Vlad @ Vertvolta Press
@vertvoltapress.bsky.social
Imprints: Extra:Solar, Hinton Publishing.
Run by Vlad Verano, Designer/Publisher; part-time bookseller. Moonlights as artist/illustrator/astromech. Latest book; THREE ALARM FIRE (Hinton) https://vertvolta-design-press.square.site/product/Three_Alarm_Fire/3
Run by Vlad Verano, Designer/Publisher; part-time bookseller. Moonlights as artist/illustrator/astromech. Latest book; THREE ALARM FIRE (Hinton) https://vertvolta-design-press.square.site/product/Three_Alarm_Fire/3
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Hello to all the new followers! It's been a while since I talked about Vertvolta, & an introductory thread is in order.
Vertvolta Press is a publishing house (some would say 'hybrid'). We publish books, contemporary & reprints, & offer consulting & design services to self-published authors (1/5)
Vertvolta Press is a publishing house (some would say 'hybrid'). We publish books, contemporary & reprints, & offer consulting & design services to self-published authors (1/5)
*takes a vape hit*
Aiwa… now there’s a name i haven’t heard in a loooong time…
Aiwa… now there’s a name i haven’t heard in a loooong time…
Did not expect to get punched in the face when I walked into Marshall’s today, but…”flashback audio kit?!?”
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
*takes a vape hit*
Aiwa… now there’s a name i haven’t heard in a loooong time…
Aiwa… now there’s a name i haven’t heard in a loooong time…
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Whenever you see Bari Weiss' name, remember:
PROFESSOR REFAAT ALAREER TOLD US TO HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS MURDER!
Bari Weiss made his home a target, and they killed Dr. Alareer, his sister, her 3 children, his brother and that brother's son.
Bari Weiss is a proud propagandist for racist murder.
PROFESSOR REFAAT ALAREER TOLD US TO HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS MURDER!
Bari Weiss made his home a target, and they killed Dr. Alareer, his sister, her 3 children, his brother and that brother's son.
Bari Weiss is a proud propagandist for racist murder.
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Whenever you see Bari Weiss' name, remember:
PROFESSOR REFAAT ALAREER TOLD US TO HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS MURDER!
Bari Weiss made his home a target, and they killed Dr. Alareer, his sister, her 3 children, his brother and that brother's son.
Bari Weiss is a proud propagandist for racist murder.
PROFESSOR REFAAT ALAREER TOLD US TO HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS MURDER!
Bari Weiss made his home a target, and they killed Dr. Alareer, his sister, her 3 children, his brother and that brother's son.
Bari Weiss is a proud propagandist for racist murder.
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as a person who reads a lot and has been yelling for months about writers who don’t read, I wholeheartedly endorse Casey’s excellent advice—this bit especially. go to bookstores! go to the LIBRARY!
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
as a person who reads a lot and has been yelling for months about writers who don’t read, I wholeheartedly endorse Casey’s excellent advice—this bit especially. go to bookstores! go to the LIBRARY!
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What’s Behind the Recent Decline in Overdose Deaths in Seattle?
While Seattle’s outgoing mayor and city attorney credit drug arrests and prosecutions, public health evidence suggests other causes.
@andyengelson.bsky.social reports.
publicola.com/2025/11/26/w...
While Seattle’s outgoing mayor and city attorney credit drug arrests and prosecutions, public health evidence suggests other causes.
@andyengelson.bsky.social reports.
publicola.com/2025/11/26/w...
What's Behind the Recent Decline in Overdose Deaths in Seattle? - PubliCola
While Seattle’s outgoing mayor and city attorney credit drug arrests and prosecutions, public health evidence suggests other causes. By Andrew…
publicola.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What’s Behind the Recent Decline in Overdose Deaths in Seattle?
While Seattle’s outgoing mayor and city attorney credit drug arrests and prosecutions, public health evidence suggests other causes.
@andyengelson.bsky.social reports.
publicola.com/2025/11/26/w...
While Seattle’s outgoing mayor and city attorney credit drug arrests and prosecutions, public health evidence suggests other causes.
@andyengelson.bsky.social reports.
publicola.com/2025/11/26/w...
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
“Officers found a computer spreadsheet titled “Experiments”, where he had allegedly noted the times of druggings and the women’s reactions.”
