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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

and Canada should close the loopholes that allow us to continue sending arms to Israel. co-signed, a Canadian Jew

Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

pretty much every career pathway I imagined as an undergrad in the mid 2000s is now dead or dying 🙃 ✅ classical music critic ✅ tenure-track musicology professor ✅ classical music radio host

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

rage-inducing that this article talks about how multiplexes may lead to this couple's property value decreasing but fails to mention that, having originally bought it 50 years ago, it is likely worth 5-10 times more now than what they paid. any decrease will never offset the overall increase.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

sorry, @thestar.com, were these "vehicles" self-driving? no? then it was the DRIVERS going the wrong way. selfish, entitled, asshole DRIVERS. the same ones who seemingly don't care to stop at stop signs and don't give a shit if they kill pedestrians or bikers.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hope Susan Collins is made to personally suffer great financial and political losses as a result of her country's repeated aggressions and threats against Canada 🙃🙃🙃

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is maybe the most unhinged reply I have ever gotten on bluesky or twitter, especially considering my professional background!

Screenshot of my own quote-skeet, followed by a deranged reply:

Dr. Naomi Perley
@cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social
the funniest possible outcome to Carney's
EU membership push would be for quebec's nonsensical language laws to derail the whole thing.
•Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.so... • 4h we are 100% not joining the EU as a member.
Quebec alone wouldnt be able to because their language law is too restrictive
8:50 AM • Sep 15, 2026

lapin2.bsky.social @lapin2.bsky.social • 1h
Do you know that Europe speaks multiple different languages other than English including French? These countries recognize French as an official or co-official language:
France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Italy, Channel Islands, Andorra.
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ha: Dr Nanmi Dorlov Arutalittlehurav • now
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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the funniest possible outcome to Carney's EU membership push would be for quebec's nonsensical language laws to derail the whole thing.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the main thing I can't stop thinking about is how far away Halifax is from Lake Ontario and these ignorant dumbass fucks showed up in their stupid sweaters anyway

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A couple years ago, I had to switch hormonal birth control pills because the one I was on got discontinued (at least in Canada). now my birth control is on backorder. it seems like there are fewer and fewer birth control options available in Canada. why isn't anyone talking about this???!!!!

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I once took on an extra bit of contract work organizing a conference at the institution where I was both a full-time employee and student. it took six months and a truly bizarre amount of paperwork to get paid a couple hundred bucks by the institution that sent me biweekly paycheques for far more.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

my personal issue with the anti-helmet case is that it's very easy to have a bike accident that doesn't involve any cars and could cause brain damage. so like yes, obviously better infrastructure and safety in numbers will reduce injuries but dumbasses will still find ways to fly over handlebars

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am feeling this so fucking hard today in so many different directions.... none of which I can state publicly online right now

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

yes to all of this, AND, Canada is currently doing similar dumbass shit instead of fully taking advantage of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to welcome all this talent: www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

thestar.com

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I came pretty close in a car accident on the 416 ten days ago so I will accept this apology

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

ok I knew that oc transpo has been doing its best to fuck up the city's transit system for the last year plus, but I was shocked to discover today that they even managed to fuck up the Wellington/somerset bus, which for decades went in a straight line along said streets, and now doesn't even do that

A screenshot of the Transit app showing the route of the 11 bus, with a jag around a few blocks of Wellington/Somerset

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

made a perfect summer bbq meal tonight after the skies cleared: Ontario veal chops with corn and potatoes from sosnicki organics. I get their CSA for half the year and it is truly incredible how different high-quality, fresh produce tastes from the usual stuff. good seasoning plus real charcoal.

A dinner plate, featuring a veal chop, a cob of corn, and some cubed potatoes

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I simply would not have been able to complete my PhD if these rules had been in places when I went to the US for grad school in 2008. I maintained student status until 2016, then switched to H-1B to work full-time while I finished my dissertation. in all it took 11 years for me to finish.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

above the fold on @ottawacitizen.com two days in a row: local institutions do stuff with AI 😒

Two newspapers sit on a wooden table. The one in the back has the headline: "Can uOttawa make a safe AI therapist?" The one in the front: "Museum of History unveils AI tool"

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

extremely typical of our small-minded federal government: let's close the only imax 70mm theatre in the national capital region weeks before the biggest imax 70mm movie of all time due to "budget constraints" and then miss out on all the revenue and publicity that would have come from the odyssey 🙄

MATTEO CIMELLARO
Dedicated film lovers are taking pil-
grimages to one of the 41 theatres
around the world where they can watch director Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in its intended Imax
70-millimetre format. In Canada, only nine theatres have that capability.
But the National Capital Region will not be among those destinations de-
spite having an Imax projector capa-
ble of using 70-millimetre film at the
Canadian Museum of History.
Earlier this summer, the museum in Gatineau shuttered its theatre CINÈ+
partly due to the federal government's
budget cuts. Officials said the decision
was taken to close the theatre while the museum considered the future of Imax
CINE + in a "strategic review." While it
remains unclear if and when the the Fulbr atre will reopen, film buffs are hopeful Univ it will.
Film historians say the theatre.
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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

static.klipy.com

Tom Hanks: Houston, We Have a Problem Meme

ALT: Tom Hanks: Houston, We Have a Problem Meme

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I would like to think that me yelling at julie dzerowicz at big on bloor last weekend played a tiny role in this decision 😂😂😂

