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W.E. Larson

@welarson.bsky.social
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
uh, hi, yes, i have a question... what the fuck?
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Concentration of wealth means concentration of political power and leads to wallets of workers getting raided.
Graph of divergence between productivity and wages.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel like I could just reply with this for every single Trump related post.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Guess I'll go with this one. A number of movies I enjoyed, but I don't really have a slam-dunk favorite.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Parks and Rec predicted this sort of thing...
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Almost there...
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The problem with the concentration of wealth and power is that it ends up denying people the fruits of their labor.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The oil in my Subaru 4,000 after the last oil change is remarkable clear.
Dipstick extracted from a Subaru Outback 4,000 miles after its last oil change positioned over a shop towel. The oil is still quite clear with the indents in the dipstick clearly visible through it. It isn't band-new oil clear where you can barely see the level, but it isn't too far off from that.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I have concerns about the how the productivity gains will be distributed. Current trends are not encouraging.
Graph showing productivity and typical worker compensation starting to diverge in the early 1960s with the divergence accelerating greatly starting around 1980. Needless to say the divergence is compensation gains falling behind productivity gains.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yep, let's get on that train!
Graph of Bitcoin value over the last year. Down 45%.  Congrats on doing the best of three major cryptocurrencies in this post!Graph of value of Ethereum. Down 47%. Graph of Solana over the last year. Down 59%.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Well, she thinks she's a puppy. A 70lb puppy.
Black doberman with a moose stuffy.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Image where person has a hand up, saying "Uh, hi, yes, i have a question. What the fuck?"
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Move to Minnesota they said, it doesn't get so hot they said...
Weather station readout show the temperature is currently 90.3 degrees F and feels like 101.6 F.  What this readout doesn't show is that this weather station is in Minnesota.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Scene from D&D honor among thieves where they talk to the dead.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Queen of the backyard.
Plott hound lazily surveying her domain with a look of fierce indifference. She is atop a patio storage box decorated with a potted pomegranate tree.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is my weather station right now. I live in Minnesota.
Weather station readout showing 91.6 F with a heat index of 111.7 F. Dewpoint 81 F
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The staircase is secure.
Plott hound standing on the stairs and blocking the way with a stoic expression that says "None shall pass". Peeking around the banister is a black doberman with floppy ears backing up the plott hound.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Godzilla Final Wars
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I think there is a lot going on. Partisanship is coloring perception of the economy much more than it used to which pushes down survey results. There's the growing divergence between productivity and wages which I think is making for more people being squeezed.
Graph of productivity vs wage growth from 1948 to 2024 from the Economic Policy institute. The lines are still growing fairly close together before 1980, but then start to diverge with productivity growing much faster than wages.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The "uh, hi, yes, i have a question... what the fuck" meme
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Reminds me of this van I saw in Lawrence, KS.
Unfeasibly cute, tiny Daihatsu van painted up as the Mystery Machine.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Makes me think of the time I got this gem.
Fortune cookie that says "If it seems fates are against you today, they probably are."
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is this wig still available?
University of Hawaii player from Key and Peele East/West Bowl player introduction post. Peele's character has magnificent long hair that is probably a wig... probably.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
From all the talk about Kharg Island one may get the impression it is like a really strategic location in the strait, but it's not actually anywhere near it. The island is important to the Iranian oil industry so it is a bet that occupying it will pressure the Iranians to open the strait.
Picture of the Persian Gulf showing that Kharg Island is nowhere near the Strait of Hormuz. It's not as far away as it is possible to get in the Gulf, but it is close.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Arrested development meme with Lindsey and Tobias, What if we got into business with Trump? Well did it work for those people? No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... ...but it might work for us.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What it was like yesterday evening here.
Snow-drifty back yard.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Pip with her moose stuffie.
Black Doberman with floppy ears earnestly showing off the moose stuffie she is carrying.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New Transport Aircraft
Massive seaplane with conta-rotating props and belching black smoke from four stacks
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
No.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is who runs this account
Small boy with blonde hair wearing a too-large knit cap and with a very 70s coded collar with a background of rocks and brush.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
In Iowa, there's a whole business devoted to it.
Advertisement for Lucky Wife Wine Slushies announcing their mobile event trailers hitting the road to serve all of Iowa.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Cover of Iron Man comic 150 in which he battles Dr. Doom in the time of King Arthur.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Pip and Jarah are assembled.
A black, unmodified Doberman and a brindle Plott Hound leaning on each other on an old, brown leather sofa with a black blanket.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I miss government officials that are relentlessly serious.
Two men in black suits stating that "We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of." Yeah, I know they are actually Men in Black pretending to be FBI and that it's just a movie, but the point stands.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Could totally get behind that. Really sick of blatant corruption, self-enrichment, bribery, and laughing at the idea of white collar crime. And if some Dems get caught up in it, that's fine.
Cathartic burning of the banana stand
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Saw color with the naked eye for the first time.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Southern Minnesota
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Some nice Northern lights action in MN tonight.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
When I look at Kaine all I can think of is Londo from Babylon 5.
Londo from Babylon 5 who has a crest of hair framing a bald head much like Tim Kaine. A hair style so weird that TV producers assumed anyone sporting it would be considered non-human by a TV viewer.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It's totally real, I have an image from Portland showing the warlike conditions, explosions even, and the plywood stores. This image is not AI generated.
Movie still of the fake Rock Ridge from Blazing Saddles with explosions tossing bad guys high into the air. Not actually Portland in 2025 as evidenced by the lack of people in frog costumes.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Brits beat you to it.
Biplane flying toward the HMS Furious with its bow deck crudely converted to a flight deck and still sporting a big gun on its aft deck.
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W.E. Larson @welarson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Black doberman puppy showing off her stuffed moose.
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