casandra (cass) saldaña

@mxcatnap.bsky.social

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trans femme wetlands queer in RI / ME data librarian, hooper, sometimes writer rock skipper, lynx fan, creature appreciator 💪🏼🌸 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ cass-ws.com

McBride patting Phee’s head in a huddle with Miles and Tash coming in too!
Andrew Dukowitz @adukeMN X.com Cheryl Reeve on the trans sports bans from her perspective of being a leader in women's sports "Of course it weighs on me, the attacks on trans people, the attacks that they've gone through... it seems like it's got way more aggressive, it's sort of sickening when the issues they are trying to tackle are really not issues, the number of transgender athletes they are now making laws for and creating a problem, to get elected...what I'm hopeful for is that people have gotten themselves more educated and they understand that, that's not actually a problem... exclusion is never the answer, separate isn't equal, and trans lives matter, so to take away something that's so valuable that sports brings to young people in particular and what it does, as I have a youngster, encourages you to be part of a team and what it gives you in terms of teamwork, leadership, competitiveness, all the things, they have every right to that as well"
white latine trans woman wearing a floral and turquoise bikini in a mirror selfie, with the caption “ok heat u win I am Participating”
A white and brown senior Aegean cat smiling as they lounge and stretch out on a human’s black dress. Happy kitchen clutter lines the background and an open kitchen door lets the sun in.
A sunset scene in the Scarborough marsh. The camera zooms into a finger of dark green land between the saltwater and the orange-pink sunset sky. A white heron - perhaps a snowy egret - inches carefully across the foreground. Ponderous.
The Libby all displaying the cover of Nona the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir playing at chapter one. A tall girl with a long braid grins in the foreground with skeletal creatures behind.
A white latine queer squatting again - but this time the camera is blurrier as they try to hold their white tabby kitty in the frame. The cat is sort of long and non-resisting, but doesn’t look entirely thrilled.
a white latine queer grinning in a floor length mirror from a squatting position. they are wearing a purple tank top, black “everyone watches women’s sports” shorts, and wnba slides. They have long brown hair tied back.
No long no leggy goose, a puffed up urchin-like creature, blessed
“ STRESS There are two places outside the window of tolerance: either toward hyperarousal or hypoarousal. HYPERAROUSAL WINDOW OF TOLERANCE Optimal zone; able to deal with stress effectively HYPOAROUSAL Fight-or-flight response, emotional reactivity, panic, rage, hypervigilance, stress Decreased overall nervous system response, numbness, detachment, slowness, fatigue, shutting down, dissociation”
a white latine femme smiles and drips sweat in a gym selfie. they are wearing a black AOC with the words “compañeras” and a a pink triangle, “everyone watches women’s sports” black shorts, and Sab 2 sneakers.
A slow motion replay shows Olivia Miles hucking a ball from the top of the key, through the arms of two Mercury players, right to Natasha Howard who finishes at the rim.
a white latine femme crouching down at low tide among tide pools. they are grinning slightly, wearing a pink windbreaker, green hat, and a pink raccoon-print bandana. the sky is cloudy.
four lynx players help #9, cloud, on the sky up from the court after a collision
Homer in bed. Happy. Peaceful. Smiling with his eyes closed.
WNBA League Standings. We see Minnesota Lynx at the top (!!!) followed by the Fever, Aces, Dream, Valkyries, Fire, Sings, and Sparks.
Olivia Miles is surrounded by three defenders in the paint. She leaps up and throws a dart to Natasha Howard streaking to the arc.
Bright greens of a native wildflower field in Biddeford, Maine - one small part of Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge. A small wooden structure holds various sticks and has the label “Solitary Bee Habitat”
A nonbinary white latine queer with shaggy long hair and wearing a black dress looks off to the side in the ocean-adjacent. They are wearing a Rhode Island wetlands pendant, sunglasses, and a green hat.
A white heron steps deliberately through wetland water in the drizzle. After several stomps, they take off, drifting in an air current close to the ground, and settling into a new pocket of water.
a distinct snaking pattern appearing in sand on a brown stone. the path bends about and features little dotted imprints - perhaps of periwinkle legs? we see the periwinkle in question near the center of the photo - but at one possible end of a path?? many questions!
A rocky tide pool along the Maine coast - in the foreground, a rock dusted with sand reveals a wiggly pattern dotted with little extensions - and in the middle is a bivalve gripping to the rock. Sea grasses and stones of every color and shape stick out of the clear water.
Sweet Syl, fantasy basketball team name. Cass Wilkinson Saldaña. A photo of Lynx legend #34 Sylvia Fowles handling a rebound.
A fantasy team roster with the following players: Guard, Olivia Miles Guard, Natasha Cloud Forward/Center, Aliyah Boston Forward/Center, Kiki Iriafen Forward/Center, Naz Hillmon UTIL, Jessica Shepard Bench, Julie Allemand Bench, Aziaha James Bench, Isabelle Harrison
A white heron in an airplane-like formation taking off from a salt marsh - a pool of reflecting blue water and matted browns beneath them.
In the same Scarborough marsh afternoon, a young willet bobs along the brackish waters and shore. They find what looks like a little wormy in the shore, then quickly waddle over to chomp it down with the aid of water.
An afternoon Scarborough marsh scene - a tidal marsh with light brown grasses curves around a large brackish inflow - the water reflects whites and blues and curious purples. Overhead the sky is bright; several fluffy clouds float by.
Skateboarding montage of a white latine queer rolling off a leaf-covered curb in west Philly - not really performing an Ollie more just rolling into leaves. then, the skater is doing a few hops on a curb stall in a college courtyard. In the last shot their skateboard rolls away from the curb and past the filmer.
a water strider remains motionless on a shallow steam bed as wind sweeps through and creates surface disruptions. even in the spring, we can still spot fall leaves decaying in the water.
