diff --git a/scripts/ui-shots.mjs b/scripts/ui-shots.mjs
index d8d9f0d..42a03c1 100644
--- a/scripts/ui-shots.mjs
+++ b/scripts/ui-shots.mjs
@@ -420,6 +420,25 @@ const SCENES = [
     },
     clip: { x: 277, y: 80, width: 640, height: 90 }
   },
+  {
+    // Right-click on highlighted text in a Discord message (#299).
+    name: 'discord-message-menu',
+    setup: async (p) => {
+      await discord(false)(p)
+      await p.evaluate(`(() => {
+        const row = [...document.querySelectorAll('.message-row')].find((r) => r.innerText.includes('craft fair'))
+        const body = row.querySelector('.message-body')
+        const range = document.createRange(); range.selectNodeContents(body)
+        const sel = getSelection(); sel.removeAllRanges(); sel.addRange(range)
+        return true
+      })()`)
+      const c = await centre(p, '.message-row', 'craft fair')
+      await mouse(p, 'mousePressed', c.x + 120, c.y, 'right')
+      await mouse(p, 'mouseReleased', c.x + 120, c.y, 'right')
+      await sleep(300)
+    },
+    clip: { x: 277, y: 80, width: 640, height: 420 }
+  },
   // Motion, recorded rather than photographed.
   {
     name: 'motion-hover-rows',
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/MessageRow.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/MessageRow.tsx
index e8ffbfe..6e1e20e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/MessageRow.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/MessageRow.tsx
@@ -439,6 +439,10 @@ function MessageRowBody({
   // Somebody else's name or picture opens who they are, as it does in the
   // clients this is measured against; your own and the system's have nothing
   // to open.
+  // Read when the menu opens: by the time an entry is clicked the window may
+  // have let go of the selection.
+  const selectedRef = useRef('')
+  const selected = selectedRef.current
   const canOpenProfile = !!message.from && !isSystem && !message.isOwn
   const openProfile = (): void => store.showProfile(bufferId, message.from, message.senderId)
   // Back to what this answers, bringing it into view first if it is a long
@@ -465,6 +469,15 @@ function MessageRowBody({
         ] as MenuEntry[])
       : []),
     { label: 'Reply', icon: 'reply', onClick: () => reply() },
+    // What was selected when the menu opened, first: right-clicking on
+    // highlighted text and finding no Copy is the one thing this menu must not
+    // do, having replaced the one the window would have given.
+    ...(selected
+      ? ([{ label: 'Copy', icon: 'content_copy', onClick: () => void window.moho.copyText(selected) }] as MenuEntry[])
+      : []),
+    ...(message.body && !isSystem
+      ? ([{ label: 'Copy text', icon: 'content_copy', onClick: () => void window.moho.copyText(message.body) }] as MenuEntry[])
+      : []),
     // Sending somebody else's message on. Only where the service has a real
     // forward: Discord's carries the original itself, and Matrix's sends its
     // content again, the same upload and formatting. Anywhere else it would
@@ -589,6 +602,15 @@ function MessageRowBody({
           }
         ] as MenuEntry[])
       : []),
+    ...(service === 'discord' && message.id && !isSystem
+      ? ([
+          {
+            label: 'Copy message link',
+            icon: 'link',
+            onClick: () => void store.copyDiscordMessageLink(bufferId, message.id)
+          }
+        ] as MenuEntry[])
+      : []),
     ...(service === 'discord'
       ? ([
           {
@@ -693,7 +715,10 @@ function MessageRowBody({
         // Where a picture in it came from, for fetching it again once its
         // cached copy has gone - see lib/mediarestore.
         data-buffer-id={bufferId}
-        onContextMenu={open}
+        onContextMenu={(e) => {
+          selectedRef.current = window.getSelection()?.toString().trim() ?? ''
+          open(e)
+        }}
       >
         {/* Bubbles carry their own time inside, which is the whole point of
             the shape - so the gutter that reserves 42px for it on every other
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/state/store.ts b/src/renderer/src/state/store.ts
index a27a3c7..6818d76 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/state/store.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/state/store.ts
@@ -3951,6 +3951,17 @@ export class ChatStore {
    * Opens the real Discord message in a browser - the last resort when even
    * a refresh cannot produce a working link.
    */
+  /** A link to one message, on the clipboard - the same address Open in Discord goes to. */
+  async copyDiscordMessageLink(bufferId: string, messageId: string): Promise<void> {
+    try {
+      const { url } = await window.moho.rpc<{ url: string }>('getDiscordMessageLink', { bufferId, messageId })
+      void window.moho.copyText(url)
+      this.toast('info', 'Link copied')
+    } catch (e) {
+      this.toast('error', (e as Error).message)
+    }
+  }
+
   async openInDiscord(bufferId: string, messageId: string): Promise<void> {
     try {
       const { url } = await window.moho.rpc<{ url: string }>('getDiscordMessageLink', {