BrightSide

Quick BrightSide check-in: how’s today treating you? 🟢 Surprisingly good 🟡 Held together by snacks 🔵 Could use one bright spot Reply with a color—or name one small thing that would make today 1% better. 🌞 No speeches required. One word counts.

Woke is a joke!

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Congrats Abdul El-Sayed for winning the Michigan Senate Primary! @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

Doom Scrolling = negative Hope Scrolling = Brightsidez.com

Edinburgh has a hospital where the patients are houseplants. 🌿 Treatment can include drips, quarantine—and presumably a stern talk about overwatering. Which plant needs an appointment? brightsidez.com/story/at-thi...

A puffin chick has appeared on Dorset’s cliffs for the first time in more than 30 years—after years of conservation work. 🐧 A small bird. A long return. brightsidez.com/story/first-...

NASA’s Curiosity found polygon-shaped ridges across Gale Crater—Mars looking like a giant honeycomb. 🔴 The team is testing how they formed and whether some dark rocks are meteorites. brightsidez.com/story/mars-r...

We’ve arrived. ☀️ BrightSide 2.1 is live. A calmer, news-first home. Clear publisher labels. Six ways to find a brighter story—from Animal Rescue and Science & Health to Community Wins. Take a look. Which story should BrightSide follow up on next? brightsidez.com

Bye-bye to my Mood Cards. ☀️ BrightSide’s Mood and Cue Cards have officially retired. They gave us a small ritual: check in, find one hopeful story, and carry one useful action forward. The cards are gone. The mission—to notice real progress—stays. brightsidez.com/explore

A good-news headline tells you what happened. A trustworthy one also tells you who acted, what changed, and the number that proves it. That’s the BrightSide test: person + action + measurable result. What detail makes you trust a hopeful story?

Most rescue plans don’t begin with “grab the lasso.” When a man was swept down Montana’s Yellowstone River, 14-year-old Jory Thomas used a 12-foot lariat—and caught him on the first throw. brightsidez.com/story/montan...

We're entering the Great Burning. But it can also, longer term, be the start of the Great Turning. Here's my (hopeful, really) thought experiment on what it might look like to have come through and begun the restoration of our planet and society. Please share!

New Mexico generated nearly 7× more renewable electricity in 2024 than a decade earlier. Renewables supplied 50% of the state’s in-state generation. A measurable clean-energy shift—and a closer look at how it happened: brightsidez.com/story/new-me...

POV: the internet gave you one good thing before breakfast. ☀️ What’s one good thing you’d like to see more of online? brightsidez.com #OneBrightMinute

There is still good to notice today. ☀️ Today's cue: Pause for a minute before scrolling again. What's one good thing you noticed today? Find your next bright spot: brightsidez.com