Jillian D’Onfro

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Business reporter at SF Standard, chronicling Bay Area stories✨ jdonfro@sfstandard.com 📧 Formerly writing and editing at SFGATE, Business Insider, CNBC, and Forbes. Send me news tips! jillianiles.33 on Signal

Screenshot from article with text reading the following: Question: Did you make new friends out of this experience? 
 Answer: Yeah, definitely. I think I made some really good friends, people I won’t ever forget. Initially going into it, I didn’t know anybody. But getting there, they take away your phones — that was a really big thing — so we didn’t have our phones really. And we had the joy of being able to talk freely.
a picture of san francisco city hall at night, lit up in a bunch of different colors
Screenshot from Paulina Goff's Instagram about being on The Food Network's "Halloween Wars" show
A screenshot of a Gmail Inbox with 6,666 messages
A photograph of a person with creepy makeup holding a handmade sign that says "Hail Destroyer of America" with a picture of Peter Thiel
A modified version of the movie poster for "We Bought a Zoo" — Instead it reads "We Bought A Mall," and includes pictures of the SF Centre mall
Screenshot that reads: "An earlier version of this article misidentified San Francisco's Bay Bridge as the Golden Gate Bridge."
picture of a pizza with blueberries, blueberry chèvre, and fresh dill
Screenshot detailing deaths, text below: The California Academy of Sciences and partners at The Marine Mammal Center can confirm the unfortunate news that five gray whales have died in the wider San Francisco Bay Area region in the last week, bringing the total number of stranded whales in 2025 to 14. May 26, 2025: Suspected gray whale, Alcatraz; cause of death: undetermined (no necropsy performed) May 26, 2025: Gray whale, Point Bonita; cause of death: undetermined (no necropsy performed) May 22, 2025: Subadult female gray whale, Berkeley; cause of death: undetermined (no necropsy performed) May 22, 2025: Gray whale, Fisherman’s Bay, Southeast Farallon Island; cause of death: undetermined (no necropsy performed) May 21, 2025: Yearling gray whale, Bolinas; cause of death: undetermined (partial necropsy conducted on May 23, inconclusive) Necropsy response efforts and data collection have been challenging for a number of cases due to inaccessible locations that hinder full post-mortem investigations, as well as poor tissue quality from advanced decomposition, and the lack of available locations to tow for further investigation. As of today, May 28, 2025, a necropsy (animal autopsy) was conducted at Kirby Cove in the Marin Headlands. It is suspected that this subadult male is one of the two whales that was sighted on May 26, 2025. The cause of death is still under investigation. The other individual has not made landfall.
Sign in SF that says “you can stop bringing a jacket now”
A picture of a group of people (including me) building a debris shelter in the santa cruz mountains
Photo of a yawning coyote standing in the middle of blue tiled steps in San Francisco
Screenshot from the story that reads: "What happens more frequently? Robots interacting with robots. Hom said one of Hostie’s chatbots will encounter an automated caller, like Google’s AI reservation service, “every day.” Sometimes the two AIs will get freaked out, but more often, the robots hum merrily along, handling the drudgery on both sides of the equation. “We’re already in that world,” Hom said with a shrug. “It works.”
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A screenshot from Reddit where people are commenting that people they know are choosing not to visit San Francisco from Europe because of US politics and policies
A screenshot of a CAPTCHA that says "click all the animals staring straight at you" with nine different weird dog images
Email subject line that starts with a penguin emoji and then says: "It's a Recession Special. Take 10% off with the code ELON"
Picture of a perfect angel dog posing for the camera — a 12 pound maltese mix with fluffy white fur and an underbite
A video that shows fire spinners dancing outside the SF Mint which has a hanging banner out front that says “Lost City of Gold”
Screenshot of a SF Chronicle article that says the following: "Ford explained that this year’s Pride will focus more on values-driven participation, particularly in terms of corporate sponsorships. As part of this shift, San Francisco Pride ended its relationship with Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, which recently eliminated its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and scaled back its content moderation policies. “I’m both proud and sad that we don’t have a relationship with Meta,” Ford said. “Meta will not be included.”"
A map of the proposed entertainment zone, which would run along 18th Street between Diamond and Sanchez Streets, Castro Street between 19th and States Streets, Market Street between Collingwood and Church Streets, Church Street between 14th and 15th Streets, 14th Street between Belcher and Landers Streets, and Noe Street between Beaver and Market Streets.
A sign that says “Coming Soon” for a new Ross location downtown
Screenshot of story. The text reads: “The Bothin Burn Center at UCSF Health Saint Francis Hospital has resumed inpatient admissions for pediatric burn patients under the age of 18,” UCSF Health System Chief Medical Officer Lukejohn Day announced in a memo sent to managers Tuesday at 2:09 p.m. “The Bothin Burn Center is now prepared to revert to previous protocols.” In an email to The Standard the next morning, UCSF Health spokesperson Chad Burns confirmed the about-face, saying it followed “a temporary pause” on pediatric care at the Bothin Burn Center that began Oct. 30 after an assessment identified a need to “strengthen the infrastructure, capacity, and capabilities” of the program. While the internal communique mentioned reverting “to previous protocols,” the media statement boasted about implementing “new protocols” as well as “training and staffing measures to support safe, high-quality care.”
Screenshot of a flier advertising the Bay Area Childcare Collective. "We provide free, play-based childcare for local grassroots liberation groups led by immigrant women, low-income women, and women of color," it says.
Two people with disco balls on their heads, with mirrored bodysuits
A screenshot of a message telling employees to scrub terms like DEIA and Environmental Justice from their website
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a teensy yellow duck sitting at the bottom of a streetlight
Screenshot of an article - the text reads: "A great white shark, which he estimated to be 13 to 15 feet long, approached him from behind and hit his leg before darting off into the water. “It was really fast. It was really violent. And it came close to knocking me off my board,” Marona said. “When I recognized what it was, I knew there was no way I would survive it.”"
a bunch of beautifully blinking and chirping fake Christmas trees
A screenshot of three skeets all posting the same four photos with the same phrase: "Wrapped in mist and kissed by morning light, San Francisco wakes like a painting come to life!"
Screenshot of text that read: “Talk to the boss,” Mo said. “Talk to the mayor. Only the boss can solve the problem. We can’t.” Neither the mayor’s office nor Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie replied to requests for comment. Representatives for the hotels didn’t reply, either. Another maid, Maggie Mak, agreed with Mo’s assessment. “You should talk to the hotels about our contracts,” Mak said. She then left her interview with The Standard to resume thwacking a wok with a stick.
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Screenshot of a newsletter, with the headline "Chiefer madness: CEOs are trippin' ya'll"
A screenshot of text from the story which says: "The loot is impressive. Cowie’s team often creates “gift emporium installations” that rival luxury boutiques. “Kids will go shopping at our Supreme store, or we might have 130 pairs of Nikes, each hand-painted live by an artist,” he said. “Some of these setups cost millions of dollars. There’s no limit to what we do to entertain them.”
a small tan-colores dog in a bike basket wearing what look like ski goggles to protect its eyes