Nate Wolff
@natewolff.bsky.social
Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
it is always a damp, drizzly Month of Dick in my soul
THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
it is always a damp, drizzly Month of Dick in my soul
My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
January 1, 2026 at 4:27 PM
My 2026 resolution is to take things more personally. I learned this by reading Moby-Dick.
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I'm 30 pages from the end of MCTEAGUE and I've never been so stressed in my fucking life
December 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm 30 pages from the end of MCTEAGUE and I've never been so stressed in my fucking life
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As I said on the other app, so again here: Thank you, friend, for this encouraging blurb, and let us hope the book lives up to your high praise! #grateful
Honored to blurb @rafaelwalker.bsky.social ‘s brilliant and gorgeous new book — alongside the incomparable Jen Fleissner no less!
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As I said on the other app, so again here: Thank you, friend, for this encouraging blurb, and let us hope the book lives up to your high praise! #grateful
Honored to blurb @rafaelwalker.bsky.social ‘s brilliant and gorgeous new book — alongside the incomparable Jen Fleissner no less!
December 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Honored to blurb @rafaelwalker.bsky.social ‘s brilliant and gorgeous new book — alongside the incomparable Jen Fleissner no less!
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Really not looking forward to difficult convos with the family over Thanksgiving. Sorry grandpa, whales are fish!
November 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Really not looking forward to difficult convos with the family over Thanksgiving. Sorry grandpa, whales are fish!
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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...
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...
CJFS Commission Shadow Report | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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...
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...
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I do not have a riverboat license. Still.
But this paper was really good.
But this paper was really good.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I do not have a riverboat license. Still.
But this paper was really good.
But this paper was really good.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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.
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American Studies and a variety of other programs under under threat at the University of Nottingham. Lend your voice to the petition.
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
American Studies and a variety of other programs under under threat at the University of Nottingham. Lend your voice to the petition.
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Help save American Studies at the University of Nottingham:
c.org/Hk65TVQ7f5
c.org/Hk65TVQ7f5
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
c.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Help save American Studies at the University of Nottingham:
c.org/Hk65TVQ7f5
c.org/Hk65TVQ7f5
me when I see your aurora borealis pics
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
me when I see your aurora borealis pics
hey nerds! Any recommended critical/theoretical reading on digression—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 🐳)
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
hey nerds! Any recommended critical/theoretical reading on digression—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 🐳)
ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
this is also the phrase I used to start my Émile Zola reading marathon
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
this is also the phrase I used to start my Émile Zola reading marathon
so happy for but also jealous of NYC right now! Sounds like the zohran election parties were LIT
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
so happy for but also jealous of NYC right now! Sounds like the zohran election parties were LIT
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This makes me happy to no end—not least because I've had the pleasure of explaining to my mom how I'm known among Whitman scholars.
Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This makes me happy to no end—not least because I've had the pleasure of explaining to my mom how I'm known among Whitman scholars.
bluesky introduces new “backhanded likes” and “pity likes” beta
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
bluesky introduces new “backhanded likes” and “pity likes” beta
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Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
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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.
Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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.
Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.
Everybody's talking about the vaguely mystical masturbatory subculture where doomed young men find self-destructive community.
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Everybody's talking about the vaguely mystical masturbatory subculture where doomed young men find self-destructive community.
💯 build a cabin, build a chair, hoe beans, grow some beans, manufacture pencils, repair an axe handle, make a fishing rod, fish, philosophize about fishing, think about not fishing, get into a passive aggressive emotional standoff with a loon, wait I forgot what I was listing.
every adult should know how to craft something. i use that loosely: cook a meal, do a bit of DIY, sew a button, grow a plant.
if there is nothing in this world that you can make yourself... why. what are you doing
if there is nothing in this world that you can make yourself... why. what are you doing
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
💯 build a cabin, build a chair, hoe beans, grow some beans, manufacture pencils, repair an axe handle, make a fishing rod, fish, philosophize about fishing, think about not fishing, get into a passive aggressive emotional standoff with a loon, wait I forgot what I was listing.