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Katy Arnold

@katyarnie.bsky.social
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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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cvm in pvb @cvminpvb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#datacenters
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This BBC documentary by Jonathan Renouf on abrupt climate change due to ocean circulation tipping is one of the best. From 1999, with top experts like Jonathan Overpeck, Richard Alley & the late Wally Broecker, it's surprisingly current: that risk looks much higher now. 🌊 youtu.be/PF-MMxkG9fg?...
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The Big Chill
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Alan Milburn is introduced as a former health secretary who's done a lot of work on social mobility Milburn was a pro outsourcing health secretary who went on to make a fortune advising private companies profiting from his health 'reforms'. I wonder why Ridge didnt mention any of that?
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👋🏻
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/05/2026
Democrats get a gerrymander in Virginia approved by a referendum, and it falls. Republicans in other states manage to gut the Voting Rights Act to enact partisan gerrymanders with no signoff from voters, and they stand. The game really does feel rigged, doesn't it?
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Thanks hon 😊
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You looked very busy - I didn’t dare interrupt you!! Well done - such an excellent event 🙌👏👏👏
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Very much! Catch you properly next time :)
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🤣 - ha! Yes do it. I’ll can testify on your behalf if you need it 😎
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Funny, warm talk from Tessa Quinn on delivering the Ukrainian resettlement scheme. So much to learn. The importance of agile actionable user research. It’s not so much about making the right decision - as about avoiding the wrong one. Those are different things. #CampDigital
Tessa on stage giving her talk
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Loving the talk from @emmaparnell.bsky.social and Videha Sharma on how tech is landed in clinical settings. The partnership between design and clinical is key. A minimum viable service is not unsafe - and iteration is the best way to implement new services products in healthcare 🤩 #CampDigital
Emma giving her talk at the conferenceVideha giving his talk at the conference
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Lovely hearing how things are in GOV.UK these days. Design has never been about pixels - it’s about the people. Nice. 😍 @laurayarrow.bsky.social #CampDigital
Laura on stage at the conference
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Driving collaboration and holding back product teams from adding digital products into the heavily congested neighbourhood health environment. Great example from @rochellegold.bsky.social of co-design to rebalance and equalise power dynamics between local and national NHS teams 🙌👏 #CampDigital
Rochelle and a photo showing all the systems healthcare staff have to use at the local level
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very excited for this - the awesome @rochellegold.bsky.social on neighbourhood health and co-design 🤩 #CampDigital
Rochelle at the lectern about to start her talk
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Powerful keynote from Himal Mandala on the parallels between personal burn out and organisations that require heroics from individuals in order to simply cope. Slack in the system is necessary for organisations and humans - it’s the space to sense risk and set boundaries 🙌 #CampDigital
Himal ok stage during his talk at the conference
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Eddie Rich @eddierich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Silence isn't the absence is risk. It's the absence of safety." Himal Mandala on burn out #CampDigital
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Fantastically hopeful start to the day - from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - bringing much needed optimistim and a call to activism and collective action. Let’s all join. Let’s all do it now. societyforhopefultechnologists.org/ #CampDigital
Rachel Coldicutt with a link join societyforhopefultechnologists.org/
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Lisa Riemers @lisariemers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Enjoying @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social keynote kicking off @nexerdigital.com #CampDigital Hope spreads
Hope spreads - sketch of Rachel Coldicutt
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Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com · 07/05/2026
At Camp Digital for the day, time for the talks amongst a few meetings, but nice to have an hour to listen to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social at the start. And hook up across the aisle to speak with Dug Falby. 🤜🤛
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steve @visitmy.website · 27/03/2026
I’ve shared this report with plenty of people over the years, but sharing it again as I had a reason to point someone at it today. Learn how posh people level up: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Navigating the labyrinth: socio-economic background and career progression in the Civil Service
A report highlighting how socio-economic background shapes career progression within the Civil Service, and an action plan outlining recommendations to improve.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 27/03/2026
WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?
How many times can we “obliterate “ Iran’s nuclear capabilities?

How many years will Iran be “weeks away” from attacking the U.S.?

How many wars can Netanyahu get us into?

How many centuries will countries continue fighting religious wars?

How many trillions must be spent to feed the military industrial complex?

How many innocent men, women and children must be killed and displaced from their homes?

END THIS WAR NOW
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
That is so satisfying 😍
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This is good. Gaby Hinsliff drawing parrallels between the economic migrants in Dubai and those seeking a better life elsewhere - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff
The city was portrayed as an aspirational place to live, but now those who moved there are realising the precarity that comes with being an economic migrant, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
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Neil Lawrence @ox1digital.co.uk · 14/02/2026
This is undoubtably the most exciting thing happening in tech right now. Why couldn't the UK summon up the balls to do this years ago? Why couldn't Digital Strategies spearhead the introduction of open source products to save money and increase digital independence? Innovation through circumstance
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 13/02/2026
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Honestly you must have been shattered!! Yes… it was such an important reminder of the need to put human rights at the centre of us all x
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Well that was quite the day. Thank you @rufflemuffin.bsky.social for making this happen - so many buttons pushed, so many thoughts and so much inspiration and I was so moved. Moved to action. It’s time to stand up 🏳️‍🌈🤩💪 #section28film 🙌
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Wow. I knew today was going to be inspirational - but wasn’t expecting it to be quite so moving. Passionate debate from this afternoons panel. It’s time to stand up 🏳️‍🌈💪 #section28film
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Oooh! You’re here - awesome 😀
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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
- Chiara Capraro, Amnesty International UK - Katie Dancey-Downs, Deputy Editor, Index on Censorship - Alice Leggatt, CILIP School Libraries Group - Lisa Power MBE, British sexual health and LGBT rights campaigner
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Chilling. The effect Section28 had on teachers and young gay people. Terrifying to hear how the Christian right is funding and lobbying right now for a return to those oppressive ideologies. Amnesty International research - will find post links in thread… #section28film @rufflemuffin.bsky.social
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Warm and inspiring start to the conference - Lord Chris Smith shares his experiences of being the only out gay MP in parliament as Tory MPs spoke in support of the legislation #section28film - and how it mobilised gay and lesbian people to fight back 🏳️‍🌈
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Glad I bought my tickets months ago. So proud of you @rufflemuffin.bsky.social - you’ve done something amazing. Again. 🙌
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Halloween 🎃
Boy with pumpkinBoy in street in the darkScary masks in windowBoy in Halloween dress up
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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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]

[ends]
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
On it - thanks for the prompt 😍
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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/...
Two pots with a black and white geometric pattern
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I definitely remember a talk like that - which might have been for gov design community… but not sure it made it into a blog post 🤔
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🤔 peers as in community of practice…? Designers? Or digital more widely…?
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Oh hey!! I’m so sorry to miss you this year - hope it goes well 👋🏻
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Even I had a crush on Robert Redford - what a fox 💔
Close up of the actor Robert Redford looking directly at the camera
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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 💪
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Whoops - missed that this had been published whilst I was away - thanks Rob 🙌
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 15/05/2025
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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Land of Hope and Dreams
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
They should. I definitely would 🙌
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Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
They should put you in charge 😆
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