barryhawk

Musician.Sound-Engineer. Anthroposophy. Rugby. You are your own saviour.#BrokenRecord

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

New song, video and album https://t.co/kTp1RSMlwy

[Jimmy O Reilly @joreilly2105]

@garrethmcdaid But don't forget it's warmer than ever and Prophet of Doom George Lee says its our fault

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

@garrethmcdaid Climate change

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

@JYHYCN Get used to it. Everyone hates you. Everyone is against you.🤣🤣🤣

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

@DerekDoyleSport No, perish the thought.

[Chris Wick @ChrisWickNews]

They told you the planet is dying… and you’re the problem.

Your food.
Your habits.
Your existence.

Meanwhile, behind closed doors, something else is growing.

AI data centres in the UK alone could pump out 123 million tonnes of carbon emissions — the equivalent of millions of human lives over a decade.

But where’s the outrage?

Instead, they blame cows… tax farmers… and squeeze the people who actually feed you.

While tech giants expand quietly… signing deals… building systems that never sleep… and never get questioned.

Different rules.
Different targets.
Same script.

So let me ask you…

Why are everyday people being punished…
while the biggest emitters keep getting rewarded?
Is this really about saving the planet…
or controlling who pays the price?
Drop your thoughts below — I want to hear what you think.

And if this made you stop and think for even a second… share it.

More people need to see this.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The proposed ‘monster’ AI data centre near Auchtertool in Fife would be as tall as eight double decker buses and cover 100 football pitches.

The energy used by this data centre equates to around 20% of Scotland’s entire national energy consumption.
https://t.co/PP1iHZCYWV

[Paddy @paddyma91115145]

@FMC_Rugby Leinster should sign him. He can kick, he can pass and he can tackle and what's more he brings a winning mentality. He would be a better signing than Ioane ever could have been.

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

@BeatlesEarth My Brave Face, This One, Flying To My Home. Strong album

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

How much have they paid Pollard? #GLAvBUL

[MongoChessGenius @RiteyRooo]

@BeatlesEarth It really should have stayed off the album. This, and Oh Darling. Two travesties Paul could not let go of. Come and Get It plus one other George song were available and should have been used.

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

With J,G and R on this

[The Beatles Earth @BeatlesEarth]

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[The Beatles Earth @BeatlesEarth]

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

Re: Lowe

[Vick @Vick_Myburgh]

@Murray_Kinsella @The42_ie Don't understand what the fuss is about. He had a good run. Let him go and find someone faster..

[Synchronised @Istabraq777]

@Munsterrugby Embarrassing end, to a terrible season, seems fitting. Our province being destroyed before our eyes. Paying for a review using money we dont have when its obvious what is needed sums up how rudderless 2026 Munster has become. Next season looks bleak if there is no clear out.

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

Never forget

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

RIP David Bellamy. A man who told the truth and presented the science despite it costing him his position and reputation.
True hero. History will be kind to him.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Do not install VLC.

Once you install it, you can never go back.

You will never pay 99 cents for a codec again.
You will never buy QuickTime Pro again.
You will never renew RealPlayer Plus again.
You will never pay for Blu-ray decoder software again.
You will never see the words "this file format is not supported" again.

You will become the family tech support person. Forever. Your dad will call you at 11 PM because he downloaded a .mkv from somewhere and Windows refuses to open it.

Your answer will always be the same. "Install VLC."

And then the orange traffic cone will eat his problem in 4 seconds and he will call you a genius.

You did not do that. A French student named Jean-Baptiste Kempf did, in 1996, as a school project at École Centrale Paris. His roommate brought a traffic cone home from the street that year. They made it the logo. 6 billion downloads later, the cone is still undefeated.

Repo: https://t.co/0Tlbn7KNan. 18,463 stars. GPL-2.0. Pushed today.

Here is the wildest part:

The warning is real. Just not for you.

Apple sold QuickTime Pro for $29.99. VLC killed it. Apple shut it down in 2016.
Microsoft sold Windows Media Center for $9.99. VLC killed it. Microsoft shut it down with Windows 10.
RealNetworks charged $39.99 a year for RealPlayer Plus. VLC killed it.
Sony built Blu-ray to need a $79.99 licensed decoder. VLC ships with libdvdcss and a French court ruling that protects it.

The codec mafia spent 30 years building a tollbooth on every video file on Earth.

A guy whose GitHub location is literally "Coneland" walked through every tollbooth with a cone on his head and never paid a cent.

He was offered millions of dollars to sell it. He said no.

So yes. Do not install VLC. The codec industry has not recovered from the last 6 billion people who did.

100% Opensource.
100% Free.
100% Yours.

The biggest media companies on Earth spent three decades trying to charge you to play your own files.

One French student and a cone he found on the street made all of it pointless.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[barryhawk @barryhawk]

@BeatlesEarth Coming Up, Temporary Secretary and One of These Days .