Tiffany Sanerd
LightNews LightNews
banner
atypicaltiff.bsky.social
Tiffany Sanerd
@atypicaltiff.bsky.social
1.3K followers 720 following 2.3K posts
Enthusiastic but awkward about pretty much everything. I occasionally write things. she/her
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
atypicaltiff.bsky.social
Tiffany Sanerd @atypicaltiff.bsky.social · Oct 12
I'm out of the fog, and I'm not going back in without a fight. I'm putting down the things I don't need to carry - things I've outgrown, things that never fit, things that aren't mine, things that anchor me in places where I don't want to linger - and I'm moving forward at speed. This is my season.
atypicaltiff.bsky.social
Tom Morello's Cornell tribute and my blurry tour of Belmont, including such Chicago landmarks as Devil Dawgs, indifferent pigeon, and sign that kind of looks like it says, "Ho."

I also had tacos from three different places, and they were all amazing. So a pretty good Thursday.
Blue lit Tom Morello pointing a finger heavenward with a black and white portrait of Cornell on the screen behind Red neon Devil Dawgs sign Blurry, indifferent pigeon pic taken in empty side alley City Suites Hotel sign with "tel" partially obscured
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
atypicaltiff.bsky.social
With a port-a-potty in the foreground for authenticity.
Neon sign for The Vic Theatre in Chicago
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
atypicaltiff.bsky.social
I'm not sure what this is, but it was in the middle of a bunch of measurement shots in my camera roll, and I find it soothing to look at, so now it exists here, too.
Cloudy dark blue whateverness
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
404media.co
guys, we're throwing a show!

404 Media is joining hands with community members and organizations to throw LA FIGHTS BACK, a benefit show to raise money to support immigrants and refugees as ICE and DHS continue their dehumanzing crackdown across the U.S.

learn more: regentdtla.com/tm-event/hea...
404 Media has been extensively covering the dehumanizing ICE and DHS crackdown across the U.S. Now, we're coming together with others in the community to help throw a benefit show to raise funds for our immigrant friends, families and neighbors event poster
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
levostregc.bsky.social
"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
guilhernunes.bsky.social
It's not a phase
painting of a chicken painting his nails black
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
silverpebble2.bsky.social
When my depression’s especially bad I bring myself to the garden centre for the very good fractals. Ngl I’m tempted to buy myself a tiny Christmas tree & handmake all the decorations as a project to help my brain.🌿
PS I found that rowan leaf on the ground.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
chillsubs.bsky.social
Went down a New Yorker research rabbit hole and now we’re all gonna get FAMOUS, friends!

Read the full list here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - that is one of our paid pieces.

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Want to publish in The New Yorker? Start with these 5 lit mags • The American Poetry Review + A top-ranked lit mag known for making careers • Denver Quarterly + Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of prose and poetry by publishing experimental work • London Review of Books + Work that reaches deep into the heart of the human condition and asks the difficult questions • Mid-American Review + A small but mighty open secret of a lit mag that's been around since the 70s • Poetry + A sprawling poetry paradise organized and designed with the reader front and center
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
chmmagazine.bsky.social
Free horror stories on the CHM website!

Check out "Growing Daffodils" by Anne Wilkins here: https://bit.ly/43kGPrf
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
artbyemilytull.bsky.social
Happy #Wrensday
"King of the birds"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
A light beige background with a dark taupe coloured floral pattern. Along the top and bottom are a wavy strip of a black/cream and light blue large flower pattern fabric. In the middle is a hand embroidered Wren perched on top of a stick.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
birdsbyalex.bsky.social
I’ve always loved Winter Wrens — tiny birds with fearless personalities!

#wrensday #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
A small brown bird with speckled plumage perched on a branch, tail held upright, against a blurred green background. Photographed in Avon, Connecticut.
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
wolfskulljack.bsky.social
Way, shape, and form. An exquisite change- 2025
Comic page by me. Digital art of a women shapeshifting into a wolf
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
atypicaltiff.bsky.social
The #mantis path to self-actualization:

Sever on instinct
the head from your bad lover
then origami unfold
steel-like layers, serrated edges,
into sentient grass.
Spend the sunny hours praying.
Be at peace
with the consummation of your rage,
a knife in heaven.

#whistpr
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
whistberry.bsky.social
Mantis is the #whistpr word of the day today!

Post them if you've got them!

#MantisPosting
A large praying mantis that is mostly green except its back, which is brown. It is perched on a stem of cardinal flower that has bright red blooms just peeking out.
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
rami.spaceaustralia.com
There’s a heart-shaped feature in the Sun’s corona - seen in a recent SDO’s A193 filtered image, which captures the hot solar atmosphere.

❤️☀️

The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅
Slar disc showing its hot, diffuse and turbulent atmosphere. Near the equatorial region on the right there is a dark heart shape.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
uncleduke1969.bsky.social
the lady that filled the bird feeder was two hours late and chester was starting to get pissed
A squirrel with its arms crossed, sitting on a tree branch.
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
staykinduniverse.swifties.social
made thing.
imagine the biggest, best solutions you can.
a peace sign saying imagine solutions
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
clarionwest.bsky.social
Interested in our novel workshop, but concerned about the financial commitment? Don't count yourself out! Thanks to generous donors, we have three full-tuition scholarships available.

We're excited to see our next cohort! Applications due November 13th, 2025.
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
Image of a woman reading a book and smiling. Novel writing workshop scholarships. Novel writing workshop scholarships! Don’t let the cost of tuition keep you from applying! For financial aid, we have: Reduced-rate tuition; anyone can opt-in. Two scholarships for writers of the Global Majority (PGM) or those identifying as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) One full-tuition Flores Scholarship for a student who identifies as Latinx/e. Get those writing muscles into gear! Applications are due November 13th, 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
hexliterary.bsky.social
"Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red..."

the weirdest episode of "Pimp My Ride" you've ever watched, new on hex today from Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ! 👇
Pimp My Ride by Julián Martinez
Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red with pinstripe and flames which hangs on the fuse of an even bigger bomb, the...
hexliterary.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
massiveface.bsky.social
Liberal use of the symmetry tool in Timelapse.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
abigaillarson.com
"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure." - excerpt from 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu
digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a hand with a lace web pattern glove. The hand has sharp fingernails dripping a tiny amount of blood. A black butterfly is perched on the hand.
January 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
atypicaltiff.bsky.social
I have a new work friend. After watching Frankenstein, building her felt a little too on the nose. She doesn't have a name yet, but every time she startles me I growl, "Victor," and pretend I'm not at all unsettled.
White fiberglass mannequin against a black backdrop
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
nancyfjorde.bsky.social
Also the mental and emotional...
truthdig.com Truthdig @truthdig.com · 3d
As Silicon Valley CEOs anxiously figure out how much computing it will take to propel artificial intelligence forward, the real question we should be asking is how much more artificial intelligence the planet can take.
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the microchips behind artificial intelligence grow in complexity, each generation requires more energy, minerals and water than the last, driving a ruinous cycle with no end in sight.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Tiffany Sanerd
mimulus.bsky.social
First snow of the season blankets a late aster.
Photograph of a low-growing aster still in flower, dusted with snow in the artificial light outside our front door.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM