Melanie Aird

TEFL-Q, Online teacher: exam prep, speaking, writing. What do I tell my students? Blog link in profile!

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

I'm horrified that someone was able to fire shots at a presidential candidate.
But I'm also horrified that this video comes from an official Republican event.

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@drsimonegold Bollocks. BBC interrupted scheduled programming for live coverage, interviewing multiple witnesses, former security agents, and Republican politicians.

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@Sam12554430 @roaming_rn @drsimonegold @jaschmd That's a clickbait site, not MSM.

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@marcwalby @MikeStuchbery_ Hoping that criminals go to jail rather than being granted positions of power isn't abusive.

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Staged content is a type of disinformation you might come across in times of conflict and political tensions. In this news hygiene episode, Aiganysh demonstrates how you might geolocate a video and provides one example of content that was likely staged. Produced with @RFERL

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@ILA_NewsX @POTUS Great. Now do the one where DT says sexual assault is ok if you're rich.

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[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@Del_ivered @b1gfez @urchaidh @theSpurtle This doesn't sound like largely ok?
"Edinburgh businesses and residents are already being badly affected by the council's narrowing of roads/ hiked parking charges/ LEZ fines."

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@Del_ivered @b1gfez @urchaidh @theSpurtle My goodness, but that's a lovely straw man you've just built. No one has ever said we should get rid of all motorised vehicles in the city.
(I've been in Princes St every morning at peak times for the past 4 wks, traffic moving just fine.)

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@Del_ivered @b1gfez @theSpurtle Yeah, and I want Ciao Roma's gelato to be calorie-free, but that ain't how adulting works. 🍦🍦
Oh wait🧐 You're the dude with 10.5K followers yet hardly anyone 'likes' your tweets.
Never mind.
🤷‍♀️

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@Botanygeek Will get these for the inlaws, who will find them delicious, and be delighted. (I make cheater's Nasi Goreng with Tilda Indonesian rice, smoked haddock, and a fried egg.)

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@TomCreaven @BobFromAccounts Agree. Absolute first I've ever heard of a tiger crossing (what is it with Brits, animals, and crossings?). As a cyclist, I'd follow the road markings in front of me, as a driver too.
Is there signage to remind drivers? I try to keep up, but had no idea this was a thing.

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@Del_ivered @b1gfez @theSpurtle "Freedom of movement" has nothing to do with mode of transportation, but you know that.
Please also read up on 'induced demand'.

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@clouhamilton1 @jewdas But apparently damages the rare lichen living on the henge. Every day = school day, I guess!

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

I feel dizzy.
Informed, but dizzy.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

These have undoubtedly been the wildest 72 hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff.

A 🧵

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@Truthwritings1 @Edinburgh_CC @EdinOutdoors The Internet is a strange place.
I agree that allotments would be fabulous (although this neck of E'burgh has lots), but having looked at your timeline, I'd be surprised if we agreed on anything else...

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

Squee!
Have just watched a badger collecting up bedding, and waddling backwards towards the den with this cargo under her belly. Normally I only see the stage where she's dumped her old bedding on my patio. #Badger #UrbanWildlife https://t.co/WnjsTeUd8I.

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@SloopyTexas @Sh3zz4 If you haven't observed drivers speeding up once they've passed Smokey, you may need a guide dog.
Which would be pretty cute, a Lab wearing driving gloves...

[Melanie Aird @ielts_and_more]

@MikeStuchbery_ My German friend, living in East Anglia, met someone who can't slice bread and doesn't own a bread knife.
3 days later, she is still talking about this.