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Installed a new MPPT solar charge controller today. When I upgraded the panels from 100W to 400W on the van, I mistakenly paired with a PVM controller which maxed out at 12V, I was wasting 30-40% of my possible charge to heat! Tomorrow I install a power monitor shunt on the battery. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 29/09/2026

Creality announced an amazing 1-second color change/zero waste printer at an incredible price point, but the lack of enclosure/filter in this era is a blocker for me. I would pay $200 more if it had one. It would still be half the price of the color upgrade option (INDX) for my Prusa.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 27/09/2026

Why does honduran caravan season always line up with election season?

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 27/09/2026

Our three weeks in Wyoming is complete. Quite a few stops we had to skip (green flag) due to road conditions or time so we'll have to swing through again. Some new favorites added that we will definitely revisit. The numbered map is the @myscenicdrives.bsky.social planning tool we used. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 25/09/2026

Props to the state of Utah for geological era / fact signs on road cuts around and through the incredible Sheep Creek Canyon geologic backway! I highly recommend that drive. #geology

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HEO's Space Based Imaging captured this shot of China's Tiangong Space Station as it passed over the coast of Hawaii. At 12 cm/px resolution, we can see the expected configuration of the CSS, with its solar array wings deployed and all science modules

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 24/09/2026

This place is crazy. The slabs are gorgeous and the “gravel”‘ in the background is all shell fossils free of the matrix. #rockhounding

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow we hunt for slabby Turritella Agate in the Wamsutter, WY area, though it's really Elimia tenera shells in matrix. #rockhounding (photo not mine)

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 24/09/2026

Here are our finds, cut down to smaller blocks, for the 3 hours we had at the quarry. Some folks 20 ft from us were skunked! We left more fish than we kept and had the luxury of picking and choosing the best of our catch. Can't wait to go back.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 22/09/2026

Waited three days for the weather to clear but it was worth it. Ulrich’s gallery fossil dig is the whole experience. We left more than we kept, took home dozens of specimens.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 21/09/2026

Today’s Cat TV channel is the Magpie Network. Enthralling, much chittering ensued. #catsofbluesky #vancats #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20/09/2026

Ugh been waiting out the rain for two days so we can do a fish fossil dig but it’s not looking good. Rain stopped but the bentonite roads take days to dry out.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20/09/2026

Sunlight and rain on Mount Haggins of the Anaconda Range, Montana. I was making dinner at the rest area when I saw this out the window.

Black and white image of sun rays illimunating patches of a mountain range.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 19/09/2026

The lightning was frequent last night. It's particularly nice when it's wider than a 20mm FOV. Kemerrer area. #vanlife #wywx

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 19/09/2026

Second day of partial @nws.noaa.gov radar data outage. Makes it testy to dry camp in Wyoming without good radar coverage.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 18/09/2026

Well that was a nice thing to see while having the morning coffee. Lastnight's lighting was spicy. #vanlife #wywx

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/09/2026

Why does #starlink work (98% ping) non-aligned, pointed east, through a two-story building (I'm in a parking lot of a strip mall), dish pointed right through the building), but boondocking with a couple sparse trees, aligned and pointed north, I get 65%.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/09/2026

"If I were a billionaire, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs." - literally. Wyoming has age/era of the rocks exposed at more highway road cuts than I would have expected. I love this information, and if I were a billionaire, I would do this for the entire country.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 14/09/2026

Hell's Half Acre, Wyoming though it is more famously known as Planet Klendathu from the film adaptation of Starship Troopers, where many of the fight scenes were filmed. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 13/09/2026

I’m glad I learned that if you call ahead the NPS will arrange for some amazing clouds for your visit to Devil’s Tower.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 12/09/2026

There's some seriously crazy folding and unconformity near the Buffalo Bill dam (WY). What I didn't realize until after the fact is that I actually got to see the Great Unconformity (the same era and missing gap [actually, slightly more gap] as the one at the Grand Canyon). Google maps Streetview:

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 12/09/2026

Today, on the Lake de Smet, WY channel of Cat TV: chukkars! #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 11/09/2026

Driving at 9000 feet in Wyoming hits different. (Hwy-14, Big Horn Scenic Byway)

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 10/09/2026

Suddenly my iOS bsky app is demanding age verification, and turns out it's a Wyoming thing.

