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Ok folks, alert time with an action plan. It is apparently legal now for ICE to enter k-12 schools. Most American schools have a lockdown system that doesn't allow the public into the front door without someone buzzing you in, and they frown on activism in their halls by outside agitators. (Rightly so.)

However, what you can do, during a time of calm, is make an appointment to visit people in the administration, give them your number and tell them that you can be at the school in Y, (Y=time from house, etc.), so that you can document ICE and the kids.

Police cannot stop you from filming, although they may try, so the more of you in the phone chain, the better.

We may/may not be able to stop them from kidnapping babies to sell into slavery, but we can sure as fuck document them doing it, and show the faces of the victims so their family and lawyers can identify them.
#DoNotObey #Resist #Document. There will be justice, but we will need evidence.

dcreport.org/2025/04/19/ice-ca

DCReport.org · ICE Can Now Enter K-12 SchoolsICE agents were blocked from two LA schools amid rising fears of student arrests after new federal policies ended protections.

VELOCIPEDE SCHOOL!

WE BEG LEAVE TO INFORM THE citizens of Santa Cruz that we have opened a VELOCIPEDE SCHOOL in the Hall of R. K. Whidden, which is open day and night. Instructions given, and VELOCIPEDES hired, either to be used in the Hall or on the streets. The Hall is surrounded with seats, and ladies are invited as spectators.

Any number of Velocipeds, either for man or child, always on hand.

H. F. Lawrence & Co.

— Santa Cruz Sentinel 1869/4/24

Anyone with #LibreOffice experience that knows how to style images using the context "styles" pallet? I have good success with the text styles, but applying a style to multiple graphics causes them to ignore the aspect ratio. Even with that setting selected. I suspect the context style has a fixed size for height and width regardless of the size of the image it's being applied to.

Also, can I be sure each image has it's local properties cleared?

Today is #DocumentFreedomDay!

The first rule of Document #Freedom Day is that we talk about open #document formats and tools that allow documents to be accessed, edited and shared by anyone, without restrictions or reliance on specific software or vendor lock-in.

I wrote the post below to talk about the #free and #open formats and #opensource tools that I am using for the #writing #typesetting and #layout of Return of the Ripper.

kickstarter.com/projects/micha

What are some of your favorite #Open #Document formats? Do you use #csv, #ical, #html and #css, odt, xml, json, #wav, #flac regularly? What #Free formats do you rely on? You can also use plain text files for a variety of functions from telling stories and taking notes to creating #todo.txt or similar files or #emacs org mode files. Have a favorite use for plain text files? Share it with us. Join us in celebrating #DocumentFreedomDay on March 26, 2025. #DFF #FLOSS