Mimi Thebo
@mimithebo.bsky.social
Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…” MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee (LFG, Chiefs)
This is my home town. They also passed out recipe cards for Algerian food at the Farmers’ Market this weekend. They are SO excited, I hear they’ve even adapted our college chant of ‘ Rock Chalk, Jayhawk’ for the Algerian National Team.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2mo agoThings I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas
Thank you @stephenjdilley.bsky.social!!! What a wonderful list…
Stephen Dilley@stephenjdilley.bsky.social · 2mo ago126. The Emptying by @mimithebo.bsky.social and @racheldelahaye.bsky.social Fast-paced and thought-provoking YA dystopia about AI, climate change and the future of the human race. (Has done nothing to help my paranoia about AI taking over the world!) @troikabooks.bsky.social
Landscape-inspired textile art, using hand-dyed fabric, stitching and mixed media by UK textile artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt
They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes
Celebrate the wins!!!!
WATERSHED Investigations@watershed-i.bsky.social · 3mo agoTurns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...
Writer friends in Bristol - this is a terrific event and features the always wonderful @mimithebo.bsky.social and @nikeshshukla.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...
Writers Day | Department of English | University of Bristol
Summer 2025 Writers Day
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What best hope to tell now in stories for children? open.substack.com/pub/mimitheb...
What Hope To Tell Young Readers Now
'The Emptying', the future and still being us
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When my mother's condo burned, she refused to go to the hospital until they took the cat (in the ambulance) to our vet's. Bless all the kind souls.
omgisme@omgisme.bsky.social · 5mo agoA firefighter in Istanbul performed CPR on a cat affected by a fire, bringing it back to life.😍👍💙
Out next month. Preorders available with Peters, Waterstones and all good independent bookshops. ARCs from TroikaBooks. We really hope you enjoy our vision of AI danger and human value.
Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.
‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question
The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think
ft.com
Countdown to publication of #TheEmptying by me and fabulous @mimithebo.bsky.social. Available to pre-order! Please do so! @troikabooks.bsky.social #AI #Singularity #teendystopia #YAdystopianbooks #YAnovels #YAreading
DON'T FORGET - There's still time to watch the 2025 Review episode of #TheBCSPodcast! I look back on the highlights of last year's episodes and multiple contributors, inc. @bleasedog.bsky.social and @mimithebo.bsky.social, give their sporting moments of the year.
The BCS Podcast - Ep40 - 2025 Review
YouTube video by The BCS Podcast
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All year long, the The Kansas City Chiefs have looked… tired. Just worn out. Three-under-three tired. Startup tired. Tired to their freaking bones. It’s a hard enough league. Then there’s the big night games, holiday games, overseas games…being the NFL’s show ponies. Add an extra month of games…
If you don’t live in the UK, but would like to do the Masters in Creative Writing at Bristol, it’s time to Think Big www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... www.bristol.ac.uk/students/sup...
MA Creative Writing | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
Find out about the University of Bristol's MA in Creative Writing, including structure, entry requirements and career prospects.
bristol.ac.uk
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
Being an NFL @kansascitychiefs.bsky.social fan, as well as a mum and a university programme director, I always have a handful of kids I’m worried about. I don’t know Josh Simmons, but he’s on my list to fret over.
This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.
Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 10mo agoGuillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson. www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...
One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books
A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023
theguardian.com
Loved this story and you might, too.
Dr Delyth Badder@folklorewales.com · 11mo agoSix weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18167: There is no "typical reader," just as there is no "typical writer." Your first responsibility is to yourself; to create the most honest, well-written, carefully-researched story you can. Finding readers comes later.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 4783: Place affects every aspect of a story. It shapes your characters, their relationships, their habits, their clothing, their culture, their food. Try thinking of place as a character, and count all the ways you can make your human characters interact with it.
