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Claus-santa'ing Agoraphobe
@janetarchaic.bsky.social
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Artist🎨New England🌲Disabled🧠Autistic (Late Dx'd, 50s)

The Widow Claus.

PFP⇝1994 Self portrait, oil
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Claus-santa'ing Agoraphobe @janetarchaic.bsky.social · 7d
Boop. 🪄 Ornies.
Decorated Xmas tree in a living room, in front of a window.
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#12DaysOfSongs
#MusicChallenge
9. Song about dancing

Hokey Pokey - Yo La Tengo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNy3...
Yo La Tengo - The Hokey Pokey
YouTube video by chobioeuf
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#DecemberDuets
#MusicChallenge
Day 9

No Child of Mine - Marianne Faithfull + PJ Harvey
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEvd...
No Child of Mine
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
Current Mood: Pissed off @ my living situation, but know I gotta buck up b/c lucky 2 have. Taking 2 days at a hotel (roach trmt 2day at apt; bldg has 'em; intrsting story, if yr a nerd, not enough characters anyway), watching The Family McMullen, edible, can't turn motion smoothing off.😆 Sublime.✌️
December 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#DecemberDuets
#MusicChallenge
Day 8

City of Christmas Ghosts - Goldblade + Poly Styrene
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikN...
Goldblade - "City of Christmas Ghosts" (feat. Poly Styrene)
YouTube video by BlankTV
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#12DaysOfSongs
#MusicChallenge
8. A band that is a-mazing

The Pan Within - The Waterboys
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRVO...
Pan Within/Because the Night - The Waterboys Live at Glastonbury 1986
YouTube video by kgtype
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#LookAndSee 270
#MusicChallenge

The Drama You've Been Craving - Tunde Adebimpe
(Sleater-Kinney cover)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f07q...
catfreak.bsky.social CatFreak @catfreak.bsky.social · 2d
#LookAndSee 270 #MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧
#LookAndSee (Day 270) 🎶
Artist, Henri Gervex Return from the Ball. 1879 - oil on canvas.
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#12DaysOfSongs
#MusicChallenge
7. Heavy Metal Jamming

First Avenue - Elf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZAt...
First Avenue
YouTube video by Elf Learning - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#DecemberDuets
#MusicChallenge
Day 7

Ain't But The One - Aretha Franklin + Ray Charles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytb8...
Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles -- Ain't But the One -- 1973 (Live)
YouTube video by variousassorted
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#LookAndSee 269
#MusicChallenge

Snowed In At Wheeler St. - Kate Bush, Elton John
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfbC...
catfreak.bsky.social CatFreak @catfreak.bsky.social · 2d
#LookAndSee 269 #MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧
#LookAndSee (Day 269) 🎶
Claude Monet, The Magpie (1868-69)
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#LookAndSee 268
#MusicChallenge

You're My Only Home - Magnetic Fields
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_I6...
catfreak.bsky.social CatFreak @catfreak.bsky.social · 3d
#LookAndSee 268 #MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧
#LookAndSee (Day 268) 🎶
artist Pierre Bonnard
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#12DaysOfSongs
#MusicChallenge
6. Left-handed guitarist playin'

What'd I say - Barbara Lynn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Y7...
Barbara Lynn
YouTube video by soulontv
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#DecemberDuets
#MusicChallenge
Day 6

Black Hole Sun - Steve 'n Eydie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGB...

*nb, it's from the '97 comp album "Lounge-A-Palooza" but the person who did this upload had a sense of humor, and 'tis the season. ;)
'Black Hole Sun': Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.
YouTube video by milesanddizzy
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
An edited version of the Pantone color of the year where it has been replaced by an iconic picture of a roach that has received "the landlord special" and been completely painted over in thick white paint
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
19.

Never had an AOL account... on purpose.

I was a BITNET snob. :)
December 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
The Lewis Chessmen

These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀

From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831.

📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
My photo collage shows a selection of bishop and warder chess pieces finely carved from creamish-coloured walrus ivory, dated c. 1150-1200 AD. Found in a large gaming hoard on the Isle of Lewis. On display at the British Museum. Photo top left: Two bishops and a warder. All standing. The bishops wear long garments, mitres, and hold a crozier with both hands. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment and a conical helmet with neck and ear-pieces. He’s armed with a sword and kite-shaped shield inscribed with a lozenge shaped cross. Photo top right: A so-called ‘berserker’ warder chess piece. Standing, wearing a long garment and hood, armed with sword and a shield decorated with an interlaced saltire. The warder has large, wide-open eyes, and large upper teeth which bite the top of the shield. Height 8.2 cm. Photo bottom left: A standing warder and two seated bishops, one of which is partly obscured by the warder. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment and conical helmet with neck and ear-pieces, is armed with sword and shield. The seated bishops wear long garments, mitres, and each holds a crozier and book. Photo bottom right: A warder and a bishop, both standing. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment, and conical helmet with neck, ear-pieces and ornamented head-band. He is armed with a sword in right hand and kite-shaped shield in left hand. The bishop wears a long garment with cloak, and mitre, and holds a crozier in his left hand and a book in his right hand.
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#12DaysOfSongs
#MusicChallenge
5. Girl guitarists, who sing

Friend to J.C. - Mary Timony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-sD...
Friend to J.C.
YouTube video by Mary Timony - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#DecemberDuets
#MusicChallenge
Day 5

7 Seconds - Youssou N'Dour + Neneh Cherry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCp...
Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds ft. Neneh Cherry
YouTube video by NCherryYNDourVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
Eggnog Rice Pudding. :)

Basically this recipe quadrupled to use up a half gallon of eggnog. I usually add a little more liquid or use a little less rice than recipe calls for. This time I added about 2 extra cups of milk beyond the 8 cups of eggnog.

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/22891...
A whole bunch of rice pudding on a kitchen counter with appliances in the background; 10 custard cups of varying styles (stoneware, clear pyrex) plus two larger white bowls, all filled with creamy, golden pudding, with a dusting of nutmeg.
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
For everyone who contributed to my cover songs playlist -- WXPN kicked off their listener generated 885 greatest cover songs playlist this morning. You can listen and follow along here: xpn.org/wxpn-playlis...
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
On a lark, or maybe in a state of end-of-year wistfulness, this morning I reread something I wrote in 2024, about being a feminist in an age when most of my peers have abandoned feminism’s project. I’m still proud of it. open.substack.com/pub/moiradon...
Feminism is Over, But I'm Still Here
Grieving for a diminished movement.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#12DaysOfSongs
#MusicChallenge
4. A song by a Byrd

Brass Buttons - Gram Parsons
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Bw...
Brass Buttons (2006 Remaster)
YouTube video by Gram Parsons - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
janetarchaic.bsky.social
#DecemberDuets
#MusicChallenge
Day 4

Something Stupid - Carson + Gaile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsiZ...
Carson & Gaile - Something Stupid
YouTube video by Pappas Georgios
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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pwr2dppl.bsky.social
(Who is this person?)
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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bschillace.brandyschillace.com
THAT IS IT. Look here, world. I am sick and tired of the BS takes suggesting that #disabled people and #trans people are somehow taking away your pearl-clutching rights. IT’S THE BILLIONAIRES, BITCHES.
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Fear of the Disability Con: Perceptions of Fraud and Special Rights Discourse Law & Society Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2019 41 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last revised: 18 Dec 2019 Doron Dorfman Seton Hall Law School Date Written: October 3, 2019 Abstract This Article presents a new framework for analyzing the development and implementation of disability law: the prism of the fear of “the disability con” — popular perceptions of fraud and fakery. We all encounter disability rights and accommodations in everyday life. However, people with disabilities pay a price for the legal recognition of their rights. People who park in disabled parking spots, use service dogs, move to the front of lines, receive Social Security benefits, or request academic accommodations are often viewed as faking disabilities and abusing the law. This disability con stereotype thus serves as an important invisible barrier preventing Americans with disabilities from fully taking part in society, as it not only undermines the public legitimacy of rights but also restricts the design and implementation of the legal regime illustrating those. Nevertheless, this moral panic around disability con in American society and its manifestations has yet to be studied in a systematic-empirical way, nor has it been addressed in socio-legal scholarship. Using a mixed-methods approach composed of an original nationally representative survey along with in-depth interviews, this article fills this gap. The data suggest that the stereotype of disability con applies to multiple disability rights across venues and contexts; that nearly 60% of Americans with disabilities feel that others question their disability; that the stereotype of disability con extends to visible disabilities and to less apparent ones; and that, counterintuitively, the people most suspicious are nondisabled individuals with a personal connection to a disabled person and disabled people who experience suspicion themselves. Based on the richer un…
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM