So I guess Brexit actually happened.

[conuly]

It's almost a relief that that's over, but then, I'm not the one who has to live there and deal with it. No idea how people in the UK are feeling about this.

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[alexseanchai]

several UK people I read are furious, others are—the best word I can think of is 'down'

I'm just boggling at the Washington Post News Alert saying this was "a victory for anti-establishment forces"

like, define "establishment"!

[pauamma]

If https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1223381646281510914 is representative, even celebrations are on the quiet side.

[conuly]

IDK, after I posted this I read my friends list and two people, back to back but in different parts of the UK, posted about fireworks.

Which, fuck that. If it's not a culturally designated Day For Fireworks, there should be NO shooting of explosives.

[cosmolinguist]

It's not over. It hasn't even properly started yet.

I'm sick and sad and scared and angry.

[lilly_c]

I’m furious about it.

[rmc28]

Fucking miserable, since you ask. And as cosmolinguist says, it hasn't even started properly yet.

I also had a bunch of Other Stuff to deal with yesterday so I disappeared into reading escapist books until far too late, and I will probably spend the weekend alternating todo list and escapist books.

[glinda]

I went through Parliament Square in a cab last night and it was a pretty strange atmosphere. There was a pretty sad party going on (lots of people standing around looking a bit lost) and protestors of several different stripes on bikes doing loops.

Also I had the only Remainer black cab driver in London and he - like me - was pretty fucking depressed about the whole thing.

(What's the stage of grief after rage and bargaining but before acceptance... That's where we are.)

[oursin]

Cite to gloomy ol' William Empson: 'It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange'.
And moved by this: https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1223176613627596800

[hilarita]

I'm fucking furious and miserable.

[antisoppist]

We have a year to make the actual impact on people's real lives not totally shit. It's a fight for what sort of nation we turn into now.

[silveradept]

Most of the people I subscribe to are incensed at it, but they've all been Remainers who understood what was going on. I don't know what the other side was feeling because it's not likely we would be subscribed to each other.

[muninnhuginn]

It feels like the beginning of the end. And not a good end.

My planned rail trip across of much of Europe this summer feels more and more like a last chance.

[pensnest]

Speaking purely for myself, angry, sad, and ashamed of my country. None of these being feelings I want to be having.

[bibliofile]

Some of my British friends have become solid Rejoiners*. And no, this begins the period of frantic exit negotiations, which will start taking effect in 2021.

*IANABrit