Domenico Bettinelli

Catholic, Conservative, Mac guy, Dad, Husband, Podcaster/CEO @SQPN

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

She built EWTN from $200 and a garage, and took on bishops on live TV. Then she handed the whole network to a lay board. Mother Angelica's hardest move wasn't a fight. #Catholic #MotherAngelica #EWTN
With @bettnet.
Mother Angelica: The Nun Who Let Go - Holy Troublemakers: https://t.co/eBbEyxnqBA

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

A parishioner who is losing her sight looks up Christmas Mass times on her phone. The schedule is a picture of the bulletin, so her screen reader just says "image." Most parish website barriers are accidents, and most are cheap to fix. #TechPodcast #Accessibility
With @bettnet and @ritualdiva.
Is Your Parish Website Accessible? - Secrets of Technology: https://t.co/7Lby23CaKu

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Hoshi Sato's first trip through the transporter, and Enterprise starts forgetting she exists. Jimmy Akin had the twist figured out by minute 11. Did you? #StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise
With @bettnet and @jimmyakin3000.
Vanishing Point (ENT) - Secrets of Star Trek: https://t.co/IUTbDmR19i

[Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World @mys_world]

Ask anyone what a demon is and you'll hear "a fallen angel." But the Greek word daimon is centuries older than that idea. So what did it mean first? #MysteriousWorld #JimmyAkin #Demons
With @jimmyakin3000 and @bettnet.
https://t.co/eWTfvNZj63

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

He invited poor schoolmasters to his family table to teach them manners, and admitted later that he ranked them below his own valet. Then he spent the rest of his life losing that argument with himself on purpose. #Catholic #SaintOfTheDay
With @bettnet.
St. John Baptist de La Salle: The Canon Who Sat Down - Holy Troublemakers: https://t.co/U1dmcQsX6F

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Neelix dies, comes back 18 hours later, and remembers nothing. No Great Forest. No family waiting. Voyager's "Mortal Coil" asks what happens to faith when death seems to show you nothing. #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager
With @bettnet and @jimmyakin3000.
Mortal Coil (VOY) - Secrets of Star Trek: https://t.co/5bL0eqdpR3

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Katie Elder never appears on screen in "The Sons of Katie Elder." She's dead before the story starts. And somehow she's still the most important character in it. #JohnWayne #WesternFilm
With @bettnet, @1gingefille, @frchip and @houstinhobby.
The Secrets of the Sons of Katie Elder - Secrets of Movies: https://t.co/RvO7dEAfxi

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Delete a file in your sync folder and it vanishes from every device you own. That's why a cloud drive isn't a backup. Six years after their first backup episode, Dom Bettinelli and Pat Scott check what still holds up. #TechPodcast #Backup
With @bettnet and @pgscott.
Back It Up, Again: What's Changed Since 2020 - Secrets of Technology: https://t.co/Mx6gjCXjNr

[Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World @mys_world]

A 17th-century nun in Spain, the Lady in Blue in New Mexico, and a legend that she left behind a recipe for chili. Did the Virgin Mary invent chili? #WeirdQuestions #Catholic #LadyInBlue
With @jimmyakin3000 and @bettnet.
https://t.co/kmVZXGFJBR

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

At 7, Francesca Cabrini fell into a river while floating paper boats full of violets and nearly drowned. She was afraid of the sea for the rest of her life. She crossed the Atlantic more than 20 times anyway. #MotherCabrini #CatholicHistory
With @bettnet.
Mother Cabrini: The Woman Who Was Afraid Of The Water And Crossed It Anyway - Holy Troublemakers: https://t.co/0ppqAGHOvd

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

A Trill takes the Dax symbiont by force, and Dax goes along with it. If the symbiont has no will of its own, how much of Jadzia Dax was ever Dax? #StarTrek #DS9
With @bettnet and @jimmyakin3000.
Invasive Procedures (DS9) - Secrets of Star Trek: https://t.co/AEQXaPsUlE

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

If you died tonight, could your family get into your phone, your email, or the account the electric bill autopays from? Five years after Tech Memento Mori, the platforms have official tools for this, and they still miss the most important part. #DigitalLegacy #MementoMori #Catholic
With @bettnet.
Tech Memento Mori, Revisited - Secrets of Technology: https://t.co/Tqbo40fuOn

[Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World @mys_world]

If a pagan god met Jesus and repented, would it be forgiven? The Catechism says the fallen angels stay lost because of their own choice, not because God's mercy runs out. #Catholic #WeirdQuestions
With @jimmyakin3000 and @bettnet.
https://t.co/ckE49Jf69p

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Before "Heart of Glory," Worf mostly stood at tactical. After it, he had Khitomer, human parents, and a code of honor that would carry him through two series. A weak episode that did an important job. #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #Worf
With @bettnet and @jimmyakin3000.
Heart of Glory (TNG) - Secrets of Star Trek: https://t.co/MKzuCVdjAu

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Apple's new HomeView recognizes up to six faces and gives each person a private home screen. Great, unless your household has seven people. Who gets voted off the island? #Apple #HomeView #SmartHome
With @bettnet and @ritualdiva.
Apple's Home Strategy Comes into View - Secrets of Technology: https://t.co/WweXGuciUk

[Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World @mys_world]

Under the casing, a Dalek is a living creature. So does it have a soul? A listener asked, and the answer draws on Aristotle and Aquinas. #DoctorWho #Daleks #WeirdQuestions
With @jimmyakin3000 and @bettnet.
https://t.co/mlVdgD8fWg

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

A sick Anglican priest, becalmed on a fruit boat off Sicily, wrote six lines asking only for one step forward. He had no idea those lines would outlive his entire career. St. John Henry Newman's story starts on that boat. #CatholicHistory #JohnHenryNewman
With @bettnet.
St. John Henry Newman: One Step Enough for Me - Holy Troublemakers: https://t.co/MCVit1e0sa

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Silo's Season 3 finale wakes Daniel Keene with no memory and a massacre to carry out. If a man is reprogrammed into a killer, is he still guilty? #Silo #AppleTV
With @bettnet.
Silo, S3: Troy - Secrets of Television: https://t.co/a5kufhIDAN

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

Star Trek's first holodeck showed up in 1974, and it was called the rec room. "The Practical Joker" gets there 13 years before Riker walks into the woods on the Enterprise-D. #StarTrek #StarTrekTAS
With @bettnet and @jimmyakin3000.
The Practical Joker (TAS) - Secrets of Star Trek: https://t.co/mB0Ys1FFyt

[StarQuest Media (SQPN) @sqpn]

A handful of people in a room decided who would live and who would die, then lit the fuse that made it permanent. Silo's "Farewell" finally shows the moment the doors closed. Who gave them that right? #Silo #SiloTV
With @bettnet.
Silo, S3: Farewell - Secrets of Television: https://t.co/IpGn0a1w2T