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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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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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My xmas tree is my whole identity at the moment, lol, I am obsessed with these glass icicles I found in one of the bins of xmas decks I've been rifling thru, which I haven't opened in 8 yrs; and the icicles I've had for decades, never used/never taken out of their fancy package.
Four glass icicles hanging off a branch of a christmas tree. Ornaments on some of the surrounding branches.
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Boop. 🪄 Ornies.
Decorated Xmas tree in a living room, in front of a window.
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Just lights for now...
Christmas tree with retro (LED C7's) colored lights, red skirt, small star on top, in a living room, in front of a window.
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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My mother had this… pickles, olives, cocktail onions… then there were little plates w stuffed celery, deviled eggs… We didn't call it a "relish tray". In the 80s, my married sister started bringing veggie/dip tray, which we did not call "crudite" even tho we're French. lol Same with "charcuterie."
A mid-century Pfaltzgraff serving set; three brown stoneware cups, in a brass tripod stand with a dainty handle.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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#LookAndSee 259
#MusicChallenge

Thunderstruck - 2Cellos
(AC/DC cover)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3S...
The beginning of a baroque contredanse, with a row of men bowing to a row of women. All are in powdered wigs and 18th century garb.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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#BookWormSat rural

"…the view from the porch is one of emerald leaves with blots of pink against a blue so sparkling that it is not so much a color as the experience of light."

📘Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve
📷 Me (Abt 1/2 mile down from the real Fortune's Rocks, which is in Maine)
A photo of the beach, showing green shrubbery with pink beach roses, a seawall made of boulders, a sandy and rocky beach, the blue sea, a lighter blue sky, and in the distance a gambrel house. Outside the house and below the porches are massive tangles of hydrangea bushes. A front lawn spills down to the seawall, which is little more than a rocky barricade against the ocean and which is covered at this time of year with masses of beach roses. Thus, the view from the porch is one of emerald leaves with blots of pink against a blue so sparkling that it is not so much a color as the experience of light. To the west of the lawn are orchards of Sheepnose and Black Gilliflower apples, and to the north is the beach, which stretches two miles along teh coast. Fortune's Rocks is the... (from Fortune's Rocks, by Anita Shreve)
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Xmas is a 🦶

...got some fluffin' to do!🌲🎄
Artificial xmas tree, in my living room, gray couch, brown/gray pebble pattern carpet, off-white walls. It's my first fake tree (as an adult, as a kid we had a big 70s style fake tree which I loved, but it made me into kind of a real tree purist for most of my adult life, but I'm too old for that shit, ouch my back, and I love this tree so far, looking forward to it) brand new out of the box, branches need to be fluffed. :)
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Medicare For All in Mamdani font. Yellow text on blue background. https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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…The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at; was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose?
📘 Mrs. Dalloway, V. Woolf
🖼️ Nevinson
#BookwormSat #PTSD
A Star Shell, C R W Nevinson, 1916. Painting of trench in WWI. Night, a dark, shadowy, ragged trench in the foreground (shades of brown/gray), an ominous silhouette of black barbed wire fencing around in front of the trench, with a shell exploding, lighting up the sky in the background. No people are present in the image. A page from Virginia Woolf's, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925, ≈10 pages in, introducing the character Septimus Warren Smith, a fmr WWI soldier, suffering from shell shock (PTSD). A fancy car carrying a VIP backfires in the street…The violent explosion which made Mrs. Dalloway jump and Miss Pym go to the window and apologise came from a motor car which had drawn to the side of the pavement precisely opposite Mulberry's shop window.…Septimus Warren Smith, who found himself unable to pass, heard him. Septimus Warren Smith, aged about thirty, pale-faced, beak-nosed, wearing brown shoes and a shabby overcoat, with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes complete strangers apprehensive too. The world has raised its whip; where will it descend? Everything had come to a standstill. The throb of the motor engines sounded like a pulse irregularly drumming through an entire body. The sun became extraordinarily hot because the motor car had stopped outside Mulberry's shop window; old ladies on the tops of omnibuses spread their black parasols; here a green, here a red parasol opened with a little pop. Mrs. Dalloway, coming to the window with her arms full of sweet peas, looked out with her little pink face pursed in enquiry. Every one looked at the motor car. Septimus looked. Boys on bicycles sprang off. Traffic accumulated. And there the motor car stood, with drawn blinds, and upon them a curious pattern like a tree, Septimus thought, and this gradual drawing together of everything to one centre before his eyes, as if some horror had come almost to the surface and was about to burst into flames, terrified him. The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was he not being looked at and pointed at; was he not weighted there, rooted to the pavement, for a purpose? But for what purpose? "Let us go on, Septimus," said his wife… Mrs. Dalloway, first edition dust jacket, 1925; cover art by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell Colors are black, white, yellow. The perspective looking through a window, unclear whether from inside or outside. The outside border represents sketched yellow drapes. There is a bouquet of flowers strewn on the floor/or a table; in the background, black, with a white geometric shape, sort of a loose rectangle with 6 black ovals inside, which could be representing people/a party (if looking in) or a balcony (if looking out).
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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"The biggest potential areas for growth for a Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine are ... women and college graduates, as well as older voters — the voters who may be most turned off by Platner’s scandals."
www.insideelections.com/news/article...
Bar graph: Collins outran Trump the most among women and older voters. Bar graph: Collins outran Trump among women and college graduates Bar graph: Collins outran Trump the most among women and urban voters. Bar graph: Collins outran Trump the most among independent and Democratic women.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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For those not in the know, "people from away" is like, "yr mama" to Mainers.
Andy O'Brien telling me off, assuming I couldn't possible be "a Mainer" and disagree with him, and giving me a list of grievances against Janet Mills, because he can't really defend Platner, because it's all vibes. Quote: "Mainers love to be told how to vote by people from away. Keep it up. By the way, here is why Mills isn't popular in Maine." After Andy O'Brien called me "a person from away" lol, I corrected him... ME: I live in Maine, born and raised. You gonna block me now? AO: York County is in Northern Massachusetts. (sick burn, iykyk) ME: Ahhh, you are a bigot. Let it out, baby. ME: I was born and currently live in Cumberland County. Whatcha got? And then he blocked me.
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Then came Jane, flying through the air with a mallet in one
hand, a chisel in the other,
and her expression was rapt.
Was she stunned,
still concentrating on her work, or
even dead?

