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January 24, 2020

Watch: FAF by Juto

“FAF” stands for “Fake As Fuck,” and this sweet man named Juto spends this track explaining why we are just that. The video adds color, rotating through snapchat filters and various backdrops staged for instagram as Juto bounces to the world’s greatest party beat (or so we can assume). But fake isn’t limited to a party setting, and we see the artist’s manicured inner life, too: around the 2-minute mark, the tune mellows out and we him perched introspectively on a throne surrounded by plants. Of course, the plants. Are we jealous?

Propagation station

Perhaps you have a friend who gives you clippings of their pretty houseplants so you can grow your own. This is what we call “sharing.” And it’s a growing trend, of course, as people increasingly own plant babies. Some folks, however, appear to have colored over the line where “sharing” becomes “larceny”: more and more, people have been helping themselves to rare and expensive plant clippings in stores. One lady in Portland was just caught leaving a nursery with over $2,000 in plant bits in her bag, which is impressive and appalling, of course, and hopefully means we’re in for a good heist film roughly three years from now.

For your animal pets

Someone must have told our friends at Spotify how much Snake People* spend on their pets, because you can now get a custom-generated playlist for your special animal, based on your tastes and some questions about their temperament. It’s not clear whether these tunes for the pets themselves or for their humans, but I’ll tell you that what Spotify turned out for my imaginary lethargic iguana was not so thrilling. Maybe it doesn’t matter if my iguana’s tastes align with mine. But you know whose would? My plants.

 

*Millennials

You actually pay for your purchases, right? $

Good for you, and you might as well rack up some savings when you spend. Wise Bread, a company that analyzes the best credit cards for different lifestyles, has a PSA for you about a card that gets you an extreme amount of cash back. First: you get a $200 signup bonus if you spend $1,000 on it in your first 90 days. Then top it off with 3% cash back on online shopping, drug stores, travel, dining, home improvement and furniture, or gas. No annual fee and 0% intro APR on purchases for 15 months. Now you know!

What’s your iguana’s favorite song, then?

Margot

 

$ = sponsored