Alex Nicksay
@nicksay.bsky.social
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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Israeli drone footage shows the destruction in Gaza:
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Israeli drone footage shows the destruction in Gaza:
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live action catbus looking pretty sweet
August 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
live action catbus looking pretty sweet
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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They absolutely do pay attention to shit like this, so if this is you too, please let them know
I just sent this letter to the alumni office at Columbia University. I hope they receive many letters like this over the coming days.
July 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
They absolutely do pay attention to shit like this, so if this is you too, please let them know
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Columbia’s leadership has managed to make the wrong decision at every single point here
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
July 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Columbia’s leadership has managed to make the wrong decision at every single point here
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Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.
July 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.
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The evidence that Russia worked to help Trump get elected in 2016 is overwhelming. It is a tribute to our diseased information environment that the dominant story on this is that it was all a "hoax."
July 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The evidence that Russia worked to help Trump get elected in 2016 is overwhelming. It is a tribute to our diseased information environment that the dominant story on this is that it was all a "hoax."
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Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!
July 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!
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I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
July 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
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One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
July 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
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this kicks ass
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
this kicks ass
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Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
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Linda Yaccarino suddenly losing her limp as she walks away from X
July 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Linda Yaccarino suddenly losing her limp as she walks away from X
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I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment
June 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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The bad news is Bluesky's daily unique liker count is down over a three-month period. The good news is you can just use whatever websites you want to without caring about that kind of stuff for any reason
May 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The bad news is Bluesky's daily unique liker count is down over a three-month period. The good news is you can just use whatever websites you want to without caring about that kind of stuff for any reason
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Cops are basically demons, y’all. If you don’t invite them they don’t get to come in unless they have a warrant. And NEVER step outside, that’s like breaking the protective ward. This is all demonology 101
May 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Cops are basically demons, y’all. If you don’t invite them they don’t get to come in unless they have a warrant. And NEVER step outside, that’s like breaking the protective ward. This is all demonology 101
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“I could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by ICE for, it would seem, the crime of speech.”
Hasan Piker’s ICE detainment is a cautionary tale for multiple reasons
The progressive Twitch star's account of his experience shows unchecked power, and what *not* to do if detained.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“I could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by ICE for, it would seem, the crime of speech.”
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Hustle culture is a scam and burnout isn’t necessarily from working hard, it’s often from being unfulfilled and under-appreciated
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hustle culture is a scam and burnout isn’t necessarily from working hard, it’s often from being unfulfilled and under-appreciated
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I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
May 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.