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Catherine Sperling Dreyer

@catherinesperling.bsky.social

Politically left of centre and delighted to have Mark Carney as our new Prime Minister. Artist. View my work at artbycatherine.ca. Occasional poet. 🇨🇦

created January 8, 2025

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Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Just looked it up…AI Google says that owls can become ‘imprinted’ on certain people and recognize them as part of their flock. So there you are, you are a burrowing owl. 😁🩷

2/9/2025, 1:27:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do owls remember faces/people like crows?

1/9/2025, 10:41:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful!

1/9/2025, 4:54:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha! Oh, that it would be true!

1/9/2025, 4:49:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Good to see!

31/8/2025, 11:45:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellent! Congrats, Stephen!

31/8/2025, 1:30:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

You are having so much fun!

31/8/2025, 1:28:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Hahaha!

31/8/2025, 1:25:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Hahaha!

31/8/2025, 1:22:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Your work is so lovely!

31/8/2025, 1:21:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Recently read Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. True story. Excellent!

30/8/2025, 8:03:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

❤️🇨🇦

30/8/2025, 7:48:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

I should join the library. You can borrow books digitally. I do like a Kindle vs hardcopy. It does have some disadvantages, like trying to find a passage you read earlier isn’t easy. Also, I do reread good books and like to have them handy.

30/8/2025, 7:47:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

I read 3+ books a month, so am price conscious. 😆

30/8/2025, 6:58:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Not yet. I looked it up on Amazon and it was about $17 for kindle, so I marked it and am waiting for it to drop.

30/8/2025, 6:55:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll check him out. Just started ready The Sea is Behind You by Susan Muaddi Darraj. Excellent so far.

30/8/2025, 6:37:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

You really have mastered night and rain painting!

30/8/2025, 7:05:27 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

The nuts have taken over the asylum!

30/8/2025, 4:55:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha! So friggin’ cute!

30/8/2025, 4:54:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

In between those books that stay with me, that I think about, find notable quotes in, I read a lot of mysteries. Some of the mysteries are really good, some good, some mediocre. Just finished a few, now I need a book that stays with me. It is a quest.

30/8/2025, 2:09:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Love the bow! ❤️

29/8/2025, 5:13:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

I quit FB when Zuckerberg became a Trump ass kisser. The only way to dump these jerks is to quit supporting them

29/8/2025, 6:34:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Mark Cuban was blocked? Why? In the ugly world of billionaires, he is the most sane. I opted out of FB, never did X or Instagram. Really appreciate Bluesky. My peeps are here. Best news coverage. Mark, invest here where sanity, creativity, intelligent discourse prevails.

29/8/2025, 4:32:05 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

They are just thugs at the behest of the corrupt president.

29/8/2025, 3:31:41 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Progress, except the President is a criminal with a gifted plane and a Supreme Court of sycophants.

29/8/2025, 3:30:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Absolutely agree!

29/8/2025, 1:47:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Dangerous bullshit with a following of more dangerous bullshit.

29/8/2025, 1:46:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Check out iandehoog.com His watercolour birds are spectacular!

29/8/2025, 1:41:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

THAT is an amazing photograph!

29/8/2025, 1:34:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow!

28/8/2025, 5:27:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Gorgeous!

28/8/2025, 5:25:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Aww. 😘

28/8/2025, 12:29:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Yes, that and continuing to live on a diet of MacDonald’s and Diet Coke.

28/8/2025, 12:28:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Still collecting her pay check, enjoying health care and numerous benefits, insider trading info. Smiling in the face of constituents outrage. Not a stretch for people that have sold their soul to MAGA.

28/8/2025, 12:22:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

The USA is officially in the crazy zone. Dementia-addled narcissists, rapists, drunks, Fox News ex-employees, dog shooters, lying religious zealots, chauvinists, nazis, anti-intellectuals, billionaires outta control running the country. Y’all better vote next November.

28/8/2025, 12:10:57 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Good grief! Cultural coup.

27/8/2025, 2:08:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

🇨🇦🍁

26/8/2025, 6:52:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil bastards!

26/8/2025, 6:42:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Table of lunatics, babbling, nodding…and the governing body of 347,000,000 people. Good job, voters!

26/8/2025, 6:35:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Yup

25/8/2025, 8:19:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

The dementia is obvious. What must the other world leaders think when they meet with that old, licentious creep?

25/8/2025, 12:15:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Worth a listen. Good perspective. ‘Like the Soviet Union in the 50’s’

24/8/2025, 5:41:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

The honeymoon may be over, but can you imagine Poilievre as PM in these times?! He’s never had a job in the private sector, possesses zero diplomacy, is afraid of open questions from the press. Glasses or no glasses, the guy is a dolt.

24/8/2025, 5:38:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

I often watch At Issue. Frankly, I find Rosie and the panelists raise pros and cons and provide both a left and right perspective. I have never perceived CBC as a conservative leaning organization. CBC is my go to for TV news, in my car, and when I’m streaming music. CBC is important and valuable!

24/8/2025, 5:31:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Laughable!

24/8/2025, 4:50:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Geezus! The world has turned upside down.

24/8/2025, 4:47:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

So adorable!!

24/8/2025, 4:37:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks!

24/8/2025, 4:33:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

And so it starts.

24/8/2025, 6:24:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Where did you find this info? Good news if it’s true!

23/8/2025, 10:43:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, looks kinda hopeless at the point in history. Good guys trying to work with criminals.

