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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press
@vertvoltapress.bsky.social
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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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This account (followed by other big -follower accounts) looks like a bot.

Check their replies (which are just reposts mostly)

The name vs the bluesky name? 👎🏽

Imo : avoid /block
Screenshot of a bluesky account Name: Elizabeth Sofia (multiple emoji) [actual account: skippjon1.bsky.com ] 23.9k followers 30.7k following [the big giveaway here] 15.2k posts. Bio: Proud Pacific Northwest Democrat. Lover of animals, books, politics, beauty and the tropics.
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Also, lol at the arrow directions in the infographic
Screenshot inset of previous poster’s screenshot. It’s the designations of the symbols on the left of the original image. Image/text: Text: Vote share shift direction (Arrow pointing upper right) Harrell (Arrow pointing upper left) Wilson Text: Vote shift direction (Blue box [all incumbents got that]) Harrell (Orange box [all challengers got that]) Wilson
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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This is how i post
Screenshot from the movue Johnny Mnemonic. Johnny (Keanu Reeves, in suit, strapped into a chair, his head half covered with complex wires & electronics Attached to a supercomputer) is having data extracted directly from his brain (or at least they are trying to). [Every day, like this on socials and the apps]
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Some of those that work forces,
Are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces,
Are the same that burn crosses

Killing in the name of …

[feel free to copy-paste my alt-text, ya’ll. This is fun but this is a great photo others in our community should enjoy too]
Meme photo of Pope Francis (white man, silver hair, white skull cap, white papal vestments (clothing), eyes closed singing (?) into a microphone he is holding in his two hands. Behind him are a gaggle of cardinals & other clergy like Beyonce’s back-up dancers. [bluesky is just filling the timeline with supposed lyrics for the lulz]
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Instagram doin the bare minimum like a chump
Screenshot of an iPhone notification screen— Instagram logo next to the words “for you Because of your interests “ Image to the right is unrecognizable. [instagram trying everything to pull me back into its shout factory… & failing]
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Saint Teresa of Avila by Joseph-Marie Vien
Painting of Saint Teresa of Avila by Joseph-Marie Vien— a nun seated next to a table, open book & quill to her tight. She has her arms splayed wide, her face turned up in ecstasy.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Over at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social tonight we opened our holiday ornament show— BE MERRY! — you should stop by our browse online to see the wide variety of ornaments made by PP artists, now till the end of the year.

You might even like some of mine
A wall in an art gallery—it is filled with small hand-made ornaments. A winged lion holiday ornament (african lion with white feathered wings). Part of the BE MERRY Ornament Show on at Push/Pull form now till the end of the year. A mothman ornament (long black body, thin arms & legs, large red eyes & beak, bat wings). Part of the BE MERRY Ornament Show on at Push/Pull form now till the end of the year. Agaric mushrooms ornament (red caps with white dots, white stem, each hanging counter balanced hanging off a piece of wood). Part of the BE MERRY Ornament Show on at Push/Pull form now till the end of the tear.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Reader, i did
Photo by the water, puget Sound in the rain, grey skies, old poles in the background in the water, a few birds perched on them. In the foreground is a post on the shore with a sign — DO NOT FEED THE BIRDS, with a crow perched on top of it.
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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NYT opinion (most likely Ross Douchehat) headline.

MAMDANI DROPS MASK, REVEALS HIS INNER NATURE
Mamdani political sign meme. (Orange text on purple font) Text: ALL THE PISTACHIOS for ME
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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*concerned GOP politician/Fox news bobblehead/right wing influencer voice*

Democrats ruining culture with impossible promises!
Mamdani political sign meme. (Orange text on purple font) Text: BREAKFAST for DINNER Mamdani political sign meme. (Orange text on purple font) Text: TACO TRUCKS for EVERY CORNER
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Added alt-text
Cartoon: A street-level perspective of New York City at night; dark skies & high-rises, their lights glittering. In the foreground is Lady Liberty, crouched down on the sidewalk holding a cardboard sign: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” She is looking down the street, as Zohran Mamdani, the dark haired, bearded Mayor of NYC, wearing a suit & tie, is walking up to her, smiling, holding up Liberty’s torch in one hand, which brightens the darkness. Source: The Guardian Cartoonist: Ella Baron
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Mistakes were made
A man sitting in profile at a bar; wearing a novelty shirt with skulls with straws in their cranium, white t-shirt with a worm-like xenomorph sticking out of his chest. He os pouring a pint of beer into the mouth of the chestburster, which is never a good idea (folks, do NOT give your kids booze)
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Boredboredboredbored

