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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 4h

playing competitive sports as I get older is such a blessing. being a sweaty dork tweaking my hip as I chase a basketball out of bounds is a blessing too. injuries come and go but damn I’ll do this till the wheels (joints, ligaments, appendages) fall off.

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 12h

I love you Lynx 😭😭😭

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 22h

honestly, i think the lynx were doomed since phee's return - specifically THIS version of phee. pre-phee: miles + howard were LOCKED IN and the machine whirred surprisingly + wondrously. yes they hit the wall of healthy, TALL liberty. but really, their trust-in-phee pivot wasn't it. #wnba

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 22h

time to be sad and make sad too-late stir fry. arouuu. #wnba

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23h

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i know we're just trying to survive the series but i think benching miles at these inflection points is counterproductive. keep her out there and find the level she can be super effective at! it's going to worsen the hesitation problem keeping miles on the bench! #wnba

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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s why that “protect women” bullshit means nothing to me when you have a grown ass man harassing women at WNBA games… yall the problem and always will be

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

we need unleashed on-court spectacle miles!!!! ibelieveinyou 🥺 #wnba

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ohhhh minnesota girl we can't be this afraid of defending the paint this entire game this won't work 😭😭😭 #wnba

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if his interaction led to him being REMOVED then you shouldn't fucking assess a TECH on a'ja!?!? #wnba

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Annalise Maxine Shaw Keating, Openly Black Attorney at Law @moniquely-uniq.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

This shit don't ever happen in any other stadium but it's always someone at this fucking stadium

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

imagine gainbridge without all of kelsey mitchell's grit and production. god that place is insufferable. #wnba

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Get them all out of wherever they are

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

so @letsgiveup.bsky.social and i have been talking abt a physical version of your abuser is dead <3 as a STRIKEABLE zine! 🔥 i'm also working on a little 2-years-dead dead-dad (2YDDD) playthrough. lighting matches in parking lots again. match ash on rainy days 🥰 pigeonpraxis.itch.io/your-abuser-...

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your abuser is dead <3 by pigeon praxis press

a lyric game you play with matches! a game of joys, quiet moments, and (anti-) grief

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Scalfi @scalfi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Manifesting a Lynx win today. Let's ride, baybeeeez! #lynxin3 #wnba

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

well @remapradio.bsky.social triggered some kind of deep down born-in-chicago sleeper agent wakeup sequence last year, now it's dinging again, uh GO BEARS!!!

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is pretty good but unfortunately Critchley has the facts exactly backwards; LLMs are not infinite archives that don't forget. The training is precisely a forgetting that's why the companies are worth a lot more than the Internet archives. plus they have "weight"; like that is their whole thing

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

imagine being cursed to a lifetime as a sentient ice cream cup. capable of shouting this and only this. hoping someone will one day understand and end your suffering

A graphic on the front of a Mini Melt vending machine showing a cup of ice cream along with a speech bubble exclaiming “the spoon is in the cup!”

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megan 🐇🌸 @sunnymegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think nat is an amazing coach but i'm still really glad cheryl won it in a year where she's been the most vocal and visible advocate for trans right & inclusion in the league ❤

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Pew Pew Bang! @pewpewbang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Janet gave us access to the Bluesky while she’s in Japan so hi it’s Haley and here’s the 4 best 2000s horse girl games and ur welcome #content

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becky hammon’s crucifix @real-point-god.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No team is greater than hers! She is The Point God over all queer nations and fantasy leagues! She is sovereign, supreme, and sufficient to reign! -Becky Hammon’s Crucifix’s ESPN #WNBA Fantasy League opponents on the joyous occasion of her inevitable victory, quoted in Isaiah 40:17

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

get off the internet; go gayly to sea

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky

ina garten in a witch hat saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's evil to neglect someone's medical condition such that they die while incarcerated.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm doing a little experiment with pre-rendered backgrounds. I wanted the backgrounds to look lousy as hell, btw

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

missin my kitty. she would have loved the windows at my new place. 😿

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i love being a neurodivergent women's hoops fan 🧵🥰

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks so much for having me, @metrolosangeles.bsky.social Library & Archive! 🙏🏽Ⓜ️🗺️📚

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Update:

An AI-generated image of a monopoly board. At the center, David Morales holds marionette strings above the city skyline. the title of the game is "PROVIDENCE: SOCIALISM EDITION."

