uh does anyone know how to delete a broken toot from the postgres database

okay, for posterity: delete from statuses where account_id = <id> and <condition>;

also wow it's scary to do surgery on the live database

@noiob transactions and "select count(*) where" is your friend, but it never really stops being nervewracking

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