Velvan Plug

@velvanplug.bsky.social

Dumped both TwitX and Amazon/Kindle - support as many local Irish ☘️ businesses as I can. Also on Threads … but the counter is running. Weird Old car stuff, archeology, dogs, 3D-printing. 60s kid, accidental spaniel slave. Not looking for Followers. At all!

What’s happening in Suffolk, VA is chilling. Is this standard restraint, or is it a strategy of high-lethality violence? This needs to be seen. ⚠️

The Lurgan Logboat • Galway When you visit the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street in Dublin, it is impossible to miss this absolutely enormous logboat. At more than 15m long, it takes up nearly the entire length of a wall in the Prehistoric Ireland exhibition of the Museum. #Ireland

An enormous oak logboat in the National Museum of Ireland

Someone,Like Trump,Who Has Something To Hide,Like The Real Possibility That Some Wannabe Assassin's Are Right Wingers, Upset About Trump's Agenda,Or THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES.......

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The USA is the laughing stock of the world. Countries are lining up to go to war with Dementia Don and his minions so they too can get paid.

If they treat European citizens like this on camera, imagine what happens away from the lens to Palestinians. Let’s push EU leaders to take real action: Sanction Israel now! Are you joining? 🇵🇸 ↗️ *CLICK TO SIGN WITH WHATSAPP:* secure.avaaz.org/campaigns/sa...

Ben Gvir has fallen into his own trap

He showed what Israel has imposed on Palestinians for decades: brutality and humiliation. Sign to pressure world leaders to sanction Netanyahu's government.

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Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

SHE WAS DEMOTED, UNDERPAID, AND IGNORED FOR 40 YEARS. HER
UNIVERSITY TOLD HER MRNA RESEARCH WAS WORTHLESS. HER COLLEAGUES STOPPED TAKING HER SERIOUSLY. SHE EARNED $50,000 A YEAR FOR FOUR DECADES. THEN COVID ARRIVED - AND, SHE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.

I'm a retired boomer. I cannot believe the state of our country. I cannot believe people are reduced to living in their cars, on the street, homeless. NOTHING is normal anymore. There is something fundamentally wrong, VERY wrong, with our country. I am so ashamed of what our country has become.