Nearly 100 books are included in Livraria Lello’s new cultural auditorium, with each relating to four key themes: power, control, voice, and memory. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Felon, alongside selected works from Salman Rushdie and Olga Tokarczuk will also be available in the Manifesto Library.

An intro and a bit of taste of Thomas Ligotti. While reading the review, I was thinking about Ernest Becker (The Denial of Death). Not for everyone, but for me such ideas are liberating (mostly due to confirmation bias).

Belief makes things real, not true.

I just found out that there's a local mod abuse community. Cool!

This isn’t a prayer—it’s a bootloader.

They do this on every post in that community, even if the question was answered correctly by someone else. And it prevents any further discussion.

https://bsky.app/profile/luciasatalina.bsky.social/post/3lx4376lt3k2m

https://bsky.app/profile/herheim731.bsky.social/post/3lwnexl3ulk2n

I have been banned from the lemmy.ca instance for what I suspect is posting this post: https://lemmybefree.net/post/1255852

Belief makes things real, not true.

A little late today, sorry. Still haven't figured out how to get the bot working. This week’s skill is Check the Facts, which helps you figure out whether your emotions are pointing to something useful or just overwhelming you. Before diving into distraction or emotion-numbing tools, pause and ask: is this emotion Relevant, Important, and Actionable?