Lee Frost | The Shapeshifting Crone

Support the Diagnostic Safety Act Today! Half of patient safety events are not reported. Help us change that by contacting your Senators and Representatives--get all the details and letter template here: www.pfps.us

Trump says he wants to improve women’s health research. But what does that actually mean if federal research grants restrict the word ‘gender’ and other terms? My latest for @19thnews.org tries to make sense of this new executive order: 19thnews.org/2026/10/wome...

"I am not Cassandra. I accept only one nickname: Cosa Nostradamus, because I see organized crime." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/cosa-nostr...

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

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“Remember, our goal isn’t simply to defeat evil. It’s to defeat evil in a way that won’t force us to then listen to the people who helped us win.”

No organ or system this virus cannot access and destroy ☠️ Endocrine complications of COVID-19: diabetes, musculoskeletal, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, and gonadal disorders academic.oup.com/jes/article/...

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

We are learning so much more about the importance of prevention and yet see society as a whole (including scientists) doing so much less to protect themselves…Makes no sense. “COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms” www.science.org/content/arti...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

We don't talk enough about how a big reason people don't decolonize themselves is when you start seeing the living world around you for the precious symphony of spirit that it is, you will be in excruciating pain forever at what we've done to it

I've been getting a lot of flyers from pawn shops in my area lately. Surely that's a sign of a "very bright future." 🙄

New podcast episode! Look into the story of Sweeney Astray (Buile Suibhne) and how PTSD is portrayed in ancient literature. A pagan king is "cursed" in battle, but what we see are the clinical symptoms of PTSD: youtu.be/JnpArC9a1Vs?...

My mom's side of the family is from Ulster. New nickname unlocked! 😂🧙

“we know that within about a year of those cuts at USAID, where they were literally burning food that had already been paid for that was going to starving children, 500,000 children died. So this is a really a crime against humanity.” - Alex Gibney, director of “Musk”, a documentary on Elon Musk

I spent about a week at a small software company run by assholes who spent their days yelling at each other, at me, and at the lawyers from a competitor that was suing them because they (allegedly) stole their IP.

i want democrats to understand that winning by default isnt enough. of what use to us is a democratic congress that doesnt begin to right these wrongs

Status Coup’s Jon Farina was on the ground as a local priest spoke out against the overreach and violence coming from the governor’s office—executed by police and ICE. Reminding everyone that this injustice isn't new; it is part of a system that has been going on for hundreds of years.

Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

FUCK IT. Let's give away 2 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel. Repost/reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated. PS YOU GET A FREE LINOCUT OWL BOOKMARK TOO IF YOU WIN!

The CDC is removing tons of questions about disabilities from its annual survey. They're trying to erase us from existence. youtu.be/A-4yJWD5Mtc

I work behind the scenes at IHI, and this year, I'm hosting a roundtable discussion on improving communication with patients at IHI Forum! This is a topic that's very dear to me, and while I've given talks on this before, this is the first time I'm hosting a session at work! events.ihi.org/forum

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

I've been preparing a lot of webinars and writing a lot for my website and other organizations. Rereading the books I read when I was first diagnosed with CPTSD, some quotes hit just as hard as the first time I read them. #traumainformed

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

probably fine that all these new ai agent rollouts are so cutesy and childish. probably a sign of innocuous, normal shit

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers