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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

cant believe this was actually a prophecy. i will never stop thinking about chainsaw man (post from 2023 btw)

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'

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

only proper satan team up scenario

Interview with the quote "If fighting broke out between Satan and America, I would stand with Satan because American is the Greater Satan."

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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”

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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.

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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."

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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.'

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

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

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In no order Blush by Girl Ultra FearDorian by FearDorian Saheem by Sahbabii working progress by groundsound

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

saw this from a distance on my car and unfortunately, I gotta hand it to republic latin fusion

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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.

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

introduce yourself with four video games

An Elden ring character but they are walking down I-95 South

A crayon drawn image of Lalala (the naked cousin) from We Love Katamari

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

magic pengel / graffiti kingdom gotta be it - just brought me so much joy as a kid and the art style is so phenomenal

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

are.na highlights vol 1 Koichi Sato Soap Bubbles Floated, They Floated Into Outer Space 1989

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

also i make shit like this, fuck imperialism across the globe

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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