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.”

Desanté

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Fitching

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Apolytus

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Keep

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Loss Of Backing

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Altschmerz

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Maugry

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The Standard Blues

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Flichtish

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The Wends

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Insoucism

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Aesthosis

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Emodox

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Solysium

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Indosentia

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Vaucasy

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Typifice

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Dorgone

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Volander

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Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Holiette

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Adomania

a person riding a horse

Liberosis

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