Anya Spethmann
@anyaspethmann.bsky.social
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Wine & words. Perpetual student.
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Mark Squires
about 17 hours ago
A big scandal in Vinho Verde, reports The Drinks Business. This is quite a spectacle.
#wine
#vinhoverde
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Well, this triggered an industry PTSD flashback.
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Artisanswiss
1 day ago
I’m afraid 0% alcohol wine will be perfected just about the time when nobody wants it.
www.the-buyer.net/insight/anal...
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The Buyer | Precarious position of global wine industry laid bare at WBWE
All the global wine industry’s structural and production challenges were starkly exposed at last month’s World Bulk Wine Exhibition in Amsterdam. There might have been over 240 exhibiting producers ...
https://www.the-buyer.net/insight/analysis-precarious-position-of-global-wine-industry-laid-bare-at-wbwe
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Prisonculture
4 days ago
I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
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Well, that’s me out of Whamaggedon. It was worth it.
6 days ago
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My brother just clarified something about academic research: Do you want to do it? You have to want to do it. As are a necessary but not sufficient condition.
6 days ago
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Damn few.
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Katie Mather
7 days ago
Anaïs has the best ideas for stories and a thoroughness in her research I admire, and editing this piece was a dream. French wine, gastronationalism, the French far-right, colonialism, and food as a cultural weapon. Go read it.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/12...
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Tradition is a Lie — French Wine’s Place in France’s Far-Right Gastronationalism — Pellicle
The wine that French presidents choose to serve during official visits is far more than a drink. It’s a way of expressing their political beliefs, and their taste has long been scrutinised and documen...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/12/6/tradition-is-a-lie-on-french-wine-gastronationalism-and-a-rural-fantasy?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=6938767309f06f28112a497f&ss_email_id=69390c8816661137c2744a65&ss_campaign_name=Tradition+is+a+lie&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-12-10T06%3A01%3A03Z
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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine
12 days ago
I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world. - People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers - People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.
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Ryan Marino, MD
13 days ago
Also worth noting that we know the solutions for these problems, and we have a large amount of extremely strong evidence proving that they are very solvable issues, but we choose to let corporate interests and the super rich keep us from living better lives
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s. e. smith
14 days ago
What if we lived in a world where 'accommodations' weren't something provided on sufferance but simply made available to anyone who needs them for any reason without question. (Literally what my email sig says!)
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Truly, his wine tastes exactly like this photo looks.
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13 days ago
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I now so desperately want to hide away for a healthy stretch with good soup and high-acid whites.
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14 days ago
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This is no commentary on the wine below, but I’m pretty sure
JamesSuckling.com
has given 93 points to a bottle of mouthwash at least once.
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16 days ago
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🎵 Harv the Herald Angels 🎵
16 days ago
This is one of the most depressing things I've ever read, and I read that poem your boyfriend wrote
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Steve Powell
16 days ago
Or as Confucius said, and I quote, "if your version of a phrase is the one that actually gets remembered, you've won. Big ups to you, Zizek."
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Golly.
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Jane Maylin🍇🍷
18 days ago
Listen people to the Queen of Sherry. If you're telling people sherry is difficult YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
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David Moscrop
19 days ago
Former Washington Post contributing columnist here — let’s help the Onion smash the Washington Post!
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💕 Can we please make this a thing? A vastly superior option to fighting crowds or online traffic to buy unnecessary stuff that was never its non-sale price, anyway.
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19 days ago
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Exactly. I semi-confidently predict any AI-generated Alberta Whisky Act will be a hot mess one way or another.
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Jenn 🇨🇦🇨🇦
19 days ago
Counterpoint: The UCP government has no understanding of nuance anyway… let’s see how this goes
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molly conger
19 days ago
we have to go back. to warn them.
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The Alberta government (not known for its wisdom) is using AI to draft the Alberta Whisky Act. The entertainment possibilities here are, frankly, enticing.
globalnews.ca/news/1154415...
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Alberta minister reportedly putting together first AI-generated legislation in Canada | Globalnews.ca
The Alberta government is about to take the next logical step in artificial intelligence — using it to draft a proposed law.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11544154/ai-generated-legislation-canada-alberta-minister/
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Ana Marie Cox
20 days ago
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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Ontario’s grocery chains have evil down to an art.
www.thestar.com/politics/ont...
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Deal reached to allow grocers to avoid accepting beer and wine empties
Ontario grocers and The Beer Store have reached an agreement-in-principle on alcohol recycling that will allow the retailers to avoid collecting empties at their stores.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/ontario-grocers-beer-wine-empties/article_658ffdae-013a-5805-bc53-f653776d7f31.html
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This offer goes for me too, but only if I get to specify the wine.
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21 days ago
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Neat.
