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Fava Bean

@fava.bsky.social
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Just a bean who likes to follow folks who post pet photos, original art, and reliable journalism.

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 2h
Plugra is marketed mostly for baking, for fancypants bakers who want to make puff pastry and other European things that need European levels of fat in the butter. (American butter has more water.)
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 2h
Explaining to Cardinals that the Cardinals are not welcome in Chicago. Should go over well...
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 2h
"Iran, if youre listening..."
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 2h
A pound of butter is 4 sticks for $4. I think this is a case of him not lying just being weird.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 2h
My god. Is this his latest "Russia, if you're listening" moment? Only now it's "Hey Iran, attack California."
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2h
Once again, this shit would be career-ending for any other politician but the Very Special Boy gets to say whatever he likes because he gets to play by Very Special Rules. Why is that?
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 2h
Who is taking out LA and San Diego?
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 6h
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 5h
One margin, lots of errors.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 6h
saw a great tip about using a dog training clicker to mark where you mess up a take in an audio recording, because it generates a nice clean pattern in the waveform that makes it easy to spot works great, but my dog is going nuts
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 5h
Susan Collins's antisemitism did not get enough attention. "I don't think it's a coincidence that ProPublica has as some of its funders George Soros, Donald Sussman, and other [pause] left-wing billionaires."
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5h
Literally everything I've written for public consumption is in the training data, often in more than one language. Via the Anthropic settlement I'm getting (not nearly enough) compensation for about 20 of them, but it's doubtful I'll ever get compensation for 28 years of writing on my blog, etc.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h
Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 7h
Tillis is not a coward. He's a Republican. He wasnt afraid. He wanted to appoint a monster who would use our military might to do mass murder. That he could endanger a woman along the way was just a bonus. Republicans are all rape-loving misogynists.
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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 7h
Same energy;
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 7h
I am not just upset by the crimes the plutocrats are blazingly committing against US now, but their lack of even bothering to hide the crimes shows their terrifying feeling of impunity which will power even worse crimes in the future.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h
looking at the headlines related to these numbers for each president is... instructive
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 8h
His product is BS and has no moat. Literally Apple or HP or Lenovo could eat his lunch releasing an identical product tomorrow. This is just Andreesen paying $11M for the AI hype from the press.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 10h
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 9h
Merlin Sound ID is a form of AI called a convolutional neural network that lives on your phone. It's amazing & an incredibly useful tool.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 9h
The Army announced last year that it had enough of a model of armored vehicle and that any more deliveries would be “excess.” But Congress found a way to keep funding alive for the vehicle, and executives at the company found a way to flood key members of Congress with donations. buff.ly/nbAEUVa
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h
Hegseth (who I swear is a Russian asset) is blowing through our military arsenal. Soft power is all we have left. And a combination of Trump and Elon have depleted that too. Democrats have to plug the leak and restore what it can by taking back every cent from those two. Restore all aid.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 11h
Emanuel's got a long history of protecting murderers. It's really the only thing of note he has ever done.
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 12h
One teen told ICE officers he lived with his dad down the block, but that his dad was deaf. They didn’t try to contact the father before deeming the boy “unaccompanied” and detaining him. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 13h
They lie about Trump daily, downplaying both his gutter racism and his declining physical + mental health. Meanwhile they insinuated falsely that Biden had Parkinson's disease. They elevated Rufo and his racist panics. You're buying a basket of rotten fruit in hopes of enjoying the one good apple.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 14h
That's what people said about Fox News in the 90s. We shouldn't consume lies and we shouldnt treat a publication that regularly lies as if it has any validity. The NYTimes is full of lies on behalf of Republicans, especially sane-washing Trump. Mixing in a few truths does not undo the lies!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?
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the samsara enjoyer @rubot.ie · 18h
hearing reports so-called pollution haters breathed polluted air this week.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 14h
This seems like a chicken-egg problem. Are people fascists because they are lonely, or do fascists become lonely because other people don't want to be around hateful a*holes?
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Builder's Remedy @buildersremedy.bsky.social · 23h
He lied about being a Democrat. We now must ask: did he also lie about not intentionally killing this man?
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 23h
Can you get a hotel room with AC? (Some hotels have generators) Do what you gotta do to stay safe.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?
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Robin Hood Dancing
Alt: Robin Hood, the animated fox, takes a bow.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Aliens. My parents told me it was funny like Spaceballs. I didnt sleep well for weeks. These same parents had me watch Jaws when they took me to beach later that same summer. I don't think they liked me much.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's better than current Google. We all miss good search, but it's gone. We'll have to live with "ok."
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of my neighbors cut down the massive goldenrod behind my building. I'm so sad. Its flowers had just opened and it was full of bees. The bees don't care for the flowers that the neighbors planted, but they loved the big weed. Goldenrod is an important fall flower to support pollinators
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is why I switched to Duckduckgo and turned off AI for my searches. I want actual answers not chatbot slop.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our searches were turned into shit and we now have to scroll past AI to find the actual answer. That doesnt mean we "used" the AI. It means we were forced to see and ignore it.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The pundit view of the world is skewed by many things, one of which is a refusal/inability to understand geographic spaces that exist outside their own neighborhoods. It's all based on stereotypes and conjecture—even when they go to other places, and their columns are essentially bad travel writing.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was not an option. Some sadistic a*hole is making us do annual refreshers in slow mode, "watching" a PowerPoint slide deck read aloud by the dullest, slowest AI voice with no option to speed up or skip to the quiz.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes. Like you, I often want to skip forward if the presentation is slow. I appreciate when there are section breaks in the slider so I know that I can skip to the end of a section if I don't find it interesting or relevant so I can get to the good stuff.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
If watching YouTube videos has taught me anything about myself it's that I natively speak at 1.25x speed
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1x is SO SLOW. I had to sit through a work training at 1x (and they made sit through to the end of the narration even though I finished reading the slide and clicked "next"). I was so mad. It wasted so much of my time.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At least it's not a glass wall so anyone else staying with you can watch. I've stayed in more than one hotel that did that.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should talk to this HR person about their misuse of language to nip it in the butt.
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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you still subscribe? Why? They clearly shouldn't be getting your money. They shouldn't even get your clicks for the tiny slice of ad revenue that gives them. The NYTimes has negative value for society.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once you write these pieces, & find this evidence, they are the story. The only story. And yet, for a decade now, the NYT response to discovering unprecedented crimes, constitutional violations, & corruption, has been to just go back to covering Trump & the GOP as "normal politics." I don't get it.
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