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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oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
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This is the sort of game studio acquisition news I want to hear!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is the sort of game studio acquisition news I want to hear!
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Good news for fitness and running nerds. Zombies, Run! has been bought back by co-creator and author @naomialderman.bsky.social.
"Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge.
www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
"Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge.
www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
Zombies, Run! isn’t headed for the grave after all
Good news, Runners Five.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Good news for fitness and running nerds. Zombies, Run! has been bought back by co-creator and author @naomialderman.bsky.social.
"Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge.
www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
"Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge.
www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
ow my head banged on the ceiling
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
ow my head banged on the ceiling
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Quite possibly the best running app and best augmented reality game (audio!) has been saved by the creator!
Basically the only reason I ever completed a half marathon is this app.
Basically the only reason I ever completed a half marathon is this app.
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Quite possibly the best running app and best augmented reality game (audio!) has been saved by the creator!
Basically the only reason I ever completed a half marathon is this app.
Basically the only reason I ever completed a half marathon is this app.
delighted to let you know that when you buy a company:
1) you literally just click a button on your banking app, there are no quills/parchment etc
2) but the bank manager does literally come to your house, and it is much better to be clearly *living modestly*
1) you literally just click a button on your banking app, there are no quills/parchment etc
2) but the bank manager does literally come to your house, and it is much better to be clearly *living modestly*
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
delighted to let you know that when you buy a company:
1) you literally just click a button on your banking app, there are no quills/parchment etc
2) but the bank manager does literally come to your house, and it is much better to be clearly *living modestly*
1) you literally just click a button on your banking app, there are no quills/parchment etc
2) but the bank manager does literally come to your house, and it is much better to be clearly *living modestly*
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Absolutely delighted by this – I can't think of a better home for Zombies, Run! than with Naomi!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Absolutely delighted by this – I can't think of a better home for Zombies, Run! than with Naomi!
yes all of this. treating games with respect as works of art and culture! yes!
I am beside myself with joy. I thought it was about to be lost forever and I was so very sad about that- and now… perhaps we’ll have it forever? You are modeling what games can be when they are respected as works of art and culture!
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
yes all of this. treating games with respect as works of art and culture! yes!
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This is the absolute best news!!!!! I can’t wait to hear what happens next in #zombiesrun - yes, this is very TS of the amazing @naomialderman.bsky.social !
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This is the absolute best news!!!!! I can’t wait to hear what happens next in #zombiesrun - yes, this is very TS of the amazing @naomialderman.bsky.social !
no one knows because it is literally impossible for human minds to *hold onto* the thought that someone can both create their own videogames *and* write their own novels
(it's me and @hollygramazio.bsky.social , in case you're wondering)
(it's me and @hollygramazio.bsky.social , in case you're wondering)
Ok I did not know this about you, how did I not know this was a thing?! 😝
Also HUGE congrats!
Also HUGE congrats!
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
no one knows because it is literally impossible for human minds to *hold onto* the thought that someone can both create their own videogames *and* write their own novels
(it's me and @hollygramazio.bsky.social , in case you're wondering)
(it's me and @hollygramazio.bsky.social , in case you're wondering)
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
brilliant post about this in here: "every time someone talks to Grok it’s perfectly reasonable until Elon Musk comes up and then Grok sounds like a North Korean citizen asked about Kim Jong Un in public"
imagine being such a crap human that as a centibilluonaire you have to create a robot to sing your praises
The Most Entertaining Moments from Grok's Praise of Elon Musk on X
Lebron James????
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November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
brilliant post about this in here: "every time someone talks to Grok it’s perfectly reasonable until Elon Musk comes up and then Grok sounds like a North Korean citizen asked about Kim Jong Un in public"
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Start your Sunday off right and read this. There is also music sprinkled in to listen to!
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Start your Sunday off right and read this. There is also music sprinkled in to listen to!
very important cause and I suggest everyone buys a copy in order to support that worthy cause, the pictures are irrelevant I read it for the articles
The big news today is that there's a bunch of jacked firewomen in NZ who have put together a calendar to fundraise for breast cancer research: www.breastcancercure.org.nz/calendar/wah...
PRE-ORDER Wahine Toa Firefighter Calendar 2026 — Breast Cancer CURE
Original order SOLD OUT. Pre order now and help these trailblazing firefighters - every purchase makes a difference. 13 Firefighters. One Cause. From the frontline to your wall - New Zealand’s fir...
www.breastcancercure.org.nz
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
very important cause and I suggest everyone buys a copy in order to support that worthy cause, the pictures are irrelevant I read it for the articles
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This is gorgeous and exactly what I needed to read this morning. Thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is gorgeous and exactly what I needed to read this morning. Thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social
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Every word of #THIS.
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Every word of #THIS.
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This is absolutely beautiful writing
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is absolutely beautiful writing
I'll tell you something else about Yoko Ono. When she seems a bit subdued, just wanting to be close to John in Get Back (and people read it as 'standoffish' and 'trying to break them up') she and John had *just miscarried a much-wanted pregnancy*.
FFS.
FFS.
This is a great piece of writing. I've always loved McCartney, but I remember realising after my first rush of Beatles love (and believing the general beliefs that you pick up) that Yoko Ono was a woman to be admired. I went to the Tate Yoko Ono Exhibition mentioned - see poster. It was rather fun.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I'll tell you something else about Yoko Ono. When she seems a bit subdued, just wanting to be close to John in Get Back (and people read it as 'standoffish' and 'trying to break them up') she and John had *just miscarried a much-wanted pregnancy*.
FFS.
FFS.
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As a "but The White Album is *meant* to be a bit of a mess, that's the bloody point" Beatles fan/bore, I utterly loved this. Hell of a McCartney solo stuff playlist in there too (but sadly nothing off Ram).
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
As a "but The White Album is *meant* to be a bit of a mess, that's the bloody point" Beatles fan/bore, I utterly loved this. Hell of a McCartney solo stuff playlist in there too (but sadly nothing off Ram).
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This is a simply wonderful piece of writing.
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is a simply wonderful piece of writing.
look I get it, and nonetheless I am going to tell you why Paul McCartney says he liked Linda. early in their dating he said he was exhausted from work and she said 'it's allowed', and that was the first time he'd thought he didn't have to conceal how tired and strung out he was
god I'm crushingly, remarkably hungover and this may be too much for me to deal with, emotionally
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
look I get it, and nonetheless I am going to tell you why Paul McCartney says he liked Linda. early in their dating he said he was exhausted from work and she said 'it's allowed', and that was the first time he'd thought he didn't have to conceal how tired and strung out he was
I have to tell you though that outside the tech-literate crowd on here, when I try to write about LLMs - even if I explain it in the piece - I get readers writing to me saying "what's that?"
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I have to tell you though that outside the tech-literate crowd on here, when I try to write about LLMs - even if I explain it in the piece - I get readers writing to me saying "what's that?"
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This is the best post of the year. Full stop.
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is the best post of the year. Full stop.
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Absolutely terrific piece by Naomi. If you have the slightest of feelings for The Beatles this will resonate.
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Absolutely terrific piece by Naomi. If you have the slightest of feelings for The Beatles this will resonate.