Xennial Memes

Xennial Memes

Tumblr post screenshot. User sapper-in-the-wire: "people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat" and "german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans". Reblog by thefloatingstone: "Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn't even gone extinct yet:… Newspaper clipping headed "Letter of the Week" with the title "What is wrong with you?" Jonna Ramey of Salt Lake City, a 67-year-old white woman, says her WWII-serving parents fought fascism, tells white supremacists to put down their Tiki torches and get involved in real work, and says all Americans stand against hatred and bigotry. Two side-by-side photos under the heading "NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE". Left: a man in a dark suit places a blue-ribboned medal on a short-haired woman in a red jacket, captioned "TALK SHOW HOST". Right: a man places a medal on a gray-haired older man in a dark jacket, captioned "VIETNAM WAR HERO". Below, typewriter-style text reads: "You know what? I do see the difference! The guy on the left is awarding Ellen with the… A 5x5 grid of photos. Column headings across the top: DEVELOPERS, DESIGNERS, PROJECT MANAGERS, QA, SYSADMINS. Row labels down the left: SEEN BY DEVELOPERS, SEEN BY DESIGNERS, SEEN BY PROJECT MANAGERS, SEEN BY QA, SEEN BY SYSADMINS. Each cell shows a stock or pop-culture photo, such as a scientist, a toddler with paintbrushes, a man in a black turtleneck, a prisoner behind bars, and a cartoon man flipping the bird. Photo of a Heathrow airport departures screen with a TIE fighter logo and Star Wars-style "DEPARTURES" title. Columns: Time, Destination, Flight, Information. 09:30 Tatooine R2D2 On Time. 10:15 Kamino BOBA Delayed: Delayed a long, long time in a galaxy far, far away. 11:20 Hoth C3P0 Delayed: Awaiting clearance of snow from runway at destination. 11:40 Jakku BB8 Delayed: Flights to Jakku are delayed due to sand… Tumblr post by pigonsandgunpowder reblogged from shatterfly, source iamthedukeofurl, dated December 11th 2014. Titled "A Guide to Roleplaying Systems". Each system answers a player asking "Can I do the thing?" Mutants and Masterminds: Yes. GURPS: forms in triplicate. D&D: only as a Dream Elf, or play a Wizard. Call of Cthulhu: you REALLY don't want to. FATE: bullshit the GM. 7th Sea: if dramatic. Shadowrun: bathtub… Screenshot of a Tumblr post by user 21stgoddamncentury. Text: "If your job can be taken by a hypothetical unskilled, non-English-speaking illegal immigrant or outsourced worker, I'm going to give you some bad advice." "I'm going to give you the same bad advice you gave millennials: stop whining, you're not entitled to anything and nobody owes you a job." "I'm going to give you the same bad advice you gave minimum… White text on a dark navy background reads: "The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." Below it, in a smaller script font: "— Robert A. Heinlein —". Brookings map titled "MAP 1: Counties' contribution to national employment growth, 2010-2016" showing US counties shaded by share of national employment growth. Legend: -0.06% - 0.00%, 0.00% - 0.07%, 0.07% - 0.19%, 0.19% - 1.00%, 1.00% - 3.31%. Source: Brookings analysis of Moody's Analytics data. Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. A half-lit moon on a black background. Pale pink typewriter-style text reads: "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." - Randall Munroe Black and white hand-lettered illustration. Inside a white oval wreath of leafy fronds on a scratchy black background, text reads: "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." The word "now" is underlined each time. A young man with slicked-back hair in a black tuxedo and white bow tie smirks at the camera while raising a coupe glass of champagne. Caption text above reads: "Cheers to everyone who does their own research. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." Orange poster from NewseumED, supported by Facebook. Title: E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News. A giant hand holds a screaming green-faced phone over a city skyline as silhouetted zombie-like people stagger below. Badge: Visit NewseumED.org for more resources! Banner: 6 Ways to Evaluate Information. Columns: Evidence, Source, Context, Audience, Purpose, Execution. An artist's rendering of a blue-green cloudy planet against a starry dark blue space background, captioned "Artist impression of Kepler 22b". White text reads: "When he (Johannes Kepler) found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest delusions, that is the heart of science." - Carl Sagan Three-panel Cracked.com graphic. Top: text reads "In 1980, Mel Brooks produced "The Elephant Man", based on the tragic story of Joseph "John" Merrick, tapping avant garde filmmaker David Lynch to direct. After seeing a cut of the film, nervous studio execs requested that some of Lynch's more abstract scenes be removed." Beside it is a black-and-white photo of a man with tousled hair wearing headphones. Middle: a… A collectible figurine of Darth Vader in black armor and cape holding a figure in a tan flight suit and white helmet off the ground by the throat. Pink and white script text reads: "Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up." Below it: "-Michael P. Watson". Small watermark: "GEEK CLUB". Scan of a textbook page. Caption: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. From Magruder's classic American Government textbook. page 1." A two-column chart, "Without Government" and "With Government". Direct Protection: no protection of life, family, property or country vs. police, laws, courts; Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sanitation and Health: polluted water, filth and waste everywhere, tubercular milk,… A figure in a yellow spacesuit and helmet walks down a white, octagonal corridor with black panels, like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Below, a Playboy interview excerpt with Kubrick: "If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it's worth living?" He answers that the meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning, and ends: "However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." A 3x3 alignment chart on black. Lawful Good: "Punch Nazis only if they're actively violent or a credible threat, and the government cannot or will not protect you". Neutral Good: "Punch Nazis only if they're actively violent or a credible threat". Chaotic Good: "Punch Nazis, always". Lawful Neutral: "Punching nazis is illegal and therefore bad". True Neutral: "I'm not gonna do it cuz its illegal, but I chuckled".… Photo of Earth, partly in shadow, rising over the gray lunar surface against black space. White text at top reads: "If we are to have peace on Earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional, our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." --Martin Luther King Jr. Black-and-white photo of an old dictionary page printed over with large bold gray capital letters reading: "IF IT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH" and below it, "CARL SAGAN". Tumblr post. Left: four movie stills. Top, a man in a horned gold helmet smiles, subtitle: "In the end, you will always kneel." Next, an old man in a trench coat stands in a crowd: "Not to men like you." Next, the old man faces the horned figure: "There are no men like me." Last, close-up of the old man: "There are always men like you." Right: a long text post by mizkit, reblogging hawxkeye, about an MCU scene. The… Aerial view of a thick layer of textured white clouds with a thin dark smoke trail rising at a slant, a bright glowing flame at its tip, and a long blue shadow of the trail stretching across the clouds. Blue sky is at the top. No text. A green ecard-style graphic with a drawing of a dark-haired woman with bangs and a slight smirk, looking sideways, beside a speech bubble holding a gray heart. Text reads: "I want someone I can share my entire life with who will leave me alone most of the time." Jake the Dog from Adventure Time, a yellow cartoon dog with wide eyes and raised hands, against a blue sunburst background. Top text: "SUCKING AT SOMETHING". Bottom text: "IS THE FIRST STEP TO BECOMING SORTA GOOD AT SOMETHING". A weathered paper poster pasted on a gritty wall above a black stenciled typewriter. Typewriter-font text reads: "Everyone here is either so wrapped up in creating their own success story or so damaged from their failure that resentment is often all we have in common." Signed WRDSMITH. Black-and-white cartoon of a ragged man sitting by a small campfire in a barren wasteland, telling three rapt, ragged children. A ruined city skyline is faint in the background, and an empty tin can lies nearby. Caption: "At the time, we thought that Hillary's use of email was the most important thing to consider." Retro poster of multicolored triangle tiles in muted red, orange, green, purple and teal on a parchment border, with cream capital letters reading: I REALLY LIKE THE COLOUR BUT CAN YOU CHANGE IT Painting of a white space shuttle numbered 9 with an open cargo bay and robotic arm holding a cylinder marked USA, above a curving Earth. A second shuttle numbered 2, a solar-paneled space station, two astronauts and the Moon float in the dark sky. Signed "mccall". Hand-drawn diagram with "ORGANIZATION" in a cloud at the center and arrows to eight sketches: 1 "AS MACHINE" (gears), 2 "AS ORGANISM" (tree), 3 "AS BRAIN", 4 "AS CULTURE" (bottle, music notes, cake), 5 "AS POLITICAL SYSTEM" (pyramid: "SOCIOPATHS, CLUELESS, LOSERS"), 6 "AS PSYCHIC PRISON" (barred cell), 7 "AS CHANGE, FLUX" (waves), 8 "AS INSTRUMENT OF DOMINATION" (pistol). Caption: "The 8 Metaphors of Organization…

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