Lilah Sturges

This is cruel and unusual punishment.

This is what is best in life!

WHERE IS THE LIE

He’s co-written books with a NUMBER of people, leading to wide speculation that he barely reads—let alone writes—his own books anymore and hasn’t for many many years

James Patterson, Literary Fuckboy, has reached an all-time low with his latest choice of “writing” “partner”

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Yup.

I’m so heartbroken for my trans siblings in the UK right now. Hang on, loves. Somehow we will all get through this together.

I want to try this! What a cool idea.

Bazooka me

Just think how incredible it would be if the above post actually won Best Post at the Posting Awards

Me [winning Best Post at the Posting Awards]: this is the post I won Best Post for, this very post, the one you’re reading right now

Children need to be old enough to understand not to tell their friends “My parents think your family is gross and bad” because that would embarrass the parents.

My advice would to avoid using the deadname unless not doing so would create unnecessary confusion. There are books out there with my old name on them and that’s fine—just don’t ask me to sign it with that name because I won’t.

Everyone is 12 and they have the most deadly arsenal in the history of the world at their disposal

(Playing rhetorical games isn’t going to accomplish anything)

Challenge for people who believe Claude IS conscious: explain how employing it without it having an ability to consent or refuse is different from slavery

So many of my outlines and page breakdowns contain something like “hero does something cool as fuck”. It’s like you’re giving yourself a little challenge, something to live up to

I think this every time I sign a contract: “Guess we’re still doing this…”

Congrats!

Wouldn’t you know it, Anthropic’s terms and conditions clearly state that if you are accidentally blown up by Claude, they cannot be held liable and your estate can in fact be sued by them on the grounds that your death forces the usually chipper Dario Amodei to wrestle with his own mortality.

This is such an energetic sketch! It really comes alive!

Ominous!!!

trolley problem diagram, with Sisyhpus pushing his boulder as the trolley car, and text that reads: Sisyphus is rolling a boluder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accomodate him or his boulder. If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship. Is Sisyphus happy?

a question for the ages, really.

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published

1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series

1997 - BBC remake

2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added

2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap

2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

Love talking to my pal @tillybridges.bsky.social! Hopefully I will get to meet her in person one of these days!

Important!!!

One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

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Wake up, kids. This month in the Alt Rock Department at @pastemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the New Radicals and the importance of having a shitty job, if only to know how far you can test the limits of the world.

I LOVED that album, listened to it a million times!