It's Pride Month, which means I get to use one of my very favorite Good Stuff graphics ever, the Pride Frogs! Our design team is amazing, and when I asked them for some queer frogs they said, "Say no more" and delivered a work of art. One thing that I feel gets forgotten during Pride Month is that it's about more than sexuality: It's about identity and freedom and figuring out who your best self is, who they love, how they present themselves and what gifts they bring to the world. That's about as fundamental a right as I can imagine, and it's pure joy to witness someone living in their truth. We can all make that possible by practicing compassion, acceptance, and kindness — all of the very Good Stuff we talk about every week. As one of my favorite social media followers said recently, "Queerness is a blessing of love across and within a community, recognizing the infinite value of the different other in the infinite value of ourselves."
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| Our favorites this week Get going with some of our most popular good news stories of the week
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A day at Disney
For about a year now, 27-year-old TikTok creator and San Diego resident Jesús Morales has been taking day workers to Disneyland to enjoy some work-free fun. (Yes, he pays them their working rate.) Morales has more than 5 million followers on the social media platform, where he's known as juixxe. His devoted fanbase has come to adore the moments Morales shares from his visits to Home Depot parking lots and street corners across Southern California. Since 2020, he's posted hundreds of videos showing him surprising workers and street vendors — many of whom are Spanish-speaking immigrants — with grand gestures such as $1,000 tips and trips to Disneyland. And viewers of his videos have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to help his cause. To him, that shows that one person can inspire outsized waves of kindness."For me that's what's most surprising," Morales says, "how powerful the internet is, and how awesome it can be when you utilize it for good." Read the whole story here. |
A golf fan's dream
One minute, Paul Emerson was soaking up the atmosphere at the RBC Canadian Open. The next minute, he was caddying for a PGA Tour star. It happened after pro golfer C.T. Pan's caddie, Mike "Fluff" Cowan, tripped on the third fairway and had to be helped off the course. Emerson, a lawyer from nearby Aurora, Ontario, and a self-professed "golf nut," did the natural thing."I just simply offered. I said … do you need any help?" he told CNN. "(Pan) said yes. And then next thing you know, I'm helping Fluff take off the bib and walking up the fairway. It just all happened very fast." Emerson helped Pan out for two holes, more than enough to earn him all kinds of attention and plenty of excited texts from friends. "It was all very, very friendly and fun," he said. Read the whole story here. |
A you-know-what-seum
Some wordplay feels like divine providence, like owning a bunch of fossilized feces (fecellized?) and opening a museum called ... The Poozeum. That's what George Frandsen has dubbed his newly-opened museum in Williams, Arizona, which offers visitors free access to the approximately 8,000 pieces that make up his coprolite collection — better known as fossilized poop. He initially founded the museum as an online resource center in 2014 and created a traveling fossilized poop exhibition to be displayed in museums across the US when he realized they were often not displayed in mainstream places. When interest ramped up, he quit his job and started a brick-and-mortar version. There, visitors can view pieces like the largest fossilized poo by a carnivorous animal (26.6 inches by 6.2 inches), which likely came from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The collection also features other so-called "time capsules," like several coprolites with teeth inside them or bite marks on their surface. Read the whole story here. |
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A round of applause for ... |
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who won a bronze medal in the shot put at the Oceania Athletics Championships last week at the tender age of 75. Sporting success is nothing new to Rabuka. The politician represented Fiji in the decathlon at the 1974 Commonwealth Games and played rugby union for his country. "It was indeed a morale booster for me. Even at 75, I hope to inspire the younger generation to develop a habit of keeping fit and staying healthy," Rabuka said on Facebook. Read the whole story here. |
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| This week on the 5 Good Things podcast, a 5-year-old boy gets a second chance at life after his former preschool teacher decided to donate part of her liver. A nonprofit that wants to rid the oceans of plastic marks a major milestone. Plus, kids experiencing homelessness get to celebrate their birthdays with epic parties. Listen to the latest episode here! |
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What if a simple little sponge could help "soak" up pollution from the air? Scientists from the University of Cambridge in England used activated charcoal — a sponge-like substance used in household water filters — and "charged" it like a battery to see if it would absorb carbon dioxide directly from the air. It did. The technology has a lot of limits, and climate activists generally would prefer to focus on things that battle CO2 on a larger scale. But the idea of a carbon dioxide "sponge" could be useful in industrial spaces that produce a lot of CO2 on-site. Read the whole story here. |
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Shameless animal video There's always time for cute animal videos. That time is now. |
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