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Minerva Zimmerman

@grumpymartian.bsky.social

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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 · 12h

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 · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 14h

I found it helpful to think of it like doing karate punches when I had to relearn throwing

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 17h

It's no secret to the shop admin that I REALLY like @saraeileen.bsky.social's stuff because I've bought a lot of it. It is completely wild this necklace is still available. Straight up Locked Tomb awesomeness. YOU KNOW HARROW WOULD WEAR THIS: www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Sara Eileen's Love Never Dies | Peculiarity Shop

Sara Eileen handcrafts these ceramic pieces. Here, ze's placed ceramic skulls in epoxy clay, surrounded by freshwater pearls and red cubic zirconia. The heart bezel is sterling silver. Please take a l...

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 17h

Warning signs of real moonlight in a pair of earrings: vivid dreams, premonitions, a sense of coolness that starts at the tips of your toes and drifts up to the nape of your neck. Has @peripateticmeg.bsky.social done magic here? Only you can tell. www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Meg's Moonlight | Peculiarity Shop

The moon glows bright in these moonstone earrings Components: moonstone, sterling silver hooks Please note: these already come equipped with sterling earwires.

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 15h

Seriously! What is up with that and why does it happen? I hates it

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 15h

Also HOLY Jacked Dragon

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 15h

It is VERY important for your arm tendons though! (Ask me how I know… do you know how embarrassing it is to get sports injuries when you are bad at sports??)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 16h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 19h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Sara THE MURDERIEST UNICORN @saraterror.bsky.social · 1d

My tiny dog often goes to bed really early and then decides it’s time for me to go to bed too. She barks more and more impatiently while I yell “YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!” She always wins though.

But I have thought of a brilliant gambit: “GO TELL HR ABOUT IT!”

This seems to have stumped her. HA!

elmo is surrounded by flames and the word victory is written above him

Alt: elmo is surrounded by flames and the word victory is written above him

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 17h

This is like the writer version of sending a letter home from the front lines

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah right… I’m getting a pillow and a blanket and making a hole fort

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 17h

C’mon Matt let’s get you out of this hole…

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 17h

Gonna need all my Epson peeps to keep this one on hand for me.

C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 18h

I live for the day when someone writes in an obituary "____ passed away after a long battle with the wireless printer"

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Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 16d

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 17h

You can tell him in like a decade, it will be a great “wait, what???” Story to inflict on him in his 20s

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 18h

is it bad that I went... wait, he's not old enough to drive yet, you better take an uber even if only one of you does.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19h

I have more story coming out this year: "Phantom View" drops in two weeks! It's a creepy novelette about the accessibility needs of caretakers and ghosts alike. I can't wait for people to read this baby.

There's a sneak preview up at my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/sneak-...

Sneak Preview: Phantom View, my next novelette! | John Wiswell

Get more from John Wiswell on Patreon

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 19h

Scoop up these OG designs before our winter merch refresh! Every t-shirt, mug and print sold helps us continue to support Black creators Click shop on our site to see the selection 🔥 Got yours already? Tag us wearing your fave and LET EM KNOW 💅🏿 #Blackownedbusiness #BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth

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Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 18h

not any more than we can benefit from your political prowess 😁

Minerva Zimmerman @grumpymartian.bsky.social · 19h

😁

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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