Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026fieldworkfc.substack.comGavin Bazunu Will Live ForeverThis game wasn’t stopped. What about the next one? 000
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today, the Irish men’s national team will play Israel in the second of two football matches. I reflected a bit on the affair last weekfieldworkfc.substack.comSome thoughts on protagonism and responsibilityIreland v Israel and an NYT opinion essay 210
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Before it was a commodity, before it was a means of displacement and a method of accumulation, before stadiums became sites of ritual human sacrifice and schoolyards the cradles of child labor, sport was a threat.substack.comSome Mischievous DesignIreland and Revolutionary Sport from the GAA to the Green Brigade 121
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026last week, I gave a talk to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Society about the Irish tradition of revolutionary sport, nationalism and internationalism, and diasporic identitiessubstack.comSome Mischievous DesignIreland and Revolutionary Sport from the GAA to the Green Brigade 060
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026eyyyy I'm trying to build a $2 billion multi-sport conglomerate hereopen.substack.comSunny With a Chance of MeatballsBrooklyn FC had its biggest win of the season over the weekend, but Matt Rizzetta's ambitions remain elsewhere 020
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026“The tactical heart of soccer,” Richard Cleary writes, is “the contest to create and control space.” What might the experiments conducted in these "laboratories of spatial invention" tell us about spatial contests elsewhere?fieldworkfc.substack.comLaboratories of Spatial Invention, Fan Disorder, and the Sporting CommonsOn Richard Cleary's "The Architecture of the Playing Field" 040
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026excited for this new project from one of the most interesting English-language publications going phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...phenomenalworld.orgPW Issue 1: American PowerThirteen essays and interviews on the foundations of American power and its expressions around the world. 150
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I can’t believe someone with a master's degree in "truth" from New York University would do this www.wired.com/story/future...wired.comWe Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go WellA book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that. 010
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026some thoughts prompted by a cool book open.substack.com/pub/fieldwor...open.substack.comLaboratories of Spatial Invention, Fan Disorder, and the Sporting CommonsOn Richard Cleary's "The Architecture of the Playing Field" 000
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026or maybe it is just time to re-read this @garethwatkins.bsky.social piece newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...newsocialist.org.ukAI: The New Aesthetics of FascismIt's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right. 1102
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026still wanting for a definitive account of why gen AI's primary use case seems to be the materialization of the fascist dream world www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w... 240
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026“Get your fucking hands up before I shoot you!” an officer in Galveston shouted while pointing her gun at a 17-year-old she had cornered in a yard. The teen had run off campus after he was caught with a vape.nytimes.comTexas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered StudentsSchool officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows. 002
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026the office laptop workers need to go back to the office so the coffee shop laptop workers don’t have to hear their meetings anymore 040
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026yes!thebaffler.comBeyond All Boundaries | Brendan O’ConnorThe Enhanced Games, Aron D’Souza’s new multisport competition, embrace doping “to safely transition mankind to a new super-humanity.” 041
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead" is an insane omission 020
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I feel nothing until Lange and Vinai's heads are on spikes 061
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026haven't read a piece this thoughtful in the Times in agesnytimes.comOpinion | A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What the Ivy League Can’t 000
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026horrifying article in at least three different ways www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...wsj.comThe Tech Bros Are Going to Etiquette SchoolFounders who built their names on coding and hard-charging leadership are learning that in the AI era, soft skills matter more than ever. 050
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I don’t understand what ppl are worked up about? 100
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026seems to me that rapid population decline could introduce new conditions of possibility, but I'm not sure there is an automatic relationship between a smaller pool of labor for capital to exploit and increased leverage for labor, especially if new technology concomitantly increases productivity 020
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026to whatever extent this is true, it is because people like Briahna Joy Gray and Sana Saeed are part of a class fraction of "left" content creators that is even more disconnected from actually existing movements of workers, the poor, and the oppressed than the organized left is. 091
Reposted by Brendan O’ConnorRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Pope decries the rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation. apnews.com/article/pope...apnews.comPope decries the rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilationPope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.” 35919
Reposted by Brendan O’ConnorEquator @equatormag.bsky.social · 14/05/2026On 28 May, @equatormag.bsky.social will host a free online event featuring @newlefteviews.bsky.social and @mona-ali.bsky.social – about the fallout of the war in the Middle East and the end of American hegemony. Register here! equator.org/events/after...equator.orgAfter America: Oil, War, and the New World Order • Events • EQUATOR13 May 2026, Online, 2PM EST / 7PM BST 063
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I love googling "africa is a country" and getting a smarmy AI response from google that no, actually, africa is not a country. just give me the website!!!! 140
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026for those interested in land struggles and resisting the forces of organized abandonment: pitch in to help build the first meeting of the Internationalist Abolition School, to be hosted this summer by the MSTgofundme.comDonate to Escola Internacionalista para a Abolição 2026 , organized by Amós CaldeiraHi, this is the campaign to help us build the 2026 Internationalist Aboli… Amós Caldeira needs your support for Escola Internacionalista para a Abolição 2026 021
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026just a historical note that I never miss an opportunity to bring up, Taibbi infamously fought (and overruled) the Rolling Stone fact checkers who flagged that the vampire squid does not actually have a blood funnel with which to jab anything 4558
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026looks like Jeremy Corbyn IS beating the allegations 030
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"It’s not that soccer has no history in the United States, but that the history of soccer in the United States is the history of a social form constantly struggling to take root and constantly being uprooted." substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comSilk City Sickos: Away In the Rain With Brooklyn FCMatch Notes 4/25/26: New York Cosmos 0 – 3 Brooklyn FC 021
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I won the pulitzer prize for writing niche thinky blogs about lower league american soccer for my 45 closest friends #thankyou #blessed 020
Reposted by Brendan O’ConnorMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible. 238207335373
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026reflections on my first away day, with Brooklyn FC, in the New Jersey rainopen.substack.comSilk City Sickos: Away In the Rain With Brooklyn FCMatch Notes 4/25/26: New York Cosmos v Brooklyn FC 000
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026only in The Atlantic do you get such braindead ledes as "Has the president been reading Hegel? No. But imagine if he did?" 2122
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026thinking about that Tyler the Creator tweet a lot these days 130
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I remember when they were running these stories about millennials posting on twitter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/s...nytimes.comMake Way for the Investment Bank Influencers 010
Reposted by Brendan O’ConnorInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Discussions of "violent rhetoric" are so annoying because nine times out of 10 it's just a plea to silo it where it belongs, like the president threatening to kill every single person in Iran 023636
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Do I need to know about “shoplifting discourse” 211
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026for one thing it'll take union leaders who don't collaborate with the bosses in spreading the technology that destabilizes teachers' and students' lives 2389
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026don't get me started on whatever is going on with the ears and nose though 250
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026as far as aging goes I'm fine with grays I just can't handle the three eyebrow hairs sticking out in every direction 180
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026what if, instead of making things better, we made them worse www.ft.com/content/3634...ft.comThe coming global food crisisHunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops 060
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026smoke bombs and the emerging contradictions between club, stadium, and fansfieldworkfc.substack.comMatch Notes 4/11/26: Scoring Goals, Popping SmokeBrooklyn FC 3 - 0 Charleston Battery 010
Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026that was supposed to say "once again." Tottenham Hotspur have certainly disappointed me more than once 130