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Simon Thibault

@simonthibault.bsky.social
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Journalist, editor, food writer, cookbook fan. Lover of pomology, grains, and archives. Author of "Pantry and Palate: Remembering and Rediscovering Acadian Food." Acadien. Queer. Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS Deleted old account due to b*ts, starting fresh.

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Re comprehending: Having a background in enviro policy helps with seeing the problems with vague open ended exceptions. I'm Again going to cite this: "Environment and health organizations, along with expert scientists from 13 universities, have denounced the legislation" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC News
The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Toronto friends: if you're into food, food writing, and all things deliciously South Asian, do yourself a solid and check out Khalil Akhtar's book launch for "How To Eat With Your Hands," at Good Egg this coming Sunday. goodegg.ca/products/gen...?
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Khalil Akhtar Event Ticket
Join CBC Radio’s Khalil Akhtar in conversation with Ozoz Sokoh. Khalil’s first book, How to Eat With Your Hands is one of the most anticipated, small press titles coming out this year. This in-store c...
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's been fascinating to see how many spam/scam emails I've received from "editors" at publishing houses, wondering if I have more ideas to pitch to them. I say "editors" in quotes, because even though they all are real names of real people at real publishing houses, the emails are all gmail.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 21/09/2026
Join us at Oxfam Canada presents The Walrus Talks The Billionaire Problem to learn about the ideas and policies that could help build a national economy where everyone can thrive. www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-walrus-talk…
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 20/09/2026
winfield black raspberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1908
winfield black raspberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1908
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As someone who adores NYC bookseller/icon/institution Bonnie Slotnick, this story is not "old lady yells at cloud," but rather "small business owner gets fed up by pop-up." If I was in NYC, I'd work the store for free for her, while she was in court. evgrieve.com/2026/09/line...
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Line tensions boil over: East Village bookseller Bonnie Slotnick arrested outside Harry Styles pop-up on 2nd Street
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Power went out as i was making coffee. Had enough hot water to make rocket fuel. Gonna be an interesting morning.
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Corby Kummer @ckummer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Excellent article on gutted food inspection by Eric Schlosser in @theatlantic.com. On an ongoing botulism outbreak: "The contents of a single can of formula may contain milk from thousands of different cows. Nobody has ever fed babies this kind of stuff before." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Should We Be Afraid of Our Food?
America’s food-safety system is being methodically dismantled by the Trump administration.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 01/09/2026
What a treat today, to publish an excerpt from Ali Francis' forthcoming book, 'The Curious Lives of Vegetables'! Here, she writes about the Carolina African Runner peanut, how industrialization almost killed it, and how one chef is trying to bring it back www.weareravenous.com/the-peanut-a...
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The Peanut America Forgot
Its rediscovery reveals the perils of industrial agriculture.
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 30/08/2026
bender cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912
bender cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anyone know people @wwnorton.com ? Methinks someone is using one of their editors names in one of those literary scams.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Considering the individual at hand’s palate and business acumen: this tracks.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Food writing lovers: Can we talk about the under-told/undersold books that should get more love? The ones that we tell people "you should read this." The ones we lend others who are curious about food writing outside of cookbooks? The ones we remind them to bring back? (1/4)
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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
'Is the Houston government about to dismember huge swaths of our university system?' "It’s beyond the ability of bean counters to put value on a liberal education." writes @timbousquet.bsky.social (no paywall on Morning File essays).
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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In a world full of J.K. Rowlings, be a Rachel Reid. #HeatedRivalry 📚📖👏 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Heated Rivalry author donates $300K to 5 rural libraries facing closure | CBC News
Rachel Reid says when she heard five libraries in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley were set to permanently close their doors, she wanted to help as much as she could.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A small, used bookstore in Lunenburg #NovaScotia is getting more attention for one unique reason. It opens in the evening and doesn't close until customers stop coming, even if that means keeping the lights on into the early morning. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Why this Lunenburg bookstore stays open late into the night
A small, used bookstore in Lunenburg, N.S., is getting more attention for one unique reason. It opens in the evening and doesn't close until customers stop coming, even if that means keeping the light...
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Peach season hasn't really come to its peak point until you have to eat them over the sink.
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Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer @benjaminwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 07/08/2026
oranges, painted by amanda almira newton, 1915
oranges, painted by amanda almira newton, 1915
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 04/08/2026
Just saying! www.weareravenous.com/ai-slop-rest...
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Is That Restaurant’s AI Slop False Advertising?
It’s lazy, cheap, and misleading — but did your local diner break any laws by posting that altered image of that uncanny burger? Ravenous speaks with Truth In Advertising for answers.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Kudos !
