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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 16h

I do not beleive the Devil Rays are a real baseball team. They are an economics experiment being conducted by a PhD student. Their players have to sign an informed consent at the begining of each season. When the thesis gets written we are going to learn so much about baseball!

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think of this World Series ends up Dodgers vs Tampa Bay, it’s going to be a gloriously weird season. One of the most famous teams with diehard fans vs a team people forget exists who don’t have any fans at all. It’s going to be a great contrast if it ends up being them.

A picture with two players deol the men’s shooting in the Paris Olympics. On the left a cyber punk looking player with a complex looking gun and glasses. On the right, a guy in a turkey t-shirt with one hand in his pocket and the other holding a generic looking pistol.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Seeing the fireworks ad in the outfield is a real tell me you are playing in Ohio without saying you are playing in Ohio.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I got way to sucked into the electronic structure seratonin paper. I don’t understand who could have reviewed it. The figures are just weird looking and the one the uses duplicates doesn’t even hide it at all. It’s really shameless.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would totally wear that a game. Why does one of the guys have pinstripes though?

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even just glancing at water memory papers is wild. They just come out of the box saying whatever they want, don't build up to it.

Abstract. The controversial phenomenon of the *so called water memory has been gaining in scientific credibility* (emphasis mine via highlighter), either through direct empirical findings or theoretical considerations. The related researches mostly tackle the...

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Other people can hear “buy my book” and not instantly hear Jay Sherman’s voice repeat endlessly for the rest of the day? Other people not on Bluesky I mean.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh cool, are we giving people grants again? No? My mistake, I must have misunderstood how science work.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really enjoy that the Brewers look like they are wearing Cub Scout uniforms.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t really understand why anyone does anything other than pchem.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Now I can finally sit down and enjoy my aeropress Americano and BEC (bacon egg and cheese on a roll -toasted, extra crispy bacon, salt pepper, ketchup, and hot sauce).

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve been hearing about the demographic cliff since I started, but it’s only recently that it’s been used as the excuse for austerity measures and crisis measures of all kinds.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know, I know, Pete should have stayed on the team…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is what happens when people don’t read. They think they just reinvented philosophy.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sounds like someone just learned about philosopher kings! Welcome to freshman of college!

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wish the Green Lantern oath was Dickie shorts, Lincoln's clean Leanin', checking out the scene…

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There no part of that performance that isn’t terrifying.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The issue is that the people you know, like, or respect, aren’t the ones setting the world on fire. That’s why you like or respect them.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going through originals to bring to NYCC with me and I think these ones are still off the table. They're MINE!

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spend less on Robert Pattinson Nesting Dolls

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Philadelphia sin eater! Each home run is a plenary indulgence.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not even the modern military. In the 1800s, if you went to West Point, you learned mathematics and engineering. That’s what they needed. Not lethality training. Logistics and construction. Need someone who knows how to build a road so that the army can get everyone to the top of that hill.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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...

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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...

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So his new nickname around the senate is Hawkeye, right? Like, people in both parties must be calling him Hawkeye from now on.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Starting the countdown now for when I hear someone at my university say super intelligence.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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.

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 22/09/2026

not everybody sharing this in the Stereogum Discord at the same time 😭

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sky Harbor is the best possible name for an airport. No competition. It sounds like steam punk location!

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a Yeshiva near work where there is a speed camera at all hours and people slow down. I once caught a ticket there at night, and I learned to be more careful about my speed. It’s not a tax grab, I broke the law, was driving dangerously, and was punished for it.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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.

A grid of the 9 video games that made me.
Three rows from left to right.
Mario 3, link to the past, civ 1

Final fantasy 3 (6), animal crossing, ocarina of time

Hades, breath of the wild, sim city.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This happens in front of my daughter’s school at least a couple times a week during drop off and pickup time. I don’t get why NYC doesn’t have red light and speed cameras in front of every school. Is it that important that people drive recklessly.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026

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

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A lot of this going around. Especially in smaller ny metro area schools.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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!”

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Walking around singing “you had to be a big shot” to myself in a Dracula voice. Thanks @bestshow4life.bsky.social

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Exactly! The whole point of the raw milk cheeses was to process to keep the milk from making you sick and store it for later. If your milk is covered in E. coli you’re doing it wrong.

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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The FDA rule is that cheese made with raw milk must be aged 60d at 35F During aging they lose moisture (and possibly increase acidity) to make them inhospitable to harmful bacteria. I’m guessing this company either didn’t follow this, or has other careless production process.

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