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Shakeil
@shakeil.bsky.social
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I use design to create a world which prioritizes liberation for all oppressed peoples. Cofounder at @aroko.bsky.social

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relevant chaser seen the other day
Parody of the Friend AI ads that reads “I heard you New Yorkers got beef with me - let’s hash this out once and for all before we go bankrupt”
October 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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i think it's high time you subscribed to @aroko.bsky.social for more incisive poetry and criticism like this from myself and folks like the brilliant @aishatuado.bsky.social
Independence Day: the President's pen bleeds across three hundred pages—each zero burns a mouth unfed, each subsection feeds the petroleum wells. Alaska's tundra turns to wound beneath the drill's metallic weight. The diabetic woman holds her vial, learns three doses left. Her kidneys cannot wait while Congress pops champagne over the debt— three trillion our children's blood will navigate.
August 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Come for my takedown of the horrendous KAWS cover for the Clipse, stay for me singing the praises of Jim Legxacy, gumskool, and Josh Sterling's alternate cover for Let God Sort 'Em Out.
Screenshot that reads, "The KAWS cover feels cynical, designed to elicit a market response more than an emotional one. Josh Sterling’s special edition cover feels far more evocative of the record itself, playing upon Pusha T and Malice’s established dichotomy in tone, and weaves in the religious undertones in a way that is subtle and serious. KAWS on the other hand, reminds us that at a certain level, hip hop is a marketing product, and in 2025 you better be moving vinyl, merch, and anything else you can in order to hit those financial targets. While the refrain, “THIS IS CULTURALLY INAPPROPRIATE,” rings over and over on the record, the KAWS cover feels painfully appropriate."
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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There are a bunch of great moments from my talk with Van Newman that we dropped on @aroko.bsky.social last week, but this one might be my favorite
Screenshot of an aroko.world interview with Van Newman that reads, 'Even bringing it full circle to five years ago, I felt that the stuff I was doing felt like play. I'm trying to bring more play and pleasure in my life. Because I do think that if something is pleasurable, it doesn't feel as hard. And I think that you can convince people to do fun things, more than you can convince people to do hard things. I keep reminding myself in this time of unimaginable crisis and destruction and pain, you always can look up in the sky and see a cloud and be like 'that cloud is really funny looking,' and you can laugh about it. You can always stare at yourself in the mirror and make a funny face and start laughing. There is always a place to find pleasure, even in the worst of times.'
July 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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June 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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thank you chainsaw man
MONEY IS WORTH-LESS! IT'S JUST PAPER SCRAPS! ITS VALUE IS MERELY AN ILLUSION PERFORMED BY THE GOVERNMENT!
April 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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#deathstranding
Distorted image of Sam Porter Bridges from Death Stranding silhouetted against a white background
March 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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RIP AARON BUSHNELL
Poster featuring a treated image of Aaron Bushnell's final moments, enguldfed in flame, with the quote "FREE PALESTINE! FREE PALESTINE! FREE PALESTINE!" above his head. REST IN POWER AARON BUSHNELL sits at the bottom of the poster.
February 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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made this last year but its definitely time to do a new batch of protest flyers and sticker designs
Pink flyer with PROTECT TRANS KIDS in three different typefaces, with a broken CD faded into the background
February 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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v relatable
Manga panel of a woman with the speech bubble "My... Talents?" with a thought bubble "Can't I just be cute?" below it
January 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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in 2015 I threw him a shirt at a show in philly (he was opening for rae sremmurd - what a time!). he then wore that shirt at the BET awards that year - just clearly someone who was a lil too abrasive and true to himself for the music industry
December 28, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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jay got me like
December 11, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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In no order

Blush by Girl Ultra
FearDorian by FearDorian
Saheem by Sahbabii
working progress by groundsound
December 3, 2024 at 4:01 AM
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gm bluesky
An African sculpture of a head with a pair of modern sunglasses placed on it
November 30, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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are.na highlights vol. 4
Jah Batta, Argument, 1983

definitely pulled this from reggaealbumcovers.com which is now offline - been trying to find someone behind it to get my hands on the archives to no avail
November 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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saw this from a distance on my car and unfortunately, I gotta hand it to republic latin fusion
November 27, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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November 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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are.na highlights vol. 3
D#Sharp by Shabazz Larkin
Painting of a black man with his mouth wide open (either screaming or singing). He is painted in red with blue and yellow accents.
November 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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introduce yourself with four video games
Screenshot of my Splatoon avatar wearing all black with a skull bandana over his face with a plaza post reading “I HATE LIVING IN AMERICA” on a wall behind him An Elden ring character but they are walking down I-95 South A vintage Jet Grind Radio ad featuring Beat having just spray painted the logo over an old woman A crayon drawn image of Lalala (the naked cousin) from We Love Katamari
November 21, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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magic pengel / graffiti kingdom gotta be it - just brought me so much joy as a kid and the art style is so phenomenal
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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are.na highlights vol 2

Pilots Gambling, Selfridge Field, Michigan, 1943 by Gordon Parks
5 Black pilots in a circle gambling, shot in black and white
November 18, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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are.na highlights vol 1

Koichi Sato
Soap Bubbles Floated, They Floated Into Outer Space
1989
Surrounded by a blue glow
November 17, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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November 16, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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also i make shit like this, fuck imperialism across the globe
November 16, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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all i got to offer is sick ass art from Red: Living on the Edge, a manga about a native american who goes on a revenge spree against the militia that killed his tribe
November 16, 2024 at 12:41 AM