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.

ICYMI: This is one petition Canadians do NOT want to miss. This is not your average Change-dot-org petition. This is the kind that could lead to serious changes against paypro censorship

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No kings in this country!

...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

SIGN THE PETITION: Stop the Shutdown of the CBC The CBC is Canada’s voice. Now, the Conservative Party wants to shut it down while billionaires and hedge funds tighten their grip on our media. With U.S. interests shaping what we see and hear, we mu...

After just 5 days, our little campaign to support the CBC now has over 10,000 supporters!

Pierre Poilievre has clearly stated that he will shut down English CBC. He's following in the footsteps of Trump who wants to control and manipulate the news.

Will you fight back? forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc

if you don't want to be a doomer about making art in the current political climate, i strongly encourage you to get involved and design agitprop for your local organisers. there's no high quite like utilising your very specific skillset for a good cause you actually believe in

A long-haired tortoiseshell cat steps on a dance mat

A long-haired tortoiseshell cat sits on a dance mat

she put on Catgroove by Parov Stelar

Understanding and Responding to the Transgender Movement In recent decades, there has been an assault on the sexes. That is, there has been an attack on the previously undisputed

If you think that trans people are getting our rights ripped away "because the left went too far," you're a moron.

Everything happening to us today was written up and planned by the Family Research Council in 2015. The document is still public. It's all there. www.frc.org/transgender#...

Meee 😔

quick pen drawing. a cat is sitting on the floor and scribbling stick figures with crayons. next to them, another cat is seated at an easel, painting a copy of the Mona Lisa. both cats are distracted and gazing at each other's art, thinking, "damn that's cool"

#furryart

Do you ever get the feeling that Earth gravity is...a bit much? Tripping and falling should not be as big of a deal as it is.

Link here! itch.io/b/2847/best-...

Lots of ppl talking about fighting fascism, but when was the last time you offered to deliver food to your disabled neighbors? Drive someone to an appointment? Offered to babysit? Helped someone stay housed by contributing to rent? Donated to mutual aid?

The smaller acts of care are important too.

A night time shot of the corner of a building. There's wall art of a ladder and text that reads Take Me Where There's More To See.

my late night Brooklyn photo that looks like an album cover 😌

Gosh they're both so good 😭💞 I'd personally pick the no flowers one

it's truly insane how every single trans person i know is like making plans to escape for their lives and/or [redacted] and transphobic harassment has gotten noticeably worse since like november meanwhile every cis person in my life, with few exceptions, is just living their lives like it's normal

alright you wanna know how to support trans people?

hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.

Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

The Third Sex “The Gender Binary” is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy.

If you want an essay to start with I highly recommend "The Third Sex".
The orientalist shit she rips apart here will make your blood boil, and the way she uses it to point out the west's own third sex is genius.
taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...

A lot of people shocked that there's not consensus over the salute must not know that this is what racism usually feels like

Facebook Is the Devil If you’re a larp organizer, Facebook is an unfortunate fact of life... which has a lot of us asking, "can we drop Facebook?"

Relevant to all the larp people here...

www.sinkingshipcreations.com/post/faceboo...

#larp #larpblogs #immersive #immersivetheatre #thisoldblog

a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in an interesting way

Welcome! 🙌

A large accounting of MPs assets is being performed by a journalist as a much better voting 🗳️ guide
#cdnpoli

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

THE 1E MANIFESTO Game Design, Distilled

You are a game designer. You have so many ideas, and so few of them are published. Perhaps none of them are. Your WIP folder is full of genius, and you know it, but you cannot bring yourself to release it in an imperfect state.

This is for you.

Presenting THE 1E MANIFESTO.

somewhere online they're telling people who want to write fantasy that they absolutely HAVE TO create a rigid and unique magic system with clear-cut rules and perfect, competitive video game-worthy balancing, meanwhile the most popular fantasy books of all time all have "wizards just do whatever"

turns out if i mash Alwyn and Kidd's costumes together i get something krampus adjacent (off to a christmas party!)

Haruspex Pathologic 2 👀

a video of another little guy, recently hatched.

A photo of a small leafcutter bee the size of a pinky nail, sitting on the end of a twig.

hello world the sky is so blue here.

here's a photo of a leafcutter bee i hatched this year.