Shannon Whibbs
@swhibbsy.bsky.social
I edit many things, I teach some things, I want to write more things.
Copy editor at @Xtra Magazine
Pronouns: she/her
Copy editor at @Xtra Magazine
Pronouns: she/her
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We're enduring this Cloudflare outage as best we can: in the fetal position, surrounded by decorative gourds.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We're enduring this Cloudflare outage as best we can: in the fetal position, surrounded by decorative gourds.
Fuck yeah, he can. I'm so happy he's here.
August 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Fuck yeah, he can. I'm so happy he's here.
Wore my CBC hoodie to cast my vote. After, I popped into the LCBO and had this exchange with a hoser ahead of me in line.
Hoser: Heeeey, CBC!
Me: You bet!
Hoser: You just get off work now?
Me: Oh, I don't work at the CBC.
Hoser: *perplexed* ... you pretendin'??
Me: I just like the CBC! #CBC
Hoser: Heeeey, CBC!
Me: You bet!
Hoser: You just get off work now?
Me: Oh, I don't work at the CBC.
Hoser: *perplexed* ... you pretendin'??
Me: I just like the CBC! #CBC
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Wore my CBC hoodie to cast my vote. After, I popped into the LCBO and had this exchange with a hoser ahead of me in line.
Hoser: Heeeey, CBC!
Me: You bet!
Hoser: You just get off work now?
Me: Oh, I don't work at the CBC.
Hoser: *perplexed* ... you pretendin'??
Me: I just like the CBC! #CBC
Hoser: Heeeey, CBC!
Me: You bet!
Hoser: You just get off work now?
Me: Oh, I don't work at the CBC.
Hoser: *perplexed* ... you pretendin'??
Me: I just like the CBC! #CBC
Sheridan College plans to cut a number of programs, including one that is close to my heart, the Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing program. Please consider signing to show support. Thanks! #saveCWP
www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Suspension of Sheridan’s Creative Writing and Publishing Program
www.change.org
December 6, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Sheridan College plans to cut a number of programs, including one that is close to my heart, the Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing program. Please consider signing to show support. Thanks! #saveCWP
www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
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imagine being such a huge dork that an entire thriving web site and community exists simply because you suck
November 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
imagine being such a huge dork that an entire thriving web site and community exists simply because you suck
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Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
November 23, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
The quality of my life improved exponentially when I learned the alt-codes for smart quotes and smart apostrophes. So much mental energy spent making sure these tiny punctuation marks are curling the correct way, For non-editors ... oh, who am I kidding? You don’t care and nor should you.
November 22, 2024 at 6:57 PM
The quality of my life improved exponentially when I learned the alt-codes for smart quotes and smart apostrophes. So much mental energy spent making sure these tiny punctuation marks are curling the correct way, For non-editors ... oh, who am I kidding? You don’t care and nor should you.
My young niece lives in a different province, but now we have FaceTime dates where she reads Ramona the Pest to me, and as if that wasn't great enough, she schedules the next "appointment" on her paper wall calendar before we say good night. "You made my day perfect," she said tonight. My heart!
November 22, 2024 at 3:26 AM
My young niece lives in a different province, but now we have FaceTime dates where she reads Ramona the Pest to me, and as if that wasn't great enough, she schedules the next "appointment" on her paper wall calendar before we say good night. "You made my day perfect," she said tonight. My heart!
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Hey authors on Bluesky, you will make your cover designer and/or illustrator’s day by mentioning them when you share how excited you are about your brand new book cover.
November 18, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Hey authors on Bluesky, you will make your cover designer and/or illustrator’s day by mentioning them when you share how excited you are about your brand new book cover.
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Welcome to our city!
The Beaverton Guide to Toronto for Americans who swiped all the Taylor Swift tickets
Congrats American swifties! You guys managed to buy a huge amount of the tickets for Taylor's only appearance in the entire country of Canada!
thebeaverton.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Welcome to our city!
When I get a new paper calendar at the start of the year, I write down friends' birthdays because I realized I had let FB take over that task for me, and I didn't like that. But @westendphoenix.bsky.social already had Paul's noted in their calendar this year, as they should! Happy birthday, Pauly!
Wishing a Happy Birthday to poet, painter and WEP crossword creator, @paulvermeersch.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 4:52 PM
When I get a new paper calendar at the start of the year, I write down friends' birthdays because I realized I had let FB take over that task for me, and I didn't like that. But @westendphoenix.bsky.social already had Paul's noted in their calendar this year, as they should! Happy birthday, Pauly!
