OKAY LAST FUCKING POST ON THE MATTER I PROMMY!!!
there was a SECOND issue with images that i didn't notice til now: i
compose blogposts via plaintext emails sent to a mailbox. plaintext
emails typically have a line length imposed by the editor, after which a
line break is inserted. my fucking image url had a line break in the
middle of it in my last post FML. not a problem for web browsers as they
handle that kind of shit very well! but a potential problem for RSS
readers. (side note: browsers are so clever. did not notice my image tag
typo discussed in my last post for ages because, guess what? the browser
noticed it and just guessed what tag i ACTUALLY wanted and showed that
instead. nice!)
i added a little bit of regex to hopefully fix this now?? i email from
two different clients and idk if they handle newlines differently but
this definitely works for betterbird which is what i usually write posts
in LMAO
anyway so sorry everything should work now hopefully fingers crossed
thanks byee <3