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Where will the next literary movement come from?｜Blank Greta Rainbow asks: what’s in a scene? This is part one of a two-part series.

"The book reviews are cruel and break the taboo of not panning debuts. The gossip lacks all morals." dirt.fyi/article/2025...

Paved with desire Ted Barrow on listening for meaning in the negative space.

In the second dispatch from @dirt.bsky.social x Simple Magic's Sensuous Skateboarding series, @tedbarrow.bsky.social puts words to the revelatory auditory experience of *ca-thunk, ca-thunk, ca-thunk*

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Clone is a tech and culture news aggregator with old-school internet flavor There’s a sort of timeless appeal in the wall of links. The Drudge Report has done it forever in the most in-your-face way possible; Kottke sends out a nice little newsletter full of links twice a wee...

Clone in Nieman www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/clon...

Immediately drawn to the new link aggregator site clone.fyi from @dirt.bsky.social

The State of A24｜Dirt Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.

This is an interesting take

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The State of A24｜Dirt Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.

"Hollywood’s current risk-averse landscape makes an entity like A24, which produces sophisticated work less often than it produces the appearance of sophistication, stand apart."

Nicholas Russell on A24, for @dirt.bsky.social: dirt.fyi/article/2025...

Under the overpass Skateboarding among the dirt and grime, there’s a smell, a feeling divine.

Nice new thing alert: Simple Magic has teamed up with @dirt.bsky.social for a series called Sensuous Skateboarding, which takes on skateboarding's effect on the senses.

Here's our first dispatch with more to come, including one particularly lovely-smelling item.

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This is excellent!

“Independent cinema is not in danger should A24 blip out of existence. Instead, what the company has created is akin to a signature scent, the trail of which is easily pointed to until whatever distinctive original source it came from dissipates into the ether.”

screenshot of Clone.fyi. links baby links

wow another sick development from @dirt.bsky.social—CURATED TECH AND CULTURE NEWS LINK AGGREGATION WITH A NICE NORMAL DESIGN!! clone.fyi

The State of A24｜Dirt Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.

5,000+ words on the state of A24 dirt.fyi/article/2025...

The Way We Work Dirt is a daily(ish) newsletter about the cutting edge of digital pop culture. Every week we send out multiple insightful short essays on topics like streaming, TikTok, video games, and web3, from a r...

On this May Day, a call for essays about work from @dirt.bsky.social and @readlux.bsky.social, details in 🔗

Barnes & Noble’s indie rebrand｜Dirt The new face of an old chain.

“What they're looking for is what we’ve got on our staff pick shelf, because they're just looking for context. Or something that feels real.” - Great read by @yeehawcheeseburger.bsky.social dirt.fyi/article/2025...

Diary of a Fragrance Diplomat A week of working at a niche perfume shop in the Pacific Northwest.

Selling fine fragrances to the fine people
[from @princessdaisy.bsky.social's DIRT thing.
Which is full of such surprising writing.]
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Who will be our 500th follower...

Are the 80s back? Power vs. freedom｜Dirt

"The 80s were more than a turning point in the industrial economy. They were the beginning of the ascent of total power enjoyers over total freedom enjoyers."
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Podcasts as lorecasts What Severance gets right about fandom.

Paula Mejía on why podcasts are the new Blu-ray extras. dirt.fyi/article/2025...

Welcome to the Blankverse Dirt's new books newsletter.

In case you haven't heard, Blank is a new home for books coverage at Dirt! 🤎📚

More info here: dirt.fyi/article/2025...

I Love Shopping "Everything is simultaneously old and new with me."

"I am the dog of a beautiful person. I am a small dog, with a robust body. When you tap on the side of me I make a good noise." dirt.fyi/article/2025...

I wrote about my nose! And Moshtari Hilal's brilliant book @dirt.bsky.social @moshsky.bsky.social @newvesselpress.bsky.social

Post-internet art The last avant-garde

"Where is post-internet art now? In the collections of museums, the vaults of freeports, the beach houses of the Hamptons—the physical works at least...Others are dead links, screenshots, doomed to be revisited in oral histories." dirt.fyi/article/2025...

In walks my nose The rhinoceros in the room

"UGLINESSis a chronicle of painful confrontations with the brutal,unimaginative regime of whiteAnglo-European beauty,but it’s also a savage indictment of the kind of powerthat requires ugliness to function. @dirt.bsky.social @ninarenataaron.bsky.social @moshsky.bsky.social

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Highly Sensitive People An aristocracy of the considerate.

"I think what rightly irritates people is the sense that a self-identified HSP really believes they’re better than you." dirt.fyi/article/2025...

State of Gamification Pt. 2 Get played.

...part two! dirt.fyi/article/2025...

State of Gamification pt. 1 What's the point?

"It’s futile to apply Marxism to a game of Monopoly." dirt.fyi/article/2025...

call me

Scene Report: Cy Twombly “One more cup of wine for our remaining happiness.”

"HOMELESS, Basquiat, SCAPE G.O.A.T, baby wants to fuck chicks for genius marginalized by mediocrity." dirt.fyi/article/2025...