Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 01/10/2026for creating good matplotlib plots, AI/Claude REALLY shines. the amount of fine-tuning I am able to do without looking up the 20 year old APIs that sometimes (not always) are counter-intuitive or just "aged"... it's cool how good looking products one can achieve in less time! 020
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 30/09/2026vibe coding challenge: press "1: Accept and use auto mode" when the beat drops of the background deep house music. It's fun! ;) 010
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 24/09/2026LLM asked me to say "Go" to start the simulation. I typed "Engage" and I smiled. ;) 000
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 20/09/2026One thing that becomes clear to me trying to do science with an LLM: you absolutely have to force it to produce library code with tests and reuse it from the beginning! When you allow to create quick scripts there’s no guarantee that the physics are implemented the same way in the next script. 110
Reposted by Michael AyeBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...ballsandstrikes.orgA Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter FraudHis conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds. 409104922656
Reposted by Michael AyeAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Huge turnout at the Kennedy Center tonight! 💚✊ Thank you! 215115822088
Reposted by Michael AyePatrick McGovern @planetpatman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As I said to a friend a couple of years ago: “AI isn’t going to kill us with fucking Terminator robots, it’s going to kill us by rendering a modern, computer-based society incapable of functioning!” 031
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 19/09/2026One of most annoying things I find since being back in Germany is being pressured to pay for a toilet visit in a shopping mall. The mall wants my money, it can make my visit comfortable by sorting this out themselves. 000
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 15/09/2026Music lovers: there are 2 versions of Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger out there. On the soundtrack she moves more steady to the beat, which I find supports the heavy accompany well. But there’s also another radio or studio version where she keeps slowing down and accelerating, not liking it. What u say? 000
Reposted by Michael AyeElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/09/2026Flight attendants have the right to organize a union without intimidation or interference. I've received reports that Delta threatened pay and benefits, and encouraged new workers to report colleagues for even mentioning a union. I'm pushing back against union-busting tactics. 542502560
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 13/09/2026This is one of the best scientific programming resources on the web having its latest release. I learned so much from this free resource over the years! 021
Reposted by Michael AyeMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Canada is worth fighting for. Today. Tomorrow. Forever. 1243679653
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 10/09/2026I have released 0.12.0 of my isistools that contained a bug fixed version of csm2map, a faster, pure python version of cam2map. Its faster because it tries to do all in RAM, that works up to CTX size with laptop memory, for HiRISE I’m still testing how it can do it partially out of memory. 000
Reposted by Michael AyeDLR-next @dlr-next.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit SDO. 736038
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 08/09/2026Oh my word I think yoga instructions that often say don’t shrug possibly created too weak shrug muscles for me creating in turn rotator cuff issues. There I was thinking shrugging is never good and this seems to be wrong!?! 000
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 07/09/2026PROJ ships planetary CRS under a versioned authority, IAU_2015. Write one to a GeoTIFF or GeoPackage, read it back, and most of the stack can't tell you what it is any more. Four round-trips, minimal reproducers. One works. michaelaye.github.io/posts/iau-cr...michaelaye.github.ioFour ways your GIS stack loses a planetary CRS – HomeIAU_2015 is a versioned authority, and most readers drop the version 032
Reposted by Michael AyeKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 280173914954
Reposted by Michael AyeDr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 07/09/2026Happy Monday! Please enjoy my tiny painting of Neptune 420029
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 07/09/2026Released planetarypy 0.83.0 🪐 IAU feature names are now a plottable layer — add_features(ax, "mars") is the coastlines() move for planetary maps. 47 bodies, 2049 Mars features, 9086 lunar. Plus a session-wide target CRS and other goodies. michaelaye.github.io/planetarypy/...michaelaye.github.ioRelease Notes – PlanetaryPy 110
