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Mimi Thebo

@mimithebo.bsky.social
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Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…” MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee (LFG, Chiefs)

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Troika Books @troikabooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mimi and Rachel, authors of The Emptying, are offering limited not-for-profit school visits exploring the hopeful side of dystopian stories. See details. To register interest: pls comment, like and share. @mimithebo.bsky.social @racheldelahaye.bsky.social #dystopianbooks #teenbooks #YAbooks
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Troika Books @troikabooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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...
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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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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Thank you @stephenjdilley.bsky.social!!! What a wonderful list…
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Refused to pay an MLB subscription this year. If I wanted to see poor performances, stupid spending and hear a bunch of sad excuses, I’d just pay attention to the US government.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Landscape-inspired textile art, using hand-dyed fabric, stitching and mixed media by UK textile artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt
Textile artwork featuring a view over a rural landscape with fields and gentle hills
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Oh, good!!! 😀
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Thanks, Paula!!! Did we make you cry???
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Book Now!!!!! www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Celebrate the wins!!!!
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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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...
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Writers Day | Department of English | University of Bristol
Summer 2025 Writers Day
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
What best hope to tell now in stories for children? open.substack.com/pub/mimitheb...
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What Hope To Tell Young Readers Now
'The Emptying', the future and still being us
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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.
A banner about The Emptying, a new novel by Mimi Thebo and Rachel Delahaye.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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.
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‘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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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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
A yellow book cover for The Emptying by Mimi Thebo and Rachel Delahaye with figures and a tree symbol, mounted on a pale blue background with a blurb - After too many human errors, AI is taking care of things. But in the city and on the farms, people begin to sense that something is very wrong. Why won't anyone explain what's going on? Two teenagers searching for answers appear to be the only ones willing to face up to reality...What's left of it. This is a hope-filled dystopian novel about AI, human connection and collective responsibility for age 12+.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Slow handclap
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Brett Walker @brettchatssport.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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.
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The BCS Podcast - Ep40 - 2025 Review
YouTube video by The BCS Podcast
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I saw people this morning who looked like they’d never seen a shop before.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Just came on to say this. We’re horrible people.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I want to see Nagy’s taillights. Real bad.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Every other drive for 20 months: 1. Run up the middle 2. Crappy play action in shotgun 3. Ohmigod, we need 14 yards. Get Pat to throw it somewhere. 4. Good. He did, let’s put him under the same conditions again…or…he didn’t, let’s lecture him on the bench. All the confidence schemed out of him!
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
#chiefskingdom I have things to say about Nagy’s playcalling. Things. To. Say.
Devastatingly attractive older woman in Chief’s jersey.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
….(except Spags). Clark and Brett know it, should have done it last year. But it’s hard to argue with 15 and 2. I am so proud of our team. But nothing in this world has infinite energy. Everything needs to rest and renew. Even the Chiefs. 😍🏈🏟️
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
…for five years and it’s a LOT. It doesn’t matter how well you condition your body. It’s a lot. They need this. They need a rest and a refresh. We need to, sadly, say goodbye to some expensive heroes. We need to build a new team around Pat Mahomes. We need to rethink our coaching staff…
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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…
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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...
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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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Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda @krishna-author.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#bluesky
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Or four
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20/10/2025
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Woggle of Witches, Adrienne Adams, 1971.
Illustration of woggle dancing with broomsticks in a forest, a little bat in flight around them.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thought you’d like it!!!
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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.
Nate Taylor explaining that a young NfL player is dealing with something extremely difficult
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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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...
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‘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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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Is there a subtle marine motif here, or am I reading something into your work?? 😍😍😍
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Loved this story and you might, too.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Will be very good.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
All hail Brett Veach. Thornton. Worthy. And an actual OLine. Thank you, and the brain under your glossy head of hair. @chiefskingdom
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a man in a suit and bow tie holds his hand to his forehead in front of a chalkboard that says subject
Alt: a man in a suit and bow tie holds his hand to his forehead in front of a chalkboard that says subject
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
And TikTok. But I’d like actual journalism…
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I wish we could get news of the Sumud flotilla.
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I admire this entire effort. Do tell us about the moment you first saw the missing bin in front of their house.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/09/2025
Presenting the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Out of office didn’t trigger because of update. New star lecturer has no access to IT and can’t see any materials. Staff rescheduled faithful non-star lecturer to a new slot without asking so I have to teach his first class. Charming MA student lost funding. TEA!!! MORE TEA!!
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