Ann Shanks

Golfer, Curler, Mother, Hockey Fan, Rav 4 Driver, Racehorse Syndicate Member, OHS FP, Busy Person

[Ann Shanks @AnnShanks7]

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[John McGinn @jmcginn7]

Scotland days at school, kids faces painted in saltires at nursery, the excitement and togetherness that this tournament brought to everyone in our country means so much to us all.

No one wanted to progress more than us players, and as much as the experiences and memories we’ll share will last forever, that doesn’t take away from how much this still hurts.

What the gaffer has given this group, on and off the pitch, has been immense. Not only by taking us to major tournaments but by how together we have felt as a squad and as a nation. Representing Scotland means everything to us and to him I’ll be forever grateful.

I hope the generation of young Scots who experienced this World Cup grow up believing that seeing Scotland on this stage is the new norm.

Thanks to everyone in the stands and in the streets of Boston and Miami, and to everyone back home for the incredible support.

Proud to be Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

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[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

No enquiries for Madeline at all 😢 she’s still waiting for a home. We cover the whole of Scotland, can you please share?

Madeline is looking for a new home with someone who doesn’t live close to any main roads, or a train station! 🚂

She found a new home last year but really likes to wander and has managed to get on a train a couple of times now.

Thankfully the driver has kept her in his cab and taken her back to where she got on, however going forward and for her own safety, this can’t continue.

Madeline is 6 years old. She is an outdoor cat and likes to get outside.
She is fit and healthy with no issues.
Madeline is use to living alongside another cat however they tend to just ignore each other. She doesn’t have any experience with dogs.

A home with older kids would be okay.
Madeline is chipped and spayed.

We’d really like to find her a home away from any main roads and transport links, such as train stations or bus stations. Possibly a farm setting - we would highly consider this for her own happiness and safety.

For more information or to offer Madeline a new home please contact our rehome team by email on [email protected]

[Glasgow Clan 🏒🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ClanIHC]

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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Ann Shanks @AnnShanks7]

@CWilliamsRacing Well deserved. Great performance from horse and jockey at Hexham yesterday.👏👏

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

#ThoughtForTheDay

"Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors. We are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them'" ~ @RickyGervais.

There is NO excuse for #AnimalAbuse EVER! 🚫

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Great and very important advice! 👇

[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

Please, speak about Ukraine. It is vital that our voices are heard. russia continues daily, deliberate attacks against civilians—destroying homes, taking lives…

[Shayan @shayan_]

I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.

Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!

[Malcolm & Baby Dog @Malcolm_theCat]

Friends! Before we post today’s video we just wanted to share the worrying news that animal rescue centres in the UK say they are at breaking point with animal abandonment reaching a 6 year high. If you are considering getting a cat or a dog, please think about rehoming from a rescue centre. There are so many animals in need of a loving home 💔

https://t.co/TJpmkimVvj

[Ann Shanks @AnnShanks7]

@McNeill_Family So sorry for all connections.

[Ann Shanks @AnnShanks7]

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[Hexham Racecourse @HexhamRaces]

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[Ann Shanks @AnnShanks7]

@FOBRacing So sorry to hear this awful news about a lovely horse.

[Ann Shanks @AnnShanks7]

@FluffyPickle Sorry for all connections