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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nice relaxing morning courtesy of my hound

Text messages in all caps reading: Rushy broke his nail, blood everywhere, aaargh

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So what do you make videos about, Michelle?

Screenshot of me smiling into the camera with the caption "Capitalism."

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I thought he'd fallen over in the garden but no, he was commando crawling under a shrub to try and eat who knows what. Just a nice quick panic attack for me given he injured himself falling less than a week ago. Glad to see he's back to full gremlin mode even if he's still limping 🫠

Spot the black and white greyhound looking politely at the camera while lying on his bed with a small pile of shredded paper around his paws

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of my noodle hounds fell down the stairs yesterday morning so all weekend plans are cancelled while I take care of the poor fella and keep the vet updated. Thought I'd occupy my mind with some research for a video on generative AI and accidentally made myself sadder 🫠

Spot the greyhound looking very sorry for himself as he sprawls on some blankets on the floor of the vet office

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

25th blood donation today! As usual it was very easy and relaxed, as usual I feel very tired afterwards so am having a chilled evening on the sofa under a cosy blanket. Always open to answering questions from anyone who wants to start giving blood ❤️

A selfie with a slightly sleepy smile. I have a blood pressure cuff round my arm and a cartoon blue hedgehog on my tshirt

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Two weeks into #soloseptember I suddenly remember about Itch bundles All my solo games are 25% off, or buy all 5 as a bundle and get 50% off. There's stuff to make you sad, stuff to make you touch grass, and even a gamified crochet pattern in there. itch.io/s/201023/sol...

Five game covers on a dark green background with the caption "Solo September Bundle!"
Games are: Tiny Town, a game to play outdoors; Break Your Heart, a ritual of self-destruction; Lie To Him, a solo roleplaying game of deception; Chaos Crochet, create a unique scarf shaped by fate; The Letter You'll Never Send, a short epistolary game to play alone

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Important dog updates from the wife while I'm away from home

Screenshot of text messages: Rushy took himself upstairs for no reason earlier on then started sulking noone was up there with him and came back down. Spot did eat his breakfast but only after I tricked him into thinking he was doing a crime

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have discovered my true calling as a chef for poorly hounds

Screenshot of text messages reading: made a tuly unholy dinner for Spot. 100g kibble soaked in a splash of chicken lucozade and then mashed together with gastro paste and meds hidden within

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm so glad my purple slime cat crashed my marriage proposal

Photo of the game Fields of Mistria being played on a steam deck. The character Balor is saying "Chel... do you really think so?" as he and my character stand together on a bride over a river. In the upper right corner of the screen is a purple slime cat watching silently.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just finished chapter 2 and what do you know, we are talking about tokenism! My two favourite excerpts on the topic:

Despite its utterly inoffensive nature, the ocean of implementing the Rooney rule in British football sent the nation into a spin. Chairman of Blackpool FC Karl Oyston called it 'tokenism' and 'an absolute insult' to people in the sport. Carlisle United manager Keith Curle essentially called it a box-ticking exercise. Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, introduced plans to develop a pool of black coaches instead, and called the Rooney rule unnecessary. The way it was spoken about, you'd think that the FA's plans weren't suggesting having one person of colour on an interview shortlist, but instead were asking team heads to walk into their local supermarket and offer their most high-level jobs to the first random black person they saw in the vegetable aisle.

Opposing positive discrimination on apprehensions about getting the best person for the job means inadvertently revealing what you think talent looks like, and the kind of person in which you think talent resides. Because, if the current system worked correctly, and if hiring practices were successfully recruiting and promoting the right people for the right jobs in all circumstances, I seriously doubt that so many leadership positions would be occupied by white middle-aged men. Those who insist on fairness fail to recognise that the current state of play is far from fair.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Let me talk for long enough and I'll always loop around to the same place youtu.be/tLanmsuBfRg

Screenshot of me talking to the camera, caption reads: "TTRPG awards are weird."

Screenshot of me talking to the camera later in the same video, caption reads: "constant growth being a measure of success is a capitalist lie. If you've made someone happy, you're a success."

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"It's not external. It's in the system."

