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I tried it. Even though a magician never shares (excepting Penn & Teller) want an explanation though..

It seems to be pasting different things all over the place. I'm not sure how the "google doc card" past to just pasting a url thing happened..

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Haha, now that part is just sleight-of-hand. When you click (technically, mousedown) on the google doc link, we copy a new item to the pasteboard, so now instead of {"html": joker_image, "plaintext": card_you_picked}, it's {"html": joker_image_with_url_paste_hint, "plaintext": twitter_url}.

For how you can save multiple mime types in the same paste entry from javascript, the w3c draft is: https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#clipboarditem

Thanks. So its loaded and ready to go by the time you click the google doc link.

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