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Steve Olson
@steveolson.bsky.social
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Humble ad guy. potato influencer. whiskey & cephalopod obsessed. expat minnesotan. Novice wine drinker and bonsai... uh... keeper?

Sportsball: Vikings, Tottenham, Bath Rugby.
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It’s been a pretty decent year of growth for my giant sequoia bonsai, especially after moving to a house with full sun yard for him this June!
A smol giant sequoia bonsai in a plastic square pot in front of a yellow sided house. A picture of the same giant sequoia seedling now looking slightly more full, sitting on a cement brick in front of a bird of paradise.
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Spent some quality time cleaning up Alan, this olive i acquired a couple years back, today. He’s much happier with the direct sun in our new yard, but got quite leggy in the shade at our old place. Need a plan to prune him to prepare him for Spring.
An olive tree bonsai in a brown circular clay pot sits on a tray on a picnic table.
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Always has been.
Image of as 1930s magazine ad from Scot Tissue with an angry looking mustachioed man wiping his hands and the headline: "Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?" The ad goes on to explain subpar towels could erode employee's respect for the company.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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i love the vikings chonky boi punter!

(alt: “Oh lawd he punting!”)

#skol
pic of vikings punter ryan wright running off the field
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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“… and she’s buying, a stairway…”
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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the world sucks, but my teeny kishu juniper mame bonsai is doing quite well, so there’s that.

Got him a little over a year ago at the Pacific Bonsai Expo in Oakland.
image of a smol bonsai kishu juniper in a small brown clay pot sits in the sunlight in front of a wooden fence
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I'll see your S&M and raise you this correction from R.A. Dickey in the NYT (May 8, 2011)
Image of the NYT that reads: "An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in ''The Hobbit;'' Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins's sword was called Sting.)"
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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i continue to mourn for those of you not in a part of the country with good access to dutch crunch bread. #foodsky
Picture of half of an amazingly delicious mortadella and provolone sandwich on dutch crunch bread with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, sprouts and jalapeno
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Started watching “The Beast in Me” last night and HER DOG IS NAMED STEVE!

This rules. cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/...
A woman, played by Claire Danes, stands in the street with a smol white dog, Steve, on a leash
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Tired: Guillotines
Wired: Training eagles to peck out the liver of billionaires.

Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...
Screenshot of a New York Times headline and subhead that reads: "eff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft."
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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OH IS A POLITICIAN ACCEPTING GIFTS** FROM QATAR A CRIME?!

** you know, like a $400M tricked out plane...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Image of text from the NYT that reads: "Federal prosecutors have opened a corruption investigation into Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington, examining a foreign trip she took with members of her staff that was paid for by Qatar, according to people familiar with the inquiry."
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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omfg, i needed this laugh today. I should open Trump's emails more often.
Screendshot of Trump email, with the subject line: Don't show this to Zohran Mamdani, and reads: " MAGA! > WELCOME TO MY BRAND-NEW CLUB FOR TOP MAGA PATRIOTS BUTTON: ANTI COMMUNIST CLUB After careful consideration, I want to present you with the ANTI-COMMUNIST CLUB Membership! It’s the highest honor I can bestow upon such an important supporter who DESPISES the radical left! This membership is not just for anyone; YOU qualified because your profile showed you HEAVILY DESPISE known Communists like Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, and AOC! But before you accept, I just need you to answer a few questions to PROVE you’re a diehard MAGA Patriot. Confirm your status below: Button: CONFIRM I’ll be personally checking back at the END OF THE DAY, and I hope to see YOUR NAME on the Trump ANTI-COMMUNIST CLUB roster.
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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For the fifth blessed year in a row, while I'm deeply invested in the outcome of an Election Day... it hits so different when you're not literally working for campaigns.

If you've not voted already, please get your ass out and do it.

And much love to my fellow early and mail voters.
Screenshot of a text message from the CA Secretary of State confirming my mail-in ballot has been collected.
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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My 78 year-old mother was thrilled to cast her first vote in California this afternoon to tell Donald Trump to get fucked.

Californians, PLEASE Vote Yes on 50.

Also, early voting and poll workers rule.
Picture of an “I voted” sticker.
November 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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super excited to go see @realgdt.bsky.social’s Frankenstein tonight in 35mm at my local theatre, The Rialto Cerrito! #filmsky 📽️
Image of still from “Frankenstein” with text that reads “Exclusive Bay Area 35mm Presentation.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Happy 18th birthday to the best (and maybe last?!) Halloween costume I ever made.

Also, i think this picture was taken on a Treo.
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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JFC Threads is such hot garbage. Nearly every post i see when i accidentally click on threads is some ragebait like this:
a stupid image of a stupid threads post reading: “Married women going to the gym. What is your opinion about this. General discussion!”
October 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Not sure it lived up to its considerable hype, but did enjoy it. Would have been even better had I read it literally in a cabin in the woods though. #booksky
Image of the cover of Liz Moore’s 2024 novel, “The God of the Woods”
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Good bot. #worldseries
a screenshot of google ai overview saying “No, Marlins Man has jot been canceled.”
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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onion headline: “You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got to be President” - Jimmy Carter
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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No, seriously, this is the Slovak National Party's logo:
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Simpsons meme of Homer Telling Bart: "This is the lowest for any president ever... so far!"
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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WAIT THE BLUE JAYS HAVE A BEDAZZLED BLAZER FOR HOME RUNS?!

(and why is it not a denim jacket beset with rhinestones?!)
picture of a tv showing the Blue Jays’ George Springer wearing a shiny blazer after hitting a home run
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Since frog 🐸 costumes were sold out, i went as a polar bear to the #nokings march in Oakland.
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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“It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.” “No,” Achilles whispers. - this, for some reason, nearly brought me to tears. #booksky
image of the cover of madeline miller’s novel, “The Song of Achilles”
October 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM