leah toth
@thescrvnr.bsky.social
assistant professor | film + modern literature + sound studies | music: amelia courthouse | footfalls records | notions
I don't know what the crossover fandom between The Searchers and Columbo is, but I love that Vera Miles plays both the bossy, pants-wearing Laurie Jorgensen and the unapologetically sexy Vivica Scott. Even the name Vivica Scott is 70s sexy
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I don't know what the crossover fandom between The Searchers and Columbo is, but I love that Vera Miles plays both the bossy, pants-wearing Laurie Jorgensen and the unapologetically sexy Vivica Scott. Even the name Vivica Scott is 70s sexy
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
And she also plays Janet Leigh's sister, Lila, in Psycho
I think it's totally OK for any and all art to be weird, sad, and ugly, meaning that's not really the disqualifying factor for so-called "AI art." The disqualifying factor is that it's not made by humans. Play me some AI music that sounds like Alice Coltrane; I always want to hear Alice instead.
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I think it's totally OK for any and all art to be weird, sad, and ugly, meaning that's not really the disqualifying factor for so-called "AI art." The disqualifying factor is that it's not made by humans. Play me some AI music that sounds like Alice Coltrane; I always want to hear Alice instead.
Guys, I have an extraordinarily innocent work crush on a veritable silver fox. Yesterday I witnessed them tumble down the stairs and take a hard fall. They're absolutely fine--maybe some wounded pride--but I fear the crush has morphed into granddaughterly "let's get you to bed" feels. 😂
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Guys, I have an extraordinarily innocent work crush on a veritable silver fox. Yesterday I witnessed them tumble down the stairs and take a hard fall. They're absolutely fine--maybe some wounded pride--but I fear the crush has morphed into granddaughterly "let's get you to bed" feels. 😂
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This matches what I'm hearing from folks working in k-8, yeah. I don't get the argument for having these at all-- ok sure it's the digital age, but students don't need an iPad to learn how to use the Internet. Just have computer lab. It worked for millennials!
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This matches what I'm hearing from folks working in k-8, yeah. I don't get the argument for having these at all-- ok sure it's the digital age, but students don't need an iPad to learn how to use the Internet. Just have computer lab. It worked for millennials!
I am today years old learning that Kim Basinger is from Georgia--which has to be why her accent in Fool for Love never struck me as phony or terrible (cue Laura Dern)
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I am today years old learning that Kim Basinger is from Georgia--which has to be why her accent in Fool for Love never struck me as phony or terrible (cue Laura Dern)
How this went: the lone male in the class slut-shamed the protagonist in Fantomina. The girls left class wanting to see Belle de Jour, lol. Even in south Georgia in 2025 there is an appetite for subversive media featuring female sexual autonomy
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How this went: the lone male in the class slut-shamed the protagonist in Fantomina. The girls left class wanting to see Belle de Jour, lol. Even in south Georgia in 2025 there is an appetite for subversive media featuring female sexual autonomy
For the record, I love this record so much. Irrationally almost!
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
For the record, I love this record so much. Irrationally almost!
Last week of classes is in the books!
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Last week of classes is in the books!
I mean you can also get a baseball cap for the beloved spinster(s) in your life 🧢 spinstersounds.bandcamp.com/merch/blue-s...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I mean you can also get a baseball cap for the beloved spinster(s) in your life 🧢 spinstersounds.bandcamp.com/merch/blue-s...
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AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Also, JJT's Bandcamp Friday contribution: I'm not sure I'll ever understand exactly what "blackened Hyperborean dream-crust" is, but these covers of The Amps and Morrissey sound like if the OG versions were a little heavier and.... crustier? 😀 Anyway, been jamming them for weeks. You should listen.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Also, JJT's Bandcamp Friday contribution: I'm not sure I'll ever understand exactly what "blackened Hyperborean dream-crust" is, but these covers of The Amps and Morrissey sound like if the OG versions were a little heavier and.... crustier? 😀 Anyway, been jamming them for weeks. You should listen.
Happy Bandcamp Friday! Everything at SPINSTER, including my albums broken things (2024) and ruby glass (2019), is on sale 20% with code BCFRIDAY25.
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Happy Bandcamp Friday! Everything at SPINSTER, including my albums broken things (2024) and ruby glass (2019), is on sale 20% with code BCFRIDAY25.
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Wow, cool. Long time ago! Sadly: RIP Marc Orleans and RIP Michael Evans, two true originals and both stellar musicians. Unreal. Tom Carter still kicking! Sesh is available here @wfmu.bsky.social wfmu.org/playlists/sh... and here freemusicarchive.org/music/Eleven...
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wow, cool. Long time ago! Sadly: RIP Marc Orleans and RIP Michael Evans, two true originals and both stellar musicians. Unreal. Tom Carter still kicking! Sesh is available here @wfmu.bsky.social wfmu.org/playlists/sh... and here freemusicarchive.org/music/Eleven...
