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Mike Crugnola
@futurexskeleton.bsky.social
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(he/him) Austin FC, Swoontower, Dragon Con, SXSW, hardcore/punk rock, general fun
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Schlegel begging not to be shown a card in ref cam
October 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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First games on our new Yarro Studios Gamefold Table! Bananagrams, First Ascent, then we started in on Murdle!
A photo of Steph and my first Bananagrams game! We bought this game, Murdle, at Birdhouse Books in Austin TX! Go there! On the table is the game, which is a combo of a jigsaw puzzle and a logic puzzle. We've got First Ascent set up on the table, a rock climbing board game!
September 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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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. 👀
Mike Colter, me, Katja Herbers, and Aasif Mandvi, hanging out backstage after our Evil panel at Dragon Con 2025.
September 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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There's only 1 team to cheer for in Saturday's El Tráfico, and it's #LAFC.

From www.latimes.com/sports/socce... :
While the other two professional soccer teams in Los Angeles — LAFC and Angel City FC — have issued public statements in support of the Latino immigrant community, the Galaxy’s ownership has not addressed the issue. Angel City took its support further, wearing “Immigrant City Football Club” warm-up shirts, giving some shirts away to fans and selling more on its website as a fundraiser to support an organization that provides legal support for immigrants. So far, the only member of the Galaxy who has addressed the issue publicly is head coach Greg Vanney. “I think we all know someone who is probably affected by what’s going on, so it’s hard from a human standpoint not to have compassion for the families and those who are affected by what’s going on,” Vanney said before a game against St. Louis City SC in June.
July 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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hey how long are you supposed to wait before you throw another being married party and invite all your friends to dance and sing and eat and celebrate how happy and in love @crugglez.bsky.social and I are? Is 3 years too soon?
steph and me dancing, having so much fun, during our wedding reception steph and me dancing, having so much fun, but this time with motion blur in purple and green during our wedding reception! us smoochin' while our wedding guests light the scene with sparklers as we get ready to leave the party steph and me, staring lovingly into each others' eyes, on our wedding day.
June 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Ayyyy this FREE Shakespeare park show is THIS WEEKEND! Austin FC is away on Saturday, so I know you're itching to get outside & watch something crazy in Austin; this is a perfect way to hang out & spend time in a park. It's fun, it's weird, it's VERY AUSTIN.

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A poster for Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project's Henry the 6th Part 1; it features tons of bright colors like a Lisa Frank style 90s drawing, and a teddy bear with rosebushes growing out of it. There's stuffing and thorns and vines and red and white roses, because this show is about a child king getting embroiled in the prelude to the war of the roses! Sound fun? Come out! The poster also shows that it's happening May 25 at 7:30pm in Pease Park, Austin TX
May 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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i have a confession to make: I've always replaced Jason's mask in my head with a replica Gerry Cheevers mask. This is the stuff of nightmares.
a photo of Gerry Cheevers' Boston Bruins mask on a black background; if you want to know more about it, highly recommend googling; it's a fun old timey hockey story!
May 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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my list of muted words: jazz, tr*mp, m*sk, el*n
April 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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me: what does this skeet say that I've muted?

*opens skeet* huh, it's just a jazz album? maybe the quote-skeet says something about one of the people's names I've muted?

*clicks through* nope just more jazz, maybe the product page?
*clicks link* nope
... *opens muted words list*

J A Z Z
a skeet by the mountain goats about "a very good album" but on my screen it shows "post hidden by muted word"
April 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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it's probably fine tho and stuff like this definitely isn't like, represented in media anywhere.
a still from the 1966 Fahrenheit 451 where Mildred's chillin' on the couch watching her parlor walls while Guy Montag judges her, probably, depending on the scene. I haven't seen the movie but oh boy does this quoted skeet make me think of it!
March 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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And if you go further back. lookin' good still... (ignore goals plz)
it's a spreadsheet showing austin's shots, shots on target, opponent shots, goals, goals conceded, and points (by year) from 2021 to 2025.
March 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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8 years ago my d&d podcast released its 50th episode and to celebrate it, i made this promo art for it. still don't understand why we didn't have the biggest show in the world.
it's a picture of nyjah huston doing a sick 5-0 grind down a long round rail on the street, and i edited it in paint to have a speech bubble where he says "i <3 adventure incorporated podcast!" under that, it says "NYJAH HUSTON APPROVED!*" and the asterisk, in white, hidden at the bottom of the image, says "* - unconfirmed" it's a terrible promo, but idk if anybody else did anything for it.
March 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Y'all this week's Swoontower is megasized, but a BANGER.

