Ok so apparently it really is just bad, including the visuals. I still think a super-air-quoted, pulp-on-purpose version *could* have been interesting, though? And the outsized nature of the backlash is still weird.

@matthewrowlinson.bsky.social Would love your take!

I keep trying and failing to get cormorant! Thank you @thenarwhal for showing me how similar my partner is to several species of birds 😊

Am I missing something? It’s “Wuthering Heights”, not Wuthering Heights — it’s openly an interpretation, not an adaptation (1)

Hyperaestheticized discomfort and confinement goes hand in hand with collapse! (Either that, or Emerald Fennell made a type of self-perpetuating perfume ad)

They can also do multipart gen-z handshakes

Honestly I think the Epstein apocalypse connects to the existence of WH and its backlash in an interesting way… (1)

Yes! (the book) is about toxic confinement and people being sutured to each other against their will

My favourite song about illness/the horror of *having* a human body is by Catherine O’Hara’s sister (and Toronto legend), Mary Margaret O’Hara…sadly relevant right now. RIP to a comic lodestar. youtu.be/Lq1CXw2UzXQ?...

As someone with an ex who *wore the bandana* and had an early 00s blog that was largely anti-litbro listicles this piece really captures the vulnerability and…earnestness? of DFW and his (male) fandom: www.wired.com/story/infini...

And as always I’m v interested in female creators who invite the disproportionate outrage Fennell does. (I liked PYW a lot but not permanently, Saltburn was ok, I’m not especially invested in her) (4)

In any case I think the violence in everything from the casting to red carpet styling is part of the point…it’s a movie about the (punishing!) legacy of WH more than a retelling (3)

I think what I can’t understand about the WH backlash is the assumption that it’s…*not* an obvious commentary on how power and violence repeat through romance narratives (aks “great love stories”)? (1)

Guys Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights is about trauma and repetition (like the book!) and that’s why she made the wardrobe choices she did! Romantic styles repeat across eras just like the narratives they sublimate (1)

A thing that actually exists is anti-Slavic packaging

He called "Toronto a "bright little town"

Have you checked out The Local's Year in Review? Take a peek behind the scenes at one of our biggest years as a newsroom: thelocal.to/2025-year-in...

“It’s gone back to the earth, becoming what its community really needs: cheap noodles and worship services and bootleg DVDS […] for now it persists, a quiet dignity to its stubbornness.” Abandoned mall gothic by @curiouslana.bsky.social

“Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves…this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment.” thelocal.to/investigatin...

daylight saving time is over. let’s leave it that way! as I wrote for @thenarwhal.ca, there are zero benefits and plenty of costs to changing the clocks twice a year: thenarwhal.ca/daylight-tim...

I’ve been listening to a lot of 80s-90s soft rock and the lyrics are so fing serious, I can’t believe this played constantly in anodyne offices and waiting rooms. So much blue collar tragedy!

Finally watched Mussolini: Son of the Century and thinking a parallel between Italian and contemporary global fascism is the rise of nonsense language (Marinetti = “Italian brainrot” on youtube)

These racetrack photos by @chloeellingson.bsky.social are eerie, poignant, and elegaic — they perfectly capture the atmosphere of tarnished romance Nick builds (and mourns) throughout the piece. Just all so incredibly well done.

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a magazine issue as replete with bangers as @thelocal.to’s summer animal issue. @nickhunebrown.bsky.social’s story on the rise and fall of Toronto horseracing deserves the King’s Cup for storytelling. RIP Patches O’Hoolihan. #longreads

Doug Ford wants to control admissions criteria at Ontario universities, and which non-tuition fees students pay once they’re on campus. It may not seem overtly political, but Bill 33 is part of a broader right-wing crackdown on campuses, writes @royinori.bsky.social. thelocal.to/bill-33-onta...

Good morning Friday! Welcoming the weekend..... #Photography #FeatheredFriday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJetBlack #Birds

Not all heroes wear capes!

Equal chance of seeing a celebrity who is slightly shorter than they appear on screen though.

I am also sourcing airshow survival tips from other ppl in #toronto (do hashtags even work on here? still not sure what bluesky is good for)

In honor of the first deafening, space-time-ripping, ozone-obliterating airshow performance of the day, I re-introduce my lived experience of working a waffle booth at the cne: maisonneuve.org/article/2022...

I live in a neighborhood that is 60% cannabis shops that are increasingly selling shrooms and various other loophole drugs. All of these drugs are available in increasingly “normal” formats, like energy drinks, ring pops, corndogs

Just because it has always happened doesn’t mean it should always happen. #airshow

ABOLISH THE AIRSHOW #Toronto

The Ontario government is giving a portion of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park to the town to boost the local economy. @fatimabsyed.bsky.social visited on a late August weekend to understand the precedent this sets and how the piping plover and its summer home might fare. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

With Premier Doug Ford announcing today that construction is set to start on Ontario’s Highway 413, here's a look at our story on where the controversial project stands in light of Bill 5 and a federal government also set on fast-tracking development: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...

On queen..there is no one in the closing 75% off sale Club Monaco and in the crowded back racks of the reconstituting Artizia I hear verbatim: “I want REAL leather and I want to go to Italy!”. This is such a one-block metaphor for the current shift in urban space

Whether to avoid crowds or extreme heat — or simply to gaze up at the stars — people are spending more time outside in the dark. On every continent except Antarctica, wildlife has become more nocturnal to avoid people. Where do they go next? thenarwhal.ca/outdoor-recr...

This is such a bleak but important story about the state of public education in the city. Ugh.

This series is made possible by our readers, including one generous, anonymous supporter who has agreed to match all donations up to $10,000. Donate today and double your impact. thelocal.to/support/

@aselrod.bsky.social I think this is it: she’s a symptom not a cause: defector.com/the-money-is...

If there’s any 90s marketing trope I love it’s definitely the Late Nite font

I spent a night in a field an hour outside Kitchener getting an up-close look at the worm industry. Our tiny corner of the province exports all of North America's bait worms: it's a curious business run by families and powered by immigrant labour, and every fact I learned enchanted me a little more🪱

I gotta say, Facebook really upped its game with having AI breathlessly sportscast the comments sections on boomertrap public posts

I’ve never seen anything like this. The apocalyptic smoke sun + endless cormorant lines. Some of the giant Vs break into a dozen smaller ones at once. It’s like the dogfights in Star Wars. The city is barely visible in the grey haze.

Everyone else hates writing their own bio right 😭

So happy this got written! Lice removal centres popping up everywhere now, here’s why:

It’s a house decorated like a condo and I think that sums up a lot

Where is your Toronto neighborhood on the scale of “vintage” stores (?) with 80s Playboys on prominent display? Mine’s at like 1000

LinkedIn Park: a professional networking site for Linkin Park fans

I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then, suddenly, I began seeing them everywhere. Then I lost my mind investigating urban bunnies. Please read my a journey into the heart of rabbit madness. thelocal.to/more-rabbits...