Huh, so though Mastodon does mark up toots with HTML for some things (like links!), it does *not* put emoji like as an inline img. It attaches metadata about where to find the image but it's up to the client to replace the text-in-colons with the image.
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Huh, so though Mastodon does mark up toots with HTML for some things (like links!), it does *not* put emoji like
as an inline img. It attaches metadata about where to find the 
image but it's up to the client to replace the text-in-colons with the image.