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Readme Summer School


Finals Week Sestina

As I enter the cold concrete cervix of Wean,
the gold plaque of Raymond smells my fear.
I order a coffee that’ll make me shit
out all my self loathing and lack of sleep.
I don’t think I’ve retained a thing from this class.
It might be worth risking the …

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CMU covers Cut and Mall in sand, citing "Being Outside" epidemic

In a rare stretch of good weather, Carnegie Mellon students have taken it upon themselves to spend their limited free time "touching grass." Although students largely found going outside to be enjoyable, CMU's administration identified several insidious drawbacks of the practice. As a result, the university coated the most popular …

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A title saying "Concepts debuts new 'Converse' shoe", followed by pictures of shoes labeled "p -> q" and "q -> p" on a background of mathematical sample text.
A photograph of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit, with a cartoonish cat face edited over his head.

Pentagon Swears In New War Crime Scapegoat After Previous One Died

The US Department of Defense has recently concluded its emergency internal election to find a worthy successor to the previous war crime scapegoat who unexpectedly died this year. The election was hastily called because there were no contingency plans in case the last scapegoat died, as no one at the …

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They will greet us as sexual liberators

The saddest day of my life has been, without question, the death of Pitt's beloved former vice chancellor Dick Cheney. On the 4-month anniversary of this somber occasion, I'd like to republish the 2003 interview another of our staffwriters had with him, which represents the purest encapsulation of his fighting …

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Tongue Wrestler Fights Battle for Dominance

Since the dawn of humankind, the practice of wrestling has been used to determine social pecking orders. Countless fighters, from the Greeks to the Mughals to John Cena, have earned alpha status by turning their opponents into emasculated area rugs. It doesn’t matter whether people wrestle with bodies, arms, or …

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An Editor's Guide to Crushing Students' Spirits

As an editor of this fine magazine, I spend a lot of time wading through incomprehensible drivel to guide it toward the pinnacle of our satire content: comprehensible drivel. It's a difficult job, one involving strategery and manipulation more so than artfulness or constructive collaboration. When I sit down across …

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President Eisenhower warns America how fucking cool the Military Industrial Complex will be

This past Monday morning of the wonderful current year of nineteen fifty I can’t be bothered to look up the right year, President Dwight Destructenator Eisenhower stepped onto the stage at a 9 a.m. press conference and chugged from his liter of vodka as he prepared to give his most …

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I Woke Up and My Butt Print was on the Fence

When I opened my eyes that fateful morning, I saw evidence of last night’s rager all over the room. It looked like your average CMU party. Beakers of titrated Hennessy littered the kitchen table. Kilts were strewn about on the ground, some with accompanying pairs of tartan underwear. Someone cuddled …

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Top 10 Tops

10. Bob Ross “Just beat the devil out of it” was NOT about the paintbrush.

9. Thom Yorke He wrote Creep.

8. Ellen She’ll abuse you just like how she abused her staff.

7. Meryl Streep Have you seen The Devil Wears Prada?

6. Michael Cera

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Auntie ReadMe Advises On: Lack of Pronouns in the Barista Industry Due to Tech Layoffs

Hello valued readers! I’m Cindy, (they/them), better known as Auntie ReadMe. After opening my inbox to the questions that are stumping the best and brightest minds in the country, I have been continually disappointed against my lowest expectations, and not at all surprised. A completely unastonishing amount of you want …

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Man named Enu goes into hiding after Passover seder

Although it's been nearly a year since that Seder, I am still in fear for my life. The incident started as a simple invitation. Several of my jewish friends invited me to a Passover seder. “You get four glasses of wine,” they said. “It’s like Thanksgiving with three hours of …

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The 'car' in Carnegie

Margaret Morrison Street is a beloved dainty throughway within the confines of Carnegie Mellon University bordered by many residence halls, such as Boss, McGill, Scobell, Welch, Henderson, as well as the biological hazard known as “Donner House”.

A safety analysis run by CMU’s highly esteemed professor Dr. Et …

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Top 10 Milkable things on campus

Thirsty? Good. You read the headline. You know what you’re here for.

Number 10: The Doherty-100 automatic water bottle filler. Mechanically speaking, positioning your receptacle under a dedicated drink-dispensing orifice qualifies as milking. Viscerally, it does not quite scratch the milking itch – but it is a worthy introduction …

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Eshaan calls Pinkertons on striking readme staff

On September 3rd, 2024, the staff of the student-run newspaper “readme”, serving Tartans true and peer-reviewed news since 2024, decided to go on strike in an unprecedented display of resentment towards Eshaan Joshi, CEO of said newspaper. This strike happened after months of attempted negotiations with Mr. Joshi over payment, …

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I wrote this article while sober

We the twenty two ago, in order to psshhh. I just think that we’d be good together, ya know. Like like as friends. It's fine I gotta catch the bus. The bus! I’m gonna walk walk away. Ring around the rosy. Cool. Cool. It’s fine. I’m just gonna lie down. …

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Traffic Calming Solution

The City of Pittsburgh has released an official statement following questions about PRT’s bus route redesign, which includes retiring a bus line on Fifth Avenue and rerouting affected buses to Forbes Avenue.

“Obviously, there are concerns about safety, given the increased congestion on Forbes Avenue,” said PRT spokesperson Mr. …

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Fence demolished in zoning dispute

An unknown, century-long zoning conflict between Carnegie Mellon and the city of Pittsburgh has recently come to light in a particularly destructive way: the Fence, a CMU tradition harking back to the early days of the university, is to be demolished next Wednesday.

On November 31, 2023, municipal …

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I met Santa Claus, she's black • I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • If you're so progressive, why doesn't your International Women's Day post pass the Bechdel test? • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030 • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • Gelt still more real than crypto • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • CMU students take pictures of Hunt library light pollution after mistaking it for Aurora Borealis • Student with childhood autism diagnosis excitedly awaits instant personality change upon turning 18 • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • ReadMe so funny that they invented CMU to house it • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Strangely, CS student's grade performance lines up with Cursor billing cycle • New StuCo 99­042 announced: "What they DON'T Teach You in CMU StuCos" • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • TikTok caught selling data to Santa to determine Naughty/Nice list • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report. • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • If you're so progressive, why doesn't your International Women's Day post pass the Bechdel test? • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030. • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • CMU students take pictures of Hunt library light pollution after mistaking it for Aurora Borealis • Student with childhood autism diagnosis excitedly awaits instant personality change upon turning 18. • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • ReadMe so funny that they invented CMU to house it. • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Strangely, CS student's grade performance lines up with Cursor billing cycle • New StuCo 99­042 announced: "What they DON'T Teach You in CMU StuCos". • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • TikTok caught selling data to Santa to determine Naughty/Nice list. • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game.