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[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 41 minutes 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.

[-] telemaphone@beehaw.org 3 points 1 hour ago

My mom's death certificate. That's weird.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Boringly, the only thing in there currently is the guide from the dmv (mvc, sorry) for nj to review cause I'm feeling old and need a refresher.

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago
[-] beercupcake@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago

Pdf version of doom from hackernews not so long ago.

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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

The graphics alone make this look worth reading

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 18 points 14 hours ago

I find this segment to be particularly insightful:

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours 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.

[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 14 points 15 hours ago

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.

I’ll need more details on this

[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

It's a speculative evolution book from 1990 about how mankind might evolve in the next 5 million years. Basically the premise is that due to climate change, new species of humans are engineered to survive in a more hostile world. And then it follows these new species and their further evolutions.
The creatures in the picture above are both descended from humans.
It's weird, bleak and very far fetched.

A small gallery of the various species:

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 1 points 56 minutes ago

Some days i feel like the engineered food creature.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

I was going to say the illustrations look very 90s

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

Truly morbid looking

Incredible ! I love it ! Will try to find it

[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah I found it, thanks for the reply

[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 17 hours ago

"Countries where suicide is outlawed.pdf"

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

What the fuck, Bahamas? Life imprisonment?

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

The Bible 2.0

An older text, reinterpreted by Meaty McMeat.

[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 58 points 1 day ago

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

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Eating a meal, a Succulent Chinese Meal

[-] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 10 points 19 hours ago

Get your hands off my penis!

[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 9 points 1 day ago

Ah so you send me that .pdf, tuff luck

[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

For burning kuran ?

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Nothing too weird. Multiple manuals of objects that I own, probably the weirdest of which is a German manual for my Canon EOS 300 (I'm not German). And some machine learning papers, among which a paper from 1987, by Quinlan & Rivest, about decision trees (which is older than I am).

EDIT: Oh and another document older than me, a manual for the Minolta XG-9 that I'm lending from my dad.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

I agree it feels weird to come across files that've been around for longer than you have.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 11 points 23 hours ago

This feels pretty niche...

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours 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. 😅

[-] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 30 points 1 day ago
[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours 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.

[-] vitrola06@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 day ago

The technical plans for the Death Star.

[-] nebm51@drlemmy.net 8 points 21 hours ago

Are there any vulnerabilities? Asking for a friend

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[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I didn't know they did this. Where can I learn more?

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

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.

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[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Ooh could you link me to the above?

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day 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

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