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@mckinley@twtxt.net Huh very nice ! 🤣 and it looks like it runed nicely too 👌

@mckinley@twtxt.net Being German I naturally don’t care for flags, but I have to admit the colored version on your website looks even nicer than the black and white one here. Are JGS at the very end the true initials of your name? And I can’t resist to ask which two states you left out? ]:-> Anyways, enjoy your holiday!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thank you! I didn’t make the ASCII art of the flag. JGS are (presumably) the initials of the person who did. I found it on this website and tweaked it a bit to add color.

The stars are open to interpretation. If I made the background blue and the colons white, it didn’t look right, so I made the colons blue. Perhaps the stars are invisible, or if the stars are blue, perhaps it’s the 48 star flag in use from 1912 until 1959, when Alaska joined the union. :)

@mckinley@twtxt.net Ah, interesting. Luckily, history got you covered. ;-)