a water strider moves in jolts across a reflected spring string in evening, creating interlocking series of ripples.
within the KID PIX user interface, with lots of colorful tools and items. we see, in the main working space, a photo of a northern flicker, looking proudly up, with a light brown belly of off-kilter almost-polkadots in black, waves of stripes on their wing, a colorful back-of-head pop of red, and other mascara-black-bright accents.
tufts of straw-colored, coiled tidepool grass (?) in bright morning sun, in a bright triangle cut with shadows on either side. the tufts bunch and curl together, like locks of hair.
A purple-coded clone curled up on a bed, with a big shark stuffie next to her. The text: “WATCHER: Sometimes your backpack isn’t big enough.”
a bright, curious bedroom with yellow orange carpet, a fishbowl, a bed area with bult-in elements, and steps up to a giant exposed skylight roof
zooming in close to the sandy ground, we see a translucent trunk wriggling around for nutrients - this is the siphon of a hidden bivalve buried unseen. It ventures, probes, flops.
A pyramid of milk crates with a variety of books in various states of unpacking/stacking. A tall poster reads “Abolish Ice!”
A kelp-rimmed little ride pool full of deep red grasses and pops of light brown.
Photo of kelp-covered rocks along a rocky shoreline - with a head-like bolder and ear-like rocks at the top of the frame, partly shadowed. And bright soft “paws” of kelp at the lower frame
A clear blue sky in the background. The Sciences Library in Providence extends up 14 stories of brutalist concrete. In the foreground, several trees fan out above a plaza and accessible ramp - the trees are just beginning to bud.
A 3D visualization of ARTEMIS II showing the flightpath of ORION from earth - a big loping loop followed by a tight loop - and meanwhile the moon passing into the center of that tight loop on its broader orbiting trajectory. This shows how Orion will align on the far side of the moon with the Earth in the background later today.
a marshy wetland river on a cloudy day. in the foreground, a seal drifts sideways and stares at the camera. when acknowledged, they flop dramatically backwards into the water.
"The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" by Ellis Nye. A close up photo of the first page on a table, beginning with "It is with sorrow that this paper announces..." (full text accessible in link)
a mostly full-moon over the maine shore near sunset. the moon is surrounded by a patch of deep blue sky, and vague orangish-gray clouds hover closer to the horizon line.
a short video zooming into a brownish tidepool in rocky coastal southern Maine. The video zooms and pans between hundred of silver spherical.. bubbles? Maybe something else? Then pans over to the rocky eroded path from the high pool to the shoreline where waves are crashing near sunset.
From Wikipedia “Overwintering is the process by which some organisms pass through or wait out the winter season, or pass through that period of the year when "winter" conditions (cold or sub-zero temperatures, ice, snow, limited food supplies) make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible. In some cases "winter" is characterized not necessarily by cold but by dry conditions; passing through such periods could likewise be called overwintering. Migration of cranes”
A white latine femme in a black dress and black dress is curled up at the edge of a white coach and smiling down at their phone. On their lap a white and brown Aegean cat is sitting up, eyes winky, tail curled into the crook of the couch.
An older woman with glasses carefully placed a collection of seeds and leaves on the table. There are frosted windows behind her with tiny houseplants on the sill. She wears a knitted green gray top, and has a wool-looking hat beside her.
A binder with a photographic cover of a majestic giraffe straining their neck to the black bar along the edge. The label in high contrast: Wildlife Fact-File
Excerpt from the WNBA Rough Notes substack: “ The ongoing CBA negotiations feel so sucky precisely for the same reason that women’s basketball is so exciting — because women’s basketball players have dared to demand their worth. Once again, this means that both players & fans are outpacing the institutions that mediate the sport’s progress (& stagnation.)”
A squirrel hangs upside down from a branch in an orange leaf-filled tree, completely perpendicular to the ground. They are feeding on leaves.
a white latine nb femme running on the east bay bike path at sunset. they are wearing a green Audubon Society of Rhode Island, a rainbow Minnesota Lynx shirt, and a running vest. they have brown hair and are currently sticking their tongue out at the camera.
parked cars at a band in the east bay bike path + a stone wall and fences. everyone is taking in the saturated oranges and pinks and blues of the providence sunset.
Providence downtown at sunset, as seen from the East Bay Bike Path across the Providence River. Orange blue pink striations with a deep orange layer below. Three smoke stacks and Providence's mini-skyscrapers in the foreground, along with barren wintry trees.
Bar chart showing primary production of diferent ecosystems, in grams of biomass per square meter per year. Algal beds and coral reefs produce 2,500 grams. Tropical rain forests produce more like 2,250. And in third are estauries with 1,500 grams of biomass. Behind estauries are temperate broadleaf forest, savanna, taiga, cultivated land, temperate grassland, tundra, desert and semidesert scrub, and the open ocean.
A squarish worried blob creature, all brownish white hues on brown background, apparently a badger
KP at the bail shifting to the left - Vinyl off balance - a lane opens up to drive
a bar graph + fitted line titled "ok cass how much did I run this week? in kilometers." the plot shows a fitful start to 2025, followed by a rapid increase in km from around 6-8km in june to about 20km a week in september, followed by a fall-off in november and december, and a early/tentative curve back up in february.
The Beeeze celebrating together after last nights win - posing on the court. Kate and Paige flashing dubs on the floor. Rickea, Aari, Court happy. Cam giving Dom a piggyback ride.
A pigeon huddled up in the cold at Kennedy Plaza on the sidewalk next to a bandaid. They are puffed up and tucked into themselves. Good pigeon.
I’m Every Sparkly Woman by Ana Roxane. The screenshot includes the ~~~ EP cover (a photo of Ana, tinted blue)