For those that are curious how I add extra text to a rule for a one time post, I don't just copy the rule into the Mastodon client and add text, I use the tooling I built for the bot, and some UNIX CLI know how.
The command looks like this:
%fortune -m <rule hex id> /path/to/rules | tail +2 | xargs -0 printf "%s\nmessage/commentary goes here\n" | cat4stuff -i <mastodon instance id>
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2025-03-03 13:33:32
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2025-03-03 13:33:32Event JSON
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