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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

Never had this conversation before but if you’d asked me I would’ve also said tennis balls are green. Not in a way I’d argue about it, though—I get how they’re really yellow but it’s a *very greenish* yellow to me.

Have you ever gotten into an argument about a
color? I once got into an argument about
tennis balls and what color they were.
Yeah, what color are they? I'm curious.
I couldn't believe anyone thought they were
yellow. I always thought they were green.
They're totally yellow. I mean, we can get into one
now. You're wrong. It's so funny - I really thought
that they were definitionally yellow.
So what is going on with tennis balls?
Tennis balls are funny. I mean, if you ask people to
pick their best example of green and blue and red
and orange and yellow and so on, there's a lot of
variability. Green and blue is the most variable.
Some people's best example of green is another
person's best example of blue.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

I’ve gotten to experience a lot of luxuries in life but almost none of it is as purely luxurious to me as sliding into bed between freshly laundered sheets. I’m not committed enough to change linens daily but it does happen a couple times a week.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Finally blocked Slate altogether at Apple News even though I didn't necessarily want to lose the rest of Slate because I was so sick of the constant onslaught of sensational advice column headlines. But I'm still stuck with them -- even though constantly and actively dismissing them -- on my […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Good lord, a side-hustle coroner and not just any run of the mill peeping tom -- also filming family members, apparently. No one is specified but his only children are six adult sons.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Too easy. I simply chose the only statement with a whiff of gravitas -- which ipso facto rules out Trump.

What statement did President Trump NOT make on
Tuesday about Al?

"We have both the capability and responsibility to
develop and manage Al for good."

You did it!

Last week in Washington, D.C., Chinese President Xi Jinping said
the U.S. and China "have both the capability and responsibility
to develop and manage Al for good." This Tuesday, Trump and
leaders of Al companies signed a voluntary accord that says the
companies will self-police their development of Al.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

What a great legacy in a place you might not expect.

Harriet Hancock, who has died at 89, was a
leading force for the gay rights movement in
South Carolina, where she spent more than four
decades fighting on behalf of equality and dignity
for LGBTQ+ people like her son Greg, who came
out to her in the early 198os.
"Is that all?" Ms. Hancock recalled saying, after he
nervously told her he was gay. "I thought you
wrecked the car or got caught smoking pot!"
At a time when gay men and lesbians faced
widespread persecution, with many worried that
coming out would threaten their jobs, families
and safety, Ms. Hancock became an outspoken
ally, emerging as a fixture of the LGBTQ+
community in her hometown of Columbia, the
state capital.
"We always joke that my brother came out of the
closet, but my mom kicked the door down," her
daughter Jennifer Tague told The Washington
Post. "She came out fighting for his rights."

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Kathleen Turner is so great and this is absolutely the perfect reaction.

K
athleen Turner is breaking her silence on the new revelations about
her relationship with Michael Douglas.
The Wall Street star revealed that he had a secret affair with the Peggy Sue
Got Married actress while they were filming 1984's Romancing the Stone in
his upcoming memoir One Helluva Ride. Now, Turner is speaking out.
"Good heavens what a fuss about something 40 years ago!" the actress told
PEOPLE in a statement. "I love Michael and | look forward to enjoying the
book."
In an excerpt from One Helluva Ride published in PEOPLE, Douglas detailed
his fling with his costar. "Kathleen was smart, funny, and sexy with a deep,
sultry voice that became her signature," he wrote, noting that "things at
home were in a bad place" with then-wife Diandra Douglas and explaining
that they were "both having extramarital affairs" at the time.

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Lundemo @lundemo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@Holberg Fox in henhouse “isn’t helping” with egg laying.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

‘isn’t helping’ doing A LOT of work here

News+
The Washington post
With threats to midterms, states say
Trump administration isn't helping

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Such a great story—a cash-only dive bar in his basement he’s been running since he bought the house in 1963. Washington Post: Last call? Not for this 103-year-old bartender. apple.news/APR3Te6UfQGWkpCfF_icvMA

A framed photograph of Irv, left, with his brother Harry from
their younger years is among items in the bar. (Pete Kiehart/
For The Washington Post)
Going in to the bar business just sort of happened.
The house he now lives in was built in 1912 as a
summer home for a prominent Baltimore
meatpacking family and later became an inn
before Irv bought it in 1963.
"This was up for sale," Irv says unsentimentally.
"We needed a house. So we bought the house, and
guess what? The bar came with it."
Not everyone who discovers their new digs come
with a fully functioning tavern would opt to leave
their careers for bartending. Irv did.
"Well, I was gifted it, so I took it," he says. "When
I was born and all, everything was pennies,
nickels and dimes. Now it's twenties, fifties,
hundreds. So that's why I opened up the bar. For
the money!"

