Good News Roundups are a long-running series. Our writers collect upbeat news about the nation and world, news that we do not get from down-beating traditional media. Not wishing to flee or freeze, with the help of Good News Roundups we engage. We don’t just passively wait for the future to arrive, with our actions, we invite it. Our minds and hearts know that doom scrolling inhibits our physical and mental health, and we therefore choose to nourish and cleanse ourselves in a flood of good news. You can read more good news by our writers here and here.
Welcome to this Good News Roundup!
You are so welcome! If you’re new to Good News Roundups, please check out Welcome #1.
Welcome #2: WineRev, yesterday, in DoctorStrange’s Roundup:
Just to mix things up for your Saturday, those arriving at the Gnuville Breakfast Brunch are noticing the drive-thru window is doing a booming business, as is the walk-up window. The outdoor, under-the-palm-fronds wing of the Mimosa Bar has swung into the occasion by offering spin-around bar stools (although, starting at the bottom of the third mimosa, the spinning doesn’t need a bar stool.) Doctor Strange has swung through the GNR Clinic, signed in for GNR, and has the prescription pad whipping along.
This is the corner of the Internet where the prescriptions for your mental health, your spiritual consolation and your maintenance and improvement of you sense of humor are all dispensed with gusto and with style. Those of us who have already collected morning beverages and ordered up hot baked goodies (extra large for Saturday mornings at a weekday price!), and proteins a la daybreak, are settling in around the pool here at the Gnuville Breakfast Brunch. The cabanas are welcoming, the music is tune-able, the friendly faces of fellow imbibers of Good News are at every turn, and the Wi-Fi is sizzling like turned-over bacon strips for side-2 frying. C’mon in for stories, add your comments, click on the links, offer your recs, and drop in a zinger, a line, a chuckle. It’s Saturday, and you’ve earned this delightful and informative and even consoling/inspiring time-out. Welcome, One and All, and thank you to Doctor Strange for the white lab coat rentals and souvenir stethoscopes to go with today’s Round Up of the Good News! YAY!
Happy Birthday to Us!
We’re celebrating seven years of Good News Roundups! Mayor Goodie migrated to Daily Kos on May 17th, 2017, and we’ve been growing ever since.
The first Roundup: From the archives (May 17th 2017) -- Wednesday Morning Good News Roundup. (She reposted it on February 3, 2019.)
And look, there in the comments, we see Wee Mama, the founder of the Good News Group, welcoming GoodNewsRoundup to Daily Kos as part of the Welcoming Committee! That looks like serendipity to me! (And it’s never too late to Recommend.)
Thanks to Mokurai for correcting my recollections in my diary on May 5.
To celebrate our anniversary every year, I ask Gnuvillians to tell us a little bit about yourself and the Good News Roundups series.
Poll #1: Who Won the Week?
ICYMU: This Week in Gnuville
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WineRev’s Good and Goofy Notes
Watch for WineRev’s G&G notes in the comments to see what others went through, struggled with, and surmounted in the past. His G&G comments are mini Good News Roundups. You can find all his comments here, even today’s, once he posts it. Tech Tip: You can search for >>> in Roundups to quickly find his comments.
WineRev, last Sunday:
Remote controls are part of our lives these days. (Things really improved when they went wireless…….before that you couldn’t get across the living room without hitting a trip wire in the ankle, a lasso at the knees, or getting clotheslined just getting out of your recliner to reload on drinks from the kitchen.) So yeah, its gotten better.
And thats a Good Thing because all of us at the Gnuville Breakfast Brunch STILL get our minimum daily adult requirement of Good News even on a Sunday when 2thanks is feeling under the weather. (Get well-er/bett-er soon! From all of us!) By using THIS remote, 2 thanks’ PIN number has got the coffee perking, the tea suffusing, and the mocha and the cocoa doing their merry dance in a handy mug.
That handy text from 2thanks to the bartenders at the Mimosa Bar has things clinking in tall fluted glasses that make getting your daily dose of Vitamin C in a glass off to a bubbly start…..ahhhhhh! The Food Machine/ Breakfast page on 2thanks’ I-Pad/Tablet has all sorts of toasted, fried, baked, eggy, protein-ial foods chugging out on plates riding the conveyor belt. And the Mighty Bach-o-Rama Sunday Organ Wurlitzer had the Internet screens glowing, the pixels flying and even the comfy chairs self-reclining, all across the Lounge d’Informatique. So have a read, post a comment, add a rec, ask a query or query an ask, digress as you need to and be sure to snicker and groan appropriately at the jokes and puns. The Round Up is Open and we all Remotely Thank 2thanks with the Combined Clicker Salute (which not only brings up applause for 2thanks, but makes the screens in the Lounge go absolutely nuts and releases an electronic mass that heads toward the Sun as payback for the latest coronal ejections it sent our way. How do you like them apples, Old Helios?)