Jfc
Jfc
the detail in the story is somehow even worse than the headline suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Officers found a computer spreadsheet titled “Experiments”, where he had allegedly noted the times of druggings and the women’s reactions.”
Jfc
Jfc
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
Happy Classic Seattle Mist-Rainstorm to those of us that celebrate!
Mist-Rain is very much an old-school Seattle standard—due to climate change we don’t see it too often (it’s now regular rain, & bully-wetness)
But a long time ago (1990s)
1/3
Mist-Rain is very much an old-school Seattle standard—due to climate change we don’t see it too often (it’s now regular rain, & bully-wetness)
But a long time ago (1990s)
1/3
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy Classic Seattle Mist-Rainstorm to those of us that celebrate!
Mist-Rain is very much an old-school Seattle standard—due to climate change we don’t see it too often (it’s now regular rain, & bully-wetness)
But a long time ago (1990s)
1/3
Mist-Rain is very much an old-school Seattle standard—due to climate change we don’t see it too often (it’s now regular rain, & bully-wetness)
But a long time ago (1990s)
1/3
Can’t
Understand
Nonsensical
Techbros
Understand
Nonsensical
Techbros
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Can’t
Understand
Nonsensical
Techbros
Understand
Nonsensical
Techbros
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
“ICE agent” is too generous— it looks like they gave the rookie the gun to feel “man-ful” & once he aims it, his bosses take charge & pull him away & lower the gun.
Diaper baby nazi
Diaper baby nazi
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“ICE agent” is too generous— it looks like they gave the rookie the gun to feel “man-ful” & once he aims it, his bosses take charge & pull him away & lower the gun.
Diaper baby nazi
Diaper baby nazi
Coolcoolcool— just saw a Progressive ad that was like 95% GenA.I.
🙃
🙃
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Coolcoolcool— just saw a Progressive ad that was like 95% GenA.I.
🙃
🙃
Gee, sounds like something the current Mayor of Seattle is doing to the new mayor… 😰
Your reminder that Eric Adams is an asshole.
"Adams Boosts Budget, Leaving a $4.7 Billion Hole for Mamdani" www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/b...
"Adams Boosts Budget, Leaving a $4.7 Billion Hole for Mamdani" www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/b...
Adams Boosts Budget, Leaving a $4.7 Billion Hole for Mamdani
Looming budget deficits, no provisions for federal aid cuts and new commitments mark the departing mayor’s last word on the city’s financial plan.
www.thecity.nyc
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Gee, sounds like something the current Mayor of Seattle is doing to the new mayor… 😰
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New class promo graphics for new classes! Riso Collage & Wax Seal Gift Tags is next week, and Button-Making Workshop debuts in January!
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
New class promo graphics for new classes! Riso Collage & Wax Seal Gift Tags is next week, and Button-Making Workshop debuts in January!
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Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
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Outside Seattle, the suburbs are often hubs for Latino and first-generation immigrant communities. Reports of ICE arrests in some of those smaller cities have been trending over the past weeks, although the official numbers are tough to pinpoint.
As reports of ICE emerge in Seattle, the suburbs already feel its presence
Outside Seattle, the suburbs are often hubs for Latino and first-generation immigrant communities. Reports of ICE arrests in some of those smaller cities have been trending over the past weeks, althou...
www.kuow.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Outside Seattle, the suburbs are often hubs for Latino and first-generation immigrant communities. Reports of ICE arrests in some of those smaller cities have been trending over the past weeks, although the official numbers are tough to pinpoint.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
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I mostly post about job openings on Linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/gordonpad...) but, this job is too exciting to not crosspost: @seattledot.bsky.social's Senior Transportation Planner - Bike Program "This position offers the opportunity to shape the city’s bike network." Applications due 12/9!
Senior Transportation Planner - Bike Program in Seattle, WA | GovernmentJobs.com
Apply for Senior Transportation Planner - Bike Program position in Seattle, WA through GovernmentJobs.com. Join our team and become a part of City of Seattle community.
www.governmentjobs.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I mostly post about job openings on Linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/gordonpad...) but, this job is too exciting to not crosspost: @seattledot.bsky.social's Senior Transportation Planner - Bike Program "This position offers the opportunity to shape the city’s bike network." Applications due 12/9!
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zoom in to see how happy tbh
When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy!
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
zoom in to see how happy tbh
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l bet some of y‘all think Kristi is joking.
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
l bet some of y‘all think Kristi is joking.
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...