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my favorite people on the internet
my favorite people on the internet

Celebrating my sixth year of being a human on the internet with some of the people I admire the most

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lifejayemseyblogiversary, blogging, writing, Bitch Media, fellowship, pop culture, Jia Tolentino, Amanda Taub, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Helena Fitzgerald, Griefbacon, Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study, Scaachi Koul, millennial burnout, Rebecca Jennings, John Saito, Haley Nahman, Maybe Baby, Rachel Miller, Just Good Shit, Friday Night Chores, Lili Loofbourow, Amanda Mull, Colin Nagy, Noah Brier, Why is this interesting?, Rebecca Traister, The Pudding, Krystal Bick, Chrissy Teigen, Molly Yeh, Jessica Merchant, How Sweet Eats, Joss Fong, Erik Singer, linguistics, Awesome Restorations, Safiya Nygaard, Susannah McCullough, The Take, Natalie Tran, communitychannel, Pop Culture Detective, Jonathan McIntosh, Debra Minoff, Binging With Babish, Binging with BabishComment
year in review: 2019
year in review: 2019

My year & decade in review and 2019 favorites

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lifejayemseyYear in Review, blogging, Y2K, millennium, San Diego, Singapore, New York, New York City, love, travel, oral history, working holiday visa, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, France, London, Scotland, Costa Rica, Chicago, Portland, LA, mass shootings, democracy, kitten, graduation, Big Bear, Super Mario Odyssey, Arrowhead Village, Nintendo Switch, Super Mario Galaxy, Mandarin duck, hot duck, waterfall, La Fortuna Waterfall, Alajuela, La Fortuna, Monteverde, Chapman University, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Gov Ball, Randall's Island Park, ZHU, Florence and the Machine, Fyre Festival, The Strategy Super Sizer Megaclass, Julian Cole, Mark Pollard, Maine, anniversary, sunrise, Alaska, Baltic Sea, Mendenhall Glacier, silent disco, weddings, KAABOO, influencers, Snoop Dogg, Long Island City, LIC, Pepsi-Cola, Mia, Fish, Christmas, Instagram, housewarming, Samin Nosrat, Salt Fat Acid Heat, scallion pancakes, Molly Yeh, my name is yeh, Bouchon Bakery, laser tag, Ramen Ishida, ramen, Chinatown, How Sweet Eats, Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine, Bar Pa Tea, Oscar Wilde, tea, Burp Bowl Café, KitKat, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama, The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin, Educated, Tara Westover, Intimations, Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, The New Yorker, millennials, gentrification, San Francisco, The Pudding, happiness, Ariana Grande, cultural appropriation, E. Jean Carroll, gaslighting, sexual assault, Central Park Five, grocery store, taxi, Aperol spritz, culture, pop culture, Gamergate, Allbirds, Uniqlo, Krave Beauty, Great Barrier Relief, Kale-lalu-yAHA, Stratia Liquid Gold, gua sha, Lauren Singer, zero-waste, Great Jones, Dutch oven, Secret Eyelash NYC, Dyson, Decrypto, Los Espookys, Booksmart, Hustlers, The Hustlers at Scores, The Haunting of Hill House, Cambodian Rock Band, Cambodian Genocide, Fleabag, Parasite, Luigi's Mansion 3Comment
a tale of two book clubs: trick mirror by jia tolentino
a tale of two book clubs: trick mirror by jia tolentino

Jia Tolentino’s debut novel, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, is a grim yet nihilistically optimistic opus for the millennial generation

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culturejayemseyTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, Korean skincare, Girls' Night In, The Cosmos, nihilistic optimism, reading, Pop Up Grocer, The I in the Internet, identity, cultural identity, white supremacy, #MeToo, #YesAllWomen, social signaling, The Truman Show, influencers, Always Be Optimizing, millennials, feminism, capitalism, pop culture, Pure Heroines, Little House on the Prairie, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Ecstasy, drug use, religion, A Story of a Generation in Seven Scams, Fyre Festival, Caroline Calloway, French macarons, Elizabeth Holmes, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Hustlers, The Hustlers at Scores, New York Magazine, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, attention economy, #GIRLBOSS, Facebook, We Come From Old Virginia, University of Virginia, Rolling Stone, rape culture, sexual assault, The Cult of the Difficult Woman, celebrities, Kim Kardashian, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Hope Hicks, I Thee Dread, weddings, marriage, commitment, writing, Reality TV Me, Asian AmericanComment
minute thoughts 3.17.19
minute thoughts 3.17.19

On the joy of tiny love stories and who is entitled to natural wealth

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minute thoughtsjayemseyrecipes, viral, homebody economy, self-care, Girls' Night In, Instagram, snacks, Black Forest Gummy Bears, Crash Bandicoot, Mission Impossible, The New York Times, Modern Love, Tiny Love Stories, compliments, catcalling, Michelle Yeoh, Lana Condor, Crazy Rich Asians, To All The Boys I've Loved Before, representation, visibility, capitalism, Silicon Valley, baking, bread, The Perfect Loaf, self-optimization, blogging, lifestyle blog, Molly Yeh, my name is yeh, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Almond Cake, French fries, McDonald's, Five Guys, Shake Shack, pop culture, The Nanny, pop music, Carly Rae Jepson, millennials, Millennial Whoop, Bo Burnham, Repeat Stuff, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas, music, Call Me Maybe, Asian AmericanComment