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On this day in 1912, a riot broke out in Grabow, Louisiana when gunfire was exchanged between organizing lumber workers and private gunmen hired by the Galloway Lumber Company, just one event in the Louisiana-Texas Lumber War. The clash left three union workers and one company gunman dead, wounding an estimated fifty more.

The event took place in the context of workers in the sawmill town of Grabow joining the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (shown), a branch of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union (LWIU), itself affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

On July 7th, 1912, the union workers held a series of rallies at several different company towns, including Bon Ami and Carson, alongside Grabow.

The group that went to Grabow, around 200 people, spontaneously decided to hold a rally with several speeches - labor leader Arthur L. Emerson spoke on top of a wagon to roughly 25 non-union men, plus the additional union men who had come with him.

Shots began between these workers and a group of four others, including Galloway Lumber owner John Galloway, in the local mill office, all of whom had later been found to be drinking before the incident. It is not known for certain which group fired first. Three union men were killed alongside one member of the private company security force. Approximately 50 more were wounded.

Over the next few days, more than more than 60 workers were taken into custody by police. Although the mill owner himself was arrested, he was released without charges soon afterward. Sixty-five of the timber workers' group were brought up on charges ranging from inciting a riot to murder.

The IWW worked to aid the incarcerated workers, with "Big Bill" Haywood fundraising for their legal fund. The trial lasted until November 8th, and its jury returned a not guilty verdict for all of the union men. All of those arrested were set free.

Although they had limited success in Louisiana, the LWIU successfully organized later, winning an eight-hour day and vastly improved working conditions in the Pacific Northwest after a 1917 strike. Today, there is a historical marker at the site of the riot, located on what is now the property of DeRidder Airport, Louisiana.

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[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Queer dating is the best

CW: SexTwo of the non-binary QTs I was talking to were already talking to each other, and we found out about this by all joining a discord with each other. Now we're doing a threesome when I have the money to leave the house lol. I haven't been laid in two fucking years, so I'm hype.

Let's see what other trouble unmedicated Leyla gets herself into this week

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

wild that there's a whole category of drink that doesn't have a name, but we signal that a drink belongs to that category by naming it "Dr _____" or "Mr ____".

If a company introduced a "Ms ____" to the market, would conservatives go nuts about inserting politics into soft drinks?

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They might. But I think It's more likely a "Ms." Drink would just be a new flavor profile. Ms. Pibb, now with bubblegum!

Maybe Dr. Pepper was a woman this whole time.

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Twirling a lock of hair envisioning "Mx Pepper"

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

More housemate shit CW: pedophilia

I just roasted the fuck out of my roommate in front of everybody for playing some hentai-brained bullshit song that makes references to "cunny" and I just lost my shit at them. They started trying to turn it around on me and the other housemates for making sexual jokes, and I just said "yeah I draw the line at being a pedophile, deal with it". This is the same person who is faking being an addict for a place to stay, constantly fucking yapping about the most mind numbing shit possible. Now that I know they're a pedophile, I'm going to have even less tolerance for their shit now.

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Should I become an arsenal fan for the bit?

bin laden was a gooner. consider the implications of this

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Just saw an ad for some golf bullshit online. It was a puased video I didn't watch but the tagline was 'think smarter, not harder'. The axiom, which is borderline religion to me as a cook is 'WORK smarter, not harder'. 'Think smart not hard' doesn't make sense.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i just remembered pressure cookers are a thing and i think tomorrow im gonna use mine to caramelize the shit out of some onions without it taking a hundred years

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[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Oh boy I'm fucked, my Medicaid ran out. Time to see how long I can continue paying for treatment for schizophrenia without insurance πŸ™ƒ

[–] DoomBloomDialectic@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yeah i think i'm gonna just give up on trying to have my adhd medicated. it was a nice few month window into what i'm like when i'm not just a brainfog zombie but these backlogs are intolerable. capitalism should just turn me into fucking hamburger i'd be more useful to it that way.

fuck this shit man i hate this shit so fucking much.

