Cass Wilkinson Saldaña
@mxcatnap.bsky.social
they/them
wetlands queer
mostly here for WNBA takes
also: libraries, sci fi, trail running, rock skipping
💪🏼🌸 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
cass-ws.com
wetlands queer
mostly here for WNBA takes
also: libraries, sci fi, trail running, rock skipping
💪🏼🌸 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
cass-ws.com
how did i sleep on earl sweatshirt for so long??? Live Laugh Love yes yes yes
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
how did i sleep on earl sweatshirt for so long??? Live Laugh Love yes yes yes
i feel like a good chunk of my mental health as an adult can be attributed to letting myself get very bored on Saturday mornings.
my cat and I just stared at each other for five minutes. I’m listening to music and watching wet leaves drip out the window.
if you can manage it, hard recommendation.
my cat and I just stared at each other for five minutes. I’m listening to music and watching wet leaves drip out the window.
if you can manage it, hard recommendation.
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i feel like a good chunk of my mental health as an adult can be attributed to letting myself get very bored on Saturday mornings.
my cat and I just stared at each other for five minutes. I’m listening to music and watching wet leaves drip out the window.
if you can manage it, hard recommendation.
my cat and I just stared at each other for five minutes. I’m listening to music and watching wet leaves drip out the window.
if you can manage it, hard recommendation.
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
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This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!
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#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
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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. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
also key to this semester: listening to "Euphoria" daily
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
also key to this semester: listening to "Euphoria" daily
being an adult learner is humbling as shit! there's this whole bundle of Adult Working World cognitive biases / shortcuts that basically prevent us from stopping and saying "I don't know" or "huh maybe my intuition is dead wrong here"
in the cold light of the Scantron Bubbles, the bundle unravels..
in the cold light of the Scantron Bubbles, the bundle unravels..
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
being an adult learner is humbling as shit! there's this whole bundle of Adult Working World cognitive biases / shortcuts that basically prevent us from stopping and saying "I don't know" or "huh maybe my intuition is dead wrong here"
in the cold light of the Scantron Bubbles, the bundle unravels..
in the cold light of the Scantron Bubbles, the bundle unravels..
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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I stan this trend so much
It-girl literary heroines are all cannibals now
The newest publishing trend is a long way from the universe of Sally Rooney.
www.newstatesman.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I stan this trend so much
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!)
(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
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!)
(also, is this a common squirrel thought? b/c so many humans have had this thought, across time and space!)
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I went back and listened to @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ’s 2017 conversation with Patty (linked from Alice’s post below) and it’s so, so beautiful. Listen for reflections on disability and aging, being an elder, developing a fond friendship with your body: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/11/26/e...
August 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I went back and listened to @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ’s 2017 conversation with Patty (linked from Alice’s post below) and it’s so, so beautiful. Listen for reflections on disability and aging, being an elder, developing a fond friendship with your body: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/11/26/e...
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. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
today's sidequest was a little forensic analysis of a flooded part of the cumberland monastery - if you know it, the portion where Old Road Trail theoretically crosses over Monastery Brook. anyway, talked it over with a friend. apparently it's beavers. beaver engineering. beaver sabotage. i love it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
today's sidequest was a little forensic analysis of a flooded part of the cumberland monastery - if you know it, the portion where Old Road Trail theoretically crosses over Monastery Brook. anyway, talked it over with a friend. apparently it's beavers. beaver engineering. beaver sabotage. i love it.
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Ahhhh look what I made! I know some of you folks will appreciate these ecologically minded cards! This one is about an extinct pigeon that use to live on the island of Mauritius www.jpopstudios.com/collections/...
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ahhhh look what I made! I know some of you folks will appreciate these ecologically minded cards! This one is about an extinct pigeon that use to live on the island of Mauritius www.jpopstudios.com/collections/...
rapidly entering Immediately Trapped Under Cat Every Time I’m On The Couch (Positive) season
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
rapidly entering Immediately Trapped Under Cat Every Time I’m On The Couch (Positive) season
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anyway
sometimes i feel like the republican party is a big tornado that is coming to kill me. and the democratic party is the rickety shed that i'm hiding in. and i say "we should really fix this shed, because it's not doing much." and people say "what? why aren't you criticizing the tornado instead?!"
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
anyway
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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-...
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-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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-...
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-...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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
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
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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
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