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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

PostScorePosted
Three Italians turned an Irishman’s lost wedding ring into a real life Lord of the Rings quest: after days searching an Italian mountain stream, they found it in the rapids, and texted the Irishman “Hi Sméagol, look what we found” and then flew to Ireland dressed as hobbits to return it.317194d ago
Angelina Jolie’s foundation has protected 150,720 acres of Cambodian forest for 20 years, where elephants and pangolins still roam; its rangers removed more than 4.8 miles of illegal snares in 2025, helping keep the forest safe for wildlife.304275d ago
Mass. voter turnout exceeds half a million ahead of 2026 midterm election148052d ago
In southern Italy, solar panels over a working vineyard produced clean electricity while shaded grapevines grew clusters 2.5 times heavier and supported roughly twice as many wild plant species, showing how farming and renewable energy can share land while benefiting biodiversity.108294d ago
After 300 bison were reintroduced to Oklahoma’s tallgrass prairie in 1993, the herd has grown to around 2,700 and helped restore the ecosystem, with more wildflowers, new wildlife ponds and less grassland fuel for wildfires across the 39,000 acre preserve.107455d ago
El Paso’s first-day early voting turnout jumps 90% over 2022104145d ago
New Airbnb rules ban hosts from making guests wash dishes, do laundry & other checkout chores103113d ago
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time100448d ago
New York City ends the use of carriage horses74742d ago
In 1999, an off-duty nurse saved a boy's life by giving him CPR when his heart stopped after he was hit in the chest with a baseball bat during a Little League game. In 2006, that same boy saved the nurse's life by giving her the Heimlich maneuver after she started choking in a restaurant.73376d ago

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curl "https://api.threadsnoop.com/v1/posts?subreddit=UpliftingNews&limit=25" \
  -H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"

See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.

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