at 6%.

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You’ve seen stutter step penalties but how about this stutter walk penalty in the Caribbean Cup semifinal?

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NEWS: The NWSL + USL Super League cup competition that ESPN first reported in May is now official. The Arthur M. Blank Crest Cup Winner gets a berth in the Concacaf W Champions Cup. $1.7M prize pool. Single elimination Still likely 2028 start www.espn.com/soccer/story...

espn.comNWSL, USL Super League to face off in new women's cup competitionU.S. Soccer announced a new cup competition between the NWSL and the USL Super League, with the winner receiving a berth to the Concacaf W Champions Cup.

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If you want to see how your team can achieve these finishes… I have a tool for that. watmildon.github.io/nwsl-dreams-... #nwsl

watmildon.github.ioNWSL Dreams and Disasters CalculatorPick the results of the remaining NWSL regular-season games and see the standings, the playoff picture, and every team's best and worst possible finish.
Alison Gale@agale.bsky.social

The NWSL returns in a few days for the final 3 matches to decide the table. Took a look at where teams can still finish* *Note that some of these finishes involve extremely unlikely tiebreakers, but it is possible

Technical analysis punditry continues to be nothing more than astrology dressed up in a business suit

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This isn't shade so much as how the sausage is made: *Every* availability I've ever been on with Jessica Berman (or Lisa Baird) has seen someone ask about expansion. For one, people click/share those links. When journos tell editors what came up, editors say "write up the expansion quote."

The Athletic | Football@theathleticfc.bsky.social

"Our vision to be able to compete on a national basis. In order to do that, we need to have a presence across the country," Berman said. www.nytimes.com/athletic/767...

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The future of four large research networks that test vaccines and treatments for HIV, TB and emerging infectious diseases is in limbo after weeks of delays from the Trump administration in launching the process to renew their funding. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/h...

nytimes.comTrump Administration Delays Threaten Funding for HIV Research (Gift Article)The networks also develop treatments and preventions for other infectious diseases and were instrumental in testing the Covid vaccine.

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"storytelling" coug, bro, telling a story requires a point of view and connection to subject, not just regurgitating story-shaped content that might contain roughly correct game facts anybody can look at a box score and learn who scored what goal or carried which try, that's not why we read

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Apologies for saying it so often but so much of what gets people to latch onto club soccer in the US rests entirely on people doing things for free

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I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

From @theathletic.com: LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting the Polymarket prediction market as he will from playing basketball. The deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions.

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"In conjunction with her new beat, Shefte will continue covering the Kraken but will focus on big-picture stories, in-depth features and analysis." 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

You simply can’t get this level of insight and detail into what people are talking on this site about without AI

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Replying to @seamas.bsky.social

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Five years ago in the middle of a reckoning over abuse and misconduct, the players of the NWSL were debating if they should save the league or burn it down. They picked both. On the last five years, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

nytimes.comFive years ago, the NWSL was in crisis. Thanks to its players, it’s flourishing (Gift Article)Amidst a reckoning over sexual misconduct in the NWSL, players faced a difficult choice. The action and change they forced saved the league.