Ugh. Two FastCGI Perl scripts. One is inserting UTF-8 characters into the Postgres database correctly, one is biffing it. I cannot bloody well find the difference between the two. Some days I regret not re-coding the entire thing in C.

Over on Bluesky, the Minnesota Star Tribune has a handy guide to identify which munitions the US Federal government is deploying against its citizens. https://bsky.app/profile/startribune.com/post/3mde2ejy6o22e