Memetic Tees — Wearable ideas

Wear what you think.


Ideas about freedom, identity and the future, printed as signals. You don’t wear these designs to show what you like. You wear them to show how you think.

Concept first

Printed on demand

US & EU

Alignment Failure

Worn: Alignment Failure — Civic Compliance Authority

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Concept files

Civic Compliance Authority

Alignment Failure

Control no longer needs force when systems can make compliance feel like choice. The Civic Compliance Authority is a fictional institution built to make that quiet machinery visible — and its notice reads you as the anomaly.

System ID

CCA/BAD-07

Division

Behavioral Alignment

Territory

Dystopia / Reality

Citizen status

Deviation detected

Fictional entity. Original design.
Not affiliated with any real organization.

Design artwork: an institutional notice reading Civic Compliance Authority, Behavioral Alignment Division, with ALIGNMENT FAILURE printed in red and the line System ID CCA slash BAD dash 07, Citizen status: Deviation detected.

Print artwork — Alignment Failure v2

Planetary Risk Assessment

Earth: Single Point of Failure

Civilization has no backup. One biosphere, one archive, one species — all running on a single operational node with no failover and no redundancy. The design is the risk assessment nobody filed.

Assessment

Planetary Risk

Node

Earth — sole operational

Territory

Post-Human

Species continuity

No redundancy detected

Original design. No affiliation with any space agency
or private space program.

Design artwork: a planetary risk assessment diagram showing Earth as the only operational node, with a Mars node listed as not operational.

Print artwork — Earth: Single Point of Failure

Consensus Reality Registry

Reality Is Negotiable

Consensus is a number, not a fact. What everyone agrees is real has a source, a version and a confidence level — and none of them are yours by default. Verify locally.

Registry

Consensus Reality

Source

Unverified

Territory

Reality

Status

In preparation

Fictional registry. Original design.
Not yet published in the shop.

Design artwork: a Consensus Reality Registry notice reading source unverified, consensus 61 percent and falling.

Print artwork — Reality Is Negotiable

Archive

Select a file to open it

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Four territories of thought

Four ways in

01 / Dystopia

Dystopia

Systems, control, surveillance. What happens when the rules stop being visible — and start feeling like preference.

  • Compliance
  • Monitoring
  • Incentives
  • Quiet power

02 / Post-Human

Post-Human

Artificial intelligence, evolution, human–machine identity. What we become when the boundary stops holding.

  • Intelligence
  • Identity
  • Substrate
  • Augmentation

03 / Sci-Fi

Sci-Fi

Space, scale, deep time, first contact. The futures that shaped how we think — and the ones still being written.

  • Deep time
  • Contact
  • Scale
  • Continuity

04 / Reality

Reality

Perception, knowledge, consciousness, free will. What is actually the case — and whether we could tell.

  • Agency
  • Evidence
  • Consensus
  • Meaning

The object

An idea has to survive the wash

Concepts are only half of it. The other half is a garment somebody puts on without thinking about it, again and again, until the idea stops being a statement and becomes a habit.

Detail — print on cotton

Macro photograph of a printed pale bar crossing black cotton jersey, with the weave of the fabric and the texture of the ink visible.

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Ideas, printed

Scroll or use the arrows

Dystopia

Alignment Failure design: a Civic Compliance Authority notice with the words ALIGNMENT FAILURE printed in red.

Alignment Failure

In shop

Civic Compliance Authority — Behavioral Alignment Division.

Post-Human

Earth: Single Point of Failure design. A planetary risk assessment diagram showing Earth as the only operational node, with biosphere, civilization, knowledge and species continuity marked, and a Mars node listed as not operational.

Earth: Single Point of Failure

In shop

Planetary Risk Assessment — no redundancy detected.

Reality

Reality Is Negotiable design: a Consensus Reality Registry notice reading source unverified, consensus 61 percent and falling.

Reality Is Negotiable

In preparation

Consensus Reality Registry — verify locally.

Everything else

The full catalog lives in the shop, printed and fulfilled by Spreadshirt.

Printed and fulfilled by Spreadshirt · Sizes, colors and availability live in the shop

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The reasoning behind the print

Blog

Every design starts as an argument. The blog is where the argument is made in full — the idea, the reading behind it, and why it ended up on a shirt.

Diagram: how an idea becomes a wearable signal An abstract line diagram. A single marked square labeled Idea connects to a lattice of small squares labeled Signal, where a few cells are filled. The lattice connects to a larger outlined square labeled Carrier, which fans out into a field of repeated marks labeled Replication. 01 IDEA 02 SIGNAL 03 CARRIER 04 REPLICATION MEME TRANSMISSION MT-2027

Fig. 01 — An idea only survives if something carries it.

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