📙The Artist, Patricia Highsmith, (Little Tales of Misogyny) 1975
🖼️ Sculptress, Eugène Grasset, 1897
#BookWormSat
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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A. OMG, what an image. (not AI.)
B. Happy Halloween.
C. Have a song...
🎶Leonor - Katell Keineg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYi_...

...and with that, really logging off! Going to have a halloween edible, a coffee with eggnog, slice of pumpkin roll later, and watch Nosferatu ('24). ✌️

🖼️The painting...
The Angel of Anatomy, Leonor Fini (1949) Painting of an angel as a skeleton, with red sinewy tissue, holding a piece of silky fabric. The head and face are not skeletal. Stern facial expression. Long billowy white hair. Wings fade into background.
October 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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P-Hustle has been very vocal on Maine Question 1 (absentee voting); not so much on Question 2 (Gun restrictions). If anyone can find an example of Platner taking a position of Yes on 2, I'd love to see it. I've searched. I haven't found anything.
Screengrab from Politico article quoting P-Hustle's remarks about guns. "Like the Jones’ exchange, which was from 2022, Platner must now contend with the yearsold posts. They include one from September 2018, when he responded to a Reddit user concerned about what their roommate would say if they purchased their first AR-15. Platner, under the username “P-Hustle,” replied: 'Tell them that if they expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history.'” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/maine-senate-candidate-promoted-violent-political-action-in-since-deleted-online-posts-00613037
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I do not think this is Platner on Maine Question 2. I think this is Platner sidestepping Q2, because he is notoriously pro-gun. Here are his 2 posts, directly from his FB page, in sequence. He clearly states NO on Q1, decidedly does NOT take a position on Q2. I've yet to find a Platner Yes on 2.
Screengrab of P-Hustle's FB Page, 2 posts in a row... 10-25: Two years after the horrific massacre in Lewiston, so many lives destroyed, and little has changed. I hope all responsible gun owners will join me in supporting universal background checks and extreme risk protection orders. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. 10-24 The critical ballot question that would shred absentee voting in Maine is polling neck and neck. We are throwing our movement’s strength and resources into the fight for NO ON 1! ---VERY different language. Platner is notoriously pro-gun.
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Insomnia cooking. Trying something. Saw a recipe for making yr own healthier "deli chicken" for sandwiches. I am skipping the step of brining, lol, cuz I don't have it in me at ze moment. Instead, I'm using seasonings and slow-baking, with water and covering with foil, kinda poachin n roastin.
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Further… Why, when asked who he admired politically, did he list only white guys? And why was one of them Josh "the new Paul Ryan" Hawley? Stock trading? Yeah, that was Pelosi's ACT. Maybe you have probs with Pelosi. But if you don't have MORE probs with Hawley…
mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/06/i...
Smoking outside after the town hall, Platner rattled off some current U.S. senators who he admires: Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democrats Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ed Markey of Massachusetts. On the other side of the aisle, Josh Hawley of Missouri. “We don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things, but he has been fighting for stuff,” Platner said. “For instance, trying to ban stock trading. Yeah, I’m into that,” notably the opposite stance Collins has taken.
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This guy.
✌️Hey journalists… Who is this guy? His senate domain was registered 2023. He got married 2024. When did he become harbormaster? Who is the "political strategist" working on his campaign? Hint: his pronouns are "masculine", he is "here for the fellas", and he gave us Fetterman. 1/4
Side by side screengrabs. First, a post from Graham Platner's FB page, dated October 8, 2025, showing him in a row boat, with the text: "Three months ago I thought harbormaster of Sullivan, Maine would be the extent of my political career." Second, information on the domain name registration of his Senate Campaign's website, showing it was created on April 10, 2023, 2.5 years ago.
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Just saw this one tonight... For Maine...
They are giving free "Harvest Bucks" at Farmer's Markets, $15 every visit.
List: www.maineharvestbucks.org
In response to the SNAP funding crisis, MFFM will continue providing Maine Harvest Bucks at farmers' markets regardless of whether your card has remaining funds. When you show your EBT card at the Info Booth of any participating farmers' market, you'll receive $15 in Maine Harvest Bucks to spend on fresh produce. You can do this every time you visit the market in the month of November. Maine Harvest Bucks is our statewide food access program that makes shopping at the farmers' market more affordable, and pays farmers the full retail value for their work. Normally, when you spend SNAP/EBT at the farmers' market, you earn matching bonus Maine Harvest Bucks. SNAP shoppers are an essential part of the farmers' market community and we will do all we can to support you. If you still have funds on your EBT card, you can continue spending them, and the regular Maine Harvest Bucks match is still in effect. Find a list of all currently open participating farmers' markets at https://www.maineharvestbucks.org Not a SNAP shopper, but want to help? We need you. Maine Harvest Bucks is a highly efficient, effective food security and farmer support program. It empowers over 30,000 Maine households to eat more fresh, local food, and brings over $750,000 a year in direct, full-value sales to Maine farmers' market vendors. Learn more here: https://mainefarmersmarkets.org/emergency-maine-harvest.../
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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#5CoverSongsTreat
#MusicChallenge
Day 3

