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My email style: If I sign my email “Thanks,” then I like you. If I sign “Best regards,” then I’m neutral on you. If I sign “Best,” then I hate you and WHY DIDNT YOU RESPOND TO MY LAST TWO EMAILS REBECCA and if I sign “Cheers,” it means you’re Irish.

@anishmoonka I work in the aircraft industry on the leasing side so I will correct one thing. When Spirit stops paying rent, the planes don’t immediately go back. Airlines default all the time. Lessors have to issue default notices. To repossess, it takes weeks, not days. (Love your stuff)

Spirit Airlines shut down at 3am Eastern this morning. Hundreds of their planes are sitting at airports and storage yards right now. You're not buying any of them for $1000. It comes down to who actually owned them in the first place. About 76% of Spirit's planes were rented from huge leasing companies. The biggest, AerCap, is based in Dublin and rents out more than 2,000 jets to airlines around the world. When Spirit stopped paying rent, those planes went straight back to the owners. Spirit never had the legal right to sell them. About 53% of all passenger jets in the world belong to leasing companies, not the airlines flying them. In parts of Asia it gets close to 60%. So when an airline collapses, more than half its fleet vanishes back to the owners within days. The leasing companies fly the planes to storage yards in Ireland or the Arizona desert, repaint them, and rent them out to a new airline within months. After Thomas Cook went bust in 2019, 17 of its passenger jets were flying again for Jet2, Turkish Airlines, VietJet, and Air Transat within three months. That leaves the planes Spirit actually owned, about 50 of them. Those get sold off to pay creditors. A used passenger jet sells for $15 to $30 million whole. A single engine on that plane is worth $4 to $7 million by itself, and the plane has two engines. The empty metal body of the plane in scrap condition sells for about $1.3 million. So two engines together are worth $8 to $14 million while the bare metal of the plane is worth about a million. The numbers say rip the plane apart. Engines make up 80 to 90% of the value when a plane gets broken up for parts. In 2025, a few fairly new jets got scrapped, only 6 to 8 years old. Nothing was wrong with them. The engines were worth more rented out separately than the whole plane was worth in one piece. So the real answer: rented planes go back to companies like AerCap, owned planes get torn apart and their engines fly on with another airline, and an empty plane body in the Arizona desert costs about as much as a small house. $1000 might get you a Spirit flight attendant uniform on eBay if you're patient.

@gracecamille_ Walk Hard though

i wouldn’t see that movie even if i was in denial about his being a serial pedophile. That is bc biopics are a great stain upon this world

@internetmadison yes

do you guys fuck with Hot Rod (2007)

@tessa_juliette ❤️

@tessa_juliette much deserved joy in my opinion!

it’s genuinely wild how long this took to complete but it’s even crazier the absolute joy it brings me every time i look at it

me all december

TCM is literally my favorite platform to watch movies. i’ve found so many incredible gems through their app. i’m so distraught thinking what might happen if i can’t access my old movies it’s moments like this you really realize just how close you are from a mental breakdown 🫠

at a time when we’re more isolated from each other than ever, the theatrical experience has never been more important. they may not be perfect, but theaters are some of the few places left that bring people of all walks of life together to escape whatever we endure in the day-to-day and allow us to laugh as one, cry as one, feel as one, and belong to something bigger than ourselves. even if you’re there alone, you’re never truly alone. theaters are an essential cornerstone of every community, and i shudder to think of a future without them - one where the sadness and division that already corrupts our culture has increased tenfold and further eroded our empathy. the erasure of the theatrical experience isn’t just anti-art, it’s anti-humanity.

@tessa_juliette it is though isn’t it

cried my eyes out at the cinema, got home and made a delicious dinner, ate with friends and yapped. life is really so so good

Officially became friends today with the traffic cop I see every day on walk to work. I think that makes me a narc

@tessa_juliette if men understood how to give a leaf the loneliness epidemic would be solved overnight

was playing my little morning game and mattchu came and put this on my screen. 🥺🥺🥺 yes i immediately turned to him and said a leaf? for me? thank you.

@tessa_juliette damn right! 💚

this forever and always 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

@tessa_juliette @pants I accept this but I would be happier blowing sax naked on a rooftop in the rain

@mbslider @pants second happiest man in the world (you’re the first)

I swear last night felt like christmas morning @pants

@tessa_juliette almost sent you this tweet that you wrote

yes. also it gave us the movie challengers

10 movies to get to know me and they are all the fast and furious movies one through ten

this is me every time I bring up @tessa_juliette being Catholic

never seen a tweet more me coded in my life

all three here at the peak of their game

@tessa_juliette disagree she’s wonderful and she’s literate

i feel called out