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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:28:15 JST Miakoda

   This present day landscape is just crap in even the tiniest ways. Years ago, I wouldn't have hesitated to wear representation of my interests. Whatever IP I'm in to on a shirt, or whatever...
   But now it's "Do I want to advertise that?" and wondering if tomorrow the people who make/sell it do fascist shit.
   I hate that you can't simply enjoy something for what it is. My anger about it is pointed at those who capitulate with or support the fascists.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:32:03 JST Miakoda

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     I am pissed that I have to live in a world in which when I pick up my controller to have a fun time, maybe escape stress, I have to process and consider all sorts of horrible shit. Same goes for what music platform I listen to, what platforms and studios my movies come from, etc. I am fucking tired of every tiny thing coming with morals and ethics to consider. I am more than tired of 0 of the choices being being the obvious good one.

     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle repeated this.
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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:35:27 JST Miakoda

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     I will always do my best to be as moral and ethical as I can. But humans are not equipped to never have a break from this. I don't mean a break as in "Ok, can be shitty for an hour". I mean that it should be easy to have things to do you can reliably know are fine and don't require or invoke more thought on what impact that activity has.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:41:14 JST Miakoda

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     Ok, won't order that from Amazon. Cool, Target has it - Oh, they're shit too. Walmart, they're monsters... Oh, nevermind, the company who made it is horrid crap anyway. This is fucking exhausting. I want to burn it all to the ground. Watching fire is pretty entertaining and relaxing, just sayin.

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     Kevin Steinmetz (lisp@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:51:20 JST Kevin Steinmetz

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     @hellomiakoda Reasons not to buy from Amazon:
     https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html
     #scamazon #amazon

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:51:20 JST Miakoda

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     • Kevin Steinmetz

     @lisp Preaching to the choir, and kinda feels like you skimmed for keywords instead of actually processing what I said.

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     Kevin Steinmetz (lisp@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:52:08 JST Kevin Steinmetz

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     @hellomiakoda For others to know. ;-)

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:52:08 JST Miakoda

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     • Kevin Steinmetz

     @lisp Fair

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 02:55:15 JST Miakoda

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     For context - this shirt hitting $5 is what sparked this rant this morning.

     https://gear.playstation.com/1540667-playstation-pride-2023-t-shirt

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     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 03:06:44 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

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     @hellomiakoda Exactly.

     We all want to be good people, hopefully, but a lot of it also comes from, will I be yelled at on social media if I talk about this? I was sort of informally making a list of things people consider bad, and it is exhausting. Just do what you need to do! You can get in trouble for.

     flying
     driving
     eating fast food
     eating or drinking anything from plastic, especially if it's single use but even if it's not
     wearing fandom t-shirts (I was scolded personally)
     (cont)

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     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 03:10:45 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

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     @hellomiakoda watching or listening to anything from a streaming platform, even Youtube
     reading books from Audible
     owning an Alexa device (yeah I know Amazon is bad, but it does help me in some ways)

     I'm convinced there are some people who want us to just sit and stare at the wall all day, not doing or enjoying anything.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 03:10:49 JST Miakoda

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     What pisses me off the most -
     Sony is not that bad. They're by no means GOOD, but they're not among the names to come up when we think of the most horrid companies. ...and they count on me having my limits, and needing something to keep my sanity with. I hate that. They know they don't need to be good, they just need to not be among the worst. They know it, and I fucking hate it.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 03:21:24 JST Miakoda

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     ...and the worst part..
     This entire thread is before a single neuron has even considered environmental impacts of anything I do. I'm out of space. OOM!

     I've had to default to "Welp, I'm not using plastic forks and I don't own a private jet, and that's the best I have mental capacity for right now."

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 03:33:48 JST Miakoda

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     • 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

     @Fragglemuppet It's not that they want us to do nothing. It's that every company is crap in one way or another, and there's nothing left that doesn't involve a brand, or is ruined by brands or laws.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 04:22:42 JST Miakoda

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     • 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

     @Fragglemuppet Oh, I have long since given up on giving a shit if people scold me. I'm autistic. Everything I say or do makes somebody bitch, usually without actually telling me what they're taking issue with.

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     hackillu (hackillu@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 08:11:58 JST hackillu

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     @hellomiakoda We gotta make companies better... somehow...

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 08:11:58 JST Miakoda

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     • hackillu

     @hackillu Fire is the great cleanser

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 08:13:01 JST Miakoda

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     • Kevin Steinmetz

     @lisp Oh yeah, foss, I wouldnt hesitate

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     Kevin Steinmetz (lisp@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 08:13:02 JST Kevin Steinmetz

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     @hellomiakoda I like hoodies and rep Philadelphia sports teams......I want to rep GNU and KDE..
     #freesoftware #gnu #KDE #GNOME #Firefox

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 09:10:48 JST Miakoda

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     • 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

     @Fragglemuppet

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 12:18:17 JST Miakoda

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     Welp, the decision was made for me. The shirt is gone, out of stock, likely forever.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 12:42:44 JST Miakoda

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     • VulcanTourist

     @VulcanTourist Cause I don't have the equipment for this. And don't they wear out quick?

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     VulcanTourist (vulcantourist@autistics.life)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 12:42:45 JST VulcanTourist

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     @hellomiakoda

     Why not recreate that image yourself and print it on your own t-shirt? There's transfer sheets at least for laser printers. Technically I know how to do it old-skool (because I did it in high school and still have the result), but the transfers are great unless you need something really huge or complex.