Stephen O’Shea

@architectgp.bsky.social

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Architect + CPHD, now working in Sustainability. 🏃🏻‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏉⚽️ Multiple cats & kids. Born at 326 ppm so I got to see David Bowie, James Brown, Stevie Wonder and Prince live. Header picture by @RiotGrlErin

Tommy Cooper with trademark fez and cigar, wide-eyed and open-mouthed.
Photo of Linda Noskova, the 2026 Wimbledon ladies champion, smiling with eyes closed, head tilted to one side.
A teenage girl is hugging / strangling a black cat. His head and one paw are protruding from the crook of her elbow.
Crowd of parents gathered are next to coach/bus parking spaces at a random service station in the midlands of Ireland. IYKYK.
Photo of a Commodore VIC-20. We got one as a hand-me-down / permanent loan from an American priest friend of my folks. Then we got a Commidore 64.
Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez in Aliens. She has cropped hair and a red bandanna and she’s looking to the right with a serious frown.
Screenshot of a WhatsApp text conversation. Her @9:02 ‘Want a short answer or an elaborated one?’ Me @9:03 ‘Elaborate’ Me @9:18 ‘Ok wrap it up now 😉’ Her (still typing)
A black cat loafs on my lap, eyes closed. Sunlight coming through the window makes his coat look brown in patches.
Photo of a list of rules from the Irish College, covering subjects such as smoking / vaping, ‘entry into licensed premises’, curfew etc. And snogging of course.
Two black cats lie sprawled in the same position, one on the top bunk bed, one on the bottom bunk.
A black cat loafs on my lap as I’m lying on the couch watching a match. He’s looking at the camera, and one of his ears neatly cuts the tv behind him in two.
A black cat sits on my lap, glaring / scowling at the camera (he’s actually purring but you can’t tell obvs) Behind him the tv shows the Champion’s League final where Arsenal have just gone one up.
A black cat lies on the floor of the landing with his head and feet sticking out between the balusters, hanging out over the stairs. He’s looking at the camera.
Duolingo 575 day learning streak card.
Four white men aged 40-70 pose for a photo. They are outside a Passivhaus / Passive House apartment building and all are smiling.
Two black cats sit with their backs to the camera, staring intently out and up through glass doors. Outside is a small garden with a wall at its edge. On top of the wall is a small slatted fence and through that fence can be seen the silhouette of ANOTHER CAT.
A young boy in a white and green football Jersey with a shamrock and the word ‘PARROTT’ on the back of it is colouring a picture of Troy Parrott.
High camera angle poking towards Liverpool’s goal just as De Bruyne has struck the ball. He’s at the bottom right of the shot, his limbs all sticking out as he’s still in the kicking action. The ball is high in the air. The closest Liverpool player to De Bruyne is Salah and he is running towards and past him, running away from the ball and the action. Because he knows what’s going to happen next.
‘Be Yourself Tonight’ by The Eurythmics on cassette (1985)
Gif of 3 children doing a silly march past the camera. They are all wearing shorty wetsuits and lifejackets, and the smallest has a diving mask. The lake in the background looks grey and rough but the sun is shining and there are fluffy white clouds in the blue sky.
Meme of a baby (labelled ‘Me wanting to feel loved’) squeeze-hugging a cat (labelled ‘My cat who was sleeping peacefully and now has to deal with my bullshit’)
Robert Davi as Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard.
Screenshot of a scene in ‘Get Out’ with Bradley Whitford telling Daniel Kaluuya ‘I would have nominated Sinners seventeen times if I could’.
Duolingo 500 day learning streak card
Still from the episode with Phil in a tux and Gloria in a French maid’s costume.
Still from the opening credits of ‘Northern Exposure’ showing a street in the ‘Alaskan’ town (actually filmed in British Columbia iirc)
Two black cats sit by a glass door, looking at the camera.
A black cat sits on the floor, his tail curled round his paws.
Screenshot of a Wiki article about Australia’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest
A black cat lies on his back on a rug. He has one paw over his face and his eyes can be seen looking at the camera from either side of it.
Screengrab from Le Monde: ‘Authorities said earlier that investigators would be looking into factors including whether material on the exterior walls of high-rise buildings met fire resistance standards, as the rapid spread of the fire was unusual. Officials said the fire started on the external scaffolding of one of the buildings, a 32-storey tower, and later spread to inside the building and then to nearby buildings, likely aided by windy conditions.’
B&W publicity photo of the band from the movie ‘The Commitments’. The band are dressed in black tie formal clothes, standing in front of a derelict / ruined building
Otto: ‘I will be watching Stirb Langsam with my family, or Die Slowly. I believe you call it Die Hard.’ Sydney: ‘You watch Die Hard on Christmas too?’ ‘Yes, but in Germany, it’s considered a tragedy. [sighs] Poor Hans Gruber. Deeply misunderstood.’ ‘I’m pretty sure Hans Gruber was a terrorist.’
Prince’s album ‘Sign O the Times’
A Duolingo card showing my 425 day streak
Two black cats sitting on a rug next to a window.
Screenshot of a strapline which reads ‘Maria Steen supporters should spoil their ballot - Declan Ganley’
Screenshot of a paragraph of this essay.
The Saja Boys from K-Pop Demon Hunters in their black demon garb
Two black cats sitting next to a glass door looking towards the camera.
365 day learning streak badge with the owl
Google search confirming that my eyes weren’t deceiving me and Yes indeed - the British Army are sponsoring Sky Sports’ coverage of the Premier League this season.
Duolingo 350 day streak card
The ceiling void over a Utility Room photographed after first fix Mech & Elec, but before the slabs go up. It’s a riot of tangled services snaking in all directions, crossing over and through each other. The larger ducts are wrapped in foil-backed insulation, hot and cold water services are red and blue respectively, circular white ventilation distribution ducts are largely bundled together and various electrical cables weave in and out.
A low-loader with four tractors on board is being driven under a metal bridge.
Screenshot of a Strava activity, showing 4.95km @ 6:15/km - 30m58s and a map with a squiggly orange line doubling back on itself several times as I ran up blind alleys. UNLIKE LIVERPOOL EH? EH? GET IN 💪
A group of 4 cyclists just after crossing the finish line of a ‘race’. The two on the right are looking at the camera, giving thumbs up. The two on the left are looking at each other.
Short video taken from a ferry of a seabird flying alongside, but faster, low to the water.
Screenshot of our family group chat: ‘The Zionist support act just finished her set and everytime she came over to our side I put my scarf up and loads of people put the Palestinian flag on their pjone screens and held them up’ ‘And she rolled her eyes at me multiple times’ ‘And security came over to the barrier and was like “stop showing Palestinian flags she’s very upset” ‘Boo fucking hoo’
Famous ‘Winter is coming’ meme of Ned Stark from Game Of Thrones, but the image has been mirrored and the text reads ‘Wintour is going’.
A picture of my (dressed) torso. My shirt and tie are wet through in patches where the rain soaked through my jacket on the cycle home.
Photo of our two black cats. One is in the extreme foreground, beside me on the sofa. He’s in shadow so only the silhouette of the tip of one ear gives away what the dark shape actually is. His brother is in sharper focus. He is lying on the rug in sunshine in the middle ground, and behind him is a view out to the garden.
A screenshot of a map / satellite image showing two points 210m apart on a footpath in Clontarf, Dublin linked by a dotted blue line.
Two big black cats in a kitchen. One is sitting on the countertop above the drawer their food is kept in and the other is on the floor beside it. They are staring intently at the camera (me).
Duolingo 250-day streak card
Photo of a tv showing RTE1’s coverage of the Pope’s funeral. There’s a wide shot of St. Peter’s Square taken from high up in the cathedral, and a smaller picture to the side showing David McCullagh the RTE presenter (not his more famous Floridian namesake). (This is a joke.)