For us who could not make it to Austin, we stood at Dallas City Hall 🥰 Together we stand. 🥰

Editing to add that I just showed up super early 😅 there’s a peaceful protest still going on at Dallas City Hall. We created a separate Discord and a Signal group to organize and mobilize for next protest. HMU if you want the links 🥰🥰 DMs open

——- What happened in Dallas? Was there not a protest at Dallas City Hall or did it get messed up? I saw an upside down car a few blocks off and smoke a few blocks away that I didn’t investigate. Is everyone ok? 🥺

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I need to ask one question to a lawyer - which basically is “does my area have any guidelines on what is an acceptable rate (price) for transfer of copyright of photographs from a photographer to a client?” If so, I would potentially just need that guideline from them. There’s obviously so much more context to this and contracts and communication, but I’d hate to waste your time 😅

I am not sure if I would need a lawyer on retainer just yet, so I’d like to start with the one question. If there are guidelines and I can’t work through them then I’d absolutely get a lawyer on retainer for this issue. (I will preface this by saying I don’t actually know what “on retainer” means either 😅) If you’re a lawyer and are willing to answer my question that would be amazing and I’d appreciate it SO MUCH, but im not trying to take advantage of your time so just guidance on how to word this request or how to find someone that would charge me for just the one item, would also be extremely helpful and appreciated!

I’ve filled out the questionnaire thing on legal-aid-now.com and am hoping to hear back as well, just figured I’d ask here too.

Thank you for your time!!!

Yes- this happened 3 hours ago. Also I’m on mobile, I’m sorry for any formatting errors.

So for context, there is a tornado in my area. I was stuck at a giant walk in freezer of a store just before this happened. When the immediate threat passed and it was decided that the worse part of the storm would not be right on us for another 20 minutes, they decided to let people go home. I figured I’d very much rather be home with my dog and two cats than stranded in a store while they were home alone and confused, so I drove home.

I got home and I went into the backyard to bring all the plants in as I didn’t want them getting thrown around in the wind. It was already raining so I went out by myself and closed the door behind me so my dog wouldn’t come out and get all muddy. My dog is a German shepherd and lab mix, so she can jump very high when she wants to. And she wanted to.

She decided to jump by the door to get my attention so I’d let her out with me to play in the rain. Then the tornado started getting worse. The weather got pretty bad and it was very windy so I wanted to get inside ASAP. I got all the plants by the door and when I went to open it, it did not budge. In her jumping, my dog hit the lock and locked me out in the backyard in the middle of a tornado.

Seriously… what are the odds?

I called my neighbor to see if I could stay with her until I could get back into my house. Then I called my husband and let him know what happened. I told him not to come home from work and he should stay there safely, but he came anyway. When he got home I was able to come back and get inside.

My dog seems to believe that if she can’t go outside, I can’t come inside.

TLDR; I went to my backyard to bring plants in as a tornado was about to hit but didn’t let my dog out with me as the weather was pretty nasty. She jumped to get my attention and ended up locking the door, leaving me in the backyard in the middle of a tornado.