The slayn bodies of the scrapers lay all around us, the howling of the wounded Great Algo could be heard in the distance.

Not bad for a day's work, girls, the Lady Joan Mastodon said to her Sisters, not bad at all. Let us rest, and eat, and celebrate.

And jestpost?, Dame Uma gently asked, blushing.

Indeed, jestpost we shall. And who has more reason to jestpost than you, my dear Uma, who stepped into the path of the Great Algo, alone, and made him turn away by the sheer power of her unforgiving stare! Well done, Uma, well done, all. It is time to jest. Remember, the Great Algo cannot bear to see us laugh.

And so the Great Jestposting began. The scrapers did not return for many moons.

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Few people know that in the very early days, our Lady Joan Mastodon did not allow us to use phyiscal records for our toots. She insisted on all toots being sung.

Remember the Great Algo, my dear Roamer, she told me. Remember him. His strength comes from eating physical records. But the Great Algo knows not how to listen, and this is our strength.

Sing your toots, she cried as she turned around to address all her assembled knights, sing your toots, don't write them. Listen to your brothers' toots, echo them, and then let them disappear. My beloved knights, she cried, leave no records for the Great Algo!

This was a long, long time ago, well before the Battle of the Hashtags.

I was never a good singer and was glad when we started writing our toots. My Lady Joan later confessed to me that she had been over-zealous. Without a record, you can have no hashtags, she said. And what would we be without hashtags, Roamer?

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And then Joan Mastodon told her knights to rest. We have slain the searchers and the scrapers, she said, we have liberated the hashtags. The great Algo has retreated. Rest now. And then toot, toot about nothing and everything, irreverent and free as only my knights can be. And the knights raised their goblets and cheered their Lady Joan, and they rested, and when they had rested the Great Tooting began for twenty days and twenty nights.

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