8 Ways LINE Can Help Protect You in the Event of an Earthquake

After an earthquake:

When a disaster takes place, it’s important to act quickly. One natural reaction is to immediately reach out to loved ones using our smartphones, as we want to know they’re safe. This is another area LINE can be very useful, with the LINE profile page being an excellent way to let others know you are safe and sound, without the need to make a call. 

Also, remember to take photos of your surroundings and save them in LINE’s “Keep” function. In an emergency, things can get very hectic and you often have dozens of things running through your mind, so documenting everything as it happens can be very helpful for later.

In the case of a large-scale disaster, it’s advisable to move to the nearest evacuation point. Enabling location sharing turns your phone into a beacon that automatically updates your location, ensuring peace of mind for your loved ones. 

It’s hard to predict what kind of information might be useful in an unpredictable scenario like a large-scale earthquake. For situations like these, LINE offers a “Highlight” function that lets you pin crucial information to the top part of the chat – making sure that key messages do not get buried under new chats.

Lastly, organizations like companies, schools and municipalities can confirm the status of their people by using the LINE Disaster Communication Official Account. Recipients are asked to choose their status, whether “affected”, “safe”, or “not in the affected region”. 

Check to see if your organization has an account or to find out more here: www.linebiz.com/jp/news/20210304/ (only in Japanese). 

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Put A Finger In It

Now, we know some of you guys who prefer the top bunk might find the idea of someone pulling up to your bumper somewhat of a touchy subject, but we’re curious! When you’re getting your rod worked on, does the desire for anal stimulation mean you might secretly be a closet bottom?

The answer, at least according to this article we found on Psychology Today’s website, is not necessarily. In fact, it just means you’re completely normal. Turns out people of all sexual persuasions—including 24% of straight men—enjoy the art of the backdoor finger bang every once in a while.

So go ahead, all you top dogs out there, embrace your inner bottom. Better yet, share your favorite techniques for getting digits into that tight spot in the comments section. We promise noone will point fingers. Well, unless you want them to.

www.daddyhuntapp.com/blog/2021/3/13/put-a-finger-in-it

World AIDS Day – “Global Solidarity, Shared Responsibility”

World AIDS Day was first marked in 1988 and for the last 32 years, it has been observed on December 1st each year. Given the raging COVID-19 pandemic, it is fitting that the theme this is year is “Global solidarity, shared responsibility”.

Reducing the spread of AIDS has required a global response including education about preventative measures, as well as new drug regimens to prevent contraction and to reduce the viral loads of those who are HIV-positive. While there is still no cure for AIDS, all of these measures plus social responsibility have slowed the spread of the disease. The aggressive spread of COVID-19 requires a similar effort, which is why organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) remain important. Without a coordinated global response to stop these diseases, isolated approaches will have limited impact on containing the spread.

Unfortunately, the fight against COVID-19 has had a negative impact on HIV prevention around the global, most notably, due to disruption with testing and treatment efforts. This disruption is threatening lives.

FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW:

• Globally, 12.6 million people living with HIV still lack access to treatment.
• An estimated 38 million people are living with HIV.
• HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed 33 million lives so far.
• By June 2020, 26 million people were accessing antiretroviral therapy, marking a 2.4 percent increase from an estimate of 25.4 million at the end of 2019.

While the global community has made major strides with HIV prevention and treatment over the past decades, the facts above show that there is still so much more to be done to end the HIV epidemic. On World AIDS Day 2020, let’s show our support for people around the world who are living with HIV and remember those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses.

Health is a basic human right, and we must demand that our governments make investments in healthcare a top priority to insure basic universal health care coverage for everyone to end the spread of illnesses, such as, AIDS and COVID-19. Coming together as a global community unimpeded by geographic boundaries or political affiliation is the only way we can ever defeat these types of diseases. Let’s redouble our efforts!

TO LEARN MORE: Visit World AIDS Day 2020

TO DONATE: Visit WorldAidDays.org

www.daddyhuntapp.com/blog/2020/12/1/world-aids-day-global-solidarity-shared-responsibility

Now Is Not The Time For Complacency

For most of us, 2020 probably can’t end soon enough! Covid-19 continues to spread throughout most parts of the world and its impact spans far beyond the deaths and health toll that it has had on many. The promising vaccines, however, give us some hope.

