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Nate Wolff

@natewolff.bsky.social

Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology

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Really not looking forward to difficult convos with the family over Thanksgiving. Sorry grandpa, whales are fish!

24.11.2024 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
CJFS Commission Shadow Report | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff

The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism.

We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"

www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...

21.11.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

I do not have a riverboat license. Still.

But this paper was really good.

19.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The parallel parking test is a nightmare when the river's low

19.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In which I give @mattseybold.bsky.social a pop quiz for his river boat license AND deal with a rude heckler, my nemesis @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, while talking about Twain's Puddn’head Wilson via Malm's Fossil Capital.

19.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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13.11.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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13.11.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

me when I see your aurora borealis pics

12.11.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
07.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! (AK on first-personalism is already well represented on the syllabus, but somehow I wasn't seeing the digression unit as contiguous, which of course you're right it totally is!)

07.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Perfect - thanks! (Interesting that digressive structure could seem to call for sustained attention to complex branching plots, or could seem to indulge a taste for distraction…)

07.11.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! And for something else entirely the parts on aphorism look interesting to me too.

07.11.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just glanced at an abstract and it sounds perfect -- thanks!

07.11.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

07.11.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hey nerds! Any recommended critical/theoretical reading on digressionβ€”its pleasures, frustrations, etc. Whether in literature (e.g. Tristram Shandy), film or tv, video games ("side quests"), etc.? Other fun examples welcome too. (My favs are "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and whale facts obvs 🐳)

07.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

He did love putting words together. White-blow. Bridegroom-night. Lunchbox.

07.11.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of an instagram post that says β€œ Obsessed with the fact that all the NYC ferries were named by the city's second graders”

Picture of an instagram post that says β€œ Obsessed with the fact that all the NYC ferries were named by the city's second graders”

ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express

07.11.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s so good! Thank you comrade nypost

05.11.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
On your Marx, get set, Zo! Headline from nypost

On your Marx, get set, Zo! Headline from nypost

this is also the phrase I used to start my Γ‰mile Zola reading marathon

05.11.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

so happy for but also jealous of NYC right now! Sounds like the zohran election parties were LIT

05.11.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me happy to no endβ€”not least because I've had the pleasure of explaining to my mom how I'm known among Whitman scholars.

02.11.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

bluesky introduces new β€œbackhanded likes” and β€œpity likes” beta

01.11.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
a halloween costume labeled "Sexy Nurse" with an image of Walt Whitman

a halloween costume labeled "Sexy Nurse" with an image of Walt Whitman

31.10.2023 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 12

They were uncharacteristically speechless. The learning experience was simply too profound.

28.10.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extremely real

28.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
comparison of the crotch size in two engravings of Walt Whitman from research by Ted Genoways

comparison of the crotch size in two engravings of Walt Whitman from research by Ted Genoways

Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.

#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social

28.10.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm so excited Dan, Johanna, & Emory have made it possible for me to record the entirety of their book launch symposium next month as an arc in the "Vandal Live" series.

Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.

24.10.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

thank YOU. Shockingly little gooning discourse on here so thought people might need the direct footnote πŸ™

23.10.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everybody's talking about the vaguely mystical masturbatory subculture where doomed young men find self-destructive community.

23.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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