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Mystery Piano in the Hub Strikes a Chord With Students

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Lessons on Life, Love & Other Stuff - On Making Out, Blacking Out, and the Puritanical Man

Speaker 1 (Regular) Speaker 2 (a newbie) Dear dating diary, As of late, my wonderful friend (who is co-writing this with me) and I have been humbled by men who frankly care a little too much. I was casually seeing this one guy from uni and we had gone on one (1!!!) date before both going to the same gig (separately, of course). We spent some time together that evening before parting ways and never texting again. I felt completely and utterly okay about this; it was a mutual

Jul 134 min read

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I Hate Cybertrucks and I'm Going to Live Forever

Pluto Rennie The future has started to feel strangely empty. Not empty in the literal sense. If anything, we are surrounded by “future” constantly. AI-generated images flood social media feeds, every second Netflix show is dystopian, and climate apocalypse has become both a political reality and an aesthetic. Even trends feel posthumous now. Y2K revival. Indie sleaze revival. We recycle the past while acting like the future has already been cancelled. I started thinking ab

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