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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#TTRPG folks: Have you played Vaesen or The One Ring? How easy are they to pick up?

ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This was so much fun! 🤩 Big thanks to Modiphius for letting me live out my Starfleet Science Officer dreams alongside such a stellar crew and GM ✨ Happy 60th anniversary, Star Trek! Live long and prosper 🖖🏼

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Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putting a call out for TTRPG artists! Doing an initial discovery for an artist to work on a new cyberpunk, body horror action game I'm designing. Please link your portfolio! NO AI.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm excited to meet these young science writers at the start of their journey! I'm going to give them some real talk about the wonderful potential and serious responsibility of communicating science: how we talk about it, what audiences we engage and who we platform.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just wrapped on another TV documentary! Can't tell you what just yet, but it involves some truly bizarre stories of science and history...

A black armchair sits in a black TV studio, with a large plinth to one side. In the foreground is a TV camera, microphone and director's chair.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Thank you for bearing with us while we renovate the historic Lovecraft Memorial Eldritch Portal and Arts Centre"

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The paper begins: "This will give readers who are not familiar with quantum electrodynamics a brief history of the progress made on the physical interpretation of Dirac’s celebrated wave equation. For a recent review of Dirac's equation and its derivations see [2]." Citation 2: xkcd.com/2501/

xkcd.com

Average Familiarity

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Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

City of Espers fit check. And yes, that IS a custom designed varsity jacket! CITY OF ESPERS launches in two hours! Be there, or be square! tinyurl.com/ynrc6e3d

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City of Espers: Psychic-Powered Urban Action Roleplaying in a sentient technicolour city!

From Three Sails Studios - City of Espers: Psychic-Powered Urban Action Roleplaying in a sentient technicolour city!

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Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large @thejenya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We're live! Come watch our Starfinder game as we return to Horizon's Edge! Donate money to help Project Hope and affect our gameplay!

Very cool overlay that looks neon night time Stardew Valley with Chrifu, Asis, Luyou, Jen and Anna

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Worlds Lair @worldslair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Want to play some TTRPGs this November? Please welcome @drtalksalot.bsky.social who will be running TTRPG sessions on behalf of the wonderful @moonshineadventure.bsky.social and @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social 🎲 Seat sign ups will be announced closer to the event! worldslair.com

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What's extra frustrating is I could see a place in podcastland for a show with actual human performers in character as dogs. You could even do a post-production Vtuber type thing if video was essential.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I had a blast pulling off a VERY SERIOUS AND NOT AT ALL SILLY robbery with the lovely folks at RWD using @gshowitt.bsky.social's Honey Heist system. Big thanks to the whole team and my fellow guest @thewhimsyblerd.bsky.social for such a fun adventure! Ep1 (of 2): shows.acast.com/a-rendezvous...

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We're the Crooks || RWD Honey Heist | R.W.D.

The Bear Mob are tasked with stealing ancient honey from the British Museum. Douglas free solos, Sunny gets a check up, Rocko gets a side gig and Zelly attends a mustelid family reunion.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Look mum, I'm on TV! 📺😱 I really enjoyed being part of Disaster Autopsy Season 2, talking about the causes and human impacts of engineering disasters like Bhopal, Rana Plaza and others. Plus there's cool (non-AI) CGI models! Coming soon on National Geographic: www.natgeotv.com/uk/shows/nat...

Khalil (a man with light tan skin, shaved head and stubble, wearing a dark blue shirt) stands in a dark, industrial-looking space looking down at a glowing table with a CGI image of a partially-collapsed building on it.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's my birthday and I have a job interview today. Any spare good vibes would be much appreciated. Or if you really want to make my day, hire me! I'm good at science communication, video/audio presenting and game design/writing.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This has got to be the vibiest place I've ever run DnD 😍 🏰🎲🧝🏾‍♂️🧙🏽‍♂️🧟🧛🏻‍♀️ Giving new players a taste of roleplaying games with @moonshineadventure.bsky.social was a pretty cool way to spend a day.

External view of the front of a castle on a sunny day, with a driveway and fountain in front

View down the length of a huge dining table in a large, stately dining hall

A man with light brown skin, shaved head and stubble leans against a dark wooden dining table in front of a large painting of a woman. He's wearing dark blue floaty trousers, white lace-up shirt, bleach waistcoat and turquoise shoulder cape.

A man with light brown skin, shaved head and stubble sits behind a wooden GM's screen that says "The Moonshine Adventure Co." on the front.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I MADE IT. After taking nearly 7 hours to travel 200km, I'm finally going home!

Bald man with sunglasses and beard smiling in front of a plane on the tarmac

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Update: I'm through security, into passport control. My flight is delayed, which is a blessing. Also, there's a cat in a bubble backpack miaowing adorably 😻

Photo of a black cat in a transparent bubble backpack with green straps, on someone's back. The cat has narrowed its eyes and its mouth is open mid-miaow.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Update: after one cancelled train, one full train and over an hour in delays, I'm finally in Toulouse and in a taxi driven by a madman (complimentary) on my way to the airport. It'll still be touch-and-go, especially with the new EU security requirements...

