What's your gut-check before clicking a link someone sent you?

Curious how people here actually handle this, not in theory, in the moment.

Someone sends you a link, maybe in a DM, an email, or a text, and something about it feels slightly off, but you're not sure why. Do you hover and squint at the URL, paste it into a scanner first, ask the sender directly if they meant to send it, or just click it and hope for the best? 😅

I've been building some free tools around this exact moment of hesitation, so I'm genuinely curious what other people's real habits are, especially for people who aren't security professionals.