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The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ Translated as ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

I had a sweet potato go bad 6 days after I bought it! I've had them start sprouting after some weeks, but I almost forgot they could rot.

I went to one of the most expensive private schools in the us ( still mid tier amongst the elite)

All you need to know about this sort of tech etc … is they don’t give it to their kids

Women would smile more if men would go fuck themselves more.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Anybody else feel particularly benevolent when they return a Libby loan early? "Somebody will get to read this book sooner than they expected due entirely to my conscientiousness!" Look, folks, just let me hang onto something right now.

lol ok this one’s funny

Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter I.D. Bill

i say let them do it. if i were a senate democrat i would relish the opportunity to let the country know that republicans don't think you should vote if you are a married woman www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...

You know how Elon Musk treated Twitter employees after he took over the company, and the institutional impact that had? What if we take an approach like that with some military officers, in particular ones with technical expertise?

they’re radicalizing guys name colt shelby who work in the oil and gas industry

"But you can't make all those people US citizens"

Why not?

It shouldn't be harder to make people safe and secure in this country than it is to commit crimes against humanity.

"don't show this again" functions as a rhetorical question, like the elevator close button or when english people say "innit"

Thanks for the heads up, time to update my muted keywords

i simply do not think i should have to hear clarence thomas’s thoughts. i am a good person. i deserve better.

legos are for children and cowards who are afraid to make models

Like, one of the ways that tech companies are captured by newfangled executive counter-knowledge is that they literally don’t understand themselves to be bound by the same organizational constraints as literally every other form of social association in human history. I don’t get it.

I think in a very real way, the fascination with big data and now AI is downstream of the fact that the people who run and work at tech organizations literally have an absent understanding of how knowledge and information work as a social and organizational function whatsoever.

This dude @rokhanna.bsky.social is out here making sense

Hot take: true crime as a genre is both reflective of and feeds into an incredibly warped culture of violence obsession and if you consume it I think it's responsible for about 5-10% of your anxiety and depression

there should be a “hand wank” emoji and it should be a reaction on linkedin

I see I have missed some Discourse on this site & I don’t care to learn about it.

they call it single sign on because you have to sign on every single time you get up from your desk

And for some reason his parents sound totally fine with their choice to let that happen to him. I don’t want my kids to have preventable brain damage and I guess I thought everyone felt that way

I generally believe in bodily autonomy, but I do think it's fair to draw a line at the point of, "You are not allowed to make yourself a disease vector if you can help it."

What do you want Dems to regain power FOR? What is the good you hope they acheive in the world?

It has been beyond endlessly frustrating for me, a former professional athlete, that not a single Dem could muster the courage to say “what the fuck is wrong with you, sports are inherently unfair to begin with, let kids play with their friends”

Their friends and family will say to them, "You were just like this as a kid! You deserve this haha!" And I'm like I AM AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER!

Hard to believe there's a downside to marrying someone who's super fit and active and fun, but if you have babies with them, those babies will. Not. Ever. Stop. Moving.

Once again I'm asking Democrats to take their messaging cues from the sitting Democratic Senator who is the most vulnerable for re-election in 2026

Every AI company