Image: northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii); zdenek_macat / shutterstock.com It can be far, far too easy to spiral into a depressive, nihilistic spiral nowadays. And honestly, who could blame you? It seems like the world is on fire and no one is standing up to the people pouring gasoline on it. The headlines are more and more dire every day, because the media apparatus we as a society have built feeds off precisely those feelings of fear and helplessness. There are still good things happening, even if the algorithm isn't showing them to you. Sam Bentley's Good News Newsletter has become one of my favorite things on the Internet for just that reason: essentially, every month, a nice guy with great hair tells you about good news from across the world that you've almost certainly missed. No, seriously, that's it. No sponsorships or merch plugs, just end-to-end cool stuff happening in the world.…