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)
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👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
The disappearing art gallery in your post office
The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.
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February 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
More significantly, i think he ruined space safety protocols— NASA trying to rush a moon mission with reported problems right now, vs working out the problems to keep astronauts safe? Catastrophic on every level.
Thanks billionaire blowing up his rockets & launch sites 👍🏽 🫠
Thanks billionaire blowing up his rockets & launch sites 👍🏽 🫠
the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason
February 8, 2026 at 8:10 AM
More significantly, i think he ruined space safety protocols— NASA trying to rush a moon mission with reported problems right now, vs working out the problems to keep astronauts safe? Catastrophic on every level.
Thanks billionaire blowing up his rockets & launch sites 👍🏽 🫠
Thanks billionaire blowing up his rockets & launch sites 👍🏽 🫠
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everyone on their way to the park takes it in stride
February 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
everyone on their way to the park takes it in stride
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"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."
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New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four bipartisan bills into law, focusing on improving health care access, investing in statewide infrastructur
kfoxtv.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM
"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."
kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...
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What’s frustrating is being on Twitter in those years, resharing his work & others, & watching with horror as Gabbard & Jill Stein were photographed in meetings with either Putin or other Russian leaders, & *nothing* from the intelligence community & DOJ. 🤷🏽
i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
February 8, 2026 at 8:02 AM
What’s frustrating is being on Twitter in those years, resharing his work & others, & watching with horror as Gabbard & Jill Stein were photographed in meetings with either Putin or other Russian leaders, & *nothing* from the intelligence community & DOJ. 🤷🏽
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“The U.S. is clearly echoing previous history with these warehouse acquisitions,” @andreapitzer.bsky.social told @willbunch.bsky.social. “Dachau—not a death camp, to be sure, but one of the earliest Nazi concentration camps—took over a converted factory when it began its heinous existence in 1933."
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
“The U.S. is clearly echoing previous history with these warehouse acquisitions,” @andreapitzer.bsky.social told @willbunch.bsky.social. “Dachau—not a death camp, to be sure, but one of the earliest Nazi concentration camps—took over a converted factory when it began its heinous existence in 1933."
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Lotta words to say “pivot to video”
Jeff Bezos' statement, his first since last week's layoffs: "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."
February 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Lotta words to say “pivot to video”
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🎶 biscuits 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’ 🎶
February 8, 2026 at 7:25 AM
🎶 biscuits 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’ 🎶
“When a southern California city council proposed building a giant datacenter the size of four football fields last December, *five residents* vowed to stop it.”
It’s not easy; it’s not finished. But FIVE started this!
It’s not easy; it’s not finished. But FIVE started this!
February 8, 2026 at 7:23 AM
“When a southern California city council proposed building a giant datacenter the size of four football fields last December, *five residents* vowed to stop it.”
It’s not easy; it’s not finished. But FIVE started this!
It’s not easy; it’s not finished. But FIVE started this!
You’ll often find yourself in a conversation with an otherwise progressive person & then the conversation shifts to unhoused people & suddenly the rhetoric from them veers towards eugenics.
It’s wild to experience.
Seattleites know
It’s wild to experience.
Seattleites know
hatred of unhoused people is genuinely a pipeline to fascism. if the wealthy can get you to dehumanize your own neighbors, then they can get you to do it to anyone.
February 8, 2026 at 7:10 AM
You’ll often find yourself in a conversation with an otherwise progressive person & then the conversation shifts to unhoused people & suddenly the rhetoric from them veers towards eugenics.
It’s wild to experience.
Seattleites know
It’s wild to experience.
Seattleites know
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Put some respect on her name!
February 8, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Put some respect on her name!
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I’ve caught glimpses of a decent aurora once, nowhere near this spectacular, but the thing that struck me most was that the light flowed in a way that was very conspicuously NOT like a liquid but like electricity. It felt like being inside one of those plasma globe lamps. Eerie and breathtaking.
The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I’ve caught glimpses of a decent aurora once, nowhere near this spectacular, but the thing that struck me most was that the light flowed in a way that was very conspicuously NOT like a liquid but like electricity. It felt like being inside one of those plasma globe lamps. Eerie and breathtaking.
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This is just part of patrol. ICE threatens you, points guns at you, brutalizes or kills someone in front of you. Every day it's somebody new in our circle. We gather around them while they work through the stress and fear and then, to the person, they go back out.
My friends are so insanely brave.
My friends are so insanely brave.
Friend who's part of a neighborhood watch group says their car was just surrounded by ICE. Is fine but obviously rattled.
February 6, 2026 at 9:51 PM
This is just part of patrol. ICE threatens you, points guns at you, brutalizes or kills someone in front of you. Every day it's somebody new in our circle. We gather around them while they work through the stress and fear and then, to the person, they go back out.
My friends are so insanely brave.
My friends are so insanely brave.
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If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Hang it in the Louvre
February 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Hang it in the Louvre
Biblically accurate mandelbrots?
Saturday morning data poems 😊
Abstract interpretations of evangelical language data.
Abstract interpretations of evangelical language data.
February 8, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Biblically accurate mandelbrots?
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stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:45 AM
stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*
Woah.
Some GOT-level regime delusions & betrayals in this great piece, but I’ll quote this, to haunt us in the US for the next few years:
“One lesson to be drawn from Assad’s fall is a very old one: The greatest vulnerability of all political dynasties is the problem of succession.” 🤔
Some GOT-level regime delusions & betrayals in this great piece, but I’ll quote this, to haunt us in the US for the next few years:
“One lesson to be drawn from Assad’s fall is a very old one: The greatest vulnerability of all political dynasties is the problem of succession.” 🤔
This story is so mind-blowing (in a bad way) that I have to use a gift link on it. Honestly, words fail.
For starters, if the way you want to spend your time is playing Candy Crush — CANDY CRUSH??? — why would you wreck your country to protect your dictatorship?
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
For starters, if the way you want to spend your time is playing Candy Crush — CANDY CRUSH??? — why would you wreck your country to protect your dictatorship?
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Fall of the House of Assad
A detached ruler, obsessed with sex and video games, refused every lifeline he was offered.
www.theatlantic.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Woah.
Some GOT-level regime delusions & betrayals in this great piece, but I’ll quote this, to haunt us in the US for the next few years:
“One lesson to be drawn from Assad’s fall is a very old one: The greatest vulnerability of all political dynasties is the problem of succession.” 🤔
Some GOT-level regime delusions & betrayals in this great piece, but I’ll quote this, to haunt us in the US for the next few years:
“One lesson to be drawn from Assad’s fall is a very old one: The greatest vulnerability of all political dynasties is the problem of succession.” 🤔
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Oh she’s phenomenal. This is Sophia Chang.
February 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Oh she’s phenomenal. This is Sophia Chang.
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in case you ever wondered what it felt like to live through the 80s
Animotion - Obsession
YouTube video by AnimotionVEVO
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February 8, 2026 at 3:18 AM
in case you ever wondered what it felt like to live through the 80s
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a place you can donate to—people can't pay rent because they can't work because (we all know why)
We’ve paid rent for over 270 households so far in February and we currently have a waitlist that totals over $30,000.
We distributed rents one by one.
We can’t even think about March rent yet.
You can help us here: gofund.me/5d4d1a571
We distributed rents one by one.
We can’t even think about March rent yet.
You can help us here: gofund.me/5d4d1a571
February 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
a place you can donate to—people can't pay rent because they can't work because (we all know why)