Cannot update characters skills v2.66.0 (Windows 11)

[kantthinkofagoodusername]

Hitting the little refresh/update skills button next to the character select screen gives:

Going into the Manage ESI Character gives:

  File "urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 488, in _make_request
  File "urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 464, in _make_request
  File "urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 1093, in _validate_conn
  File "urllib3\connection.py", line 796, in connect
  File "urllib3\connection.py", line 928, in _ssl_wrap_socket_and_match_hostname
  File "urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 372, in create_urllib3_context
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gui\mainFrame.py", line 677, in ssoHandler
  File "gui\auxWindow.py", line 63, in openOne
  File "gui\esiFittings.py", line 424, in __init__
  File "gui\esiFittings.py", line 476, in popCharList
  File "service\esi.py", line 72, in getInstance
  File "service\esi.py", line 79, in __init__
  File "service\esiAccess.py", line 89, in __init__
  File "service\esiAccess.py", line 98, in init
  File "requests\api.py", line 73, in get
  File "requests\api.py", line 59, in request
  File "requests\sessions.py", line 589, in request
  File "requests\sessions.py", line 703, in send
  File "requests\adapters.py", line 501, in send
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))```

[kantthinkofagoodusername]

After consulting the nerds on the EVE Online official Discord I learned this is an issue on my end related to something blocking my connection.