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@arneness.bsky.social
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
new post on the rationality of resistance in the context of the appalachian “hydrogen hub” phases.substack.com/p/decarboniz...
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Decarbonization is not its design
On the rationality of resistance to the (now-beleaguered) Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub project
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 The fracking boom has transformed the US onshore oil and gas industry — but not in the way proponents promised. Our new briefing explores these shifting frontiers of fossil capital. 🖊️ @arneness.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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New Frontiers of Fossil Capital: Oil and Gas Labor, Global Energy Markets, and Decarbonization after Fracking
For a decarbonization policy framework to be effective, it must face the tenacity of fossil capital head-on.
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
one of the most baffling industry events i have ever attended phases.substack.com/p/a-progress...
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A Progress Report on the March of the Intellect
Or an Evening at a Data Center Town Hall in Southwestern Pennsylvania
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
phases.substack.com/p/abstractin... i put up some bullshit ‼️
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Abstracting the Earth
Notes on oilfields, exploration geophysics, and abstraction in the mid-20th century
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
no thanks i’ll pass
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... part 2 mostly just reading labban on OCC and uneven value transfer, with particular attention to what he calls the 'negative territoriality' of extractive industries/primary production
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The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part II
The Result of Variations in the Organic Composition of Capital on the Transfer of Value through Exchange
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the way
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The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part I
Notes on The Transformation Problem
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
tooze is technically wrong but spiritually correct re: wind/solar/batteries. conversely his opps are technically deceptive (at best) and spiritually dead
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
phases.substack.com/p/ai-data-ce... some head-clearing on our dismal situation in Appalachia
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AI Data Center Development in Frackland
By Way of a Brief History of Failed Attempts to Regionalize the Natural Gas Commodity Chain
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
phases.substack.com/p/copy-price... i'm still doing this bullshit if you even care
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Prices, Value, and Oil - Revisiting the Negative WTI Price Crash
Or, what is a Yuányóu Bǎo?
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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-...
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Symbiosis and Conflict
Summarizing and commenting on Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy (2024)
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
forgot to take the trash out before i left town #stinky
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
thanksgiving food sucks ass i wish i was eating MAPO TOFU
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
sometimes thanksgiving day convo gets so counterrevolutionary you just gotta hit unc with the fluoride stare 😶😂
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
this year i’m thankful for bluesky! 🦃 who’s with me?
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
never kill yourself
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
don’t trust anyone who immediately identifies my left-handed eating
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
i encourage all of you to listen to this every single day until christmas open.spotify.com/track/6dbadH...
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Cold White Christmas
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone · Etiquette · Song · 2007
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
i'm getting word that Degrowth Buddy is now in US custody
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
tried to watch megalopolis but the illegal streaming site kept failing. i took that as a sign
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
restraightened all my rebar just to have my new building collapse 😕
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
i’m the model blue sky dweller i just blindly follow all on every starter pack and block all in every block list
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
starter pack? what’s next, booster packs? promotional cards? limited editions? i mean seriously
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
watching cocomelon for the rest of the evening ✌️ gn bluesky
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
is this place pro- or anti-chatgpt
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
is blueksy lindy? i am 32 years old
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
any comrades wanna start a syndicate to buy Crude Oil Baos from the Bank of China?
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
is bluesky the new athenian agora! is it the marketplace of ideas! is it game master anthony’s birthday party! will the lion lay down with the lamb! is it a free association of content producers! is it the global village! is it a rhizome! is it the identity of indiscernibles! who are you peopel
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
i'm getting word that Degrowth Buddy has infiltrated COP29
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“hey so when are you going to add extremely basic features to this platform like drafts and group dms?” bluesky engineer: *boops your nose* 🙃
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
my ideal workday is one, maybe two hours long
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
there are like five estheticians in my tiny ass borough. what’s going on here
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
yoooo ‼️
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
ma po.. china really went off with that one
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
a poem…
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
this place needs less IRA boosters and more Chinese Century prophets
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
you have to admit, biden meeting with trump after the white house called him a fascist demonstrates not only biden's reverence for the dignity of the office he holds but also his faith in our institutions to productively bring fascist electeds into the conversation of What Makes America Great
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
this is me now btw
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
i’m actually really funny and thoughtful and lowkey kind of sweet irl in case anyone was wondering
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arne ness @arneness.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
is there a pseud starter pack already? can i make one?
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