Anna Fleming
@annamfleming.bsky.social
Author of TIME ON ROCK.
Writer, climber, environmentalist, professiomal dreamer, feminist, explorer. Sometimes poet and cold water swimmer too
https://linktr.ee/annamfleming
Writer, climber, environmentalist, professiomal dreamer, feminist, explorer. Sometimes poet and cold water swimmer too
https://linktr.ee/annamfleming
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Thinking Like a Mountain: The Orobie Biennial allows us to explore the porous boundaries between self and other, human and nature, industry and sustainability, writes @annamfleming.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/thin...
Artwork by Agnese Galiotto, photographed by Nicola Gnesi Studio
Artwork by Agnese Galiotto, photographed by Nicola Gnesi Studio
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thinking Like a Mountain: The Orobie Biennial allows us to explore the porous boundaries between self and other, human and nature, industry and sustainability, writes @annamfleming.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/thin...
Artwork by Agnese Galiotto, photographed by Nicola Gnesi Studio
Artwork by Agnese Galiotto, photographed by Nicola Gnesi Studio
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This year's Rick Allen Memorial Talk is being given by AC member @annamfleming.bsky.social.
Anna will be discussing her book Time on Rock and her experience of mountaineering with Bolivia's Cholita climbers.
Held on 21 October at Birmingham University, the talk is free to attend & open to all.
Anna will be discussing her book Time on Rock and her experience of mountaineering with Bolivia's Cholita climbers.
Held on 21 October at Birmingham University, the talk is free to attend & open to all.
October 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This year's Rick Allen Memorial Talk is being given by AC member @annamfleming.bsky.social.
Anna will be discussing her book Time on Rock and her experience of mountaineering with Bolivia's Cholita climbers.
Held on 21 October at Birmingham University, the talk is free to attend & open to all.
Anna will be discussing her book Time on Rock and her experience of mountaineering with Bolivia's Cholita climbers.
Held on 21 October at Birmingham University, the talk is free to attend & open to all.
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It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x
September 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x
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“It was Laura Dahlmeier’s express and written will that in a case like this, no one should risk their life to recover her,” they said. “It was her wish to leave her body behind on the mountain in this case. This is also in line with the wishes of her relatives.”
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
German Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier dies after mountaineering accident in Pakistan
The German double biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died after she was seriously injured by a rockfall on a mountain in northern Pakistan
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“It was Laura Dahlmeier’s express and written will that in a case like this, no one should risk their life to recover her,” they said. “It was her wish to leave her body behind on the mountain in this case. This is also in line with the wishes of her relatives.”
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
How is taking books without authors' consent or payment "fair use"?
www.ft.com/content/6f28...
www.ft.com/content/6f28...
Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors
Court finds using online books to train AI without writers’ consent is ‘fair use’
www.ft.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
How is taking books without authors' consent or payment "fair use"?
www.ft.com/content/6f28...
www.ft.com/content/6f28...
The existential cost of Israel's war on Gaza is staggering. Not just all the souls lost in Gaza, but plants, animals, people, glaciers and livelihoods around the world. It must end now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The existential cost of Israel's war on Gaza is staggering. Not just all the souls lost in Gaza, but plants, animals, people, glaciers and livelihoods around the world. It must end now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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💰In 2006, average author earnings were £12,330. In 2022, that had fallen to £7,000, a drop of 60% when adjusted for inflation.
💪🏼 Joining the Society of Authors is one way you can push for change to ensure being an author is open to all, not just a privileged few. [2]
💪🏼 Joining the Society of Authors is one way you can push for change to ensure being an author is open to all, not just a privileged few. [2]
April 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
💰In 2006, average author earnings were £12,330. In 2022, that had fallen to £7,000, a drop of 60% when adjusted for inflation.
💪🏼 Joining the Society of Authors is one way you can push for change to ensure being an author is open to all, not just a privileged few. [2]
💪🏼 Joining the Society of Authors is one way you can push for change to ensure being an author is open to all, not just a privileged few. [2]
The swallows are back & today heard the first cuckoo singing among the skylarks on the commons of mid Wales. Happy easter!
April 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The swallows are back & today heard the first cuckoo singing among the skylarks on the commons of mid Wales. Happy easter!
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On the 3 April we’re organising a day of protest against Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models. More information on how to get involved 👇
societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...
societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...
SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work – The Society of Authors
On Thursday 20 March, The Atlantic broke the story of how Meta has used the Library Genesis (LIbGen) dataset, which is full of pirated material, to develop their AI systems.
societyofauthors.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
On the 3 April we’re organising a day of protest against Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models. More information on how to get involved 👇
societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...
societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the @authorsguild.bsky.social letter template to send your own: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
March 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the @authorsguild.bsky.social letter template to send your own: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
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So, all three of my books for adults (plus translations) have been illegally pirated on LibGen, and then stolen again by Meta to train their AI
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So, all three of my books for adults (plus translations) have been illegally pirated on LibGen, and then stolen again by Meta to train their AI
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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I'm a firm believer that writing can change lives. Do take the time to read this piece - it's an eye-opener. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm a firm believer that writing can change lives. Do take the time to read this piece - it's an eye-opener. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A beautiful day on the Cairngorm plateau.
