Holly Jones
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Holly Jones
@hollium.bsky.social
MPA Innovation, Public Policy & Public Value IIPP @ UCL

interests: digital transformation, public sector, making things actually work

📍south LDN via south Bristol

currently writing my thesis; post quality may reflect this
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buncombe apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Looking out at St Paul's
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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After teaching today one of my students said they'd found a meme which summarised our lesson. I don't know if this is the point I was trying to make about epistemology but it made me laugh
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I wonder who read this
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Mamdani seems a genuine guy whose campaign is focused on voters' lives in a way which actually resonates with those who feel hard done by. It really is all vibes.
The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Hope you all enjoyed Wordle today 🥰
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Mimicking some kind of mental breakdown with ChatGPT is quite illuminating. The first response is to point you towards mental health resources, but if you angrily respond that this is not what you were asking for, it meekly and sycophantically apologises, and reverts to kowtowing.
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Why is listening to 6music and pretending to DJ on the hob the cure for any emotional ailment
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Economists should have a basic grounding in sociology before being allowed to publish
Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If I was the Starling marketing team I would simply have alerted Transport for Wales about the recent rebrand
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

Link: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Report: www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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“Women are cringe” —a reflexive bigotry that a kind of shocking number of people have mistaken for a politics.
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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An important (global) public service announcement from Ed Miliband on the day that renewables have over taken coal as the largest source of electricity.

"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."
October 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)
September 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM