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It's 'sending ill-advised and impulsive but complimentary emails to random academics' hours again.

Specifically, the professor who wrote this article, which is good and y'all should check it out:

Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.

#hylian rambles #she wrote that she and her students get almost no interaction with their hopeful posts and i wanted her to know that's not a universal #expereince and there ARE corners of the internet where hope is valued and widely shared #namely tumblr #if the earth day post taught me anything it's that people DO want to seek out and relish the optimism and joy and hope in the world #hope #hopescrolling

So, doomscrolling and doomposting isn't the activism people have been led to believe. Don't just read the headlines, please read these.

The media's adherence to “if it bleeds, it leads” has resulted in global dominance of negative news (e.g., stories of corruption, fraud, sho

Doomscrolling is the habit of constantly scrolling online news headlines, which often blare bad news. Doomscrolling can lead to a wide range

If anything, science shows seeing good news provokes action.

A recent study suggests how acts of kindness can have a far-reaching ripple effect.

But because media knows bad news spreads more, you would need to deliberately seek it outside of your own timelines and such. I recommend checking out the good news tag here and the good news feed on bluesky if you don't have a lot of time like me.

There are outliers to be wary of, like people using the phrase 'good news' to be sarcastic or people seeing harmful things as good news. But for the most part, checking good news every day has shown me we're not approaching the end of the world.

And Trump has been losing in court A LOT.

#doomposting #doomscrolling #good news #hopescrolling #politics

"Hello, welcome to the evening Facts. Because this isn't the News. It's the verifiable Truth."

Show where they take what's actually important in the news, don't give any opinions or analysis on a subject, and just give straight verifiable facts in a way that's not meant to screw with our perception, but to clarify it. Give us the cold hard verifiable facts. No spin. No presenting them in a misleading or skewed way. Just-

"The Earth is round. Here is a video, a picture, and mathematical equation. And here is a mathematician who will explain to you how the math works in laymen's terms. Thank you Neil."