Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez
@fxvzquez.bsky.social
Theorist, usually chemistry.
Assoc. Prof @StJohnsU Chemistry.
Pronouns: he/him/él
Mexican American. 🇲🇽🇺🇸
Assoc. Prof @StJohnsU Chemistry.
Pronouns: he/him/él
Mexican American. 🇲🇽🇺🇸
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Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
October 6, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
Sounds like someone just learned about philosopher kings! Welcome to freshman of college!
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient."
Hmm, where have I heard this before?
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
Hmm, where have I heard this before?
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Sounds like someone just learned about philosopher kings! Welcome to freshman of college!
I wish the Green Lantern oath was
Dickie shorts, Lincoln's clean
Leanin', checking out the scene…
Dickie shorts, Lincoln's clean
Leanin', checking out the scene…
October 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I wish the Green Lantern oath was
Dickie shorts, Lincoln's clean
Leanin', checking out the scene…
Dickie shorts, Lincoln's clean
Leanin', checking out the scene…
Tim Curry as Pennywise, the dancing clown. It really freaked me out, and made me kind of terrified when I had to take a shower
October 5, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Tim Curry as Pennywise, the dancing clown. It really freaked me out, and made me kind of terrified when I had to take a shower
All hail, Pumpking Frank!
October 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
All hail, Pumpking Frank!
Whenever I see elite people (who went to college) saying that young people shouldn’t go to college, I wonder if they will put their money where their mouth is and not pay for their kids college. Good for their kids, I’m sure, but not us peasants. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
www.theatlantic.com
October 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Whenever I see elite people (who went to college) saying that young people shouldn’t go to college, I wonder if they will put their money where their mouth is and not pay for their kids college. Good for their kids, I’m sure, but not us peasants. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Going through originals to bring to NYCC with me and I think these ones are still off the table. They're MINE!
October 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Going through originals to bring to NYCC with me and I think these ones are still off the table. They're MINE!
Military academies are where the military trains its engineers, who have to take physics and chemistry. Who is going to teach chemistry there now? Just shutting all that down because the sec def doesn’t actually understand how the military works? #chemsky www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Naval Academy, other military colleges won’t give tenure to civilian faculty, Hegseth says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memo directing that the U.S. Department of Defense no longer appoint civilians as tenured faculty at the nation’s military academies, including the Naval Ac...
www.thebanner.com
September 30, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Military academies are where the military trains its engineers, who have to take physics and chemistry. Who is going to teach chemistry there now? Just shutting all that down because the sec def doesn’t actually understand how the military works? #chemsky www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
This is deeply sad.
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
September 30, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This is deeply sad.
This bums me out. The fun thing isn't absorbing as much new music as possible. The thing is talking to the record store people, going to the place, sifting through records. Looking at the album art. I don't want to outsource enjoying things.
September 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
This bums me out. The fun thing isn't absorbing as much new music as possible. The thing is talking to the record store people, going to the place, sifting through records. Looking at the album art. I don't want to outsource enjoying things.
Starting the countdown now for when I hear someone at my university say super intelligence.
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
www.whitehouse.gov
September 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Starting the countdown now for when I hear someone at my university say super intelligence.
You haven’t lived until you try to explain episode 6 of the the rehearsal to a man in his 80s who only speaks Spanish.
Es una simulación, pero el está simulando lo que ya pasó. Y antes de que lo hizo, lo había simulado.
Es una simulación, pero el está simulando lo que ya pasó. Y antes de que lo hizo, lo había simulado.
September 28, 2026 at 2:13 AM
You haven’t lived until you try to explain episode 6 of the the rehearsal to a man in his 80s who only speaks Spanish.
Es una simulación, pero el está simulando lo que ya pasó. Y antes de que lo hizo, lo había simulado.
Es una simulación, pero el está simulando lo que ya pasó. Y antes de que lo hizo, lo había simulado.
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not everybody sharing this in the Stereogum Discord at the same time 😭
September 22, 2026 at 7:28 PM
not everybody sharing this in the Stereogum Discord at the same time 😭
Sky Harbor is the best possible name for an airport. No competition. It sounds like steam punk location!
September 27, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Sky Harbor is the best possible name for an airport. No competition. It sounds like steam punk location!
I bought an MS mouse, a sound card, learned DOS, and made a batch script menu system so that I could have enough memory to play Civ 1 with a mouse and sound on the Windows 3.1 machine my uncle gave us. And then my battle ship was killed by a fortified phalanx.
September 27, 2026 at 1:45 AM
I bought an MS mouse, a sound card, learned DOS, and made a batch script menu system so that I could have enough memory to play Civ 1 with a mouse and sound on the Windows 3.1 machine my uncle gave us. And then my battle ship was killed by a fortified phalanx.
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Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
September 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
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It’s amazing and the current president and provost hate it so much. They will not rest until it’s a consortium of trade schools
September 26, 2026 at 9:48 PM
It’s amazing and the current president and provost hate it so much. They will not rest until it’s a consortium of trade schools
Im traveling today. As I was part of the poor people parade through first class, I wanted to start telling “you people don’t deserve this, you didn’t earn it, and you’ll never appreciate it! Not like me. I should be in your seat, sir! You have stolen my rightful place on first class!”
September 26, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Im traveling today. As I was part of the poor people parade through first class, I wanted to start telling “you people don’t deserve this, you didn’t earn it, and you’ll never appreciate it! Not like me. I should be in your seat, sir! You have stolen my rightful place on first class!”
Markwayne Mullin looks terrible in the TSA video they play at JFK. Weird fitting suit and he just looks like he’s trying to catch his breath while talking.
September 26, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Markwayne Mullin looks terrible in the TSA video they play at JFK. Weird fitting suit and he just looks like he’s trying to catch his breath while talking.
I wonder if he ever played Einstein while telling him to stop worrying about causality and just focus on measurement. And then of course winning the match.
it's so funny niels bohr was a naturally gifted athlete. imagine challenging the father of quantum theory to a friendly game of ping pong and he proceeds to thoroughly push your shit in
September 25, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I wonder if he ever played Einstein while telling him to stop worrying about causality and just focus on measurement. And then of course winning the match.
Walking around singing “you had to be a big shot” to myself in a Dracula voice. Thanks @bestshow4life.bsky.social
September 25, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Walking around singing “you had to be a big shot” to myself in a Dracula voice. Thanks @bestshow4life.bsky.social
I'm sorry "the Athletic", no matter how many alerts you send me you can't make me care about the premiere league.
Please go back to sending me alerts that the Mets or Tigers lost.
Please go back to sending me alerts that the Mets or Tigers lost.
September 25, 2026 at 1:51 PM
I'm sorry "the Athletic", no matter how many alerts you send me you can't make me care about the premiere league.
Please go back to sending me alerts that the Mets or Tigers lost.
Please go back to sending me alerts that the Mets or Tigers lost.
But doctor, I’m the only computational chemist. #compchemsky #chemchat
September 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
But doctor, I’m the only computational chemist. #compchemsky #chemchat