Yet, we cannot forget another major impact on the LGBTQ+ community this year, specifically, the erosion of our rights around the globe. We partnered with Diversport on the Know Your Rights campaign to support our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers in Spain because knowing your fundamental rights are imperative when it comes to protecting those rights against anyone who might wish to take them away.

Whether it is the outright hostility to LGBTQ rights in countries such as Poland and Russia or the Trump Administration’s thinly-veiled efforts to roll back LGBTQ protections in the U.S., now more than ever, it is important for our community to take notice and be heard, which is why campaigns, such as Know Your Rights in Spain are so important.

Faced with the threat that education about equality and diversity could be eliminated from classrooms and schools in Andalusia, Diversport decided to fight back. They realized that, all too often, we take basic rights for granted and fail to remember how hard it was to secure those rights to begin with.

Diversport’s advocacy and the hardwork being done by many other groups around the world reminds us why social justice movements are important and need our support. Let’s not lower our guard or take a step back. Celebrate the rights we have and advocate for those that we want every day of the year.

This Daddy and the Daddyhunt team are fully supportive of those efforts.

www.daddyhuntapp.com/blog/2020/11/27/now-is-not-the-time-for-complacency

WeChat 7.0.5 for iOS and Android

Upgrade now to WeChat 7.0.5, available on the iOS App Store and Google Play and try the latest improvements and features

1. Big changes to Moments

“Moments” allows you to share life’s most interesting experiences with your WeChat friends. In the latest version of Moments, we’ve made sharing even more “musical”. Now, you can search and add song snippets from WeChat’s comprehensive music collection to the videos you shoot and share to your Moments.

When browsing your friends’ Moments, videos will automatically play with the sound muted. You can tap on the video to view a fullscreen version of the video with audio. Worried about using too much data? Don’t worry, videos on WeChat use special methods to make video downloads on Moments use no more data than downloading a photo. Additionally, you can change your auto-play options within “Me” -> “Settings” => “General” => “Photos & Videos”.

Finally, at the request of many users, we’ve made it even easier for you to control WHO is able to view your Moments. When posting to Moments, you can select “Share List” => “Select from Groups” and select one or more groups who will have permission to view your Moments post. After selecting, only members of those groups will be able to view your post. This is another great way to make sure that only the people you care about see your personal photos, funny baby videos, or other Moments posts.

Select one or more groups. Afterwards, only members of these groups will be able to view your Moments post.

2. Time Capsule: Supports photos montages and music lyrics

“Time Capsule” is WeChat’s latest major feature and allows you to share a short video story with your friends for a brief period of time. Now, Time Capsule supports selecting multiple photos from your photo album after which a photo montage will be automatically created. It’s a great way to share either photos OR videos with your friends.

Also, while sharing photos or videos,  you can now search a song title, artist, or lyrics to accompany your video. An additional option allows  you to display a song’s lyrics. Decorating your Time Capsule with song lyrics adds extra feeling to your Time Capsule.

Search and add a song from WeChat’s extensive music collection

Enable “Lyrics” to display song lyrics to accompany your Time Capsule video

3. Floating Window now supports multiple windows and window types

Have you ever needed to view your chat messages while reading an article within WeChat or playing a Mini Game? It’s a hassle to back out of your article mid-stream in order to check your messages.

Floating Window was initially introduced in 2017 as a way for you to save your place and minimize an article while checking other parts of WeChat like chats. We’ve now greatly expanded Floating Window so that you can “float” up to 10 different windows. Windows can be articles, document previews, or nearly any other type of content. When viewing a music or audio Mini Program, you’ll also be able to see what’s playing via our new music display in Floating Window. Floating Window makes multi-tasking within WeChat a breeze.

When viewing an article, document preview, or other content, simply swipe right and hold to minimize the article to your Floating Window.

The Floating Window appears as a small tab that you can move around the screen.

