Post some good news?

[ergophobe]

Depending on your definition of news....

Headline: Middle School Teacher Has Friend Named Dave
https://youtube.com/shorts/DLoavaBsFeA?si=dEJTARKJAlCoRhp7

[ergophobe]

Extinction rates are slowing down
https://www.futurity.org/extinction-rates-3301872-2/

The new study by Kristen Saban and John Wiens with the University of Arizona ecology and evolutionary biology department, however, revealed that over the last 500 years extinctions in plants, arthropods, and land vertebrates peaked about 100 years ago and have declined since then.

[ergophobe]

For your RSS feed

 - https://reasonstobecheerful.world/

 - https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/ - the account of the Mediterranean mega flood is indeed amazing - imagine a 1.5km waterfall with 1000 Amazon rivers pouring over it. https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/in-search-of-a-flood-like-no-other

[rcjordan]

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe – pv magazine International
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/

[ergophobe]

This is not exactly news, but it's a fun video.

Summary: woman is working as a janitor at the hospital where Yale med school practices and mother gets sick. The janitor asks the CEO for help and the CEO steps in. The janitor decides she wants to be able to do that for people too, so she goes to med school. When she gets out, she gets a first job as a resident at Yale's med school hospital

But the video is worth a watch - her reactions are great

https://x.com/CoryBooker/status/2037330403002900912?s=20

And in general, Cory Booker posts something happy/hopeful pretty much every day. A kid who gets a ball from a player and then walks into the stands and gives it to another kid, a kid who writes a letter thanking his coach.