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Currently making a list of my books for insurance purposes. And... I don't want to have to move these books anytime soon. I would, however, like to have enough shelving for them all.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For all of you who love reading about food/cultures/foodways/butchery/The American South, may I suggest Chase Cormier’s new title “Boucherie,” from LSU Press. Approachable, well-researched, giving credit where credit is due, from the sawing to the smoking, from culture to culture to culture.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 04/08/2026
If Mel Woods had their way, everyone would treat the Harry Potter series “as a regretfully significant cultural artifact of a moment in time” in light of J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans activism. With their new collaboration, Tim Hortons has done the opposite. ow.ly/WJUW50Zw1aA
On the left: a two-frame gif image. The first frame depicts a red Tim Horton's coffee cup and chocolate donut with a hand holding a wand coming into the frame from the right side. The second frame shows the food has disappeared with an increased amount of sparkles coming off the tip of the wand. On the right: text that reads “Nobody asked for Harry Potter donuts. The new Tim Hortons collaboration will only fuel J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade”
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I had a long, honestly pretty spectacular conversation with Antonio Banderas (!!!!) and i think you will really enjoy reading it www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Antonio Banderas’s Acts of Faith
Antonio Banderas on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.”
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 29/07/2026
ICYMI from me yesterday ... Let's not forget that Tim Hortons licensing “Harry Potter” in the year 2026 essentially means directly funding J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade xtramagazine.com/culture/tim-...
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Tim Hortons and the no good very bad ‘Harry Potter’ collaboration | Xtra Magazine
Tim Hortons licensing “Harry Potter” in 2026 essentially means directly funding J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade
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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Free shipping until August 20! This is an amazing issue. It's Disability Pride month. Get this. It's full of amazing work by disabled authors, including yours truly. I have a hair-raising story about an old woman who becomes a polar bear. For vengeance.
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 29/07/2026
red bird peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1937
red bird peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1937
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Using AI slop as a means of promoting culture and cultural content is the antithesis of culture and cultural content. In other words: It cheapens your message. In other, other words: Va chier. You're lazy.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Reliving the early 2000’s and listening to a bunch of Final Fantasy/Owen Pallett. I feel like I should have this on my iPod Mini
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 22/07/2026
nectarines, painted by royal charles steadman, 1929
nectarines, painted by royal charles steadman, 1929
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 20/07/2026
freestone plums, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916
freestone plums, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I love how jewelled black currant jelly looks. Fits perfectly with the vases.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Blackcurrants means blackcurrant jelly means out comes the Grigson.
A copy of Jane Grigson’s “Fruit Book” surrounded by punnets of blackcurrants.
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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
happy pride halifax
An extremely well made Pride banner
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Why the collaborative effort of editing is the ultimate reward (especially when your anthology is about community).
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Labor of Love: On Editing and the Rewards of Collaborative Effort
From July to December 2024, Adam Vitcavage and I sent 68 emails back and forth. We were collaborating on a project that was a big deal for both of us: my first book, the anthology Living, Together:…
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 15/07/2026
simon plums, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1908
simon plums, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1908
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Done!
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Alice Mattison on having your correspondence with a famous writer turned into a book.
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When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer
For most of my life I didn’t read books of letters. I wanted what I read to be deliberately shaped. I wanted art. And in middle age, I lost some vision. I read more slowly, so every word had to be …
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Stacie Smith (She/Her) 🇨🇦 🏒 🧠 ⚾️ @stacesmith94.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Canada relies on Black farm workers. So why are there so few Black farm owners?
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Why are there so few Black farm owners in Canada? | The Narwhal
Black and racialized workers power agriculture, but barriers to land ownership mean they rarely own farms
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cherry pitting time. 1/2 flat for sour cherry morabia (a Georgian compote), the other half to be frozen for later.
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 09/07/2026
hawley apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1894
hawley apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1894
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When the fruit glut hits, you start finding as many was as possible of using them.
A stack of ten cookery books, with the vast majority of them Focusing on fruit preparations and/or history.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026.
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Part Two
The year is half over, if you can believe it. Time marches ever forward, into the abyss. Books, though, can smooth the passage. If you choose wisely, that is. To that end, here are the novels, coll…
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today’s read. Janet Flanner’s dispatches from Paris between the wars, originally published in the New Yorker.
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
we want our fresh water and real jobs, not artificial intelligence
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Wide Waterfalls Memories
ALT: Wide Waterfalls Memories
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 03/06/2026
Generative AI may be making us faster, but research suggests it could also be weakening the very skills we need to think critically. AI strategist Sheldon Fernandez examines how tools like ChatGPT are reshaping memory, expertise, and judgment: ow.ly/CVsY50Z6WQI
On the left: a photo illustration shows the face of a person covered in text written on paper on the left side and a mirror image of the face on the right with the text: ‘AI Prompt: Ask anything.’ On the right: text that reads “ChatGPT isn’t just changing how we work. It’s harming how we think. New research says the cognitive costs of AI may be higher than we realize”
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Blanching nettles this morning and decided to poach the eggs in the same water. Saving the asparagus water for pasta later.
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Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Looking forward to hosting tonight's @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social Writing the Truth: An Evening of Non-Fiction. The event is free, so come on down to King's College! atlanticbookawards.ca/event/writin...
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Writing the Truth: An Evening of Non-Fiction – atlanticbookawards
Non-fiction writing prioritizes facts over the imagined, but stories based in the real world can be as fast-paced and fascinating as fantasy! Join Nova Scotia Book Award nominees in an evening of read...
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