Yeah. My Mum told me this story of how one day the V2 came over and it got quite close and then the sound stopped and my Grandma shoved my Mum in a garden hedge and lay down the gutter with my (baby) aunt. Obviously they were OK but My Grandma's fear made an impression on a 4 year old.

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The tankies looked to the Republicans, and the Republicans looked to the tankies

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Obviously hard core tankies are a lost cause, but I don’t know how the softer ones - ones who nod along to Polanski on NATO or read crank columnists that still cling to mainstream platforms - can look at the far right applauding the same lies, and not feel intense guilt & horror.

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That shrieking sound you're hearing is @scaramucci.bsky.social laughing hysterically

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I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time

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