ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway

Since it's getting close to Spoo~ky Season, let's look back at this delightfully blood soaked game of Paint the Town Red!

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.

Hi! I'm Khalil, a Palestinian/British/Brazilian GM, and I love telling stories that are:

😄 Funny
😯 Unexpected
🧐 HaveSomethingToSayAboutSociety (yup that's one word)

Thank you, this is a very cool thing you're doing!

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 👀

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"

Always cracks me up when European countries think they are less racist than the U.S.

Ahh thanks Faye 😊 It was a joy working with you too, and you made it really easy to get caught up with a complex gig

🚨I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!🚨

If you need any of the following, hit me up:

🎤 hosting/presenting/facilitation (events/podcasts/video)
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🧩 game design (science or otherwise)
😆 comedy (science or otherwise)
🎓 communication training

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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!

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.

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 🥰

Private and institutional investors bought third of all farms in 2022 Average value of arable land in England has risen to a record of £10,800/acre, with strong interest from private and institutional investors pushing up prices.

"A land tax would be a really bad idea." Uh huh, yep, I hear you. I hear the same thing about art collections and landlord regulations. Funny.

Anarchism “We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do we have much else. We are sharers, not owners. We are not prosperous. None of us is rich. None of us is powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere." Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

This sticker I saw at an anarchist bookstore is what convinced me to read The Dispossessed.
www.activedistributionshop.org/product/anar...

Ah thank you for the kind words Kieran! It was a joy getting to know you, I'm grateful for it :)

While we’re distracted from the genocide in Gaza by being forced to defend free speech in the UK, Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of the West Bank

Funny how they went for the Black and Irish bands isn’t it (white Irish people: welcome back!)

The Law That Will Allow the UK Government to Ban Palestine Action The ban will make it illegal to support the civil disobedience group, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison

"Palestine Action is the only direct action group to ever be targeted with proscription powers in a significant departure from Parliament’s intention when creating our counter-terror laws." - Akiko Hart, Liberty Director

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/30/t...

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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

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Yes but nobody chanted anything so it's fine

Pygmy hippopotamus - Wikipedia

Dwarf hippos are still around!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_h...

I really can’t stress how easy it is to make a recurring donation - not only does it provide these fundraisers much needed and consistent funding, but you can really just set it and forget it!

Skip a weekly coffee or a monthly takeaway and put that money into a recurring donation ⬇️

This is really cool to wake up to.

It's increasingly hard to find any scraps of optimism in electoral politics *anywhere*, but a young brown socialist just unseated a dug-in, corrupt establishment candidate via grassroots campaigning and offering meaningful positive change to people's lives ❤️

I broadly agree, although it's important to remember that even without a content algorithm, Bluesky still exercises control over what you see.

For example, Palestinians have been having their accounts removed in massive numbers as 'spam', just for posting (verified) GoFundMe links so they can eat.

If you think the government won't use these powers next to ban a group that uses direct action to fight for worker's rights ✊, women's rights♀️ or queer rights ⚧️🌈, you're in for a surprise.

This is a test case, and if we let them get away with it they'll do it again. And again.

For context, Britain First still isn't a banned group, despite being the inspiration cited by the murderer of Jo Cox, the MP killed at work in 2016.

It's clear that the motivation isn't public safety, it's ideological.

The government are planning to make the protest group Palestine Action illegal under anti-terrorism powers.

This means it'll be a criminal offence to just be a member or express support, regardless of any actions.

All because they're disrupting the UK-based parts of the Israeli war machine.