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

another thing you can try in this season of summer festivals is to go to one and yell at your shitty liberal MP in person! like I did at big on bloor this weekend. she told me she didn't come out with a "no jets" position because "what if the jets are smaller and quieter than propeller planes?" 🙄🤯

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

LOL just thinking back to how nasty he was and how nasty that made me be the one time I engaged with this loser. he extremely needs to log off.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm on team "please somebody get a goal before 90 minutes so that we can go get fancy gelato before supper"

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

one of the girls who bullied me the most in grades 6–8 is now a leader in Toronto's conservative circles

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

this has me in stitches (has, present tense, watched it several times in a row, struggling to breathe rn lol)

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I saw this post yesterday and by chance wandered by right as @smkasman.bsky.social was starting up trivia again today and was one of her first contestants! sadly, I lost 🤷🏻‍♀️ but it was great fun nonetheless!

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

ok @thestar.com it is extremely Scots-Canadian-coded to spell McDonalds as MacDonalds—like truly an error only a Toronto newspaper could make—but for real, plz hire more editors!!!!

Bathurst Street from Queen to College has always been a sorrowful stretch: a funeral home, a hospital, a sad corner with a bank entrance encampment, and a brown grass park forever overlooked when it comes to trendy improvements.
Even the Scadding Court rink house was once the dirtiest and most neglected in the city, although there is a certain beauty in skating across the street from the Buddhist temple, where, on winter nights, plumes of smoke from the building's hearth hang in the air above the ice.
Still, the narrow street is forever clogged with streetear and other traffic, and the Dundas MacDo-nalds is a tortured real-time story-book, bodies collected outside across the pavement in all seasons.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

doug ford has been silent and absent during the wildfires this week and ever since the massive storm and floods in Ottawa on Canada Day. you absolutely do not have to hand it to doug on even a limited basis.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

fuck I did a typo on my own age!!!! argghhhh!!! I'm 39 not 38 🙃🙃🙃🙃 4 months minus a day till I hit 40 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

if your parents/grandparents are still around, make a point to spend as much time with them as possible. signed, someone who had 2 grandparents and 2 parents still alive at age 30 and now, at age 38, has 0 grandparents and 1 parent

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

and @schiff.senate.gov had the gall to beg us to stop boycotting American booze not even two weeks ago. fuck all the way off, Americans!!!

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

lmao no. I top out at about 25 km/h (roughly half that speed) when I am going downhill and I find that terrifying enough.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.

Carney:

"The wildfire situation has escalated significantly over the last three weeks across the country, and particularly in Northwestern Ontario.

Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their communities, not knowing if their homes will survive.

On behalf of Canadians, I want to thank the brave firefighters, first responders, Indigenous and local leaders who are working tirelessly to keep people safe.

Our government is in close contact with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous partners and stands ready to provide any additional support as needed."

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

oh good, so it's not just MY educational workplace that has failed to warn students, faculty, or staff about this, or offer any kind of plan to address it 🙄

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

never fucking forget that our tomato of a premier slashed tens of millions from our forest firefighting and emergency preparedness budget so now yea we’re surrounded by toxic air and whole communities are burning down

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Canada's PM's fierce determination to appease separatists & fatten short term foreign fossil fuel shareholder profits with a pipeline is going to come with a huge body count. It's anti-leadership. Deliberate failure on the climate is the most irresponsible policy choice in all of human history. 15/

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK love how all employers' response INCLUDING THE FUCKING RAILWAY HAULING FLAMMABLE FREIGHT THROUGH A FUCKING WILDFIRE is just 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ keep working harder!!!!!

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

of course today, when the air quality in Toronto is EXTREMELY BAD, is an in-office day, and seemingly no one in HR or leadership has issued any advice about whether we can or should stay home on days when our sky is filled with wildfire smoke. love living in a climate emergency!!!

A screenshot of weather.gc.ca showing the air quality in Toronto is 10+ very high risk this morning

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

and I am going to see them at RBC!!!!

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I endured many absurdities as an employee of CUNY but the most absurd one was the substantial portion of the initial HR onboarding devoted to anti-Italian discrimination

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

yet another reason to continue my personal boycott of American produce!!! (and yes, @schiff.senate.gov, that includes California wine!)

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

you can actually still do this!! I used one when my mom and I wanted to go to the Caribbean but didn't know where. she found us exactly the right spot on short notice. best part is you don't pay: travel agents get commission from airlines/hotels so you're putting corp $ into a real person's pocket.

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

and meanwhile.... what is carney doing in Canada?? pretty much the opposite

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

WHADDAYA KNOW!!!!! huge fucking waste of money is service of a corrupt, fascism-loving organization 🤡🤡🤡🤡

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am BEGGING my fellow citizens to simply never vote for the liberals again if you wish to have any kind of climate action. vote NDP, vote green, hell, vote for the bloc, just don't waste another vote on the goddamn liberals because you're scared of conservatives

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Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

first seriously hot day in Ottawa this year and the power is out over the entire west end of the city, basically from Fisher out west as far as Stittsville. deja-vu from the derecho in 2022, when I first came to realize exactly how fragile our grid is here!!!!

A map of western Ottawa overlaid with a giant red blob, delineating the current hydro outage

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