Chris Heard

Husband & dad. Biblical scholar. Enjoys tech, games, comics, sci-fi. Lives & works on historically Chumash lands. Affirms that Black lives matter.

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Proud to be the 507th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for MythCraft TTRPG Enhanced: New Loot, Reprint, and VTT Support!! https://t.co/iIb4vb3RlG

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@Mal_Hibou Owen Wilson

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Is there a model for a sustainable #OpenAccess journal that doesn’t rely on APCs? In my field, scholarship is rarely grant-funded, and most of my colleagues don’t have $1200 lying around to pay an APC, no matter how much they believe in the OA ideal.

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Why can’t major news outlets ask Pat Cipollone how he pronounces his family name, and pronounce it that way consistently? I just heard an anchor on a major cable news network (not that one) pronounce it differently in two successive sentences.

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Would a sentence made up entirely of Google Docs autocomplete suggestions be plagiarized?

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I just wrote an email that mentioned something about “punishments attached” to certain behaviors, and Gmail wanted to know where the file attachment was.

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@MarkHMcEntire No. The “would-be Kavanaugh assassin” didn’t have a Congressional escort.

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@ptchat Haven’t seen the show yet, but maybe the friend (or the screenwriter) is just keeping things in the same temporal frame? Most of what schoolkids learn about ancient Greece and Rome is pre-Constantine, is it not?

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Sometimes I just want to scream “based ON” into the void.

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@rickgib @Mal_Hibou Some might be concerned that those “roots” could become “hedges” to constrain academic freedom. Ironically, Pepperdine can offer *more* academic freedom than many Christian colleges precisely *because* of CoC heritage.

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@drleahpayne Not squarely in this category but Audrey Asssad’s transformation of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” into “Your Peace Will Make Us One” is really remarkable.

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@drleahpayne The Young Escape’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” is really quite good.

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@ReligionProf Interestingly, protest and intercession for Ishmael is exactly how Abraham is shown responding in Gen 18 when God announces Isaac’s on the way.

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@DeityShe Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)

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So GOP lawmakers can’t trust teachers to teach kids about race or gender, but want them to carry guns to school? smh

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Wordle 332 4/6

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Oh yeah. No proper nouns.

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Wordle 325 3/6

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@StreetLevelTech @Dr_Dzeguze @TheTattooedProf No, he just thought it was a “how to.”

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Wordle 321 6/6. At least I got the Spelling Bee pangram in 1 today so I don’t feel so bad.

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