This week: A Conclave, SCOTUS on LGBTQ+ Books in schools, Cuts to Youth Suicide Prevention, the Senate Twink’s comeback, Protect the Dolls, Los Frikis, JoJo Siwa, and much more…
À propos Apple, I wonder. Apple Podcasts has this odd feature that lets you manually set a different price for every country or exclude your podcast from publication in that country.
Leaving aside for a moment that I think it’s important to make so-called LGBTQI+ propaganda available to everyone in Russia, should all podcasters from other countries who speak about LGBTQI+ matters protect themselves by excluding Russia from their podcast’s publication? Asking for a friend…
Oh, strike that. After consulting with ChatGPT I find it's definitely advisable to avoid LGBTQI+ content monetization in Russia, and actually in several other countries. Perhaps monetization can be an "aggravating" offense in those countries, and anyway, other podcast platforms don't usually offer options to restrict distribution. I guess such restrictions serve also to protect our friends in those countries, to ensure that if they access LGBTQI+ content, they only do it via VPN and not inadvertently access it unprotected. Now I'm wondering what all content-displaying platforms (and even Google for that matter) do to protect users in restrictive countries.
Tucked between Trump’s budget cuts to public health and the bulldozing of basic human services is a quiet act of violence: the elimination of all funding for the LGBTQ+ line of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
No more trained counselors for queer kids in crisis. No more safe voice when they reach for help in the dark. Just a dead dial tone from a government that decided their lives aren’t worth anything.
À propos Apple, I wonder. Apple Podcasts has this odd feature that lets you manually set a different price for every country or exclude your podcast from publication in that country.
Leaving aside for a moment that I think it’s important to make so-called LGBTQI+ propaganda available to everyone in Russia, should all podcasters from other countries who speak about LGBTQI+ matters protect themselves by excluding Russia from their podcast’s publication? Asking for a friend…
Oh, strike that. After consulting with ChatGPT I find it's definitely advisable to avoid LGBTQI+ content monetization in Russia, and actually in several other countries. Perhaps monetization can be an "aggravating" offense in those countries, and anyway, other podcast platforms don't usually offer options to restrict distribution. I guess such restrictions serve also to protect our friends in those countries, to ensure that if they access LGBTQI+ content, they only do it via VPN and not inadvertently access it unprotected. Now I'm wondering what all content-displaying platforms (and even Google for that matter) do to protect users in restrictive countries.
Tucked between Trump’s budget cuts to public health and the bulldozing of basic human services is a quiet act of violence: the elimination of all funding for the LGBTQ+ line of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
No more trained counselors for queer kids in crisis. No more safe voice when they reach for help in the dark. Just a dead dial tone from a government that decided their lives aren’t worth anything.
https://substack.com/@patricemersault/note/c-111595238
Yes, Parolin is not Francis. But we could do alot worse.