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)

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· 5d

I just blocked a 6k account that followed me today; their recent post/reply?

Anonymous post by a clearly shifty person;
Text:

Lindsey Graham died suddenly at 71 from an aortic rupture. But the real story isn't partisan — it's about how much institutional knowledge just vanished from Washington overnight.

[LOL & ROTFL & running away as fast as i can]

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· 7d

This is a great outcome, but this is an important paragraph of note about how broken our electoral system is (even within the dem party):

Screenshot from the linked article; text:

El-Sayed overcame a nearly $65 million onslaught of outside money and an establishment that had rallied around
Stevens. Popular Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Stevens late last month - a move seen as a last-ditch effort to stop a rising EI-Sayed.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· 7d

Here’s the basic airtable description & function; zapier.com/blog/what-is...

Screenshot from zapier dot com page describing airtable.

Text:

What is Airtable?
Airtable is a cloud-based platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
But unlike other relational databases, it doesn't require any programming knowledge. The user-friendly interface allows anyone to spin up a database in minutes; if you've used a spreadsheet, you can use Airtable. You can store, organize, and collaborate on information about anything—like employee directories, product inventories, bug trackers, the list goes on. You don't even have to learn what SQL stands for, let alone any scripting.
(…) link in post

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· 7d

Apocalypto

Photo of the evening sky, facing west over puget sound. The sky is peach & grey & orange, at the bottom of the image is the Seattle Ferry Terminal, & a parking lot.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· 25d

Happy you saw it today; need a break from all y’alls opinions of the film for a bit

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· 28d

Always gotta start with a classic

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jul 12

Been a while since i was Flicker 2005 posting guy but the sky tonight is rather pretty

Photo taken in Ballard as the sun sets; a steady fluff of cloud cover scatters across the sky, obscuring the sun. At the bottom of the image are cars & a parking lot.
I used to take pictures like this all the time after i bought my first digital camera. Pre social media i had joined flickr early & relished the ease of sharing my discoveries in such a loose manner.
Techbro brunch lords ruined it.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jul 8

🎻

A scanning electron microscope image of a tardigrade playing a microscopic violin.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jul 5

Damn. Puget sound / West Seattle

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jul 5

Dear America: Don’t ever say i don’t do anything nice for you (Because this is potato content i feel i need to tag @darthbluesky.bsky.social )

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jul 2

Cthulhu handshake settled the US civil war 🐙

Screenshot of shitty a.i. slop image of a fake handshake between Lee & Grant, showing slop fingers like a rat-king of bullshit

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 24

#fakealbums

Cropped, grunged up image of original trailcam photo of a doe? / buck? In near-darkness.
Mocked up to look like a fake Mogwai album cover “young bucks”

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 21

Gotta go with a classic:

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 19

Jumbotron at a fan rally. Marshawn Lynch on the far right, next to author/activist/soccer fan John Green.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 19

Mt Rainier in all her finery waking up to watch the US vs Australia match today #seattle

Photo taken from a bus. In the foreground is the Duwamish River & industrial buildings lining it.
In the background is Mt Rainier, slightly hazing, snow-capped, ever-present. Our dormant volcanic neighbor. Bright blue skies & light clouds.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 18

Sharing for a friend— Florida please keep an eye out for this young man (deets in alt-text too)

Screenshot from instagram:

C.j. Hess Frohock

PLEASE SHARE

As most of my close friends know, Jasper left 5 weeks ago on a journey across Florida on his bike.
We have not heard from him in 10 days! His phone is off and his last known location was Port St Lucie on June 5th. We have filed a state wide missing persons report. If y'all could share this post especially with friends in South Florida that would help tremendously. If anyone sees him please contact the local police or me or Johnny directly. Hopefully he's just disconnecting from his phone, fishing and skating but we are without a doubt worried about his wellbeing.

Photo below it is of a young white male ginger goatee standing in front of his black touring bike in bright daylight .

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 14

Lost my Frankie (cat) last year but been having some adventures with my friend’s dog, Una. She doesn’t like to sit still 😅

Photo of a dog mid-blur on a grassy area. The dog is a short-hair tan mix.

Blurry photo at night of a tan shorthair pitbull mix (wearing a swanky green carhardt dog jacket ) walking across grass

Una, mixed pitbull in an abstract moment on a sidewalk at night.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 13

I know there was some poster attached, but this whole vibe seems apt

Photo of a telephone pole, with a strip of poster still attached. “NEWS GETTING YOU FOWN?” It says. The test of the poster is missing, just remnant of staples & bits of paper covering the pole below.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 10

Love grocery shopping in a recession with “VIBBEESS”

Photo of an e-ink grocery store label for a vegetable that says “[random numbers & barcode] DEVICE NOT IN USE”

I trust you to be fair to me, Safeway! *melt face emoji *

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 10

I regret to inform you that you might go nuclear 😞 This is in the trivia part of the IMDB listing.

