diff --git a/content/elsewhere/email-photos-to-an-s3-bucket-with-aws-lambda-with-cropping-in-ruby/index.md b/content/elsewhere/email-photos-to-an-s3-bucket-with-aws-lambda-with-cropping-in-ruby/index.md
index 2cebb68..54b1bd8 100644
--- a/content/elsewhere/email-photos-to-an-s3-bucket-with-aws-lambda-with-cropping-in-ruby/index.md
+++ b/content/elsewhere/email-photos-to-an-s3-bucket-with-aws-lambda-with-cropping-in-ruby/index.md
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ It's a lot, to be sure, but it comes together pretty easily:
     ImageMagick as a layer[^1] and bump the memory and timeout (I used 512 MB
     and 30 seconds, respectively, but you should use whatever makes you
     feel good in your heart).
-8.  Create a couple environment variables: `BUCKET` should be name of
+8.  <span>Create a couple environment variables: `BUCKET` should be name of
     the S3 bucket you want to upload photos to, and `AUTHORIZED_EMAILS`
-    to hold all the valid email addresses separated by semicolons.
+    to hold all the valid email addresses separated by semicolons.</span>
 9.  Give your function permissions to read and write to/from the two
     buckets.
 10. And finally, the code. We'll manage that locally rather than using
diff --git a/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi b/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi
index 6ffb7fa..d908d60 100644
--- a/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi
+++ b/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 {{- end -}}
 
 {{- /* Convert links */ -}}
-{{- $content = $content | replaceRE `\[([^\]]+)\]\[(\d+)\]` "$1[$2]" -}}
+{{- $content = $content | replaceRE `([^\w])\[([^\]]+)\]\[(\d+)\]` "$1$2[$3]" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^\[(\d+)\]: (.*)$` "=> $2 [$1] $2" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `\[([^\]]+)\]\([^\)]+\)` "$1" -}}
 
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 
 {{- /* Misc. markup fixes */ -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `<!--more-->\n+` "" -}}
+{{- $content = $content | replaceRE `<[/]?span>` "" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^  >` ">" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^  \*` "* ⇢" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^- ` "* " -}}