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[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago

The technical plans for the Death Star.

[-] nebm51@drlemmy.net 8 points 1 week ago

Are there any vulnerabilities? Asking for a friend

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ooh! Link? ^^

[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week 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.

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[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

"Countries where suicide is outlawed.pdf"

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[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago

This feels pretty niche...

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week 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.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

That sounds fun!

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[-] b3an@lemmy.world 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. 😅

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 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.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week 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.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 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.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What's a pdf that most surprised you?

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Ahh, probably the one that gave visuals of bloat and skin slippage.

I've seen plenty of dead bodies (did some hospice work, ran across a suicide in the woods, and a few accidents), but I'd never seen that segment of decomp.

It's both worse than I expected, and somehow not as bad.

[-] Inf_V@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Where do you usually find it at? I'm a horror writer and that sort of thing would be handy to have for my work.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It used to be Google scholar. It was pretty easy to find good stuff when I was digging into it. Not sure if it's still a reliable place though

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 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

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 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)

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The Bible 2.0

An older text, reinterpreted by Meaty McMeat.

[-] pushECX@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The Airplane Flying Handbook, I guess.

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 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.

[-] vitrola06@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou... it's 'interesting'.

https://archive.org/details/en-hercolubus-or-red-planet

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

It’s an interesting concept and seems plausible enough (same as with Planet X, Nemesis.. ok some of that Nibiru stuff is ridiculous) but like, the evidence just isn’t there to support it. Feels like we should have found SOME evidence for this kind of interstellar disaster by now. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong.

[-] mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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