Michael Aye

Grant draft: soft sci-fi
Grant editing: hard sci-fi
CV: heroic fantasy

Glad to see this story covered by the press. I've heard from colleagues that Goddard labs are being moved/closed during the government shutdown while employees are unable to receive notification/e-mail/warnings. There's fear that they'll return after the shutdown & labs will be gone. 🔭

And you can drop in at any point to check out what humans have been doing in space! issinrealtime.org

40,000,013 users on Bluesky 80.00003% of 50,000,000 user goal (currently estimated in ~522.3 days)

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A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA:
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The final Python 3.9 security fix release is out! Python 3.9.25 is available now! If you’re still using that, grab the sources and build the update as there’s some final fixes: Security content (low severity) There are no CVEs for those, and so ot...

The final release of Python 3.9 is out!

discuss.python.org/t/the-final-...

May you all enjoy using the features added in Python 3.10 if that's now your oldest version. 😁

docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3...

Glamour UK Magazine made 9 trans women as their collective Women of the Year

Instead of offering congratulations, JK Rowling naturally tried insulting them instead

Glamour’s response, however, is priceless

Oooh, somebody’s got some speaking fire!

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WTA Finals group photo in Riyadh.

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screenshot from a hard to read config file for quarto docs.

@quarto.org hi lovely quarto folks! just wanted to let you know you that your dark theme CSS needs some work, code is hard to read on this page:https://quarto.org/docs/journals/authors.html#author-schema

Trump sent $20 billion to bail out his buddy in Argentina and enrich hedge funds — not American families.

Now Trump is cheering foreign election results while our own government is shut down.

“America First”? Not even close.

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

25 years, one website: 'ISS in Real Time' captures quarter-century on space station With the milestone just days away, you are likely to hear this week that there has now been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past 25 years. But what does th...

From the makers of the Apollo in Real Time websites comes a new experience with 500 times more data.

ISS in Real Time offers the chance to explore more than 9,000 days of photos, video and audio transmitted during the 25 years of continuous human residency on the International Space Station.

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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whatever happened to autocompletion of column names in #Pandas ?? This was possible a while ago for the longest time (early adopter here), but these days it mostly fails?? How is one supposed to do interactive data exploration without column name completion??

Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...

they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too. Saw this & thought I'd repost

Reposting with Alt-text:

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.

“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”

So good!! 🔥

The satellite presentation of Melissa is now evolving very rapidly indeed. Needless to say that Melissa now has her foot firmly on the loud pedal and is in the midst of an impressive period of rapid infensification that will see her become a major hurricane in no time at all.

The wall of a building containing a large-ish fossil used as construction material. The fossil looks like an ammonite, but I could be completely wrong!

Spotted in the wall at Bath Spa Uni yesterday @pavementgeology.bsky.social #stoneworkSunday

funding issues for a while. For now, I'm placing my bets on quarto, it recently gained almost (or all?) of the exciting features Myst MD had going for it (correct me if I'm wrong). Anyway, if you like placing text automatically, we live in a golden age! :)

racing ahead with new features every release, these days one can even use quarto-autodoc as your documentation engine for software packages, and even write a quick business letter with branding! One should also mention @mystmd.org but there seems to be a slower development cycle, i believe they had

i don't know what it is, but I SOO adore typesetting systems where I don't need to care WHERE things appear, but just need to think about content. And there are so many exciting new systems out there, @typst.app for one, with an exciting collaboration with @quarto.org . Quarto in general seems to be

@georgetakei.bsky.social have you seen this? Extremely worrying...

Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

christ almighty what is this guy doing

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Encourage a student to register for the astropy workshop! 🔭 #astrocode

what? I didn't expect THAT!

Protist - Wikipedia

thanks for this small innocent comment. it led me to discover that kelp isn't actually a plant but a fourth eukaryotic lifeform next to plants, animals, and fungi, called protists !?! #wikipedia FTW ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist