A. L. Bishop

“You are not at the bottom of a hole?” asked Toad.

“No,” said Frog.

“You are not lost in the woods?” asked Toad.

“No,” said Frog.

“You are not being eaten by a big animal?” asked Toad.

“No,” said Frog. “Not at all.”

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

This only happens to you once

1. The intense and all-encompassing institutional and societal pushback seen in some countries against any intervention to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19, whether that be vaccines, or air filtration / purification, or masks, is not simply as a result of mandates or lockdowns.

A purple graphic for The Fiddle’s special Summer 2026 disability issue. At the top of the graphic is The Fiddlehead’s logo. Below is a purple image with two transparent light purple circles overlapping like a Venn diagram. On top of this, in white, is the work Revolution. Below is the text: call for submissions from disabled writers. Deadline November 30, 2025. Thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Disability: The Revolution!

Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025

If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.

See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Excited to be included on this (long) shortlist! mastersreview.com/best-emergin...

Congrats!! 🎉🎉🎉

Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.

‘The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. … It operates on a simple premise: if you’re not vaccinating your kids, you need to protect them somehow, and here’s a bunch of things you can buy to do that.’
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social

Congrats!! 🎉

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

“Remigration”: How White Nationalists Are Repackaging Ethnic Cleansing White nationalists in multiple countries, including Canada, are pushing for mass deportations of non-Europeans to be part of the political platforms of their right-wing parties.

NEW: “Remigration” and “mass deportations” is the new rallying cry of white nationalists. Experts say it’s a call for ethnic cleansing. A new Canadian group is trying to "normalize" the concept and get the Conservative Party of Canada to talk more about immigration.

www.antihate.ca/remigration_...

Similar survey underway now in Canada, for anyone who wants to weigh in:
openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025

“It would take you 723 years to delete enough emails to save the same amount of water in data centers as you could if you fixed your toilet”

“If someone deleted all their photos, the water they would save could support 2 blades of grass on their lawn”

Air Canada is reinforcing the gender wage gap – and they want the government to help them do it Air Canada wants to reinforce the gender wage gap by forcing Air Canada flight attendants – 70% of whom identify as women – to accept a wage offer less than one third of what Air Canada offered its pi...

Air Canada offered the pilots a 26% wage increase in the 1st year of their newest contract.
The flight attendants got an offer of an 8% increase in the 1st year.
In the entire 4-year deal Air Canada offered them, their wages won't go up by as much as the pilots' did in just 1 year.

a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

I don’t often make blanket book recs, but I’ve run out of friends to randomly text with fascinating insights from this one, so here we are.

‘The biggest betrayal’: A year on, staff grieve Ontario Science Centre’s snap closure | Globalnews.ca One year after closing the Ontario Science Centre, plans for a new site face delay, the roof remains intact, and staff call the shutdown a “manufactured crisis.”

The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later:

The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli

By the superb Canadian Press team
globalnews.ca/news/1125207...

if you haven’t tried Shyra’s teas and coffees yet, this is the perfect time to treat yourself!

Bearskin First Nation joins chorus calling for Rickford's resignation Bearskin First Nation in northern Ontario is joining a chorus of nations calling on Ontario's Greg Rickford to resign over Bill 5.

'Ontario’s Bill 5 wilfully ignores this obligation and now threatens our lands, waters, and our ability to protect them for future generations.'

This is great news and a great piece! Gorgeous illustration, too

Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.

For any disabled artists interested in applying to grants, I'm presenting a very introductory workshop for the New Brunswick Disability Arts Collective next Wednesday at 7pm AT/6pm ET. There will be a recording on YouTube afterward if you can't make it live. FREE!

www.facebook.com/events/61575...

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...

"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"

"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

Spotted at #IndigoHillcrestMall in #RichmondHill

😊🙏🎉

@houseofanansi.bsky.social

Jim Carroll’s Ass | Alice Notley Nothing seems real yet I’m willing / to play ‘the real’ game for ones I love

We’re saddened to hear of the passing of Alice Notley, who died on Monday at the age of 79. We published a poem from her 2024 collection, “Being Reflected Upon,” in our June 2024 issue.

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

BBC World Service - Tech Life, The carbon footprint of AI How much energy could the tech behind artificial intelligence use in the future?

And wasn’t it? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC publishes Net Zero Transition Plan The Corporation’s first Transition Plan sets out the BBC’s Ambition, Action and Accountability in reaching Net Zero

But I thought? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Um…