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 03/09/2026The remaining spacecraft is also "power-positive", with the solar panels were stored since end of cruise in June and they have now successfully been switched back on. 000
Reposted by Michael AyeESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/09/2026📡 Estrack deep space antennas are in position for #BepiColombo. Cebreros ready for separation detection - check! ☑️ Malargüe ready for background tracking - check! ☑️ @esa.int #JAXA #Mercury 06910
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 03/09/2026An indirect confirmation of the separation has arrived: Using a tiny change of radio communication frequencies caused by the presumed separation event! Now we are waiting for telemetry. (I'm excited specifically b/c I recently became a Co-I for the BeLA instrument, the laser altimeter). 010
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 03/09/2026Just learned about Devetashka Cave in Bulgaria. Are you even a geologist if you haven’t been there? ;) absolutely gobsmacking: 70,000 years ago early humans were living there, up to 100 meter high ceilings, with built in flood light holes. 000
Reposted by Michael AyeThomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026That's the first time that I am happy with my processed image of an observation of Neptune by Hubble, so I am sharing it here too! 🔭 This observation was done yesterday around 6pm UTC. The data come from the 17964 proposal led by Mariarosa Marinelli. 612924
Reposted by Michael AyeDLR-next @dlr-next.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Europäische Raumsonde kurz vor Ankunft am Merkur. Morgen ab 13:45 Uhr Liveübertragung aus ESA-Kontrollraum. www.esa.int/Space_in_Mem...esa.intLive erleben: BepiColombo beginnt die Anflugphase am MerkurNach acht Jahren steht die ESA/JAXA- Mission BepiColombo kurz vor dem Beginn ihrer Ankunftsphase am Merkur. Am 3. September 2026 wird sich das Merkur-Transfermodul (MTM) der ESA von den beiden wissens... 220647
Reposted by Michael AyeSPIE @spie.org · 01/09/2026The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now in orbit! 🔭☄️ Explore research documenting the mission’s development, from detectors and #instrumentation to coronagraphs and optical systems, through #SPIE_JATIS: bit.ly/3V7UOiH 0198
Reposted by Michael AyeDaniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Roman’s antenna and visor-like sunshade have successfully deployed. science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/... #Roman 🔭🧪science.nasa.govNASA Roman Space Telescope’s Antenna, ‘Visor’ Deployed - NASA ScienceRoman’s antenna and visor-like sunshade have successfully deployed. 07018
Reposted by Michael Aye💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 02/09/2026Paint them things please. #climate #windpower #birds 20774671948
Reposted by Michael AyeMeg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026There absolutely is no doubt that the climate crisis has been caused by humans and our pumping of green house gasses and pollutants in to the Earth's atmosphere since the industrial revolution and growing effectively exponentially ever since. 0103
Reposted by Michael AyeDr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So the week after the "Star Trek Strange New Worlds" talked about "Strong Force Neutrinos" this happens.... www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWorld’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particleIt’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say 34210
Reposted by Michael AyeDLR-next @dlr-next.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Nochmal zum Thema Merkur (siehe Post von heute Morgen): Da ist ja unter anderem immer noch völlig rätselhaft, warum dieser kleine Planet (hier in einer unserer aufwendigen Visualisierungen dargestellt) einen proportional viel zu großen Kern hat. 2128823
Reposted by Michael AyeMeg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What angers me the most as a planetary scientist about the world blowing through the 1.5 deg C threshold is that we know how to stop this. The broad strokes physics/processes here are straightforward enough that the runaway greenhouse Earth and snowball Earth was a homework assignment in grad school 47925
Reposted by Michael AyeAnonymous Germany @anonymousgermany.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ausgerechnet die AfD-"Patrioten" stellen sich schützend vor das 'Opfer' Putin+zweifeln daran, dass Russland hinter Leipzig steckt, weil angeblich keine Beweise vorliegen. Das ist wie ein Bankangestellter, der sich schützend vor einen Bankräuber stellt wenn die Polizei anrückt! 611019276
Reposted by Michael AyeElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/08/2026Back-to-school shopping costs more this year thanks to Trump’s chaotic tariffs. Need notebooks and markers? Expect to spend $118 on supplies for each kid. Add clothes, books, and tech? $800+. Trump calls this “America First”? Give me a break. 2642999
Reposted by Michael AyeYvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Went outside tonight to enjoy clear and dark skies with the Milky Way visible. At any given point there were at least two satellites as bright as bright stars also tracking through the sky. It makes me sad and angry that we had to give up a magical dark sky without having a chance to give input. 66618
