leah toth
@thescrvnr.bsky.social
assistant professor | film + modern literature + sound studies | music: amelia courthouse | footfalls records | notions
The more I think about this movie, the more I like it. It’s just so satisfying, formally. Like a rock ‘n’ roll Flaubert novella in film.
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The more I think about this movie, the more I like it. It’s just so satisfying, formally. Like a rock ‘n’ roll Flaubert novella in film.
Got Georgia plates for my car—one plate, to be exact, while Wisconsin required two. The front WI plates left a rusty-looking area behind, and I joked with James that I wanted a mirrored stealie in its place. I did not know this actually existed, but the (Grateful Dead) universe provides
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Got Georgia plates for my car—one plate, to be exact, while Wisconsin required two. The front WI plates left a rusty-looking area behind, and I joked with James that I wanted a mirrored stealie in its place. I did not know this actually existed, but the (Grateful Dead) universe provides
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The AD list is up. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 - Aquarium Drunkard
Looking back to look ahead. The clock never stops, but sometimes music manages the impossible: slowing time for a moment. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The AD list is up. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...
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Added more resources to the Anti-GenAI bibliography! If you have links you think I may have missed while I was in Ireland (November 23 to today), please do drop them! I'll be so glad to add them (and self-promotion is welcome). catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Against Generative AI – Cate Denial
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December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Added more resources to the Anti-GenAI bibliography! If you have links you think I may have missed while I was in Ireland (November 23 to today), please do drop them! I'll be so glad to add them (and self-promotion is welcome). catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
This is the new normal: faculty are the accountability sinks of the higher ed industry.
As colleges clamp down on the teaching of gender, advocates say professors taking the hit - The Hill apple.news/AbMnFFjIsQpy...
As colleges clamp down on the teaching of gender, advocates say professors taking the hit — The Hill
Professors are taking the brunt of the storm as new fights over the teaching of gender and race erupt in college classrooms.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is the new normal: faculty are the accountability sinks of the higher ed industry.
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My sense now is that a conversation we need to be having across various technological regimes is what intentional opting out looks like in a social form where opting in to various tools is compulsory or coerced.
December 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My sense now is that a conversation we need to be having across various technological regimes is what intentional opting out looks like in a social form where opting in to various tools is compulsory or coerced.
she plucked, she ate: / Earth felt the wound 🤓
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
she plucked, she ate: / Earth felt the wound 🤓
Teaching comp for the first time in nearly a decade, and I have to say, it's one of the *most* pointless classes in the era of AI. Students cannot--CANNOT--help themselves. We're in between worlds, guys. Whatever is happening in higher ed at the moment, it's not education. It's farce.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Teaching comp for the first time in nearly a decade, and I have to say, it's one of the *most* pointless classes in the era of AI. Students cannot--CANNOT--help themselves. We're in between worlds, guys. Whatever is happening in higher ed at the moment, it's not education. It's farce.
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
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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.