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Dr. Daniel Giles
@danielgiles.bsky.social
He/him, scientific software developer for TESS and HEASARC, optical SETI researcher, activist, feminist, abolitionist. Trying to be a better dad than society or personal history prepared me for.
Be careful putting up Palestinian flags when selling your home, we had an open house and a few of the guests won’t leave
March 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
A weird consequence of being married to a pastor is that I have fewer genuine conversations about theology (excluding with my partner) because the church goers are her parishioners and I can't be like, "I don't think the Bible's good"
November 14, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Some people cut their hair or get a tattoo when dealing with the stress of modern historical events, I change all my workflows and the color of my IDE. Needless to say the longest I’ve stuck with a single setup is about a week.
November 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM
"For sale, baby shoes, never worn" is a pretty sad and short story. But "wounded child, no surviving family" is shorter, sadder, and corresponds to the acronym WCNSF commonly being used in Gaza right now.
November 13, 2023 at 8:28 PM
The tone of my news fish on TikTok has shifted from everything is bad to maybe this is WWIII
November 9, 2023 at 8:58 AM
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They're actually gonna do it. They're actually gonna blame TikTok.
November 6, 2023 at 7:42 PM
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"Yes I approve the draft of this PDF, send it to the printers"
November 5, 2023 at 9:23 PM
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There is no marriage equality for disabled Americans because if they marry, they lose their benefits because combined assets are almost guaranteed to be over the paltry $2,000 limit.

This bill would resolve that *and* index to inflation, meaning we won't have to rely on politics in the future.
Oh my god why is this the first I'm hearing about this?

This would be HUGE.

The $2k income limit for disabled adults is absolutely one of the cruelest financial facets of our society right (and there's a lot of competition for that!)
thearc.org/blog/new-bip...

It would raise the limit to 10k.
November 6, 2023 at 6:20 PM
there are too many bees and not enough bees
November 3, 2023 at 6:49 PM
looked at as a whole, is star wars trying to make a point?
November 2, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Suggestion to stop all the war crimes: stop doing wars dumdums

Step one: everyone has their baseline human needs met
Step two: no one wants to fight because doing so would risk losing their baseline human needs

Note: governments and billionaires will still want to make people fight. Eat them.
November 1, 2023 at 6:05 PM
I just found out about `clear_output` in `IPython.display`

needless to say my life is changed
November 1, 2023 at 5:45 PM
Is there literally anything Israel could do that would result in not getting unconditional money from the US?
October 27, 2023 at 7:31 PM
I'm not good at social media, what do I do here?

Anyways,
Free Palestine. End the occupation. Ceasefire now.
October 26, 2023 at 9:07 PM
I made EightBitTransit work on a GPU, it can make a model for *any* shape transiting a star at *any* speed and inject that signal into *any* light curve (originally developed by Emily Sandford and David Kipping). Feedback welcome. https://github.com/d-giles/EightBitTransitGPU
GitHub - d-giles/EightBitTransitGPU: Calculate light curves from pixel grids, and recover shadow ima...
Calculate light curves from pixel grids, and recover shadow images from light curves. - GitHub - d-giles/EightBitTransitGPU: Calculate light curves from pixel grids, and recover shadow images from ...
github.com
August 13, 2023 at 5:49 AM
I live here now
August 12, 2023 at 7:27 PM