Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Black text on a white background, a quote attributed to Ira Byock: "Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then… A four-circle Venn diagram in pink, blue, yellow and green. Outer circles: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, A Handmaid's Tale. Overlaps: Animal Farm, Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Brazil, Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Gattaca, The Matrix. Center: You Are Here. Black-and-white line drawing of the trolley problem: a trolley heads down a track that splits in two. A worried man stands beside a lever at the junction. Five people lie tied on the main track and the side track is empty. Text beside the man reads: "I'd pull the lever if supporters of pulling the lever hadn't been so toxic to me" A screenshot of interview text, an exchange between an interviewer (O) and Pratchett (P). O asks why he writes fantasy, calling it a ghettoized genre. Pratchett answers that fantasy is the ur-literature, from Gilgamesh to Beowulf, ends by saying "That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself." Digital sci-fi painting of an orange desert with tall red rock spires. A rusty, spider-legged wheeled rover climbs a dune. Behind it looms a giant, weathered, ring-shaped spaceship in a hazy purple sky with two moons. A fallen astronaut in a helmet lies in the lower right corner. No text. Screenshot of a Tumblr post by meeplol titled "You Cannot Rest Here". It reads: "Have you ever played a video game where you have to sleep to recover? They only let you do it if everything is safe. Otherwise they won't let you sleep. You'll get a message, saying "You cannot sleep now, there are monsters nearby." Now, remember the last time you just couldn't get to sleep? I do." Reblog by feelinranty: "Don't you… Four-panel hand-drawn comic of a blue fox and a teal fox on a brown sailing ship. Panel 1: calm sea. Caption: "LIFE IS A SHIP RUNNING ON HOPE". Panel 2: a big wave tips the ship. "YOU CAN MANAGE IT ALONE, BUT IT'S EASIER TOGETHER." Panel 3: "NOBODY CAN HOPE FOR TWO INDEFINITELY". Panel 4: "BUT YOU CAN TAKE TURNS GIVING UP". Side credit: instagram: @green_fox_blue_fox, twitter: @foxes_in_love, tumblr:… Tall infographic titled "50 Cognitive Biases to be aware of so you can be the very best version of you" with color-coded categories: Memory, Social, Learning, Belief, Money, Politics. A grid of 50 cards with icons defines biases such as Fundamental Attribution Error, Halo Effect, Dunning-Kruger Effect. TitleMax logo at bottom. A 3x3 alignment chart titled "bookmark alignment chart" with a photo in each square. Lawful good: "book ribbon". Neutral good: "sentence pointer". Chaotic good: "scrap paper, receipts". Lawful neutral: "e-book". True neutral: "proper bookmark". Chaotic neutral: "leaf". Lawful evil: "memorising the page number". Neutral evil: "leaving the book face down". Chaotic evil: "dog ear". Infographic titled "STEVE HASSAN'S DO'S AND DON'TS OF TALKING TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS". Intro: Steve Hassan is the author of the "Cult of Trump" and a world-renowned expert in cults and cult mind control. He has seen striking parallels between the rise of Donald Trump and other cults he's studied. Red text: "HASSAN HAS HELPED THOUSANDS ESCAPE CULTS AND OFFERS SOME DO'S AND DON'TS OF TALKING WITH TRUMP SUPPORTERS." DO… Venn diagram with a blue Design circle on the left, a pink PM circle on the right, and a purple overlap. Headings: Design, PM. Labels: Typically responsible for (left), Typically responsible for (right), Typically shared (bottom). Design only: Making & Iterating; Prototyping; Visual design; Interaction details; Consistency in the design system; Information architecture. PM only: Driving & Coordinating; Project… Photo of a park from above. A man carrying a red shopping bag walks along a worn dirt path cutting across the grass. A paved brick walkway curves around it. White label on the dirt path: "User experience". White label on the paved walkway: "Design". Black and white circular diagram titled "The Hero's Journey". A circle is split into Ordinary World (top) and Special World (bottom) with World Navel at the center. Stages run around it: Call to Adventure, Mentor, Road of Trials, First Threshold, Ordeal, Second Threshold, Resurrection, Return. Acts One to Three are labeled. Screenshot of article text reading "The reason, as shown here, is that even a small rightward shift of a bell curve leads to a wildly disproportionate increase in the number of extreme climate events." Below is a chart titled "Future Climate Shift" with two bell curves, a gray "Current climate" and a black "Future climate" shifted right. Labels: "Probability of occurrence", "Increase in average temperature", "Less… Screenshot of a tweet from