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[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I saw some fucked up stuff this morning that ruined my day, and I am always reluctant to tell anyone when this kind of thing happens. Telling someone else isn't going to make it better for me, it will only surely make their day worse. So instead someone friendly will ask how I'm doing, and I'll just say fine while trying to hold down the doomjak , and that's what really gets me. Given enough time it's all going to fade into the background noise of the awful shit going on all the time anyway I guess

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

really enjoying the feature in kde where if I wiggle the mouse the cursor gets bigger and if I keep wiggling it keeps getting bigger and bigger until it fills the whole screen.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

bob vylan fukken rules why dont I hear about cool bands earlier

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

just test rode an electric motorcycle. holy shit experiencing pure SPEED like that is almost a religious experience. There's no vibrations, no shifting, no delay, no smell and the only sound is the futuristic "whirrrrrrrr" and the wind in your face.

e-bikes offer a similar type of fun to be sure, but under and over 25 mph are two totally different worlds.

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[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

October last year. I tapped the back of a truck and it busted my bumper. I go back to driving without further analysis, the hit made my hood go loose and smashed my windshieldπŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

So I ziptie it down with like 4 zipties and I go back on the road, the zipties break and my windshield smashes.

So. I put like 8 zipties, thinking no way will this break. Then my windshield smashes again, this time completely cracking it up.

Im a big dumbass for this, one of my biggest problems is never thinking the worst thing that could happen can definitely happen

My dad aligned the hood back up, I just kept driving with a fucked up windshield since the roof was badly dented. This fix was like 5000 dollars to replace the roof.

Last week because of all the rain and heat, out of nowhere the glass up top started to sink. Next thing you know theres a big hole up on top and this happened like overnight. I used flex tape to cover it up and keep water from getting in the car. I was freaking out about it cuz i needed to get a car asap because who knows when the glass finally collapses on itself.

I literally found and bought a 4000 dollar prius with 160k miles the next day. Haha

Moral of the story. Make sure you always have a couple hundred on you for a tow truck. When the accident happened I didn’t have a dollar. Or use more than 8 zipties to hold a hood down. Or just keep a hammer in the car.

This is why I always have 9 zip ties in my ass

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Really really feeling like everyone will be worse off this time next year, then worse the year after, and so on

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is a bit of Twitter return to form, so much of Twitter recently has been just nazi rallies that I kind of miss when it was just sub-β€œwhat’s the deal with airline food” level observations wrapped with (white people)/men be like.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

There are literally no wild animals in about a mile radius of my dorm because of all the outdoor cats and barely restrained dogs. Someone maybe possibly saw a fox and now there's panic that it's gonna eat all the cats.
Pet owners are stupid creatures

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I want to be in love so bad but I don't think I'm capable.

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[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago
[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I had a weird as fuck dream last night that I was a an actual taxi car in New York and I refused to stop to pick up passengers because I was grossed out by the idea of them crawling inside of me.

Beep beep.

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just saw someone unironcally say "lesser of two evils is about not making perfect the enemy of the good".

How does someone think this, type it out, see it on screen, and hit post with ever noticing the obvious contradiction?

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

I finally thought of a use for AI.

Knowledge fight episodes but every instance of Jordan talking about China is replaced by calming music. This way no real human will have to listen to his incoherent takes in order to cut them manually.

Just bought an old prius and I swear this one of the coolest cars to exist

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Watched Ballerina and damn keanu reeves cant really deliver lines lol

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[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone else in the USA notice food getting expensive as hell this last month? My grocery trips are more frequent and more expensive lately.

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[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

salads need to be bigger than you think to be filling

so fucking full i can even imagine eating food for the rest of my life

im used to making these for groups i had no idea how much i overshot but then i didnt think itd keep well so i pushed thru

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

I usually make too much salad but then think "this is just salad, it won't keep me full long enough" so I eat it all and then can't move

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Rode my motorcycle in short sleeves today for like three hours, I don't recommend it now I've got both wind and sun burns on my forearms.

[–] SterlingPooper@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Needlessly complicated trying to download a fucking podcast as an audio file in the year 2025

Let's just stop with feeds. Give me my podcasts via a thumb drive in a envelope that's tossed over a really tall fence smh

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