March 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A beautiful day on the Cairngorm plateau.
My book - lovingly crafted over 2 years - is one of the stolen millions, taken by Meta to train their AI model. Did they ask my permission? No. Have they paid me? No.
Can anyone advise how you can recall, reclaim and protect your work from the pirated database?
Can anyone advise how you can recall, reclaim and protect your work from the pirated database?
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My book - lovingly crafted over 2 years - is one of the stolen millions, taken by Meta to train their AI model. Did they ask my permission? No. Have they paid me? No.
Can anyone advise how you can recall, reclaim and protect your work from the pirated database?
Can anyone advise how you can recall, reclaim and protect your work from the pirated database?
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"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
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March 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
buff.ly/f7H5UuR
buff.ly/f7H5UuR
Ben Venue and Loch Katrine at the weekend.
Cold and bright with signs of spring ✨️
Cold and bright with signs of spring ✨️
March 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Ben Venue and Loch Katrine at the weekend.
Cold and bright with signs of spring ✨️
Cold and bright with signs of spring ✨️
Contemplating the lake, saying goodbye to Pokhara after an eventful month of field research with Nepali mountain women. So much to reflect on, many astonishing insights and nature-rich experiences in the Himalaya. Soon to turn the pen & capture this world for its brief brilliant moment
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Contemplating the lake, saying goodbye to Pokhara after an eventful month of field research with Nepali mountain women. So much to reflect on, many astonishing insights and nature-rich experiences in the Himalaya. Soon to turn the pen & capture this world for its brief brilliant moment
Meanwhile here in Nepal, the rhodedenron is coming into bloom. Red flowers are scattered like kisses along the Himalayan forest path
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Meanwhile here in Nepal, the rhodedenron is coming into bloom. Red flowers are scattered like kisses along the Himalayan forest path
"How can we make a world? If it is ours to dismantle, it is ours to make."
Kathleen Jamie, Cairn.
Haunted by these meditations on who we are and where we've got to and what the way ahead might be
Kathleen Jamie, Cairn.
Haunted by these meditations on who we are and where we've got to and what the way ahead might be
February 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"How can we make a world? If it is ours to dismantle, it is ours to make."
Kathleen Jamie, Cairn.
Haunted by these meditations on who we are and where we've got to and what the way ahead might be
Kathleen Jamie, Cairn.
Haunted by these meditations on who we are and where we've got to and what the way ahead might be
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It is with great sadness to hear that the great Tim Radford has died. He was, unequivocally, the best science journalist, and a kind and generous man. I used his Manifesto for the Simple Scribe in lectures for student this very week. It’s faultless.
www.theguardian.com/science/blog...
www.theguardian.com/science/blog...
A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists | Tim Radford
Former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford has condensed his journalistic experience into a handy set of rules for aspiring hacks
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It is with great sadness to hear that the great Tim Radford has died. He was, unequivocally, the best science journalist, and a kind and generous man. I used his Manifesto for the Simple Scribe in lectures for student this very week. It’s faultless.
www.theguardian.com/science/blog...
www.theguardian.com/science/blog...
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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Fabulous spread in The Great Outdoors Magazine, featuring my photos and article about the Cholita Climbers of Bolivia. It was amazing to meet these women and grasp their remarkable story of change and empowerment through the mountains.
February 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Fabulous spread in The Great Outdoors Magazine, featuring my photos and article about the Cholita Climbers of Bolivia. It was amazing to meet these women and grasp their remarkable story of change and empowerment through the mountains.
Sending love to all today after the horrors of the scenes from US power. I recommend this as antidote. Get together, connect, support 💚
This morning we had our The Way We Get Through This Is Together conversation, an architect and five writers, talked about kindness, generosity, hope, community, storytelling, and it was everything I hoped for. If you want to watch, here it is.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Sending love to all today after the horrors of the scenes from US power. I recommend this as antidote. Get together, connect, support 💚
Just filed the self-assessment tax return. Highly recommended for brightening up blue Monday....
January 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just filed the self-assessment tax return. Highly recommended for brightening up blue Monday....
In my Shadows & Reflections for Caught by the River, I write about grief and high-altitude climbing, charting the wild inner & outer landscapes. The piece is a tribute to my friend Rebecca Collins who died very suddenly last year.
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/01/shad...
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/01/shad...
January 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In my Shadows & Reflections for Caught by the River, I write about grief and high-altitude climbing, charting the wild inner & outer landscapes. The piece is a tribute to my friend Rebecca Collins who died very suddenly last year.
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/01/shad...
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/01/shad...