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Brendan O’Connor

@grendan.bsky.social

freelance journalist, Blood Red Lines (Haymarket 2021), dissertating at CUNY geography, aprendendo PT-BR, https://fieldworkfc.substack.com

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Brendan O’Connor@grendan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

yes!

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.”

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 4mo ago

oh so there's an "enhanced games" where doing drugs is permitted? do the games involve men striving to outdo one another in blowing their livers out in honor of dead sky-clad philosophers? no? fuck the nolan/wilson odyssey discourse, here finally is a retvrn worth retvrning to

its the text from plutarch's lives where he describes the figure Kalanos (~390-320 BCE) an Indian gymnosophist (AKA naked ascetic) from Taxila (in modern Punjab), who lectured Alexander the Great about the vanity of wealth and self-immolated at 73; in his memory the Macedonians held a drinking contest in which 42 men died. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/10.html#70.1 "6 In Persia, too, Calanus, who had suffered for a little while from intestinal disorder, asked that a funeral pyre might be prepared for him.⁠110 7 To this he came on horseback, and after offering prayers, sprinkling himself, and casting some of his hair upon the pyre, he ascended it, greeting the Macedonians who were present, and exhorting them to make that p419 day one of pleasure and revelry with the king, whom, he declared, he should soon see in Babylon. 8 After thus speaking, he lay down and covered his head, nor did he move as the fire approached him, but continued to lie in the same posture as at first, and so sacrificed himself acceptably, as the wise men of his country had done from of old. 9 The same thing was done many years afterwards by another Indian who was in the following of Caesar,⁠111 at Athens; and the "Indian's Tomb" is shown there to this day. 70 1 But Alexander, after returning from the funeral pyre and assembling many of his friends and officers for supper, proposed a contest in drinking neat wine, the victor to be crowned. 2 Well, then, the one who drank the most, Promachus, got as far as four pitchers;⁠112 he took the prize, a crown of a talent's worth, but lived only three days afterwards. And of the rest, according to Chares, forty-one died of what they drank, a violent chill having set in after their debauch."
Brendan O’Connor@grendan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

to 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.

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Briahna Joy Gray: "I know many, you know, people on the left who would happily vote for Tucker Carlson before AOC. I'm frustrated by that dynamic because I, you know, I don't want Tucker Carlson to be President, I also can't see myself damaging my own credibility by telling someone to vote for AOC."

Brendan O’Connor@grendan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

for 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 MST

Donate to Escola Internacionalista para a Abolição 2026 , organized by Amós Caldeira

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5mo ago

While 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.

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Brendan O’Connor@grendan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

only in The Atlantic do you get such braindead ledes as "Has the president been reading Hegel? No. But imagine if he did?"

Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The owl of Minerva—people are talking about it more and more. Under Sleepy Joe Biden, you never saw the owl. Only at dusk. But under your favorite president we're seeing owls all the time. They're saying they're the greatest, biggest owls they've ever seen www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

ad President Trump, we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through—just maybe—the works of … Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel? Impossible. And yet. Hegel’s theory of “world-historical individuals,” men who redirected the course of humanity, focused on three figures: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Hegel described them as unlikely “heroes of an Epoch” for upending established orders that had previously seemed fixed. They were “practical, political men” who were each condemned in their age for smashing norms and for other conduct “obnoxious to moral reprehension”—as Trump has been accused of, centuries later.