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David Byrne's magazine about things that are demonstrably working somewhere, reported at length rather than as a listicle.
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Reasons to be Cheerful sits in Good News under Unwind, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Newsrooms with a constructive brief. Not a denial that the world is difficult, just a correction to a feed that only reports one direction.
Yes. Reasons to be Cheerful is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Reasons to be Cheerful without signing up for anything.
Yes. Reasons to be Cheerful works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
The newsroom that trains other newsrooms to cover responses instead of problems, with a searchable tracker of the results.
Constructive journalism collected from other outlets into one free feed, so somebody else does all the sifting.
Good news, funny pictures and a daily dose of animals, assembled with no interest whatsoever in what is trending.
Good news redrawn as illustrations by a designer who got tired of doomscrolling and built the feed he wanted instead.
Amit Patel's tutorials on pathfinding, hexagonal grids and noise, with every parameter exposed as a slider you can ruin.
A Wikipedia article with every meaningful word blacked out; guess words to reveal them until you can name the subject.
Wathan and Schoger's rules for making things look designed when you are not, in fact, a designer.
Builds a regular expression while explaining every token in a side panel and highlighting matches as you type. Ends a lot of guessing.
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