The major culprit in ugly image reproduction within feeds is WordPress itself. Even if you’re using the code editor to produce your posts, WordPress will automatically wrap standalone images (centered ones, presumably) inside paragraph tags along with any text that follows. The end result is an inline image that is followed by a semi-broken line [...]
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