Tapping on the Floating Window tab shows all of the screens that you’ve “floated” and can easily reopen. Float articles, document previews, and tons of other screens to make your WeChat browsing experience even more convenient.

Be sure to download the latest version of WeChat now and try out all of these new improvements!

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Just In Case Your Forgot, It’s Movember! Where’s Your Moustache?

Movember is here! The N replaces the M, and M stands for moustache. In an effort to raise both funds and awareness for prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men, the Movember Movement was created. You can learn more here to raise money, donate or get involved.

While the popularity of the moustache itself has risen and fallen throughout time, the premise that people will inevitably ask you about your lip warmer holds true. We guess that’s why in recent years, Movember has gotten so much buzz. They even have a nice mobile app to help you keep your moustauche in check!

Are your participating in Movember? If so, be sure to take pictures and share them with us on our social media or here.

Happy Movember to all!

www.daddyhuntapp.com/blog/2020/11/11/just-in-case-your-forgot-its-movember-wheres-your-moustache

With LINE Meeting, now you can join group video calls by URL!

  

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Grindr & MOSAIC Release Report, Capturing Experiences of GBTQ Community in Middle East and North Africa

When Grindr for Equality and the MENA Organization for Services, Advocacy, Integration & Capacity Building (MOSAIC) set out to document the experiences of Grindr users in the Middle East and North Africa, it was important to all of us that we dig deeper than the typical topics that come up when people talk about anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the region.

While we asked the nearly 2,000 respondents how many had experienced violence (35%), faced employment discrimination (50%) and housing discrimination (15%) because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, we also fielded questions that would bring out the stories of LGBTQ resilience. We wanted to specifically highlight those who are building happy queer lives for themselves, even when surrounded by people and institutions who are working hard against us.

For instance, despite a common belief that coming out to families is impossible in the region, a full 29% said their parents knew about their sexual orientation or gender identity, and 6% even said their families fully accepted them for who they are.

It was equally thrilling to see the number of people who reported self-acceptance. Nearly three quarters of those who answered the survey (72%) said they are happy with their sexual orientation or gender identity. One respondent wrote, “In spite of all the suffering and risks, I am happy and proud of my sexual orientation – I wouldn’t want to be anyone else.”

The most interesting finding was around LGBTQ+ friendship. In order to help assess respondents’ social support systems, we asked about their social lives – who they could trust and turn to for support. For me, the finding that 78% of respondents had friends that are LGBTQ+ helps explain people’s self-acceptance.

This talk of friendship highlights what was important to me personally about the process of creating this survey. This project was born out of my own friendship with Charbel Maydaa, a queer Lebanese activist who runs MOSAIC. When I started at Grindr, he was one of the first people I called to discuss how we could best leverage the app’s unique reach within the community to further his work in the region.

Charbel and I gathered a group of LGBTQ+ activists representing advocacy organizations in seven countries – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, and Palestine – and spent three days in Istanbul discussing what we hoped to achieve with this survey. We focused on developing questions that would most support the activism in the region by delivering data that could be used for future grant applications, public persuasion campaigns, and advocacy work to change policies.

That meeting also created some of my most important friendships since then. One activist I met that week is now my associate director of Grindr for Equality. Another has become a sister to me in my chosen family, and I had the great honor of officiating her wedding last December. And for many of the other activists present, we have become close friends and collaborators, working together to amplify the incredible work they’ve been doing for years in the region.

It’s so often these friendships that help LGBTQ+ people get through the hard times when they face discrimination, and the same applies to activists. The only way we can achieve our mission to create a world where LGBTQ+ people can truly be free is for us to support one another, share our resources, and take risks that will amplify each other’s work. I’m proud to have centered our friendships in this project, and I believe the results will prove to be more useful because of it.

– Jack Harrison-Quintana, Executive Director of Grindr for Equality, VP of Social Impact at Grindr

To view the full report, “The Regional Livelihood of GBTQ Using Grindr,” please visit www.mosaicmena.org/publications, or via direct link docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/dba79f_a20db964582842c0bcd4c3cdc8d31bfb.pdf.