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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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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
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sabally trying to deescalate herself lol respect #wnba
Satou Sabally looking down at hands folded in meditative prayer as she is surrounded by Aces and Mercury players.
October 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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seattle, 2015 ^_^
the author, a white latine femme, in a polka dot black-and-white dress and tights at some kind of formal event. they have short brown hair and origami earings, and are grabbing one arm. they are smiling and looking into the sunlight.
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The second point is that this juxtaposition of imagination and violence reflects a much larger conflict between two principles of political action. One might even say, between two conceptions of political reality. The first—call it a “political ontology of violence”—assumes that the ultimate reality is one of forces, with “force” here largely a euphemism for various technologies of physical coercion. To be a “realist” in international relations, for example, has nothing to do with recognizing material realities—in fact, it is all about attributing “interests” to imaginary entities known as “nations”—but about willingness to accept the realities of violence. Nation-states are real because they can kill you. Violence here really is what defines situations. The other could be described as a political ontology of the imagination. It’s not so much a matter of giving “power to the imagination” as in recognizing that the imagination is the source of power in the first place (and here we might take note of the fact that next to the Situationists, the French theorist one will encounter the most often in anarchist bookstores is Cornelius Castoriadis).[38] This is why imaginative powers are seen as suffused with the sacred. What anarchists regularly try to do is to level a systematic and continual challenge to the right of the police, and the authorities in general, to define the situation. They do it by proposing endless alternative frameworks—or, more precisely, by insisting on the power to switch frameworks whenever they like. Puppets are the very embodiment of this power.
October 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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some recent moments of getting strong and tender and lifting and sweating and also crying because I always cry during hard runs and otherwise being a sporty trans who continues on 💪🏼🌱😤 goodnight.
A white latine femme in a black dress flexing in a classic bathroom selfie Smiling queer in a marshy pond in the Cumberland Monastery trails. They are wearing sunglasses and a black tank top and white trail running vest and flashing a peace sign. Same queer with a sweaty tank and green hat, lying in the grass, panting, with their tongue sticking out. They have an elephant tattoo on their left shoulder. Same queer flashing a peace sign by dumbbell racks. They are wearing green shorts and a black Julien baker shirt.
September 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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this battle. #wnba
Alyssa Thomas goes up for a one handed release over Stewie with a low hand extended.
September 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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baddie natisha transcends ballhalla #wnba
A fan in the golden state crowd waves a poster with Natisha Hiedeman in femme mode! Next to a violet We Believe poster
September 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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ok kayla picking up natisha was lowkey adorable 🥺 (also kmac is jacked) #WNBA
Kayla bending over to grab Natisha, pink hair bright and reaching up for kmac support Midway through kmac lifting Natisha up The studbud is vertical! Kayla looks off to the side.
September 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Lyrics for Colossus of Roads: Hold my head like a live wire Duck quick now, I hear gunfire Caught somewhere in the space between Do you love me and do you love me? Everything is advancing I love to see you out dancing There's women up in the mountains We could be up there if we could get up there Say goodbye to America I wanna see it dissolve I can be your poster boy for the great American fall
September 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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oh my goshhh. i thought #1 was that stretch between second beach and sachuest point (my fav) for a second. what a dream!

i'm very lucky to be near my frequent companion, the blackstone blvd trail 🙏🏼
a perspective shot from a runner along the blackstone boulevard trail in providence. at night, passing cars throw headlight brightness and tree shadows across a dirt trail with a sharp grassy edge.
September 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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COLD. rupert!!!!!! #wnba
Rupert after lofting the 3 with 36 seconds left. Slow motion frame.
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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puppy
Anatomical drawing of a (very cute and puppy-like) cell lying belly-up. Its plasma membrane is white; its nucleus is pinkish; and other organelles are green, blue, yellow, etc. its kinked flagellum makes a convincing tail.
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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❤️
White latine queer in the free weight area of a community gym. They are looking down at their phone with a slight smirk and wearing a gray tight top with dumbells on their lap. There's long hanging lights and exposed brick in the background.
August 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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ready #WNBA bsky? here are my picks..!
Six upcoming WNBA games with winners circled in blue. 5 games tonight, 1 tomorrow. Games with picks: Valkyries over Sky; Wings over Sparks; Fever over Mystics; Aces over Mercury; Storm over Dream; and Lynx over Liberty!
August 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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me starting blankly at the prof in my first giant-ass-auditorium-lecture in many years
a page from The Quicksand Book by Tomie DePaola. A kid with braids is waist-deep in quicksand, while a kid with frizzy hair and glasses lectures contentedly with eyes closed. they say: "first of all, quick sand is not a special kind of sand. it is plain sand. but when water is forced upward through the sand, the grains are pushed apart and the sand swells. when this happens, the sand is no longer firm and cannot support heavy weight. that is why you are sinking."
August 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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August 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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cloud kitty for cat day
Jane, a white and brown-gray Aegean cat, curled up on a white fleece blanket on the couch. Her legs are comfortably stretched out, and her little toe beans are showing. The tiniest hint of a fang tooth is poking through her pursed lips.
August 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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crabs!!!! comrades!!!!
August 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM