ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway
@drtalksalot.bsky.social
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 😍😭😠🤪
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 😍😭😠🤪
Mood
I don't wanna work today. I wanna be so swaddled up in cosy blankets that only my face is sticking out, just play games and listen to music and sip frothy cups of tea. 🥲
*shakes fist at rain and wind and capitalism*
*shakes fist at rain and wind and capitalism*
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Mood
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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Been a little quiet over here at S&S HQ as we've been taking some time to rest & recuperate.
Some news!
Going forward @samsighs.bsky.social is stepping back from the team, and you can find him mostly over at @whohurtyouap.bsky.social telling sad stories.
We wish him all the best for the future.
Some news!
Going forward @samsighs.bsky.social is stepping back from the team, and you can find him mostly over at @whohurtyouap.bsky.social telling sad stories.
We wish him all the best for the future.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Been a little quiet over here at S&S HQ as we've been taking some time to rest & recuperate.
Some news!
Going forward @samsighs.bsky.social is stepping back from the team, and you can find him mostly over at @whohurtyouap.bsky.social telling sad stories.
We wish him all the best for the future.
Some news!
Going forward @samsighs.bsky.social is stepping back from the team, and you can find him mostly over at @whohurtyouap.bsky.social telling sad stories.
We wish him all the best for the future.
Waking up to the news that Mamdani won New York has introduced a frankly irresponsible amount of joy and hope into my day
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Waking up to the news that Mamdani won New York has introduced a frankly irresponsible amount of joy and hope into my day
Gallows Corner is a game about people and communities working together to dismantle entrenched, corrupt power structures
🤜💥👑
A topic with no contemporary relevance whatsoever, I'm sure 👀
If that's not enough of a hook to talk/write/shout about it I don't know what is!
🤜💥👑
A topic with no contemporary relevance whatsoever, I'm sure 👀
If that's not enough of a hook to talk/write/shout about it I don't know what is!
(PLEASE REPOST!) Reviewers, journalists, content creators, YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, and TTRPG people of all kinds : WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Gallows Corner is a game about people and communities working together to dismantle entrenched, corrupt power structures
🤜💥👑
A topic with no contemporary relevance whatsoever, I'm sure 👀
If that's not enough of a hook to talk/write/shout about it I don't know what is!
🤜💥👑
A topic with no contemporary relevance whatsoever, I'm sure 👀
If that's not enough of a hook to talk/write/shout about it I don't know what is!
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(PLEASE REPOST!) Reviewers, journalists, content creators, YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, and TTRPG people of all kinds : WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
(PLEASE REPOST!) Reviewers, journalists, content creators, YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, and TTRPG people of all kinds : WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
Pretty sure this doesn't count as a ceasefire, the firing doesn't appear to have ceased.
Israeli strikes on Gaza this week have killed more than 100 people following the killing of an Israeli soldier.
Deadly Israeli attacks shake Gaza ceasefire as more bodies exchanged
Israeli strikes on Gaza this week have killed more than 100 people following the killing of an Israeli soldier.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Pretty sure this doesn't count as a ceasefire, the firing doesn't appear to have ceased.
I guess that technically will "feel more like the conversations you'd have IRL" like bsky said, just in the worst way
This is absolutely going to be used to 1) further suppress Palestinians desperately trying to raise money to survive and 2) punish any marginalised person who is pushing back against bigotry posted on here 🙄
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I guess that technically will "feel more like the conversations you'd have IRL" like bsky said, just in the worst way
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And while you're at it, scroll down further to uncheck this
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And while you're at it, scroll down further to uncheck this
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Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
Check out my conversation with Fiona about #DnD, #ADHD and a book that smashes the two together!
We had a fascinating time discussing the book via our different perspectives and experiences of games 🎲, storytelling 📖 and brain stuff 🧠
We had a fascinating time discussing the book via our different perspectives and experiences of games 🎲, storytelling 📖 and brain stuff 🧠
The next episode of our DM’s Book Club series is out!
Episode #14: Adventures in ADHD with @drtalksalot.bsky.social!
🎧 linktr.ee/dmbc
#RPG #ttrpg #dmbc #adhd #awfulqueerheroes #dnd #5e
Episode #14: Adventures in ADHD with @drtalksalot.bsky.social!
🎧 linktr.ee/dmbc
#RPG #ttrpg #dmbc #adhd #awfulqueerheroes #dnd #5e
October 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊🏼🕊️⚖️, don't get complacent just because you heard the word "ceasefire", the genocide is still going on.
If you can, donate to crowdfunders to help people rebuild their lives. I've linked to a legit giving circle campaign below.
If you can, donate to crowdfunders to help people rebuild their lives. I've linked to a legit giving circle campaign below.
Step 1: Tentatively peek back into Bluesky to share some cool stuff I've been doing
Step 2: Immediately get overwhelmed and guilty that I haven't been creatively or politically active on here for ages
Step 3: ?
Step 2: Immediately get overwhelmed and guilty that I haven't been creatively or politically active on here for ages
Step 3: ?
October 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊🏼🕊️⚖️, don't get complacent just because you heard the word "ceasefire", the genocide is still going on.
If you can, donate to crowdfunders to help people rebuild their lives. I've linked to a legit giving circle campaign below.
If you can, donate to crowdfunders to help people rebuild their lives. I've linked to a legit giving circle campaign below.
Step 1: Tentatively peek back into Bluesky to share some cool stuff I've been doing
Step 2: Immediately get overwhelmed and guilty that I haven't been creatively or politically active on here for ages
Step 3: ?
Step 2: Immediately get overwhelmed and guilty that I haven't been creatively or politically active on here for ages
Step 3: ?
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Step 1: Tentatively peek back into Bluesky to share some cool stuff I've been doing
Step 2: Immediately get overwhelmed and guilty that I haven't been creatively or politically active on here for ages
Step 3: ?
Step 2: Immediately get overwhelmed and guilty that I haven't been creatively or politically active on here for ages
Step 3: ?
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Since it's getting close to Spoo~ky Season, let's look back at this delightfully blood soaked game of Paint the Town Red!
🩸Veins of Resistance 🩸
Our next @prideinstem.bsky.social one shot is LIVE, and it's a Paint the Town Red game with an all-POC cast!
With @michellicopter.bsky.social, @masquewren.bsky.social,
@stellarencore.bsky.social & @sciwithrach.bsky.social
🔗 twitch.tv/scienceandsorcery
Our next @prideinstem.bsky.social one shot is LIVE, and it's a Paint the Town Red game with an all-POC cast!
With @michellicopter.bsky.social, @masquewren.bsky.social,
@stellarencore.bsky.social & @sciwithrach.bsky.social
🔗 twitch.tv/scienceandsorcery
October 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Since it's getting close to Spoo~ky Season, let's look back at this delightfully blood soaked game of Paint the Town Red!
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
A game about the olden days, not long after a plague 🤒, when workers were fed up of landlords 💰 and bosses 👑 and war 🩸, and they decided to do something about it 🔥
Completely, absolutely, 100% historical, any relevance to the present day is entirely coincidental 👀
Completely, absolutely, 100% historical, any relevance to the present day is entirely coincidental 👀
What's that? The GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG Prerelease Guide is dropping next week? And you haven't seen anything from it yet?
Well, we can't have that, can we?
Follow Gallows Corner on Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...
Well, we can't have that, can we?
Follow Gallows Corner on Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...
July 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A game about the olden days, not long after a plague 🤒, when workers were fed up of landlords 💰 and bosses 👑 and war 🩸, and they decided to do something about it 🔥
Completely, absolutely, 100% historical, any relevance to the present day is entirely coincidental 👀
Completely, absolutely, 100% historical, any relevance to the present day is entirely coincidental 👀
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NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only space marines and more"
phew! thank goodness. everyone, get in here. it's fine. Space Marines
July 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only space marines and more"
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Always cracks me up when European countries think they are less racist than the U.S.
Germany and EU allies push for asylum crackdown and more deportations reut.rs/4lJfZAo
Germany and EU allies push for asylum crackdown and more deportations
Germany's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and five European counterparts agreed on a set of goals on Friday to tighten asylum rules in the bloc, including allowing deportations to Afghanistan and Syria as standard practice.
reut.rs
July 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Always cracks me up when European countries think they are less racist than the U.S.
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🚨I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!🚨
If you need any of the following, hit me up:
🎤 hosting/presenting/facilitation (events/podcasts/video)
📋 creative production (e.g. events/podcasts/exhibitions)
🧩 game design (science or otherwise)
😆 comedy (science or otherwise)
🎓 communication training
khalilthirlaway.com
If you need any of the following, hit me up:
🎤 hosting/presenting/facilitation (events/podcasts/video)
📋 creative production (e.g. events/podcasts/exhibitions)
🧩 game design (science or otherwise)
😆 comedy (science or otherwise)
🎓 communication training
khalilthirlaway.com
Khalil Thirlaway
www.khalilthirlaway.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🚨I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!🚨
If you need any of the following, hit me up:
🎤 hosting/presenting/facilitation (events/podcasts/video)
📋 creative production (e.g. events/podcasts/exhibitions)
🧩 game design (science or otherwise)
😆 comedy (science or otherwise)
🎓 communication training
khalilthirlaway.com
If you need any of the following, hit me up:
🎤 hosting/presenting/facilitation (events/podcasts/video)
📋 creative production (e.g. events/podcasts/exhibitions)
🧩 game design (science or otherwise)
😆 comedy (science or otherwise)
🎓 communication training
khalilthirlaway.com
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Very excited to be involved in this! Can't wait to hear what everyone has to say on these topics, and very humbled I get to speak alongside them!
I've got a truly awesome trio of co-facilitators for this workshop: @sciwithrach.bsky.social from @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social, George from @threesailsstudios.bsky.social and @laurieblake.bsky.social from Stop, Drop & Roll!
July 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Very excited to be involved in this! Can't wait to hear what everyone has to say on these topics, and very humbled I get to speak alongside them!
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
I've got a truly awesome trio of co-facilitators for this workshop: @sciwithrach.bsky.social from @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social, George from @threesailsstudios.bsky.social and @laurieblake.bsky.social from Stop, Drop & Roll!
July 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I've got a truly awesome trio of co-facilitators for this workshop: @sciwithrach.bsky.social from @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social, George from @threesailsstudios.bsky.social and @laurieblake.bsky.social from Stop, Drop & Roll!
Hyped to have my mate Sam staying with me for an extra few days before the @big-stem-network.bsky.social conference!
I'll be running a workshop on using games to build a better world, if you're at BIG come join us at Imagining and Creating Better Worlds on Thursday at 14:30 🥰
I'll be running a workshop on using games to build a better world, if you're at BIG come join us at Imagining and Creating Better Worlds on Thursday at 14:30 🥰
I've made it to London, and of course I'm here for the conference I've organised.
But most importantly I get to see some of my best pals in the world this week.
First up, @drtalksalot.bsky.social!
But most importantly I get to see some of my best pals in the world this week.
First up, @drtalksalot.bsky.social!
Anyone travelling to London today?
Event Manager Sam and his Event Manager Plan are almost there, a whole 48 hours early
When do you get to the capital?
#BIGEvent25
Event Manager Sam and his Event Manager Plan are almost there, a whole 48 hours early
When do you get to the capital?
#BIGEvent25
July 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Hyped to have my mate Sam staying with me for an extra few days before the @big-stem-network.bsky.social conference!
I'll be running a workshop on using games to build a better world, if you're at BIG come join us at Imagining and Creating Better Worlds on Thursday at 14:30 🥰
I'll be running a workshop on using games to build a better world, if you're at BIG come join us at Imagining and Creating Better Worlds on Thursday at 14:30 🥰