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We lost a little friend today.

https://merlin.ghost.io/bando/

Bando, Beloved Lizard

Bando, a central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) residing in San Francisco, passed quietly in his sleep on Friday. Bando was adopted in October 2019 from a pet store in the Outer Sunset where he'd been surrendered by a local family who couldn't take care of him anymore. His estimated age

Merlin Mann

I just had the absolutely weirdest thing happen. I looked up an old text in the iPhone Messages app to confirm an address, and found three stickers used in those old texts that there was no way in hell I used. So confusing.

Have you ever had this happen?

A Meta moment -- 404 reports Facebook is censoring 404's stories about Facebook's censorship. https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

404 Media
Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/8/24339385/instagram-threads-politics-moderation-adam-mosseri
Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri

Adam Mosseri says that starting this week, the default settings for Instagram and Threads will allow political content recommendations from people you don’t follow.

The Verge
Zeekr expands partnership with Qualcomm to bring immersive infotainment experience to Future Vehicles

I heard this is where Kenny Omega got his treatment for diverticulitis.

(Also, this is where I tested negative for Covid in the summer of 2021.)

Oh no, they got Gemini making bread bowl soups.

- Not to mention the fucking grift of marketing convict weed which gets more god damn unsettling in my waking brain the more I think about it.

- I’m told the owner is an ex-con, which … I guess this isn’t as terrible as it could be?

The things you notice on a early hours cab ride to the airport

When we say the vibes are bad in NYC, it’s as much about this as it is about the stuff they’re using to fearmonger the population into being okay with a Cop City.

“prison-style” should not be a descriptor for anything. Anywhere.