While writing, I usually analyze trends and recent developments in Idaho and the Northwest. I research and expound upon my strongest reactions.
Unfortunately, such an approach would require an entire section’s worth of columns to comment on Idaho’s blooming status. It is a destination
for American’s fleeing progressive vaccination laws, polls decrying Idaho’s drivers as the nation’s rudest, and no fewer than three separate developing stories on sexual misconduct trends and crimes throughout the state.
Looking back on an article I wrote in late 2018, I choose to do an update. The article highlighted some personalities to follow up with on Twitter AP Oddities (@AP_Oddities)
More often than ever before, the news is just plain strange. The Associated Press as an aggregator of the world’s happenings knows this better than anyone or anything. The result is
a quirky-yet-trustworthy approach to the news. This information won’t make you an informed voter or citizen, but it might win you some bar trivia acclaim in the future.
A quick glance at the account’s greatest hits could also be interpreted
as a hall of fame for the illustrious Florida Man. Recent highlights include two Floridians being caught with drugs including 1.36 kilograms of cocaine
and 75 grams of methamphetamine in a container labeled, “BAG FULL OF DRUGS.” Another Floridian pumped $60 worth of gas onto the deck of his boat after mistakenly putting the pump in a fishing pole slot. And yet another report described three Floridians setting up a table and playing cards in the road while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
In spite of Florida’s clear lead in the weird news sub-genre, AP Oddities
has something to offer to everyone that thinks maybe the world is getting just a little too weird.
Bindi and Robert Irwin (@BindiIrwin and @RobertIrwin)
I don’t know exactly what wonderful things Steve Irwin would be doing today if he wasn’t taken from us decades too early, but I know he would be proud of the way his family is carrying out his legacy as the world’s favorite Australian zoologists. Bindi and Robert do more than enough to give conservationism familiar faces and provide consistent highlights of the cutest and most impressive specimens the animal kingdom has to offer.
Regardless of any deep-seated political beliefs regarding Australia’s wildlife and ecology policies, there’s always something refreshing to be found in the Irwins’ timelines that, at their very base, reminds us that taking care of animals for a living is a pretty cool existence.
Outside of these accounts, it is becoming increasing difficult to find other Twitter users that are worth following and clean enough for The Argonaut to print.
Usually we include the author’s contact information at the bottom of each article for the sake of transparency and discourse with the people we serve. Please use the contacts if you follow some other stray beams of light in the cold darkness that is our online discourse today.
While we can continue to rely on washed up Disney stars making TikToks and Freezing Cold Takes to be our torchbearers, I hope we can someday find more people like those listed above who make our online lives a slightly less exhausting experience while retaining some iota of the educational power of the internet.
Jonah Baker can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @jonahpbaker