Cynthia

Which hurts more , saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Candlelit vigil for George Floyd in 2026. It's a cult.

[NASA Ames @NASAAmes]

Full moon in bloom 🌕🌸

Look up tonight to see the first full moon of May, the Flower Moon, in the night sky!

Where will you be moongazing from?

[NASA @NASA]

What’s in the night sky for May?

In this month’s episode of “What’s Up,” see how to spot the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, find out when we’ll get a blue moon, and learn more about a celestial meetup between the Moon and Venus.

Happy skywatching! https://t.co/2VCImgLyGD

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.

You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored.

Homer does something far stranger.

Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them.

They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs.

So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits.

Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right.

Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him.

Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads.

In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is.

What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it.

It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

[Cynthia @CynthiaTotemoth]

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[Cynthia @CynthiaTotemoth]

one thing abt me is i will do What i Want

[Nimusiima Lucent @Namanyaluc]

We chose to thank God regardless of everything that happened.
God remains God, in all situations and deserves a praise in whatever decision he makes
Psalms 37: 1-7.
Life is a symbol that teaches us that God is not yet finished with us
#Hope
#Thanksgivingbreakfast
@Mwesigwa_R

[Ayush @ayushm28]

Built an API to fetch sidebarUsers and successfully tested it via Postman.

What’s next?
→ Fetch these users on the frontend
→ Replace mock users with real data 🚀
#BuildingInPublic #WebDev #MERN

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Same professional protestor found at 100 different protests

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is great

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Make beautiful videos with @Grok

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok helping people in real-time

[Cynthia @CynthiaTotemoth]

i laugh at everything, that’s my problem

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

America is toast if the radical left wins.

They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.

Won’t be America anymore.

[Cynthia @CynthiaTotemoth]

lol would you have spilt it with him if the tables were turned? Cause if he paid for everything AND you left w 200 then why be pressed about it in the first place 😭

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

We are on the right path and we know what we need to do in 2026! 🟡🔵

[Cynthia @CynthiaTotemoth]

I just take shit foe what it is and what it ain’t and focus on what’s most important

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Your children are being indoctrinated