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Trout Phishing in America

@tissuebylotion.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate (ABD) in Philosophy, specializing in continental philosophy and fascism studies.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

now i'm imagining my bookshelves if they had autoplay. going into the library would be a nightmare.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

oh would it? what marx, exactly, would help me see that doing arithmetic pre-1900s is not labor?

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

what do movies have to do with the point i was making?

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

just because something can be done by a machine doesn't make the activity any less labor.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Plenty of people sweat blood over arithmetic. Katherine Johnson kept people alive in space by doing complex manual calculations. If your pedantic about arithmetic see: the "human computers" of Gaspard de Prony, and literally every accountant in history before the mid-20th century. Labor is labor.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

How’s the Eastern APA going? I almost tore my hair out when a commentator on a paper which completely misunderstood Marx said “I agree with Kant rather than Marx” that the liberal state is the superior ethical form of society.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Long distance dedication to Texas A&M

Chief Wiggum addressing crowd, "Ladies, please all our greatest, philosophers, writers, and artists, have either been gay or communists.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Just arrived in Baltimore for the APA Eastern. Disappointed to hear of the last minute cancellation of the SPEP panel this year.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Book haul from today’s date in Cap Hill.

A stack of fifteen books, mostly on marxism, fascism, with a few books of poetry and fiction.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This made me so happy that I cackled while in line for coffee

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New book pile

Stack of books on a wooden table, titles of:
Democracy or Fascism, Earl Browder
The Civil War in Spain, Felix Morrow
The Stone Door, Leonora Carrington
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
Antidiets of the Avant-Garde, Cecilia Novero
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
Plural Temporality, Vittorio Morfino
The Shadow Gospel, Phillips and Brockway
Fascism in America, Rosenfeld and Ward
Spinoza’s Paradoxical Conservatism, François Zourabichvili

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This is your reminder that forced labor (e.g. soviet POWs and abducted Eastern European civilians, mostly polish) made up ~25% of the agricultural work force in the Third Reich. ~2.7 of 10-11 million. This isn’t even touching on the SS’s separate leasing of slaves to make the camps profitable.

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The WSJ one was bonkers. The finance person quoted clearly couldn’t understand socialism if they tried.

A painting in the style of Socialist Realism shows a passionate Russian soldier from the 1917 Revolution, dressed in a green military uniform with a red star on his cap, shouting with his arm outstretched. A speech bubble reads, “Let’s try a 2% tax on net worth over $100 million.” Behind him, a crowd of similarly dressed revolutionaries marches forward holding red flags, with smoke and classical architecture in the background. The image humorously contrasts the mildness of the tax proposal with the revolutionary setting.

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Co-editor of CAPITAL (@princetonupress.bsky.social‬) Paul North wrote on Karl Marx for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬ page1m.co/4mNg4Ut 🧵(20/21) #lareviewofbks #karlmarx #capital

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He’s a Cretin but We’ll Manage Him | Los Angeles Review of Books

Paul North finds a prescient analysis of the end of the American republic in Karl Marx’s essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”

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Trout Phishing in America @tissuebylotion.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’d for sure take this class

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