Mystic Quilts

Oh wow. So glad you were able to get him care.

It doesn’t look like I can DM you.

Yes! I would love this!

Alt text does not need to be hard to write. You do not have to write paragraphs. In fact, in most cases you probably shouldn't. People using screen readers are not likely to want to have to listen to a 3 minute alt text of you describing your cat.

It does take a lot of time!!! I’m not quite sure what I have gotten myself into here. :-)

Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

I just read my tenth #COVID19 research study in the past month or so that demonstrates COVID infections cause brain changes that may accelerate Alzheimer's disease, are associated with cognitive decline, and cause fatigue, memory impairment, and sleep disorders. (1/?)

We need to adapt our society so support is built in everywhere. It doesn’t exist anywhere for anyone with LC.

Life will never go back to pre-2020. That ship has sailed. Now we need to prevent spreading Covid as much as possible and help everyone reduce brain inflammation.

Everything is broken in this country. Everything.

Now, I return to my quilting. 🧵🪡

I’m amazed by a thread going around here where people commenting are all blaming college students for being damaged by a society that sacrificed them for the economy during an ongoing pandemic in which 37% of the global population has long covid.

Society failed the next generation.

They are lying!!! Call them out on their lies.

There is no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There is evidence that COVID causes serious harm — including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications & diabetes.

This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible

You keep wanting to blame college students when it’s not their fault.

We have to fucking change America & prioritize community over individual. Support one another. Wearing a god damn mask during a never ending fucking pandemic. We have to understand how to treat brain inflammation & help people.

Society broke our kids. And society doesn’t care. We are still spreading Covid such that always a min of 150k new daily cases are occurring. And we have two waves a year where a million daily cases occur. 1/3 of all of those cases end up in long covid. And long covid we now know kills people.

That’s the point. Society is causing these issues to be widespread because society doesn’t care about communities, only the economy. Then people are left to try to survive on their own in a society that doesn’t value them. It’s an evil country we live in.

lol, that isn’t the point. But nice try.

I just share that bc yes - sometimes showing up is impossible for those affected more severely. Sometimes reading is impossible. The words don’t make sense.

I love how people are quick to say it’s the kids fault but in reality we have a social problem. A society that failed these kids.

I don’t think you understand what it is like to be harmed by long covid and have it affect so much in your life. An extreme example of LC is you are dumber than a box of rocks bc of the brain inflammation but also can barely move your body bc your cells don’t make energy.

Funny how people always blame parents instead of actually looking for root causes.

Maybe society has abandoned these kids. A pandemic where too many died and people have to act normal for the sake of the economy. A world that soon won’t be able to sustain life like we are used to bc of rising CO2

37% of the global population has long covid and that’s just the cases we know about. A lot of people don’t realize they have been changed forever.

It also matters to identify root causes. Why are people having a hard time reading and comprehending information? My money is on long covid since it causes brain inflammation and each covid infection reduces your IQ by 3 pts.

That’s an incredibly sad viewpoint instead of looking for root causes. For example covid causes brain inflammation giving us brain fog and cognitive issues. Reading becomes really hard when you have long covid. And we know each covid infections reduces your IQ by 3 pts. Society is failing here.

I think the first step as a society ( it just your students) is admitting we have a cognitive problem affecting us. Each Covid infections reduces IQ by 3 points. We have to address the brain inflammation. We have to heal.

Covid has affected so many - whether trauma from watching society sacrifice people for the economy or long covid giving us brain inflammation. I have long covid and the brain fog, cognitive issues are abhorrent. For a few years it was so hard to read and digest information.

I feel pretty accomplished today given I completed a quilt block. It that I need to accomplish anything but it was nice to feel okay enough to sit at the sewing machine for 30 mins. I’ve mostly been in bed for the past week.

I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.

I am legitimately speechless.

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.