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LL Cool Beans

@chadlavin.bsky.social
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Political theorist in Buffalo, USA.

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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sometimes you show up to teach underprepared and the classroom is spontaneous, interesting, and even thrilling. Sometimes you show up to teach underprepared and the classroom is plodding, lackluster, and tedious. There is, alas, nothing to learn from this.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
9am class = 10am lunch. I don't make the rules.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got my own little MacArthur fellowship today
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A little surprised to hear someone from the campus counseling center tell my students to "just raw dog it" instead of "touch grass"
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is it already time for the biennial "but maybe Showgirls is actually good" think piece?
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Plaid suits for all my friends!
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Listening to the new Phoebe Bridgers feels like listening to Bachelor #2 in 2000. open.spotify.com/album/2NSzwy...
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Lost Weekend - Album by Phoebe Bridgers | Spotify
Phoebe Bridgers · album · 2026 · 16 songs
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Me: don't send me emails written by AI. My student:
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
America's marching bands: Gen X is waiting for your cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGk...
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The Refreshments - Banditos (Official Video)
YouTube video by Y2JFan
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ain't no potash like Belarusian potash.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I still love teaching LeGuin's “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" but I also still hate reading it.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Same but my teenager.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If they want you as a customer, you're bad at gambling. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In an anonymous poll half of my students report that they never use AI and as an educator I felt compelled to them that this is sadly not true.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
not convinced we need both Jason Kelce and Ryan Fitzpatrick
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I, for one, remain embarrassed newrepublic.com/post/215490/...
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House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment
Republicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Think of confronting the overhyped existential threat (AI) as a dress rehearsal for confronting the real one (climate).
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Making a 3rd quarter nap my new tradition. go bills.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The only explanation is that he’s trying to get them to say something that he can cunningly edit in order to get them kicked out of heaven
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hey siri. What's the opposite of click bait?
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love how Apple Maps still thinks I want directions to the smoothie shop 2000 miles away that I visited 8 years ago and not the local park that I visit 2x per week.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
apparently I've been misusing the word "craven" for decades. I feel like a jerk.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Teenager's bus home from school is 666. Hail satan!
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Teenaged son wearing 2 separate pairs of headphones I'm going to bed.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
now can we forget about this, again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJx...
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Joey Ramone - Maria Bartiromo
YouTube video by Rock N Retro
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trying to remember if I've ever actually gotten any money from of one of these class action lawsuits.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm about to find out if you can fail at both the Wordle and the Connections and still have a decent day.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm loving Wawrinka's divorced-dad-with-sponsorships aesthetic
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That feeling when you have totally and 100% and for realsies solved a problem www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/b...
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Kalshi Permanently Bars George Santos From the Platform
The prediction market said it had barred George Santos, the former congressman from New York, and fined him $71,356 over evidence he engaged in insider trading.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At long last, somebody giving some attention to Francis Fukuyama www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/b...
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He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen.
Francis Fukuyama’s famous take on the post-Cold War world was widely misunderstood. In a new memoir, he tries to set the record straight.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
FYI "food-induced illness" is not a thing
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The A stops B from preventing C from barring D headlines are exhausting. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...
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Postal Service Rule Could Bar Millions From Voting By Mail
A judge temporarily blocked the agency from refusing to deliver ballots in noncompliant states, which could disproportionately affect Democrats and many battleground elections.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We're gonna need more NYTimes columns about the DSA destroying the American way of life.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When business schools take over universities and then insist that only universities can save business schools. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...
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Opinion | There’s Really Only One Way to Stop Students From Cheating
Blue-book exams are fine, but we need to address the issue at its root.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remembering Thanksgiving 2024 when a teenager rejected my suggestion that Taylor Swift might be a lot like Dolly Parton because "Taylor's a songwriter, not just a singer."
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New theory that it doesn't matter how much electricity you use the utility just makes up a number
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
2016: This new president is a gift to comedians. 2026: Horror movies, nonstop.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it's 7.30am and the whole family is in a fit over ENVELOPER
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
College students take note: there's still work for people willing to explain oil prices without mentioning oil company profits www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/o...
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Opinion | The ‘Crack Spread’ Is Going to Make Your Life Unpleasant
Gas prices are going to remain high. Don’t blame the price of crude oil.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Somebody (cough @libankerdc.bsky.social) should write a book about it www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...
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Opinion | Buttigieg and El-Sayed Are Claiming Faith and Family for the Democrats
Flag, faith and family don’t belong to one political party.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The use yesterday's pangrams in daily conversation challenge
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Somebody on NPR just said the phrase "Democrats are starting to push back" and I thought I was going to vomit. It's August 2026.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fun fact: in the final 10 minutes of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" you learn that a main character is named John Mulaney
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Okay John Mulaney
ALT: Okay John Mulaney
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A prestige kidnapping every year, I say
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wondering if summer won't end if I refuse to run the end of summer 5k
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NYT atoning for 10 years of David Brooks "there are 2 kinds of people" columns
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
GOP rallies behind urgent plan to allow Collins to vote NO this time. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy, a critical Republican holdout, backs Todd Blanche for attorney general
Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine said they would oppose Blanche. But Cassidy’s support means he will likely be confirmed.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's a media truism that even when progressives win, the lesson is they can't win.
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Universities: improve your reputation by partnering with an administration with 35% approval rating www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...
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