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Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · Jun 3
in this essay: the ideology of amateurism and the development of modern organized sports; the history of PED use and their regulation; transhumanism and Silicon Valley's obsession with death; athletic labor and the body thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
Beyond All Boundaries | Brendan O’Connor
The Enhanced Games, Aron D’Souza’s new multisport competition, embrace doping “to safely transition mankind to a new super-humanity.”
thebaffler.com
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Michael Carrick is going to get Manchester United playing football again and save the world
January 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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"Machines are as pitiful as we are but, unlike us, they can’t feel shame. We can be grateful, I guess, that at least they confess when they lie. For now." thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
thebaffler.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Adam you are crazy for this one www.theguardian.com/business/202...
January 22, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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starting a little side project
Coming soon: Fieldwork
Informal writing on the work of football.
substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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the empire is dying; imperialism is alive and well
January 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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remember NFTs lol
January 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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catching up on the news from Ireland www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Workers recapture 15,000 crabs ‘making bid for freedom’ after truck entered ditch
Haul worth €60,000 spilled into Co Donegal field
www.irishtimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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“Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
“Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., an African American 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve. His family is deman...
www.democracynow.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Xabi Alonso come to Spurs have you not always wanted to manage Connor Gallagher
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Statement by the union of Iranian bus-drivers.

www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/12/s...
January 12, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Where to watch Tottenham Hotspur

Why to watch Tottenham Hotspur

How to watch Tottenham Hotspur without feeling embarrassed

Tottenham Hotspur supporters support group

Why does love have to hurt
January 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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I don’t care about losing but I hate being embarrassed
January 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Oh look we played some football.
January 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Thomas Frank what is it exactly that you do all week
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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ICE have shot nine people and killed two in the last four months www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Thomas Frank’s greatest crime is making Tottenham fucking boring
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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A goal? From open play?? In the first half???
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Thank you Hamilton
hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Dec 1
If you’ve ever wondered why it’s so fucking hard to unionize restaurants here is a good case study by @grendan.bsky.social
The Rise and Fall of Barboncino Workers United | Long-Haul Mag
FALL 2025 ISSUE 04
longhaulmag.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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If “AI” is a fundamentally a labor saving technology, what use does Wikipedia—which runs on the freely-given labor of its editors—have for it?
June 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Very sad to see that Jonathan Liew is still suffering from Ange Derangement Syndrome. Hope he recovers soon. www.theguardian.com/football/blo...
Ange Postecoglou’s triumphant sacking holds the key to modern football | Jonathan Liew
The Australian’s fluctuating fortunes at Spurs expose how much the game has become an act of persuasion
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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USMNT is greying Poch like he’s the president
theathletic.com The Athletic @theathletic.com · Jun 8
It as odd that Mauricio Pochettino and his USMNT players were mostly upbeat after a third consecutive loss.

But it was just as telling that they found satisfaction in hitting what had long been considered a bare minimum for the program.

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June 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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TRUMP VS MUSK will be a disappointment. Deep down we know this! nymag.com/intelligence...
Intelligencer GIVE A GIFT The thing about memories of the first Trump administration, though, is that they were generally formed in the aftermath of frequent blows to the head. For four years, the president tweeted his way from scandal to scandal, churning through not just staff but he-can't-possibly-do-that stories, the material realities of his term largely divorced from the weekly personnel crises and investigative reports that dominated the media coverage. For news-addicted liberals in particular, the effect was teasing and anticlimactic: Comeuppance and payback and karma were always trailing just behind; the tension of Trump's hypocrisy and contradictions was always about to break the whole thing apart; and justice, in the form of an actual system of laws or a vague, invisible contraption lashed together with morals and norms, was about to snap into force and make things right. The closest thing to genuine catharsis that the sizable portion of the public horrified by late-first-term Trump experienced was the election of Joe Biden. Trump had been vanquished, and the system had worked. Then, of course, he came back. With Musk's help, he won. This led, for some, to a resigned view of a president who, at the beginning of his second term, felt at once more powerful, more ridiculous, more dangerous, and less likely to be thwarted by lawsuits, reporting, protest, or self-sabotage. This time around, from the view of these news-addicted liberals, it was Musk who would eventually suffer the consequences of all that scandal. For firing thousands of government workers and slashing lifesaving aid, he would pay with his valuable reputation; Tesla stock would crash and stay crashed; surely, after saluting like a Nazi, he would lose control of his companies or maybe end up deported or in jail. None of these theories is fully unfounded, but they can, at times, resemble wishful thinking. They also feel familiar, albeit with a grim adjustment: Last time, much of Trump's opposition pinned its hopes on systems and processes and assumed they would unite with the latent power of civil society to deal with the existential threat of Donald J. Trump; this time, the main theory of Musk's downfall isn't an imagined confluence of various forces Right and Good - it comes down to Trump's deciding that Musk is annoying.
June 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Your Saturday morning read: my Baffler essay on the reactionary futurism of the Enhanced Games thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
Beyond All Boundaries | Brendan O’Connor
The Enhanced Games, Aron D’Souza’s new multisport competition, embrace doping “to safely transition mankind to a new super-humanity.”
thebaffler.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Very good post mortem
Why Tottenham sacked Ange Postecoglou, the manager who ended their 17-year trophy drought
The inside story behind Levy's decision to sack Postecoglou, after a historically bad domestic season but also Europa League glory
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM