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Keep Calm & Let It Go - fun Frozen themed badges ❄️☃️ https://www.koolbadges.co.uk/keep-calm-and-let-it-go-badge-p-10054.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Kool-Badges #Frozen #Letitgo #Keepcalm #Frozenbadges #badges #koolbadges #shopsmall #christmasbadges

We have lots of fun Keep Calm badges for Christmas https://www.koolbadges.co.uk/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=keep+calm+christmas

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Surprise pumpkin!

#KeepCalm and #CarryShitOlympics #cycling #parenting

(Still beats idling in the pickup line)

The rear half of a neon yellow bicycle, hooked to bright green pedal-a-long trailer. A medium orange pumpkin is in a banjo brothers saddle "grocery" bag.

Elon Musk Has Turned His Eye to the UK

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-attention-on-uk-tommy-robinson/

Unicursal KEEP CALM AND BABALON Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/keep-calm-and-babalon/index

#propaganda #thelema #KeepCalm #babalon

Square image, red background, white text. Inspired by the series of WWII propaganda posters from the UK, of which Keep Calm was one. Instead of a crown, an upside down unicursal hexagram. The text is “Keep Calm and Babalon” with related quotes linked through URL in post

Unicursal KEEP CALM AND BABALON Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/keep-calm-and-babalon/index

#propaganda #thelema #KeepCalm #babalon

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In the spirit of welcoming *all* of our new friends here to Mastodon, I made a poster. I left out a hyphen for aesthetic reasons 😀

#KeepCalm #Mastodon #Bluesky #Welcome

A vertical, red poster that parodies the well-known British “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster. This one reads “Keep Calm with Mastodon”

Lt. Col. Petrov saved us all
Lt. Col. Petrov became like a wall
While leaders and fools pushed for a drop
He remembered the wisdom of going full stop:
Keep Calm And DONT DROP THE NUKES

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We've a great selection of 'Keep Calm' themed badges, they're fun for clubs, events & handmade gifts. 85p each & available in our Koolbadges shop https://www.koolbadges.co.uk/keep-calm-and-play-rugby-badge-p-9258.html #keepcalm #keepcalmbadges #badges #buttonbadge #keepcalmandcarryon #handmade #rugby #playrugby #sport

Keep Calm and Carrion? Carrillion?

I can't quite remember, and it's freaking me out!

We Should Improve Society Somewhat
#KeepCalm #ThisIsFine #ImproveSociety

We have a great selection of 'Keep Calm' themed badges, they're fun for clubs, events & handmade gifts. All badges are 85p each and available in our Koolbadges shop https://www.koolbadges.co.uk/keep-calm-badges-c-41.html #keepcalm #keepcalmbadges #badges #buttonbadge #keepcalmandcarryon #handmade #colourful

The random things you see in the wild. #KeepCalm and #ForkBomb #tshirt

A t-shirt on a human body showing the "Keep Calm and" meme with the fork bomb command. The t-shirt is blue.

By San Antonio artist Kathy Sosa @huipilista at 207 Broadway, San Antonio, Texas. Photos taken March 2025.
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'Kathy Sosa has been creating artworks for a few years that riff on the British government’s morale-boosting World War II encouragement to “Keep calm and carry on,” often putting a Spanglish spin on the phrase: “Keep calm y taco on,” “Keep calm y Fiesta on.” The latest installment in Sosa’s “Keep Calm y Dream On” series — a mural on the side of La Boulangerie, a bakery downtown — has a French twist. It features five rectangles, each reading “Keep Calm et Macaron,” painted in the pastel shades of the delicate French cookies. The mural was inspired partly by the fact that Sosa, 66, loves the food at La Boulangerie and had struck up a friendship with Sylvain and Sylvie Nykiel, the French couple who own it. Sosa suggested the mural as a way to draw attention to the business and to underscore the fact that it, too, represents a cultural blend, with the couple bringing French cuisine to San Antonio.'
https://centrosanantonio.org/art-walk-spots/keep-calm-and-macaron/ @ centrosanantonio
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Artist website: https://kathysosa.com
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‘We had no idea of what it would become’: How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon

4 days ago, by Teja Lele

After a forgotten WW2 propaganda poster was discovered in 2000, it found an astounding new resonance in 21st-Century Britain – becoming an endlessly memeable template that is both cherished and mocked.

In the spring of 2000, a forgotten World War Two-era British propaganda poster was rediscovered in a dusty box at Barter Books, a second-hand bookshop housed in a former Victorian railway station in Alnick, Northumberland. The red poster and its bold, unadorned message beneath a Tudor crown, Keep Calm and Carry On, would resonate with a world far removed from wartime Britain, sparking a viral design trend and becoming one of the 21st Century’s most recognisable and repurposed cultural slogans.

Keep Calm and Carry On played upon stereotypes of British stoicism in the hope of restoring order amid the expected chaos – Dr Daniel Cowling

The poster, commissioned by the British Ministry of Information in 1939 as part of a three-part series to bolster public morale amid the threat of war, was never officially released, and had rarely been displayed. Dr Daniel Cowling, senior historian at the National Army Museum, London, says the Ministry of Information often used posters, cinema, radio, books and pamphlets to influence public opinion during World War Two. In addition to the Keep Calm poster were two others, which carried the slogans Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory and Freedom is in Peril. Defend it with All Your Might.

“On the eve of the war, it was widely accepted that bombing raids would lead to the rapid and complete breakdown of society”, Cowling tells the BBC. “Keep Calm and Carry On was designated as a specific response in their aftermath. It played upon stereotypes of British stoicism in the hope of restoring order amid the expected chaos.”

The other two posters were plastered across railway stations, factories, and shop windows, but received a tepid response. Mass Observation surveys suggested that public response to the wider “Home Publicity” poster campaign was overwhelmingly negative, says Cowling. British towns and cities did experience heavy bombing raids, but there was no breakdown of society. “Rather, many civilians responded with resilience and spirited togetherness. [So], the Keep Calm poster would have seemed rather patronising to some British civilians,” he explains.

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The iconic poster, which was designed by British illustrator Ernest Wallcousins and of which about 2.5 million copies were printed, was held back. It remained largely unseen by the wider world, as most copies were pulped in 1940 to conserve paper for the war effort. A few copies survived, tucked away in archives, including the one in the box at Barter Books.

Stuart and Mary Manley, owners of Barter Books, were taken by the poster. “We decided to have it framed and put it up in the bookshop. We had no idea of what it would become. Mary resisted the idea of having copies printed, so I had to have them done secretly. The popularity of the copies soon changed her mind,” Stuart Manley tells the BBC.

For the first few years, the poster’s popularity remained purely regional, confined to bookshop visitors. The explosion began when Guardian journalist Susie Steiner included it in a 2005 article on her 10 favourite design items. “Our staff spent the next month packing posters sent across the world,” Manley says.

A 21st-Century phenomenon

The poster had reappeared in a radically different landscape than the one it was intended for, one shaped by a rapidly growing internet culture, by irony and anxiety. But it soon found its place in the new world, becoming the ultimate shorthand for British stoicism and a platform for endless parody. “I think it resonated so powerfully because it perfectly encapsulates the dominant popular memory of the war in modern Britain; that it was the country’s ‘finest hour’ and a time when people stoically ‘carried on’ against what could have felt like overwhelming odds,” says Lucy Noakes, Rab Butler Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and President of the Royal Historical Society, tells the BBC.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘We had no idea of what it would become’: How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon

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