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Martin McDonald
@martymcd.bsky.social
UK & US Politics and other stuff from the kitchen table, one tweet at a time.
Some say 'a totally undiscovered twitter treasure' apparently. Also tax. And law
absolute 🗡️ Marie 👏👏
November 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Have you not seen the US appellate hearing where under challenge from the the only female judge on the bench counsel says 'I'm sorry my love, that's just completely wrong'?

Totally irrecoverable for both of them!
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I've finally recovered my composure having spent about twenty minutes laughing hysterically in the pub!
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Also, iceberg theory, we only see 10% of what they have to deal with 90% is below the surface
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
ok the advance team should have sorted out the mic height

schoolboy error
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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This means these aircraft appear vulnerable 2 subatomic particles from space changing tiny bits of data in computer software causing said computer to malfunction.

This issue has been suspected to affect other planes, famously an Air Qantas flight. But it's v hard to be conclusive about such cases.
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
People are looking at me in the pub, my sides are hurting through laughter 😃
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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She’s defined working class as anyone who needs to work to pay the mortgage and buy food which would be about 98% of us
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Literal *BEERSPRAY* in the PUB!
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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ok the advance team should have sorted out the mic height

schoolboy error
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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"we will not tolerate a culture of leaks to right-wing journalists"

I can't be 100% but I think she means The Guardian
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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She's just described Zohran Mamdani as working class which will come as a shock to his parents
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM