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Colin Elves

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Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 1h

He just did.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 1h

Man living on benefits wastes it all down the pub eh?

This just tells me benefits are too high.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 1h

One of the best things about being in Bluesky over Twitter is that I’ve heard about Toby Young in months.

I almost forgot the tedious Neopbaby crank existed.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h

This is written like it was just fortuitous that this particular judge was assigned to the Coskun case co-sponsored by Toby's FSU.... Like the judgment was solely at the judge's discretion.

No, the judgment was rooted in English Law with a heavy nod to the ECHR.

Strange, Toby doesn't mention ECHR

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 2h

Agreed, the fascist Disney Adults should go live in Nazi Disneyland if they want.

Everyone* wins that way.

*Except Dubai’s slave underclass.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 11h

Can’t go wrong with old Mezzy Bezzy.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 11h

I heard it was a haunted puppet and a blobfish.

Opinions differ.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 11h

Oats, butter, sugar golden syrup: flapjack.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 11h

The one positive here seems to be that maybe this means the government is finally making some sort of effort to shift the narrative away from immigration.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 11h

You say that, but from what I can see the entirety of government policy seems to pivot around OBR economic projections.

Yes, that’s completely mental, but I don’t make the rules.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 11h

Brexit isn’t a Labour thing. Nobody believed it was even with Corbyn in charge.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 11h

Just guilt by association I think:

Brexit was a mistake, it’s made things worse, he’s Mr Brexit, this is all his fault.

It’s all vibes at the end of the day.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 12h

I always thought the solution was the thing that nobody wants and therefore will probably get: a horrendous Swiss style mess of individual treaties that eventually end up looking a lot like single market membership and a strikingly similar customs regime.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 12h

Since when did reality become a critical factor in British politics?

Sure, Farage can say he’d do it better, but most people think Brexit was a mistake now so who cares about that?

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 12h

I can write and draw with my right hand but it’s a lot slower and messier. Left hand feels more dextrous.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 12h

Scissors/computer Mouse/cutlery/tin opener/fighting etc, I can swap side to side.

But I write and use chopsticks with my left hand - I recently tried using my right as some Chinese colleagues reacted like it was weird me using my left hand, but I gave up quick.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 12h

I seem to recall a test we did at Uni to assess hemispheric lateralisation and, yeah, true 50/50 was pretty rare.

I think I was something like 70/30 left hand dominant.

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Chris Martin @mreschatologist.bsky.social · 17h

Jabba the Hutt with downward word balloon

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 14h

I often find myself thinking about how he deliberately messes up his hair before he goes on camera.

Everything about that man is false.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 14h

Some guy who says he was scared of milkshakes and women in yellow t-shirts is telling us he’s also scared of people in inflatable frog costumes?

Have I understood that story correctly?

Sounds like debilitating agoraphobia to me.

I hope he’s getting proper psychiatric support.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 14h

Though I suspect this would create inflation that would freak out the middle class.

Ugh, I’m no good at economics.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 14h

But doing a crummy job is still better than doing no job - unemployment is hard for your mental health.

I guess the solution is a negative income tax, so work always pays, and to raise the minimum wage, so it’s also worthwhile.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 14h

Presumably companies like Walmart would have to pay its employees more if their sub-subsistence wages weren’t being subsidised by in-work benefits or other forms of state aid. You don’t want to force people to do crummy jobs and you don’t want to subsidise crummy jobs.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 14h

This is a weird thing, right?

Because it is unquestionably better for people to be working, rather than stuck at home surviving on benefits, but at the same time these jobs for huge companies paying dividends to millionaires are are all being subsidised by the taxpayer.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14h

Walmart hasn't made things affordable its employees are on government assistance.

We should reinstill pride in paying what things are worth to get both high quality stuff and also know we are actually supporting real humans to live semi comfortably