My photo shows a set of Late Iron Age glass gaming pieces displayed on a sandy surface in a display case at the British Museum. The set is made up of 24 coloured glass domes; six each of white, yellow, blue, and translucent green glass. One of the yellow pieces is out of shot in my photo. Each game piece is decorated with five inset spiral motifs in a contrasting colour. Nearly all pieces are uniform in shape; domed with a slightly pointed apex and a flattened base. Dimensions approximately 2.57 cm diameter and 2.2 cm height. The gaming pieces were recovered from a richly-furnished Late Iron Age cremation burial in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, when it was disturbed during the construction of two gas-pipe trenches during the building of the Panshangar Estate in 1965.

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Iron Age Britain! 🤩

This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

the yard from neko atsume 2, with a cat on a pillow AND a little doggie who appears in the bushes sometimes! look how cute!! you aren't allowed to take pictures of it with the cat camera but if you tap the dog it barks (!!) how adorable i just never had the patience to check in on this thing several times a day to catch all the cats. i remember figuring it out to the point that i attracted some of the 'special' cats but idk maybe this time it is a better use of my fried brain than it was 10 years ago or whenever it was that this game came out. it was before i got off of fbook, so 2015? 2014? was it as long ago as grad school? i guess i could look it up lmao

I have very casually played neko atsume on and off for years across 3 different phones, never getting very far (one time i bought the yard/house expansion but never 'collected them all') but someone #onhere posted about neko atsume 2 so i downloaded it AND now THERE IS ALSO A DOG LOOK AT THIS CUTIE

they killed loss posting

The official seal of the United States Supreme Court, featuring a circular design with the words “Supreme Court of the United States” surrounding a central emblem of a balanced scale of justice and a laurel wreath, symbolizing law, authority, and fairness.

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now.

More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive.

Full announcement ⤵️
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Two headphone-wearing people seated in the "Listen" station at the Internet Archive, surrounded by shelves with record albums.

A person at the Internet Archive turning the pages of a book being digitized on a "scribe" station, which uses two cameras to shoot opposing pages simultaneously.

A person at the Internet Archive operating a Lasergraphics ScanStation digital film scanner, in the procress of scanning 8mm film.

Server racks with blue "blinkenlights" at the Internet Archive.

Hooray for #NationalLibraryWeek! 📚

Internet Archive's mission is Universal Access to All Knowledge, and we’re proud to be a Federal Depository Library.

Books 📖, movies 🎞️, music 🎧, software 💾, web pages 🌐 and much more await on the Internet Archive: the library in your pocket.

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Mid century signs against a deep blue sky

Atomic Signs sign, Route 550, Farmington, New Mexico (1980)
Photo: John Margolies / Library of Congress

Two record store clerks standing behind the counter. One wears sunglasses and holds a cigarette.

Record store employees, Chicago (1961)
Photo: Raeburn Flerlage / Chicago Historical Society

A rectangular poster with an image of Saturn (with Dione, seen as a bright dot to Saturn’s bottom left) against a black background. Saturn’s body is mostly composed of different layers of brown. Both of Saturn’s poles have a dark brown color, which gradually transitions to a lighter brown toward Saturn’s center. Saturn is surrounded by several bright, sky-blue rings. These rings are mostly broad, with a few singular narrow gaps between the broader rings. Along the bottom is a series of thin vertical bars ranging from purple at left to blue, green, yellow, orange, and red at right. Bars are separated slightly, with black in between. Bar colors are brightest at the bottom, fading up to black. Brightness varies from bar to bar, giving the array an undulating feel. At upper right is text that reads, “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” and NASA’s blue, white, and red meatball insignia. Title text appears at lower left that reads, “James Webb Space Telescope: Saturn.

Download and print your own mini poster featuring Saturn—captured by #NASAWebb! 🪐

The poster is available single- or double-sided. The double-sided version includes the image on the front and a description in both English and Spanish on the back: https://go.nasa.gov/3ODnc9z

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Beer Receipts From 4,000 Years Ago Cracking open a cold one is a common post-work ritual across many cultures today, but archaeologists discovered the practice dates back at least 4,000 years. The National Museum of Denmark has been ho...

The tablets include receipts for both "high quality beer" and "ordinary beer."

Counting that as advertising, cuz this is cool and I wanna share it.

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🖐 (for the second time) "you're good"

welcome to bluesky. all the national merit scholars are on here (sorry)

Getting a call from an unlisted number, the voice on the other end requests that I be more normal. They robot being trained on my data is coming out all fucked up

Color photo of a closed diner that was called DOX GRILL.

I went here & everyone knew personally identifiable information about you

As part of the restoration of the rule of law, every lawyer in the Trump admin who touched this file needs to go to jail.

Sanctions and disbarment are what you do for private abuses of the legal system. Abusing the government power of criminal indictment is another matter, and they keep doing it.

A woman who looks like an office worker with feathered hair strolls (on orange shag carpet) past a multi colored space age industrial wall unit, which includes a drinking fountain and a fire extinguisher.

Halsey Taylor Modular Service Wall (1975) #MondayVibes #HappyMonday

Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath

Looking down an ancient paved road with people, Roman ruins and mountains in the distance

Looking down the Via di Mercurio from the Roman city wall of #Pompeii towards the forum, early one Saturday morning

📷 Sept 2023

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #Archeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

I had a version of "Criticizing vibecoders is ableism" in the drafts but I thought it was too far-fetched but I swear I just saw a version of it, but, like, not a joke and I'm gonna go outside and enjoy the LA sun. That book thing is going down at USC. Maybe I'll do that and get a tamale and a beer

whitney garland day care, drayton plains, michigan, 1986

whitney garland day care, drayton plains, michigan, 1986

trumps appointees being alcoholic incompetents and trumps jan 6th supporters being pedophiles seems like something historians are going to be studying tbh

Three white bottles with Pepsi labels in Estonian text, against a white background.

Untitled (Pepsi bottles) (1980)
Photo: Jevgeni Klimov / Art Museum of Estonia

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

keep honking! I'm taking your feedback seriously and considering next steps

At least 5 dead in Burundi from a mystery illness: Africa CDC Lab tests are negative for more than 200 pathogens, but testing continues.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891