Naomi Alderman
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
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Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.
Exhausting, but expected.
Exhausting, but expected.
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Seize the memes of production
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Seize the memes of production
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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I am totally here for good Web governance but don't think the chair of the OBR needs to be across the WordPress plug-in situation
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I am totally here for good Web governance but don't think the chair of the OBR needs to be across the WordPress plug-in situation
Hug received and accepted 🥰
If I’m ever so lucky to meet @naomialderman.bsky.social in person I’m totally asking if I can give her a hug to thank her for saving the Zombies, Run! app. And the audio clip from Sam Yao welcoming Runner 5 back when you sign up for the new email newsletter is perfection.
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hug received and accepted 🥰
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A different solitude – pioneering aviator and breathtaking writer Beryl Markham, born on this day in 1902, on what she learned about life in the bottomless ocean of the night sky www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/19/b...
A Different Solitude: Pioneering Aviator Beryl Markham on What She Learned About Life in the Bottomless Night
“I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
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October 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A different solitude – pioneering aviator and breathtaking writer Beryl Markham, born on this day in 1902, on what she learned about life in the bottomless ocean of the night sky www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/19/b...
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This has been around for a few weeks but I only saw it today. Very measured thoughts on how we should think about AI and the future of work for young people.
I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
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December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This has been around for a few weeks but I only saw it today. Very measured thoughts on how we should think about AI and the future of work for young people.
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Yeah exactly this, and it's just this that @naomialderman.bsky.social nails down here: the skills of taste, discernment and historian-like research will not be erased by AI, they will be MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Yeah exactly this, and it's just this that @naomialderman.bsky.social nails down here: the skills of taste, discernment and historian-like research will not be erased by AI, they will be MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.
gathering together my favourite and top audiobook recommendations. I don’t know why audiobooks are specially wintery to me, they just are (many more recs to come as I couldn’t fit them all in one post)
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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at the ebbing of the year: 27 genuinely excellent audiobooks
my recs to friends for: long car journeys, kitchen cooking sessions, present-wrapping, crafts, staring at falling snow, leaves or rain, drowsing off to sleep to
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December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
gathering together my favourite and top audiobook recommendations. I don’t know why audiobooks are specially wintery to me, they just are (many more recs to come as I couldn’t fit them all in one post)
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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Just caught up with the excellent episode of BBC Radio4's Start the week, this one featuring @naomialderman.bsky.social on her new book 'Dont burn anyone at the stake today' & Cory Doctorow, on his 'Enshittification' - wonderfully hosted by @tds153.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Digital Futures and Information Crises
Cory Doctorow, Naomi Alderman and Oliver Moody with Tom Sutcliffe.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just caught up with the excellent episode of BBC Radio4's Start the week, this one featuring @naomialderman.bsky.social on her new book 'Dont burn anyone at the stake today' & Cory Doctorow, on his 'Enshittification' - wonderfully hosted by @tds153.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
sorry but my fans are the best fans
For a while, it has seemed like ZR was going under. But we just found out that the original creator/writer @naomialderman.bsky.social has purchased the company!
And since Ive been under the weather, I thought itd be fun to doodle Sam to the audio clip they shared with the good news! 😊💕
And since Ive been under the weather, I thought itd be fun to doodle Sam to the audio clip they shared with the good news! 😊💕
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
sorry but my fans are the best fans
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For a while, it has seemed like ZR was going under. But we just found out that the original creator/writer @naomialderman.bsky.social has purchased the company!
And since Ive been under the weather, I thought itd be fun to doodle Sam to the audio clip they shared with the good news! 😊💕
And since Ive been under the weather, I thought itd be fun to doodle Sam to the audio clip they shared with the good news! 😊💕
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
For a while, it has seemed like ZR was going under. But we just found out that the original creator/writer @naomialderman.bsky.social has purchased the company!
And since Ive been under the weather, I thought itd be fun to doodle Sam to the audio clip they shared with the good news! 😊💕
And since Ive been under the weather, I thought itd be fun to doodle Sam to the audio clip they shared with the good news! 😊💕
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I can't help thinking about The Future by Naomi Alderman, tbh
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
New study finds that down-ranking hostile political content in people’s social media feeds decreases political polarization.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I can't help thinking about The Future by Naomi Alderman, tbh
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
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Wow. Reading ‘The Future’ by @naomialderman.bsky.social and-
1) it absolutely *nails* the dangers of surveillance capitalism and the AI bubble
2) it’s a ripping good yarn, with detailed, interesting characters; told with savage wit and a keen eye for human nature.
Might be the best read of 2025
1) it absolutely *nails* the dangers of surveillance capitalism and the AI bubble
2) it’s a ripping good yarn, with detailed, interesting characters; told with savage wit and a keen eye for human nature.
Might be the best read of 2025
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wow. Reading ‘The Future’ by @naomialderman.bsky.social and-
1) it absolutely *nails* the dangers of surveillance capitalism and the AI bubble
2) it’s a ripping good yarn, with detailed, interesting characters; told with savage wit and a keen eye for human nature.
