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Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't burst out laughing when your rocket blows up

post from @khushandoj on threads: “If I had Elon Musk levels of money l'd just be sitting here fully funding every single LA-fired related go fund me I came across”

this is the thing I’ll never understand about these chodes — like how fucking broken do you have to be to know you could literally wipe out so much of what ails the world and then actively, publicly, vociferously choose not to

Trump can’t legally own a firearm, but he’s about to be given the nuclear launch codes.

Very normal country we have.

The only thing brining me Joy

Biden: We have an obligation to stand up to what my dad used to say is the greatest sin of all: The abuse of power.

*camera cuts to Trump and former presidents*

my favorite part about being terminally online is that today, my birthday, every app I log into for work gives me balloons and confetti and wishes me a happy birthday 🤗

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

CNN is hopelessly broken.

1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.
2. It would violate several treaties.
3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.

The stray cats in Brooklyn: 👁️👄👁️

a group of people are dancing in a room with a pink wall ALT: a group of people are dancing in a room with a pink wall

You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:

my reaction to the Blake Lively complaint: if this is the kind of shit that men in Hollywood pull on a woman who's married to a billionaire and best friends with Taylor Swift, imagine the hell they're putting unknown actress through every day

"Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress”

And the GOP will defend every bit of this.

Let’s keep this in mind, devout Christian Speaker Johnson tried to keep the house from releasing this report because he wanted Gaetz to be attorney general.

Typical

Trump voters are always the same people who change their profile pictures and post NEVER FORGET on 9/11 too

The Senate just passed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0 by unanimous consent. Glad to see everyone do what’s right after President Musk tried his level best to eliminate funding for pediatric cancer research.

I don’t want to hear another Trump voter thank my husband for his service ever again. You can take that “thank you” and shove it up your ass. While you’re at it, put your money where your mouth is and compensate him out of your own pocket for not being paid during a shutdown. Don’t forget the BAH!

Republicans couldn’t even pass a bill to keep the government open that they negotiated with themselves—after blowing up a bipartisan deal with Democrats because Elon Musk and Trump told them to. And then 38 Republicans voted against their own bill. 🤡

To see who they value, pay attention to their words. School massacres are labeled "mass shootings. Street executions are described as "officer-involved shootings." But the killing of a CEO is immediately called "terrorism."

A bunch of cry baby billionaires who never served in the military want to force millions of our troops to go without pay at Christmas.

But do go on about the price of eggs won’t you.

Including those serving in the US Coast Guard, the military branch that falls under the DoHS, not the DoD.

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

Trump voters LOVE to say that they support the troops but continue to lick his and Elonia's boots as they shutdown the government and the US Coast Guard doesn't get paid. I hate it here!

5 confirmed fatalities at a school called “Abundant Life.” How ironic. Someone fetch Alanis.

School shootings just push me further into atheism.

A kind, just, loving, all-powerful, merciful god would not allow children to be gunned down… especially in a school that practices the worship of him.

Now that children are being shot at Christian schools, will the GOP agree to gun control now?

"they nabbed me in altoona" feels already very Anthem of a Folk Hero

Please go see the Jinkx and Dela holiday show. I laughed, I cried, I basked in the glory of two insanely talented humans whose joy helped me forget the hellscape we live in.

@thejinkx.bsky.social and @bendelacreme.bsky.social at the WANG theater, I know that’s right

cc: the don’t-vote-for-Dems-because-Gaza folks