ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway
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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway
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Science communicator 🎙️, creative producer 💻, performer 🎭, escaped immunologist 🦠 · I find creative ways to explore big topics and have fun doing it · Science, nature, politics and justice for all · 🇬🇧/🇵🇸/🇧🇷 · 🩷💛💙 · He/Him

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HELLO THERE 🥰

I'm Khalil, a Palestinian-British science communicator, creative producer, comedian, game designer, TTRPG performer and neurodivergent nuisance 😈

EXPECT: science 🧪🦠, TTRPGs 🎲, show updates 🎤😘, politics (the left-liberatory/anarchist kind) 🏴, a mix of joy/wonder/rage/grief/whimsy 😍😭😠🤪
Gallows Corner is a very cool game about rising up against our oppressors.*

Michelle is an amazing performer, as are the rest of the lineup on this show.

Who Hurt You is a bold channel that tells interesting stories.

This is going to be good.

*I'm biased, I did some writing on this game
✨Gallows Corner Cast ✨

@michellicopter.bsky.social is one of three guest players joining our Gallows Corner actual play as Ruth

Michelle is an actor, game designer, AP performer and award nominated GM, on staff at our friends @euphoriaap.bsky.social & is a GM for @moonshineadventure.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 10:57 AM
As the world gets crazier and scarier in all sorts of ways, please remember: the Israeli genocide of Palestine is still very much going on.
🇵🇸🕊️⚖️✊🏼❤️‍🩹

They're still bombing and occupying Gaza. They're still raiding and annexing the West Bank. Western govts are still helping them do it.

🚨 YOU CAN HELP ⬇️
January 5, 2026 at 1:51 PM
PHEW! Back on socials after a busy Solstice break visiting various bits of family and looking after my sister's elderly dog. Feeling somewhat rested, but also kinda not 😅
January 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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in case u don't know the answer, it is NO. people are being bombed in tents & flooded in winter weather while starving to death slowly. donations help. regular weekly ones help the most. if you're in a Western country, your taxes likely paid for this oppression. pay to mitigate that as best you can
someone asked me yesterday if things had 'settled down' in Gaza . i swear to God
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I am extremely grateful for people's support and getting it to 100%.
I have budgeted the Kickstarter for the production of the game and paying my collaborators professional freelance rates, with little money left for myself.
Any extra helps. 👉👈
December 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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A new storm is approaching Palestine literally right now and we're matching the next few donations:
Am sick and exhausted, but this is nothing, absolutely nothing compared to what these families are going through right now. They need your help. You CAN help, despair is not an option. chuffed.org/project/mawa... #WeKeepTelling
Help displaced families in Mawasi
Make a great change for the better: help relieve the suffering of displaced families in Mawasi, Gaza, who are facing hunger, thirst, and heat.
chuffed.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Ok, let me help you out: there's a button in settings that you can switch on that won't let you post an image without adding ALT TEXT. 🥰It's a huge help to me - I would forget otherwise tbf. I know it's a chore lovelies but it helps so much! So please, please, don't give up!🙏🤞💪💖🤗
Why is it suddenly a trend to stop using ALT text?
I know some people have their own issues that make it hard to add it, but when I see folks who were using it all the time suddenly stop.. it just seems like it was performative / fake before and now it's off trend Disabled people don't matter?😳😢
a close up of a man 's face with the words sugar-by-the-spoonful.tumblr below it
Alt: loki looks sad and crying and says please use alt text, please
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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This kicks off at seven tonight, it ought to be a laugh, and the charities are pretty decent too. Please come along and chuck us a quid to make our lives harder
TONIGHT

GM Diar spins the wheel for @gshowitt.bsky.social, @gaskinator.bsky.social, @urbanfriendden.bsky.social, and @vengaboy.bsky.social, through a festive beach party (don't mind the temporal distortion).

Join us as we fundraise for @jinglejam.co.uk!
December 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
And here was me getting annoyed at myself for picking up the gloss varnish instead of matt...
I'm... so unbelievably mad.

Picked up the wrong spray can, didn't I? That's not varnish. That's Raven Black primer. Over a finished miniature. For a bloody video.
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Such sweet sentiments from Sam! 🥹

I feel like I've really stepped up my roleplaying this year, and this is largely through collaborating with talented actors and storytellers like Sam and the other folks on this list.

Here's to a 2026 full of more stories that explore and question our world!
Day 9 is @drtalksalot.bsky.social

Khalil is a phenomenal performer who brings big ideas, high quality concepts & a lot of nuance to characters.

Most recently seen as our sad Egyptian character Rami in our Paint the Town Red series, you can also catch him over at @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Join us in supporting the Games Against Genocide fundraiser with $10 or more to recieve a bundle of FIFTY TTRPGs!

Donate by Friday 12th Dec to help @msf.ca carry out their ongoing relief work in Palestine 🇵🇸 🕊️

LINK: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...

Organised by the amazing @jesthehuman.itch.io ❤️
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This is ..
Just read it.
A Melbourne council is under fire for scrubbing a teenager from its magazine and website after receiving complaints about the child's Palestine-flag necklace

www.deepcutnews.com/p/melbourne-...
Melbourne council scrubs teenage volunteer from website over Palestine necklace
Child left in tears as APAN slams anti-Palestinian racism
www.deepcutnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
We had a lot of fun on this one! Who knew our niche interests would save us one day?
Nerd Out To The Max in this ridiculous scifi one-shot filled with ear-facts, freaky parasites and the shoehorning of spice girls lyrics into any and every situation!

Watch @sciwithrach.bsky.social, @samsighs.bsky.social, @drtalksalot.bsky.social and The RPGeeks in SPACE NERDS on YouTube now!
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Plugging Antony Lowewenstein’s 2023 book “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World”

What the Israelis test on us, governments all over the world are buying to use - including on you. That’s part of why Israel gets away with genocide.
Dr Assal Rad—

“𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘢

“Genocide as a weapons experiment.”
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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You may have heard me say that my favourite one-session roleplaying game is Arthur's "May You Fish in Interesting Times"

Now they're releasing an updated version of another of their games, and I can't wait to explore a spooky Hong Kong tower block with a secret undead impostor!
Mud Ghost Estate is a spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by the urban legends and folklore of Hong Kong. 👻
The Redux edition is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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In September, you helped eight families, mostly kids, flee the invasion of Gaza City. You’ve also helped a few return. This has been nothing less than working against a mass ethnic cleansing project.

This work continues. Help these families survive:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
You may have heard me say that my favourite one-session roleplaying game is Arthur's "May You Fish in Interesting Times"

Now they're releasing an updated version of another of their games, and I can't wait to explore a spooky Hong Kong tower block with a secret undead impostor!
Mud Ghost Estate is a spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by the urban legends and folklore of Hong Kong. 👻
The Redux edition is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Cool to know that, nearly a decade after leaving academia, I'm still attractive to predatory publishers 😅

The "paper" mentioned is my PhD thesis, and had very little to do with cassava.

Should I do it? Should I write a whole book chapter for no money, based on knowledge I don't have, for the bit?
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The finale of this series is some of the best collective storytelling I've ever been part of 🥹

Performing alongside powerhouses like @michellicopter.bsky.social, @watermosaic.bsky.social and @maijaihibberd.bsky.social really made me up my game, and @samsighs.bsky.social wove a killer backdrop 🥰
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1944. Paris. World War II. Four vampires, one missing werewolf, & a whole load of trauma.

"The Dead Don't Dance Alone" is Season 2 of our Paint the Town Red mini campaign, with @michellicopter.bsky.social @watermosaic.bsky.social @maijaihibberd.bsky.social & @drtalksalot.bsky.social

5 Jan 2026.
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Dragonmeet 2025 was a blast!

Getting so many of my favourite creative nerds in one place is a unique joy 🥰

Lots of exciting collaborations on the horizon for @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social!

I was too busy yapping to take pictures, but big love to everyone who made the day so special! ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Still-genocide, still-famine, still-forced displacement, still-homelessness, still-blockade…means we meet every day with every boldness and hope.

One link, six families and a camp, and we send your funds ASAP for emergency healthcare, food, shelter, & more. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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London-bound for Dragonmeet 2025 at the ExCel!

We're exhibiting at stand D/E35 and you're not going to miss us.

Mappa Mundi? ✅
Gallows Corner? ✅
A NEW game?! ✅

Come see us and find games that let you make better worlds!
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.

An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM