Katy Arnold
@katyarnie.bsky.social
Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Wonderful evening last night at the launch of my dad’s oldest friend’s pottery exhibition in London - do go if you can, the pots are exquisite and selling fast!
www.contemporaryceramics.uk/exhibitions/...
www.contemporaryceramics.uk/exhibitions/...
September 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Wonderful evening last night at the launch of my dad’s oldest friend’s pottery exhibition in London - do go if you can, the pots are exquisite and selling fast!
www.contemporaryceramics.uk/exhibitions/...
www.contemporaryceramics.uk/exhibitions/...
Even I had a crush on Robert Redford - what a fox 💔
September 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Even I had a crush on Robert Redford - what a fox 💔
Celebrating the #EnglandRoses win and the respect and joy from both teams after the game.
Don’t underestimate the achievement from Samoa - incredible performance and so much pride.
Now go fund them and see what those girls can do 💪
Don’t underestimate the achievement from Samoa - incredible performance and so much pride.
Now go fund them and see what those girls can do 💪
August 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Celebrating the #EnglandRoses win and the respect and joy from both teams after the game.
Don’t underestimate the achievement from Samoa - incredible performance and so much pride.
Now go fund them and see what those girls can do 💪
Don’t underestimate the achievement from Samoa - incredible performance and so much pride.
Now go fund them and see what those girls can do 💪
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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
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Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.
Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
May 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.
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100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.
1362 Days to go...
1362 Days to go...
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.
1362 Days to go...
1362 Days to go...
Brilliant helpful thread unpacking a complicated topic and demonstrating - beautifully - that ‘biological sex’ is just not as conveniently simple as some would like to believe 🙌
Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes right now. Lots of folks make biological sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]
(Reposted from the other site)
(Reposted from the other site)
April 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Brilliant helpful thread unpacking a complicated topic and demonstrating - beautifully - that ‘biological sex’ is just not as conveniently simple as some would like to believe 🙌
As ever, you can rely on Marina Hyde - in this article she nails this ridiculous, vacuous spectacle - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde
The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
As ever, you can rely on Marina Hyde - in this article she nails this ridiculous, vacuous spectacle - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gorgeous swim at the Lido today.. water still cold tho. 6.9 degrees - and I’m ready for it to warm up no 🥶
March 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Gorgeous swim at the Lido today.. water still cold tho. 6.9 degrees - and I’m ready for it to warm up no 🥶
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Vance blew up that meeting on purpose
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Vance blew up that meeting on purpose
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1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better?
This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
February 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better?
This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
This is brilliant - everything that is wrong with our response to the climate crisis:
Illustration by Jon Davis / The Guardian
Illustration by Jon Davis / The Guardian
February 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This is brilliant - everything that is wrong with our response to the climate crisis:
Illustration by Jon Davis / The Guardian
Illustration by Jon Davis / The Guardian
This is good. With so many banging on about her ‘legacy’ - Polly Toynbee reminds us of the mess Margaret Thatcher made of Britain: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee
A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is good. With so many banging on about her ‘legacy’ - Polly Toynbee reminds us of the mess Margaret Thatcher made of Britain: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Squint and it looks like summer - water temp 5 degrees tho 🥶 ❤️
February 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Squint and it looks like summer - water temp 5 degrees tho 🥶 ❤️
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"Remember, asking for mercy toward scared children and immigrants was enough to trigger a full-scale campaign of intimidation from the highest levels of government and media. Remember, a sitting congressman suggested deporting an American citizen for the crime of asking the president to be kind."
January 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Remember, asking for mercy toward scared children and immigrants was enough to trigger a full-scale campaign of intimidation from the highest levels of government and media. Remember, a sitting congressman suggested deporting an American citizen for the crime of asking the president to be kind."
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"Remember this moment." — @parkermolloy.com
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump's America
www.readtpa.com/p/the-price-...
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump's America
www.readtpa.com/p/the-price-...
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump's America
A bishop asked the president to show mercy to immigrants and scared children. The response tells us everything about the next four years.
www.readtpa.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Remember this moment." — @parkermolloy.com
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump's America
www.readtpa.com/p/the-price-...
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump's America
www.readtpa.com/p/the-price-...
How brave 💪 - a much needed moment of grace after the last two days
Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
Bishop Urges Trump To 'Have Mercy' In Powerful Plea During Inauguration Prayer Service
Love this ❤️ And his reaction!
www.comicsands.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
How brave 💪 - a much needed moment of grace after the last two days
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Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
Bishop Urges Trump To 'Have Mercy' In Powerful Plea During Inauguration Prayer Service
Love this ❤️ And his reaction!
www.comicsands.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
January 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
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![Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends.
Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky]
Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.
Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot.
The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback
accounts. Some of these accounts have already](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreidx5saezlmhms642lmv4eyzn637wqjd36zct7lrehnvos2vzfq7vu@jpeg)
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Enjoyed my first GovCamp experience SO much that I forgot to post during the day. Here’s my quick round up in photos and immediate reflections…
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January 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Enjoyed my first GovCamp experience SO much that I forgot to post during the day. Here’s my quick round up in photos and immediate reflections…
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#ukgc25
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#ukgc25
ooof - this is an early start for a Saturday 🥱 - but it’s worth it - my first GovCamp for literal years! The good stuff of familiar faces and the current optimism in the air for digital govt…
But also terrible sadness - for those not here 😢 #BeMoreVicky
#ukgc25
@ukgovcamp.bsky.social
But also terrible sadness - for those not here 😢 #BeMoreVicky
#ukgc25
@ukgovcamp.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
ooof - this is an early start for a Saturday 🥱 - but it’s worth it - my first GovCamp for literal years! The good stuff of familiar faces and the current optimism in the air for digital govt…
But also terrible sadness - for those not here 😢 #BeMoreVicky
#ukgc25
@ukgovcamp.bsky.social
But also terrible sadness - for those not here 😢 #BeMoreVicky
#ukgc25
@ukgovcamp.bsky.social