🎄Old Fezziwig X. 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. 🇲🇽🇺🇸
Sigh.
*Pauses for a moment*
Sigh.
*Pauses for a moment*
Sigh.
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Sigh.
*Pauses for a moment*
Sigh.
*Pauses for a moment*
Sigh.
There have been checkpoints in AZ like this since the 90s. I grew up in Nogales AZ, on the border in the 80/90s. During the 90s border patrol setup a checkpoint on I-19 between the border and Tucson. They would ask for citizenship and if you were not a citizen would ask for travel visa.
I would be very interested if this was ICE and not CBP.
December 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
There have been checkpoints in AZ like this since the 90s. I grew up in Nogales AZ, on the border in the 80/90s. During the 90s border patrol setup a checkpoint on I-19 between the border and Tucson. They would ask for citizenship and if you were not a citizen would ask for travel visa.
So I guess this is another thing I have to warn my students against.
The phenomenon of fake PhD student influencers trying to convince young people they should use AI to do work is reeeeeally fucked up. Don’t know if it’s just an emerging grift category for directly seeded by LLM vendors but it’s really insidious and gross.
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So I guess this is another thing I have to warn my students against.
Group A is looking good so far. Maybe this is the year Mexico advanced first in their group!
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Group A is looking good so far. Maybe this is the year Mexico advanced first in their group!
My daughter basically runs my Spotify account now, so this is her albums of the year.
I snuck in a little SKA when she wasn’t listening, but it wasn’t enough.
I snuck in a little SKA when she wasn’t listening, but it wasn’t enough.
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My daughter basically runs my Spotify account now, so this is her albums of the year.
I snuck in a little SKA when she wasn’t listening, but it wasn’t enough.
I snuck in a little SKA when she wasn’t listening, but it wasn’t enough.
I feel like a genius for realizing I can aerate red wine with an electric milk frother.
December 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I feel like a genius for realizing I can aerate red wine with an electric milk frother.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coyote
Road runner
Horned toad
Bald eagle
Wild horses
Funny enough, I grew up in the Sonoran Desert, but I saw the coyote on the University of Chicago campus.
Coyote
Road runner
Horned toad
Bald eagle
Wild horses
Funny enough, I grew up in the Sonoran Desert, but I saw the coyote on the University of Chicago campus.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coyote
Road runner
Horned toad
Bald eagle
Wild horses
Funny enough, I grew up in the Sonoran Desert, but I saw the coyote on the University of Chicago campus.
Coyote
Road runner
Horned toad
Bald eagle
Wild horses
Funny enough, I grew up in the Sonoran Desert, but I saw the coyote on the University of Chicago campus.
“Forgot table of integrals”
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“Forgot table of integrals”
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Ozomatli
Café Tacvba
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
The Mountain Goats
Ozomatli
Café Tacvba
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
The Mountain Goats
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
*NSYNC
Spice Girls
Paul McCartney
Rooney
Jay-Z
*NSYNC
Spice Girls
Paul McCartney
Rooney
Jay-Z
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Iron Maiden
Scorpions
Sonic Youth
Le Tigre
Crystal Castles
Iron Maiden
Scorpions
Sonic Youth
Le Tigre
Crystal Castles
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Ozomatli
Café Tacvba
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
The Mountain Goats
Ozomatli
Café Tacvba
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
The Mountain Goats
Today should be a national holiday! They should make the studio a national park.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Today should be a national holiday! They should make the studio a national park.
I like smoking, drinking, and ordering in restaurants, Charlie Brown.
We Thought You Was a Toad, Charlie Brown
Is it safe, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I like smoking, drinking, and ordering in restaurants, Charlie Brown.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Not exactly where I’m from (not a NY native), but it starts near Nogales AZ, where I was born and raised, and it ends in Queens where I live now.
Not exactly where I’m from (not a NY native), but it starts near Nogales AZ, where I was born and raised, and it ends in Queens where I live now.
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Not exactly where I’m from (not a NY native), but it starts near Nogales AZ, where I was born and raised, and it ends in Queens where I live now.
Not exactly where I’m from (not a NY native), but it starts near Nogales AZ, where I was born and raised, and it ends in Queens where I live now.
It feels like my phone is trying to be mean to me.
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It feels like my phone is trying to be mean to me.
The LIRR city ticket is such a great deal. Why would anyone ever drive into Manhatten when you can take a $5 train in.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The LIRR city ticket is such a great deal. Why would anyone ever drive into Manhatten when you can take a $5 train in.
I couldn’t wire up the circuit in my electrical engineering lab, so I switched back to a major where’d at least I’d feel smart again. Then I fell in love with physical chemistry.
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I couldn’t wire up the circuit in my electrical engineering lab, so I switched back to a major where’d at least I’d feel smart again. Then I fell in love with physical chemistry.
Listening to the great new @themountaingoats.bsky.social record, I’m imagining sitting in a theater and hearing a really big version of Cold at Night play at the end of the first act, right before the curtain comes down and the lights go off.
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Listening to the great new @themountaingoats.bsky.social record, I’m imagining sitting in a theater and hearing a really big version of Cold at Night play at the end of the first act, right before the curtain comes down and the lights go off.
So if I'm supposed to write science fiction for the good of society, do I still have to do it using IMRAD format?
This is not the worst book we've ever read but it is the meanest episode we've ever done.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
So if I'm supposed to write science fiction for the good of society, do I still have to do it using IMRAD format?
Electric field not invariant to transformation?
Problematic gauge gap.
Problematic gauge gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
Somebody's taken out an entire chapter of your book?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Electric field not invariant to transformation?
Problematic gauge gap.
Problematic gauge gap.
Death Cab for cutie really fills the Weezer shaped hole in my heart.
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Death Cab for cutie really fills the Weezer shaped hole in my heart.
American hero!
One of the biggest flexes I ever had was asking some junior financial analysts watching their phones on a bus if they needed $20. They said for what and I said headphones. They got so mad.
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
American hero!
I have so much cabbage in my fridge. Now I have found purpose.
busted: meditations of marcus aurelius
new hotness: cato the elder's cabbage-based binge drinking methods
new hotness: cato the elder's cabbage-based binge drinking methods
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I have so much cabbage in my fridge. Now I have found purpose.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Marching bands should play in baseball games. It’s unfair that football gets to hoard them.
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Marching bands should play in baseball games. It’s unfair that football gets to hoard them.
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Love the Queens and Halloween early voting stickers!
October 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Love the Queens and Halloween early voting stickers!
This year’s pan de muerto and ofrenda with @annevazquez.bsky.social! I feel like we finally figured out how to make the pan de muerto good.
Also featured is our daughter’s American Girl doll dressed up for Día de Muertos!
Also featured is our daughter’s American Girl doll dressed up for Día de Muertos!
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This year’s pan de muerto and ofrenda with @annevazquez.bsky.social! I feel like we finally figured out how to make the pan de muerto good.
Also featured is our daughter’s American Girl doll dressed up for Día de Muertos!
Also featured is our daughter’s American Girl doll dressed up for Día de Muertos!