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Sixty years ago today at the first public Acid Test in San Jose, a San Francisco band known as The Warlocks made their first appearance under their new name The Grateful Dead.
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sixty years ago today at the first public Acid Test in San Jose, a San Francisco band known as The Warlocks made their first appearance under their new name The Grateful Dead.
just out here working on my hubcap diamond star halo like any gal
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
just out here working on my hubcap diamond star halo like any gal
It's so nice to see the story of the deep faculty cuts at St. Norbert framed by a key Catholic alumni and a former colleague who was denied tenure and promotion along with me and others in May 2024. Pretty much every other story has had SNC's president's PR monkeys on the case.
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It's so nice to see the story of the deep faculty cuts at St. Norbert framed by a key Catholic alumni and a former colleague who was denied tenure and promotion along with me and others in May 2024. Pretty much every other story has had SNC's president's PR monkeys on the case.
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Lately I've been wanting a "the institution will never love you back" bumper sticker (🫡 you, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social), but I figure it's a bad idea since I, perennially untenured, regularly park next to the dean in the faculty lot. But I repeat the mantra to myself at least twice a week.
👇The best advice for teaching in today's neo-liberal, continually budget-slashed institution of higher ed: you can't be your best teaching self, so you've got to accept that or drive yourself mad.
Higher ed has become part of the 'enshittification' cycle, and we must accept that... or go mad.
Higher ed has become part of the 'enshittification' cycle, and we must accept that... or go mad.
I think that is right. But, I guess also: you can do worse than your (theoretical/historical/personal) best teaching and still be doing good (enough) teaching. Above all, you can't do the work of more than one person and also do it amazingly.
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Lately I've been wanting a "the institution will never love you back" bumper sticker (🫡 you, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social), but I figure it's a bad idea since I, perennially untenured, regularly park next to the dean in the faculty lot. But I repeat the mantra to myself at least twice a week.
👇The best advice for teaching in today's neo-liberal, continually budget-slashed institution of higher ed: you can't be your best teaching self, so you've got to accept that or drive yourself mad.
Higher ed has become part of the 'enshittification' cycle, and we must accept that... or go mad.
Higher ed has become part of the 'enshittification' cycle, and we must accept that... or go mad.
I think that is right. But, I guess also: you can do worse than your (theoretical/historical/personal) best teaching and still be doing good (enough) teaching. Above all, you can't do the work of more than one person and also do it amazingly.
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
👇The best advice for teaching in today's neo-liberal, continually budget-slashed institution of higher ed: you can't be your best teaching self, so you've got to accept that or drive yourself mad.
Higher ed has become part of the 'enshittification' cycle, and we must accept that... or go mad.
Higher ed has become part of the 'enshittification' cycle, and we must accept that... or go mad.
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"Spotify Wrapped [is] another example of something personal and precious that is being automated away from us; a supposedly unbearable task of thinking and writing being “offloaded” in order to make life more frictionless." @lizpelly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly
The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Spotify Wrapped [is] another example of something personal and precious that is being automated away from us; a supposedly unbearable task of thinking and writing being “offloaded” in order to make life more frictionless." @lizpelly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
I don’t think the intended effect of this article was to make me once more want to pick up Infinite Jest—the typical audience for which represents a good half of my (awful) dating past. Or maybe it was?
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I don’t think the intended effect of this article was to make me once more want to pick up Infinite Jest—the typical audience for which represents a good half of my (awful) dating past. Or maybe it was?
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Wednesday Knudsen :: Atrium
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/02/w...
An immersive double LP of woodsy ambient from upstate New York worthy of such masters as Joanna Brouk, Laraaji and Iasos, alongside the Japanese environmental music tradition.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/02/w...
An immersive double LP of woodsy ambient from upstate New York worthy of such masters as Joanna Brouk, Laraaji and Iasos, alongside the Japanese environmental music tradition.
Wednesday Knudsen :: Atrium - Aquarium Drunkard
An immersive double LP of woodsy ambient from upstate New York. You may recognize Wednesday Knudsen’s name from her various collaborative projects — Pigeons, Stella Kola, Weeping Bong Band, a killer d...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Wednesday Knudsen :: Atrium
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/02/w...
An immersive double LP of woodsy ambient from upstate New York worthy of such masters as Joanna Brouk, Laraaji and Iasos, alongside the Japanese environmental music tradition.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/02/w...
An immersive double LP of woodsy ambient from upstate New York worthy of such masters as Joanna Brouk, Laraaji and Iasos, alongside the Japanese environmental music tradition.
Men, save your marriage: stop telling your cranky wife to “just relax.”
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Men, save your marriage: stop telling your cranky wife to “just relax.”
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she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked