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arne ness
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oil IT capitalism etc
it’s just kind of insane to me to be in the midst of the fed govt clawing back green subsidies, remanding renewables permits, and ofc the AI Menace and be like soying over a marginal increases in solar power on the texas grid lol. like brother what is going on in your brain rn
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
phases.substack.com/p/copy-price... i'm still doing this bullshit if you even care
Prices, Value, and Oil - Revisiting the Negative WTI Price Crash
Or, what is a Yuányóu Bǎo?
phases.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
bluesky update: some thoughts on fressoz's new book, which offers a thesis i have identified with for a long time now. hearing someone else say it provides a generative opportunity for critique/self-critique phases.substack.com/p/symbiosis-...
Symbiosis and Conflict
Summarizing and commenting on Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy (2024)
phases.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
i get liking teams and rooting for them but having a sports team you like lose ruin your day or really caring about a rivalry to the point that it makes you actually angry is soooo soy
December 1, 2024 at 7:35 AM
forgot to take the trash out before i left town #stinky
December 1, 2024 at 2:08 AM
business idea: gas station where they treat you like a race car driver and have like five guys run out to you. one guy would fill up your tank obviously but not sure what the other 4 would do yet
November 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM
thanksgiving food sucks ass i wish i was eating MAPO TOFU
November 29, 2024 at 1:54 AM
sometimes thanksgiving day convo gets so counterrevolutionary you just gotta hit unc with the fluoride stare 😶😂
November 28, 2024 at 4:11 PM
this year i’m thankful for bluesky! 🦃 who’s with me?
November 28, 2024 at 1:15 AM
great to see all the yimby cretins slither over here and frame things like cumulative impact assessments and community engagement as cumbersome red tape. the irony is these things DO streamline development by providing public pressure with a formal release valve to delegitimize any further dissent
November 26, 2024 at 8:58 PM
i regularly attend oil and gas industry events and they always roll out a guy from EPA or one of its state-level equivalents to talk about 'permitting reform'. PA's DEP is already working on outsourcing all air quality permit review to a pool of """"3rd-party"""" industry consultants
November 26, 2024 at 7:41 PM
interconnection queue backlog is not primarily a regulatory problem it is a problem of profitability and of leasing. loosening permit reqs is not going to disincentivize behind-the-meter generation distributed via long-term power purchase agreements, which is the major driver of renewable buildout
November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Reposted by arne ness
But yeah on the permitting reform front specifically—I’d really encourage people to adopt a “profit maximizing” vs “cost minimizing” lens before making claims that ceding a bunch of power to fossil interests is “worth it,” even if you don’t care about the many, many other issues
November 26, 2024 at 6:41 PM
never kill yourself
November 26, 2024 at 5:32 PM
the best part of going home is not seeing my family it is getting veg kimchi broth ramen from the place near my mom’s house
November 26, 2024 at 4:47 AM
don’t trust anyone who immediately identifies my left-handed eating
November 26, 2024 at 12:08 AM
i encourage all of you to listen to this every single day until christmas open.spotify.com/track/6dbadH...
Cold White Christmas
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone · Etiquette · Song · 2007
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:19 AM
i'm getting word that Degrowth Buddy is now in US custody
November 24, 2024 at 9:21 PM
tried to watch megalopolis but the illegal streaming site kept failing. i took that as a sign
November 24, 2024 at 6:00 AM
restraightened all my rebar just to have my new building collapse 😕
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 AM
i’m the model blue sky dweller i just blindly follow all on every starter pack and block all in every block list
November 21, 2024 at 7:34 AM
starter pack? what’s next, booster packs? promotional cards? limited editions? i mean seriously
November 21, 2024 at 7:27 AM
watching cocomelon for the rest of the evening ✌️ gn bluesky
November 21, 2024 at 2:49 AM
is this place pro- or anti-chatgpt
November 20, 2024 at 5:12 PM
still trying to properly diagnose the ailment that is bluesky culture. it's a hybridization of linkedin and tumblr as has been discussed by many but there's also like an uncanniness or impersonalness to it that is hard to describe, as if every tweet has deep-fried in chatgpt before being posted
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM