Alrighty, that took me down a deep learning curve, especially when I'd just installed Visual Studio Code and I suddenly had to dive into SASS/SCSS compilers!
Turns out, if you want to embed a toot? Just turn off the <iframe> & goldmark thingy-ma-bob in your hugo config and your Toot will be embedded beautifully!
Tooting my own embedded toot:
https://leonieke.eu/posts/cross/2022-11-16-keeping-threads/
( more on Goldmark in Hugo:
https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration-markup#goldmark )