Laura MacDonald

Never cross a picket line. Never vote Tory. Never spill wine.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

#mattyjuniosa when you sing purple rain so amazingly that Prince just doesn’t cut it anymore #britainsgottalent 👏🏻

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line.
You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war.
Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making.
You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz.
You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like.
You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity?
You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@anon_opin My then 10 year old finished his first (and only) park run in under 22 minutes, placing him 11th overall…but go on

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@braidhurstpe @ActiveNLFBall @nlcpeople Submitted an application but no acknowledgment via email confirming receipt or next steps. Is this normal or do I need to resubmit?

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

The UN has been here eight decades. We’re sticking around.

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@SuperPartisian @AgentP22 They were told not to move her for fear of making the break worse. Just a thought, but why don’t you read the whole story so you have all the information.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@LiveNationUK where do I send a complaint?

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@TheRealDeclanK1 He literally said he did but they never let him the next stage with the judges

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@FlirtReynolds Because you don’t get a guaranteed spot. You have to pre audition to get to the audition with the judges that we see. He said he auditioned before in Manchester but they didn’t put him through to the stage with the judges.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@SELFESTEEM___ @TheGNShow self esteem wow, love ❤️ Beautiful music and @LewisCapaldi style humour 🙌🏻.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@fesshole If we’d invited all my friends kids to our wedding there would have been 47 children! Only kids allowed were nieces/nephews. Totally normal.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

Huge thanks to @MotherwellFC for this experience last night. Credit to all the players for the enthusiasm despite being there so long.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@templeseeker @Airbnb It was advertised as a fully self contained flat! It’s actually the upstairs of a house with zero separation.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@Airbnb disgusted to have been left in a shared accommodation with zero security! Anyone can walk into our rooms at night. On hold over an hour. Need urgent assistance.

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@TheGNShow fabulous chat as always. Can’t ignore that the intro has changed. No edgy political/current affairs jokes and just all PR, meh.

[UN Women @UN_Women]

We strongly condemn the murder of Rebecca Cheptegei, the third elite runner to be murdered in Kenya. All suspects were intimate partners of the athletes.

No impunity for perpetrators.
The trend of #femicide must be stopped.

Statement by @unwomenafrica https://t.co/KHT9D4fcrs

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@VodafoneUK But thank you for explaining how it should have worked, despite me telling you it hadn’t!!!

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@VodafoneUK ordered new phone and contract. Phone arrived. No ESim. No one will resolve so I’ve to pay for a device plan I don’t have!

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@VodafoneUK Apparently they forgot to ‘push’ the eSIM through when I ordered and they had to do it manually. Was told it would be two working days but it took even longer and more calls again!

[Laura MacDonald @LauraAdamsMac]

@VodafoneUK No the point was you didn’t send the email for over a week and no one would assist without me giving them my number…which you didn’t send. It has been an absolute 💩 show. Last night, finally, I got the email a week late and after many arguments!