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City of Reno to Residents: Stop Doomscrolling and Sign Up for More Alerts

In a June 5, 2025 Facebook post encouraging residents to sign up for emergency alerts, the city offered some unsolicited life advice: stop doomscrolling on your phones. Because nothing says "quit your doom-and-gloom scrolling habit" quite like signing up for government emergency notifications that will ping your device.

It's June—graduation season, wedding season, the time when Reno actually remembers it has beautiful weather. Yet somehow the city's communications team decided this sunny month was the perfect time to assume their residents are all trapped in endless cycles of bad news consumption.

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