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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist

@ajmarquis.bsky.social
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Leftist, former physics guy turned amateur TTRPG developer and teacher

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 8h
i hope this email finds you ded
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
roguelike Zork
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
btw I run the only fun computer science course in the world
AP CS A Unit 4 - Task 7 - Binary Search and Big O	Name: ________________________
	Period: _____
Binary Search

The basic steps of binary search are the following:
Make int values to hold the left and right sides of our search window, starting at the whole array from first to last value
While we still have things to search (our window has more than one element in it), repeat the following steps:
Find the index in the middle of our search window
Look at the value at that index, return the index if it equals the target value
If it isn't the right value, close our window to ignore the half of the window where, because the array is sorted, we are sure the value CANNOT be.
If the loop ends, the value isn't in the set. Return -1.


OH NO! Donquixote Doflamingo has stolen the pieces of the Binary Search Algorithm, planning to use its superior O(log2 n) performance to dominate the rest of the underworld and their inefficient linear searches while he alone can find any "key" or "target" in a massive database instantly. Fill in the missing logic to thwart Doflamingo!

public static int binarySearch(int[] nums, int target) {
    int left = ____;
    int right = ________________________;
    
    while (__________________) {
        int mid = left + ____________________;      
        if (nums[mid] == target) {
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People still doing the 500 9/11s thing huh
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is just the wall from Farenheit 451
Hello computer.
Decompile and distill Grand Theft Auto.
Make the game set in my hometown -- use Google Earth to reconstruct it in pixel-perfect detail.
Make the character me and have my spawn point be in the mansion I always look at on Zillow.
Review my chat memory and make every mission about my hopes and dreams.
Make it playable online so my friends can join.
When you're done, sell all my video games on Ebay and use that money to fund tokens for my next game.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I learned Odin + Raylib for fun, as a project wanted to make some physics diagrams for my classes, and have now extended it to animations and checks for understanding.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"I've fought for children my whole career. Haha, not THOSE kids though"
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A remarkable game, just play it.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There was NO computer science at this high school when I entered. Look what I have to cook up now.
Course description for Honors Data Structures and Algorithms
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't think anybody has a right to be a YouTuber.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My big prediction is that grandparental rights will be a serious issue in elections in the next 5 to 10 years
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you are falling for "migrant caravan" shit in the year of our Lord 2026 you have to consider if just maybe you are extremely stupid.
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it’s fun that all of the core id guys are now normal charming dorky dad types (Romero, Hall, Adrian Carmack) or ontologically evil freaks (John Carmack, Sandy) with American McGee, an ardent libertarian that now lives on a boat and makes plushies, somehow straddling the line.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DO YOU READ BLOGS? READ MY DEBUT TTRPG BLOG
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wife is looking at a book tok person who said that Gideon the Ninth was too confusing. Dawg. Come on.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A quibbling issue in front of more major ones: but I already have more beautifully human crafted TTRPG content than I could ever run so why would I want the plagarism machine to generate me any more?
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jumping party during a historically unpopular year for the GOP, probably a wise plan.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
anybody else up thinking about these slugs from Another World?
Slug with tooth out ready to strike
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dems: the ones who didn't walk away from omelas
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The people long for guilds and mutual aid
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
assassin's creed voice* if everything is a yellow card then anything is permitted
4 yellow cards for da revs and they are all some bullshit
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
REVS REVS REVS
Gillette stadium, onset of the Revolution and Orlando game
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Getting erect with the other heterosexual boys or I have to go to the penis doctor.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last night: I'm so glad my son is home from college for the first time 4am: damn his sleep schedule is fucking deranged
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AP Computer Science A students can't compile or run code in AP Classroom, so I took two weeks to build my own AP Classroom that let's them do it. The fact that @collegeboard.org hasn't bothered to implement something like this shows the laziness their monopoly has encouraged.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Genuinely @nnedi.bsky.social was the author who reignited my interest in the genre after years of not reading it, and I followed through to many on this list.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also since I'm on it today @ifycomedy.com here is my pitch: 1) I went to college when I was 14 and got my degree in condensed matter physics, and am therefore one of the world's largest dorks 2) I have at least a dozen science themed bow ties and will let you pick Therefore, let me be on Um Actually
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm a big fan of @ifycomedy.com and @erikaishii.bsky.social , so I'm glad after the show my wife walked up to them and told a story about my vas deferens. It's good that that's the one thing they know about me actually.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In the last fight when the snow kicks up and the antagonist's face emerges, demon like from the flurry? That shit rocks.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow I guess you make chlorine gas in the lab a couple of times and all of the sudden ur the mustard gas guy
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cruz is an immoral coward who kissed the ass of a man who called his wife ugly. If you pull the lever next to his name so are you.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kansas's John Brown based rivalry video made a remarkable number of Missouri fans say "I love slavers, actually"
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
*one piece voice* the great lesbian era has begun!
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Day one and a student expressed the thought that I was too overqualified to teach our lowest level classes. It makes me overwhelmingly sad that at some point so many of these kids internalized the idea that because their talents don't align with the narrow scope of school that they aren't talented
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ready 2 fuckin roll
Chemistry classroom and lab, clean and ready for the year
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MAGENTA💜💀SKULL🔪 @magentaskull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
u want some breaks trade me some money so i can keep feeding our lil dudes
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I went to turtle log and nobody knew you there
Eastern painted turtles on a log
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
LeBron is showing himself to be the real GOAT because Jordan neveranaged to rally sponsors around his gambling addiction
LeBron James tweet in support of polymarket
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I propose that flat earthers and globe model folks fight it out in a battle of mortars.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PLAY THAT DIRTY WATER
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"At once, Father placed the mouth of the barrel of his musket next to the ear of Mr. Wilkinson. "You're right about that;" he said. "Jailer, you can march back to the cells with my sons here and uncage the two colored men and bring them forward... Otherwise, I will blow this man's brains out."
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Camping and reading
A running Appalachian creekCover of Peterson's Elusive Shift
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Russia is obviously a terrible actor and I'm anti war, but that puts one on the same side as the sizable number of people who talk about Russians like they are the Uruk Hai
Why does it remind the peacenik and/or russian propaganda approach to Ukraine? "Fact: russians are genocidal rapists scum that barely fit human description. They: what if russians are afraid/have security concerns/are just misunderstood and Ukraine just need to stop fighting? Peace and trade ☮️"
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Gears of War tactics game is shockingly good
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
To go backwards, careening off a cliff towards an imagined 1950s, vote R. To spin your wheels while the driver explains the speedometer says you're going real fast vote D
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My eldest son is moving to college tomorrow and we are on the patio playing Wavelength. He and I are so similar in thinking and I'm both proud and sad.
A dark ale on a dark patio table next to the game wavelength
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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
[cw: animal death] Cat update: I picked up the cats from my wife's ex. They remembered her and were loving on her and cuddled on her lap all morning. Took them to the vet and one has very advanced cancer and likely doesn't have long.
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