The slideshow file format is:
seconds-to-show URL-to-show
Here's a set of example slides.
https://curtcox-slides.web.val.run/raw.githubusercontent.com/curtcox/slides/refs/heads/main/sets/ai
The tail of the URL points to the plain text slide list at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/curtcox/slides/refs/heads/main/sets/ai
If your slides are blocked due to the domain, you could serve them somewhere besides val.town. An easy way to do that while still using a github repo is to embed the slides directly into an HTML page. You could use Github Pages or https://raw.githack.com/ to serve that.