The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

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holy fuck

It’s shocking to learn that from the end of WW2 until the 1970s, people blamed governments for unemployment—not the unemployed.

Then the ruling class embraced supply side economics, engineered higher joblessness to discipline labour, and recast structural failure as individual moral defect.

The London Underground has too many lines, which means that they now have to use colours of some are indistinguishable to the colour blind. For accessibility sake, they should fill three up with concrete

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

The thing about Bill Gates confessing, publicly, to pedophilia is that if a *normal* person did that, they'd experience immediate consequences. They'd be arrested immediately for doing so.

It reminds me of how in the US self-defense is an affirmative defense: it is saying "I did it, but ___"

Dear Lucy On the eve of the by-election, your Labour party spokesperson has admitted to the Huffington Post that a Labour party leaflet has been delivered through doors with your imprint recommending a vote for Labour by a tactical voting organisation which does not exist. This is deeply troubling, it is actually lying to voters. Did you approve this? Do you feel the Labour Party in government should be held to different standards in terms of honesty to the British public? In your last letter to me you mentioned your ‘very extensive data’ and ‘having spoken to over a third of eligible voters’ which led you to an understanding that the by election ‘was a contest between labour and Reform’. Clearly this latest development only tells voters one thing - you will employ any type of political deception (or in Urdu “Dhoka” ) to win. You will be very aware that all three real tactical voting organisations are recommending a vote for the Greens as the best way to stop Reform. Lying to the voters, as you have been caught doing, raises the real prospect that Reform will be the beneficiaries, something you have said that you don’t want. As this is such an important issue, for the sake of your own reputation, I would strongly urge you to apologise to the voters of Denton and Gorton before the polls open in the morning.” Kind regards, Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,

Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform?

I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

"they won't actually ban birth control"
"they won't actually murder trans people"
"they won't actually end abortion"
"they won't actually try to overthrow the government"

I am so sick of people treating these folks as rational actors with rules from the previous century expecting norms to save them

i did, what a fun little fact

CW — horrifying realization i had a while back

i'm kinda convinced the single point of origin for the medical consensus on absurdly low doses of estrogen for trans women is ray blanchard's sexual fetish for underdeveloped little girl breasts

I don't think cis people realize how many people throughout history, even to this day, that have been weird to trans people "for science" have been literal pedophiles

One thing that makes me absolutely fucking crazy is when I say my life will be easier when my daughter can have conversations and move herself around and interact and people go “yeah except then you won’t be able to get her to shut up” as if that’s not preferable to a fucking infant

Shake from aqua teen 30 or 40 years old but the 30 or part is crossed out

Just aged. Hooray.

Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed global launch until second half of 2026.

"So yea we got caught trying to take advantage of you again.

We'll let it go for now but hopefully in 6 months you'll forget so we can sneak it back in after everyone has forgotten!"

They are not the first company to do this exact same song and dance and they will not be the last.

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

This day in history. 35. Pharisee Saul of Tarsus had an experience on the road to Damascus which turned him into the Christian apostle Paul. It was sunstroke, temporal lobe epilepsy, or mood disorder associated psychotic spectrum manifestations; I can't imagine what else it could have been.

Look, I believe in casts, but if a parent has strongly-held anti-cast beliefs, they should be allowed to let their kid’s broken arm grow back all floppy and fucked up, even to the point of lifelong, debilitating pain. And that’s not child abuse because a kid’s bones are their parents’ property

Finally, a flag worth fighting for.

people are like "what are we going to do with ICE agents if we defund the agency" and i think we should just put them in the camps we built for migrants and only let them out to be on game shows directed by mr beast

The history of reconstruction is one of failure.

Congress overturning presidential veto after veto in order to attempt reconstruction, *impeaching* a president over this.

And then it was fully killed by 1876.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

EVEN WHEN YOU'RE SICK

DO YOUR HORMONES

it’s 2007.

a closeted trans girl in texas is booting up Mass Effect 1 and choosing to (obviously) play as FemShep.

she names her Emma Shepard.

it takes her 15 years from this point to come out. 💔

the reason i'm so passionate about helping trans kids today is so this never happens to anyone else.

Is wearing “protect the dolls” merch specifically so I pass as an ally ethically wrong

Image of a bunch of ad posters plastered on the wall with the description "everything reminds me of her", well there's indie window like images of sexual actions, with the poster next to it saying "this is your sign, restart your Sapphic love story"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, they made the yearning phrase an ad campaign...

WRAP IT UP!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

i feel like if you're too afraid to say no to the new gestapo on something like verifying their account and legitimizing their place on your website, you should probably consider either moving your HQ or just shutting shit down completely.

imagine u park ur car in the alley behind ur building and as ur walking up the back stairs u look at the building next door, through a window u see a gorgeous topless woman stating at a 3d printer while she eats handfuls of smart food white cheddar popcorn.
u make eye contact
she nods
u carry on

This and that Luddite kid they tortured to death who with his dying breath asked the priest "can you keep a secret" and then when the priest leaned in said "so can I" and died are the two ends of the spectrum of the coolest shit you can say after being tortured

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed