Steph

[sean mcguire @seanw_m]

this is WRONG. they LOVED bureaucracy. romans invented the concept of a building inspector!!! augustus capped apartment blocks at 70 ft because they kept pancaking on tenants, nero wrote an entire building code after rome burned in 64 ad, including mandating wider streets…

[sil ♡ @thhouseofblack]

Nothing beats Iphigenia and Orestes reuniting after nearly twenty years only to instantly hate on Odysseus together.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Odysseus: Maybe this is punishment for the ultimate violation of the law of the gods, which has forever broken the bonds between people.

Poseidon: Don’t ever fucking touch my son again.

[Steph @_robbinssteph]

@jailedamanda Don’t forget about The Trojan Women

[wendell sandico @wendellsandico]

my main criticism of The Odyssey is they should’ve let Matt Damon do that whole final battle naked

[Reva @VamossssRafa]

When he bangs that stick, you feel that bass in your hearts.

I was skeptical, but that opening scene was done exceptionally well.

[lore @loressocool]

actually also very happy to have gotten this moment even if it was a 5 second occurrence

[kenny :) @bvckystjames]

“nolan’s odyssey isn’t realistic!” “it isn’t accurate!” okay but it isn’t it kind of cool to make the central messaging of a thousands-year-old story told over generations resonate with modern day concerns to teach us lessons just like it did when it was first told

[Kalyug @viral_central1]

This scene is enough to watch the Odyssey in theatre 🔥😬

[WREN!!! @zendayurs]

telemachus every chance he got #theodyssey

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

dying in the Iliad you get a six line narrative about how you were the prettiest nicest most lovely boy who Diomedes master of the war cry ever spilt in half. dying in the odyssey you get a one line mention of how Odysseus was like "damn" when Scylla ate your whole head off

[Jillian @JillianChili]

Expanding on my original thought, Nolan's Trojan Horse twists one of humanity's most sacred acts gift giving. A gift from the gods, becomes a vessel for unimaginable violence. It's a chilling reminder that war corrupts even our most universal expressions of humanity!

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

Just saw The Odyssey, I loved it but was really surprised it featured so many Minions. Not saying it’s bad or inaccurate. I’m aware of its oral history, so there’s no way to know Homer didn’t include Minions. But it was like 98% Minions. Didn’t even mention Odysseus.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A stranger at an American grocery store said, "I love your jacket, man."

I froze.

In Japan, when a stranger speaks to you, something is wrong. You dropped your wallet. Your bag is open. There is a spider on you.

So I checked my jacket for stains.
I checked my zipper.
I turned around — maybe he meant someone behind me.

He was already gone.

He didn't want anything.
The compliment was the whole event.

It took me three weeks to try it myself. I practiced in my car. "Nice hat." "Nice hat." "Nice hat." Twenty minutes.

At Home Depot, I finally said it to an old man. My voice cracked like I was confessing love.

He said "Thanks, brother!" and kept walking.

Like it was nothing.
Like kindness is free here.

Since that day, I have complimented 14 strangers.

In 40 years in Japan, I never once told my father I liked his car.

Tomorrow I'm calling him.

Nice hat, America.

[#3 sisterwife but #1 in his heart @prettycritical]

lmao same. every time a professor had a no laptop rule, i was like “you are being RIDICULOUS. how in the world am i supposed to do other things while you talk to me???????”

[Link🇻🇦 @ZeldaZealot]

We did alright for a trio of goofballs

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER’ has been released.

Releasing July 25 on Paramount+

[ostonox @ostonox]

i'm crying man zohran saw team USA's performance and has mandated nonstop training camps until 2030

[History Vareck @HistoryVareck]

Churchill's plan during ww2 after France fell was basically hold out until Germany did something stupid to bring America in ,like during ww1