Might be the best read of 2025
1) it absolutely *nails* the dangers of surveillance capitalism and the AI bubble
2) it’s a ripping good yarn, with detailed, interesting characters; told with savage wit and a keen eye for human nature.
Might be the best read of 2025
The Long Walk really is the ideal movie to watch when you're trying to get through a big pile of work before you go on holiday. Very motivating.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Long Walk really is the ideal movie to watch when you're trying to get through a big pile of work before you go on holiday. Very motivating.
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Ooh. If you've not read it, @naomialderman.bsky.social's 'The Future' is an enjoyably sadistic Neuromancer-style cyberpunk romp through the lives of the horrible, horrible tech billionaires. 99p on Kindle today. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BY3ZFZK...
The Future: The electric new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power eBook : Alderman, Naomi: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Future: The electric new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power eBook : Alderman, Naomi: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ooh. If you've not read it, @naomialderman.bsky.social's 'The Future' is an enjoyably sadistic Neuromancer-style cyberpunk romp through the lives of the horrible, horrible tech billionaires. 99p on Kindle today. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BY3ZFZK...
this was formalised by the time of Jesus as leqet, shikheha & peah. leqet = anything you drop when harvesting (ever done apple-picking? any that are on the ground or that you drop when picking belong to the poor). shikheha = any you forget to take inside. peah = the corners of each field/orchard.
in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
this was formalised by the time of Jesus as leqet, shikheha & peah. leqet = anything you drop when harvesting (ever done apple-picking? any that are on the ground or that you drop when picking belong to the poor). shikheha = any you forget to take inside. peah = the corners of each field/orchard.
fwiw unless they have changed how all the legislation works it is definitely not true that books have to be withdrawn from sale if their author intends to use the money for something illegal.
eg: no book has ever had to be withdrawn from sale because the author bought drugs with the royalties
eg: no book has ever had to be withdrawn from sale because the author bought drugs with the royalties
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
fwiw unless they have changed how all the legislation works it is definitely not true that books have to be withdrawn from sale if their author intends to use the money for something illegal.
eg: no book has ever had to be withdrawn from sale because the author bought drugs with the royalties
eg: no book has ever had to be withdrawn from sale because the author bought drugs with the royalties
in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.
god. why don't more thoughtful, intelligent, creative, successful people go into politics in the UK? because our media do this kind of shit, turning over rocks until they find some member of your family who would like to badmouth you in public.
I imagine that's Uncle Terry well and truly off the Christmas card list.
‘It’s a disgrace’ — Rachel Reeves’s uncle gives budget verdict ⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
god. why don't more thoughtful, intelligent, creative, successful people go into politics in the UK? because our media do this kind of shit, turning over rocks until they find some member of your family who would like to badmouth you in public.
man, I see that a British novelist and fashion writer is advertising for an unpaid intern (assistant) on FeedMe. I dunno, when I want to employ someone super-bright to work for me for several hours a week, I personally pay them.
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
man, I see that a British novelist and fashion writer is advertising for an unpaid intern (assistant) on FeedMe. I dunno, when I want to employ someone super-bright to work for me for several hours a week, I personally pay them.
with Hollywood and Silicon Valley, California is the source of a huge amount of global culture today. the social media we're communicating on is part of California's contribution to world culture.
we should all know where it comes from, and what happened there.
we should all know where it comes from, and what happened there.
I just can't tell you how full of rage this whole story makes me. He told them repeatedly that he was filled with horror by museums retaining body parts and he taught them how to do the Yahi cremation-and-burial rituals so it would be done properly.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
just realised I have spent Thanksgiving day recording a programme about Ishi, known at the time as 'the last wild Indian', the last surviving member of the Yahi group of Yana Native American people, who were murdered in the Californian genocide of Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
with Hollywood and Silicon Valley, California is the source of a huge amount of global culture today. the social media we're communicating on is part of California's contribution to world culture.
we should all know where it comes from, and what happened there.
we should all know where it comes from, and what happened there.
I just can't tell you how full of rage this whole story makes me. He told them repeatedly that he was filled with horror by museums retaining body parts and he taught them how to do the Yahi cremation-and-burial rituals so it would be done properly.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
just realised I have spent Thanksgiving day recording a programme about Ishi, known at the time as 'the last wild Indian', the last surviving member of the Yahi group of Yana Native American people, who were murdered in the Californian genocide of Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I just can't tell you how full of rage this whole story makes me. He told them repeatedly that he was filled with horror by museums retaining body parts and he taught them how to do the Yahi cremation-and-burial rituals so it would be done properly.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
just realised I have spent Thanksgiving day recording a programme about Ishi, known at the time as 'the last wild Indian', the last surviving member of the Yahi group of Yana Native American people, who were murdered in the Californian genocide of Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
just realised I have spent Thanksgiving day recording a programme about Ishi, known at the time as 'the last wild Indian', the last surviving member of the Yahi group of Yana Native American people, who were murdered in the Californian genocide of Native Americans
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Love this piece (and not just because I’m a huge Paul McCartney fan too).
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
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going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Love this piece (and not just because I’m a huge Paul McCartney fan too).