What Rion wants most is connection. “I just want to be part of a community again,” he told us.

We’re organizing through a Signal chat to coordinate housing, resources, and job support: bit.ly/rionsupport

Read more: bit.ly/rionsfullstory

Venmo: @sarahfullerton (converted directly to cash for Rion)

He’s an artist who spends his days carving walking sticks and coloring beautiful drawings. When I saw him recently, he said he was taking Atlas “back to his homeland,” where he found him. It was the sweetest thing. 🐾

Rion grew up in a military family and lived with his mother in East Oakland. When he was 48, his mother was murdered, a loss that sent him into deep grief and eventually onto the streets. Since then he’s endured incredible hardship, including a broken back and most recently a violent attack.

Probably worth pointing out that the reason this meme image goes hard in imagining utopia is because there are no cars and tons of greenery

crying that this is real and reproducible

So obvious they’re using LLMs to “do” all the work for them. Our infrastructure will look like a hallucinated AI shitpost. God help us.

I adore Food Not Bombs. I love all of them.

They fed me and gave me veggies when I was hungry.

And we are all welcome at my local F.N.B. regardless of financial or immigrant status or any other thing.

Hard to think of a better criminal record “stain” than violence against a Nazi. The gesture is itself a call to violence—any violent reaction in return is by definition self-defense.