Grace Segers, @Grace_Segers, verified account, with a smiling woman with long red hair as the profile photo. The tweet reads: "Me, writing an email: I'm using an exclamation point so you know I'm friendly and excited! But now I'm using a period so that you know I'm not crazy. Here's another sentence with a period as a buffer, proving my normalness. Thanks so much!" Photo of a black letterboard in a shop window, with reflections of two people and a building. It reads: PRICE LIST. WE DESIGN EVERYTHING 500 EUR. WE DESIGN, YOU WATCH 800 EUR. WE DESIGN, YOU ADVISE 1000 EUR. WE DESIGN, YOU HELP 1500 EUR. YOU DESIGN, WE HELP 2000 EUR. YOU DESIGN, WE ADVISE 3500 EUR. YOU DESIGN, WE WATCH 5000 EUR. YOU DESIGN EVERYTHING 8000 EUR. Black text on a white background: "Hey do us all a favor and shut the fuck up. Shut the whole fucking fuck up. Shut the new extended 3 hour edition the fuck up. Once you've done that, put the bonus disk in and click on the deleted fucks and shut those the fuck up. And once you have finished shutting the physical fuck up, redeem the code on the back, download the digital fuck from amazon and shut those up. Shut your… Quote card with a sepia photo of an older man with glasses, gray hair and a beard, raising a finger to his chin. A large quotation mark sits above white italic text: "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." —Isaac Asimov. Small watermark: SamBrinson.com A white subway-tile wall with a wooden-framed panel lit by lamps and draped with green ivy above. Black capital letters read: "BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SUCK AT SOMETHING NEW." A sidewalk curb and dark street run below. Black and white photo of a gray-haired, bearded man in a collared shirt and tie, looking toward the camera with a worried expression. Text reads: "I THINK I'M BEGINNING TO GET IT. IF IT'S A POLICY THAT BENEFITS THE RICH, THEN IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PAID FOR, SHOULD LAST FOREVER AND IS GOOD FOR AMERICA. BUT IF IT BENEFITS THE POOR, WE CAN'T AFFORD IT, WE SHOULD END IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND IT WILL DESTROY OUR… Pixel art video game screenshot of a small character with brown hair, a dark top and a striped shirt standing in a gray hallway with a door, wall lamps, a chair and a vase of yellow flowers. A dialogue box reads: "* Despite everything, it's still you." Hand-drawn comic titled "CLIMATE CHANGE: A TIMELINE" with the credit "@SEMI_RAD". A long horizontal bar is split into colored sections. The wide light blue section is labeled ""CLIMATE CHANGE ISN'T REAL"". The larger orange section is labeled "OK, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, WE'RE JUST NOT CONVINCED IT'S CAUSED BY HUMANS". A small dark red-brown section is labeled "OOPS". The tiny yellow end section is labeled "FUCK". Photo of a wide concrete staircase with a metal handrail, outdoors beside rocks and shrubs. The right side of the steps tapers off into a dirt slope. A red hand-drawn circle surrounds the top-right steps, with red text reading: "What's the point???" Scientific American infographic titled "Beyond XX and XY: A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between." A rainbow bar runs from typical biological female to typical biological male. Colored arrows link chromosomes, genes, hormones, organs and puberty. Photo of a mountain road that has collapsed into a huge gap, with a raised broken slab of asphalt on the far side. A yellow diamond road sign reads "JUST SPEED UP A BIT". A smaller yellow sign below it reads "YOU GOT THIS". Evergreen forest in the background. Four-panel cartoon comic. Panel 1: Kermit the Frog sips from a glass of reddish tea with his eyes closed. Panel 2: a large gray-green hand grabs Kermit by the head from above as he flings the tea away. Panel 3: Baby Yoda, a small green creature in a gray robe, chews on Kermit. Panel 4: Baby Yoda smiles smugly, holding the tea cup. Signature: @felissabumblehead. Black typewriter-style text centered on an off-white paper background: "I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her."" Black-and-white hand-drawn comic styled like a side-scrolling platformer. A small figure climbs stairs collecting stars and reaches an EXIT. Screen: "LEVEL END you have gathered ✸ x 3,154 it is pointless to gather these". The figure then meets a large dark creature: "i have done nothing wrong but you are still going to destroy me". The creature sobs. Caption: "CREATURE most vulnerable while HEAVING WITH SOBS". The… Black serif text on a white background: "Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty and life. Either way, you win." Credited below: "brianna wiest". Italic text quote on a white background: "In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived…

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