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Root Beer Sandwich

@genadoesthings.bsky.social

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Co-host of the Kill by Kill podcast, writer, too old for this shit. She/her, don’t be an a-hole.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · Nov 19

Welcome new followers! I will almost certainly disappoint you.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 7h

Embrace eating shit, dude

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 17h

Cool that I guess we’re going to hear what every single Republican thinks about Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 1d

“Man what” is pretty much my reaction to everything here recently

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there’s a single shot in a movie that makes you gasp out loud every time you see it, and one of them for me is this shot in Zodiac

Mark Ruffalo standing in the middle of a street in Zodiac

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 5d

That’s odd, I’ve been told that Starbucks has been overwhelmed with a global demand for his favorite drink that everyone knew even before he bit it.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 6d

I do not think it raises that question at all. Nobody in the world thinks it raises that question. But good for you, typing some content.

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 6d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 6d

A lot of them are suddenly big fans of the “just comply and nothing will happen to you” argument

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 6d

The latter is certainly possible, because I was in a G&T program as a kid, while barely being able to do simple math at the same time.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 6d

The number of people who claim they or their kids were G&T kind of suggests that either many of us are lying, or the standards aren’t as high as we like to think.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6d

I am kind of not in the weeds enough on gifted and talented programs to have a firm opinion of them on the merits, but the way that they have become a culture war flashpoint is stupid.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 7d

These people are afraid of cities

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 8d

Ladies and gentlemen Pete Hegseth

The title card from the end of ANIMAL HOUSE that says Neidermeyer was killed in Vietnam by his own troops. I always liked hearing the filmmakers talk about the sadness that underpinned ANIMAL HOUSE, and it's there, just below the surface. Sure, it's also a movie where a guy climbs a ladder to spy on a woman in her bedroom, and when she starts touching herself, the guy's presumable boner pushes the ladder away from the wall and causes him to fall to the ground. But hearing them talk about the parade, and how in their minds the very next day JFK gets shot; how this impossibly safe and privileged and blinkered world is about to get shredded out of existence for all time; how adulthood comes for you with a smack; it gives the goofiness a certain charm, the minor heft that comes with the love created by nostalgia, that sets it apart from its almost countless imitators. Even this title card is more than just a dark joke about just deserts. It's a hint at the indescribable horrors to come—horrors that only existed in the first place because of villains like this one.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t gotta do shit when it comes to AI.

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 9d

As I split a single bean in three pieces to feed my family, at least I’ll take comfort in knowing that we have the Best Oval Office ever in terms of success and look.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 9d

The MTA should change its motto to “The fuck else you gonna do, walk?”

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 9d

10 pounds of sausage in a 5 pound casing

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 10d

The best character in a movie full of great characters

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Stephanie Crawford @scrawfish.bsky.social · 10d

Being able to repeatedly call Benicio del Toro “sensei” is privilege that I now covet.

Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio. I like how he wore comfy slip ons while doing paperwork while his boots waited under his desk.

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 10d

One Battle After Another is terrific, very funny, and painfully relevant, and also Sean Penn looks like a human catcher’s mitt in it

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 10d

Any time I’m feeling particularly despairing lately I look at this photo

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 10d

Ah yes, like how he courageously and authentically gave into ICE just to avoid going to trial for multiple bribery charges

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10d

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12d

you guys don't mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda

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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 13d

Interesting

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 13d

Finally some good fuckin news

A screen shot of Neil Breen announcing that he’s finished his latest film

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14d

what, did the big bad escalator scare the incredible shrinking president? did it activate your fear of stairs again, you big wet motherfucker? do you need a shitty hamburger and a soda to make it all better?

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