Our Gnusie Week Reflected: spudnuoR
In radiant panoply:
Ten Tips for Dealing With Bad News Articles + LOTS of good news! Saturday's GNR
GoodNewsRoundup
Good News Roundup for December 17, 2021: Stepping Up
chloris creator
Good News Rounded up to Beethoven and served with wine
WineRev
I Think We're Gonna Build Back Better! - Wednesday Good News Roundup
niftywriter
Sorry Folks -- Potluck GNR for Tuesday, December 14th
NotNowNotEver
From the GNR Newsroom, the Monday Good News Roundup
Jessiestaf
Sunday Good News ☼ 2 polls: Bill in Portland Maine's AND Punishment for GQP Caucus?
2thanks
Sometimes Gnusies use the morning’s Roundup to help us figure out what day it is. Today is Sunday.
Spud Noir?
Science
“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person.” ~ Bill Bryson
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Saildrone deployed five Saildrone Explorer uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to the Tropical Atlantic Ocean to gather data during the 2021 hurricane season. The biggest challenge to hurricane forecasting is rapid intensification, which can have a huge impact if a storm intensifies just before landfall. ✂
SD 1045 spent 24 hours inside Hurricane Sam collecting data from the edge through the eyewall of the category 4 storm, while continuously providing near real time data, images, and video of the storm via satellite. The vehicle survived sustained winds over 90 mph and waves well over 50 feet without a single sensor failure. ✂
SD 1045 made history on September 30 when it sailed into and out of Hurricane Sam, joining the ranks of some of Saildrone’s most famous USVs: SD 1020 circumnavigated Antarctica, SD 1021 became the first autonomous vehicle to sail across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions, and SD 1200, the first of Saildrone’s Surveyor class, sailed to and from Hawaii along a never-before-mapped route.
I’m delighted to be related to a member of the Saildrone team. ❤
Our map of Gnuville: 703 of us have shared our global locations!
To leave your mark, please Reply in the comments to tljdk or silverfoxcruiser. Please include your city and state only, NOT street number and street. (Please persist, we are volunteers.)
Image: Two maps of the United States, one above the other. The maps indicate the approximate locations of members of the Good News Roundup community in 2019 and 2021. The lower map contains many more blue pin-markers than the upper map. Upper image: A map of Gnuville from February 15, 2019 with about 50 Gnusie pins. Lower image: A map of Gnuville from March 21, 2021 with 582 pins across our orb.
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Tech Talk for Kosacks
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Where Ever is Herd
Morning Good News Roundups at 7 x 7: These Gnusies lead the herd at 7 a.m. ET, 7 days a week:
- The Monday GNR Newsroom (Jessiestaf, Killer300, and Bhu). With their five, we survive and thrive.
- Alternating Tuesdays: NotNowNotEver and arhpdx.
- Wednesdays: niftywriter.
- Thursdays: Mokurai the 1st, 2nd, and 5th (when there is one), WineRev the 3rd, MCUBernieFan the 4th.
- 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.
hpg posts Evening Shade diaries at 7:30 p.m. ET every day! After a long day, Gnusies meet in the evening shade and continue sharing Good News, good community, and good actions. In the words of NotNowNotEver: “hpg ably continues the tradition of Evening Shade.” Find Evening Shades here.
oldhippiedude posts Tweets of the Week on Sundays at 6 p.m. CT. Our second evening Gnusie hangout zone! In search of a TOTW diary? Look here or here.
For more information about the Good News group, please see our detailed Welcoming comment, one of the first comments in our morning diaries.
The 6 R’s of the Resistance
Joe Biden is now our President. However, we continue to stay vocal and active, we continue to pull Joe to the left, and we continue resist the GQP.
- Refresh and Rest: Take care of you, the hero: Eat well, exercise, and rest.
- Resist: Protest on the streets, call senators and representatives, etc.
- Rebel: Run for office, GOTV (Get Out The Vote), support a progressive.
- Revolt: Change the laws, change the culture, build your communities.
- Rely: Trust that millions of others are fighting the good fight.
- Rejoice: Joy promotes resilience and gives rise to hope.
How to Resist: Do Something …
From chloris creator:
Indivisible has created a Truth Brigade to push back against the lies.
Propaganda, false characterizations, intentionally misleading messages, and outright lies threaten our democracy and even our lives. We can effectively combat disinformation, despite the well-funded machines that drive it. They may have money, but we have truth and we have people. People believe sources they trust. When we share and amplify unified, factual messages to those who trust us, we shift the narrative. When we do this by the thousands--we’re part of the Indivisible Truth Brigade, and we get our country back. Join us.️
Our own Mokurai is a member. You can see his diary on the California recall here.
From GoodNewsRoundup
Most important: DON'T LOSE HOPE. This is a giant and important fight for us but, win or lose, we keep fighting and voting and organizing and spreading truth and light. We never give up.
On Daily Kos:
We welcome comments in Roundups every day regarding:
- National or local Good News.
- Links, stories, music, videos, quotes, tweets. (No tweets or images of the saffron chlamidiot, please.)
- Your resistance activity.
In my Sunday smorgasbord Roundups, I especially welcome the following types of comments:
- Who won YOUR week?
- Questions about Daily Kos tech issues or our map.
- Good News Roundups and you.
- How are you resisting?
Top Image: Starhawk created this diary’s top image of the rampant gnu and gave it to the members of the Good News Roundup group (Gnusies)! Thank you, Starhawk! This is a quite detailed sketch of a gnu drawn in brown, green, and black. A happy and dynamic gnu dances on its left hind leg in a classic rampant heraldric pose. Joyful letters prance above and behind the mane: “Happy Dance.” Signature: Nick Korolev, 2021.
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 4 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!
As always, please share more Good News than I can find or provide.
I’ve scheduled this diary to post at 7 a.m. ET, though I will likely not be able to comment for most of the day. I’ll be working on my major project, rolling a big ball uphill over and over moving from our home of 41 years to a new house, which requires ADA changes and upgrades by contractors, electricians, and plumbers. Decluttering, deciding, exciting, exhausting. We’ve moved most of our furniture, still need to move shelves and a few chairs, clean the old house, repair a few items, and sell the house (as is). We know our realtor.
Therefore, I may not be able to return until later in the day. Fortunately for me, you all know what to do!
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)