Save up all the idiocy for Jan 6?

#pratchat91 There's nothing about the Tiffany Aching books in the 2003 "The New Discworld Companion" (published before "The Wee Free Men"), and lots in the Ultimate Companion. I don't have Turtle Recall, so I'm wondering how much it contains on the books, and what was removed between the editions

#pratchat91 Given that there were two versions of the "Ultimate" companion, which one was really only the penultimate version?

This one

… that are now feeding into some sort of galaxy-wide data exchange.

I suspect that people are being unjoined all the time, when accidents occur that cause brain damage to the specific part of the brain that is physically modified by the virus. I also suspect that they are ending up in the “milk”. The guy in Las Vegas probably knows all about it. #Pluribus

#Pluribus The virus must be able to cross the blood/brain barrier, in order to implement the required changes in brain structure to allow signals to be sent/received. So even disinfecting a member of the joined may not be enough to unjoin them

I suspect the signal has been bouncing around the galaxy for quite a while, knocking out any biological civilisation advanced enough to receive it, yet stupid enough to implement it. A sort of self-perpetuating pest control, implemented by the first non-biological intelligence #Pluribus