Starlink, which provides space-based internet service to more than 2.6 million customers, often strips out the hefty cost of sending its satellites into space to make the non-public numbers look better to investors, these people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. They describe the company’s accounting as “more of an art than a science” and say it’s not actually profitable based on an operational and ongoing basis.

we were the true masters of the air.

Earth, Moon, and Sun, painted by Chesley Bonestell, printed in Future Life, April 1978.

@pscentral event 01: women ↳ JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS as Selina Meyer in VEEP (2012 - 2019)

Oh, bam! I should be president, or something.

the very rare phenomenon of a volcano producing vapor rings/volcanic vortex rings. Mount Etna today (April 5, 2024) by Boris Behncke

I am the voice from the outer world

Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

Faraway views (right lens of my binoculars)

      My father was a tailor in Leeds, as was his father and his father’s father. Time was if a man on the Avondale Road asked where he might find the finest clothes in northern England, he was pointed toward the shop of a man named Rackham. Then the men who sell wool decide they’d prefer not to compete with the men who imported fine cotton, and as the men who sell wool have the ears of the men who make laws, an embargo is enacted to increase profits and calico disappears.       And my father’s business that he inherited from his father and his father’s father begins to wither and die. And my father suffers the compound shame of financial ruin seen through the eyes of his son and descended into drink. I’d sit beside him as a boy at the Sunday service as he shouted at the pastor, at the altar - at anyone who’d listen, really - at the injustice of it all. And I’d put my arm over his shoulder as the insults began, help carry him out of the church. God the insults. At his funeral, our neighbors were kind enough to whisper them rather than call them out loud.       So, I set out to work, determined to rebuild what had been taken away. I was 13 years old, but I was determined…until a man arrived at my door claiming to hold debts belonging to my father, debts accumulated as my father drank, debts he claimed that now belonged to me, debts I could not possibly have hoped to repay, debts over which this man would have seen me imprisoned - imprisoned in a place where the debts would have been discharged only through hard labor, hard labor with no wages, working at - wait for it - the production of textiles.       “You people, incapable of accepting the world as it is” says the man to whom the world handed everything. If no Anne, if no rescue, if this is defeat for me, then know this: you and I were neck and neck in this race right till the end, but, Jesus, did I make up a lot of ground to catch you.

2023 archive

'Knightley.' I could not have believed it. 'Knightley.' Never met him before in her life and calls him 'Knightley.' And to discover that he is a gentleman. Upstart, vulgar being, with her 'Mr. E' and her cara sposo.

EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

and when i say that jensen ackles needs to live with the fact that he could have been first? and that he should suffer? they let a british man do this

911 fans i must offer my sincerest apologies. I did not think your little wee-woo show had it in him. I mocked your dedication, belittled your sincerely held beliefs simply because it seemed so blatantly obvious that you were being played. But you held firm in your faith and have been eternally rewarded. I know I can never join your paradise, nor would I try to achieve that which I do not deserve. But know that when I toil in the fields outside your Eden I feel no bitterness or resentment, as I have naught to blame but my own hubris and decades of queerbaiting precedent for my predicament. Go ye in peace.

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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) dir. Matthew Vaughn