MobileSuitLilah

Quaint Witch, Sad Enchantress

  • she/her

Incredibly based gay trans woman poster 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | Lover of books, music, and video games ✨| Happily married to @milktea ❤️ | Icon by @peachparfait

Praise for @MobileSuitLilah

“Lilah is maybe the internet’s greatest poster…a unique and very funny sense of humor…her jokes are specific and experimental while still being accessible to a mainstream audience”
The New York Review of Posts

“Men you may not like it but…[Lilah’s posts are] what peak performance looks like”
— Virginia Woolf, author of Orlando

“I’m a huge admirer of Lilah’s posts to the point that I left my wife…only then did I discover Lilah is gay and had also never heard of me”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, an author I guess

"Lilah's posts were a huge source of relief during the development of DonPachi...it's no exaggeration to say Cave wouldn't exist without her posts"
— Tsuneki Ikeda


matthewseiji
@matthewseiji

Hate to be the guy to say it, but when I first heard about Cohost I turned to my wife and said, "They gotta have an Omelas kid, or they're fucked." If thirty years of high-stakes tech entrepreneurship taught me anything, it's this: you have to cause unlimited suffering in order to make a viable website. And for the record, no, I don't like it either, but you can't just ignore how the world works and coast on hopes and dreams, can you?

Most of my startup consults these days, they show me a plan for technology, staffing, roadmap or whatever, but I don't see an Omelas plan. Some of them don't even know what that is, which is crazy, hello, it's 2024... so I go over the basics with them:

  • WHO will be your Omelas kid?
  • HOW much will they suffer?
  • WHAT will you do about the ones who walk away from your platform/service? And DON'T say write a story about them, that's not good enough.

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