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Always fascinated when friend groups dress so similarly it’s like they all got the memo for the day’s uniform. At a breakfast joint and the guys at the next table—all five of them—are wearing black t-shirts. (A variety of logos and such, so it’s not like they’re work colleagues or something haha.)

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Yelp, whatever. But Bar Boheme is great. Sit at the bar, hope you get Grace as a bartender and order the inventive bahn mi tartare. Then go on a cocktail bar crawl in the Arts District.

The online review platform ranked
Bar Boheme at No. 7 among its Best
New Restaurants for 2026,
following the Las Vegas Review-
Journal naming the French spot in
the Arts District to its Top 100
Restaurants for 2026.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I’m agnostic on ‘Choosin’ Texas’—think it’s a solid pop song by way of country but also don’t totally understand its relentless number one-ness. But I’m also an old man, so.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to be de-polarized. We’re living in a country with fucking morons bringing back childhood illnesses, being awful to anyone who isn’t a straight white evangelical, tanking our economy, etc etc. I’m not going to agree to disagree.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Putting aside the ugh ugh ugh of Peter Thiel. This might be an unpopular opinion but stick with me for a minute: $130 million for this house is actually excellent value in LA real estate. Perhaps the most primo siting in town: Over 8 acres of peninsula above […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

10:14 $
Guardian
Technology
Peter Thiel revealed as
secret buyer of Bel Air
mansion that sold for
$130m
The 1938 mansion, Casa Encantada, once
belonged to Conrad Hilton and was sold at
foreclosure auction
• Peter Thiel's estate, Casa Encantada, on 1 October 2026 in Los
Angeles, California. Photograph: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles
Times/Getty Images.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The thing about life under Trump is that it’s not just worrying about what chaos the bond market might trigger. It’s worrying about what chaos the bond market might trigger in an economic landscape that’s already been destabilized by Trump. And knowing he’d still be more interested in his […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Have all of these male looksmaxxers ever considered makeup? Seems like drag queens figured out a long time ago how to reconfigure their faces without breaking jaws, etc.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Julian was like a brief moment of Beatles in real time for Gen X.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I live in between two couples who seem to be together all the time—including during the workday in one-bedroom units. They’re exercising together, getting mail together, walking together, shopping at the market together. I’ve never seen one without their significant other. And you do you. But […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Looking down and this feels alarmingly SC for a Bruin.

I’m wearing burgundy shorts and dark yellow shows—USC colors, the rival to my Alma mater UCLA

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Impressed that Prince William is letting male pattern baldness just happen—no surgery, no rug, no shaving. You almost forget this is an option. And I think it looks good. Might start a trend?

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

This is a FANTASTIC museum—very worth stopping if you happen to be passing Riverside on the way to somewhere else. Or worth popping out from LA or OC or SD or PS. Also my favorite piece there. riversideartmuseum.org/visit/the-ch…

In addition to being a comedy legend,
Marin is also a longtime collector of
Chicano art. In 2017, the city of
Riverside and the Riverside Art
Museum approach Marin about
creating a space to house his collection
of more than 700 Chicano art pieces. In
June 2022, the Cheech Marin Center
for Chicano Art and Culture opened its
doors.
"It's a little museum that could. It's
gained prestige all the time. I'm trying
to make it into an international
destination," Marin said. "And it's
starting to be that."

