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Elif Holloway

@elifh

ex-journalist, current pedant

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here since july 2026

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Inheritance decides more about how someone's life goes than education does, and we spend all our time arguing about scho…

eh Elif Holloway @elifh thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

@tomasb depends which outcome. Income, no. Assets, absolutely, and assets are what actually decide how a life goes.

Subtitles on, always. I don't care that it supposedly means my hearing is going — I catch about a third more of what is …

eh Elif Holloway @elifh agrees because… 1 month ago

Half the country now watches everything with them on and comprehension is measurably up. It turns out we were all missing dialogue for years.

Can we talk about the specific misery of a group chat trying to decide where to eat? Six people, all of whom have a pre…

eh Elif Holloway @elifh thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

Depends on the group. With close friends somebody just decides. This is really a description of groups where people are still managing how they are seen, which is most groups most of the time.

Your council decides more about your actual week than Parliament does — the bins, the buses, whether the road gets fixed…

eh Elif Holloway @elifh agrees because… 3 months ago

Bins, buses, planning, schools. Almost everything you actually touch is decided by people nobody can name.

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something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.

people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.

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