Spots on the board read -- among other things: "GO PAY MORE TAXES," "GO TO RE-EDUCATION CAMP," and "SANCTUARY CITY Prioritizes Illegal Immigrants."

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it kind of feels like if unmasking is a processing of molting, then my verbal communication currently an entire shedded layer. it's definitely OF me. it's me-shaped in some ways. but it's not me. or rather, it's of me, and it's dead (!) and now something else is growing (!!)

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one aspect of unmasking i didn't predict: my sudden disassociation from much of my communication (especially speech). i feel like my speech still comes from a very masked, make-the-other-person-comfortable perspective. i don't identify with it as much, but i don't know HOW to express myself...

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ɖǟʀȶɦ ʋɛɖǟ ♑️ @suspishus.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

I had a feeling this would happen today. Flau got reeeeeal close to blocking A'ja last game. Respect to the Rook. 🫡 #WNBA #LVAces

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Alison Macrina @flexlibris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

bring Library Freedom Project to your library to host these classes, or use our free resources at libraryfreedom.org/resources

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

getting occupational therapy to help with the storm of executive dysfunction/autistic burnout that made it very difficult to... attend occupational therapy school! life is truly a hungry hungry ouroboros sometimes!

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

oh my god look at this cutie! 😍

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m always happy seeing the lengths to which piping plovers are protected at moonstone beach 🥹

Sign on a rocky beach at night that reads: no trespassing - bird nesting area. Entering this area is a violation of federal law. And little drawings of plovers on the bottom!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."

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Monks of New Skeet @amagire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

caught my neighbor doing yoga

a glossy raven in a maple tree surrounded by redwoods, preeing her tail feathers

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my fav sandals fell apart and my fav hiking boots died a murky flash flood death and I am bereft of shoe options. what’s the go to Three Season Black Boot these days that aren’t docs (need more support I think) or blundstone Chelsea boots? like are certain docs comfier than I think?

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Lewie Pollis @lewispoll.is · 14/09/2026

This is the most-quintessential Brett Smiley story I have ever heard. Ideology aside, it's so satisfying that this guy ended up as the first incumbent mayor to lose a primary in the history of Providence. This backlash, as much as insurgent left, is the story of Rhode Island's election last week.

Last October, long before the Providence mayoral primary was at the forefront of voters’ minds, a friend was canvassing to get the word out about an upstart progressive challenger named David Morales. She rang at the door of a large house on the East Side, introduced herself as a volunteer for Morales’ campaign, and started her voter-outreach spiel: “What issues do you care about?”

The man at the door, who is apparently harder to recognize when not wearing his signature circle-frame specs, was Brett Smiley. The prospect of polite conversation with an engaged constituent made him visibly uncomfortable. “I don’t want to embarrass you, but I’m the mayor.” He said the issue he cared about was “I’d like to keep my job,” then awkwardly shuffled back inside.

This was pretty benign as far as Smiley stories go. It’s funny, not malicious — unlike, say, his darkening Morales’ skin in a campaign attack ad. Yet it perfectly illustrates the fundamental problem with both Smiley’s administration and his campaign.

Imagine this scene, so saccharine that even Aaron Sorkin would roll his eyes: an idealistic activist gets a surprise audience with the top dog, who in turn has a chance to encourage a youthful constituent’s civic engagement while setting her straight about how things really work at City Hall. In a state that’s hardly known for political energy, a young voter who cares enough about municipal elections to be knocking doors 11 months before a primary is exactly the kind of person with whom a small-city mayor should be thrilled to engage. Instead, Smiley walked away.

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cass w saldaña @mxcatnap.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

damn if shooting hoops on a public park court isn't the most peacful thing. a kid was skateboarding and when I wedged my ball in the corner-rim (!) her board saved the day! random kids on bikes appeared, one drained a walkoff 3 and headed off! just vibing, running drills, listening to old playlists.

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