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Am I the bazonkle?

Yesterday, I was taking the Zoop line back to my shelter pod after returning from a short half system-cycle trip to the flubble swamp. Now if you don't know anything about the flubble swamp, it's the peak of relaxation. There is no greater feeling in the multiverse than letting its …

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School of Music to relocate practice rooms to the backrooms

PITTSBURGH, PA

As construction continues all over the lower floors of the CFA building, students have begun to wonder what exactly it is that the School of Music is building and why it's taking so long. Thankfully, their questions will soon be answered, as leaked internal messages between SoM …

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Two soda cans: Carnegie Cola (with a plaid can and a picture of Andrew Carnegie), and mellonade (with a lime green can, watermelon slices, and a picture of Andrew Mellon).

Hungry?

Are you feeling hungry? Because I sure know I am. With fall break coming up in only a few negative weeks, CMU students, faculty, and other people who eat things should be aware of the best dining options available around campus.

Doherty Hall:

Doherty is a year-round …

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Andrew Carnegie had the right idea

People who know me in person may know that I am a man who wears underwear. But shopping for men's underwear feels really gay, because you have to like, look at lots of men in underwear. This is a problem, because I am very homophobic.

I considered wearing women's …

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The "Arrival" movie poster edited to feature spotted lanternflies.
Illustrations of stick figures getting injured in various ways, with bold text reading "STOP STICKMAN ABUSE."

CMU announces austerity to reduce funding woes

Amidst rising inflation costs and increasing building maintenance fees, Carnegie Mellon University administration voted to implement austerity measures as a cost-cutting measure.

The English department will be entirely destroyed, as there are only 4 English majors anyways, and all social sciences will have budgets slashed in half, and the …

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I Fucking Hate the 54

Pittsburgh, a city that prides itself on having some of the strongest trans­rights protections, seems to have been lying right to our faces. You can declare the Steel City to be a "Trans haven" as much as you want, but that does not answer for the glaring dialectic right in …

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A booth which is standing on large chicken legs.

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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OCs Accidentally Create a Cult

Friday morning students woke up to the news that regular orientation activities were shut down by CMU PD due to orientation counselors accidentally creating a cult. This decision was made in the wake of Carnegie cup’s carnage. While details are murky, efforts to relocate the fence to Wean’s roof, and …

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My Whirlwind Romance with the Lawnmower Bot

Dear Reader,

I’m back at Carnegie Mellon for grad school, and I have quickly noticed a new hot body roaming the Cut.

I’m sure you’ve noticed them. Sleek, shiny, not afraid of getting their hands dirty, always dressing in a provocative red. From the moment I saw them, …

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A Pokemon-style "Who's that buggy?" poster with an outline of a buggy.

A Letter from the Editor

readme was nominated for several dozen awards over the last week, including several "Best News Source" awards for their coverage of the War in Vietnam. Unfortunately, after the Pullitzer committee discovered the Vietnam War ended in the 70s, and readme was just two asian guys in the UC at 4 …

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Degree of CMU alum posthumously revoked after 15-122 whiteboard found in steam tunnels

Last Thursday, a trio of students attempting to raid the famed steam tunnels under Margaret Morrison Hall for treasure were caught by CMU police. While their possessions were being confiscated, however, CMUPD came across a far more disturbing secret. Dusting off the asbestos powder covering its surface, police officers were …

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5-Minute Crafts: ECE!

Ah, 18-100 introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering, truly a quintessential class in the Carnegie Mellon undergraduate experience. Students get to build various fun labs every week, such as building 3 bit adders, a radio, and even programming their own machine learning classification system! To be able to complete such …

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An air-to-air missile with wheels and a buggy-style push bar. It's captioned "new Lockheed Martin sponsored buggy, coming soon to a civilian town near you."

(New) Intern's Report

We have intern, Ian “Meat” Turner, here by his own free will to write an article for us. Right, Meat? intern’s note- understood

strike Has rEadme in a chokehoLd. writers comPlain about lack of financial coMpEnsation.

iT appears tHat rEadme, the reallY cool newspaper, wHo hAVE becoMe loved …

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The Worm's Perspective: A Review of RFK's Brain

The human brain comes in a variety of different forms, from the quick and witty to the dull and sluggish. I had the opportunity to taste a unique and rare brain a few years ago, and had I known whose it was, I would have eaten the whole thing- what …

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How to Acquire and Care for Schrödinger’s Cat

So you want to get a cat, but that’s too easy. You want a pet that exists in a superposition of living and dead- a pet that makes your science friends think you’re cool. Thankfully, there is a solution. Schrödinger’s Cat is becoming wildly popular amongst college students at medium-sized …

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Optimal Conditions for Black Mold Farming

Abstract

Black mold (Stachybotrys chartarum) is a fungus known to grow in apartment buildings rented out to college students by slum lords. This phenomenon is usually absent from buildings with proper ventilation systems, begging the question: how could black mold be grown in a dorm room? Many of the …

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A Letter From The Editor

I think this one's pretty funny. You should read it.

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CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • Worst kid in your Hebrew class insists on making Purim play a musical • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Most breakthroughs in modern geology found to just be someone finding a cool rock on their street • What you need to know about the upcoming resting bitch face competition • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Booth chair discovers that "scissor lift violation" isn't a sex thing • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • Tartan branded adderall popular among seniors trying to graduate on time • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • American Study-­Abroad Program expands school shootings worldwide • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is) • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • CMU student signs up for Qatar course by mistake, forced to commute 14,000 miles/day • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool • Pope endorses climbing Hamerschlag as only "holy" contraception: "your gametes will be smote by the power of God • "I'm still alive guys," Elvis, 1978 • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11 • "Sorry guys, I'm actually dead this time." Elvis, 1979 • How to feng shui your killdozer • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • November 4th is coming up and it's giving me an election • Local hero: student finally folds laundry that has been marniating in the bin for the last week • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • Worst kid in your Hebrew class insists on making Purim play a musical • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War. • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Most breakthroughs in modern geology found to just be someone finding a cool rock on their street • What you need to know about the upcoming resting bitch face competition • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Booth chair discovers that "scissor lift violation" isn't a sex thing • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • Tartan branded adderall popular among seniors trying to graduate on time • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • American Study-­Abroad Program expands school shootings worldwide. • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is). • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • CMU student signs up for Qatar course by mistake, forced to commute 14,000 miles/day • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool. • Pope endorses climbing Hamerschlag as only "holy" contraception: "your gametes will be smote by the power of God. • "I'm still alive guys," Elvis, 1978 • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11. • "Sorry guys, I'm actually dead this time." Elvis, 1979. • How to feng shui your killdozer • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time. • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • November 4th is coming up and it's giving me an election. • Local hero: student finally folds laundry that has been marniating in the bin for the last week