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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It is so fucking hot and no I will never ever ever ever stop complaining about it. Heat index of 102 in mid-October. Get me the fuck out of here.

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helen nooroni @helnoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a millennial I'm convinced that if I watch a single tiktok I will instantly crumble into a fine dust

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have the theme song in my head constantly. They really drill it in.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How do I get a fake laptop job? Why you all gotta gatekeep? What is the secret?

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have tried it many times and it has never worked for me.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[Nick Cage voice:] I have never had pasta turn out dry. Not ever! Not one time! But seriously, who are these people sloshing water all over their food? What are we doing?

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Think I also tried “Shameless.”

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I put this one on multiple mix CDs and it still didn’t work out for me.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Big fan of Cosmic Cafe and Cafe Izmir.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The smart thing would be to stay here until the economy changes (ha!) but please please please feel free to SEND ME ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY JOB POSTINGS IN YOUR AREA. I could easily be enticed to jump ship.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is mid-September. It is 101 degrees. The ground is cracked. Even the bamboo is dead. My yard is a sad hellscape. Please send me job postings in your area.

It’s 3:19 in Austin, Texas, and it’s 101 degrees.

The ground is dry. All the grass and leaves are dead. There are big cracks in the dirt from dryness.

A large area of running bamboo plants, about 15 feet high. They are all dead. The grass is also dead, and the ground is cracked and dry.

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b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whenever I get to spend time simply shelving at work I can feel my mental health instantly improving. If there were such a thing as a full-time shelver job with benefits, it would be my dream job. But in America, if you have a job that doesn't involve making decisions, we don't let you earn a living

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The disorganization of pharmacies in 2026 sure makes it feel like society could collapse any second.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I agree with the person who said I wouldn’t be ready for the Elizabeth Holmes documentary if I didn’t train first. I’m putting in the time.

From Twitter user @ashley_n_willis:

If this Elizabeth Holmes doc is the first time you're hearing about Nathan Fielder, you are NOT ready to just jump right in. You need to prep. You need to train. You need to build up your secondhand embarrassment tolerance first. Nathan Fielder is advanced-level discomfort.

Start with Nathan for You. Nathan for You is the gateway drug. Build up your tolerance for wanting to crawl out of your own skin, then proceed.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I picked a great moment to watch all four seasons of Nathan for You for the first time. (I just finished season 3, where Nathan walks a wire 80 feet above Los Angeles wearing full prosthetics and pretending to be another guy so that the other guy can claim the glory and get out of a rut.)

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Where the FUCK is my autism car????????????

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I want to live somewhere where the month ending in “-ember” actually means something.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 31/08/2026

refreshing every tab on my computer over and over in the hope that one of the pages will suddenly read that all my physical and emotional needs have been permanently met

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 22/08/2026

Make sure you throw one lol in there for plausible deniability

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Piranesi audiobook read by Chiwetel Ejiofor is fucking GREAT.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Now that I don’t have the person I would normally text about this sort of thing, I am coming to Bluesky.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Unselfishly, my stomach is in knots for his kids. My nieces and nephew are all sensitive and smart and now their world is going to fall apart because my brother is a self-centered asshole. I feel absolutely ill.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have essentially zero real-life friends, and I had been looking forward to seeing him for weeks. Now I feel like a friend has died, and I’m more alone than ever.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Little did I know, he had already been in Austin for days, carrying on with some hussy. (He had told the family he was working at an artists’ retreat in Corsicana.) He hadn’t visited Austin in about 8 years, and he seized on visiting his baby nephew as an excuse to come here for his stupid affair.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Selfishly for me as well, he had offered to come visit me tomorrow and babysit for a little bit so I could leave the house for the first time in weeks. I thought this was very nice of him.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Now… I guess I’m just stuck here. I don’t exactly have time and money to explore places to move. (Maybe we’ll still go there. I don’t know.)

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I had been planning to move to his literal neighborhood in Baltimore so my partner and I could exist in an affordable, walkable city (with actual seasons! and leaves that change colors! and no tech losers!), close to family, on the eastern train line.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today my whole family found out my dickhead brother has been having an affair. He has a 2-, a 5-, and a 7-year old (and a 14-year old from a previous marriage), and I want to kick him right in the nuts.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Aspiring to this level of alt text.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Poor guy is from my hometown. (I am pretty confident no one in my hometown knows who he is.)

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We need to open the door. Get on the floor. We need to walk the dinosaur.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I feel like society would benefit and heal greatly right now from the release of a hit novelty song.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How dare you intrigue me like this.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It does need one more category up there, I feel.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good thing to keep in mind as we enter the dog days of summer. (Please get me away from this place.)

The Austin 10-day forecast. Every single day is 100 to 103 degrees. Please get me out of here.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Does a day go by where I don’t think about the UT football urine chart? (No.)

Texas Longhorns “hydration chart,” where the lightest colors are “championship” levels, and the darker colors are “selfish teammate” and “you are a bad guy.”

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I was one of these dorks in grad school. (I loved every second of it.) I still have my little ninja-toe shoes around here somewhere…

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There are a few things left, but I’m pretty sure there’s a city ordinance to eliminate them all by 2030.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m going to try to reverse-engineer it, but it’s a drink only for people who think eating beets and drinking margaritas are too cumbersome as separate activities.

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Gripe Soda 🍇 @gripesoda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every single summer I say I can’t do another. (This has happened 15 times.) I’m hanging in there (mostly)!

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