The image just loaded very slowly for me (i.e. after about 10 seconds). In some posts it never loads at all, but there is a thumbnail in the main screen. This is on sync.

I'm on Jerboa and there's an image in the post.

It's a play on a saying

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Maybe try a different instance? Whether you see an image mostly depends on whether your instance has cached the picture

This community is worse than most at providing alt text

The image is a needlework project in an circular frame. Representations of bacteria and viruses decorate the center of the piece with text above reading "whatever doesn't kill you" and text below "mutates and tries again"