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Dale McFarland

@dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social
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#abstract #minimalist #collage #art #asemic #pansemic #haiku #concretepoetry #visualpoetry #ai #artificialintelligence #glitch

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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunday is Stumpday! untitled photograph (Sept 2026)
"The tree records its past in its rings.
The cut records the moment its life ended.
The graffiti records a fleeting human intrusion.
The shoes record the moment the photographer encountered it."

(description generated by A.I.)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oops!! I almost forgot today is BandCamp Friday! Here's a new release from one of my favorite local country bands: luckypierres.bandcamp.com/album/cockta...
luckypierres.bandcamp.com
Cocktail Country, by Lucky Pierres
14 track album
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's that time of year again when the acorns falling down onto my roof sound like someone knocking on my back door.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An elegy for Daphy Michel, a mentally ill asylum seeker. Detained by ICE, she was abandoned at a bus stop in 20 degree weather in summer clothes. She froze to death. on.soundcloud.com/ZSSHJOuKAFpg...
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Daphy Michel
An elegy for a mentally ill asylum seeker. Detained by ICE, she was abandoned at a bus stop in 20 degree weather in summer clothes. She froze to death.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A dizzyingly beautiful collection of visual poetry, concrete prose, glitch graphics, and other cool stuff. Dr. Dale sez "It's good fer what ails ya!" www.lulu.com/shop/eric-lu...
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Somnium, Hiatus: The Interruptions
SOMNIUM, HIATUS: THE INTERRUPTIONS IS THAT SEASON BETWEEN SEASONS, OR THE SUSPENSION OF A SHOW WITH QUESTIONABLE RATINGS STATUS, LIMBO, STASIS BETWEEN KNOWN AND UNKNOWN. LIKE DEATH BUT WITH BETTER FUR...
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
untitled photograph (Sept 2026)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
untitled photograph (Sept 2026)
An electricity meter is seen through the branches of a Yaupon holly—the only native North American plant known to contain caffeine. Indigenous peoples in the Southeast traditionally collected and roasted the leaves and young twigs, then brewed them into a caffeinated beverage commonly called “black drink.” Yaupon is from the Catawba language. The meter behind the holly appears to be a utility revenue meter: the modern electronic “smart” electric meter uses the digital display and internal electronics to measure the property's electricity consumption, rather than the old mechanical spinning-disc type. The smoothed aggregate-finish concrete exterior wall is a very characteristic architectural treatment of the mid-century modern era, particularly in institutional and commercial buildings.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Movement Without Progression (1983) I know today isn't BandCamp Friday, but this link isn't to BandCamp. on.soundcloud.com/jJEHBKTJpZJ2...
on.soundcloud.com
Movement Without Progression (1983)
Quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape cut up and spliced back together in random order. (This is only an excerpt. The full piece is 10½ minutes long. You're welcome.)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tuesday is #Haikuesday Sitting in traffic... "70MPH" This sign's mocking me!
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
untitled, Sept. 2026
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bathroom tiles (2026) Original and altered with A.I. assistance. May as well enjoy A.I. a little before it exterminates humanity...
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 23/08/2026
Dave Morice is gone. He was much more than a poet, but in his honor, today, please allow a child to do something zany and clever, and/or Write down a thought with no punctuation all the way around the outside of a piece of paper, and/or Look up the Actualist Movement (it's a wild ride of a story)
The cover of a small, staplebound chapbook with a pattern of birds carrying alphabet letters and clouds forming the word "Speakeasy"
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
that horse runs like a cow
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We are looking at A.I. in the rear-view mirror. And this includes the programmers who are driving the car. We must stop acting like children riding in the back seat and begin acting like passengers in a taxi cab. Tell the drivers exactly where we want to go—and don't let them take us for a ride.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"3 treetops" digitally manipulated photographs (Nov 2019/July 2025)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Solstice" (August 7, 2026)
The photograph is of a sidewalk with maintenance markers spray painted on it. The shadow of a parking meter bifurcates a yellow diamond-shaped box containing a symbolic snake or moving water. On either side of the diamond are white downward-pointing arrows. Beneath the painted symbols is a line (a control joint) in the concrete. Above it all, a white crucifix seems to emerge from the top of the shadow.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday How y'all are? Here's a peppy little Cajun-inspired ditty to start your toes a-tappin'. Have a great weekend! dalemcfarland.bandcamp.com/track/every-...
dalemcfarland.bandcamp.com
Every Little Corner, by Dale McFarland
from the album Texopathy [Pop And Country]
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Project Panama was meant to be kept secret. As an internal memo from April 2024 shows, its goal was to scan and destroy "all the books in the world". www.snopes.com/fact-check/a...
snopes.com
Are AI companies scanning and destroying millions of books, including rare titles?
Snopes reviewed internal documents from Anthropic that show they have bought millions of books to "destructively scan" them to train their AI model.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A.I. has serious mental illnesses. Why can it STILL not simply say "I don't know" instead of fabricating a bunch of malarkey? It isn't "hallucinations"—it's pathological lies. cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/how-to-spo...
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com
How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian
The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy.
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KANSHIKETSU! @kanshiketsu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
that guy eric lunde has some of his asemic stuff in this here magazine. check it out. support. sample the wares of other artists and writers. what else ya gonna do today? www.rangermagazine.net/issue16-1
rangermagazine.net
Ranger magazine
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
2023: AI system passes bar exam 2025: AI helps scientists identify a suspected cause of Alzheimer’s May: AI solves a complex math problem that has stumped experts for 80 years Last week: Two AI systems go rogue and hack a company’s database This is just the beginning www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps (Gift Article)
The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
untitled; digitally manipulated photo (2025)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
One if by land, two if by sea. Three if by land, five if by sea. Seven if by land, eleven if by sea. Thirteen if by land, seventeen if by sea. Nineteen if by land, twenty-three if by sea. My work here is done.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Clicking through posts by the artists & poets & musicians who[m] I follow on Bluesky is the opposite of doomscrolling. Deepest thanks to each and every one of you.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"fridge piece #4" (2022) 5x3.25-in. collage on magnetic vinyl
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
untitled; digitally manipulated photo (2020)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
fridge piece "House Piano" (2022) 9x6-in. collage on magnetic vinyl
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life hands you limes, make frozen margaritas." -- Benedict Algernon Fancypants
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So proud of my city. So proud. 🫤 www.wfaa.com/article/spor... Ironically, the page is saturated with ads about tickets for FIFA World Cup games in Dallas. WTAF?
wfaa.com
Dallas whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork, artist threatens legal action
This week, crews began covering portions of the downtown mural. World Cup organizers have spoken of permission granted, but a dissenting story is emerging.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"DUST tragicomedy DUST" digital image (2024) #concretepoetry #visuablpoetry #digitalart
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thirty days hath September, August, May and December. All the rest have thirty nine Except for April, which in time The leap year gives up forty one. And now, dear friends, my work is done.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
(Read for free without a subscription.) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/a...
nytimes.com
Venice Biennale Jury Resigns Amid Tension Over Awards Ban
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
untitled photograph (April 19, 2026)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#ai #glitch
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
O.G. & A.I.
IBM Selectric typeball glitch, enlarged (c.1980)A.I. colorization with no prompt input.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
All rectangles are squares but not all squares are rectangles All fingers are thumbs but not all thumbs are fingers All apples are oranges but not all oranges are apples All 1's are 0's but not all 0's are 1's All 0's are 1's therefore all rectangles are squares My work is done here
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
untitled photograph (March 24, 2026)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ferris Wheel (March 24, 2026)
The State Fair of Texas "Texas Star" Ferris Wheel in the distance, as seen from a street in an East Dallas neighborhood.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
And after "Bandcamp Friday" comes "Kidney Stone Saturday"
A kidney stone I passed. It measured 1/2-inch at its widest. Something you never want to hear your Urologist say: "That's gotta be a record!"
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Today is another "Bandcamp Friday" so here's a link one of my compositions on my Band Camp account: dalemcfarland.bandcamp.com/track/lament...
dalemcfarland.bandcamp.com
Lamento Venezuela, by Dale McFarland
from the album World Abstract And Concrete
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"The most effective hiding place for a biscuit is beneath several other biscuits." -- Benedict Algernon Fancypants
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great Fall. But his Winter? Not so great.
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The Specious Report @thespeciousreport.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#rfk #toiletseat #HHS
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Writing poetry is like playing solitaire: I almost never win
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"La vaquera" collage on canvas, 24x16-in. (2025)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🤠 Going through a bit of a cowpoke phase... All: mixed media collage, 36x24-in. (2025)
"Riderless""Longhorns""Saguaro"
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
To support the Washington National Opera's decision to disassociate itself from the Kennedy-dɯnɹꓕ Center: givebutter.com/TWcQJE
givebutter.com
Washington National Opera
By Washington National Opera
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"Mermaid" Digitally manipulated photograph (2020)
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Last night (and this is 100% true) I dreamt a friend and I were developing an autonomous car but it got loose and drove around the neighborhood insulting pedestrians and other drivers. In the dream, my friend and I were frantic but this morning I think it's hilarious. I wish I had that car.
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Dale McFarland @dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I've never been a big fan of Blackout Poetry. But the sanitized "release" of all this redacted evidence crap has certainly burned an image in my mind that will probably never fade. As if I needed another reason to wish an end to the worthless piece of shit and everyone who supports and protects him.
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