Adrian Dallas Frandle
@adrianf.bsky.social
Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Flash Reader for Split Lip Mag. Gaymer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a rosette of mullein. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af.
words -> http://adriandallas.com
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the soapbox I will die on is that we don’t give animals enough credit and we will never, by nature, be able to know how intelligent they are because our definition of intelligence is too narrow.
A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first documented use of tools by a wolf. https://cnn.it/48jB0Mn
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
the soapbox I will die on is that we don’t give animals enough credit and we will never, by nature, be able to know how intelligent they are because our definition of intelligence is too narrow.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Watching “High Anxiety” for the first time 🤪
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Watching “High Anxiety” for the first time 🤪
felt weird so made a borschtlike
(with apple & horseradish cream)
(with apple & horseradish cream)
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
felt weird so made a borschtlike
(with apple & horseradish cream)
(with apple & horseradish cream)
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
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losing my mind - “Birds fly not because they have the right, but because they have wings”
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
losing my mind - “Birds fly not because they have the right, but because they have wings”
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thanks to The Indianapolis Review for nominating my poem for a Pushcart
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
thanks to The Indianapolis Review for nominating my poem for a Pushcart
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Study: Average 19th-Century American Spent 93% Of Time Waving At Trains, Boats https://theonion.com/study-average-19th-century-american-spent-93-of-time-waving-at-trains-boats/
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Study: Average 19th-Century American Spent 93% Of Time Waving At Trains, Boats https://theonion.com/study-average-19th-century-american-spent-93-of-time-waving-at-trains-boats/
Texting my besties like “Are you a Wellbutrin girly, too?”
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Texting my besties like “Are you a Wellbutrin girly, too?”
the altar asked for a Bacchus
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
the altar asked for a Bacchus
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"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
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when you think of a snappy comeback 18 months after you lose an argument.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
when you think of a snappy comeback 18 months after you lose an argument.
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I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
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The final poem in Charles Simic's Scribbled in the Dark (2017)
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The final poem in Charles Simic's Scribbled in the Dark (2017)
Every year I have to spar with the AWP registration system to even be able to purchase a ticket. I have exchanged like a dozen emails, and while they are very kind, I am literally just trying to give them $$$ so I can attend, but apparently that is very difficult?
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Every year I have to spar with the AWP registration system to even be able to purchase a ticket. I have exchanged like a dozen emails, and while they are very kind, I am literally just trying to give them $$$ so I can attend, but apparently that is very difficult?
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I spoke to @adashtra.bsky.social about a topic close to my heart.
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I spoke to @adashtra.bsky.social about a topic close to my heart.
Learned from the Ken Burns doc that after the war, soldiers wanted to mutiny for back pay, which Washington lobbied the Continental Congress to provide. Alas, Congress was only able to offer $5 Jamba Juice gift cards & vague promises of full pay in future.
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Learned from the Ken Burns doc that after the war, soldiers wanted to mutiny for back pay, which Washington lobbied the Continental Congress to provide. Alas, Congress was only able to offer $5 Jamba Juice gift cards & vague promises of full pay in future.
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today is my birthday, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than having a new poem out in Burial Magazine! infinite gratitude to Z. H. Gill for giving this one a beautiful home :) 🙏
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
today is my birthday, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than having a new poem out in Burial Magazine! infinite gratitude to Z. H. Gill for giving this one a beautiful home :) 🙏
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“Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.” - Pascal
“We are, I know not how, double within ourselves, with the result that we do not believe what we believe.” - Montaigne
(as quoted in “The Death Penalty: Vol 2” by Jacques Derrida. Tr. by Elizabeth Rottenberg)
“We are, I know not how, double within ourselves, with the result that we do not believe what we believe.” - Montaigne
(as quoted in “The Death Penalty: Vol 2” by Jacques Derrida. Tr. by Elizabeth Rottenberg)
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.” - Pascal
“We are, I know not how, double within ourselves, with the result that we do not believe what we believe.” - Montaigne
(as quoted in “The Death Penalty: Vol 2” by Jacques Derrida. Tr. by Elizabeth Rottenberg)
“We are, I know not how, double within ourselves, with the result that we do not believe what we believe.” - Montaigne
(as quoted in “The Death Penalty: Vol 2” by Jacques Derrida. Tr. by Elizabeth Rottenberg)
swapped out my head for this new configuration
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
swapped out my head for this new configuration
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"AAVE is flagged as inappropriate" by LLMs designed to detect student cheating... which enforces steeper educational penalties on black students.
intentional or not, as it currenty exists, AI IS WHITE SUPREMACIST SOFTWARE and damaging to the safety of black people.
youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ?...
intentional or not, as it currenty exists, AI IS WHITE SUPREMACIST SOFTWARE and damaging to the safety of black people.
youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ?...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"AAVE is flagged as inappropriate" by LLMs designed to detect student cheating... which enforces steeper educational penalties on black students.
intentional or not, as it currenty exists, AI IS WHITE SUPREMACIST SOFTWARE and damaging to the safety of black people.
youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ?...
intentional or not, as it currenty exists, AI IS WHITE SUPREMACIST SOFTWARE and damaging to the safety of black people.
youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ?...