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Anna Fleming

@annamfleming.bsky.social
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Author of TIME ON ROCK. Writer, climber, environmentalist, professiomal dreamer, feminist, explorer. Sometimes poet and cold water swimmer too linktr.ee/annamfleming

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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
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The Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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.
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“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...
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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
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
How is taking books without authors' consent or payment "fair use"? www.ft.com/content/6f28...
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Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors
Court finds using online books to train AI without writers’ consent is ‘fair use’
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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...
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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
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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 24/04/2025
💰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]
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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...
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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.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Deborah Dundas @debdundas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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...
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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
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A beautiful day on the Cairngorm plateau.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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?
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"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
Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Ben Venue and Loch Katrine at the weekend. Cold and bright with signs of spring ✨️
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Meanwhile here in Nepal, the rhodedenron is coming into bloom. Red flowers are scattered like kisses along the Himalayan forest path
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"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
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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...
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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
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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...
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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.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Sending love to all today after the horrors of the scenes from US power. I recommend this as antidote. Get together, connect, support 💚
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Just filed the self-assessment tax return. Highly recommended for brightening up blue Monday....
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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...
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Putting the cat among the pigeons. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Two more lynx spotted in Scottish Highland woods after pair captured
Police urge public not to approach illegally released animals understood to have been spotted by cameras in Cairngorms
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Ecstatic ascent and despair in the valley: @annamfleming.bsky.social‬ reflects on a year of grief in the mountains buff.ly/4j5ARRb
Climber in orange jacket, wearing a head torch, uses a red rope to ascend Sajama, the highest peak in Bolivia. The mountain is covered in long, thin snow formations called penitentes. A clear starry night sky is visible above.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Mid-Wales in mid winter. A day of sunshine and snow showers, with changing light and glorious skies.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A drippy misty snow day in mid Wales with fingers of ice forming around twigs, figs and lichens. Love this enchanting weird weathered nature
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Reading the excellent Other Everests by @jonwestaway.bsky.social & others. A fantastic & much-needed critical re-evaluation of Everest/Chomolungma, with gender and decolonisation at its core.
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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
One week to go until my Research for Writers course starts. Still time to sign up if you want to learn how to yoke research skills and story telling. Link here👇🏼 kerriandrews.co.uk/product/rese...
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Course: Research for Writers of Creative Non-Fiction
Course dates: Every Thursday from 7:30-9:00pm GMT, starting 9 January 2025 and running for eight consecutive weeks until 27 February inclusive. Fee: £270.
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Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
In the latest issue of The Great Outdoors magazine, I wrote about climbing with my heroes, the revolutionary Cholita Climbers in Bolivia. www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...
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