We've got:
- A Dog Interview (Cinco from @austinpetsalive.bsky.social!)
- A Podcaster Interview (Sam from @stumptownfooty.bsky.social!)
- A Parents Interview (Katy and Hector, Dani Pereira's parents!)
- a threat! follow a2toquesfoundation.org
This is Cinco, an adorable perfect angel adoptable dog from APA! She's sitting on an Austin FC flag on the sideline at Q2.
February 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I'm so behind, but catching up now: surprised Ilie's comments in the #AustinFC pre-match presser last Thursday re: wanting the players to form a deeper connection with the fans in town is huge, imo. Then, this picture dropped on @austinfc.com 's IG:

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Austin FC Captain Ilie Sanchez sitting on a little stool pitchside to talk to a couple of very young fans after a rainy home-opening 1-0 win against Sporting KC. It's SO cute.
February 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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FIFY
My Austin FC jersey tier list. They're all S-Tier, except the white one, which is D-Tier
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Incredible how much had changed and how much is still the same. Equally impactful to me in 2025 as it was in 2011, with a different end result. Still so special. 🥰
The outside of Catedral Don Justo, a hand-built cathedral outside of Madrid in Mejorada del Campo, Spain. The inside of one of the domes in Catedral Don Justo, a hand-built cathedral outside of Madrid in Mejorada del Campo, Spain. When I visited in 2011, this was right next to his bedroom. Ceiling "tiles" made up of found materials in the crypt of Catedral Don Justo, a hand-built cathedral outside of Madrid in Mejorada del Campo, Spain. A shot from the corridor around the top of the main part of the cathedral, showing hand-made stained glass windows and a mosaic of cans making up the face of Don Justo
February 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Ok, just finished this one. Let's talk about it?

Also, what do I read next? In the last month I've also read Piranesi by Susannah Clarke and This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

So far, loved everything I've read this year. Let's keep it going!
The cover of BrandoSando's Wind and Truth, Book Five of The Stormlight Archive, on my Kindle.
February 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Today was very cool. La Mestalla is magnificent.
A selfie with @Crugglez after the Valencia - Leganes match this afternoon; the famous, enormous stand is behind us with the huge bat logo in the seats.
February 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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ACTUAL vacation vibes, y'all. This hotel is insane - @crugglez.bsky.social is at a massage (and booked me one for later! 😍) and I'm just VIBING. Coffee, snacks, books, tunes, breezes. Wild.
The view from the balcony of my hotel in Valencia, Spain. Unreal blue skies, beach in the background, gorgeous green grass and trees. Wow. A picture of me laying on a chair reading my Kindle in the sun; it's on a page that says Day Six from Wind and Truth, the 5th book in the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson.
February 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Being back in Spain but at a different time in my life is crazy.

Cortado and chocolate croissant was a banger breakfast in 2010; the good, high quality version of both is still a banger in 2025.
A couple cortados this morning, and the corner of a chocolate croissant 😍
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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the thing my friends missed when dunking on the leaked San Jose Earthquakes kit is that it has The Cool S, therefore it is a cool kit.
a close-up on The Cool S from the san jose earthquakes jersey. idk how to describe The Cool S except that it's a thing people all across the world put on their notebooks in elementary to high school everywhere on the planet.
January 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Come. on. @aprecourt.bsky.social @austinfc.com @austinfootballclub.bsky.social ! Give us the smoke skeets over here on Bluesky! Still not sharing posts from the dead news place, but will share Slack previews of those posts.
a slack preview of a post on the old instant microblogging site showing the austin fc green smoke gif that Anthony Precourt shares before we sign someone
January 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I WILL NOT POST TWEETS ON BLUESKY BUT JAY ANTHONY PRECOURT JR JUST TWEETED VERDE SMOKE FOR #AUSTINFC @aprecourt.bsky.social WHERE'S OUR SKEET SMOKE
A screenshot of a preview of a tweet from Slack showing the Austin FC Green Smoke gif Anthony Precourt tweets before we sign a new player
December 31, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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love how easy this is
a screenshot of how to block annoying troll accounts
December 6, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Tony ruined my shot (jk I was too impatient to wait for him to sort out the backdrop) but LOOK HOW SICK the @walkingshadowshakespeare.com photobooth looked last night! SO much fun hanging out and hearing Hamlet's iconic "To Be..." monologue in so many different languages!
a picture of me from the Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project photobooth at our To Be or Not To Be event last night - I'm wearing my WSSP soccer jersey, and Tony's in the background futzin' around w/ the banner.
December 3, 2024 at 6:53 PM