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You can select the text by disabling CSS.


Or by visiting a rendering which doesn't support CSS at all: eg https://aartaka.me/select-text.txt


This hack is exactly why I do multi-format posts.


I note the non-HTML posts look like Markdown, why do you use .txt as the extension instead of .md .mdwn or .markdown?




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