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Quilt Zaddy MPLS
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Quilter, UX Designer, community loudmouth, Sheridan Neighborhood Board Member, and Gardener. Not necessarily in that order
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So this fiber festival is happening down the block from me. I thought it was a food fiber festival at first. 😆
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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✨"Music's always been the same to me ---- it's not about the gimmicks, it's about the soul."

- Sister Rosetta Tharpe ✨
January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
quiltzaddy.bsky.social
About to head to a lindyhop dance class while the fascist regime takes over. So I guess you could say I’m living the plot of Swing Kids.
#lindyhop
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
quiltzaddy.bsky.social
“Do you work for the city of Minneapolis?”
“No, I’m just a mega bitch about pedestrian policy.”

Caring is free, y’all. No one pays me to care about walkability. Numbers don’t lie; walkable neighborhoods make more money long term.
January 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
quiltzaddy.bsky.social
Just out here perfecting my dosa making abilities. These are seriously the perfect #glutenfree snack/meal.

I need to make peanut chutney to go along with these.
January 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
Our 2025 Infrastructure Plan invests in:  

- Clean drinking water
- Modern infrastructure
- Public safety
- Safe and affordable housing
 
It’s a plan that will make Minnesota the best state to live and work.
January 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
quiltzaddy.bsky.social
I’ve been upcycling a giant hexi panel a clients great aunts started 50 years ago. Much of it was too frayed to patch so turning it into blocks with boarders made more sense.
#quilting #vintagequilts #colorwork #hexiquilt
January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
quiltzaddy.bsky.social
America’s Glorious Quilts is a visually spectacular book with engaging writing.
#quilt #quiltersofbluesky
January 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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scottsantens.com
Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot

Location: Minneapolis, MN
Participants: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 2 yrs
Design: RCT

EMPLOYMENT DID NOT DECEASE

Food and housing security, financial security and psychological wellness all significantly improved.

www.minneapolisfed.org/research/ins...
Our findings show that cash assistance stabilizes households’ economic lives (food security, financial security, and housing stability) and improves direct reports of well-being (subjective or psychological) with no evidence of a reduction in labor supply. This pattern of findings matches several other randomized GBI evaluations. Comparing across these studies suggests that the benefits of basic income in terms of stability and well-being are slightly larger for populations with lower baseline income and worse outcomes, and that these groups also tend to have null or slightly positive (but not statistically significant) labor supply effects. Our population is on the more disadvantaged end of this spectrum. Table 4 presents results for three measures of economic security: food security (panel A), housing stability (panel B), and financial security (panel C). We find immediate, large, and robust positive effects of basic income payments on food security. At baseline only about one-third of respondents in both groups are recorded as food secure, but after 6 months of GBI payments and in every wave thereafter, about half of the treatment group reports being food secure. The estimated average treatment effect parameter is between 15 and 20 percentage points across all specifications in all periods, and every estimate except one is statistically significantly different from zero after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing. One clear behavioral prediction from economic models is that an increase in unearned income should reduce labor supply. This is a direct consequence of valuing leisure time. Static and dynamic models differ on the magnitude of their prediction for short-run labor supply behavior but not in their sign. We do not find evidence that GBI payments caused recipients to reduce their labor supply. In fact, panel D of Figure 3 and Table 5 show that our labor supply index—which combines extensive and intensive margin measures—is higher among treated respondents than control respondents. These results are not generally distinguishable from zero and our specifications that use baseline employment information (models 2 and 3) find smaller results than unadjusted comparisons or ones adjusted only for demographic information.
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
quiltzaddy.bsky.social
if you feel paralyzed and don’t know how to help your community; look into getting involved in your neighborhood organization. These groups exist to support everyone who lives in your neighborhood. It’s not an HOA.
#communityactivism #community
January 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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covid19disease.bsky.social
BREAKING: The largest-ever study on Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs reveals that these medications significantly reduce the risk of 42 health conditions, including heart attacks and Alzheimer's disease.
January 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM