D D Olson
@beadydd.bsky.social
Childless cat-lady who lives on a small farm in SE Minnesota. Part-time chicken wrangler. Retired academic library staffer.
Whatever the weather is, was, or will be - I’m interested.
Whatever the weather is, was, or will be - I’m interested.
All the sailors on the Edmund Fitzgerald are named by Lake Superior today. Karl A. Peckol was the same age as me.
At 20 years old, Karl A. Peckol was the youngest crew member of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He would now be 70 years young.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All the sailors on the Edmund Fitzgerald are named by Lake Superior today. Karl A. Peckol was the same age as me.
Paging @charitycay.bsky.social
Kicked off the deer hunting season in Cannon Falls this morning.
Good luck to everyone sharing in this time-honored Minnesota tradition!
Good luck to everyone sharing in this time-honored Minnesota tradition!
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Paging @charitycay.bsky.social
Sunrise at the Lilac Ranch this morning.
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Sunrise at the Lilac Ranch this morning.
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That depends on what you mean by ‘red line’ - my red line before I do what? I’ll follow back up with this one at the end of the session to answer it!
October 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
That depends on what you mean by ‘red line’ - my red line before I do what? I’ll follow back up with this one at the end of the session to answer it!
No Kings - Northfield, Minnesota, 10/18/25.
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
No Kings - Northfield, Minnesota, 10/18/25.
If you listen to this podcast you’ll be glad to gain a few more insights. ⬇️
A year from now the US will be consumed with election tension. It is already building: Will midterms be free and fair? Will MAGA Republicans accept the results? Give @brianklaas.bsky.social and I 56 minutes to talk it through
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/what-condi...
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/what-condi...
WHAT CONDITION WILL AMERICA'S SOUL BE IN AT THE MIDTERMS?
A Conversation with Professor Brian Klaas
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you listen to this podcast you’ll be glad to gain a few more insights. ⬇️
While sitting in a Bemidji State classroom on this day in the early 1980s, a panel member of Native Indian Americans stated, “As you can imagine, Columbus Day is not a day that we celebrate in our culture”. (1/2)
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
While sitting in a Bemidji State classroom on this day in the early 1980s, a panel member of Native Indian Americans stated, “As you can imagine, Columbus Day is not a day that we celebrate in our culture”. (1/2)
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Oh, dear, a Nobel Prize thumb in the eye to Trump. He and his Secretary of War and Good Grooming Hegseth are trying to violently overthrow Maduro and the Committee is honouring a woman working for a "peaceful transition" to democracy.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Oh, dear, a Nobel Prize thumb in the eye to Trump. He and his Secretary of War and Good Grooming Hegseth are trying to violently overthrow Maduro and the Committee is honouring a woman working for a "peaceful transition" to democracy.
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someday a historian will begin their history of the Trump era with the Trump Tower escalator descent and finish it with the stalled UN escalator ascent and they will be so pleased with that neat little bookended narrative encapsulation and anyway release the Epstein files
September 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
someday a historian will begin their history of the Trump era with the Trump Tower escalator descent and finish it with the stalled UN escalator ascent and they will be so pleased with that neat little bookended narrative encapsulation and anyway release the Epstein files
Happy Autumnal Equinox - today at 1:19 p.m. CDT in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a Holiday for all of us! 🌞🌛⭐️🌏
September 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Happy Autumnal Equinox - today at 1:19 p.m. CDT in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a Holiday for all of us! 🌞🌛⭐️🌏
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If Dennis Hastert, Roy Moore, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump had all been Democrats, the party would've been hounded out of existence.
September 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If Dennis Hastert, Roy Moore, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump had all been Democrats, the party would've been hounded out of existence.
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You can’t harden targets enough when powerful ghouls harden hearts
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You can’t harden targets enough when powerful ghouls harden hearts
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Your periodic reminder that the cavalry isn't coming, the NYTimes & SCOTUS ain't gonna save us. We need to channel the spirit of Josey Wales:
"You gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.”
"You gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.”
