Ioia

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Ioia

n.
the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you encounter—checking the signal strength of their compatibility, a measure of their trustworthiness, or even just an emoji that tells you how they’re really feeling.

From the two symbols of binary code, 1 and 0, denoting “on” or “off” + I am. Pronounced “ahy- yo-yuh.”

Apolytus

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Endzoned

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Deep Gut

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The Wends

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Emodox

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Flichtish

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The Meantime

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Fitching

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Indosentia

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Punt Kick

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Liberosis

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Leidenfreude

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Candling

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Solysium

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Sayfish

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Symptomania

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Typifice

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Craxis

a tall house of cards

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Semaphorism

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Burn Upon Reentry

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Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear

Pax Latrina

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Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces