Fiona Taylor
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. https://themonetizationoffear.substack.com
- The world is dark so I put my bewildered cat on the coffee table, blasted Bizarre Love Triangle, and danced around the living room. It helped!
- Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
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- I wish they could start a collective. Their reporting was great; the editorial board and publisher lwere terrible.
- People are like, "The early aughts were the worst ever for women's body image," but then every interview you see with an Old Hollywood starlet, she's like, "My slimming secret? Today, I ate a hard-boiled egg, a carrot, and had a martini."
- Watching the dog show on TV. When I was a kid, a former teacher tutored me in math. She was gorgeous, had a beautiful home, and owned 2 Afghan hounds that would walk on either side of her. That lady knew how to make an entrance!
- The DOJ potentially shared child porn. It definitely shared nude photos without consent. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
- Less deliberate ignorance, please.
- My mother—no flaming liberal—said that anyone who had seen polio's effects firsthand would never be against vaccines.
- ProPublica once again scoops legacy media (which probably wasn't investigating too hard). www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Just saw Jeff Hillier’s show at Joe’s Pub in NYC and it was so funny and poignant. Highly recommend!
- “Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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- Who is the audience here?
- This kind of says it all about the honesty of the US press vs foreign press.
