New on our blog! The Emptying by @mimithebo.bsky.social and @racheldelahaye.bsky.social - how a coffee saved the world. www.troikabooks.com/blog/two-aut...

Two authors, two characters and two stories that become one: how did Rachel Delahaye and Mimi Thebo pull off their unusual approach to writing ‘The Emptying’? — Troika Books

The Emptying , written with children around 9-12 years in mind, is a dystopian story about AI, human connection and what happens when we stop taking responsibility for each other and the future -...

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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 ago

Things 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 ago

126. 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

Thanks, Paula!!! Did we make you cry???

Paula Read@paularead.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just finished a book today in which a humble guitar is literally an anti-authoritarian weapon of mass peace. www.troikabooks.com/the-emptying @mimithebo.bsky.social

Book Now!!!!! www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...

Celebrate the wins!!!!

WATERSHED Investigations@watershed-i.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Turns 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...

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 ago

A 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

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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

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Oliver Nachtwey@onachtwey.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hahaha

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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#chiefskingdom I have things to say about Nagy’s playcalling. Things. To. Say.

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.

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#bluesky

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

The Woggle of Witches, Adrienne Adams, 1971.

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 · 11mo ago

Guillermo 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/...

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

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

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Loved this story and you might, too.

Dr Delyth Badder@folklorewales.com · 11mo ago

Six 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.

Will be very good.

Dominic Hinde@dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'll also be chatting to Marianna in Bristol at the end of the month at @bookhaus.bsky.social