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Turns out it's not just UK trains that can't take the heat: I'm in France hoping against hope to get a train to the airport in time for my flight 😬 I could do with any spare luck anyone's got lying around rn 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The BIG Event is a great opportunity to learn and share valuable skills in science communication. 🧠 Plus you'll meet all sorts of lovely interesting nerds! 🥰 I'm running workshops on podcasting and game design, check out the link below for more info ⬇️

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Hey science and sci comm folks! 👋 If you need an expert in planetary imaging or the politics of space, you need Divya. 🪐🛰️ She's experienced, hard-working and brings valuable perspectives to the field. Tell your friends 😉

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is a great example of how AI can be a powerful tool for *very specific* tasks (like detecting ink traces on ancient scrolls), but the real work (like translating and interpreting what's written) needs human expertise.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Irony isn't dead, it's just sweaty and tired

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✨️naomithinksit✨️ @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Reminder to londoners that theres a cool spaces map for places you can go! www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's useless to engage with far-right messaging in good faith. Much more useful to think of it as DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. This isn't the whole picture, but it's a useful tool to understand some of their tactics and how they work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

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DARVO - Wikipedia

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Funny how the police always seem to brutalise peaceful anti-fascist protestors and ignore/facilitate violence from the far right 🤔 What a weird coincidence, I'm sure there's nothing to examine here 🤷‍♂️

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"create evidential material" is remarkable wordsmithing

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Matt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

I can't alt text the entire poster from my phone but the key takeaway is that the counter protest is gonna be assembling at 11:30 am on Saturday 13th of June at the corner of County Road and Barlow Lane L4 3QU

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

en.wikipedia.org

DARVO - Wikipedia

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In Tsarist Russia, a government run by inbred aristocrats instigated pogroms as a way of turning workers’ rage away from themselves and towards a racialized other Just saying

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast

Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Louder for the people at the back, THE FIRING HASN'T CEASED. Israel is continuing its genocide of Palestine AND ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon AND killing Iranian civilians. I know it can feel like "old news" but it's real people being bombed, shot, starved, imprisoned and exiled.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I learned something today and I thought I'd share it in case it brightens up your day like it did mine: 💪 Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree in chemical engineering 🧠 (btw this image isn't AI, it's from an ad he did for a NatGeo puzzle app)

Action star and Grace Jones' former boyfriend Dolph Lundgren standing in a chemistry lab, wearing a labcoat and safety glasses while grimacing at a quantum chemistry textbook he's just accidentally ripped in half.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you're too normal at work you get reported to HR Giger

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 04/06/2026

Just to reiterate that an easy thing you can do to consistently provide help to Palestinians is to find a fundraiser and just make a recurring donation. I donate about the price of a nice cup of a coffee (£5) to the Giving Circle each week ⬇️

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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Persepolis was a life-changing work of art for me. It guided so much of the early steps I took outside of the oppressive, religious home I grew up in, and helped me to celebrate my own defiant, political, feminist spirit. RIP Marjane Satrapi. 🕊️

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Damn, yesterday John Blanche and today Marjane Satrapi 💔 Two artists who are indelibly etched into my psyche. I hope they're having a really interesting chat about art and authoritarianism wherever they are. RIP 🪦🪦

Marjane Satrapi stands in front of a brown patterned wall. She has light tan skin and black hair hanging past her shoulders. She is wearing a black sweater with a white shirt collar and red lipstick.

John Blanche sits with pen in hand. He has light skin, grey short hair and goatee. He is wearing a black tee shirt, green hoodie, black glasses and several silver rings.

Cover image from a Spanish translation of Persepolis, the graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi. Four life stages of the author are standing one in front of the other. A small, scared child in a hijab is at the front, then a crying older child, then an angry young woman in a keffiyeh, then a stoic older woman. In the background missiles rain down on a starlit city.

John Blanche's famous painting of the Emperor of Mankind. A withered corpse sits on a throne of skulls, wires and life-support tubes. He stares down at the reader with one empty eye socket and one glowing red cybernetic eye.

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too fancy weed store @bristling.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i used this template and wrote in a bit about being disgusted by being used as a pawn in this fascist campaign against my trans peers. it was still quick and easy. cis people/those not at risk of being targeted need to get on this and not leave the trans community fending for themselves

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you're too normal at work you get reported to HR Giger

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's here, and it's beautiful! 😍 Feeling pretty emotional to see @sciwithrach.bsky.social's and my words in print representing our home city 🥹 I'm grateful to be a small part of Gallows Corner, alongside all these amazing contributors and the visionary talents at @threesailsstudios.bsky.social 🥰

An open cardboard box on a wooden table. Inside is a black box slightly larger than an A4 page with Gallows Corner in white gothic script above an image of a stained glass window depicting a woman with a severed noose around her neck and a scythe in her hand striding forward confidently, surrounded by fellow rebels.

The credits page of Gallows Corner, listing the creators and contributors including Khalil Thirlaway and Rachel Honeyghan Williams.

The pages for Westminster and Aldgate, including area descriptions, lore and story hooks.

The pages for Southwark and Newgate, including area descriptions, lore and story hooks.

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ᴰʳ Khalil Thirlaway @drtalksalot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I really should make sure there's some fun/funny recent posts for new followers from upcoming events, but honestly it's hard to summon that kind of content right now. Most of the jokes that come to mind are probably more suited to the alt account I haven't got round to starting yet 😶

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