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Subaru Vagabond

@subaruvagabond.com

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Queer ascetic nomad, traveling around the US in Subarus since 2015. Reading a lot of books. Weird abolitionist, anti-prohibition, AI-hating tendencies. Went to school for psych & math, working in software begrudgingly

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Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · Nov 17

The most important thing about me is that in 2015, I gave away almost everything I owned that didn't fit into a Subaru Outback and entered homelessness, as a nomad. Thus my tag, which really started as the name of my blog where I wrote of my travels.

I got really into long distance hiking, too

Anza Borrego Badlands Route (Full Loop)

I woke Thursday morning to temperatures hovering around freezing, cold as hell in Blair Valley. Struggling to gain the motivation to pack up my gear and begin heading out, I delayed as the sun rose…

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Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 5h

Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

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

White House platforming a guy who films people w/o consent & has 14 felony charges for identity theft (his own unhoused “clients”) and fraud, described as “targeting & victimizing” vulnerable people.

In addition to lying about harm reduction, he pushes the false fentanyl “door knobbing” conspiracy.

Karoline Leavitt:
Highly recommend following independent journalist@kevinvdahlgren, whose reporting on the ground in Portland really showcases the horrors taking place in the city every day. Portland clearly needs help.
It's a shame their Democrat elected officials are resisting it, simply because it's being offered by President Trump.

Quote tweet of Kevin Dahlgren:
This is right out of a twilight zone episode. Three people completely motionless, and one of them is standing. All three are nodded out on fentanyl. This was filmed in Delta Park Portland.

Kevin Dahlgren @kevinvdahlgren

"Door knobbing" is when you put fentanyl powder on a door knob of a business that an unsuspecting customer will touch and potentially consume" A fentanyl user describing the behaviors of certain
"mean" addicts and what a "nice dealer" is.
Fentanyl has flooded the market and

Kevin Dahlgren @kevinvdahlgren

user. Other severe addicts are aware of this and has seen them starting to lick the doorknobs of grocery stores in hopes of consuming the powder.
I don't know how widespread this is but I think door handles should be cleaned regularly in concentrated areas of drug activity.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 1h

*reads an entire article about Trump using "common sense" the way he does*

I want to shoot my fucking brain into a million pieces

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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 14d

My friend and colleague @nabarund.bsky.social !!!! www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 3h

But my annoyance with all of this started with studying addiction. So I blame studying addiction for breaking my brain. But also, mostly, it's just that capitalism is a fucking schizophrenic mess and liberals annoy the shit out of me about it.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 3h

But you see this on fucking everything with capitalists. Oh, this industry doing bad? Well, why don't these dirty consumers pay them more. And don't you dare suggest it's the CEO making $5m a year and replacing everyone in the industry with AI that doesn't even work. How dare you mention that!

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 3h

It just doesn't actually make any sense to analyse that as, "How do we treat individual cases of addiction to reduce ODs?" That's fucking nonsense. That's not how ODs even work by any fucking data we actually have. And we have a lot!!

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 3h

E.g. most ODs are accidentally taking too much because naivete or unpredictable dosing (latter keeps being shown to be primarily caused by prohibition policing). Not because they're a helpless addict--those hypothetical people have the actual preventative effect against OD lol.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 3h

It *really is* the whole OD crisis and looking at the numbers around it versus political arguments made over it. The stats just don't make any sense to be pushing "force all the addicts into treatment" as a prevention against OD. It's just completely nonsense with even a shallow review of the data.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 3h

One of the ways that studying addiction broke my brain is that I just can't with capitalist analysis a lot any more. I'm gonna have to explain this one, lol ...

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 3h

These fed boys are such fucking cowards.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

This photo.

@sfstandard.com #SFO
sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 5h

This is another one of those examples of how bluesky is an actual social media

Was reading an article earlier about how people use 'Like' on other social media platforms to 'program' the algorithm picking posts for their For You Page, but... there's no algorithm like that here.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Very scary) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 5h

Reminder that this website has NO ALGORITHM

a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 4h

Coworker is currently having a day at it over a driver for a barcode scanner that attached to our system, and it's just like ... Dude, either we realize we're not that strict in this system as like a med pump lol, or we don't support barcode scanners lmfao

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 4h

The fun of working as a software engineer in medical spaces is everyone on the team has a fucking day about "The FDA is gonna fuck us if we don't course correct this issue." And like 9/10 of them turn out overblown because we're not a device attached to a patient.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 4h

They talk like we have 3+ parties while demanding we act like there's only 2, on the one hand. And on the other hand, they create a "center" by creating a nonexistent Boogeyman "left" and then downplaying the fascists on the right as not possibly worse than their left boogeyman

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 4h

The thing that fucking drives me bonkers about the centrists and the "We must move to the center to win" is that they all get feverishly obsessed that there can only possibly be 2 parties. So. Center of what?! They literally just don't have ANY principles.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 5h

Mike Johnson is too busy clutching his children and crying out of pure fear that George Soros is going to steal them from him to know anything that's actually happening with anything

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 7h

I gotta be honest, man...

If you're attitude about... Honestly, if your attitude about *anything* is "Oh well, might as well live with it now," you don't get to call anyone else "doomer", and if you do, we all get to call you a full of shit doomer in returns

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · Aug 27

Or letting them die of overdose: 3/
www.naccho.org/uploads/down...

Encampment sweeps may
account for as many as 24%
of all deaths among unhoused
people who use drugs.10
Studies of death records
show that unhoused people
who were regularly forced to
relocate experienced
70-90% higher rates of
overdose death compared to
those who were not.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you have to just gasp in horror.

It's not that she just ignores her own family history. It's that she understands it, has discussed it with her actual refugee grandfather, & still thinks he's not just wrong, but "nuts", & her vile exclusionary racism is good.

Completely conscious evil.

Papillon19 @papillon19.bsky.social · 1d

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 1d

How many strikes against a candidate will it take for people to say "maybe this guy's not the guy" ?

How many strikes would it take if he weren't a white man

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 14h

Dracula is just so damn good haha

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 16h

Lol my parents were like the best and worst in all the ways. Sometimes they just accidentally did the best *for me* after any failing by just giving me tools to do silly shit like learn to code and give me whatever books I asked for to deal with it all on my own terms.lmfao

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 16h

My parents were smart, but my dad will tell you himself he got TF out of software engineering after seeing what I was doing as his young kid and going, "Yup, I need to find something less smart than that." And I think that's rad.

Subaru Vagabond @subaruvagabond.com · 16h

Like, I know I have CPTSD and shit or whatever, but I just do not, still, get the argument that parents should be able to help their kids with their homework. And it's not just that I'm anti-homework (I mean, it *is*....). It's that your kids deserve to be smarter than you by means of being your kid