Amanda Adams

Loves: my family, my dog, teaching kids English, Arran and Portugal. All my opinions are personal and I do not represent my employer.

[Amanda Adams @felixandreem]

@CalMac_Updates We have had three days at Portavadie and the ferry was suspended on the way here and now on our way home - can you tell me what the technical issue is please?

[Audrey @samartin8431]

https://t.co/YTUqlMaVzU

[Jenny Eclair @jennyeclair]

Can we look at this now - can we give this absolute horror some attention please

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

The Taliban’s latest edict is horrifying. Banning Afghan women and girls from hearing each other’s voices in public is a deliberate effort to erase them from society. 

We condemn the Taliban’s appalling assault on the rights of women and girls.

[UN Women @UN_Women]

Women should feel safe at work.
Women should feel safe walking alone in public.
Women should feel safe at home.
Women should feel safe online.
Women should feel safe in public transportation.
Women should feel safe EVERYWHERE.

[James McEnaney @MrMcEnaney]

EXCLUSIVE in @heraldscotland

Teachers and pupils face loss of crucial school IT, including Word and PowerPoint, in the new school year...and the government has known about it since August last year.

Get the full story here 👇

https://t.co/3SylsaYME8

[Ian Rankin @Beathhigh]

Preserve Summerhall as a Cultural Hub in Edinburgh - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/u5dzynzDGL via @UKChange

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk... devastating data out today

The number of children living in DESTITUTION has TRIPLED in 5 yrs to ONE MILLION CHILDREN.

6th largest economy in the world and Tories are hell bent on destroying everything & creating further division.

They are a disgrace.

I grew up in poverty in 1960s and it's hard for these kids, very hard.

[EIS @EISUnion]

Despite there being an increase in learners with an identified additional support need, support for teachers and schools has only decreased.

We need more, not fewer teachers so we can #StandUp4QualityEdu in our schools.

More info on our #SU4QE campaign: https://t.co/PcRZycsrTo

[Dr Kristy Docherty @kristy_docherty]

"It's good to be interesting. It's better to be interested".
This research is about dating but applies to many settings and contexts - get to know people.
#berelational #buildtrust #effectivecollaboration

[Lissadell House @LissadellHouse]

W. B. Yeats died in France on 28 January 1939, 85 years ago. His dad, John Yeats, sketched him when he was born, 159 years ago

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

"Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can't give you." #MayaAngelou

[Scotland with Sam @Theweewhitedug]

The Colinton Tunnel is a disused Victorian railway tunnel located in Edinburgh’s Spylaw Park. In 2018 locals persuaded the council to let them breathe new life into the tunnel. It now features Scotland’s largest historical mural. #Edinburgh 🥰

[James McEnaney @MrMcEnaney]

The council says that schools will offer Advanced Highers instead and pupils will move between them, but even if that's true (and some are sceptical) one big selling point of the Hub was the experience of learning in a uni environment. That is definitely being lost.

[James McEnaney @MrMcEnaney]

Pretty much everyone I've spoken to about this says the same thing: it isn't about 'bad kids' or the need for old-fashioned discipline, but rather a chronic and worsening lack of resources (including staff time) exacerbating a broader, post-pandemic social issue.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I know I'm going to make this political and believe me I try really hard not to but this simply can't go on. There are too many in this country feeling far too much pain, it has to stop.

We need an election and today would be good, not tomorrow, not the day after, today!

[Audrey @samartin8431]

All the best to everyone going back to school in Scotland this week ❤️

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Nature is amazing!
A camera recorded from start to finish how a bird built its nest and had its chicks.

[Anna Dillon @Anna_Dillon]

I am a graphic designer. The twitter bird logo/brand presented a kind, welcoming, open, light-hearted community. I think this new logo/brand is dark & sinister, overtly masculine, unwelcoming and threatening, not to mention rather self-obsessed.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

"One woman could barely get words out through her tears. Another ran to the restroom as soon as she was done, wordless, wretched sobs wracking her tiny body. A third threw up on the witness stand."

One year since the fall of Roe, women are suffering because of abortion bans. 

https://t.co/OScXQqoh7T