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Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · Dec 15

😬⬅️ That face you make as a massive @mikeflanaganfilm.com fan when you go to mass with your folks and the organist starts cranking out “Nearer My God to Thee” as communion starts…

a man in a red robe says we 're gonna do great things netflix

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, recent vibes have definitely been “respect the other Kurosawa!”

Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 11h

Snagged that Cure Criterion disc in July. Hopefully Janus Films’ US distribution of Cloud is a sign of a future Criterion disc! Kinda seems like a no-brainer!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 19h

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Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 20h

Noice! This dude unsettles with the best of them!

Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 20h

Now do Cure and Cloud! 🖤

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Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 20h

Could… could “BUD! WEIS! ER!” become a protest chant?

a close up of a frog with the words whasssaap on it

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1d

men will literally end democracy rather than admit their god emperor is a pedophile

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

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Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 21h

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

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Giallo Biafra @fulciseyefetish.bsky.social · 22h

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 22h

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

Thor in frog form, holding up Mjolnir in the air while it emits lightning

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Eric Goldman @theericgoldman.bsky.social · 21h

Kaiju incoming? Feels like the right time for it.

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Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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Joe Mertens @jmertens.bsky.social · 22h

So when I started calling Stephen Miller "Pee-Wee German" because of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social I had no idea how mother fucking apt this nickname actually was... EVIL! Like the fru-its of the de-vil... evil (also, please tell me some other Gen-Xer gets that reference)!