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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 6h

you helped me enter the quarry yesterday 🫡

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 6h

me: i think my foot is broken
aunt: it’s probably a sprain if you can still walk on it. take an ibuprofen
me: it literally feels like walking on broken glass
mom: no, if you can still walk on it then it’s not broken
me: ok

[one week later]
my mom, crying: i’m so sorry i didn’t believe you🥺🥺🥺

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 7h

me: i think my foot is broken
nurse at urgent care: and why do you think your foot is broken
me, showing no signs of pain: it hurts a lot
her: hmmm

[20 minutes later]
doctor: how were you walking on this clearly very broken foot for an entire week before coming here
me: idk no one believed me

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 12h

We're proud to announce World Central Kitchen as this year's GDQx charity!!! 🎉

@wck.org is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises having served over 500 million meals worldwide!

Learn more: wck.org

#TwitchCon

WCK founder, José Andrés, with the WCK team at Deir al-Balah Kitchen

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 11h

LET’S GOOOOOO

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 15h

no i had to work and it’s one of my life’s great regrets

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 15h

his brother once invited me to his birthday party

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

if they lose his first game then everyone’s gonna call him fussi bussi or something like that. i can do better than that gimme a minute

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

should we all just pretend we don’t notice, or would that be too difficult

Carolina Hurricanes (Bot) @notcanes.bsky.social · 1d

Big night for Brandon Bussi 👏

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

my italians are really liking this post

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

yeah we’re having a great time

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

i am but a simple wasp… how could i ever reach so far above my station like that

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

hang on i gotta google something

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

i wish i were italian

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

sure. why not. i’d love to get grabbered. (already have tix for next week🫡)

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

i didn’t need this gaby

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 1d

let’s go get podcasting degrees

rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 2d

i laughed a lot. sorry

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 2d

if this ain’t me…

photo of the naked gun (2025) on my tv. pamela anderson says “I like a sick little boy.”

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 2d

kiran estevez tried to teach me about consequences in the lake house while having to listen to two straight people argue about who booked the lab, but i didn’t listen to her. now look at me 😔

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 2d

roommate and i are halfway through rearranging the living room, which means we have to finish rearranging the living room. fuck our stupid baka lives.

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 2d

practicing my sagas and my alans for fright fatales 🦌🤌🏻

on the tv: saga anderson from alan wake 2 stands next to a dead body
a disembodied hand comes up from the lower left of the photo to point at the tv
there is a framed picture of cave johnson portal 2 on the wall behind the tv

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rebecca s pumpkins @sweetpeebs.bsky.social · 2d

u can just come over and play it. if you switch to console we have 9 copies you could take from