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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

Also, researching sun shades to avoid scorched plants/fruits this year. Oof. And figure out something that will work better on aphids and spider mites, too. Maybe figure out a set up for drip lines rather than sprayers for watering.

For now, though, my arms are noodles.

Yay, gardening! 🍅🫑🌶️ 3/3

Amazingly, it only took about ten minutes to run a first pass over one of the beds with the hand tiller this morning, rather than the hour+ it took last year. Going to get the first pass on the other bed (and a second pass on the both) done this weekend. 2/3

Grabbed my tomato plants for the season yesterday and a couple of the mammoth jalapenos. (The nursery didn't have out any multipacks of the bell peppers yet. Boo!) Delia knocked one of my jalapenos over and OUT of it's pot last night. Got it in a bigger nursery pot until I get the beds prepped. 1/3

A little red car. The license plate (a MN Blackout style license plate) says DONT Underneath that is a sticker that says PANIC

Seen today in my neighborhood:

An illustration for our new museum, closer to being finished.

Turn your feelings into art.

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

AI art will continue to be ineligible for copyright after SCOTUS refuses to hear the case brought by the same man whose previous appeal for patents was also rejected.

#transformers #tarn

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

Such a lovely image to wake up to on an early Monday morning. ❤️❤️❤️

He has every right to be! 😆

Sideswipe's pretty cocky about his catch.

look, if you actually get some writing done today, you can do no writing tomorrow as a treat. happy?

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan

this bread is beautiful

"SCIENCE FANTASY ITCHIO JAM" is written in different fonts over a blue smoke cloud. (Image courtesy of Unsplash.)

Do you like sci-fi & fantasy? Do you like them TOGETHER? Then this is the jam for you!

#SciFanJam is all about making original narrative works (prose, comics, visual novels, & TTRPGs) that blend these two genres however you see fit. Come create with us!

Found out more here! ⬇️
itch.io/jam/scifanjam

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that.

Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened.

A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee."

I only just made it out.

Meme: The Duolingo owl and the Hooters owl are brothers. One chose the path of knowledge. The other, the path of jumbo bazoingas, short shorts and chicken wings. An unbridgeable schism. A tale as old as time. The response: Their father, the Tootsie Roll Own, is equally proud of both and just wishes he could have his family back.

The world was saved because a human being didn't trust a computer.

G. G. Santiago Obituary February 21, 2026 - Billing Funeral Home View G. G. Santiago's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Sad to read that G.G. Santiago, creator of “Rainbow Brite,” has died. Her obit is quite moving. ♥️ www.billingsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/g...

Sleepy owl found resting among items on a New York antique store shelf Shoppers in upstate New York month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: a live owl resting peacefully among items on a shelf.

Courtesy of @heymerle on Tumblr: "Extremely lifelike." :) apnews.com/article/owl-...

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I love “cozy games” on an individual level but “cozy” used to include replaying resident evil 2 for the 5th time

now as a genre it’s starting to feel like it is locking people into aesthetic tradwife boot camp

Unless they upgrade to the Pro tier, in which case those features will be unlocked.

A drawing of a man with long dark hair wearing cool leather clothes

Clubbin'
2025

a man in a sequined jacket says three words for you treat yo self in front of a computer Alt: Tom Haverford in a sequined jacket says, “Three words for you. Treat yo self.” on Parks n Rec.

Everyone deserves a new book for making it through the week. 💙📚

several art references of a woman with red hair and fangs.

several art references of a woman with red hair and fangs on the ground.

several art references of a woman with red hair and fangs sitting.

several art references of a woman with red hair and fangs.

New pose references out now!
Neri is back for blood. ❤️‍🔥🗡️