Chuck Olsen

A beautiful arctic sea smoke sunrise over Lake Superior this morning. Sending healing vibes. ❤️‍🩹

ICE kidnapped an elderly Hmong man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The temperature was sub-zero, and he was taken only wearing shorts and Crocs, and no shirt. (1/18/26)

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Amazing news! My film “Winter Is For Everyone” was just selected by Shorts in Winter Short Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

Happy new year from the Gunflint Trail! 🥂 🌲 ❄️

Pants status: Photoshop clown brush

Fresh snow on the Temperance River ❄️ 🌲 Superior National Forest

Hi Bob!

Ope I’ve been neglecting Bluesky, here’s an OrangeSky.

Oh hi! 👋

This duck is sporting a poof of feathers on its head that might best be described as “a wig from the movie ‘Amadeus.’”

The humidity is doing a number on my hair. Good to see I’m not the only one.

The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe When climate change poses a strategic threat, it needs a strategic response

Cold, dry and sudden: The dangers of ocean current collapse due to a warming planet
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

The Posse Comitatus Act Explained The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

An excellent overview explaining why federal troops cannot generally be used as law enforcement.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

So many socials, so little time 😃

When the Icebergs Came to Town A few weeks ago, a pair of icebergs drifted close to Innaarsuit, Greenland. Photographer Dennis Lehtonen captured the visit — you can see the photos on Instagram or in the Arctic gallery on his website. From Colossal

When the Icebergs Came to Town. A pair of icebergs drifted close to a town in Greenland, “dwarfing the fishing village’s modest wooden houses”. [kottke.org]

Lake Superior is my favorite ocean 🌊

Sunset in Superior National Forest

Switzerland's Open-Source LLM Sets New Standard Developed entirely on public infrastructure, Switzerland's open-source LLM is set for release in late summer 2025, and aims to redefine open-source AI.

“Switzerland announced a fully open‑source large language model, trained on its carbon‑neutral Alps supercomputer…Supporting over 1,000 languages, with transparent training data and code…setting a new international benchmark for sovereign, ethical AI.”

www.winssolutions.org/switzerland-...

Temperance River carves a steep canyon o’er hidden (and not-so-hidden) falls, to her chilly Lake Superior destiny.

Please enjoy this Baltimore Oriole eating oranges to-day

Frosty moose breakfast in Superior National Forest

My first 🫎 sightings this year! A lovely pair having breakfast on a frosty 23° morning in Superior National Forest. Let’s protect this precious watershed and habitat.

Exclusive: Most Americans now see Trump as "a dangerous dictator," poll says It's the latest sign of the president losing support for his immigration and economic policies — issues that largely fueled his election.

People are waking up, hopefully in time?

www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...

They played The Whole in the basement of Coffman Union around then too. My friend went and was very excited to tell me about this new thing called “moshing”!

Happy International Dark Sky Week. Here’s an excerpt from my WTIP interview with night sky photographer and Grand Portage tribal member Travis Novitsky, paired with my night sky photos. The full interview: wtip.org/grand-portag...

Yep! It’s called Hollow Rock, found at Hollow Rock resort in Grand Portage.

Happy #EarthDay to my fellow humans, and to the trees, rocks, air, water and wildlife we are privileged to protect.

This reckless administration is trying to roll back 150 years of environmental protections and plunder our public lands for profit. Let’s fight to protect our world!

YouTube video by The Current First Avenue Prince Memorial – April 21, 2016 (360/VR)

Remembering Prince, gone from this world 9 years ago. I (badly) captured 360° video of the spontaneous memorial outside First Avenue that day for MPR: youtu.be/FHlZ_MD5VWU?...

High Falls on a cloudy spring day 💦 Pigeon River, between Grand Portage and Canada (our two nations to the north)

this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway

Spotted the first Northern Flicker woodpecker in our yard today - it was hunting for bugs in the ground while light snow was falling. (This photo from April ‘24)