Stephie Graphics
@cloudsteph.bsky.social
Multi-disciplinary designer in Dublin with Clare roots. She/her. Mostly: 🧭 Working on shared mobility services 📚 Studying interiors & architecture 🏠 Renovating an ex-corpo house 🎶 Singing with upper voices 🍜 Eating, or thinking about eating
Aughinish Alumina: 'A ticking environmental time bomb' Irish Times investigation found: 🛑 Aluminium levels 4,700x safe EU limit 🛑 Arsenic levels 129x EU limit 🛑 Zinc levels 125x safe limit An Taisce calls for a full investigation by Government into plant www.antaisce.org/submission-o...
The joy of listening to the long overdue rain fall from the comfort of your bed
Any excuse to park infrastructure projects they will jump on www.thejournal.ie/shared-mobil...
E-scooter ban puts promised bike and electric car rental hubs on ice
The Green Party has criticised the government’s decision to stall the pilot scheme as ‘totally spurious’.
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Unsurprising when the scheme relies heavily on the assumption that most consumers have the ability and means to use engage with the scheme fully.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 5d agoIrish consumers left behind €60.1m last year as they failed to redeem their deposits for drink containers through the Government's Deposit Return Scheme.
So the dumbest mfers on the planet are suing my friend for defamation cause she was outspoken about not wanting their racist festival in her local community. It is a clear and obvious attempt to silence their critics with costly frivolous lawsuits, and wear them down emotionally and financially.
Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW FROM ME: the organisers of the Mise Éire Festival are suing Ocean FM and Leitrim activist Meryl McGowan over a radio interview in which they allege McGowan defamed them leftinthelurch.net/2026/07/31/m...
Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year
doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 6mo agoI'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me
It has absolutely gone to sh*t but I owe some of the truest friendships to that first social media wave. Life would be so different without.
Road deaths in Ireland in July 2026 are up 125% over July 2019 and the month isn't even over yet. Don't let the e-scooter BS distract your attention.
Wow, it's almost like all those protests weren't really about fuel... www.independent.ie/county/wexfo...
Fuel Support Scheme for farmers ‘under subscribed’ despite €87m budget and nationwide protests over costs
The deputy president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) says she does not know why the Fuel Income Support Scheme for farmers and agricultural contractors was significantly “under subscribed.”
independent.ie
Reactionary eulogy podcasts are weird. Especially for whom it concerns.
Every piece of work you "outsource" to that technology legitimises this. You're helping to burn the library of Alexandria to power a technology that makes it harder and harder to trust the information left available to us.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Before he scurried away, this propaganda was circulated by the Government to schools from Michael Healy Rae. Himself (surprise-surprise!) who profits from sitka spruce — just as he does whenever he gives his opinion on petrol/diesel or drink driving laws. 📰 www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/leitrim...
Pádraic Fogarty@whittledaway.bsky.social · last wk.I spoke to @newstalkfm.bsky.social yesterday about fires, land use and the urgent need for native forests on our hills www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
Three people died in car crashes over the weekend, unknown how many were injured. The number of road traffic fatalities in 2026 surpassed the TOTAL for 2025 a few weeks ago, only halfway through the year. Could we expand the conversation to include that? www.garda.ie/en/roads-pol...
Ola Løkken Nordrum@olaln.bsky.social · last wk.The Dublin Lord Mayor wants to ban legal e-bikes from all GAA club grounds?! Populist banana politics at its finest. Legal e-bikes help people leave the car at home and make active travel accessible. This is a spectacularly stupid notion.
Wondering if humanity has now collectively spent more on “AI” than we have, cumulatively, on climate change mitigation. Maybe I should ask an AI.
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And they’re still ploughing ahead with plans to acquire Cursor
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.As of two minutes after trading start, it's $13 away.
It’s become easy to feel detached from reality with the horrors of the news cycle over the last few years, IMO. Following the case of the ‘Ulm 5’ has been unsettling, but this thread from the POV of a friend lands the sinister and alarming nature of what’s happening and indeed *not* happening.
Ben McCarthy@benricem.bsky.social · 2w agoAs a small addendum, there's a fundraiser to help Daniel's family with the costs associated and I'm sure they'd be incredibly grateful for any donations Not the point of the thread, I just wanted to share my experience, but if you're feeling fired up and ready to help, here's an easy way to do so
On a replacement bus from Limerick to Sixmilebridge coz the 18:00 Dublin to Cork train left 45mins late. We only found out what our fate would be when we arrived in Limerick, zero info at Limerick Junction or prior. BUT THEY HAVE A WATER FOUNTAIN NOW!
Maybe the reason FFFG haven’t “fast-tracked” the Galway M50 is because they know it won’t improve the traffic and mobility issues around the city. More roads = more vehicles. Just look at the damned M50. Who would want to put their name to a project destined to fail?
It is straight from the authoritarian playbook. "NGOs and courts shouldn't be able to get involved, we're elected, we represent The Will Of The People." Can they hear themselves, like.
John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing attack on civil society and environmental justice by a government lacking either vision or basic competence. www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber...
Outrageous, wilfully ignorant, reckless and amoral to effectively disapply climate laws in this way… www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Emergency infrastructure laws ‘may be at extremity’ of what is constitutionally permitted
Minister for Public Expenditure says aspects of Climate Act weaponised by those who want to stop projects
irishtimes.com
Seeing as the guys are into bans, could we ban disposable BBQs?
A current affairs columnist can attest: nothing focusses the mind like a deadline. But the recess is a good chance to take stock - and dwell on some of the Oireachtas’ bad habits. This week’s column 👇🏻
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2w agoGavan Reilly: The scramble to clear the decks in the Dáil and pass numerous bills raises fresh questions about how the legislature actually works... jrnl.ie/7111094
€10k for 88 roller blinds is good value. The same again on the C19 embroidered silk curtains doesn’t shock me. I was quoted over €2k just to *make* a pair of plain polyester ones to measure for the front window of my ex-council house last year. We remain curtainless 🤪
Right to Know@righttoknow.bsky.social · 2w agoFarmleigh bills detail €69,000 spend on blinds, conservation of antique curtains and a portrait bought at auction. Our latest set of FOI records: www.thestory.ie/2026/07/23/f...
A Commission of Investigation found it ‘highly likely’ burials took place in the grounds of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home. Despite this, planning permission has been granted for a private development on the site. Take action now: clannproject.org/savebessboro...
“Design is a process, not a colour chart.” Fail to plan, plan to fail. No accountability? All bets are off. Chaos. Meanwhile, children suffer and money continues to get pissed down the drain. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers announces his new policy to fill Ireland with ugly things. This is the Gist.
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