Screenshot of a post on IMDB for the movie The Terminal :
Text:

The movie was inspired by the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. He landed at Charles De Gaulle Airport near Paris in 1988, after being denied entry into England because his Iranian passport and United Nations refugee certificate had been stolen. French authorities wouldn't let him leave the airport, so he remained in Terminal One, a stateless person with nowhere else to go. He was eventually granted permission to either enter France or return to Iran, but he chose to live in the terminal and tell his story to anyone who would listen. Reportedly, his mental health deteriorated over the years. When given the opportunity to live in France, he refused because the documents did not identify him as "Sir Alfred", and he claimed to have forgotten his native Persian. He left the terminal in August 2006 to be hospitalized for an unspecified illness. Afterward, he lived in a hotel on the money received from the film (DreamWorks reportedly paid him $250,000 for the use of his biography). Nasseri moved back to Charles de Gaulle airport in October 2022.
He died in terminal 2F on November 12, 2022.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 5

Added alt-text to this amazingly sweet story about Anthony Head:

A tumblr post:

Dracofidus

If you EVER think Anthony Head is anything less than an angel then you'd best remember that I have always been a huge fan of his and we've always had a little contact over the years and he heard I'd come out as Trans and was having a hard time and that I was kind of sad that the
photos I had from conventions with him were of me with long hair and no binder and they were all signed to "Sarah" and so he invited me to spend the day with him at his farm and he picked me up from the station and we just hung out and had lunch and he insisted on paying and took loads of photos and had them printed on photo paper the same day so he could sign them to Jay, along with other photos of him as Giles and Uther and he literally spent five hours chatting with me and got all of the pronoun stuff right every time and then he dropped me off at the station, gave me a final massive hug, waved me through the ticket barrier and insisted I message him when I got home so he knew I got back safe. (More HERE)

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 5

Looks like orthopedic braces like these

Photo of someone wearing orthopedic braces on their feet in a waiting room. The braces fit around from below the knee to ankle, a band that holds support material along the length of the lower leg.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Jun 3

Oh this jaw-dropper absolutely needs alt-text 😮

Screenshot from reddit:
r/todayilearned

TIL that some of the only survivors of the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978 were the People's
Temple Basketball Team, who
were playing an away game in Georgetown, Guyana during the mass suicide event. Jim Jones radioed the team demanding they commit "revolutionary suicide," but they refused.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· May 30

Added alt -text to this AP screenshot

Screenshot from an Associated Press article :

Demonstrators outside Delaney Hall Friday had mixed reactions to the new safety measures.
Rachel Cohen said she was concerned police were being sent to silence demonstrators "who are showing up for their neighbors, exercising their First Amendment right."
"It is not helpful to quell protest for the sake of a false peace," she said. "There is no peace while we are torturing our neighbors on government dime inside this facility."

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· May 23

Live long & prosper, Luke

Opening title scene from Star Trek Next Generation, with the Enterprise pointed towards the viewer, flying through space.

Yellow text above it says: a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away…”

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· May 11

This one’s new to my deck. It seems to let the wings hang, like a pose, like it’s “swole”. Croaks more than caws. A bit skittish around me. A juvenile? I wonder if #crowsky knows something of this body language?

Crow on a metal table on a deck in daylight. It is standing next to a bowl of water. Its wings are loose & not tucked in.

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· May 7

This guy🤮🤮

NEW YORK TIMES FB post

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who has been diagnosed with pneumonia, is applying for free medical care through a Sept. 11 emergency worker program, according to his lawyer.

[image of Rudi a wheelchair surrounded by “aides” people who sacrifice decency for access to “power “ we wish him all the karmic blowback ]

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· May 7

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· May 2

Happy May the 1st. Which leads to the rest of the workers’ month.

Scene from the Wicker Man— Christopher Lee, wearing a mustard turtleneck & brown suit, wild hair, arms raised, palms forward in praise. Behind him is a wicker man statue made of wood, ready to burn a candidate .

I added “billionaires welcome!” Between his upraised hands.

It’s either the wicker, or the guillotine , rich bros…

Vlad @ Vertvolta Press@vertvoltapress· Apr 21

It's publication day for THE POWER OF THE RIVER, the memoir by U of W Dean Ed Taylor, by @hintonpublishing.bsky.social Available in print and ebook, & if you're in Seattle, please join us for the book launch 4/29 at the Northwest African American Museum! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...