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all you normie journos onboarding get that this is your chance to abandon ship and renounce your mainstream ways, right? and that you'll get way more of that sweet engagement if you do, win/win? "Hi Bluesky I'm Dan Rather and I'm naked as hell" -- this is what you need to be doing
November 17, 2024 at 4:34 PM
all you normie journos onboarding get that this is your chance to abandon ship and renounce your mainstream ways, right? and that you'll get way more of that sweet engagement if you do, win/win? "Hi Bluesky I'm Dan Rather and I'm naked as hell" -- this is what you need to be doing
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This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
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What if we kissed underneath the shrimpletoe 👉👈
November 16, 2024 at 7:48 PM
What if we kissed underneath the shrimpletoe 👉👈
I find it weirdly comforting that these monstrosities still exist. Same packaging, even. They defy time. Everything might be going to shit, but Cherry Blossom will always be the favourite candy you'll never buy.
A trip to the Dollar Store today confirmed what I already knew.
Even at 0.91, nobody buys Cherry Blossom.
It looks like a red eyeball leaking out of some kind of miniature chocolate jello mold.
I do appreciate the Health Canada warning though.
#photos #chocolate #canada #GoodPrice
Even at 0.91, nobody buys Cherry Blossom.
It looks like a red eyeball leaking out of some kind of miniature chocolate jello mold.
I do appreciate the Health Canada warning though.
#photos #chocolate #canada #GoodPrice
November 16, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I find it weirdly comforting that these monstrosities still exist. Same packaging, even. They defy time. Everything might be going to shit, but Cherry Blossom will always be the favourite candy you'll never buy.
My perennial theme song for marking assignments. Assignments I created. For a course I developed.
"You do it to yourself, you do. And that's why it really hurts. You do it to yourself, just you. You and no one else, you do it to yourselllllllflffffFFFFFFFF**k!"
youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls?...
"You do it to yourself, you do. And that's why it really hurts. You do it to yourself, just you. You and no one else, you do it to yourselllllllflffffFFFFFFFF**k!"
youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls?...
Radiohead - Just
YouTube video by Radiohead
youtu.be
November 16, 2024 at 7:37 PM
My perennial theme song for marking assignments. Assignments I created. For a course I developed.
"You do it to yourself, you do. And that's why it really hurts. You do it to yourself, just you. You and no one else, you do it to yourselllllllflffffFFFFFFFF**k!"
youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls?...
"You do it to yourself, you do. And that's why it really hurts. You do it to yourself, just you. You and no one else, you do it to yourselllllllflffffFFFFFFFF**k!"
youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls?...
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Making a weekly interview podcast can be a time-suck, but as someone who always ends up in the kitchen at parties, having long conversations with 1 or 2 people instead of mingling, it is also one of the more fun and thoroughly on-brand things I do. Please check it out.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
November 16, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Making a weekly interview podcast can be a time-suck, but as someone who always ends up in the kitchen at parties, having long conversations with 1 or 2 people instead of mingling, it is also one of the more fun and thoroughly on-brand things I do. Please check it out.
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
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So deadly ✊🏽🙌🏽❤️
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 16, 2024 at 3:08 AM
So deadly ✊🏽🙌🏽❤️
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For the evening crowd, my @xtramagazine.bsky.social column: From Higgs to Trump, what did this fall’s elections teach Canadians? #canqueer #cdnpoli
From Higgs to Trump, what did this fall’s elections teach Canadians? | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: Ahead of a likely federal election next year, what can Canadians take away from the U.S., New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and B.C.?
xtramagazine.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:25 PM
For the evening crowd, my @xtramagazine.bsky.social column: From Higgs to Trump, what did this fall’s elections teach Canadians? #canqueer #cdnpoli
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I grew up in the 80s and joined my first band in the early 90s. A while back I thought it would be fun to do my own versions of classic Canadian songs of the period, thus this album. Note the full-on 'Miami Vice' attire on 8th grade AT in the photo.
thegatelessgate.bandcamp.com/album/nowher...
thegatelessgate.bandcamp.com/album/nowher...
Nowhere Is the Dreamer: Songs from a Gen X Canadian Youth, by Allister Thompson
16 track album
thegatelessgate.bandcamp.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM
I grew up in the 80s and joined my first band in the early 90s. A while back I thought it would be fun to do my own versions of classic Canadian songs of the period, thus this album. Note the full-on 'Miami Vice' attire on 8th grade AT in the photo.
thegatelessgate.bandcamp.com/album/nowher...
thegatelessgate.bandcamp.com/album/nowher...
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Flipping through Naked Lunch again and I remain haunted by this thought. Hits me now the way it hit me then, a long time ago lol.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative” William S Burroughs
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative” William S Burroughs
November 15, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Flipping through Naked Lunch again and I remain haunted by this thought. Hits me now the way it hit me then, a long time ago lol.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative” William S Burroughs
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative” William S Burroughs
And what a portfolio!
November 15, 2024 at 3:44 PM
And what a portfolio!