23/8/2025, 9:30:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Fascists come in all sizes, genders, ages, and colours.

22/8/2025, 5:18:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Loving California!

22/8/2025, 1:28:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Art of the fool.

22/8/2025, 1:28:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Love the stop to mark the tree! That guy is unstoppable! 🩷

22/8/2025, 1:27:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

I read that most people that rise to the level of CEO in major corporations must be sociopathic to have made the journey.

22/8/2025, 1:23:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Just finished Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana. I really enjoy his writing. His best I would say is The Power and the Glory, a book I read twice and might read again. Good literature calms the soul. #bluesky 📚 💙

22/8/2025, 1:11:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Who cares? I got off FB. Zuckerberg, a self-servingTrump sycophant, will not make 5 cents off of me.

20/8/2025, 3:10:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

A succinct, insightful description.

20/8/2025, 2:59:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

He truly is delusional and the president of the USA. Something is seriously wrong with what?…Education systems, social media, mainstream media, churches, materialism, chauvinism, deep rooted racism, social safety nets…do they all boil down to greed? I don’t know, but seriously, mind boggling.

20/8/2025, 1:18:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump likes the look of North Korea and wants to replicate it in the US.

18/8/2025, 5:58:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Love it!

18/8/2025, 5:43:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Many years ago I had a NSU Prinz when I worked at a natural gas company; the gas fitters got up to similar antics…car on the sidewalk, a couple of them hunched down and leaned into the back of car when I was trying to reverse! Haha!

17/8/2025, 5:37:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely out of control!

17/8/2025, 5:30:08 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Voting is so important! Democracy only works if people participate. The alternative is terrifying.

16/8/2025, 6:34:11 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

The USA has become a very scary country. Even in the ‘good old days’, way too many shooting sprees of innocent people, inadequate health care for the less fortunate, ultra rich people and ultra poor people…now racist profiling in real time, people are being disappeared off the street, in work places

16/8/2025, 6:25:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Adorable! True kindness. I’m not there yet, but I know vegetarianism is in our collective future.

16/8/2025, 6:15:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Loving the Newsom trolling!! More please!

16/8/2025, 6:12:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

What a remarkable boy! Do you know if they sold the big turkey in the window?

16/8/2025, 6:08:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Hurrah!

14/8/2025, 12:30:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

And on Jan 6, he watched it all happen on a tv screen with obvious joy…then let them all out of prison. Unbridled authoritarian madness in the good ole USA.

12/8/2025, 12:20:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

You should! 💕

12/8/2025, 12:13:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump has broken trust with all trading partners, not just Canada. He has also broken trust with Americans. Canada will survive and ultimately thrive with much less reliance on US markets. Our trade reliance on the US was levered way up under Mulroney, stupid is as stupid does.

11/8/2025, 6:36:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Cover this! Instead of lies and fantasies from Washington DC

10/8/2025, 1:34:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Something is seriously wrong with this guy! It’s in their DNA. This clan should be banned from all interpersonal breeding, online commentary, and most importantly, from any public office affecting the wellbeing of others.

10/8/2025, 1:32:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Just loving Colbert unleashed! 10 months of great and memorable late night!!

8/8/2025, 12:33:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Rotten to the core!

8/8/2025, 12:27:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Can he even do that?!

8/8/2025, 12:25:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha! Apt!!

8/8/2025, 12:23:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha!

7/8/2025, 6:36:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes.

7/8/2025, 4:47:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

All those threatened fragile male egos wishing to turn the clock back to 1950 when they were not held accountable for being disgusting predators on so many levels.

7/8/2025, 5:25:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Is there no end to these jackasses trying to revert to the 1950’s? Their fragility is staggering, they all feel so threatened!

6/8/2025, 10:22:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

I hope this group is invited at the next inauguration of a new president when these dark times are finally over.

5/8/2025, 5:43:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Love ❤️

5/8/2025, 5:34:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

That is adorable!

5/8/2025, 5:33:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Could this situation and this president get any more repulsive?

4/8/2025, 3:27:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Hence the term, self-righteous.

4/8/2025, 3:26:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nita K (@nitajk.bsky.social) reposted

There was a time in the US when serial killers proliferated. While theories like cursed genes, upbringing and brain chemistry explain it, the book Murderland suggests that bad, polluted air had something to do with it. #crime #climate #pollution #booksky 📚💙 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

2/8/2025, 2:23:48 AM | 17 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

That expression says ‘This is just stupid’. Ha!

2/8/2025, 4:23:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Making the world uglier one day at a time.

2/8/2025, 4:19:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Interesting. I never thought about herons eating rodents. Great picture.

2/8/2025, 4:17:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow!

2/8/2025, 4:15:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Sums up my lack of optimism.

2/8/2025, 4:14:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Much better than the alternative! Congrats on your Canadian citizenship process!

2/8/2025, 5:31:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Assholes come from all nations, including Canada. Embarrassed that this jerk is Canadian.

2/8/2025, 2:37:30 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Shame on you! Embarrassed that you’re Canadian.

2/8/2025, 2:35:38 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social)

Wake up, America!

2/8/2025, 2:31:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Will the US survive this meteoric plunge into government sanctioned amorality?

1/8/2025, 7:34:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catherine Sperling Dreyer (@catherinesperling.bsky.social) reply parent

Good grief! Has the world gone mad?!

1/8/2025, 7:31:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view