Lindsey Halsell

Voter Guide: November 4, 2025 California Special Election Hello, friends and enemies! Surprise, there’s a special election this year. We are voting on exactly one statewide proposition this year, just to keep things spicy. As usual, I have some info…

New post: my voter guide is here. Thoughts and opinions on Prop 50 (I'm voting yes but I'm not thrilled about it). I'll be publishing a Spanish translation later this week. #california #prop50 #midterms #election digitalmanticore.com?p=4753

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

I’m at a benefit concert on the island & it just seems to me that when my Boomer parents were 46, the music at any given random cover band concert was the music they loved when they were young.

And now that I’m 46, it’s still the music my PARENTS loved when THEY were young & I can go fuck myself.

Two Weeks in the Life: September 28, 2025 Hello, friends and enemies. It’s been a very long two weeks, but we are finally free of my father-in-law’s dogs. I really tried to give these guys the benefit of the doubt but they have…

New blog post! Thoughts on the current autism discourse, a focus app I'm enjoying, and a milestone in my Icelandic wiki translations digitalmanticore.com?p=4751

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

There is nothing to gain from debates where one side is bound by common sense and facts, and the other can make up alternative feeling-facts, move the goal post, contradict themselves with pride, ignore science, use any unfair technique just to deceive the audience. We should have learned by now.

Two Weeks in the Life: September 14, 2025 Volunteer of the month at LLACE! Hello, friends and enemies. Things are cuckoo bananas here, but let’s start with something fun. I mentioned last month that I had been working on documenting …

New blog! Taking care of my dogs-in-law, switching to Linux(!), and being named volunteer of the month at the library 🌈 digitalmanticore.com?p=4718

It’s great when an embittered generalist gets bodied by a fucken nerd (complimentary) with domain expertise and a grudge.

Two Weeks in the Life: August 31, 2025 Hello, friends and enemies. Some exciting news in my world is that the dates and location for Eurovision 2026 have been announced! It’s going to be in Vienna on the week of my birthday! The a…

New blog post! Come see my gremlin cat digitalmanticore.com?p=4698

Fuck, gonna lose my job at the anxiety factory now

Two Weeks in the Life: August 17, 2025 Hello, friends and enemies. Has anyone else noticed that the spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Word is getting worse? I’ve found myself asking more and more “What the fuck are you…

New blog! Lots of book discussion, a new rice krispie treat variation, and ... is spell check getting worse? digitalmanticore.com?p=4670

I'm an editor and I've seen AI writing. Trust me, people who can actually write are not getting left behind.

I'm so sold on these

I was so mad at them! It was gross and Ru is clearly obsessed with thinness. That is not surprising but the tone of it all was sick.

Maybe not the type of example you were going for, but I can't remember a season with so much significant weight loss and specific (and gross) praise of queens' "weight loss journeys"

On the latest season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, RuPaul effusively praised two returning queens, Mistress Isabelle Brooks and Ginger Minj, for losing a lot of weight. Ru told Mistress was "emerging." In the same season, Deja Skye talked about going to Mexico for WLS and almost dying.

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Two Weeks in the Life: August 3, 2025 Hello, friends and enemies. I’m back with more big political opinions today, but if you make it to the end of the post, you will be rewarded with photos of my cat. Fritz has not been feeling …

New blog post! It's mostly about the relationship between AI and fascism, but I also talk about books and video games. digitalmanticore.com?p=4648

I would like to be clear. My writing doesn’t have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

Shake and Meatwad from ATHF on a tennis court over the words "I am 30 or 40 years old and I love DS9" The last two words are crudely added in a different font over a scribble

Two Weeks in the Life: July 20, 2025 Hello, friends and enemies. This week I had the fun experience of going to the dentist to pick up my next few sets of clear braces. I don’t know what it is about this office that has them chr…

New blog post! Mostly talking about the books I've read recently.
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Gavin Newsom Is a Garbage Person He will not stop talking to fascists about how maybe trans kids don't deserve equal rights. Please go away!

“When people make a habit of hanging out with shitheels for the express purpose of throwing vulnerable communities under the bus, I think it’s important to demand that they go away.”

If we begin now, we can destroy Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions before they start gathering to caucus in Iowa.

it’s so cool how almost everything is a scam and is simulatenously killing us

What tech companies fail to realize in AI-gold rush is human attention span is finite. There are only so many hours in the human day. You can write 5,000 books a year or make 50,000 movies a year, but who has time to ingest them? We are already starting to turn off data inputs due to overwhelm

Uh oh

Oh yeah and it's by design.

That was the whole thing with retconning the "ok" sign as a white power thing.

The 4chan Nazis explicitly picked it so that if you called it out, they could show you a picture of Obama doing it and be like "oh really? So then you're saying OBAMA is a Nazi?"

Two Weeks in the Life: July 6, 2025 Hello, friends and enemies. It’s a three-day weekend! I personally believe that all weekends should have at least three days but I shall savor the ones I get anyway. Something fun to start: I…

New blog post! Juggling, contemplating how our data is being abused, and cooking some new vegetable dishes digitalmanticore.com?p=4611 #KeepBloggingAlive

My sister got a new kitten and it immediately decided to loaf on a watermelon and bless us with this picture.