It's fantastic how there's a massive global Norse Empire, but we know nearly nothing about them. Also great how the Norse settled Kiev and Novgorod less than 150 years before the Norse settled America.

Perhaps there's no value to historians to make up thousands of years of Norse history?

Peter Thiel Guts Baen Books

Fandom Pulse reports that Peter Thiel tried to buy Baen Books, was rebuffed, and responded by poaching their top authors and editors for a new science fiction and fantasy publishing house. Baen Books has fallen into the trap of a lot of mainstream publishing, not building up a stable of modern talent to come up […]

https://voxday.net/2025/01/30/peter-thiel-guts-baen-books/

"Ark Press is a science fiction and fantasy-focused publishing company that just launched with the announcement of picking up Larry Correia, but the implication is much bigger than many genre book fans may have realized, as the company is backed by Donald Trump advisor Peter Thiel and his investment group, putting a big target on the back of Toni Weisskopf’s Baen Books."

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/how-donald-trump-advisor-peter-thiel#:~:text=Ark%20Press%20is,Weisskopf%E2%80%99s%20Baen%20Books.

"Can you see it now? The sheer brilliance of Trump’s plan? If they do sue him, then Trump is likely to grow even more powerful. Their only other option to just take it."
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/frozen-thursday-january-30-2025-c#:~:text=Can%20you%20see%20it%20now%3F%20The%20sheer%20brilliance%20of%20Trump%E2%80%99s%20plan%3F%20If%20they%20do%20sue%20him%2C%20then%20Trump%20is%20likely%20to%20grow%20even%20more%20powerful.%20Their%20only%20other%20option%20to%20just%20take%20it.

Most drugs are good long after their official expiration dates. https://t.co/REXMTMSGGr

"A couple of years later, at another job as a full-time employee, I was given the responsibility for technical interviews for new hires. Since the company was run by an all-Indian executive staff, and Indians are among the most nepotistic people on the planet, virtually all of the candidates they sent were other high-caste Indians, purportedly from top quality Indian universities, many with Masters degrees. I found that not one of them was capable of doing even entry-level programming, and worse, they would not admit that they did not understand the assignment. I asked one lady with multiple M.Sc degrees to explain in plain language how she might go about writing a program that calculates the perimeters of rectangles, given the coordinates of their corners. After thirty frustrating minutes, I was forced to conclude that she had no familiarity with the Cartesian plane and possibly had difficulty subtracting whole numbers."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153770420#:~:text=A%20couple%20of%20years%20later,had%20difficulty%20subtracting%20whole%20numbers.

LIVE NOW Vox Day and Jon del Arroz: Baen Books and IDW Publishing are big in science fiction, fantasy, and comics but recent industry problems may bring both out of business as Peter Thiel puts his thumb on the scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s90oCrlcFPU

BREAKING! At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department across the street from the FBI headquarters.

More: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/senior-fbi-leaders-demoted-wray/index.html

"There were 2 men and one "woman" on the helicopter. The two men have already been identified. One was a pilot (Andrew Eaves - supervising not operating) one was a crew chief (. The name of the "woman" is purposefully being withheld at this time because of the outrage it will cause."

https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-Blackhawk-pilot-in-control-was-a-TRANSWOMAN-named-Jo-Ellis-X3To84nz

"Scientists recently reported an unexpected deep-sea development in the Pacific: certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

"This idea runs counter to the usual belief that oxygen only forms in sunlight through photosynthesis.

"Although these findings have stirred debate, the central claim is that potato-sized nodules found thousands of feet below the surface appear to split seawater molecules and release oxygen."
https://www.earth.com/news/dark-oxygen-discovery-deep-ocean-rocks-upends-centuries-of-scientific-beliefs/#:~:text=Scientists%20recently%20reported,and%20release%20oxygen.

Freemasonry is returning to Syria after being banned for over 50 years, according to a statement attributed to the Presidency of the Supreme Council of the Grand Syrian Orient Lodges, which was published in several media outlets over the weekend. The group declared that the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government had created an opportunity for its re-establishment. https://www.rt.com/news/611475-freemasons-anounce-return-syria/

Absolute mad lad.

I guess not.

Still waiting for confirmation of this so don't take it as gospel truth YET https://www.smobserved.com/story/2025/01/30/news/a-transgender-pilot-named-jo-ellis-flew-blackhawk-helicopter-into-the-american-airlines-jet-at-reagan-national/8719.html