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Lori Snook
@lorisnook.bsky.social
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Teacher. Exile from the southern plains. She/her. Slave to British theatre, old-school fashion, and my dog.
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lorisnook.bsky.social
My God, this year hurts.
tcmtv.bsky.social Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social · 3d
As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.

Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...

Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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nickpetrichowe.bsky.social
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.

If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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tomasjmurray.bsky.social
Jane Austen, Novelist, #BornOnThisDay in 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England
Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell in ‘Persuasion’ (1995) Harriet Walter as Fanny Dashwood in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (1995) Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Catherine de Bourgh in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1995) Juliet Stevenson as Augusta Hawkins Elton in ‘Emma’ (1996)
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
What. The. Actual. Hell.
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12d
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
lorisnook.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Javalina
Pronghorn antelope
Marmoset
Alligator
Seal
bettycrackerfl.bsky.social Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 21d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Tufted puffin
Mangrove cuckoo
Flamingos
Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles
Manatees
kirindensetsu.bsky.social Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 21d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Leatherback sea turtle
Japanese serow
Japanese giant flying squirrel
Mountain lion
Three-toed sloth
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
I am so, so sad. He was my favorite contemporary playwright.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23d
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
Miss Garnet Grace wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving or happy Thursday, whichever is regionally appropriate.
A Cardigan Corgi looking soulful. (Which is a lie.)
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
I have long dressed (reasonably) well for air travel just out of personal preference, but if this loser is advocating for it, well, sweats and sneakers it shall be next time.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d
Duffy: "Trump talks about the golden age of transportation. But the golden age in transportation truly begins with you ... People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly ... so we want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season: Help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
I haven't read everything yet in Theodora Goss's story collection Letters from an Imaginary Country, but I loved "The Secret Diary of Mina Harker." Contemporary academia + a revisionary take on Dracula.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
So ready! Except I need to rewatch Season 1.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman on The Night Manager’s Long-Awaited Return
Nearly a decade after the Emmy-winning original series, their intelligence officers navigate a bleaker world in season two: “Forty years ago, people would write movies where the punchline was, ‘and th...
www.vanityfair.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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shakespeare.lol
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Nobody comes to class.
oldenoughtosay.com ❄️mari-lwyd odent❄️ @oldenoughtosay.com · Oct 12
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Sir Gilbert Scott restoration.
profgabriele.com Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Oct 12
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Manuscript lost in fire.
October 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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bcdreyer.social
Goodbye to him.

❤️
Robert Redford in Neil Simon's play Barefoot in the Park.
September 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
Clouds in the plains skies.
nws.noaa.gov National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · Sep 12
...and we close out NWS Dodge City, KS with a supercellular cumulonimbus incus (with maybe a hint of mammatus).
September 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
I went to this school when it was still Lee High, and I was so happy when the name was changed to Legacy. This is maddening.
civilwarmemory.bsky.social Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 13
The school opened in 1961 and joined many other school districts that chose to honor Confederate leaders at the height of the Jim Crow era. This was an example of "massive resistance" against the civil rights movement. 🗃️ www.texastribune.org/2025/08/12/m...
Midland school board votes to restore school name honoring Confederate general
Five years ago, during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, the board voted to change the high school to Legacy High. On Tuesday, it reversed course.
www.texastribune.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
I saw David Tennant as Touchstone in As You Like It in his first RSC season right out of drama school. Best Touchstone imaginable, with star quality to burn.
zhandlen.bsky.social The Zack of Handlen Present @zhandlen.bsky.social · Aug 5
Fun topic: what’s the first time you remember seeing now famous actors? Like, I remember seeing Michael Fassbender in JONAH HEX and thinking “shit, this dude’s good.”
mudron.bsky.social Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · Aug 5
I first saw Karl Urban in the movie Ghost Ship at a filthy $1 theater.

I could’ve never anticipated how many times I’d be saying to myself “Hey, it’s the guy from Ghost Ship!” for the rest of my life.
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
Really great essay on one of my favorite actors. The only thing I would add is that he had a gorgeous voice (which, apparently, is how the advent of sound in movies moved him from villain roles to make leads).
sheilakathleen.bsky.social Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · Jul 29
For William Powell's birthday, I wrote a short piece about how he had chemistry with everyone, including inanimate objects. I think this came from being aware of his surroundings and also *interested* in whatever was around him. He was ALERT. More: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=196579
William Powell and Carole Lombard
July 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
40-year anniversary of Live Aid means revisiting some faves, like the Style Council and "Walls Come Tumbling Down!"
July 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
Saw an afternoon matinee of The Life of Chuck, which was beautiful. I wish its joy could have stayed with me longer.
June 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I still use maps or an atlas for a long trip. I can keep the overall route in my head better if I can visualize from a map. (This is also true of the London A-Z.)
That said, I do appreciate sat-nav directions for knowing which lane to be in for exits, etc.
paulrusof.bsky.social Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · Jun 4
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
Post to the subreddit r/AskHistorians: What was navigation like for vehicle drivers in the United States before the internet and GPS? Before GPS devices and smartphones/cellular internet networks were a thing (Garmin company was founded 1989), millions of Americans were already getting around driving without the use of those inventions. How did they navigate? Did everyone need stacks of maps? Were drivers frequently lost? Did everyone have to understand the interstate system and use intuition to guide them? How burdensome was driving before GPS? Did drivers pay people to calculate an optimal route for them?
June 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
lorisnook.bsky.social
To me, one of the most chilling images in 20th-century children's lit is in L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: that cookie-cutter street when the cookie-cutter children bounce balls in conformist rhythm. Camazotz is apparently aspirational for the modern GOP.
May 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
lorisnook.bsky.social
Miss Garnet Grace feels our pain of... [Gestures] everything.
A brindle Cardigan Corgi in close-up gazes soulfully into the camera.
May 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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afreedma.bsky.social
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
#HappyBirthdayShakespeare and Happy St George's Day!
April 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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murray.senate.gov
Our country relies on @noaa.gov for everything from daily forecasts & severe weather warnings to protecting marine habitats.

I toured their Western Regional Center in Seattle and my message to Trump and Elon? Keep your hands OFF NOAA.
April 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM