Tracey Mathias
@traceymathias.bsky.social
Writer, trying to work out what happens next.
Author of Silence is Also a Lie (YA love story, thriller, political dystopia), writer in residence at DaCapo music foundation. Welsh, Londoner, love books, walking, music. Occasional photos, mostly of trees.
Author of Silence is Also a Lie (YA love story, thriller, political dystopia), writer in residence at DaCapo music foundation. Welsh, Londoner, love books, walking, music. Occasional photos, mostly of trees.
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I was horrified to find EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY BOOKS had been plundered without my consent by the Meta AI book thieves. It's a violation & is wrong in every way. Please support us by signing this @societyofauthors.bsky.social petition and get them to #DoTheWriteThing!
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
April 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I was horrified to find EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY BOOKS had been plundered without my consent by the Meta AI book thieves. It's a violation & is wrong in every way. Please support us by signing this @societyofauthors.bsky.social petition and get them to #DoTheWriteThing!
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
chng.it/5NhyDZZnCb
Please sign and protest Meta's outrageous but somehow not surprising use of illegally pirated works to train its AI. Copyright sounds sort of quaint but essentially it's about the right to fair pay. And this is about the preservation of individual human creativity.
Please sign and protest Meta's outrageous but somehow not surprising use of illegally pirated works to train its AI. Copyright sounds sort of quaint but essentially it's about the right to fair pay. And this is about the preservation of individual human creativity.
We Can Make an Impact.
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
chng.it
March 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
chng.it/5NhyDZZnCb
Please sign and protest Meta's outrageous but somehow not surprising use of illegally pirated works to train its AI. Copyright sounds sort of quaint but essentially it's about the right to fair pay. And this is about the preservation of individual human creativity.
Please sign and protest Meta's outrageous but somehow not surprising use of illegally pirated works to train its AI. Copyright sounds sort of quaint but essentially it's about the right to fair pay. And this is about the preservation of individual human creativity.
The Monty lit fest programme is here!
We announce our 2025 Programme at a special event on March 21st, 7.30pm at Montgomery Town Hall - with news of the new Jill Kibble Mini Fest
How better to launch than with an evening of stories, music and a love of words (English and Welsh)? £7 tickets from Montgomery Bookshop and Ivy Cafe/PO
How better to launch than with an evening of stories, music and a love of words (English and Welsh)? £7 tickets from Montgomery Bookshop and Ivy Cafe/PO
March 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Monty lit fest programme is here!
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Words To Live By Number 197
In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
March 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Words To Live By Number 197
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f... - a so-far-still-sticking-to-it new year's resolution this year was to keep a better record of what I read and I've been using @thestorygraph.com and enjoying it. So I'm delighted to learn that it is not and hopefully never will be anything to do with amazon...
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f... - a so-far-still-sticking-to-it new year's resolution this year was to keep a better record of what I read and I've been using @thestorygraph.com and enjoying it. So I'm delighted to learn that it is not and hopefully never will be anything to do with amazon...
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Hey hey, the lovely @katemallinder.bsky.social has just moved to Bluesky! Writer of brilliant, uplifting young-teen novels. Give her a follow #kidlituk
February 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Hey hey, the lovely @katemallinder.bsky.social has just moved to Bluesky! Writer of brilliant, uplifting young-teen novels. Give her a follow #kidlituk
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Happy book birthday to me and illustrator Jamie Bauza! Born today: LITTLE RHINO LOST, U.S. edition! Published by Crocodile Books @interlinkbooks.bsky.social The UK edition will be out in March, published by @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Happy book birthday to me and illustrator Jamie Bauza! Born today: LITTLE RHINO LOST, U.S. edition! Published by Crocodile Books @interlinkbooks.bsky.social The UK edition will be out in March, published by @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social
Just walked in bright cold sunshine from Hammersmith to Kew along the @thamespathnt.bsky.social - there was a big rowing comp taking place and we walked to the sound of shouts over the water and oars splashing. The river must always have been this lively once... #thames #amwalking
January 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just walked in bright cold sunshine from Hammersmith to Kew along the @thamespathnt.bsky.social - there was a big rowing comp taking place and we walked to the sound of shouts over the water and oars splashing. The river must always have been this lively once... #thames #amwalking
Jurassic World is on tv and all I can think is 'for the love of god Clare get a pair of trainers.' #wrongshoes #newyearsday #moviebinge
January 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Jurassic World is on tv and all I can think is 'for the love of god Clare get a pair of trainers.' #wrongshoes #newyearsday #moviebinge
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Dome news stories you just have to reblog. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-33479808
Welsh government responds in Klingon to UFO airport query
Klingon was the chosen language for the Welsh government in its response to queries about UFO sightings at Cardiff Airport.
