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Minerva Zimmerman

@grumpymartian.bsky.social

600 followers 270 following 11K posts

Pretend human and own worst enemy. What am I doing here? Where is this? Do I really need to share my opinion on anything? Why should anyone care? Ignore the creature behind the curtain!!! Do not perceive!

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · Jan 21

Nope.

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 9h

*twitches in old* people are making t-shirt bras with molded nipples on them??? I was pretty sure the point of a t-shirt bra was to prevent nippling. Nipplage?

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 10h

Daily bunny no.3105 needs to ask nicely

Two bunnies stand at the foot of an old brick wall, in a forest somewhere. There is a small door in the wall, the only way through. At the top of the wall are four blackbirds, one of which has the key in its beak. The bunnies implore the bird for the key

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 9h

"It's-a me! Antifa!"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10h

If Mario can dress as a frog and fight tyrants then so can you.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

Your dog sees regularly trucks and airplanes and people inside a TV box. It can handle card tricks.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13h

Is magic bad for dog?
I'm working on slight of hand magic tricks and practice in my house a lot. Sometimes in front of dogs. Am I hurting their brains when I'm blowing their minds?
Answer
Save

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 10h

THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 11h

Good problem to have

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 20h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 13h

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

My life, by Matt Tarpley

Angry frog, cartoon and four panels. The frog says I am looking my best. I am working my hardest. I am expressing myself. I am trying my best

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 21h

Indiana Jones And The Undisturbed Garbage Dump

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 15h

Omg that’s a business card that goes on the fridge in a place of honor

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 15h

Spanx could be used as tourniquet

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Grayson (he/him) @graysongoal.bsky.social · 1d

Happy world mental health day

A photo of a skeleton (who is on fire) holding a sword. Text on the image says:
state of the world? bad
mental health? also bad
but still, we charge forward

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 20h

Two and a half weeks out from release & this holesome little book is STILL in the top TEN on Am*zon!

My favorite part of that is knowing y'all will retaliate by requesting it from your local libraries & indies 🥰🥰🥰

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 13d

Spread Me, my erotic horror novella about an isolated research team and the specimen that wants to explore them back, is available everywhere you buy books.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Spread Me

Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly ...

us.macmillan.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 15h

Just… life

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 15h

It’s always the inks I like the most that I spill on me where I don’t like them

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 1d

The video thing seems super helpful!!! I have such bad sense of how my body moves, being able to see video of it is invaluable

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 1d

Direction to put weight behind the motion, rolling the ball off the fingers to add that much more length on the fling and fine tune the direction and rotation and then the follow through of the body to add the most power possible

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 1d

Right but you still have to draw back your arm to get the full motion. Its ideally one fluid motion but on a biomechanics level there’s like 6 steps, pulling back the arm to get tension, rotating to gain momentum, aligning all the components of the arm to fling, pointing your body in the same

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW when I was doing karate it suddenly made sense that everything had to line up like pistons, if you are off alignment there's no oomph. So you have to line everything up pulling back the piston then again pushing everything forward.

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 1d

RUDE! I hate it. I also hate that I can't stay up all night to make up for anymore.

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