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bryanhansel

@bryanhansel@mstdn.social

I do landscape photography professionally, and I teach photography workshops.

I also enjoy:
Freelance writing, urban sketching, haiku, hand-drawn maps, public speaking, kayak, canoe, bike, bikepack, backpack, xc ski & adventure. Slacker. Pro-wild rice.

Grand Marais, Minnesota, USA

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bryanhansel, to Minnesota
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Good morning from the laser loon capitol of the world!

bryanhansel, to animals
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Sammy is not happy about this headwear. I told her that it matches her eyes.

bryanhansel, to Minnesota
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Swiss company with a record of bribery and corruption buys proposed Minnesota copper-sulfide mining company. Crickets. Japanese company buys Minnesota iron mining company. Outage.

bryanhansel,
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@benfrog there's no union and the United Steelworkers called the company the second worst

bryanhansel, to Haiku
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blackout
please hold for the...
blizzard

I wrote this last year during the winter blizzard. Today's weather is rain and record temps.

bryanhansel, (edited ) to random
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It looks like Grand Marais, Minnesota broke a weather record last night. The low temp was 38°F. As far as I can tell that's the highest low temp in over 100 years of records. It matches the highest low for all of December. This only occurred three other times in December on December 1, 1916, December 15, 1998, and December 28, 1928.

The lowest recorded temp in December was set on December 26, 1917. It was -34°F.

juergen_hubert, to fediverse
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Regarding the situation:

Are there any non-shitty options for writers who want to get paid for their articles and writings?

This is of personal interest to me as well - I fortunately avoided Substack, but I am on Patreon, which seems to be going through its own enshittification cycle.

I know that discussing things like "monetizing the " are unpopular, but we still need to survive in this Capitalist hellhole we all live in - and I'd like it if there was some way of doing that as a writer without being dependent on dubious large platforms whose corporate owners put short-term profits over ethics every time.

bryanhansel,
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@mjausson @circuitsunfish @juergen_hubert WordPress with JetPack offers a newsletter and paid subscription options.

bryanhansel, to Minnesota
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I designed a sticker with the new Minnesota state flag. I ordered a bunch of them in a 2-inch size.

I'm going to give away about 50 of them if I can figure out how to do it without a bunch of hassle.

bryanhansel,
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@c_dan4th it doesn't really work that way without having to use a significant amount of fill. Just scaling the flag to fit ends up with this.

bryanhansel,
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@kaleb Madison's flag is really cool.

bryanhansel,
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@sulrich I'm not 100% I want to do sales of stickers, but with so many requests I'm considering it. After they arrive, I decide. They should be here before New Years

bryanhansel, to Minnesota
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You can now get Minnesota's new state flag painted onto a paddle. It's made by Sanborn Canoe, a Minnesota-based manufacturer. They have a extensive line of painted canoe paddles. The new flag is their latest.

https://www.paddlinglight.com/articles/sanborn-canoes-new-minnesota-state-flag-paddle/

bryanhansel, to books
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I used to love reading books, but find that as I've gotten older I can't get into them. I remember my dad going through the same thing at about my age. I'd like to start again. Short of picking up a book, which I've tried, does anyone have advice to help get back into reading books?

Signed, the pile of books on my bedstand keeps getting taller

bryanhansel,
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@TonyYarusso I'm not sure that Grand Marais has a book club. I'll have to ask around

bryanhansel,
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@brianb I have read Bryson. I didn't like A Walk in the Woods. It was funny and all, but I thru-hiked the AT and his experience was so different from mine that his story didn't click with me. I did like three other books of his that I read

bryanhansel,
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@TonyYarusso thanks. I'll ask around to see who is in each of those clubs. Small towns can be interesting because everyone knows everyone and there are some people that I wouldn't be comfortable around while discussing books.

bryanhansel, (edited ) to Minnesota
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Poll time: The new Minnesota flag redesign looks like:

bryanhansel,
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@jrod3737 I'd argue that the connection to the Texas flag is good. It symbolizes that Minnesota and Texas serve as bookends to the middle part of the country.

bryanhansel,
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@jrod3737 I don't like the dominant politics of Texas, but parts of it are beautiful, and I have friends who live there.

bryanhansel, to Minnesota
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It's hard to believe but the Minnesota Flag Redesign Commission screwed up the choice. They had a great design with the tricolor flag, and it's now lame.

Here's your new flag, Minnesota.

bryanhansel,
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@Ulrich_the_Elder considering that Minnesota is the North Star State, it's hard to come up with something other than a star.

bryanhansel,
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@maggiejk this is a photoshopped mock-up that the commission voted on

sundogplanets, to random
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COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

bryanhansel,
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@luke @CStamp @sundogplanets y'all are arguing around the point. We will soon have 40,000 to 80,000 satellites in orbit if this continues at the pace it currently is. There could easily be additional regulations on this that could force companies to co-locate to reduce the number of required satellites and there could be regulations that force companies to build darker satellites. Right now we are on the path to robbing people of the right to witness our universe with their own eyes.

bryanhansel,
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@luke read this article. It's unlocked: https://rdcu.be/drQOU

bryanhansel,
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@luke @CStamp of course it is a right that is in the Bill of Rights. It's right there in the 9th Amendment.

bryanhansel,
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@luke @CStamp and, Luke, you are still missing the point. Effective regulation could help prevent the issues.

bryanhansel,
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@luke @CStamp you're never going to build your own rocket or satellite, so you don't have standing to fight this.

It still ignores the point of the article that effective regulation on these industries could help prevent future problems and fix current ones.

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