Mallo Cup - Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom)
Lemonheads cover
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzME...
Album Cover. It is a large piece of equipment with some other smaller pieces of equipment in the background, with the words, Bill Janovitz Covers Of The Weeks Vol IV. written in sharpie across the front. (From googling, I believe this is a Charger for Solar Panels.) Anyway, in addition to Mallo Cups being one of my all time favorite candies, this is one of my all-time favorite Lemonheads songs, and a great cover. Mallo Cup, my favorite halloween candy as a kid, yellow wrapper with primarily red writing... Boyer - Milk Chocolate - Made in USA - Mallo Cup - Whipped Creme Center. In the foreground is the candy, sliced in half to show the filling. It's chocolate (same shape as a peanut butter cup) with a creamy marshmallow filling, and little specks of coconut in the chocolate. Yum.
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I Voted. :)
No sticker for accessible (online) absentee voting, but in lieu of a sticker, I'll post my confirmation and this pretty yellow logo... ✌️
Receipt for voting online in Maine, confirming ballot was submitted, date, time, and "Thank you for voting!" VOTE NO on 1 logo. Bright yellow background, black sketch of shape of Maine, with the words NO on Question 1 Protect Absentee Voting inb bright blue and black.
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"This will be a life changing storm for many on the island. ... If you are reading this in central or western Jamaica, you are going to endure something you may never see again. Going outside during the storm, especially the eye, could be deadly. Shelter as if this is a 12 hour long tornado."
LORD... this thing refuses to stop intensifying. I mean, meteorologically WOW. Hurricane Melissa now has 175 MPH sustained winds with wind gusts to 215 MPH. It probably will strengthen more overnight. There will be a path near the center of tornado like damage and near total destruction of everything in its path in the eyewall. Complete structure failure is possible with extreme roof damage along the path. Towns and communities in the western side of the island may be wiped out or left cutoff to outside access for extended time. The meteorological limit of max realistic intensity is nearing. There is a parameter for it, MPI (max potential intensity) - which is merely a meteorological formula to give a rough estimate of the strongest storm the Earth's atmosphere can produce at a given time. That number currently is around 184 MPH sustained winds. What is also remarkable, and not drama or a stretch of the truth... is the fact this hurricane has yet to start doing ERC (eyewall replacement cycles) -- this is very rare how long it is maintaining its initial eye without doing a replacement cycle yet. This will be a life changing storm for many on the island. Praying for their safety Tuesday in the storm. Many large landslides may occur too especially in the central and western side of the island. If you are reading this in central or western Jamaica, you are going to endure something you may never see again. Going outside during the storm, especially the eye, could be deadly. Shelter as if this is a 12 hour long tornado. Storm surge forecast is "up to 13 feet" for the south side of the island, but I don't think Kingston will see it that bad. Kingston while will still get impacted, will NOT get the extreme impacts the western side of the island will. Wind gusts will likely remain below 90 MPH in the Kingston area. Expecting landfall late Tuesday morning, Oct. 28. ‣ This will be the first Category 5 hurricane to ever landfall in Jamaica, since we have records for in 1850 ‣ … Satellite Imagery of Hurricane Melissa. It is massive, tight, and it looks bad.
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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"Wow: A look at the crowd at tonight’s AOC, Bernie, and Zohran rally in Queens, New York tonight." - via MeidasTouch
Photo of Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NY, at night, filled to the brim with thousands of people, with a stage in the center, bathed in purple light.
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM