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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In my mailbox...My arrest warrant from the Dutch police.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ok, this is definitely the winning comment. I'm crossing my fingers for you bro

[–] AdamEatsAss 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eating a meal, a Succulent Chinese Meal

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Get your hands off my penis!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ah so you send me that .pdf, tuff luck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

For burning kuran ?

[–] over_clox 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I found the Cunt Coloring Book from the 1970's. Yes, scanned in as PDF. Yes, a few pages were already colored in, mostly psychedelic colors though.

And yes, it's exactly what it sounds like, a bunch of hand drawn lady parts to be colored in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ah I didn't think to look into that part of my downloads for PDFs

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I find this segment to be particularly insightful:

[–] HereIAm 4 points 1 week ago

That's the one I was gonna post! I think the text file containing ASCII 0s and 1s for an image of the Mona Lisa comes second.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The technical plans for the Death Star.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Are there any vulnerabilities? Asking for a friend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ooh! Link? ^^

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (11 children)

A copy of Man after Man:

This is such a weird book. It has leech people, underwater people, blind psychic baby people, meat mountain people, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Kenshi mentioned!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Countries where suicide is outlawed.pdf"

[–] brygphilomena 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What the fuck, Bahamas? Life imprisonment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, if they went for the death penalty it'd be obviously ironic.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Usually it’s a placeholder punishment so that the police can break in and stop you committing a crime

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

This feels pretty niche...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have the working draft of this year's List of Items for the Official University of Chicago Official Scavenger Hunt, the world's largest -and probably weirdest- annual scavenger hunt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That sounds fun!

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[–] 2ugly2live 12 points 1 week ago
[–] b3an 11 points 1 week ago

The Death report for Kurt Cobain. Mostly from morbid curiosity and a love for Nirvana. I don’t do that for everyone or anything like that. That’s the weirdest one. πŸ˜…

[–] daggermoon 10 points 1 week ago

Let's see, The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual, some paper on MKultra, some paper about The Hum, Some scientific paper on the longevity of recordable optical media, and a paper about crows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Depends on your weird.

I write, so there's a ton of stuff on decomposition, forensics, and related subject matter that are weird by some standards.

I've got stuff on niche mythology too, for the same reason. Along with that is stuff on modern paganism, syncretic religions, and related subjects. Again, weird by some standards.

But I tend to think the morbid stuff is what would catch most people by surprise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nice.

I came in here to post about having a copy of Titus Burkhardt's Alchemy tome and DKMU Assault On Reality but I think yours might take the cake instead, as well as possibly including both of those texts.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I just cleaned up my downloads so I no longer have it, but a couple weeks ago it was a copy of Maid: The Role-Playing Game

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mine is this report by the central bank where they tested the insurance sector at-large for resillience to financial shocks. ^(Although after reading some books by nassim nicholas taleb, I realize that testing using the worst imaginable shocks isn't sufficient as black swan events are by their nature unpredictable)

[–] GuyDudeman 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] brygphilomena 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Should add the poor man's James bond. The anarchist cookbook. The army survival manual. There is an old army improvised munitions manual.

There are lots of fun reads that should probably be held onto.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pdf version of doom from hackernews not so long ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think if i dig through my records I can find a federal subpoena from 2016. A LEO had to formally come to my door to confirm I received it but the prosecutor sent it to me via email.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heim’s Quantum Theory

I thought it sounded interesting, but the mathematics was beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Hmm, it probably depends what you think is weird, but I have one in their on the feasibility of extracting ammonia from biomass. There's also one on early steam turbines by a fellow named Geoff Horseman, which is a fun name.

Edit: Oh, I also have a professional critique of my dating profile photos. That's weird in a different way, since I actually got that done, and it unexpectedly came as a PDF.

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[–] pushECX 3 points 1 week ago

The Airplane Flying Handbook, I guess.

[–] ace_garp 3 points 1 week ago

The Bible 2.0

An older text, reinterpreted by Meaty McMeat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A mock dictionary of Portuguese gay slang and vocabulary. It's pretty fun.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've got the Pokemon Quartz pokedex. It's pretty cursed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(1984) Reflections of Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson

It's a really short PDF and it's not as technical as it seems, but gives a good lesson on how programs evolve, and what exactly trust means in the software world

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