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@orcwizard.bsky.social
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Gaming, science, higher ed, all things nerdy.

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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He’s a big guy, but a small, small man.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A worthy addition to his dubious CV!
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The former Secretary of State, who took Kim Jong Un uncritically at his word, who got irate that Mary Louise Kelly could find Ukraine on a map and he couldn’t, is getting a teaching fellowship at an Ivy League school. Hm.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine that… the most comprehensive surveillance network in the US doesn’t itself want to be surveilled. 🙄🙄🙄
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But he keeps letting us know he’s still cool with the bigotry.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The party of the ostrich. Always their heads in the sand.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He never keeps promises and he never pays out. His MO is to say what he needs in the moment to get what he wants.
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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is my surprised face. pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/s...
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Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure
Every year, the OECD surveys students around the world for the Programme for International Student Assessment. The 2025 results were just released today. [OECD; OECD, PDF] Around the world, results…
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think we all know he never pays out. Nor keeps promises. He just says what he red to get what he wants.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I suppose this bribe should be categorized as a lie. He never pays out or keeps a promise. I’m sure he’ll still find other ways to plunder the US over the next two years though.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Perhaps Cruz is suggesting it’s evidence of the president’s mental decline.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Heeeere’s Donny!”
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s something about the first week of September when the afternoon sunlight is just perfect.
Light clouds and blue sky, a creek, trees, and sunlight.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This feels of a piece for the guy who recommends fasting as a way to cope with yards and rising prices.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The headline should read “Disgraced Ex-Mayor Makes Bigoted Comments to Far-Right Rag in Desperate Bid to Stay Relevant.”
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I assume this is a school where they let the students vote on the mascot? www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
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'Boaty McBoatface' tops public vote as name of polar ship
"Boaty McBoatface" is the runaway winner in a competition to name a new polar ship - polling nearly 90,000 more votes than the second most popular name.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My former congressman, Chris Collins, got a jail sentence over insider trading.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
299 Count Kong The Temporary Sunshine of the Tarnished Mind
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This happened to a guy I knew. His name was Gary. It was his girlfriend’s alligator. I told him, “that’s her pet Ollie, G.” (Sorry if that’s a stretch. I couldn’t scale it back.)
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maybe he can accuse Canada of stealing all his hot air.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I am going to propose to the city council to rename our largest landfill, the one belching gases you can smell from the highway, after the president.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is much easier said than done.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Not a medievalist, but as someone in the humanities, this speaks to me. www.medievalists.net/2026/08/chil...
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So, Your Child Has Decided to Become a Medievalist - Medievalists.net
What happens when a seemingly ordinary child decides to devote their life to the Middle Ages? Ken Mondschein offers parents a survival guide for life with a budding medievalist.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Two faculty meetings this week at two different schools and I’ve learned that Zoom has really gone downhill.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wizards need towers.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
lol, Collins is not just a convicted felon but a carpetbagger now too! He was a terrible congressman.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sci-fi author: in my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. 
Tech Company: at long last we have created the Torment Nexus from classic scifi novel Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Narrative™️, though. It cannot fail. It can only be failed.
2017 tweet, I swear to you, if we had the power to indoctrinate we would start by indoctrinating our students to read the syllabus
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Just another college, failing to prepare students for the real world. /s
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026
I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I read that Senator Collins is tired of the criticism of her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, too.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This seems like the worst kind of predatory corporate bullying. Buc-ee’s should just buc off.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I had a job with a college study abroad program. I remember a student commenting how cutthroat foul-mouthed I got when playing cards with them. This speaks to me.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Is it because we’re running low because of the Iran debacle?
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My employer uses Oracle. I hate the layout and design.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Twelve Angry Athenians”
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I thought he fell in the lava when he grabbed the Ring?
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
With all due respect to people suffering from dementia, he looks like he’s wandered off again.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Finally watching Severance and really enjoying it. Feels like if Office Space had been written by Philip K. Dick.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“Hey, can you exchange these for Sacajawea dollar coins instead?”
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m starting to think Defense Secretary Hegseth considers Jack D. Ripper the good guy in “Dr. Strangelove.”
"Dr Strangelove"
General Jack D Ripper:
"It's incredibly obvious, isn't it?
A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
Certainly without any choice.
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That's the way your hard core Commie works."
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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026
As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵
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Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I get that part of NPR’s mission is to interview and report on significant trends. I listened to this interview with dismay, though, that NPR let this theocrat expound his gay-hating, anti-women, bigoted views. I decided to screenshot instead of link so as not to perpetuate his views.
Screenshotted NPR page for interview with Christian nationalist.
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I spoke with Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He said he was getting better. He didn’t want to go on the cart. He said he was thinking of going for a walk. Then he began chanting, “I feel happy, I feel happy.”
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Lenny, Carl, and others watch Homer Simpson while saying “Get ready everyone, he’s about to do something stupid.”
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Perhaps he should read Matthew Chapter 5. How does that start? Blessed are the landlords or something?
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I picked up a copy of the old board game (late 70s) off eBay a few years back. Quite a good game with interesting art.
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