Jessica's tidbits from the year 2020

Facts about me

I'm not putting much identifying info here because I'm pretty sure this site is indexed by the "major internet search engines" I write as if the whole internet isn't just one big monopoly.

Thing: This is where I might write about a thing.

Hot Takes

Flossing
I flossed everyday this year!! Can you believe it? I can't. It was my only goal and I fucking did it.

Paraeducators
Paraeducators are paid too little.

Favorite things from 2020

Here are some things I liked this year. They're mostly free and mostly in no particular order.

1. Favorite Song: Think about things (fun)
2. Favorite live cam: Monteray Bay Jelly Cam
3. Favorite life hack: weekly vitamin organizer thingy. It's so fun to fill it up and it makes it way easier to remember to take vitamins everyday. I have one that looks like this but maybe you want a fancy one that looks like this
4. Favorite mental health hack: DON'T BE ON TWITTER. I'm not on twitter. It's genuinely great! Recommend.
5. Favorite TV show: Grand Designs - a British show about self-building - very soothing
6. Favorite Movie: Little Women
7. Favorite Documentary: All in this Tea
8. Favorite Tea: Hao Ya Keemun from Mem Tea, my local tea shop
9. Favorite Internet game: Mackerelmedia Fish where do I even find this stuff?
10. Favorite Book: In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, a therapist describes the personal journeys of her patients and also, wait for it, HERSELF!! But seriously, it's good, I cried through like the whole thing. Plus, the voyeurism of watching other people go to therapy is top notch.


11. And finally, an anti-recommendation: health apps, like period trackers, are selling your information. DELETE DELETE DELETE

Insta

Yeah so I needed a separate instagram catagory. This list is STRICTLY ranked by OBJECTIVE criteria by the IMPARTIAL judge.

Second runner up

@a.mineral.a.day - self-explanatory - informative!

First runner up

@tricky.chicks - women/femmes juggling + occational feminist commentary

Winner

@plantkween - because 2020 was the year of the houseplant

Honorable mentions: @alpacasofinstagram, @alfie_the_alpaca_in_adelaide

Internet Tidbits

• Did you know how complicated internet browsers are and how it's a real problem? I didn't, but now I do.
• Like many, I struggled to integrate my understanding of the world in 2020. This helped a little.
• Paper airplane database for your bored children/selves
• This fiddle website is a real throwback. I listened to a fiddle livestream with Mandy early in the pandemic. I think this website inspired me most to make my own!
• Roadside Wildflowers At Full Speed requires little additional comment
• A pretty good poem
• I know this person (politics), and this person (politics) and this person (art).
• This AI turns your photo into an oil painting. It's pretty fun!
• Presented without commentary: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
• Render it as html checkboxes!
• You can text SF MOMA at 572-51 with the words "send me" and it'll send you back a work of art.