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 shakeil.com + are.na/shakeil/

Reddit post with the first comment saying 'would be nice if things went full circle and he ended up wielding a chainsaw instead of being one' and the second comment saying 'Me? waves chainsaw (in italics) I', - ROLL TITLE & CREDITS'
Interview with the quote "If fighting broke out between Satan and America, I would stand with Satan because American is the Greater Satan."
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”
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.
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."
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.'
MONEY IS WORTH-LESS! IT'S JUST PAPER SCRAPS! ITS VALUE IS MERELY AN ILLUSION PERFORMED BY THE GOVERNMENT!
Distorted image of Sam Porter Bridges from Death Stranding silhouetted against a white background
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.
Pink flyer with PROTECT TRANS KIDS in three different typefaces, with a broken CD faded into the background
Manga panel of a woman with the speech bubble "My... Talents?" with a thought bubble "Can't I just be cute?" below it
An African sculpture of a head with a pair of modern sunglasses placed on it
Painting of a black man with his mouth wide open (either screaming or singing). He is painted in red with blue and yellow accents.
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
5 Black pilots in a circle gambling, shot in black and white
Surrounded by a blue glow