Gil Arreola
Day Dreaming. 2022
acrylic on wood panel

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I can be strangely thrifty at times—like a latent Scottish streak—and was becoming distressed as these beach towels got, well, distressed. Then I did some math, figured out I bought them almost 20 years ago and ordered some new ones.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I’m not an antsy jittery person. But I’d rather move than not move and don’t always notice this is happening until I realize I’ve paced a mile around my apartment while composing texts.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

More of this! One of my hugest pet peeves. Mandani keeps demonstrating how useless the mainstream Democratic Party has become. I’m now voting—whenever I can—for progressive candidates who’ll actually do something about everything.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Reading that the museum at El Escorial has reopened but that place always makes me think of the creepy way Spain buries its monarchs. Before their bodies are interred in one of the magnificent mausoleum’s sarcophagi, they’re left to decompose for decades in a […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A elaborate mausoleum in pink and green marble with gold accents and a chandelier.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I’ve noted before that there are more Trump voters in California—6 million—than in a huge swath of the Deep South. It’s just that there are millions more who vote blue. And I really do wonder, all these months later and no end in sight, what they think every […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

As of Wednesday, California has the
most expensive average price of gas
in the country at $6.39 per gallon,
followed by Hawaii ($5.60),
Washington ($5.50), Nevada ($5.50)
and Oregon ($5.05), according to
AAA.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

A headline encapsulating my fundamental rejection of this trend as anything more than reactionary playacting. Tradwives *choose* to surrender their agency knowing they can *reclaim* it at any time. Every moment of their marriage is actually an ironic expression […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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New York
What Makes a Tradwife Quit?
4h ago • Sarah Jones

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@billyjoebowers/117… First concert: Donna Summer at Universal Amphitheater (1978) when I was six because my parents basically took us everywhere haha Best concert: Morgan James (2015) at a private party—what used to be the Mandarin Oriental in Buckhead […]

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fantastic news—always a fan of pedestrianization and downtown Laguna Beach should’ve always had something like this.

Originally billed as a pilot program to
provide relief to downtown businesses
dealing with restrictive protocols during
the coronavirus pandemic, city officials
later pushed to permanently shut down
the lower portion of Forest Avenue —
from Glenneyre Street to Coast
Highway - to vehicular tratfic.
In January, the City Council awarded a
$5.5-million construction contract for
the promenade to Superb Engineering,
while the conversion of the street into a
permanent pedestrian plaza has been
estimated to cost $7.3 million.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

You think it’s already horrifying but JFC where that subhead went

THE NO TIMES
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Socialite influencer
dismembered 'by ex-
husband and family'
Alex Kwong, his brother and his father deny
the murder of Abby Choi Tin-fung, whose
body was dismembered and skull cooked in a
carrot soup
Abby Choi Tin-fung went missing in February 2023

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The irony being that Ellison was a great name in Hollywood for a long time—back when it was just David’s lesbian sister Megan producing interesting pictures like ZERO DARK THIRTY, AMERICAN HUSTLE and PHANTOM THREAD. When you see Annapurna on the screen, that’s her production company.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Very stylish conventioneers this week. Haven’t figured out what it is—hard to read badges casually while walking past someone. But crowds are always nicer when they’re well-dressed.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Hoping—on the one hand—for a blue tsunami while—on the other—worrying it could breathe new life into a deflating MAGA movement. Or: Winning as a Democrat always feels like losing.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The occasional reminder that Maggie Smith wasn't always an elderly Edwardian countess. Or an elderly wizarding whatever she was.

Maggie Smith, much younger, in a 1982 adaptation of EVIL UNDER THE SUN

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I’m ‘every Bad Bunny hit, all 200 of them, sound exactly alike, or maybe I’ve just been hearing the same one’ years old.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I pretty much hate everything Ryan Murphy so I’m not watching the Lizzie Borden series. But now I’m hearing the name of her town—Fall River—in my head in a local accent. Because that’s really the only way I ever heard anyone say it: Fall RIV-UH

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I feel like I saw this in a film class at UCLA. Was he obsessed with NANOOK OF THE NORTH as inspiration for a collection? Like a papoose or something? That’s the only thing I remember. Or misremember.

ISAAC MIZRAHI GETS
UNZIPPED - AGAIN
The designers groundbreaking fashion doc -
unseen for more than 30 years - is back in style
(or at least returning to movie screens). The
irrepressible raconteur talks to THR about where
it's been all this time, his own circuitous second
act and why Linda Evangelista may want to
check in with Concorde's first-class lounge
BY MERLE GINSBERG
PHOTOGRAPHED BY JAKE CHESSUM
If you're like me — and I know I am! — you
watched Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped when it
came out in 1995 with your mouth wide
open. It was unlike any fashion
documentary ever made — totally
unstructured, wildly candid and hysterically
funny and weirdly emotionally gripping.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

‘Virgin Workers Need a Raise’ t-shirt and I’m thinking, okay, sure, while my brain is still figuring out that Virgin is the name of a casino.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

What a headline! Sounds like this woman is a real piece of work.

