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Taylor Agajanian

@cyborglibrarian.bsky.social
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PhD student of Media, Technology, & Society at Northwestern University | Critical media scholar studying the ways digital platforms fuel problematic information, shape politics, and cause offline harm to marginalized communities. 🇦🇲🇲🇽 www.cyborglibrarian.com

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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Such a good feeling to finally see this paper published!!
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New paper alert, out today in @journalcam.bsky.social with my esteemed colleagues @walkerwestbrewer.bsky.social, @ifra-j.bsky.social, and @billard.bsky.social 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The parent trap: The roles of parent status and pervasive ambiguity about gender in public opinion on transgender rights in the United States
The rights of transgender youth have become a defining site of cultural and political conflict in the United States, with parents increasingly positioned as moral and political arbiters. Using nati...
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Back on the pod for spooky season to chat one of my favorite topics! This episode we're covering Argento’s sensory feast Suspiria (1977), the 2018 remake, and all things Giallo. 🔪🩸 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Ep. 256: Suspiria (1977) (w/ Taylor Agajanian)
Podcast Episode · The Friendchise Podcast · 10/19/2025 · 2h 2m
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
First conference presentation at APSA 2025 wrapping up year one of my PhD 🤗
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Minneapolis shooter was wearing a KMFDM shirt bc they were a fan of past mass shooters and wanted to nod specifically to the Columbine Shooter Dylan Klebold. This has absolutely no connection to the band itself or their music which is politically left. Let's leave the Satanic Panic in the 90s.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Forgot about the Air and Water show and now I get to spend the rest of the week/end terrorized by the sound, worried about my apartment being hit by a fighter jet for literally no reason. But its fun I guess!
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Maybe I am just sheltered from growing up in East Los Angeles but I am legit disturbed by the number of totally average young white women on the other app that are proud flagrant white supremacists, posting selfies and all. For free!
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Is South Park going to be the reason deep fake technology gets outlawed 🤣
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This whole “Children of the Waning Star” TikTok cult debacle is a prime example of why digital public spaces should NOT be all ages spaces. Children and teenagers need their own moderated digital spaces where they can express themselves and connect without being exploited by lonely adults or worse.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I thought I couldn't hate wasps more than I already do, but the high rise I live in is covered in bridge spiders (a type of orb weaver) which I have grown to love and to my horror I now have to witness their parasitic kidnappings by mud-daubers on a daily basis all summer long.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
OMG I need this in my apartment stat!!
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I did not have Tucker Carlson roasting the hell out of Ted Cruz on my 2025 bingo card.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
These exposes are becoming increasingly common and yet there is very little interrogation of whether these metaphysical matrixy "AI as god" responses are the result of intentional training by the noted techno accelerationists who develop these chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I went to Europe for the first time this last week and caught covid from these guys on the way out 🦴
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
With @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia
Woman standing inside an Orthodox cathedral
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Ted Cruz of beans
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thanks Brandy!!
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My paper was accepted to #APSA!! Baby’s first conference 😭🎉
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Two #AoIR submissions out the door 🤞🏼
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Sure, but this will disproportionately impact poor red states, which will make their constituent's lives really hard. Of course they don't give af about anyone who isn't ultra-wealthy but it seems they have not considered a scenario where their own supporters are pushed to revolt.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
so king of the ashes then?
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Through the course of this fuckery I’ve noticed that there appears to be no strategy beyond sheer chaos and acceleration. They are making cuts and firing people indiscriminately, which will inevitably affect their own constituents. What is the end goal here beyond just being king of the ashes?
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Unintentional monochromatic book haul from Women & Children First feminist bookstore here in Chicago
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Mochi says “All my friends hate Meta”
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Trump's Office of Women's Health added a whole page devoted to transphobia under the guise of "protecting women and children." It's not trans-people women and children need protecting from, its cis-men. We are harassed, abused, assaulted, raped, and murdered every-fucking-day by cis-men.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Cemetery snow day in Chicago with @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social
Woman standing in the snow in front of a mausoleum styled like an Egyptian pyramid. Statue of an angel in the snowStatue of a sphinx in the snow
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is the second midwest columbiner in under two months to plot a mass shooting. Its almost as if there aren’t a litany of public UwU fan cams of Dylan Roof and other mass shooters all over Tumblr and TikTok at any given moment. www.indystar.com/story/news/c...
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Indiana teen charged in school shooting plot had shrine of killers, sought mental help, police say
Court records illustrate a history of bullying, denied mental health treatment and a shrine to mass killers in the case against a Mooresville student.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Watching Come and See (1985) thinking “Make Nazis reprehensible again”
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Why does Cyberpunk 2077, with its enormous soundtrack, keep torturing me with the shittiest adult contemporary-counting crows-ass song during seemingly every sentimental character cutscene?
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Chatted with some friends of mine about one of my favorite topics: horror films! More specifically Ti West’s porno slasher flick and first in the Maxxxine trilogy, ‘X’ 🔪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Ep. 229: X (w/ Taylor Agajanian)
Podcast Episode · The Friendchise Podcast · 02/05/2025 · 2h 7m
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
As a native Angeleno and CSULB alum, this is really gross and I hate this very much!!
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The horrors are certainly horroring
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
On today’s episode of “AI doomsday cult freaks and evil nerds are trying to take over the US government”
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
An excerpt:
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Interesting dichotomy between the response to this article here vs on X where right wing users are denigrating the author mostly for their gender, unlike here where they are being taken to task for having a horrible personality. You just *know* they frequent Dimes Square. (but live in Brooklyn)
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A particularly choice passage that blindsides you at the end of the article when you realize the author, too, is a huge asshole.
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Sir William @sirwilliam.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Sunday with @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social
Chicago swimming pool on the 44th floor
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I know I’m tapping the sign again but our cyberpunk dystopia is here and it’s really fucking stupid.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The man does love Western Europe, that’s for sure.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Robert Eggers next film is titled “WERWULF” and Imma let him cook but I fear he is starting to fly a little too close to the white pride sun.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Mae from Night in the Woods 🥹
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The NYT for one!
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’ve always been a big proponent of not entertaining the bullshit “they’re just joking/being ironic/trolling” excuse. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a fucking duck. /end
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
And lastly (though I’m sure there’s likely points I’ve missed) his proximity to techno-accelerationist (and extremely racist) Dark Enlightenment beliefs, figures, and adherents. english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-...
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NRx: The (underground) movement that wants to destroy democracy
The neo-reactionary movement, also known as the Dark Enlightenment, believes that democracy is a mistake and that equality is not a desirable goal. Those who adhere to it believe that the state should...
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Four: Pandering to the Gr*ypers with Fraktur font and his alias, Kekius Maximus www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
For three, he has been uplifting the AfD, who are literally the modern iteration of the Nazi party, as the “saviors” of Germany. www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
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Elon Musk's latest foray into politics: a live chat with Germany's far-right candidate
With Germany's election in six weeks, Elon Musk was full of praise for his livestream guest on X: Alice Weidel, the far-right Alternative for Germany party's candidate for chancellor.
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
For two, he is on the TESCREAL spectrum as a pro-natalist eugenicist. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/0...
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Elon Musk wants us to have more children
Is demography the new front line of the culture wars?
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Been seeing a lot of folks imply that Elon’s nazi salute was just a troll but I’m here to argue that we have plenty of evidence that he is aspiring to be a card carrying Nazi. For one: he has been pushing great replacement theory for some time now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Elon Musk All but Endorses the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory
Elon Musk kicked off 2024 by amplifying anti-immigration rhetoric tied to the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory
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Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Submitted my first single author paper proposal to a conference today which is cool even though everything else is pretty fucking terrible!
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I liked TikTok because I got to be who I really am in my heart: a creepy little lurker who watches everything and says little.
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