01. Oh America… I can’t even…
02. Related: word of the year.
03. ABC Book Club – vote now for your favourite 2016 release.
04. I took a semester or two of cartography when I was at uni. I love maps but I don’t love maths so really, there was no future. Now I just stick to gazing at atlases and getting excited about things like this ‘AuthaGraph’ projection.
05. Weirdly reassuring that despite the shit-fest in the US, the top news story (after the election) in Melbourne was this. And apparently in Britain, it was this. #priorities
06. In the midst of what will no doubt be the beginning of a new and depressing chapter in world history, this made me laugh –
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Oh America indeed!
Grim times…
I want to wake up from 2016 and find it was just all a particularly nasty nightmare.
Same. Not saying Australia is much better off but what is the collective outcome of all this hatred and bigotry? It makes me worry about what’s ahead.
I agree absolutely. I’m appalled by the unleashing of hatred that Brexit has precipitated here. It’s the same anger that has brought Trump into power.
Yes and all that anger has to get channelled somewhere…
Still absolutely shocked by what unfolded last night =S
A surge of people moving to Canada?! Don’t know if it’s true but heard that the Canadian Government website about Canadian residency crashed last night.
I didn’t log on it myself to see for myself but I did hear that our immigration website crashed that night and our news stations were reporting it. Sounds like people are looking into New Zealand as well.
I don’t really have any words right now…
The tweet did make me smile though, so thanks!
Related, I think your next blog post theme should be something along the lines of “It’s the end of the world as we know it…”
I’ll see what I can do…
My sentiments exactly. But it’s interesting watching Melania’s reaction to it all.
Her life of quiet wealth and luxury is over – she’ll be on-task for the next four years working as a public servant. I’d be spewing if I was her…
On behalf of my people, I am sorry.
OH WAIT. My actual people are decent, smart folks who didn’t vote for that guy.
But still, I get it. We are disgusted, shocked, humiliated, and fearful. Hopefully our senate can filibuster everything and lock up bills indefinitely.
And I think that’s the important point – half the people didn’t vote for him. It’s not representative.
Interestingly, my kids are worried about the result. It was hard to shelter them from the election coverage over the last few months and, I’m partly to blame as I’ve been vocal about Trump when he’s been on the news etc. But what they said was this: my 9yo asked if Trump was going to start a world war because he was always so angry and fighting. My 13yo wondered if women would be ‘allowed’ to keep their jobs now Trump was President because ‘he doesn’t like women’. Obviously these opinions are skewed and very much reflect what they’ve seen on the news but I think it’s interesting that that’s what the kids see.
Like you, I am reminding them that we live happily in a diverse community and that more broadly, bullies never prosper…
Thanks for making me smile during an impossibly painful week. I’d like to think that things will start looking up, but I’m afraid that any sign of hope is at least 2 years away.
This made me smile in a few different ways. I’m still in shock over the election and can’t even begin to really talk about it. It was nice in a way to find something else to look at – namely less chocolate for the same price! Thanks for sharing the basic truth that the world keeps going and will keep going even after things like this happen.
Some of those US election memes were hilarious…. well, they WOULD be if it wasn’t so bloody depressing!
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