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Fiona Taylor

@fionataylor.bsky.social
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Tired satirist and content marketer. Co-wrote New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay. Co-founded satire outlet The Belladonna. Writes The Monetization of Fear Substack. themonetizationoffear.substack.com

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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 16m
Personally, I think the Founding Fathers should have done cute, kicky high ponytails instead.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 1h
I mean, come on, bro. “He said he snorted a line of ketamine off her body and she tried to initiate sex. “I kind of took a step back because I didn’t want to engage in anything like sex,” Mr. Lee said. “I thought it wasn’t the time for that.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Men Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Suit Give Varying Accounts of Night
Their accounts, detailed in hundreds of pages of investigative files obtained by The New York Times, were disjointed. All the men denied any wrongdoing.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 7h
"Athletics are confusing. My friends and family may keep airing grievances about my lack of sports knowledge, but my ignorance, like yours, is constant, and I don’t think either of us should be ashamed of it." buff.ly/hFrhZKG
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An Open Letter to Senator Eric Schmitt About It Being Totally Okay Not to Know Anything About Sports
“It is hard in America not to be good at understanding sports! People have no idea how excluded people like us feel.”
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15h
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 7h
She told an officer, “I can say with 100 percent confidence I was raped.” He cut it from the report. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Launce Mustoe @launcemustoe.bsky.social · 7h
JFC this was the SECOND botched execution in Tennessee this year! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 7h
Good lord. They injected her twice and she did not die. She is now in a hospital. Second botched execution in Tennessee this year!
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 18h
“Looking at the screenshots the Chi Phi brothers sent that night, I think maybe all that’s changed since 1987 is the technology.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Men Explain Rape to Me.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 20h
I feel like I kept reading about all these amazing inventions from brilliant 18-year-olds, but nothing commercial ever seems to actually be done with them.
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 23h
I like Reese's peanut butter cups because Reese's is also from Hershey. However Callista got me a Reese's peanut butter egg. It is good too.
about 7 hours ago vis web
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 20h
Women and nonbinary people with shit to do in the morning! I love all of Earlybird Club's DJs but DJ Luv is one of my favorites AND she's playing this Saturday from 6-10pm at Webster Hall! All ages (21+) show up. www.axs.com/events/15834...
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Earlybirds Club - New York - Webster Hall - Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 06:00 PM - AXS US
Buy tickets for Earlybirds Club at Webster Hall in New York on Sat, 03 October 2026 - 06:00 PM with AXS.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 21h
Maybe Pete Hegseth should win some kind of victory before he cuts 20% of generals.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 23h
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 21h
Jesus, we’re f*cked.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A disabled Downey resident was detained Tuesday shortly before 10 a.m. by masked individuals during what appeared to be a federal immigration operation near Smallwood Avenue and 4th Street.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My three-year-old was watching the Jack Smith hearings yesterday when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the Senator think the nice bearded man was in Atlanta?" And when I told her "Because our Senate is filled with fucking idiots," she started crying.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Aww, the lady who helps Mitch McConnell vote correctly CAN feel emotion!
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Schmitt thing is hilarious but I honestly don’t understand how Smith being in Atlanta the day after Fani Willis confessed to an affair w/ a consultant would even be a gotcha. That confession hurt Willis.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just in case I ever get elected to some important office, which would make a fun comedic movie, I have ADHD an would never, ever be able to remember where I was on any date (even yesterday) without consulting written notes or a calendar. (I'm just preempting any scandals here.)
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile, it sounds like her husband killed her and got away with it. Because of course. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Man released on bail after 41 years on death row in Utah
New DNA analysis did not match Douglas Stewart Carter, now 71, who was convicted of killing a woman but always maintained his innocence.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/09/2026
Hey don't use this shit.
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Jasmine @feistybunnygirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember when they kicked an entire girl’s softball team out of the championship game because a player posted a private Snapchat where she was flipping off the camera? It’s funny how they never worry about ruining girl’s futures.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo has had a big impact on nyt coverage. He goaded the nyt last year into running a racist, nothing burger hit piece on Mamdani. The nyt story relied on an unnamed eugenicist using hacked material
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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
there should be a lot less "look how much I agree with Republicans" and a lot more "we're going to rebuild what the Republicans destroyed, and punish them for it"
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I thought I managed to avoid the ny times tv show list discourse but something today made me think to check and wtf do you mean Derry Girls isn’t on it?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026
No boundaries... "Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watched Sense & Sensibility (1995). My husband is becoming a Jane Austen girlie. (Complimentary)
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I once had a normal-looking guy tell me I was the reason women get raped. Why? The subway stopped so the door was in front of me as I was waiting and I moved to not block the door.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This whole incident feels very strange. The 5 men have been released on bail. (Maybe I just don’t understand the UK legal system, though?)
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Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I also have been thinking about how people say agents will replace enterprise software. But what if someone leaves and takes their agent with them? Do all your employees built agents to help with their jobs? There’s so much that’s unclear.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Empire @flempire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@katiephang.bsky.social Whoever participated deserves to rot in prison
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well wouldn’t you know it
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...
Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
ERNIE ANDERS
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky • Mar 4
My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It appears as if the chicken 💩 president of Cornell has shut down his email & phone line. Contact the Board of Trustees.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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