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Pan Rolls Dice @stellarencore.bsky.social · 2d

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

Science & Sorcery @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social · Feb 10

🩸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

A Red filtered Sheffield in the background, next to the S&S and Pride in STEM logos.

Text reads Veins of Resistance, a Paint the Town Red actual play. Season of Queer Communities England. Images of a mixed-racewoman with black hair, a Black non-binary person with dreaded black hair, a Black non-binary person with a beanie and scarf, and a Black femme with long black and brown dreads are shown.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Aug 12

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!

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 22

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 👀

Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

A spread from Gallows Corner - A Peasants' Revolt RPG. On the left is a section of text called 'On the Anarchy, and the Dissolution of England'. On the right, a woman reads from a parchment to a crowd of peasants and working people.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · Jul 21

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 21

"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only space marines and more"

Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · Jul 21

phew! thank goodness. everyone, get in here. it's fine. Space Marines

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

Reuters @reuters.com · Jul 18

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.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨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

Khalil Thirlaway

www.khalilthirlaway.com

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laurieblake.bsky.social @laurieblake.bsky.social · Jul 15

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!

ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 14

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!

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Jul 14

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.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 14

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!

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 14

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 🥰

Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · Jul 14

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!

BIG - STEM Communicators Network, UK @big-stem-network.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Jul 7

"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.

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.

www.farminguk.com

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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Jul 2

More than 40,000 Palestinians displaced in West Bank after Israeli operation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-40000-palestinians-displaced-west-bank-after-israeli-operation

More than 40,000 Palestinians displaced in West Bank after Israeli operation

<article data-history-node-id="425228" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-40000-palestinians-displaced-west-bank-after-israeli-operation" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-40000-palestinians-displaced-west-bank-after-israeli-operation" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">More than 40,000 Palestinians displaced in West Bank after Israeli operation</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Doctors Without Borders said that 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank remain forcibly displaced five months after the launch of the Israeli military operation ‘Iron Wall’. </p> <p>The charity said the large-scale military campaign has seen Israeli soldiers raid and violently empty well-established refugee camps in the northern West Bank, and cause widespread destruction (including demolitons) as they occupy the three refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams, preventing people from returning.<br> <br> “After five months, the military operation continues,” said Simona Onidi, MSF project coordinator in Jenin and Tulkarem in a statement on Tuesday.</p> <p>“The camps remain sealed off, with Israeli soldiers actively preventing anyone from entering. Families are still in limbo, and we’re worried that humanitarian needs will keep escalating.” </p> <p>She warned that people remain cut off from their homes and are left with very limited access to basic services, and healthcare.</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · Jul 2

The media coverage led me to believe that Kneecap and Bob Vylan are the two acts who spoke out about Israel. Reports I've watched from people who were at Glastonbury so far confirm FORTY TWO separate acts condemned Israel's actions and stated "Free Palestine".

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · Jul 1

"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...

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

bylinetimes.com

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨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

Khalil Thirlaway

www.khalilthirlaway.com

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yes but nobody chanted anything so it's fine

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · Jul 1

74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike cafe and fire on people seeking food

Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday, witnesses and health officials said.Air strikes left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and ...

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · Jun 27

Dwarf hippos are still around!

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

Pygmy hippopotamus - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · Jun 27

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 ⬇️

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jun 27

I want to escalate this challenge:
If you’ve never given, can you drop a 5?
If you have given, can you make it recurring?

Some days the only support—for six families to eat—is from the heroes who clicked “weekly” or “monthly” on Chuffed.

Join in: 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

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