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Michael Aye
@michaelaye.bsky.social
Planetary data cruncher, wannabe musician, dad to human and dogs (all of them.)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-4088-1928

Profile image credits: Artistic vision of CO2 jets on Mars. Published by NASA; artist: Ron Miller.
After all these years, “Soulsuckers” by Amos Lee is still such a hauntingly beautiful melody, it’s hard to grasp.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Cometa McNaught y Antena 2 - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/zbEFo
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The CDC is lying to you about vaccines and autism. The CDC webpage about vaccines and autism now misrepresents the science and lies to the public about vaccines and autism. It’s just part of RFK Jr.'s ongoing war on vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cdc-is-l...
The CDC is lying to you about vaccines and autism
The CDC webpage about vaccines and autism now misrepresents the science and lies to the public about vaccines and autism. It's just part of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s continuing war on vacc
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Interestingly the ghostly terminal also doesn't work with remotes often. Don't have the time to hack those to make things work. Iterm just works. Slower but still OK
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
gave the Warp terminal a try again. still doesn't support fish on the remote host. byebye, see you next year...
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Somewhere in the future, in a dictionary the definition of hypocrisy will show Trump posting an image saying "remember your oath".
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I'm sorry but if you drive 50 in a 30 zone in front of a daycare on the first day of snow I will punch your face at the next opportunity... #sorrynotsorry
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Unable to mass fire Feds, Vought’s tactic is to starve agencies and programs of funds, in a variety of (likely) illegal ways. You’ll see more of this as the fiscal year progresses. This administration must be removed and prosecuted for all illegal activity.

prospect.org/2025/11/12/r...
Russ Vought Tries to Bankrupt the CFPB - The American Prospect
A legal office in the White House, at the behest of Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, has decided to redefine the word “earnings” in order to bankrupt th...
prospect.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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An article from Science about the changes LPSC has made to its abstract submission process. As my colleague @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social states, "This is censorship". www.science.org/content/arti...
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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If Donald Trump was really "America first," he'd stop billionaire corporations from cheating the U.S. government out of taxes.

Instead, he's adding tax loopholes to let them off the hook and raising costs for everyone else.
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Following Trump’s statements, leading House Democrats released a joint statement condemning the remarks: "We unequivocally condemn Donald Trump’s disgusting and dangerous death threats against members of Congress".
Outrage after Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Scientists reveal what triggered Santorini 'earthquake swarm.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scientists reveal what triggered Santorini 'earthquake swarm'
Thousands of earthquakes were caused by magma
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Space adventurers Bepi, Mio and MTM have just one year to go until they reach Mercury. What have they been up to since their journey began in 2018?
Watch episode 2 of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 youtu.be/41EdqhlH3PQ 👀
🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo
The epic adventures of BepiColombo | Part 2: It’s a long way to Mercury
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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How much is your company spending to support the Python Software Foundation?
For comparison, how much do they spend for tips on expensed meals?
The PSF runs PyPI, where pip installs from. You depend on PyPI.

Fund the PSF. Tip your server!
www.python.org/psf/sponsors...
Sponsor the PSF
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
so, all that is missing for a working geospatial conda env in Python 3.14 (using conda-forge) is to resolve a requirements mismatch between #rioxarray and #geopandas : gist.github.com/michaelaye/1... (both failing on osx-arm64 and linux-64.)
Terminal output from creating a 3.14 conda env with geopandas and rioxarray
Terminal output from creating a 3.14 conda env with geopandas and rioxarray - gist:1d6bf02a95f07a8bb85e5620b18fc33b
gist.github.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Here’s an annotated version of our comet image.

We also want to thank our downlink and uplink teams who spent a huge amount of time working on this. Our camera was not designed to image interstellar objects 19 million miles away, but their hard work and planning paid off.
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Trust me, you don’t need the alpro barista milk for a nice vegan cappuccino. The standard “not milk” (1.5 % fat here) is doing foam just fine. The barista has more sugar in it though, in case you fancy that.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
can't use @vscode.dev without tab completion of local filenames obviously. Until this is fixed, need to go back to jupyterlab. #vscode #jupyter
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@anacondainc.bsky.social is there an issue with the repodata servers? I see degradations of CDN cloning and Azure DevOps on the status page. My symptom is that conda update times out when trying to stream the repodata.
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Damn, watchOS 26 broke the podcast player. :( keeps stopping itself.
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Life would have been so much simpler if our brains responded the same way all the time. But they don't. Even the time of day may affect how we respond to something. Perception of that time of day, is regulated in turn by neuromodulators, like adenosine. 🧪

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
thehill.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
API memory loss is a thing! When you come back to a project with many dependencies and other API calls after a few weeks, you forgot everything! At least I do... :/
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM