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Books & Podcasts in 2025

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Books The Lie of the Land: A Game Plan for Ireland in the Climate Crisis by John Gibbons A must-read for anyone interested in or worried about climate change and climate action in Ireland. John pulls no punches and lays out exactly where Ireland has failed and is falling behind in emissions reduction, and how to fix the situation.
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Movies in 2025

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Sinners Sinners delivers. A 1930s period film in the deep south, that's also a vampire movie, that also has the second-best rendition of Rocky Road To Dublin (Lankum's being number 1) and Micheal B. Jordan, twice! What's not to like!   Wake Up Dead Man See my previous comments regarding murder mysteries above. Wake Up Dead Man keeps you guessing every step of the way.
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TV in 2025

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Murderbot I enjoyed a lot of TV shows this year but looking back at my list, Murderbot stands head and shoulders above most others as a fantastically quirky, funny, and touching new sci-fi show.   This City Is Ours
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Floor 796

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Floor 796 is a huge 3/4 view pixel art project that depicts every character that you can think of from film, TV, and comics, in a series of rooms on a space station. See if you can recognise every character before clicking on them to see for sure. 
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That Cloudflare Outage

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The massive Cloudflare outage this week was caused by an SQL query that didn't filter its results sufficiently, which led to an input file with too many configuration records, which led to processing overload. Hackaday point out that input verification and error handling are basics of software development for reasons like this.
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