Post any good or otherwise morbidly fascinating blogs you'd recommend. On any topic, dead or alive.
I'll go first.
False Steps - A spaceflight blog about the myriad of ideas, projects and designs that either failed to materialize or were canceled after one or two prototype flights. Mostly focuses on the Space Race between the USA and USSR, but occasionally presents an earlier German design or some weird Chinese or British wild idea.
Passing Strangeness - Written by the same guy as False Steps. A hodgepodge collection of weird historical tidbits. Strange and unexplained events, forgotten historical characters, weird legends, obscure adventures, etc.
Twenty Sided - The late Shamus Young's (of old Escapist fame) blog. Mostly video games and some programming. Since Shamus's passing it's been taken over by his daughter, but the newer posts can easily be ignored. Shamus has written a lot over the course of more than a decade, including a book-length examination of the Mass Effect series and how it went to shit after the first game.
Is That in the Bible? - Biblical scholarship. Deep scholarly examinations of various topics, presented in a very accessible manner. (Not preachy fundie schizo ramblings)
Branko Milanovic's blog - What it says on the tin. Branko Milanovic is a Yugoslavia-born economist who used to be a lead economist of the World Bank. A lot of interesting and insightful takes on politics, history, economics and current events.
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - The blog of an ancient history professor. He writes a lot about the basics of a how a premodern society and military worked, and critiques various TV shows, movies and Paradox games.
History for Atheists - A history blog focused on common historical myths, misconceptions and outright misinformation propagated by New Atheists/anti-theists. It is written from a scholarly point of view, i.e. it's not a fundamentalist polemic.
Beyond the Mountain Lies a World of Frills - An anime blog, but a surprisingly informative and insightful one. Everything from reviews, to contemplations, yearly rundowns and translated interviews. It also has a lot of the author's personal thoughts on pop-culture phenomena du jour (which I just so happen to agree with more often than not).
Oh, one more that I somehow completely forgot about when making this thread.
Foreign Exchanges - A substack most notable for providing daily news roundups. These are daily and weekly roundups of pretty much everything of importance happening in the world today/this week, with a heavy focus on foreign policy, geopolitics and international relations. It is written from a left-wing perspective, but its service is nevertheless invaluable. Subscribing to Foreign Exchanges is like getting a daily sitrep delivered to your mailbox. The weekly reports and one in two daily reports are behind a paywall, but considering just how informative and concise these are (and, more often than not, deal in topics you never hear about in mainstream news, at least not until they blow up and hit everyone else by surprise), it is well worth the $5/month. I've been subscribed for over a year now, and it's the only internet subscription thing I pay money for (other than Spotify).