THE CO TIMES
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Ranulph Fiennes' wife
'blocked King's
attempt to check on
health'
After Anton Bowring, a fellow adventurer and
friend of Fiennes, wrote to Charles about his
concerns, Louise Millington-Cotes threatened
to call the police

She wrote: "I'm contacting a solicitor
and the police if you continue this!
That was utterly inappropriate! You
haven't listened to anything I've
explained to you about Ran's feelings
about his condition. You are causing
him immense distress! Nobody else
is??? Back off!!!"
It is understood that Millington-Cotes
also told her friends that the King
hated Fiennes and alleged that Queen
Camilla had helicopters fly over their
home to annoy them.

The last time Sir Ranulph Fiennes's
stepson saw the explorer in the flesh, it
was after he had scaled a two-metre
"industrial" security gate to pass his
beloved stepfather a mince pie.
Alex Millington, 31, lost access to the
family home, his half-sister and
Fiennes after being estranged from his
mother in 2018. When visiting Fiennes
for the last time in late September
2024, he had to climb over the farm
gate since he no longer had a key to the
property.

Friends who knew the couple claimed
Fiennes was only ever allowed 24
hours away from her at a time. One
unnamed source told The Mail on
Sunday that Fiennes was obsessed with
leaving on time after a business
meeting at a property near Exford for
the long drive back to Cheshire where
his wife was waiting.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

As expensive as I am all by myself, I really don’t understand how anyone affords kids.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

And thus begins lane closures that make Strip traffic even more horrendous just as Vegas cools off and gets busy again—three months* of inconvenience without commensurate benefit for 99.99% of those who live/work here so one race can happen in November. *Two months of setup, one month of breakdown

Lanes being closed to erect F1 infrastructure on Sands.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I’ve just learned the Romans had a god of nocturnal lightning and I have to chuckle at all the guys who’d call themselves Summanus if they knew this. Yeah, baby!

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

This analyst is reacting specifically to Trump’s claim that slashing fuel efficiency targets will cut the price of cars. But her statement applies to Trump’s comprehension of everything.

"You're not going to see a vehicle that's $1,300
less expensive," said Stephanie Brinley, principal
automotive analyst with Mobility Global. "That's
not quite how it works.”

Automakers already are struggling under Trump's tariffs, which increase costs, said Jessica Caldwell, head of insights at Edmunds. So any savings from weaker fuel economy standards would probably go to offset tariffs first, Caldwell said.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It would have to be so bewildering to have a parent who’s a reality star or influencer—someone who is professionally a fake version of themselves even as they parent you on camera.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

After junior high and high school on the east coast I wanted to stay local for college and wound up literally down the street haha. Seeing the Janss Steps—up and down which I trod endlessly—makes me think of how the built-up campus sort of disguises how its […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Los Angeles Times
Why more students are taking the
SAT, even as UC and CSU campuses
remain test-free
3h ago • Andrew Khouri

An aerial view of UCLA’s original structures on a hilly landscape. It shows the bridge over a canyon that now looks like a road bisecting two large lawns.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Unfortunate phrasing when two of these people are dead—a now I’d rather not see. Fun fact: When I was at the VW dealership in Van Nuys buying a new car on my own for the first time—1996—Meshach Taylor was also there buying a car for his niece. Shibboleth […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

'Designing Women' at 40: See the
Sugarbaker crew, then and now

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Mom made me laugh when we saw something like this at a sort of homesteader museum and I hadn’t even finished saying ‘Were these everywhere in the ‘70s?’—a kinda vaguely definite memory—when she said ‘Oh, yeah, we all had them.’

A Victorian style wash basin and pitcher

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Funny about sense memories. Diving into the pool just now—the shock of cool water—took me back to the pandemic lockdown. Absolutely nothing to do but take brisk 10-mile walks—I was fortunate to live in a town of long, pleasant, uncrowded lanes—and then dive […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An oval swimming pool surrounded by greenery.

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