diff --git a/_layouts/post.html b/_layouts/post.html
index 1d4acec..00ae638 100644
--- a/_layouts/post.html
+++ b/_layouts/post.html
@@ -30,9 +30,12 @@
             </section>
 
             <!-- Hidden content to control how this gets posted to Mastodon -->
+            {% capture default_mastodon_text %}
+            New blog post: {{ page.title }} - {{page.excerpt}}
+            {% endcapture %}
             <div class="e-bridgy-mastodon-content hidden">
-                New blog post: {{ page.title }} - {{page.excerpt}}
-                <img src = "{{ page.thumbnail | default: page.image}}"
+                {{ page.social_text | default_mastodon_text }}
+                <img src = "{{ page.social_image }}"
                     class = "u-featured"
                     alt="{{page.alt | smartify}}">
             </div>
diff --git a/_posts/2025-05-26-PyO3-smart-pointers.md b/_posts/2025-05-26-PyO3-smart-pointers.md
index c77f979..1332f8a 100644
--- a/_posts/2025-05-26-PyO3-smart-pointers.md
+++ b/_posts/2025-05-26-PyO3-smart-pointers.md
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 title: Bind, Borrow, Deref
 layout: post
 excerpt: Safely sharing objects between Python and Rust using PyO3
+social_text: |
+    I'm working on a python package with a rust backend so I wrote a bit about PyO3's model of shared ownership between python and rust.
 draft: False
 
 assets: /assets/blog/pyo3-smart-pointers
 thumbnail: /assets/blog/pyo3-smart-pointers/thumbnail.svg
 social_image: /assets/blog/pyo3-smart-pointers/thumbnail.png
-alt: An SVG of the text 'Py<T>' with the T in orange.
+alt: An image of the text 'Py<T>' with the T in orange.
 image_class: invertable
+
+
 ---
 
 <section class="note" markdown=1>