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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press

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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

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · Apr 11

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)

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 1m

There’s a parallel with Juan Rulfo (who wrote Pedro Paramo, Mexico’s most influential novel) & his later career advocating & publishing indigenous voices over his own fame.

Two people using their influence to shape culture

Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 6h

#ResistanceRoots
#NationalHispanicHeritageMonth

Albert Báez was Mexican American physicist who co-invented the X-ray reflection microscope for examining living cells. He was also the father of Pauline, Mimi and Joan Baez, all of whom became musicians and activists. /1

Left to right, Pauline, Mimi and Joan Báez.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 9m

*sweating guy choosing buttons* meme but it’s the JP Morgan security person deciding to delete the A.I. employee the company obviously uses.

(Lol, this is absolutely a paranoid anti-Luigi-safety thing. Stay afraid )

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h

JPMorgan requiring biometric data for staff access to new headquarters on.ft.com/46Jqlen

JPMorgan requiring biometric data for staff access to new headquarters

New York bank is imposing eye and fingerprint scans amid heightened security concerns at corporate offices

on.ft.com

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1h

You can read more about the project here: science.nasa.gov/sciact-team/...

Growing Beyond Earth - NASA Science

Engaging students in citizen science to advance NASA research on growing plants in space.

science.nasa.gov

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1h

Buy Nothing & Facebook Marketplace local sellers are a good first stop bc reduce comes before reuse comes before recycle for a reason but if you have to buy new here’s an option that isn’t megacorp: www.spooktacularcreations.com/collections/...

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 1h

We could’ve been a Taco Democracy

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Asexual frog replication is Antifa

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1h

Kid is part of a research team in NASA’s Growing Beyond Earth study. Today the teams presented their findings. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Plants for Space at La Trobe University attended. NASA’s rep wasn’t there. Because of the U.S. government shut down

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 2h

And yet, they’re going after the NY AG for a a toughly $19,000 accidental filing (like actually reported vs Noem hiding cash)
🙃

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 2h

Talking to a friend tonight about where we were during Seattle WTO events (she was living on Cap Hill when the cops gassed the ‘hood one night).
We talked about what the scent of tear gas is like/ described.

Is there a good description of tear gas out there? The perfume of atrocities?

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 3h

If they give it to Greta, whoo-boy 😅

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 8h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 7h

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4h

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile today at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9h

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 9h

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11h

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social · 16h

Hullo Moominvalley! Are you a bookseller, influencer, content creator, or writer who loves Moomin? We want to send you goodies! forms.gle/Dqo25rYuV4sj...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

the revolution led by a frog and an otter with a turtle on its head

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 18h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 12h

It sure did, and some of us said so; some, like Susan Faludi, in her book The Terror Dream, wrote brilliantly about such language. More said we were being hysterical. My point isn't "told ya so"; it's that language really matters.

Christopher Noble @bassgardener.bsky.social · 1d

The creation of the DHS seemed authoritarian at the time. The term, "Homeland Security," smacks of jackboots, and truncheons, and faceless predation. These are not a few of my favorite things.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 13h

Where ever could this be going

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 13h

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 14h

At some point we have to talk about how Seattle used to be a fantastic movie town and now there are very few great, fun theaters that elevate the moviegoing experience. Glad to see the south side stepping up with Tasveer and the Beacon, but we desperately need more new blood in our movie scene.

Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: The SIFF Egyptian, the historic and beloved Capitol Hill movie theater, will not be reopening. After decades of bringing movie magic to Seattle audiences, the space will now permanently conclude operations under SIFF 📽️

My story for @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

A person walks in front of the exterior of the building that was formerly the home for the SIFF Cinema Egyptian which will now be closing on a beautiful day in Seattle. Photo by Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 16h

So, yeah, a mind-vaporizingly huge explosion in space *may have been from a white dwarf ripped to shreds by a black hole*.

yeGADS

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dw...

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A white dwarf may have been torn to shreds by a black hole

Just writing that sentence made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

badastronomy.beehiiv.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

The Portland frog protester has become a WWII-era meme

World War II-era poster that reads "this man is your FRIEND, He fights for Freedom" with the word Canadian

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 15h

Every time a news org neglects to spell “Anti-Fascist” rather than Antifa, a little nazi gets his wings

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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