Faced with a collective forgetting, we must fight to remember.
I know that there is so much more history out there about people of colour in Britain, if you're willing to put in the effort to find it. After Britain voted to

leave the European Union in June 2026, we were told reported hate crimes drastically grew in number, and that racism was on the rise in Britain again. But looking at our history shows racism does not erupt from nothing, rather it is embedded in British society. Its not external. It's in the system.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On harms committed by state powers which purport to protect

The Newham Monitoring Project's 1983 report highlighted this with a case in which an innocent black schoolboy was detained by the police. Eleven-year-old Shaun Robertson's secondary school had given a police officer who was investigating a robbery the names and addresses of every black child who attended the school. When the police officer mentioned that one of the suspects had protruding front teeth, a school staff member let them know that Shaun had been to the orthodontist that same day. In was in this way that he became a subject.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On the false separation of working people and people of colour, and how class solidarity can exclude us

Bristol Omnibus Company deflected accountability, instead passing it along to the union. Racism had infected worker solidarity, with a union representative at the time insisting that more black workers would be taking away jobs prospective white employees, and that employing them would mean reduced hours for current employees

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Inspired by @wharthur.bsky.social talking about it on here I got myself a copy of Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge from the library. I've only gotten as far as the preface and have had to stop for a break to process. She articulates things I feel in my bones.

Not to mention that entering into conversation with defiant white people is a frankly dangerous task for me. As the heckles rise and the defiance grows, I have to tread incredibly carefully, because if I express frustration, anger or exasperation at their refusal to understand, they will tap into the pre-subscribed racist tropes about angry black people who are a threat to them and their safety. It's very likely that they'll then paint me as a bully or an abuser. It's also likely that their white friends will rally around them, rewrite history and make the lies truth. Trying to engage with them and navigate their racism is not worth that.

It's truly a lifetime of self-censorship that people of colour have to live. The options are: speak your truth and face reprisal, or bite your tongue and get ahead in life. It must be a strange life, always having permission to speak and feeling indignant when you're finally asked to listen. It stems from white people's never-questioned entitlement, I suppose.
I cannot continue to emotionally exhaust myself trying to get this message across, while also toeing a very precarious line that tries not to implicate any one white people in their role of perpetuating structural racism, lest they character assassinate me.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Youtube is right, we did cook with this one

Screenshot from youtube that shows EUphoria's Why We Fight Actual Play suggested under the heading "Cooking shows and more"

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What if I went to see a genuinely brilliant play that had my friend @masquewren.bsky.social performing in it and also my friend @sciwithrach.bsky.social came to watch too and we had a lovely evening, what then

Three total cuties smiling for the camera

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My sons... they are... such good boys

My partner and two greyhounds walking along a canalside path. There is a huge lens flare from the sun but let's say that was an intentional artistic choice

Rushy the black greyhound is lying on a tartan blanket on the grass, with Spot the greyhound flat out next to him. They have water bowl and two muzzles between them

Spot and Rushy sitting together on the grass, their leads tied to a picnic bench. They are both wearing their loosely fitting muzzles and look happy in the sunshine

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If anyone needs me, no you don't I'm busy hanging out with some ducks

Michelle posing in a swimsuit in front of a lake full of water lillies

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Back at Tramlines Festival for day two of handing out water and chatting about Strut Safe! Come and visit our piaggio next to T'Other Stage

Michelle, a mixed race woman wearing a blue stripey dress and a flower crown, poses next to a pink and black piaggio with paper cups and water dispensers built into the side. The piaggio has text painted on that says "Drink More Water" and "Travelling home alone? Call Strut Safe 0333 335 0026"

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sheffield folks - if you're at Tramlines this weekend come say hi and get some free water from the Strut Safe gang at our super cute setup by T'Other Stage 💖

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spent a very bizarre but creatively invigorating weekend at #gamesforcrabs Theorising about how hive minds conceptulise 'self' led to a word matching board game/social awkwardness simulator, by way of bee warfare. Much love to my hive @gshowitt.bsky.social and @uncannydice.bsky.social

$A table strewn with coloured pens, notes on sheets of paper, cards with symbols on them, and hexagonal tiles. Some legible notes include a flowchart with stages like "Acknowledge the self, communicate with another self, fracture the self", a hex tile with HIVE MIND and doodles of bees drawn on it, and a card reading "Compliment the other"$

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I know the feeling, all-terrain mobility scooter

Laminated poster for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust with a photo of a mobility scooter and large text that reads "HIRE ME!"

