Earlier this year, Dirt contributor Michelle Santiago Cortés wrote about “yearnposting”, examining the trend of Instagram and TikTok content for people that “want to be devastated (in a good way).” These posts, “combine the warmth of a wholesome meme with the hope of a motivational post and the raw emotion of a trauma meme,” like a video by noted... See more

When the common periwinkle population exploded in Maine in the 19th century, it literally changed the color of the coastline. The stone-colored winkles ate the orange, red and green algae that once lined the bottom of the northeastern shallows. Marine biologists have studied oil paintings from the period to try and determine the degree of this... See more

A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”

what cannot be said will be wept