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(DIR) Post #Asl5bOuOioemuNfsSu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-04T20:30:22Z
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One of the reasons I love aliexpress is you can find the most sketchy products that make you wonder... who is this for? What do they do with it?This one is an "cigarette lighter" but with a wireless functions and mumblings about fireworks implied from some of the images and context. It's dirt cheap and frankly probably illegal for some reason. What is this about? Dangerous fireworks? Crimes? Both?
(DIR) Post #Asl5gfl9UwYicOrbxA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-04T20:31:19Z
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What is the strangest thing you've found for sale online?
(DIR) Post #Asl5vzG9HQETRLfGWO by sysop408@sfba.social
2025-04-04T20:33:59Z
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@futurebird this is clearly for people who want to be far away enough to avoid second hand smoke, but don’t want to give up smoking.
(DIR) Post #Asl6IQcaEJgafjrK6q by francks@mstdn.fr
2025-04-04T20:38:05Z
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@futurebird i had been ask money to access to job opportunities - i was webmasterthis had never worked of course
(DIR) Post #Asl7043NUvNnQACPvE by jackyan@mastodon.social
2025-04-04T20:45:59Z
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@futurebird Not sure if itʼs the absolute strangest that Iʼve seen, but the top seller on Amazon a couple of years ago were calendars of dogs doing their number twos.
(DIR) Post #Asl7bu11GdRrID8ex6 by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-04-04T20:52:50Z
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@futurebird I can think of absolutely no use cases whatsoever for lighting fires from a distance so FBI, if you're reading this you can just move along thanks.
(DIR) Post #Asl7fPdq8eRGFRyE5Y by ptoothfish@mastodon.nz
2025-04-04T20:53:26Z
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@futurebird super excited to charge a remote control firestarter via the 5v rail on my laptop... genuinely feels like the kind of device i would like to have lying around my flammable home unattended
(DIR) Post #Asl7p5MYOD7YFaUtRg by Kierkegaanks@beige.party
2025-04-04T20:55:13Z
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@futurebird teenage me could have used it for non-shady but probably illegal reasons
(DIR) Post #Asl7yPrjWtV0RfWxI8 by EMR@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-04-04T20:56:42Z
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@futurebird it's like a fuse but slightly more convenient and far more likely to spontaneously combust.
(DIR) Post #Asl88JHoqVbCw5RwYa by JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social
2025-04-04T20:58:40Z
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@futurebird I started to see portable bath tub workstations advertised during the pandemic…water and your laptop, really such a great mix?! https://www.diy.com/departments/fimous-portable-folding-shower-bathtub-adult-freestanding-bathtub-for-small-bathrooms-with-soap-basket/9313440389156_BQ.prd?srsltid=AfmBOopdBv_3KqlOMWvD9kN9TwToF6-AAUjmLBbGwRvrlc4LI_rf1VjQW_I
(DIR) Post #Asl8X0wWBSqdHfGZ3A by essjax@essjax.com
2025-04-04T21:02:48Z
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@futurebird I got targeted with an ad for an anvil the other day.I didn't know the things existed outside of the Wile E Coyote / Roadrunner world.
(DIR) Post #Asl9JeGHIj7982hPw8 by MLE_online@social.afront.org
2025-04-04T21:11:53Z
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@futurebird The other day I saw a cigarette lighter that plugs into the USB-C port on your phone. The tag line was "break tradition. light a cigarette with a mobile phone."
(DIR) Post #AslB7uv1kBDhDvIEk4 by davew@mastodon.online
2025-04-04T21:32:08Z
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@futurebird Dinosaur erotica
(DIR) Post #AslCMv3xaezby6BmSm by lydialurch@mastodon.social
2025-04-04T21:46:08Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AslCNyT2PyfsohQE4m by mjibrower@mastodon.social
2025-04-04T21:46:18Z
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@futurebird A box of lint, in the early days of eBay. There was a whole website called “Who Would Buy That?” devoted to weird stuff on eBay.
(DIR) Post #AslCfz7iiWKA432TQW by educoder@mastodon.online
2025-04-04T21:49:34Z
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@futurebird I grab screens of the absurd stuff they recommend. Here's my most recent one:
(DIR) Post #AslD8LdOcEEbzNNas4 by Unixbigot@aus.social
2025-04-04T21:54:42Z
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@futurebird drop in on #StraightOuttaShenzen for some finds. My strangest is the six-figure-price neurosurgery microscope.
(DIR) Post #AslDoUEb1zzop8sBUW by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-04-04T22:02:19Z
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@futurebird I actually have a normal version of the lighter shown there. It's insanely hard to use to actually light anything. Well, I don't know about cigarettes, but I one time just tried to use it to light a candle in a blackout and it utterly failed to get the wick started.I can't even imagine how one could actually use this via remote control in any meaningful way. (Like even if one was trying to do something bad there are better tools out there to do it...)
(DIR) Post #AslDtMgiW3vuroLuFc by TheJen@beige.party
2025-04-04T22:03:11Z
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@futurebird Molotov cocktails are dangerous, yanow.
(DIR) Post #AslF7ilhJomFM95jG4 by GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
2025-04-04T22:16:59Z
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@futurebird What about a 1MW hydro generator (creek not included)?https://www.ebay.it/itm/251486132190
(DIR) Post #AslFjPQDhFCYMI14jo by floatybirb@mastodon.social
2025-04-04T22:23:46Z
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@futurebird I'm having trouble thinking of a good use case for that besides "crimes". Maybe "firing a replica old timey cannon from a safe distance if you're not sure if you actually loaded it right".
(DIR) Post #AslK6pNZklzPLCCZvc by cxxvii@aus.social
2025-04-04T23:12:46Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AslK7mb5aAr70ByhgO by gothpanda@pandapla.net
2025-04-04T23:12:52Z
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@futurebird I had a USB-rechargable version of this at one point, and it didn't have a remote...
(DIR) Post #AslPqXKUaZczHj6hpw by TommyTorty10@infosec.exchange
2025-04-05T00:16:33Z
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@futurebird Govdeals is a special kind of weird, so I'll give 2 answers.Govdeals: 2 early cold war fighter jets w/out guns from a flight school that was using them for training.Ebay: literal radioactive uranium (no it was not legal and I reported it)
(DIR) Post #AsnY8ia44118wUpeBk by glasspusher@beige.party
2025-04-06T00:59:25Z
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@futurebird if I can’t have you as a next door neighbor, reading your posts is the next best thing. This is hilarious
(DIR) Post #AspChMM2slw5TAJ90q by sysop408@sfba.social
2025-04-06T20:08:38Z
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@futurebird strangest thing I've found for sale online? I knew I had been waving up this screenshot of this most unusual waffle iron that came up when I tried searching for one of those weird brand Aliexpress-type brand names.