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The Bannatyne Manuscript, a 400-year-old collection of poetry compiled by George Bannatyne, a young merchant in Edinburgh who couldn't leave his house during the Black Death quarantine. It features one of the earliest known usages of the word "Fuck."

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The f-bomb appears in "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie," in the phrase "wan fukkit funling."

arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04…

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Though this was widely reported to be the oldest surviving F-bomb, this was quickly dispelled by medievalists, who have long celebrated Roger Fuckebythenavele.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fuc…

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Fuckebythenavele was a 14th century Englishman who is thought to have earned his nickname due to misconceptions about how intercourse worked, or possibly due to a sexual preference for frottage.

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Today's Twitter threads! (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Problems with Pepp-Pt, Disney publishes an official Dole Whip recipe, Reset Everything, Usage stats from the National Emergency Library, RPG hagaddah, and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/04/10/tik…

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Privacy Redirect is a browser extension that intercepts links to surveilling websites and redirects them to alternative services that ad-block or don't practice surveillance like Nitter, Invidious, Bibliogram & OpenStreetMap.

github.com/SimonBrazell/p…

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Very excited about Nitter redirects! It's an alternative, free/open front-end to Twitter that ad- and tracker-blocks. Here's my Nitter feed:

nitter.net/doctorow

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That's very timely, as Twitter has just unilaterally obliterated all its users' privacy choices, announcing the change with a dialog box whose only button is "OK." What if it's not OK?

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