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Services I provide for my cats

Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tiny bat Original post

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 26/08/2026

One of the reasons I love having a 3D printer.. random repair. Looking up this specific part # would have taken longer than it took to CAD it and print it. The lower tray on our dishwasher lost a pin for a wheel. Probably a $15 part, too. #3dprinting

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James Wright @jameswrights.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry, never was a man so distinctly iconic and yet such a chameleon in a role🧡😢

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 23/08/2026

Designing and printing a 3D model for yourself is one thing. Printing and planning all the parts, decals and instructions for someone else to assemble is another.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 21/08/2026

Every month, my wife has to call a half a dozen pharmacies to secure her rx for her HRT, as it's constantly out of stock. Imagine if this were testosterone? If there was even a rumour it could be out of stock, there would be an emergency congressional session to address the issue immediately.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20/08/2026

Refining our Wyoming road trip.. 4-5 weeks. That's gonna be a lot of rocks. #vanlife @myscenicdrives.bsky.social

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The LAPD declined to renew its Flock contract after an internal audit found 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — a 32.3% false-positive rate. www.gadgetreview.com/one-in-three...

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One in Three Alerts Wrong: High Error Rates and Data Concerns Force Cities to Drop Flock

Flock Safety license plate cameras are being dropped by 82+ municipalities across 28 states over false alerts, privacy risks, and immigration data fears.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 08/08/2026

At the Willapa Bay KOA with the grandkids. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 03/08/2026

USA passport renewal form is ambitious on height:

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 31/07/2026

The power generating jet turbines provide a calming white noise for local residents to enjoy. The heat island provides comfort that will lower their heating bills in winter… it’s all upsides

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This hearing is driven entirely by Elon Musk's algorithm. Not a single normie voter alive today has thought about Anthony Fauci for at least five years. On X this is a pressing issue - maybe the pressing issue - of the day. It doesn't matter at all.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 21/07/2026

Today’s office, this’ll do. Sauk River, Mountain Loop Highway, WA cascades #vanlifr #vancats

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20/07/2026

Van back from genset rebuild, new AC and 100W more solar (400W total). Got the van catified. Zoe is chill in the van and has no desire to escape. Washburn is a maniac so it’s mainly for him: added dowels and clamps to secure the rear screen, velcro added to secure the slider screen. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 19/07/2026

Washburn trying out his new three point harness from Sweden. Cooler and more secure than the Velcro type and less pressure on the scruff. He’s got a long van trip in the fall we are acclimating for. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 18/07/2026

I’ve decided to sell off the entirety of my spacex patch collection. That fucker took away 11 month of my livelihood and I am happy to be rid of it. Over 400 patches, souvenirs, coins blah blah. One lot big lot. This isn’t even all of it:

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 18/07/2026

I wonder if/when the geolocation for photos I took in Grand Staircase-Escalante or Bears Ears National Monuments will fail to show up in my iOS photos search because the region has changed. I hate all of this.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/07/2026

Washburn doesn’t loaf, he Falkors.

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Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition @bearsearscoalition.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bears Ears is an interconnected living cultural landscape. Its significance cannot be reduced to individual sites because the relationships among its waters, plants, animals, and sacred places give this ancestral homeland its meaning. Map courtesy of The Wilderness Society.

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/07/2026

Bears Ear National Monument is so stunning, it was an area we drove through a few years ago and made a point to take an entire week for the next year, just savoring every mile of UT-95 from Blanding to Hanksville. This is an overlook of White Canyon looking toward the Henry Mountains. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 16/07/2026

I printed a Magellan payload because my cutaway IUS was looking a little lonely. It’s a really tall stack at 1/32. #NASA

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 15/07/2026

Hundreds, if not thousands, of ancestral Puebloan sites will lose any semblance of protection. It is not like looters care, but now there's little to protect these sites. Google "Operation Cerberus Action" and see just the kind of people who are out there just salivating at this executive order.

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