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Max Fawcett
22 days ago
Fossil fuel enthusiasts keep arguing that we need to increase our exports of LNG and oil to address energy poverty in the developing world. I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts.
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
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The energy poverty trap
Will more oil and gas production in Canada help alleviate energy poverty in the developing world? Of course not — but that hasn't prevented Danielle Smith and other industry champions from pretending ...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/opinion/fossil-fuels-energy-poverty-marketing
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Hell is other people's Wordpress sites.
22 days ago
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There I was drinking decent pinot noir, waiting for a show to begin at 4 PM on a Sunday, and feeling every one of my years upon this planet. Then Hawksley Workman broke into "Maniacs" and I wouldn't give a second of them back. Utterly magical.
23 days ago
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Turning on AI by default in a bookkeeping system is annoying but making it practically impossible to turn off is sus.
24 days ago
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This might act be the perfect fate for a celebrity branded Lambrusco but I will not be finding out first hand.
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24 days ago
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Clients who know when early-morning meetings can be an email instead 🫶
27 days ago
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Serious question: With the resurgence of Canadian nationalism, how has this *absolute banger* not become our de facto anthem? I want to hear it every time I'm boycotting U.S. lettuce at the grocery store.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRI...
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True Patriot Love
YouTube video by Joel Plaskett - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRIpi355FA&list=RDFnRIpi355FA&start_radio=1
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Joe Perticone
about 1 month ago
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Triple no thank you.
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Liam Michaud
28 days ago
Belatedly sharing this study on the rapid rise of manslaughter charges in Canada against people alleged to have shared or sold drugs that led to an accidental overdose death. Police agencies are quietly changing investigative procedures to recast medical emergencies as homicide scenes.
#drugsky
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Prosecuting Overdose: Manslaughter Charges Against People Who Use, Share, and Sell Drugs in Canada | Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société | Cambridge Core
Prosecuting Overdose: Manslaughter Charges Against People Who Use, Share, and Sell Drugs in Canada - Volume 39 Issue 2
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-law-and-society-la-revue-canadienne-droit-et-societe/article/prosecuting-overdose-manslaughter-charges-against-people-who-use-share-and-sell-drugs-in-canada/22B861C03BDA343E85DF820A49FD49ED
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This is very entertaining but also was said about millennials back in the day. When are we gonna learn that the vast majority of generational generalizations are lazy and so often grift?
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Julie S. Lalonde
29 days ago
One academic study showed that “the average number of gambling references per broadcast minute was 2.8” in Ontario during sporting events.
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Opinion: Our governments are willfully blind to the financial fentanyl that is online gambling
Insolvencies are up sharply, and there’s growing evidence that gambling is partly to blame
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-online-gambling-governments-willfully-blind-financial-fentanyl/
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Critical Criminology
29 days ago
This dude has more sense than NDP supporters.
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Up at this hour with only Foucault and Taylor Swift for company is either fabulous or a tragedy. Only time will tell.
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Right now, I’d settle for a viable thesis. (Which is why nobody recites odes to academic writing.)
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“There was a clear understanding that unsophisticated consumers prioritise things that are ‘yummy’, whereas knowledgeable consumers move beyond the obvious sensory pleasures of ‘simple wines’ to appreciate complexity and terroir.” 🫥 Counterpoint: Yuck.
29 days ago
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JFC, please no.
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David Moscrop
about 1 month ago
Starbucks workers in the US are on strike. Think twice before you pop in to grab a peppermint mocha. Respect the picket line and help workers secure a fair deal. Worker rights anywhere are worker rights everywhere.
jacobin.com/2025/11/star...
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Unionized Starbucks Workers Are on Strike Across the US
Starbucks workers at 65 stores in 40 cities across the US walked out Thursday, striking against what they describe as unfair labor practices and the company’s stonewalling at the bargaining table. The...
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/starbucks-union-red-cup-strike
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I really believe category dynamics in Canada have shifted long term.
www.winelaw.ca/2025/11/14/i...
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In BC, Where Did the US Wine Customers Go? - WineLaw.ca
The BCLDB (the government wholesale liquor monopoly) releases a quarterly Liquor Market Review, which often contains useful information on wine sales and trends in the BC marketplace. They recently re...
https://www.winelaw.ca/2025/11/14/in-bc-where-did-the-us-wine-customers-go/
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Spacing
about 1 month ago
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor
@johnlorinc.bsky.social
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spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy - Spacing Toronto
I have lived for many years less than 30 metres from what was once one of Toronto’s storied corner stores — a green grocer known locally as “Dom’s” — for the owner, Domenico Cozzi. He and his wife Ros...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2025/11/14/nostalgia-about-neighbourhood-retail-is-not-a-strategy/
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Fuck — and I cannot stress this enough — Doug Ford. His aw shucks populism is less flashy than the version getting headlines down south and so he somehow gets a pass but it’s still literally killing people.
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