Read this before coffee as "bitcoin" & was momentarily but understandably confused.
11.02.2026 18:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@pfbvan.bsky.social
YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2025 Living Wage employer.
Read this before coffee as "bitcoin" & was momentarily but understandably confused.
11.02.2026 18:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not as stock but easily turned up in a day or two. $47.62+GST if paid w cash or debit. If you'd like one, cc this info to pulpbook@gmail.com & they'll get you set up; skeeter/tweeter is out-of-office today & tomorrow!
10.02.2026 18:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
None! And I don't know of a bookstore anywhere in western Canada with a an actual _selection to browse_. An extremely scarce topic; one I actually use when I train new staff in "what to keep an eye out for." Abebooks will have some but maybe not as many as you'd expect, priced for scarcity.
10.02.2026 17:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Single busiest day since December 2025, despite Bad Bunny sports thing. Working late to recent PSB boot, logging hundreds of new book sales. Thanks to everyone who came for a wander on Main Street or Commercial Drive in this unseasonable springtime.
09.02.2026 04:11 β π 62 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The Seahawks are the masters of cultural *appreciation* instead of appropriation, parody, or stereotyping. Universally beloved in Indian country over this entire region.
09.02.2026 03:54 β π 48 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0[Buying Sophocles' OEDIPUS CYCLE]:
-I hold parties with my friends where we perform ancient Greek plays and drink sparking apple juice, and I'm pleased to have found another one!
Lower Chehalis?
09.02.2026 00:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Camera or phone bumping along streambed?!
09.02.2026 00:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0this banged, great vancouver scenes too
08.02.2026 19:01 β π 16 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0A reading from the Commonplace Book β¦wordmills had just come in, they were all the rage, people were sick of writers, they loved the wordmill product, there was no time for a publisher to think of anything else and no point in him doing so. βFritz Leiber ββThe Silver Eggheadsβ 1959
This is a repost, prompted by an NYT article going around about a writer who "produces" 200 books per year.
08.02.2026 19:54 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0reading this post is kind of like watching a drone shot of an avalanche slowly but unstoppably consume a mountain chalet
08.02.2026 00:27 β π 150 π 26 π¬ 3 π 0bitcoin might be the only thing in the world where its cultural value could go up if the people who loved it the most never opened their mouths
07.02.2026 16:26 β π 3176 π 221 π¬ 36 π 19Saved by virtue of a politician not following through on their promises!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Just to reassure everybody - the city didn't actually lose any money, because provincial laws prevent municipalities from making risky investments like Bitcoin.
(Thanks to UBC econ prof Werner Antweiler for being willing to get on the phone to call BS on this stuff.) thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
A reminder, this bozo claimed he had a "fiduciary duty" to invest in the fundamentally speculative technology primarily used to enable crimes like drug and human trafficking.
www.biv.com/news/economy...
Could someone ask Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim how much money the city just lost?
06.02.2026 17:38 β π 32 π 9 π¬ 6 π 2How long until we get to the "the bombs were placed in Wayno taxis driven by remote operators, who converged on the target" sentence?π€
06.02.2026 17:14 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Racist stain begging a place on monumental racist sculpture, got it.
06.02.2026 17:10 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dennis Jensen inking Carmine Infantino
05.02.2026 20:21 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1whereas it's actually Through The Valley of the Nest of Spiders
04.02.2026 17:48 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Momentarily mistook book #2 for Chip Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
04.02.2026 17:44 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
04.02.2026 04:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 2My sister-in-law is doing a worthy thing for folks in her community
(Usual fine print: I/we/PFB have donated to any & all fundraiser(s) posted here; we "eat our own cooking")
*The sloppy "dominant attractor categories." These LLM-scenes seem kind of nice. It's good that none of them are, like, torture scenes from horror movies, or Nazi fandom
03.02.2026 15:19 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 2 π 1@timothyhelmuth.com
03.02.2026 00:22 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
01.02.2026 21:10 β π 35226 π 17471 π¬ 2310 π 2262This is who runs this account
01.02.2026 21:09 β π 103 π 8 π¬ 7 π 12read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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