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Stealing at Stack'd: A Guide

Stack’d Underground is, on most nights, a thriving center of off duty student activity. Many regular joes are here to grab a quick bite or chat with their classmates. But for enterprising CMU students like me and you, this is also the perfect opportunity to make a quick dime without …

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Tales from Beyond Frick Park IX: Goodwill Hunting

I had never intended to be a wicked woman. Indeed, wickedness had always struck me as exhausting: between the disposal of bodies, conversations in loathsome cellars, and the obligation to remember which lies one has told which person, it’s a wonder anyone chooses to pursue it at all! My ambition …

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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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Why It's Really Called Au Bon "Pain"

Never, ever go near Au Bon Pain if you care about your dignity. Please humbly take my story as a cautionary tale.

It was a beautiful Thursday evening. I was headed to a dinner date with my girlfriend at Revolution Noodle, but young and foolish as I was, I …

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Carnegie Mellon rabbits claim squatters rights

Rabbits have officially claimed squatters’ rights on the CMU Mall and CFA Lawn following years of occupation. The invasive creatures were first introduced fifty years ago when a freshman living in Mudge brought their hobby rabbit farm to campus. The university initially tried to contain them, but efforts ceased after …

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Human Mating Calls: The Bird Perspective

Humans are among nature’s most social animals. They are renowned for their group migrations, cooperative foraging, communal roosting, synchronous breeding aggregations, precise parent–offspring interactions, coordinated group defenses, and intricate territorial and courtship rituals. In these and other contexts, and indeed in most moments of their lives, humans’ capability to navigate …

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An infographic on the "top 10 ways to prevent firearm cruelty," advising how to treat firearms with kindness and respect. "Every firearm deserves a home."

Top 10 ways to die during Carnival

1. Buggy crashes: Is this one even close? Buggy is like having kids - ­it makes no sense at all when you actually think about it. It’s highly dangerous. The preparation takes up several months of your life, and leads to uncountable sleepless nights. And yet, we can’t seem to …

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History's first booth

HUNT SPECIAL - Carnegie Mellon University’s springtime Carnival brings with it many beloved traditions, perhaps most recognizable of all, Booth, a weeklong mad sprint through constructing marvelously untrustworthy houses. But did you know that the roots of booth trace back to far before CMU’s founding? Back before the scientists of …

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Readme gets divorced

I am standing outside the Allegheny County Courthouse, where historic divorce proceedings are happening. Just moments ago, The Tartan showed up for emotional support for the reader. README does not look pleased, I wonder how this is going to play out.

10:06 AM

Readme’s lawyer has requested that …

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An image captioned "Scotty Game / Rules: don't look at this Scotty dog!". The image is of a Scotty dog which contains the text "Game Over."

STI Transmission via consumption of infected flesh

Abstract

While the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through blood transfusions or sexual activity is widely researched, there remains a gap in the understanding of STI transmission through cannibalism. Prion diseases like kuru disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be passed on through consumption of infected flesh. This …

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An intensely detailed hand-sketched map of CMU, interspersed with doodles and thoughts.

Tired of Binge Drinking? Try Vibe Drinking

Let me tell you about a CMU student named Bob. I actually don’t know a person named Bob at CMU, but let’s just say he’s real. Like many other students at CMU, he has no friends, no girlfriend, no money, no sexual activity, no summer internship lined up, no loving …

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I read ReadMe for the pornography

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CivE department apologizes for increase in campus construction

Earlier this week the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering issued a statement addressing the sudden increase in construction around CMU’s campus, making many spaces unusable, and causing significant traffic delays as 5th Ave and Forbes Ave have had sections of the roads closed. In the statement, the head of …

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Breaking news: Andrew Carnegie actually an English major! "What the fuck are all these engineers doing here? I founded CMU to teach students how to read Macbeth, not how to build stupid robots. Also why are women enrolled?" - Andrew Carnegie's Ghost
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).
A "DIY 2-player word search" on a 3x3 grid with words including XXX and OOO.

Readme Reviews: Wake Up Dead Man

Father Judd was working alone in his study, doing religious things, and sitting in a mahogany chair. Suddenly the door opens. He smiled, happy to see a familiar face. “Ah! Blanc, how can I help you?” “Well you see uh Fathuh, I was just perusing my local Barnes and Noble …

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Nine-and-a-half theses on comedy

  1. When the humorist writes, he ought to will the entire piece be one of intelligibility.

  2. Satire cannot be understood as merely the presence of references and proper nouns; artificial intelligence, Farnam Jahanian, Palantir, and Charlie Kirk do not a joke make.

  3. When …

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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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Deer given proper therapy and antidepressants significantly less likely to freeze in front of cars • Gelt still more real than crypto • Optimal formations you and your friends can walk in to block sidewalks on campus! • Truancy StuCo shut down for record-low attendance • Most mathematicians writing in first-­person plural are actually painfully alone • Breaking news: student from California realizes ash falling from sky is actually snow • I'm only going to be seeing one kind of Python this Valentine's day • King Charles III to consider castling • readme too single to have Valentine's Day Edition • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • Heroic free-speech advocates oppressed by socially ostracized and clearly neurodivergent nerds • "See, I told you. I told you so," crows CS professor who refused to use Canvas • CMU students surprised to find out nobody cares how little they slept • I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • We paid $100 to CMU Plastic Surgery Club to get a face lift no strings attached • Club snipes channels are starting to become real passive aggressive • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children • Deer given proper therapy and antidepressants significantly less likely to freeze in front of cars. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Optimal formations you and your friends can walk in to block sidewalks on campus! • Truancy StuCo shut down for record-low attendance • Most mathematicians writing in first-­person plural are actually painfully alone. • Breaking news: student from California realizes ash falling from sky is actually snow • I'm only going to be seeing one kind of Python this Valentine's day. • King Charles III to consider castling • readme too single to have Valentine's Day Edition • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • Heroic free-speech advocates oppressed by socially ostracized and clearly neurodivergent nerds. • "See, I told you. I told you so," crows CS professor who refused to use Canvas. • CMU students surprised to find out nobody cares how little they slept • I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report. • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • We paid $100 to CMU Plastic Surgery Club to get a face lift no strings attached. • Club snipes channels are starting to become real passive aggressive. • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children.