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   Lady Bexington (ladyfat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:20:39 JST Lady Bexington

   Fucking hate beige.

   https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/09/the-sad-beige-aesthetic-why-has-the-world-suddenly-turned-taupe

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:21:40 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @Ladyfat I know, I know!
     Is the answer white supremacy with transphobia?
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:43:10 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @Ladyfat It's subjective I know, but me, I like a bit of colour! I think what bothers me about this is one, they act like it is morally superior/classier to be like this, and two I know at least two women, possibly three, although the latter is a bit odd herself, who appear to me to being made to live in a miserable desert of a house because their husband's appear to be terrified of colour and things, and in the case of one of them he has a collecting habit more associated with crazy old ladies who have a boot sale habit and no taste. Actually, think of the description of Nanny Ogg and all the tacky ornaments, that's him and it is all and only him, and she is marooned in the middle of it. Then again, she went there, she has form, me, I want to kill him! One of the others is OBSESSED with cleaning, yet they have 2 big clarty dogs, everything is beige, and spaces look empty. She is arty or was, I almost had a jaw drop first time saw their house, and subsequent one, other friend said I think it's him, and I suspect she is. Not being the sort of woman willing to be subsumed by a man this rankles with me 👹 Next door don't even have pictures or ornaments and the walls are magnolia.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:51:42 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat Each to their own. I have magnolia walls which can barely be seen because I cover them in shelves and pictures/photos. My father hates it because he thinks it's cluttered.
     
     Only the Graun could turn people's personal taste into a puff piece about . . . whatever.
     
     Displaying your family photos is a sign that you've become dangerously cisheteronormative.
     Why houseplants are emblematic of the far-right.
     What do your scented candles say about your commitment to net zero?
     You might think literacy is valuable, but is your bookshelf sufficiently diverse?
     Do you have a mantlepiece? So did Hitler.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:23:29 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Ladyfat Right, I want you to work this up, make an article about it, make it deadly serious, not satire, and then go and see who takes it and believes every word is gospel😆

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:26:32 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat Now there's a challenge. Let me think about it. I think Carol Cadwalladr has already complained about the twatter graun memes page for making her look like a complete tit.
     But this might also amuse you.
     https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/old-media-vs-new-model-mockery
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:26:58 JST HebrideanHecate

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     • KeepTakingTheSoma

     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Ladyfat Exactly 😂 I am so disappointed there are no comments on the piece! Guardian ones can go either way and can be unintentionally hilarious.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:27:52 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     • HebrideanHecate
     @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat I know. I sometimes get embarrassed that I used to read the Graun, but there was a tipping point at which I could no longer just pretend that it was only the odd article.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:28:00 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Ladyfat Snort :blobjoy:

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:29:07 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Ladyfat It's no longer the old Manchester Guardian anyway, that's for sure!

     Anyone who takes on OJ and promotes him and his shite is a wrong un.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:30:31 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat I believe that's how Off Guardian got started; when the nonsense just became untenable.