I'm intrigued.

Is there something wrong with "&" in 2026?

Some kind of meta meaning?

Nothing wrong at all, quite the opposite.

I like it a lot, and it makes me happy to see someone using the ligature of "e t"[0] ("&") not only as "and" but also as it's original "et" in the abbreviation "etc".

To me it reads like someone playing with words in a fun way, which is not that common in my parts of the internet

I was trying to express appreciation.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)