20 Million + Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare
Adrienne Martin and her family are starting the New Year off without healthcare.
The 47-year-old Texas mother had to make a difficult choice when she found out her monthly healthcare premium was increasing in 2026 from what she described as a manageable $630 (£467) to an unaffordable $2,400 (£1,781).
Her husband depends on an IV medication to treat a blood-clotting disease that costs $70,000 a month without insurance. Knowing their benefits would expire, the family stockpiled the drug to survive the first few months of the year.
"It would be like paying two mortgage payments," she said of the new monthly price for healthcare. "We can't pay $30,000 for insurance a year."
The Hell That Republicans Have Wrought Upon Americans With the New Year
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Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare
More than 20 million Americans are preparing for steeper healthcare costs in the New Year because of expiring subsidies.Ana Faguy (BBC News)
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Right here we go at last. A task for 2026.
I originally planned to begin reading 'Ulysses' on the day I moved out of Dublin after living there for years, but when the cay finally came, moving happened so suddenly and hurtfully that I put this plan aside.
I was gifted a copy at Christmas and have decided now is the time, as for some strange reason I am also re-attached to the city this year through four different upcoming projects there.
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Mass extinction: what is it and are we in one now?
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinct…Palm Oil Detectives
#bioinformatics
Why microbial oils could mitigate deforestation from palm oil
Companies are increasingly exploring substitutes to palm oil to cut the risk they face from deforestation in their supply chains.GlobalData Strategic Intelligence (Just Food)
Deadly Harvest: How Demand for Palm Oil Fuels Corruption in Honduras
Latin America is the fastest-growing producer of palm oil, but at what price for the environment and its defenders? Park rangers in Honduras tell harrowing tales of daily threats to their lives and…Palm Oil Detectives
New Year's Eve music from New Zealand orchestra Synthony from one of their Melbourne, Australia performances.
Full on AWESOME!
@Lee Grupsmith-Pedersen @Cass @Carsten Raddatz @Christoph S Maybe you would like this @Samuel Smith @Noam נעם
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Welcome to 2026! 🎆
Fortune favors the bold. Let’s do even more this year to challenge #BigTech and regain control over our data and privacy. 💪
Have a wonderful year, you all!
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Nextcloud Special Event Winter 2026 edition
Be the first to experience the new must-watch Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter launch keynote, press conference and businesses-oriented key updates.Nextcloud
Declining primate numbers are threatening Brazil’s Atlantic forest
#Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, is facing severe threats due to deforestation and habitat fragmentation. This has led to a sharp decline in prim…Palm Oil Detectives
C'est #agroindustrie que vous combattez.
Hop between distros without losing a single Snap package.
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Move Between the Distros: Back Up and Restore Your Snap Packages
Make a backup of your Snap apps and application data and restore them to a new Linux system where Snap is supported. Works between Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu distros, too.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
I read by mistake losing a single snap back. Was it Freud ? Or just better truth ?
I'm running one last class on how to make memes for the US resistance!
I would love to have you join.
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MY US WISHLIST
Hello Resisters! Here we are in December, a month of celebrations and reflection. We have been through NO KINGS, Good Trouble Lives On, NO KINGS 2.0, and more during 2025.Mobilize
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The twins, I must post them!
Often they don't really look like twins but then sometimes, just sometimes. Even their paws are mirrored! 💕
#Cats
🗣AM ENDING 2025 WITH A BOOST & FAVE
look who just arrived in time to welcome the new year: my THING1 & THING2 in #plushtodon form, #Boost & #Fave.
it was hard to get a good pic of us together by myself, so i hope you don’t mind the potato quality of my tablet’s pics.
i haven’t stopped smiling since i opened the package.
🗣HAPPY NEW #FEDIVERSE YEAR TO YOU ALL
“You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams & such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, each other.”
- Carl Sagan, Contact
Updated my portfolio with some previously missing photos, and removed some that didn't seem as good as I originally thought.
Rainbow Cliffs: Why Parrots in the Amazon Eat Clay
Our world holds a whole host of glorious natural spectacles, from great starling murmurations to the ethereal display of coral reef spawning. But none is more thrilling than catching a glimpse of a…Palm Oil Detectives
Coral reefs have orchestrated Earth’s climate for 250 million years
Coral reefs have shaped Earth in much deeper ways than we usually appreciate.The Conversation
There’s no need to depend on Google as your default search engine. Qwant and Ecosia are already viable alternatives, and together they’re building the European Search Index (Staan). It’s currently implemented in France and will roll out to additional European countries in 2026.
#BuyFromEU #Europe #EU #Google
2025 has been an interesting year for me when it comes to Linux apps. 🤓
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These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025
These open source gems have helped me refine my workflow.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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Hyprland got some nice refinements recently. ✨
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Hyprland Becomes More Attractive with Crash Recovery and Safe Mode Features
New crash recovery wrapper and welcome screen arrive, though windowrules require manual migration.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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This guy's messages are so heartwarming and funny!
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- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
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Appreciate @nolan's take on LLMs. Not too hot, not too cold. A well-balanced mama bear porridge take, if you will. I'm probably on a similar path in this journey, but Nolan is way more patient than me when you have to sit there and watch these things barf all over themselves.
nolanlawson.com/2025/12/22/how…
How I use AI agents to write code
Yes, this is the umpteenth article about AI and coding that you’ve seen this year. Welcome to 2025. Some people really find LLMs distasteful, and if that’s you, then I would recommend t…Read the Tea Leaves
My biggest problem with AI is the negative effect it's having on human beings. I have no control over this, whether I use it or not, but that's what gives me the "ick" while using it.
I worked on LLMs at a previous company for a few years, before "AI" started becoming the thing it is now, and it was a really fun promising tool. But there are just so many ethical issues with modern AI -- the energy requirements, the use of AI to oppress, harm, and kill people, the growing divide in power, wealth, class, etc. I can't keep that shit out of my head every time I sit down and try to start learning how to use AI to be better or more effective at my job.
I wish I could see it as just a tool but I can't. And that sucks because I'm going to have a harder time benefiting from this thing that could potentially make my work easier or better. I know it's easier for people to just ignore the actual negative parts but I'm incapable of that. Sure, use the tool to make money so you can live and buy nice things, but don't forget about the cost.
Warge Goshington.
I'm reading Chernow's Pulitzer-winning Washington bio and this is the cover. Well, not *this*, obviously. 😄
#headSwap #GeorgeWashington #watercolor #mastoart
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Thank you, #RetractionWatch, for all you do to try to keep #science and #scientists honest and to help bring about change! ⭐✨
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Cheers to 2025: In which Retraction Watch turned 15, and The Center For Scientific Integrity really became a center
We always enjoy our annual review of the year at Retraction Watch, and 2025 is no exception. But we’re more excited about what lies ahead than what we already accomplished. We’re on track for…Retraction Watch
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