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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 · 3h

He built a giant boy, you won’t believe what happened next

A shot from Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein with Oscar Isaac looking up at Jacob Elordi

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 20h

One of my favorite shots from The Exorcist is this one, when Chris is trying to distract herself with some needlepoint while Merrin and Karras are preparing to go into battle with a lesser demon.

Ellen Burstyn doing needlepoint in The Exorcist

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

Sometimes when I eat oatmeal I like to pretend I’m a plucky Victorian orphan.

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

What is the supposed psyop here?

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

Oh, probably.

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

Folks we are not “young and dumb”-ing our way out of excusing a N*zi tattoo

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

Caroline Leventhal can afford to buy her own goddamn Xanax

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

As a matter of fact…

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

People cannot seem to parse that even the best dental insurance doesn’t cover anything beyond the most basic care, and many employers don’t offer it.

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

This goes double if the store is so understaffed that it takes more than a minute or two for someone to come help you with it

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

People who don’t clean up after their dogs should be publicly shamed.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 9d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 12d

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 12d

Alas, not even for this do we “gotta hand it to him”

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 12d

I really like how this mask perfectly captures Waldorf’s famous thousand-yard stare

A very unsettling full head mask of Waldorf from The Muppet Show

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 14d

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Woody Allen is still alive

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 15d

Always thinking about her

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 16d

Who could possibly give a shit

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

Embrace eating shit, dude

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 19d

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

Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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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