Renaud Chaput@keefmarshall Thanks for all the details, this is indeed caused by the automatic profile refresh that happens when an instance is notified about an activity from an account that has not been refreshed in the last few days.
It incorrectly re-validates the profile links.
I opened https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27755 to track this
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