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Recording a new video today Bringing a very specific kind of energy to the function

Screenshot of a discord message. Text reads: I refuse to be held responsible for the ways white women fall apart whenever I extraordinarily gently imply that they could be doing better

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I looked super cute the other day please observe how cute I looked I meant to post this yesterday but then I broke my phone but now my phone is fixed

A selfie in a pale green and gold dress with a deep v neck. The girls are present and correct. My hair is very long and shiny and I have a cute little smile!

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Swam about in grasmere lake today it was very nice Also Diar found a slice of lemon in there. Like swimming in a great big G&T

View of a small gravel beach jutting out into the water of the lake. Two camping chairs are set up, Michelle is sitting on one and petting Spot the greyhound, while Rushy greyhound lies at her feet.

Another view of the lake with rolling tree covered hills on the far shore and a grey sky above. There is a tiny dot in the middle of the water, which is me!

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Two households, both alike in dignity,

Screenshot of Google maps showing two pins right next to each other. One is Grand At Grasmere, the other is Grand At Grasmers

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Without downloading new pics what is it like dating you?

Photo of various pictures of pizzas and the word "pizza" cut out of magazines and arranged on a table

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I saw a white-throated dipper just after posing for this photo and I'm still hype about it hours later. A nice little bird! A rare fellow! Just chilling by the river, presumably in between dips!

A view of a river with a stone bridge and tree-covered hills in the distance. I'm sitting on a rock by the riverside.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Seeing all the most exciting sights on my trip to Scotland

White building with a large sign on the side that says "Cafe, B&B, World Famous Shark Toilet"

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Delighted to report that this video has stimulated some really thoughtful and worthwhile discussion in its first day

Screenshot of very stupid YouTube comments.
StevenNosferatu writes: Safety tools are stupid, pointless, and have no place in any form of gaming.
Beanodonnell writes: Pronouns detected opinion rejected

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is the first full video on our channel edited by me and I'm really proud of it!

Screenshot of video with Aida offering a stroopwafel to a dalek. Caption in top right reads "I cannot explain this"

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Did I have a good weekend at UK Games Expo? The goofy grin on my face in every photo of me points to yes.

Michelle, Aida and Darcy sitting on the couch and smiling

Wren, Matt, Jess and Michelle standing together in front of a lake and grinning in the sunshine

Gee, Tom, Aoife, Michelle and Sam behind the Moonshine Adventure Company stand. Michelle and Sam are mid-laugh

Selfie of Lyssa, Darcy and Michelle and yes I am once again grinning

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

How tired am I after day 3 of UKGE? Aida said the lighting would be better on our haul photo if she took it from the side that meant everything would be upside-down, so I offered to rotate the table. She had to remind me we could just flip the photo.

Kitchen table absolutely packed with TTRPGS and a big "human made" sign at the top

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A much more restrained day two haul from the EUphoria hotties

A small collection of four ttrpg books, a t shirt and a plush toy crow

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My solo game Lie To Him will be available at UK Games Expo on two different stands! Big thanks to @uktin.bsky.social and @patchworkfez.bsky.social for supporting me by stocking the zine

Cover of Lie To Him - a skeleton kneels in the foreground, looking up at a second skeleton who stands in an open doorway.
Text reads: Where to find Lie to Him at UKGE:
UK TIN Hall 3 Table 510
Patchwork Fez Hall 4 Table 912

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Early reviews are promising, folks

Screenshot from Discord, reading "what is the opposite of ludo-narrative dissonance, because this is IT"

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

UK Games Expo is a mere two weeks away and yet the British TTRPG scene at large is in shambles, unable to plan their weekends until the most pressing question of the season is answered: Will Michelle Kelly be there? I can now reveal that: Yes.

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