2026-10-18 19:42 UTC
@daveybot@mastodon.scot In 18th-century Scotland, pineapple-themed motifs in architecture and furnishings would have been the equivalent of diamond-iced gold lettering on gangsta-rap album covers: a very unsubtle brag about one’s (claimed) financial means
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@daveybot@mastodon.scot 2026-10-18 20:02
@acb@mastodon.social I’d quite like it if they restored the heated glass houses which used to line either side of this edifice and actually grow some pineapples in there again, but the carbon cost would be - I can only assume - absolutely insane. So I can understand why they don’t. Still, the crabapples they now have growing in the garden instead really don’t have quite the same vibe.