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The War on South Craig Street

“I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.” Oliver Wendell Holmes.

By the summer of 2026, Avirat Kohli had had enough. Two great armies were converging on his Indian grocery, and what would …

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CMU to increase free speech "by any force necessary"

A core pillar of our democracy and liberty has always been the right to freedom of expression. The Founding Fathers famously freed speech from its shackles of Europeanism with the signing of the 1st amendment (unfreed slaves notwithstanding).

Carrying on this tradition, CMU president Farnam Jahanian announced, “CMU is …

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5-Hour Transgender

From the brand that brought you the iconic energy shot, our labs have produced something entirely new: the pocket-size bottle that changes your gender, 5-Hour Transgender. Say goodbye to those long, tiring study sessions where daydreaming about having boobs distracts you from your calculus. Kiss goodbye to those groggy …

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Novel Methods of Preventing Wasteful Elevator Use at CMU

Introduction

When John Elevator first unveiled elevators at the Chicago World Fair in Des Moines IA, 1462, the technology immediately garnered worldwide adoption. Buildings could access untold verticality once the ascension of hundred-floor constructions was no longer bounded by the feeble power of human muscle and bone, but …

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What is MIT

To most of us, "MIT" stands for one thing, and one thing only: an overused BSD-style software license. But in a suburb of Boston, a little-known private university known as Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been racking up accolades at an impressive rate, sparking curiosity among CMU students and faculty.

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Upperclassmen Found Dead from Common Cold, Unaware of UHS Move

If you’ve read any of the emails CMU has sent this semester, you would know that University Health Services has moved from the first floor of Morewood E-Tower to the third floor of the brand new Highmark Center for Health, Wellness, and Athletics, home of Community Health & Well-Being and …

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A Letter From The Editor

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

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"CMU Crying Club: Wanting to learn what CMU's all about? Tired of crying alone? Has the Carnegie workload finally beaten the life out of your eyes? Join CMU Crying Club! Now partnering with Concepts for even more tears" [stick figures crying]

The Man, The Myth, The Farnam

Hey you, did you know that Carnegie Mellon University has its very own version of Superman? A larger-than life guy so essential to campus life whether social, financial, sexual, or academic? A man so powerful he can bend steel beams with his own two hands? A man who can safely …

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Four logos: "work" with the "o" replaced with a scotty dog, "pipe it up" with bagpipes, "hang in there" with an emoji-ified Farnam Jahanian, and a sketch of Wean labeled "concrete jungle where dreams are made of".

Overheard at CMU

Feb 19

motion to create the chaired the chaired uh motion to create the chair uh ah shit whats the word for it whats the word for group, club, chair organization committee, sorry whole lotta stress looking at your eyes aw man ever since yeah, I’m sorry. Motion …

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Inside ReadMe Legal

Due to the substantial inquiries regarding the inner workings of ReadMe & Co, I have been chosen to represent the ReadMe Legal Department in disclosing the functions and responsibilities we adhere to in order to maintain ReadMe as a corporation and ensure the continued freedom of all ReadMe employees.

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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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Triamgle Mightmare

I woke up last night, sweaty from a nightmare of a different world. A different world that made me more scared than I’ve ever been before.

Sine was called sime. Cosine was called cosime. Tangent was called tamgent. In fact, all of trigonometry was called trigomometry. I feared for my …

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On my time working in the Allegheny cannon factory

Back in 2023, I got this lucrative job working at the cannon factory down the street from the old abandoned steel mill (the very same steel mill I had my first kiss in eight years ago). They would pay me to come in every day, no matter the rain, sleet, …

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Derealizating

Sometimes you don’t feel like a person. Sometimes you feel like you’re asleep and the people around you are guests on a podcast you forgot to turn off. There are a lot of words for this feeling, and most of them are long words starting with D: dissociation, disassociation, depersonalization, …

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CMU To Construct New, Shittier Donner

shittier donner With the completion of the new Highmark Center for Wellness, CMU has successfully wrapped up yet another construction project. Needing a new project to collect alumni donations, CMU turns to their freshman housing. Hopeful Donner residents prayed that CMU would finally announce the destruction of Donner, however, this Monday CMU …

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Bio-Computing at CMU Promises to Revolutionize Queer Literature

“It is sacrilege that anyone graduating from Dietrich as an English major could even consider the possibility of having a stable career” – Unnamed Computational Biology researcher. With the unveiling of ChatGPT-4o early this summer, along with constant daily advancements in AI technology, artists are feeling mounting pressure as their …

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Viva La Revolution

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Torah Review

Noah’s Ark
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Great ocean scenery but they put me with the only other human and he keeps looking at me weird.

Tower of Babel
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Gribbledorf zanks flomptiously squibberwump’s jibbleflop.

Cain and Abel
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If my dad named me Cain, I’d also be pissed …

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Untapped Niches in the U.S. Consumer Market

Dear reader, I have devoted countless hours over the course of years to rear these ideas; at this point, it is as if they were my children, as if I were giving you my children, and these are some of the finest idea children ever to have been brain birthed. …

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Desperate to cash in on AI craze, Catholic church to unveil Gaude • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Lube offered for Wean holes • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • Alcohol Awareness: Have you been aware of alcohol today? • How to feng shui your killdozer • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • For the upcoming Readme "Female" Issue: "Susan Be Shopping" • QUIZ: What your opinions on the scrotal asmmetry of statues says about you! • Noah complains that God's 'gone woke' after Ark flooded • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games • Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline • Excessive lead found in the food and water of JFC • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • SDC buggy design leaked on War Thunder forum • Campus router upgrade ends in unexpected raw meat surprise • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt • Desperate to cash in on AI craze, Catholic church to unveil Gaude. • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Lube offered for Wean holes. • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • Alcohol Awareness: Have you been aware of alcohol today? • How to feng shui your killdozer • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • For the upcoming Readme "Female" Issue: "Susan Be Shopping" • QUIZ: What your opinions on the scrotal asmmetry of statues says about you! • Noah complains that God's 'gone woke' after Ark flooded. • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent. • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games. • Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline. • Excessive lead found in the food and water of JFC • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • SDC buggy design leaked on War Thunder forum. • Campus router upgrade ends in unexpected raw meat surprise. • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt