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Solve the nonogram.

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    $\begingroup$ I think your definition of simple differs from mine $\endgroup$ Mar 2, 2017 at 15:41
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    $\begingroup$ I'm a little way through and it seems clear what kind of thing is happening. Nice! $\endgroup$
    – Gareth McCaughan
    Mar 2, 2017 at 15:57
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    $\begingroup$ "Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word simple that I hadn't previously been aware of." $\endgroup$
    – Rubio
    Mar 2, 2017 at 15:58
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    $\begingroup$ (I have a comment to make about the "simple" thing but will refrain for now.) $\endgroup$
    – Gareth McCaughan
    Mar 2, 2017 at 15:58
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    $\begingroup$ The comment I was going to make was: I'm pretty sure there is in fact a simple nonogram in this puzzle. (And lo, there is.) $\endgroup$
    – Gareth McCaughan
    Mar 2, 2017 at 17:18

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Final answer is

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or perhaps I should say

PSE.

I confess that I only bothered going this far by strict logical inference

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before allowing myself to make the obvious assumptions about the structure of the solution, leading to this (where white and yellow should now be treated as equivalent):

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whereupon it's clear how to get to the solution at the top.

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    $\begingroup$ After you had mentioned the "nice thing" in the comments I noticed the positions of the empty rows and columns and suspected a nested nonogram (Nonogramyoshka?). But you had a headstart of an hour and I had little hope of beating you. Nice, indeed! $\endgroup$
    – M Oehm
    Mar 2, 2017 at 17:21
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Gareth McCaughan solved this, but here's an animation of the solution:

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