Lindsey Halsell
@linzmatic.bsky.social
Feminist killjoy. Autistic. Language learner. Knitter. Weightlifter. Editor. Kitchen Witch. Book addict. Food motivated. Cat lady. Wikipedian.
I blog at digitalmanticore.com
My cat and I may be judging you.
I blog at digitalmanticore.com
My cat and I may be judging you.
New blog post! A merry Fritzmas to all, trying the Waterfox browser, and your girl is unicycling again! digitalmanticore.com?p=4956
Two Weeks in the Life: December 28, 2025
Hello, friends and enemies. I hope everyone had a wonderful Fritzmas (for those who observe). Things were fairly chill here, but I fear my four-day weekend has passed by far too quickly. I can̵…
digitalmanticore.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New blog post! A merry Fritzmas to all, trying the Waterfox browser, and your girl is unicycling again! digitalmanticore.com?p=4956
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I like big butts and I cannot tell if social norms allow me to say so
I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article
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And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY
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How a bigger-looking butt could be a sneaky sign of autism and ADHD
Your backside might reveal a thing or two about your brain.
nypost.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I like big butts and I cannot tell if social norms allow me to say so
I'll be giving waterfox a try.
I am so tired of having to change to new things because companies make them worse.
I am so tired of having to change to new things because companies make them worse.
Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇
www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI-first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. While ML tools like local translation offer real utility, LLMs are opaque black boxes. Waterfox won't ...
www.waterfox.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I'll be giving waterfox a try.
I am so tired of having to change to new things because companies make them worse.
I am so tired of having to change to new things because companies make them worse.
Exciting lore drop on the blog today digitalmanticore.com?p=3528
Twenty Years Since I Was Expelled from Brigham Young University
Hello friends and enemies. Happy anniversary to a bizarre life milestone! On December 17, 2005, I was expelled from Brigham Young University, which means today we are observing the twenty-year anni…
digitalmanticore.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Exciting lore drop on the blog today digitalmanticore.com?p=3528
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
New blog post just a day late! Talking about Eurovision drama, holiday baking, and my latest Wikipedia escapades digitalmanticore.com?p=4927
Two Weeks in the Life: December 15, 2025
Hello, friends and enemies. The news this week is that my Eurovision plans are officially canceled. I was really excited to go for my 40th birthday, but the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is dou…
digitalmanticore.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
New blog post just a day late! Talking about Eurovision drama, holiday baking, and my latest Wikipedia escapades digitalmanticore.com?p=4927
I didn't feel like writing last weekend but I'm back now! An update on my knee problems, thanksgiving food, and my cat being a little goblin digitalmanticore.com?p=4896
Three Weeks in the Life: November 30, 2025
Hello, friends and enemies. Let’s start with some knee news. I saw my doctor this week for a cortisone shot, which has really made me knee hurt less, so that’s great. The bad news is th…
digitalmanticore.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I didn't feel like writing last weekend but I'm back now! An update on my knee problems, thanksgiving food, and my cat being a little goblin digitalmanticore.com?p=4896
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
I know Trump isn't composing his own tweets because there's no way he knows where to find an em dash on his phone.
“It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do…”
November 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I know Trump isn't composing his own tweets because there's no way he knows where to find an em dash on his phone.
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one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
Reposted by Lindsey Halsell
What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
New blog post in which I am mostly discussing the intentional cruelty of the government shutdown digitalmanticore.com?p=4868
Two Weeks in the Life: November 9, 2025
Hello, friends and enemies. I hope everyone had a festive Halloween! I decided to spend the evening of Halloween working a shift at the Lavender Library, which I figured was as good a reason as any…
digitalmanticore.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
New blog post in which I am mostly discussing the intentional cruelty of the government shutdown digitalmanticore.com?p=4868
Reposted by Lindsey Halsell
i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
New blog post! I knit something, I have been cooking a lot, and my cat is cute! digitalmanticore.com?p=4843
Two Weeks in the Life: October 26, 2025
Hello, friends and enemies. First, for my California readers, a reminder that I wrote a little guide for the upcoming election and it is available in English and Spanish. If you’re in another…
digitalmanticore.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
New blog post! I knit something, I have been cooking a lot, and my cat is cute! digitalmanticore.com?p=4843
New post on the blog! I'm forced to enable security on my site, I got my updated vaccines, and I contemplate recession indicators. digitalmanticore.com?p=4810
Two Weeks in the Life: October 12, 2025
Hello, friends and enemies. Hey, on the off chance that whoever has been trying to brute-force log in to my blog is reading this: could you not. Starting about a week ago, I’ve been repeatedl…
digitalmanticore.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New post on the blog! I'm forced to enable security on my site, I got my updated vaccines, and I contemplate recession indicators. digitalmanticore.com?p=4810
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
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…
digitalmanticore.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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
Reposted by Lindsey Halsell
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
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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
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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.
This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.
America is on the brink of martial law.
Do not be silent.
America is on the brink of martial law.
Do not be silent.
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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.
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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.
And now that I’m 46, it’s still the music my PARENTS loved when THEY were young & I can go fuck myself.
September 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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.
And now that I’m 46, it’s still the music my PARENTS loved when THEY were young & I can go fuck myself.
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
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…
digitalmanticore.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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
Reposted by Lindsey Halsell
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.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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.
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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.
September 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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.
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
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 …
digitalmanticore.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
Reposted by Lindsey Halsell
It’s great when an embittered generalist gets bodied by a fucken nerd (complimentary) with domain expertise and a grudge.
Nate Silver's big dumb Blueskyism piece doesn't make any fucking sense.
www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silve...
www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silve...
September 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It’s great when an embittered generalist gets bodied by a fucken nerd (complimentary) with domain expertise and a grudge.
New blog post! Come see my gremlin cat digitalmanticore.com?p=4698
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…
digitalmanticore.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New blog post! Come see my gremlin cat digitalmanticore.com?p=4698