<p>Look at this book I got (it was like $25 I feel like I got a good deal) consisting almost entirely of full color photos of 1970s &quot;TV Game&quot; proto video game consoles. I sincerely love this era of product industrial design</p>

<p>TIL that people tried to predict the future from the sound of thunder (not surprising), and this is called «brontology». Now it refers to the scientific field studying thunder. Nevertheless, that older, divination form of brontology is a special case of … «aeromancy».</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>Do you mean that in the sense of deleting your own posts, others deleting their own posts, or possibly both?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> magnesium! :D</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> meow</p>

<p>autodeletion of posts is an accessibility issue for someone with dissociative amnesia, like me</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@onyxraven" class="u-url mention">@<span>onyxraven</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I don&#39;t personally aim for the archive to be public (there&#39;s all sorts of issues with that), I just need like... prosthetic memory</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@onyxraven" class="u-url mention">@<span>onyxraven</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I would build that if I didn&#39;t already have dozens of projects to maintain</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@Azuaron" class="u-url mention">@<span>Azuaron</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> <br />But more than that, I don&#39;t really do &quot;archiving&quot;, mostly because I don&#39;t have time for it. This is _exactly_ why I want the posts to stay up, so that when five years later I remember a faint echo of a conversation, I can pull it up and find out what it was about. I do that daily with Twitter, which has been disrupted by a lot of people deleting their accounts, but is useful even to this day. My &quot;archive&quot; is near-useless because it doesn&#39;t include replies.</p>