Society & Culture
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- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/the-message-and-medium-of-the-personal-blog
Jim Nielsen's blog explores the philosophy of personal blogging through the lens of Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death,' reflecting on how the medium of an indie blog carries its own intrinsic message about individuality and independence. This single post is a thoughtful meditation on McLuhan's 'the medium is the message' and what it means to own and control your own corner of the web.
https://chimerathing.neocities.org/
The Chimera's Den is a password-gated personal site run by a queer trans man, featuring a boldly styled landing page with content warnings for flashing images, autoplay music, mental health topics, and cartoon gore. The site promises a richly personal and unapologetically queer creative space for visitors aged 16 and older.
https://spgstx.org/
The South Plains Genealogical Society (SPGS) is a Lubbock, Texas-based organization dedicated to helping people trace their family histories and ancestral roots. Their site offers resources for local, state, national, and world genealogy research, along with meeting info, surname research, an award-winning newsletter called South Plains Roots, and a podcast.
http://usgwtombstones.org/index.html
The USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project is a volunteer-driven effort to record, photograph, and preserve cemetery inscriptions across the United States and beyond, including military and foreign cemeteries. Coordinated by Rebecca Maloney and Debra Crosby, the project offers resources for joining, submitting surveys, and registering cemeteries to help genealogists trace their ancestors through preserved gravestone records.
https://mondodomani.org/dialegesthai
Dialegesthai is an Italian open-access academic philosophy journal founded in 1999, hosted at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and directed by Emilio Baccarini, covering philosophical anthropology, moral philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Articles span topics from Heidegger and Nietzsche to artificial intelligence ethics, pacifism, and phenomenology of time, making it a rich resource for Italian-language philosophical scholarship.
http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/
Will McLean's 'A Commonplace Book' is a richly detailed blog exploring medieval history, heraldry, arms and armor, clothing, and the hands-on recreation of medieval life. Posts range from gilding silk pennoncels with period techniques to researching historical hunting seasons, making it a treasure trove for serious medieval reenactors and history enthusiasts.
https://oldeastie.com/
Old Eastie is Christopher D. Coleman's comprehensive unofficial history site dedicated to the East Broad Top Railroad, the last original narrow gauge railroad east of the Rockies and the oldest surviving narrow gauge in America. Visitors can explore locomotive and car rosters, virtual shop tours, an interactive map, a periodical article list with over 520 entries, preservation efforts, and a growing art registry covering this remarkable piece of American railroad heritage.
https://tilde.town/~grb
A tilde.town member page by user grb, featuring short personal reflections on joining the tilde community and the appeal of collaborative Unix computing for those who missed the early internet era. The posts share a nostalgic, warm tone as grb recounts growing up with limited computer access and finding a sense of belonging through tilde.town's old-web revival culture.
http://bleb.net/rhizomat
A portal dedicated to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, centered on their concept of the rhizome and works like Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. Part of the blebNet web community, it collects links to D+G resources, related nodes, and online texts for theorists and philosophy enthusiasts.
https://glamourbombing.nekoweb.org/
The Faerie Glamour Archives is a whimsical site dedicated to faeries and the practice of glamourbombing, the art of leaving small magical or beautiful surprises in public spaces. Featuring alterhuman and plural community webrings, it sits at the intersection of fae spirituality, otherkin identity, and creative activism.