Not these penguins (Emperor penguins, 2 adults and juvenile)
Science
I searched a little, and then I checked the answer.
Puzzle source: Nature Briefing: Monday, 20 May 2024
Please share good science news with us! (Especially JSWT, health, environment.)
A good place to look for science news if you are waiting for the Sunday Roundup is the archive of Overnight News Digest. On Saturdays, the OND always focuses on science, though not all of it is devoted to what I would call Good Science News.
Need more good news?
… arhpdx posted a list of good news sites toward the top of a recent Roundup, or you can find that same list in my comment: Good News Sources. Thank you, arhpdx and Mokurai!
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Where Ever is Herd
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- Mondays The GNR Newsroom (Jessiestaf, Killer300, and Bhu)
- Tuesdays arhpdx and niftywriter
- Wednesdays: 2nd MCUBernieFan, 3rd WineRev, 4th karij. 1st and 5th: lemay50, Andrew F Cockburn, DoctorStrange.
- Thursdays Mokurai
- Fridays chloris creator, regular links to the White House Briefing Room.
- Saturdays GoodNewsRoundup, the one and only!
- Sundays 2thanks — A brief roundup of Roundups, a retrospective, a smorgasbord, a bulletin board, an oasis, a watering hole, a thunder of hooves, a wellness, a place for beginners to learn the rules of the veldt. For instance, we do not welcome grammar-police comments in Roundups.
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A Little Bit About Me
A beautiful picture of cottonwood trees in swirling mist. Or is it hordes of their floating feathery seeds? Cottonwood trees painted by Georgia O’Keeffe. "Winter Cottonwoods East V," 1954. Placed in the Daily Kos Image Library by Onomastic.
A little bit of good news for me: I’ve recovered from a very bad sore throat and cold. Since my daughter and her child had strep throat, I was worried that I had it too, but my 48-hour culture for strep throat was negative this week. Still not sleeping well, however.
And now it’s on to the week of frizzy flying feathers — Cottonwood season in Michigan. The air is full of the damn things. When cottonwood week is over, I plan to remove the four panels from my air conditioner and pressure-spray the felt-like fibrous mat off the metal air filters to improve efficiency of the unit. I highly recommend readers do that or get someone else to do it.
One of my family members gave us a sizable gift for my wife’s medical fund. I am very grateful for that, because it’s taken some of the pressure off the constant drain on our savings. And my financial worries caused me lack of sleep as well. I’m scheduled for a sleep apnea study in July.
I expect to be extremely busy today: Out-of-town family are visiting for my grandchild’s 2-year birthday party, and we’re hosting a garden party for 20-ish people this afternoon.
Early Birds, we still need help.
If you’d like to help me (us) with our stay-at-home project (posting Good News Roundup welcome and fundraiser comments at 7 a.m. ET and/or Boosting Biden Welcome comments at 7:30 a.m., please let me know by kosmail or email. Kosacks kraigo and meadowmist are organizing to post those four comments! Thank you, kraigo and meadowmist!
Our goal is to post these 4 comments every day:
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Good News Roundup Welcome Comment — 7 a.m. ET every day
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Summary: Fundraisers for Gnuville, USA — 7 a.m. ET every day
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Boosting Biden (BB) Welcome Comment in the BB diary — 7:30 a.m. ET M-F
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Comment in the GNR boosting the BB diary — 7:30 a.m. ET M-F
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kraigo asks: Gnuville authors, please include the acronym GNR in the titles of your Roundups. Both kraigo and I had trouble finding the Saturday Roundup yesterday. This change will make it easier for everyone to find Roundups on Daily Kos. I think kraigo had a great idea, especially since the Daily Kos server has recently not been posting our diaries immediately to our group archive. You might also find us after about 7:15 a.m. ET on the Trending List.
Our Roundup is almost open!
Thank you for fighting for truth and justice with all us Gnusies! 40% of our Readers don’t visit every day, 50% of us do, and 10% are here for the first time! We all do what we can. For 5 years, we’ve shared positive news, laughed, organized, resisted, rebelled, revolted without being revolting, relied, rested, mentored, created, crossed rivers, chewed our cud, puffed methane out both ends, and laughed. Here’s looking at you, kid, and standing upwind! Beginners, you are cordially invited to comment!
As always, please share more Good News than I can find or provide.
This is a group diary, and by my power I declare this Good Gnus Salo(o)n open! Let the good-news sharing and community building begin!
Power with, not power over ❤️ ✊ ❤️
2thanks (he, him)
As many of my Readers already know, I enjoy creating productivity on PCs. I use two macro programs, Instant Text and AutoHotkey, to become more productive, and I am a productivity mentor. I’m wondering if there is any interest here to make a weekly Windows-PC-productivity column part of my Sunday Roundups.