Unable to upload avatar

Hello all, glad to be part of the community! I'm noticing an error when trying to upload a .jpeg avatar (108kb) to my profile.

Output from devtools:

Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out

Error message in lower left toast popup:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

I did search to see if anyone else was having an issue but couldnt't find anything. Could be with the odd endpoint above, forgot to set an .env var?

Cheers Nath