🍸 Jennifer Giesbrecht ✨🍁

i'm soooo happy! i can't wait to see you! (you guys should pitch a panel about nautical fiction, and i'm not even joking)

25.09.2025 13:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

e-6695 (Consumer protection) Keywords Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography E-petition Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario Original language of petition: English Petition details Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content; In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites; As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”; As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services; 2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and 3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

11.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 4194    🔁 4823    💬 28    📌 76

been trying to get into this one since i was 17. emotional men thinking deep man thoughts about duty and betrayal. wizards stabbing each other through the chest with their hands. all the women are sex workers. more gay sex than i expected. fantastic stuff for my inner 17 year old

24.09.2025 21:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

this one got me good during the intro when it lowkey called simon montefiore's famous reinterpretation of Young Stalin an orientalist fanfic character. well yeah, that's TRUE mister kotkin, but i had SUUUCH a crush on him when i was 23!!!

24.09.2025 21:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

'A Brief History of Seven Killings' by Marlon James

tbh this won the booker so what do i know? but the faulkner-esque POV structure rly clashed w/ the length imo. breathtaking kaleidoscopic landscapes that cohere to sea foam. contained at least one or two smaller books i enjoyed desperately. v excited to read 'black leopard, red wolf'

24.09.2025 21:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a stack of history and literature books with a hand painted cat statue and a red veined praying plant atop. there is a poster of a painting by illya repin on the wall behind it.

what i've been reading (thread):

24.09.2025 21:30 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

some friends of mine are organizing this and i'm fucking stoked. i love to go to canada and relax

24.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

In a time where we need more Canadian events than ever here’s a brand new one for speculative fiction writers YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!

24.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

come for a whole visit around the con!!! (obviously)

24.09.2025 20:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

please PLEASE

24.09.2025 20:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this is why ;3c

bsky.app/profile/tric...

24.09.2025 20:51 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

okay, i'm going to start using this now

24.09.2025 20:50 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0