Not much luck improving the jq stuff yet, but I did fix ' showing up as '.

ratatoskr.sh

@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ show_timeline() {
         # handle new events
         events="$(jq -r '.[].content' <<< "$result")"
         stripped_events="$(echo "$events" | sed -E 's/<[^>]+>//g')"
+        stripped_events="${stripped_events//&#39;/\'}"
         usernames="$(jq -r '.[].account.username' <<< "$result")"
         echo -e "$usernames" | while read -r username; do
             echo "$username: $(echo "$stripped_events" | head -n 1)"