August 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Thoughtful piece of writing here -
Hope this finds traction among the Bskyers in US since it advocates not throwing Subway sandwiches at National Guard, but talking to them. (ICE agents a diff story). In the struggle to come we'll need some friends in the military
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/opportunity
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com/p/opportunity
臨 OPPORTUNITY
Making Use of the Troops on the Streets of Washington DC
frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thoughtful piece of writing here -
My earthly NEWS extremes—
N: Fairbanks, Alaska
E: Beijing, China
W: Makaha, Hawaii
S: Panama City, Panama
N: Fairbanks, Alaska
E: Beijing, China
W: Makaha, Hawaii
S: Panama City, Panama
Furthest I've been (on ground, by latitude/longitude):
N: Tobermory, Scotland
E: Tokyo, Japan
W: Mouth of the Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, U.S.
S: Sarasota, Florida
N: Tobermory, Scotland
E: Tokyo, Japan
W: Mouth of the Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, U.S.
S: Sarasota, Florida
Furthest I've been
N: Edinburgh, Scotland
E: Vienna, Austria
W: Kobe, Japan
S: Maui, Hawaii
(using the "direction of travel" metric, which feels more intuitive to me. If using the latitude-numbers metric, East = Kobe and West = Kauai, Hawaii.)
N: Edinburgh, Scotland
E: Vienna, Austria
W: Kobe, Japan
S: Maui, Hawaii
(using the "direction of travel" metric, which feels more intuitive to me. If using the latitude-numbers metric, East = Kobe and West = Kauai, Hawaii.)
August 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My earthly NEWS extremes—
N: Fairbanks, Alaska
E: Beijing, China
W: Makaha, Hawaii
S: Panama City, Panama
N: Fairbanks, Alaska
E: Beijing, China
W: Makaha, Hawaii
S: Panama City, Panama
At the Lilac Ranch - mostly veggies from our garden tonight. (Not the red onion.)
Oh, and steak grilled by my fabulous husband, Lars.
Oh, and steak grilled by my fabulous husband, Lars.
July 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
At the Lilac Ranch - mostly veggies from our garden tonight. (Not the red onion.)
Oh, and steak grilled by my fabulous husband, Lars.
Oh, and steak grilled by my fabulous husband, Lars.
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Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸
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Former President Joe Biden paid respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman as they lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol.
June 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Former President Joe Biden paid respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman as they lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol.
Happy Summer Solstice today at 9:42 pm CDT! It’s a Celestial Holiday for all of us! ✨☀️🌙💫
June 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Happy Summer Solstice today at 9:42 pm CDT! It’s a Celestial Holiday for all of us! ✨☀️🌙💫
Today was a very difficult day. Thanks to those of you who understand.
June 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Today was a very difficult day. Thanks to those of you who understand.
I was kissed by Don Ho on Waikiki in 1995.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I was kissed by Don Ho on Waikiki in 1995.
If you don’t follow Michael Goldfarb’s podcast, you really should. I learn something from every episode. I learned about Erdogan’s vulnerability in this one.
Why is this man frowning? he's been in power for more than two decades. Isn't it fun anymore?
soundcloud.com/michael-gold...
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Authoritarian Democracy: Erdogan and the Turkish Paradigm
We are in an age of authoritarian democracy, and Turkey and its leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is its paradigm. Erdogan has been in power more than 2 decades and created the template men like Victor Orba
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June 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If you don’t follow Michael Goldfarb’s podcast, you really should. I learn something from every episode. I learned about Erdogan’s vulnerability in this one.
Lutefisk Lament by Boone & Erickson. Sure, it’s completely corny and it spoke to a part of my tiny rural Norwegian Lutheran culture more than anything I’d ever heard on radio before.
youtu.be/JfkXOBfBPVs
youtu.be/JfkXOBfBPVs
June 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Lutefisk Lament by Boone & Erickson. Sure, it’s completely corny and it spoke to a part of my tiny rural Norwegian Lutheran culture more than anything I’d ever heard on radio before.
youtu.be/JfkXOBfBPVs
youtu.be/JfkXOBfBPVs
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Donald Trump is no longer the most powerful American in the world... #LeoXIV
May 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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