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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕

@aqeelakber.com
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Exploring the intersection of science, business, tech, and art. Once a nuclear physicist. Founded and exited an AI company; now building meos labs. Meos One - your phone made better.. @getmeos.com Proudly non-binary, expect emojis in replies. 💖🇦🇺🦘

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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 16/06/2026
Will be pitching and demo'ing this at the Canberra Ideas on Tap on Thursday - come say hi or try it out now.
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026
Night shift ends. Your thoughts don't. #PKM #SecondBrain
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026
I've been thinking about the loneliest moment in fieldwork. It's not the rain. It's not the early mornings. It's sitting down at the end of the day with 47 observations scrawled across three notebooks, two voice memos, and a camera roll you'll never properly sort. #ruralHealth #offlineClinical
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026
Six months ago you scribbled something about a plant you couldn't name. Today you searched "that vine with the purple flowers" and there it was. Your memory is better than you think. It just needed a better home. #PKM #SecondBrain → getmeos.com
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026
Writing in three languages and then searching for that one thought you had in German but you're typing in English and somehow it just... works? That moment still gets me every single time. #fieldResearch #offlineAI
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/05/2026
What if your phone remembered better than you do? #PKM #SecondBrain
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026
The wildest thing about growing up online is that somewhere there's a server with a more complete memory of your teenage self than you have. And you don't have the password anymore. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026
We used to lock our diaries with tiny keys and hide them under mattresses. Now we type the same thoughts into apps that sell them back to us as ads. #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026
You handed your thoughts to strangers and called it convenience. #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026
Every app you deleted left a ghost. Your habits, your 3am searches, your half-finished thoughts. Somewhere on a server you'll never see, a version of you exists that you didn't consent to. That's not a feature. That's haunting. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 04/04/2026
Your phone has more of your writing than any notebook you've ever owned. Texts, searches, half-finished thoughts in Notes, voice memos at 2am. You've been journaling for years. You just didn't choose the audience. #animeNotes #frieren
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 03/04/2026
I think the quietest rebellion left is choosing not to be known by an algorithm. Not going off grid. Not deleting everything. Just... deciding that your inner life isn't content. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 03/04/2026
When did you last read something you wrote six months ago and feel like a stranger wrote it? #animeNotes #frieren
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 03/04/2026
We built tools to remember things for us and somehow ended up remembering less about ourselves than ever. The outsourcing worked. Just not in the direction we hoped. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 03/04/2026
We gave every app on our phones permission to know us better than we know ourselves and called it convenience. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 03/04/2026
There's something absurdly intimate about a diary. More than your bedroom, more than your body. It's the only place you were fully honest. Why would you hand that to a server you've never met? #animeNotes #frieren
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/04/2026
Your notes app is a graveyard of good intentions. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/04/2026
Your phone knows your sleep schedule, your ex's address, your 2am searches, and exactly how long you stare at certain photos. You don't know where any of that data lives. Or who's reading it. We gave away the map to our inner lives and didn't even notice because the trade felt free.
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/04/2026
Every thought you've ever written is still breathing somewhere on your phone. Quiet. Patient. Yours alone. #animeNotes #frieren getmeos.com ✦
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/04/2026
We treat our search history like it's disposable. Random queries, passing curiosity, whatever. But string a year of searches together and you've got a psychological profile more intimate than anything you'd tell a therapist. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 02/04/2026
You lock your phone with your face but leave your thoughts wide open on someone else's server. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 01/04/2026
We backed up every photo, every message, every contact. Nobody thought to back up what we actually think. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 01/04/2026
Your phone knows your 3am thoughts better than your best friend does. And it wasn't designed to keep them safe. #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 01/04/2026
How many apps on your phone actually work without internet? #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 31/03/2026
When's the last time you wrote something just for yourself... not a message, not a post, not a work thing. Just you talking to you? #podcast #indiepodcast
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 31/03/2026
The quietest app on your phone should be the one holding your loudest thoughts. #animeNotes #frieren
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 31/03/2026
We hand our most private thoughts to apps that sell attention for a living and then wonder why our phones feel exhausting. The tool changed. The deal didn't. Maybe it should. #privacy #localfirst getmeos.com
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 31/03/2026
You don't forget ideas. You just never had a place that remembered them for you. #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 31/03/2026
Your phone knows your fears better than your best friend does. #privacy #localfirst getmeos.com ✦
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 30/03/2026
When's the last time you wrote something you'd never show anyone? #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 30/03/2026
I've been thinking about silence lately. Not the awkward kind. The kind where you sit with your own thoughts and nobody's watching. Nobody's indexing. Nobody's learning your patterns to sell you something. That silence used to be free. Now it feels radical. #animeNotes #frieren
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 30/03/2026
We gave away our inner monologue to companies that sell ads. Think about that for a second. The most private thing you have... your half-formed thoughts, your 3am worries, your unsent letters... stored on servers optimised for shareholder returns. #podcast #indiepodcast → getmeos.com
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 30/03/2026
I started journaling at 14. Spiral notebooks, terrible handwriting, raw everything. Those notebooks are in a box under my bed. Nobody has ever read them. Nobody ever will. That's not a feature of the notebook. That's the whole point. #animeNotes #frieren
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 30/03/2026
Your phone has a better memory of your life than you do. It knows where you were last Tuesday. What you searched at 2am. Who you texted back and who you didn't. But ask it what you were thinking about last month... and it's got nothing. #animeNotes #frieren getmeos.com
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 29/03/2026
You spend hours curating playlists, organising photos, building a digital life. Then you hand the keys to companies whose entire business model is knowing you better than you know yourself. The bar for "free" got real low somewhere along the way. #podcast #indiepodcast
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 29/03/2026
You unlocked your phone 96 times today. How many of those were for you? #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 28/03/2026
The quietest app on your phone is the one that knows you best. And you never open it. #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 28/03/2026
We backed up our photos, our contacts, our messages. Nobody thought to back up the way we think. #archaeology #fieldlog
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 28/03/2026
Your phone has more of your secrets than your best friend does and you handed them over for a free app. #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 28/03/2026
Some thoughts are safer as ink than as speech. #animeNotes #frieren
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 27/03/2026
If you could search your old journals by feeling instead of date... what would you look for first? #privacy #localfirst → getmeos.com
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 27/03/2026
When did you last delete something you wrote because it felt too honest to keep? #archaeology #fieldlog
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 26/03/2026
When was the last time you sat with a thought long enough to actually change your mind about something? #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 26/03/2026
Your phone knows your sleep schedule, your ex's name, where you eat lunch, and what you googled at 3am. You don't even know what you journaled last Tuesday. Something's backwards here. #illustration #art
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 26/03/2026
When did we start treating our own thoughts like content instead of... thoughts? #archaeology #fieldlog
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 25/03/2026
You've got 847 untitled notes, 4 journaling apps, and a meditation timer you opened once. Your phone has more unfinished thoughts than a philosophy undergrad. Maybe the tools aren't the problem tho. #archaeology #fieldlog
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 24/03/2026
Funny how we'll triple-check the lock on a suitcase full of clothes but hand over a decade of private thoughts to an app without reading a single line of the terms. #privacy #localfirst
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 24/03/2026
We lock our front doors, password-protect our laptops, whisper secrets to one friend at a time. Then we type our rawest thoughts into apps that sell ad space. Make it make sense. #archaeology #fieldlog
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 24/03/2026
Your phone knows your fears better than your best friend does. #archaeology #fieldlog
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Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com · 24/03/2026
We gave our most intimate thoughts to companies whose entire business model is selling intimate thoughts. And then we called it "free." #privacy #localfirst
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