#bringyourxenomorphtoworkday
A man wearing a black hat with a Nostromo logo, wearing a novelty tropical button up shirt with all palm trees & skulls with drinking straws in their exposed cranium, a white t-shirt torn & bloodied in the chest area, because a xenomorph chestburster sticks out. In the background are shelves & various items at the front desk of Push/Pull Gallery .
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Bring Your Kid to Work Day is going great! Just hope the kiddo doesn’t get hungry before our lunchbreak 😬
( @pushpullseattle.bsky.social )
#halloween
Photo of a man in a green uniform logos of the NOSTROMO all over, wearing a black mesh hat with NOSTROMO ship logo; he is giving a thumbs-up gesture, while a xenomorph chestburster sticks out from a bloodied t-shirt. He is wearing a white mask with a couple of spots of blood on it) The background is a wall full of original art from Push/Pull Gallery in Ballard.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The next time some car-rich nimby asshole sez you complain too much when you want better transit: this is when you get a notification your bus is *5 minutes late*

*8 second video; play this 37.5 times & you’ll get the vibe*
October 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Added alt-text for this zinger!
Skeet screencap: Dr. Dana Ménard / @Shufflersunite The cat who was completely obsessed with my bump when I was pregnant is quite uninterested in the baby now that she's out. It's a weird way to find out that my cat is a Republican.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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It’s PUBLICATION DAY!
Our ( @hintonpublishing.bsky.social ) book, The Sylvan Hotel, debut novel by Seattle author Frannie James, hits shelves today!

Available at all your favorite indie bookstores & elsewhere

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Photo of a book on display on a bookshelf. The cover shows a young woman sprawled on a bed, surrounded by various 90s paraphernalia— photos, cassette walkman & headphones, indie newspapers) Text on cover THE SYLVAN HOTEL A SEATTLE STORY FRANNIE JAMES. [Review quotes] "...the author impressively illuminates one of the central conflicts of early adulthood: the draw of one's cozy youth, set against the exciting promise of full-fledged adulthood." -Kirkus Reviews "The Sylvan Hotel is a tapdance down memory lane for those of us who came of age in Seattle in the 1990s. She evokes the disaffected "are we adults yet?" vibe of Gen X, and draws a vivid portrait of the time and place through the eyes of an earnest young woman longing for love and her own fulfilled promise" - Alexis M. Smith, author of Glaciers
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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If i can politely suggest to every foreign news agency: use photos like this in your headline pics, when you refer to the White House, going forward?
Historic East Wing of the White House being demolished to make way for a tacky new ballroom.
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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In my in-the-moment i didn’t realize the op didn’t add alt-text
Still from the Muppet Show— it’s Gonzo, a purple-blue puppet with a bent beak, dressed in a formal tuxedo holding a rose. His expression was every mariners fan in the top of the 9th inning; forlorn, ragged, end-this-pain-but-i-would-prefer-joy. He’s a romantic stood up by his date. Again.
October 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Image of Wile E. Coyote strapped to an ACME rocket perched on the edge of a cliff. He is in the middle of turning around to light the wick with a match.
October 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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🤔
Photo from 2003– Saddam Hussein’s statue being pulled down in Baghdad by the US military. In the foreground is Saddam’s statue leaning as a crane & chain pulls it of its podium in Al-Firdos Square, the Ramadan Mosque in the background. Obviously the irony here is the symbolism the US *tried* to paint as a clear victory was the start of a decades-long nightmare for the Middle-East (& in many was the US people). But the bigger they are, the harder they fall, right, chaps?
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Continuing my habit of not Will Stancilling here ;
Screenshot of his reply to his post (where he’s being corrected & trying to dig out)

Here’s my reply:
*Dem establishment * which is literally not representative of the people showing up on the 18th or at lots of street corners since Jan 2025…
Screenshot: Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social The reason No Kings has had limited political impact isn't the size of the thing, which is astounding, but because it's largely been ignored by the institutional structures that call crystallize popular anger and discontent into lasting policy and pressure for change. Dems won't claim it, basically October 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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With alt-text because it’s always good to burn a Fake Concern About the Poors account (who, it turns out, is a cop running a fake account—no surprise there)
Screenshot of an exchange: Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman Food stamps should not be used to buy soda. Chris Gloninger, CCM, CM 0 @ChrisGloninger Wild how a poor person buying a $1 soda with food stamps sends you into a moral panic, but billionaires writing off private jets and yachts on their taxes? Not a peep. Your outrage is as cheap as that soda.
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Added alt-text & stuff
Copy of original screenshot. At the Chicago ICE protest, the image is of ICE gassing protesters & there is a line of cars in a cloud, & in the foreground where a couple running away holding a baby carrier. In the upper left you can see a tear gas canister purposely thrown in the direction of the couple & the protesters around them (it’s circled in red) I have added text in the white area above: THIS IS ICE (with an arrow emoji pointing at the canister); above that in red CRUELTY ISTHE POINT
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM