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mxcatnap.bsky.social
Cass Wilkinson Saldaña
@mxcatnap.bsky.social
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they/them
wetlands queer
mostly here for WNBA takes
also: libraries, sci fi, trail running, rock skipping
💪🏼🌸 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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basketball is such a gift
maya moore rising up, with her shot already arcing out at the 0.0 shot clock timer. a crowd of fever fains watch anxiously in red and white. no matter.
January 2, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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tamika catchings.... hello
January 2, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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2015 WNBA FINALS, game three: maya's been in deep foul trouble since the 2nd quarter. she comes in early in the fourth, no wiggle room, and just DRAINS this diabolic three - totally relaxed. running back before it goes in.

i LOVE seeing athletes so dialed in they look lackadaisical. whew.
January 2, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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love Cheryl's little hand squeeze to Lindsay Whalen heading to the bench.
As Lindsay Whalen walks gingerly to the bench, coach Reeve (in a gray pantsuit and green top) squeezes her player's hand and checks in.
January 2, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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here is Lann, my Squeakross cutie, vibing by the microwave 🐀👩‍🍳😻
A digital rat stands by the microwave - she has floppy purple ears, spotty brown and white coloring, a heart shaped nose with a pumpkin seed resting delicately on it, and Lann is wearing a chef’s hat. There are colorful notes floating above Lann’s head to denote her pleasure.
December 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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i am so heartened to hear that students found safety in the library last night - that fellow staff including student workers!! helped barricade and keep our community safe. libraries represent safe respite to so many of us - endlessly grateful for those who put our values into practice. and i am nauseous thinking about the trauma inflicted on our community, the repeat of gun violence. I hope every one of you finds sanctuary, rest, and care as we get ready for the path of grief. I love you
December 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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11 years of HRT bb! started out exuberant, scared, ready to risk softness. now muddier and sweater, femme in a new way ✨🦝

what i've loved about transition: its defiant NO to coercive, compulsory, abusive inscriptions of gender. its FUCK YES to play, change, sensous possibility.
left: the author, a femme white latine person at 26, wearing a modcloth purple cardigan, thrifted floral top, a turquoise necklace, big hoops, full makeup, and tied back hair. the photo is from an AV editing bay. right: the author at 36, sticking their tongue out, cheeks flush from running, with bangs and a green audobon hat, hoodie, nature-y top and running vest.
December 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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today I heard TWO new albums that blew my mind - s/o @carissaknick.bsky.social to get me on the @beachbunnymusic.bsky.social wavelength, and @katiedey.bsky.social for radiant living glitching music.

music is GOOD!
☀️🦑!
Beach Bunny Tunnel Vision album cover - a cartoon cheerleader slouched pensively in a bedroom of pink, balloons, banners, patterns, and cowboy boots. Album cover for the kraken by Katie Dey. A saturated and layered collage of a coastline in greens and yellows, a tentacle pattern, and some kind of bridge highway overpass.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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death before unsusbscription!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Burn It All Down podcast cover logo, with a explicit rating and last updated Jul 1st. A screenshot from the Apple Podcast app.
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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joining the long tradition of Nascent Science Queers @hankgreen.bsky.social Helped Not Collapse Into Dust
In a Library study room, a sheet of notes on a desk with an iPad propped up vertically. The screen shows a muscle contraction diagram + related textbook page, overlaid by a YouTube video showing Hank Green in a Crash Course Lecture
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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also the portrayal of Estonia here is fascinating. i went to wikipedia to tease out the different layers of history. found them represented with a new, hallucinatory (negative) techno-decay (VERY negative) layer on top 😡
Estonia wikipedia article with a banner alert: "This article may incorporate text from a large language model. It may include hallucinated information, copyright violations, claims not verified in cited sources, original research, or fictitious references. Any such material should be removed, and content with an unencyclopedic tone should be rewritten. (October 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)"
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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thinking about my friend 🥲
A seal snoozes with their head gently resting on a rock. They are covered in sand, and otherwise bluish gray. Behind is turquoise water under the sun - and another seal bobbing from the water.
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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good (thousand-eye’d) kitty 🐱
“A living scallop (marine bivalve). The dots are eyes. A white and black puck-like ringed by two layers of dozens of black eyes. There’s an additional conic reddish outer layer.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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my most cursed (/favorite) gym outfit of phee up top, liberty green shorts 😭😭😭 #WNBAsins
a white latine nonbinary person alone in a basement gym. They are wearing an oversized gray SLAM magazine shirt with Napheesa Collier on it, and seafoam green Liberty shorts.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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hi squirrel. it's me, human, thinking about how to love a world that is so beautiful and is so eternally slipping through our hands.

(also, is this a common squirrel thought? b/c so many humans have had this thought, across time and space!)
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Can anyone help identify what types of burrs these are? Photo taken in Cumberland, RI in late October - I think I picked them up along a swampy / wetland area. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
A macro photo of two tadpole-shaped burrs against a black legging. They have a bulbous end with pale green shoots out from a brown core, and a pale green/brown stem. Each is about 1-2cm in length.
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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the ducks know it. the geese know it. now is the time of beaver.
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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advanced cat dead weight technique.
A brown and white Aegean cat curled on the stomach and arm of a human - her back paws and tail tip are resting in the crook of the human’s elbow, and their head is planted firmly on their forearm. The cat appears to be sleeping.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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late fall in the trail maze at cumberland monastery!

i think what makes trail runs so special for me is the time + space + sensations that provoke an odyssey of feelings. i feel a goofy kid confidence crossing a stick bridge, then a trauma shame wave, then a happy creature encounter, all in 2 hours
Remaining puffs of white seeds on a tall plant. Behind, wetland marshes with pale greens and browns. Above, an overcast sky with a bit of blue showing through. A makeshift bridge of sticks and logs leading to a narrow path of trail (covered in reddish leaves). The author tilting their head in a slight smile. They are a white latine femme wearing sunglasses and a green hat.
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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running in the dark is the goddamn best. i miss the sun. but i pledge fealty to the moon 🗡️
Above a dark Lippitt Park with trees and scattered street lamps, a full moon glows through the clouds.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, the Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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a sensuous world
tidepool off East Point Audubon Sanctuary in Biddeford Maine. In lush sunlight, Kelly greens above the water, and a pair of bright deep blue mussels semi-submerged in rippling almost metallic water.
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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2025: working on my masters in Tying a Hoodie Around My Waist Mid-Run Without Stopping
Smiling white latine runner on a wood d path. They are wearing a gray Napheesa Collier shirt, Aces shorts, green Audobon hat, black tights, and white shoes - and they are trying to tie a glass hoodie around their waist.
November 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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aging like sour milk. @theathletic.com pls get out of bed with sports betting. now's the time.
New York Times google result for an April 2024 article: "What happens if a generation of sports fan is swallowed up by gambling?" The first line in the text result: "Disclosure: BetMGM is the exclusive sports betting partner of The Athletic."
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM