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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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How tired I am on the outside vs how tired I am on the inside
Screenshot of Withers, an undead character from the game Baldur's Gate 3 wearing a dark burgundy robe and ornate golden headdress over his purplish skin. Superimposed is a photo of the botched WizKids miniature of the same character. It's a muddy green mess in a brown sleeveless jacket, more closely resembling an off-brand Creature from the Black Lagoon or Killer Croc's very sick uncle.
May 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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LONDON this SUNDAY (25th May), at @nhm-london.bsky.social!

A free festival of activities and craft workshops celebrating Arab cultures' relationships with nature through art, science and community.

😀 Storytelling
✋🏼🖌️ Henna
🧵🇵🇸 Palestinian embroidery
🌱📝 Plant journalling
📖 Ancient manuscripts
🤩 Tours
Flyer advertising the Natural History Musuem's Family Festival, Juzoor (meaning "roots"). Black writing, red background with green plant decoration. The event is 25th May 12:00-18:00, entry is free, nearest tube station is South Kensington. Text reads "Celebrate the love of nature in Arab cultures through art, science and community". Black writing, red background with green plant decoration. Text reads "Activities for all ages! Booking recommended at nhm.ac.uk/visit/whats-on". Black writing, red background with green plant decoration. Stylised Arabic calligraphy of the word "Juzoor", meaning "roots". Red calligraphy, black outline, red background with green plant decoration.
May 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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aaaaaaaaand now I'm battling my ADHD impulsiveness as it screams at me to get this inked (but better, obvs)
April 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Taking time to catch up on some reading
🐍🐮🔥♠️🐟👁️➕🤡
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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FINALE TIME BABY!

After two years of this coming-of-age, saving-the-world and causing-general-chaos story, our teenage heroes reckon with world-reshaping power, first love and newfound freedom

I'm going to miss my boy Nimbo and his friends 🥲 I've never cast Ceremony so many times in one campaign 😅
CGI model (from Heroforge) of Nimbo Thunderchild, a male-presenting firbolg (a tall, nature-attuned humanoid from the game Dungeons and Dragons) with skin the colour of stormclouds, piercing blue eyes and dark curly hair interwoven with strands of copper. He has multiple ear piercings of various metals and a naively confident expresssion. He wears dark blue trousers cuffed with leather straps, a dark turquoise long-sleeved top under a copper chainmail shirt cuffed in dark purple and a dark blue cloak. He is standing barefoot on a grassy, earthy surface dotted with pale blue flowers. In one hand he holds a weathered bronze mace, and in the other he conjures a tiny stormcloud. CGI model (from Heroforge) of Nimbo Thunderchild, a male-presenting firbolg (a tall, nature-attuned humanoid from the game Dungeons and Dragons) with skin the colour of stormclouds, piercing blue eyes and dark curly hair interwoven with strands of copper. He has multiple ear piercings of various metals and a determined, world-weary expresion. He wears dark blue trousers cuffed with leather straps and comfortable boots, a dark turquoise long-sleeved top under ornate weathered bronze half-plate armour and a dark blue cloak which is sweeping to one side. He is standing on a grassy, earthy surface dotted with pale blue flowers. His weathered bronze mace is strapped to his belt, and between his hands he conjures a large arc of glowing blue lightning.
April 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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In search of any postive news, any dopamine hit, no matter how small, I looked up "year of the snake" hoping for unscientific reassurance for me, someone born in a Year of the Snake.

On the plus side, I learned some fascinating stuff about Chinese cosmology.
Screenshot from a horoscope website with the section title "Snake's 2025 Horoscope (Year of the Snake", and body text "While 2025 is a challenging year for Snakes due to their Ben Ming Nian, lucky stars offer strong opportunities for career and financial growth. Stay focused, take necessary precautions, and balance challenges with joyful events to make the most of the year." The phrase "While 2025 is a challenging year for Snakes" is highlighted. Screenshot from a horoscope website with text saying "The term “Ben Ming Nian” in Chinese means a year that shares the same zodiac animal as the year you were born. You’d think this is good fortune, but not so in traditional Chinese culture. Instead, this is bound to be a year of unstable luck and setbacks in every area of your life. But fear not, because there are also several ways, according to tradition, that you can protect yourself from bad luck and put yourself in favor with the gods, even if it is your Ben Ming Nian." The phrases "You'd think this is good fortune, but not so" and "unstable luck and setbacks in every area of your life" are highlighted.
February 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Sometimes things just line up perfectly
Screenshot of two Bluesky posts consecutive in the feed. The first is Taylor Navarro saying "Some women will try to kill a god instead of going to therapy", and the second is Bugs Maytrix saying "If the government will no longer recognise me as a woman, it must come to worship me as a god"
January 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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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 😍😭😠🤪
January 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Last night I was at the South Bank for an evening of talks to celebrate the re-publication of Edward Said's seminal 1979 book The Question of Palestine, which brought the morality of Palestine to Western audiences.

NGL it was a pretty emotional night examining our past, present and future.

🇵🇸✌🏼🕊️⚖️
a woman at a spotlit podium on stage at the Royal Festival Hall. The auto-captions read "If Edward Said taught us anything, it is that culture has a direct role to play and that is constantly being re-imagined and re-constructed. We have so many lessons to take away with us tonight, so many ideas..."
November 21, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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Last night @sciwithrach.bsky.social and I were at the Royal Institution for LGBTQIA+ In STEM Day to show off @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social's plans for the funding we've been awarded by @prideinstem.bsky.social!

TL,DR: Keep an eye out for some amazing local lineups for England, Scotland and Wales!
November 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM