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@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 3 months ago

What is the weirdest PDF you have in your downloads?

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What is the weirdest PDF you have in your downloads?

@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 3 months ago
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  • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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    31•3 months ago

    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.

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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      8•3 months ago

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

    • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2•3 months ago

      I’m so curious

      • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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        4•3 months ago

        Nothing special enough to share, nor would I even share such works, especially with all the pages stuck together…

  • Elaine Cortez
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    25•3 months ago

    I find this segment to be particularly insightful:

    • @HereIAm@lemmy.world
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      4•3 months 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.

    • @LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works
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      2•3 months ago

      I think this is relevant: https://news.cs.washington.edu/2013/08/14/chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken-chicken/

  • nocturne
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    20•3 months ago

    The technical plans for the Death Star.

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 months ago

      Ooh! Link? ^^

      • nocturne
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        1•3 months ago

        I cannot find the actual file I was talking about, but I did find my WEG Death Star Technical Manual. I am still trying to find the laptop that has the technical readouts of the Death Star.

  • Zythox
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    13•3 months ago

    “Countries where suicide is outlawed.pdf”

    • @brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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      6•3 months ago

      What the fuck, Bahamas? Life imprisonment?

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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      1•3 months ago

      Nice.

  • Thelsim
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    12•3 months 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.

    • @Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2•3 months ago

      Kenshi mentioned!

  • CurlyWurlies4All
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    11•3 months ago

    This feels pretty niche…

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    11•3 months 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.mlOP
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      3•3 months ago

      That sounds fun!

    • @brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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      2•3 months ago

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

  • 2ugly2live
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    10•3 months ago

  • bean
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    9•3 months 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. 😅

  • @psyspoop@lemm.ee
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    A key to mushrooms that grow on other mushrooms

    • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      I have a key to tree identification in winter. It’s surprisingly useful

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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      2•3 months ago

      The graphics alone make this look worth reading

  • @daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    9•3 months 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.

  • @telemaphone@beehaw.org
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    7•3 months ago

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

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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      RIP. This is up there with the arrest warrant

  • southsamurai
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    7•3 months 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
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      2•3 months 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
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      1•3 months ago

      What’s a pdf that most surprised you?

      • southsamurai
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        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.

  • Guy Dudeman
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    6•3 months ago

    CIA sabotage handbook.

    • @brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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      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.mlOP
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        Ooh could you link me to the above?

  • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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    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)

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