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"The book reviews are cruel and break the taboo of not panning debuts. The gossip lacks all morals." dirt.fyi/article/2025...
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.
dirt.fyi
May 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"The book reviews are cruel and break the taboo of not panning debuts. The gossip lacks all morals." dirt.fyi/article/2025...
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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*
www.simplemagic.ca/paved-with-d...
www.simplemagic.ca/paved-with-d...
Paved with desire
Ted Barrow on listening for meaning in the negative space.
www.simplemagic.ca
May 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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*
www.simplemagic.ca/paved-with-d...
www.simplemagic.ca/paved-with-d...
Clone in Nieman www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/clon...
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...
www.niemanlab.org
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Clone in Nieman www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/clon...
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Immediately drawn to the new link aggregator site clone.fyi from @dirt.bsky.social
clone.fyi
Clone
clone.fyi
May 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Immediately drawn to the new link aggregator site clone.fyi from @dirt.bsky.social
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The State of A24｜Dirt
Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.
dirt.fyi
May 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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"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...
Nicholas Russell on A24, for @dirt.bsky.social: dirt.fyi/article/2025...
The State of A24｜Dirt
Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.
dirt.fyi
May 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"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...
Nicholas Russell on A24, for @dirt.bsky.social: dirt.fyi/article/2025...
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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.
www.simplemagic.ca/under-the-ov...
Here's our first dispatch with more to come, including one particularly lovely-smelling item.
www.simplemagic.ca/under-the-ov...
Under the overpass
Skateboarding among the dirt and grime, there’s a smell, a feeling divine.
www.simplemagic.ca
May 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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.
www.simplemagic.ca/under-the-ov...
Here's our first dispatch with more to come, including one particularly lovely-smelling item.
www.simplemagic.ca/under-the-ov...
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Immediately drawn to the new link aggregator site clone.fyi from @dirt.bsky.social
clone.fyi
Clone
clone.fyi
May 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🫡
😇
I’m stoked as hell
May 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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This is excellent!
5,000+ words on the state of A24 dirt.fyi/article/2025...
The State of A24｜Dirt
Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.
dirt.fyi
May 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is excellent!
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“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.”
5,000+ words on the state of A24 dirt.fyi/article/2025...
The State of A24｜Dirt
Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.
dirt.fyi
May 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“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.”
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wow another sick development from @dirt.bsky.social—CURATED TECH AND CULTURE NEWS LINK AGGREGATION WITH A NICE NORMAL DESIGN!! clone.fyi
May 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
wow another sick development from @dirt.bsky.social—CURATED TECH AND CULTURE NEWS LINK AGGREGATION WITH A NICE NORMAL DESIGN!! clone.fyi
5,000+ words on the state of A24 dirt.fyi/article/2025...
The State of A24｜Dirt
Nicholas Russell on A24 as the popular alternative.
dirt.fyi
May 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
5,000+ words on the state of A24 dirt.fyi/article/2025...
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On this May Day, a call for essays about work from @dirt.bsky.social and @readlux.bsky.social, details in 🔗
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...
dirt.fyi
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
On this May Day, a call for essays about work from @dirt.bsky.social and @readlux.bsky.social, details in 🔗
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“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...
Barnes & Noble’s indie rebrand｜Dirt
The new face of an old chain.
dirt.fyi
April 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“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...
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Selling fine fragrances to the fine people
[from @princessdaisy.bsky.social's DIRT thing.
Which is full of such surprising writing.]
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
[from @princessdaisy.bsky.social's DIRT thing.
Which is full of such surprising writing.]
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
Diary of a Fragrance Diplomat
A week of working at a niche perfume shop in the Pacific Northwest.
dirt.fyi
April 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Selling fine fragrances to the fine people
[from @princessdaisy.bsky.social's DIRT thing.
Which is full of such surprising writing.]
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
[from @princessdaisy.bsky.social's DIRT thing.
Which is full of such surprising writing.]
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
Who will be our 500th follower...
April 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Who will be our 500th follower...
"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."
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
Are the 80s back?
Power vs. freedom｜Dirt
dirt.fyi
April 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"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."
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
Paula Mejía on why podcasts are the new Blu-ray extras. dirt.fyi/article/2025...
Podcasts as lorecasts
What Severance gets right about fandom.
dirt.fyi
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Paula Mejía on why podcasts are the new Blu-ray extras. dirt.fyi/article/2025...
In case you haven't heard, Blank is a new home for books coverage at Dirt! 🤎📚
More info here: dirt.fyi/article/2025...
More info here: dirt.fyi/article/2025...
Welcome to the Blankverse
Dirt's new books newsletter.
dirt.fyi
March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In case you haven't heard, Blank is a new home for books coverage at Dirt! 🤎📚
More info here: dirt.fyi/article/2025...
More info here: dirt.fyi/article/2025...
"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 Love Shopping
"Everything is simultaneously old and new with me."
dirt.fyi
February 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"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...
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I wrote about my nose! And Moshtari Hilal's brilliant book @dirt.bsky.social @moshsky.bsky.social @newvesselpress.bsky.social
"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
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
In walks my nose
The rhinoceros in the room
dirt.fyi
February 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I wrote about my nose! And Moshtari Hilal's brilliant book @dirt.bsky.social @moshsky.bsky.social @newvesselpress.bsky.social
"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...
Post-internet art
The last avant-garde
dirt.fyi
February 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"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...
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"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
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
In walks my nose
The rhinoceros in the room
dirt.fyi
February 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"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
dirt.fyi/article/2025...
dirt.fyi/article/2025...