Reposted by Michael AyeGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 31/08/2026A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’theguardian.comGen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there 36723
Reposted by Michael AyeElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/08/2026BREAKING: The Supreme Court gave Trump the greenlight to steamroll ahead on his $600M ballroom. Trump's billionaire buddies and corporations gave millions in "gifts" to bankroll it. Many have big stakes in federal contracts and actions. It's a gold-encrusted gateway for corruption. 1591795529
Reposted by Michael AyeMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 795166583672
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 31/08/2026Press briefing by @esa.int on #bepicolombo 's upcoming arrival at Mercury: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...esa.intMedia briefing: BepiColombo's next milestone towards Mercury 000
Reposted by Michael AyeTom Regan @windsorns.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I would like to recommend another cartoonist. Bruce MacKinnon, of the Halifax Herald. Mike was the cartoonist for the now defunct Halifax Daily News and Bruce was the cartoonist for its main competition. Between the two of them, they regularly knocked it out of the park. 1124
Reposted by Michael AyeGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 31/08/2026Widely used chemical TBBPA may present a danger to US public, and especially children, independent research findstheguardian.comTrump EPA is manipulating safety data around a highly toxic flame retardant, advocates allege 64530
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 29/08/2026I find it amazing how fast (=how few chords) Shazam is recognizing current songs. I guess this means that technically all the haters that claim everything sounds the same are wrong. 100
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 29/08/2026Will the #scipy2026 videos be shared on the YouTube channel again, anybody knows? 000
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 24/08/2026Holy solar 3D display, Batman! This is amazeballs! astrodavid10.github.io/sol-solar-vi...astrodavid10.github.ioSol — the Sun Right NowSee the Sun as it is right now: live imagery from NASA SDO, its magnetic field in 3D over the last 72 hours, and the spacecraft flying through it. 010
Reposted by Michael AyeBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“That’s what makes the lever so dangerous. Carney doesn’t need to sign an order. He needs the Canadian $ system to reach the same conclusion Japan & China have: that a country whose president threatens bondholders with the military isnt a safe place to keep your money.” Via @deanblundell.bsky.socialdeanblundell.substack.comBREAKING: Trump Tried To Slip A “Snapback” Provision Into Canada Deal. Carney Caught It. Told Trump To F*** Off. Now Trump Is Threatening Military Force.Canada put a bullet in trade relations with Trump Yesterday after a last minute change that would allow Trump to tariff us anytime. Carney is poised to retaliate BIGLY Trump wants to go to war. 1020371
Reposted by Michael AyeCenter for Space Environmentalism @space-environment.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"Ultimately we might find that the capacity of Earth orbit, rather than being in the millions of spacecraft, may not be much more than the number of satellites already in orbit today." www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...scientificamerican.comIf millions of satellites launch to space, is chaos the inevitable outcome?SpaceX and other companies want to put millions of satellites into space. Could orbit run out of room? 11511
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 23/08/2026When you go to Germany, try to find a “Grand Marnier” cake, if possible in German marzipan capital “Lübeck”. The name comes from using the Grand Marnier liquor to soak the base in. 030
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 21/08/2026I guess the glory of @bambulabglobal.bsky.social is over, we now have five GitHub issues about firmware problems, everybody who currently is doing the upgrade accidentally needs to downgrade again and for months now nothing is happening on that front. Creality K1C looks more interesting every day.. 000
Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 17/08/2026Ohne das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wären illegale Maskendeals nie ans Licht gekommen. Genau dieses Recht wollen CDU, CSU und SPD jetzt faktisch abschaffen. Das dürfen wir nicht zulassen. Jetzt unterschreiben: 👇 #IFG weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...weact.campact.deSPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder... 000
Reposted by Michael AyeMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Who doesn't love a snappy comeback? #November3rdWe8647 1244307116530