Why thank you! Those tutorials all look very doable, appreciate you. I hadn’t come across Ravelry yet, but I’ll definitely be making an account now.

The colors are very sweet, aren’t they

A lot of this will depend on the state you’re in, so you might want to try searching for your specific .gov website to get details, but from what I’ve been seeing it’s essentially 80 hours total per month, or a certain threshold for income, and all changes have to be made by January 1st next year, so if you haven’t already gotten something they’ll probably mail you info about changes. It shouldn’t matter what type of work, so long as you can prove hours, but that’s me making an uneducated guess.

“Under the rule, affected Medicaid applicants and enrollees (referred to as “applicable individuals”) will be required to demonstrate 80 hours per month of qualifying activities, such as employment, participation in certain work programs, or community service, or be enrolled in educational program at least half time. Individuals may combine activities to meet the 80-hour requirement. or meet it by earning at least 80 times the Federal hourly minimum wage ($580 per month in 2026); for seasonal workers, there is a different calculation. Certain new Medicaid applicants will need to meet the requirement for at least one month before the month in which the applicant applies, and existing Medicaid beneficiaries will need to meet the requirement for one or more months between renewals.”

From CMS website (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)

Similar info, different site: CHCS.org

I get some time for myself for a few days, gonna practice my crochet and park my ass on the couch.

They just check the box of “Did we provide ‘accessible’ options?” without actually including anything accessible. Congrats on passing your test!

Hope you feel a little better soon

May you be blessed by the soup fairy this winter season

Pigs are so heckin cute

I hope everyone has a great week! You are loved more than you know.

I play it at work constantly in a browser

Ya’ll make me chuckle

Hope everyone has a great week, much love to all my disabled comrades

Hey comrade, apologies for the extremely late response. The process itself is 10000% designed to be a drawn-out, dehumanizing experience that breaks individuals down into over-simplified bureaucratic nonsense that requires extensive paperwork, something often referred to as “Administrative Burdens”, which can be anything from complex application processes to in-person appointments. It’s a really tough topic to find decent writings online for that have accredited sources, but I wanted to share a couple of links that appear relevant.

Some articles I found after some quick searching, CWs for ableism, discussions of trauma, medical ableism, neglect and abuse, antisemitism, physical violence, and war/conflict:

Center For American Progress - How Dehumanizing Administrative Burdens Harm Disabled People

Disability News Service - UN committee asks government: ‘Why are you demonising disabled people?’

You Make Me Sick: The Dehumanizing Trauma of Disability Benefits Processes

Cryptpad for copied report from Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) on harm caused to individuals with disability by their interaction with Centrelink’s Disability Support Pension (DSP) application and review processes from 2021

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Bumping, too. I’ve never tried making any wearables but maybe it’s time to start. If you want anything pinned feel free to message me, I don’t mind leaving it up for a while, especially for a good cause.

That’s just infuriating, they literally can’t (or won’t, let’s be honest) do anything right. I hope they can clear the infection out this next time around, though it’s ridiculous to have to pay for after care like with the bandages.

Sweet, I can probably find it then

There’s still huge stigma around having a Humanities degree here, and treated like it’s a waste to get an education in history or literature, so your guess is as good as mine. Have you had any mandatory classes that cover topics like classical medicine or at least the origins of current treatments? I bet the history of some Chinese medicinal treatments would be a really fun deep dive to get into.

Another to the list! Thanks, comrade