www.bbc.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Dome news stories you just have to reblog. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-33479808
Walked through St Pancras station and I wanted to take a train to anywhere that wasnt my life. My life is truly fine. Just one of those feelings one of those days. #writerslife
December 11, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Walked through St Pancras station and I wanted to take a train to anywhere that wasnt my life. My life is truly fine. Just one of those feelings one of those days. #writerslife
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The wonderful author - and person I like very much - @celiarees.bsky.social has joined BlueSky. Give her a follow.
December 4, 2024 at 10:11 PM
The wonderful author - and person I like very much - @celiarees.bsky.social has joined BlueSky. Give her a follow.
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This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM
This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
Sunrise at A Place To Write in North Wales last week - the view from my room early one morning. There were some moments of writerly illumination too...
December 1, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Sunrise at A Place To Write in North Wales last week - the view from my room early one morning. There were some moments of writerly illumination too...
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The quickest way to unhappiness is to compare your writing/poetic journey and "success" with others.
(Also, "success" in quotes because what exactly does that mean--it's so subjective.)
(Also, "success" in quotes because what exactly does that mean--it's so subjective.)
December 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The quickest way to unhappiness is to compare your writing/poetic journey and "success" with others.
(Also, "success" in quotes because what exactly does that mean--it's so subjective.)
(Also, "success" in quotes because what exactly does that mean--it's so subjective.)
A big difficulty in writing book 2 is that all the reworkings of book 1 taught me to see how many possible versions are inherent in every scene & chapter. As soon as anything is written I see how it could be different & better & it's hard to leave it be for now and move on #writing #writingbook2
November 29, 2024 at 5:10 PM
A big difficulty in writing book 2 is that all the reworkings of book 1 taught me to see how many possible versions are inherent in every scene & chapter. As soon as anything is written I see how it could be different & better & it's hard to leave it be for now and move on #writing #writingbook2
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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
So happy to be back at A Place To Write in North Wales for some focussed time with the WIP before the xmas jollity takes over. #writing #yafiction
November 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
So happy to be back at A Place To Write in North Wales for some focussed time with the WIP before the xmas jollity takes over. #writing #yafiction
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I highly recommend the documentary #BuyNow on #Netflix, exposing the horrific levels of waste in consumer industries. 15 million items of discarded clothing (“recycled” through companies like H&M) are shipped to Ghana each week. It literally ends up in mountains on the beaches 😭😭😭
November 23, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Edinburgh Young adult Fiction Prize — Scottish Arts Trust
For writers and illustrators of novels and graphic novels created for readers aged 12 years and older. All genres including humour, romance, drama, horror, queer, contemporary, realist, speculative f...
www.scottishartstrust.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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Just now I have as many followers as there were dalmatians and while I hope to connect with more of the lovely people on here this is momentarily very pleasing. #followers #blueskyfriends.
a group of dalmatian puppies are running out of a window .
Alt: a group of dalmatian puppies are running out of a window .
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November 19, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Just now I have as many followers as there were dalmatians and while I hope to connect with more of the lovely people on here this is momentarily very pleasing. #followers #blueskyfriends.
Monday morning. Putting off the blank page with another cuppa, watching the bird feeder and exploring bluesky. #YAfiction #procrastination
November 18, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Monday morning. Putting off the blank page with another cuppa, watching the bird feeder and exploring bluesky. #YAfiction #procrastination