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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 · 29m

Musk has been too quiet in the US for several months…. Like a child told by his board he needs to be more quiet, & by his estimation meddling in the UK democracy WAS ‘quiet’ 🫠

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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

New pitch for a cooking show:

Reacher-meets-Bourdain cooking show but the host beats the shit out of ICE/CBP trying to kidnap the staff.

🤔

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

Right?!
I spent a lot of time wrapping my mind around how Shroud & its residents would look visually. Awesome survival story

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

Sorry, but may i suggest not live-skeeting the season? It’s still new & the whole show itself in general hasn’t taken off ala GoT etc. culturally.

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

I’m conflicted about this because i’m of two minds : poor kid in the neighborhood doing their best, & bad parenting 😓

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

Time is antifa…?

In fairness the angle makes it look like his head is a twisted paper bag full of [ ]

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

The seven samuari but fucked up; and a bit late to the resistance (but also, *chef’s kiss* that the only signatory is ”one america news” 🙃)

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4h

Solidarity is the only way

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

I appreciate Jackson’s technique of “loathsome boss neggs his screw-up staff to embrace their best selves” (spoiler? Yes? No? Journey is the destination?)

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 12h

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer is currently on sale across most platforms. 1.99 for the ebook for however long it lasts. (No one tells me these things.)

The book Hold Me Closer Necromancer set against a purple background with two adorable ghosts reading.

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

The amateur bit where you don’t factor in the shadow of you & your camera crew & lazily avoid redoing the scene?
😑

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 3h

It’s pretty awesome how the studio audience goes wild halfway through the video when they see the big reveal.

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 5h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 7h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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

Anti-fascism is nothing if not budget & environmentally friendly (re-use a polymer thread outfit? Hell yes).

But also the crazy-inspired metaphor of you too could be antifa-frog, etc. just step right up!

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 4h

*pathogens

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 4h

“Defending against weaponized patjogens” sounds like a lefty conspiracy

*slowly turns to look at camera*

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Defending against bioterrorism? Sounds pretty woke to me. I’m glad Trump finally fired those people.

Dozens of fired staff members at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, a federal health agency, included individuals with top-secret clearance who work with intelligence agencies on biodefense issues such as pandemics and weaponized pathogens, said a former Department of Health and Human Services official who has been in contact with those dismissed.

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 4h

With alt-text, because let’s get this out thereto as vast an audience as possible

Front page of THE NATIONAL from Scotland.
Text (centered & Helvetica-clear):

HOW GENOCIDE HAPPENED
"No Arab will remain in Gaza"
"No-one must inhabit this land if it is not the Jewish people"
"Israel should make Gaza look like Auschwitz museum"
"I am for war crimes, I don't care if l'm criticised"
"Aid trucks continue to enter Gaza... enough!"
"We are too humanitarian. We have to burn Gaza now"
"It's not Hamas that should be eliminated. Raze Gaza"
"Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators"
«It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true, this rhetoric about civilians not being involved"
FOUR-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT
As Israel continues to deny genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words - from the country's own prime minister, press and more - that show how atrocity came to pass

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 4h

😳
It was just an art class but now…
What wrath hath been crafted @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 4d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Leanne Veronica @leanneveronica.bsky.social · 7h

"Every age assumes the dislocations of its time are exceptional, but the present one seems particularly indifferent to earlier moments of technologically induced disequilibrium."

Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 3d

The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.

The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke

The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

www.theguardian.com

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 5h

In any other year this would be astonishing work, but in 2025, as banning books by minorities is on the rise, this is astonishing & anti-fascist.
Bravo, Saint Heron & Solange!

🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 17d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 5h

Coolcoolcool

WIRED @wired.com · 6h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

www.wired.com

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 5h

I was thinking Depeche Mode but, yes this too

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 6h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 7h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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