Norm Wilner
@normwilner.bsky.social
Consultant! Writer! Programmer! Host! SEMcast, SHINY THINGS, ex-Secret Movie Clubber. I can probably help you with your movie. He/him. https://linktr.ee/normwilner
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Norm Wilner
@normwilner.bsky.social
· Dec 2
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
"Really? People still go to movies?"
This is helpful!
7 illustrations to understand the Eglinton Crosstown. I'm aiming to ride it tmrw. The closest station is Oakwood, 500 m north of me. Enjoy local journalism via The Local which created this clever feature @wencyleung.bsky.social #TOpoli #transit #toronto #EglintonLRT #ttc
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Understanding the Eglinton Crosstown in Seven Illustrations | The Local
From Shohei Ohtani’s salary to the tunneling rate of a mole—an unorthodox guide to the numbers behind Toronto’s newest transit line.
thelocal.to
February 7, 2026 at 1:22 PM
This is helpful!
Trump
sort of curious who would be a *terrible* muppet show guest host. to nuke myself from orbit, i am starting with gillian anderson
janelle monáe, ke huy quan and pedro pascal
February 7, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Trump
GOOD GOD THAT'S IT
A rare photo of Kid Rock in which he looks like someone who’s extremely famous in Quebec.
well well well variety.com/2026/music/n...
February 7, 2026 at 12:35 AM
GOOD GOD THAT'S IT
A "Film" by Emerald Fennell
In a move destined to infuriate copy editors (among other accomplishments), Warner Bros. is insisting that critics use quotations marks when citing the title of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” This is not a joke.
February 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
A "Film" by Emerald Fennell
Between this and Patrick Fabian playing him in PONIES someone really wants me to change my mind on George H.W Bush this year.
On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was
February 6, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Between this and Patrick Fabian playing him in PONIES someone really wants me to change my mind on George H.W Bush this year.
Emma Stone.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Emma Stone.
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"You would get fired for this at any other job" is so direct and clear.
February 6, 2026 at 7:42 PM
"You would get fired for this at any other job" is so direct and clear.
oh my god, someone paid for a restoration of GOLDENGIRL
Goldengirl | Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema
An untried female sprinter enters the Olympics, claiming that she will win an unprecedented three gold medals. But when one man falls in love with her, he unravels the bizarre history of her training ...
kinolorber.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
oh my god, someone paid for a restoration of GOLDENGIRL
Either Trump immediately refutes this at his next gaggle or this is now one of those weekends when they put him in The Machine and we don't see him until Tuesday
After huffily defending Trump for posting the racist apes video, the White House is now blaming it on an unnamed staffer.
“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” a White House official told Zeteo.
“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” a White House official told Zeteo.
BREAKING: Madman President Promotes Racist Video of the Obamas as Apes
Trump’s policies and actions are fueled by explicit racism and election denial. The Obama-ape video encompasses both, writes @swin24.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-obam...
Trump’s policies and actions are fueled by explicit racism and election denial. The Obama-ape video encompasses both, writes @swin24.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-obam...
February 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Either Trump immediately refutes this at his next gaggle or this is now one of those weekends when they put him in The Machine and we don't see him until Tuesday
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oh man this is EVEN WORSE than the judge calling out your grammar, it's a judge saying "yo I can tell you didn't write this because when you're writing your grammar sucks"
Do you know how mad a judge has to be to call out your grammatical errors
February 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
oh man this is EVEN WORSE than the judge calling out your grammar, it's a judge saying "yo I can tell you didn't write this because when you're writing your grammar sucks"
mm-hmm
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
mm-hmm
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Two great reasons not to share Trump’s latest racist post, or screencaps of it, are that a) doing so perpetuates and amplifies the harm, and b) is there really anyone in 2026 who doesn’t know that Trump is a racist but who would finally be convinced he is by this one post?
February 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Subscribers to the paid tier of SHINY THINGS just got my reviews of SIRAT, A POET and THE MUPPET SHOW. And for only five bucks a month you can read them too! There's even a free trial, if you're curious: shiny-things.ghost.io#/portal/
What's Worth Watching - February 6, 2026
Your weekly recommendations for stuff that's not on disc. Yet.
shiny-things.ghost.io
February 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Subscribers to the paid tier of SHINY THINGS just got my reviews of SIRAT, A POET and THE MUPPET SHOW. And for only five bucks a month you can read them too! There's even a free trial, if you're curious: shiny-things.ghost.io#/portal/
This was the way.
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This was the way.
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
Aw, this is nice. It's a fun show!
February 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Aw, this is nice. It's a fun show!
Via @kateatherley.bsky.social . Sometimes you just need to lose yourself in highly principled nonsense.
February 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Via @kateatherley.bsky.social . Sometimes you just need to lose yourself in highly principled nonsense.
Got that thick blood going
Trump, who rarely does White House events in the evening, sounds haggard
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Got that thick blood going
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The best thing about nobody buying tickets to Melania is you can just make up stuff that happens in the movie and people will believe you. My favorite part is when she throws up in her purse after the hot dog eating contest
January 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM
The best thing about nobody buying tickets to Melania is you can just make up stuff that happens in the movie and people will believe you. My favorite part is when she throws up in her purse after the hot dog eating contest
Trump has this condescending tic of overenunciating when he pushes a particularly big lie, as if he's telling a story to children and trying to hold their attention. He does it a lot in this clip.
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"
February 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Trump has this condescending tic of overenunciating when he pushes a particularly big lie, as if he's telling a story to children and trying to hold their attention. He does it a lot in this clip.
This is, again, a speech to Christians at a prayer breakfast.
Trump at Natl Prayer Breakfst: "We prefer somebody that's a strong, powerful person w/extremely good vision that can shoot a rifle very well to a person that's extremely weak, non-muscular, can't shoot a rifle, has no idea where the hell he is. We have a military where they all look like Tom Cruise"
February 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
This is, again, a speech to Christians at a prayer breakfast.
controversial but true
I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
controversial but true
Wonder if @jessehawken.bsky.social has heard ELLA McCAY is now streaming in Canada on Disney+, and possibly even in the state she was born and raised in.
Watch Ella McCay | Disney+
A comedy about those you love and how to survive them from James L. Brooks.
www.disneyplus.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Wonder if @jessehawken.bsky.social has heard ELLA McCAY is now streaming in Canada on Disney+, and possibly even in the state she was born and raised in.