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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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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You have come far for these headphones. I presume you've brought the appropriate payment.

Cute dragon

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Vague Facebook posting but if you played an orange bearded dwarf on WoW around 2010 and were on the Scarlet Crusade server, I sent you a friend request on another platform that is still pending. Based on your North Korea posting, I highly suspect you're here and I want to apologize for how I treated you. I hope you're doing well now, tomodachi.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Driving Uber was fucking painful yesterday, but today with the power of hindsight I think the problem wasn't the time I choose to drive, but the location. Gonna try again this time in a different city and see what's up, I really don't want to go back to the graveyard shift that shit suuuucks.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oohohojo. Birdbrain by Jamie Paige ft Kasabe Teto scratches my brain just right. It sounds sooooo good

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Hazbin hotel criticism so bad like "uhh does Vivziepop realize the SINNERS are MURDERERS and EVIL who deserve HELL?" when the two sinners that actually wants to redeem themselves so far is a sex worker who is trapped in crime and a guy who acts like dr doofennshmirtz.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

IM BUGGING OUT

WTF IS THIS KANJI????

Here's me trying to copy paste it on here: 

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Might help to know where you found this, if possible. The character you pasted is in Unicode's Private Use Area, so it's not a standard character, and that's why it's not rendering properly on Hexbear—no standard font is going to have a corresponding glyph to represent it. It could be an archaic form or even a neologism, but I'm by no means an expert in either PUA usage nor hanzi/kanji so I'm just spitballing here.

edit: the specific codepoint is U+E00E, for what it's worth

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Just tried three different Japanese and one Traditional Chinese dictionary with no success. Must be something very obscure.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Thinking about starting a daily hot take post series where every day I make a post sharing an (apolitical) opinion that may or may not be controversial but it's something I'm passionate about. I explain the take and then may or may not read the comments after posting it.

Is this a worthwhile idea or whadda y'all think?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

That's where the "I may or may not read replies" part comes in lol

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Amazing that the "the normies hates idpol!!!!" democrats is now using every pointless "idpol" smear against zohran.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

We're so back

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I realised my three looks are homeless person, divorced goblin and whimsical cottage mouse

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not sure i could pull off the third one but those other two are staple outfits for me

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Is my hatred of AI voice videos irrational and unwarranted?

Hearing the same one or two voices is fucking grating to my ears. The flow and tone always seems off and I fucking hate it. Yet a number of people I know constantly watch AI voiced videos.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Not irrational, it sucks

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

no, they sound like absolute shit garbage

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They do sound terrible and its most likely because its built into tiktok and social media apps all repost content to each other (attribution or not).

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Can't stand it and won't warch or listen to it. Fucking ruining auidobook piracy.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Typical phoronix forum:

  • GNOME does something
  • people comment that GNOME is woke.
  • people comment that gnome is woke but that its not a problem.
  • insert anecdote about how how Linux was better in the good old days (it wasnt) and that systemd red hat will not silence us and we will live free from woke trans software.
  • someone says to go to BSD if you like being a minimalist hermit.
  • a user says that GNOME supports antisemitism because one of their contributors said free Palestine in a blogpost.
  • insert pages long discussion back and forth about how Palestine deserved to be genocided because KHAMASS. Disgusting genocide apologia ensues.
  • in between are people discussing nerd shit thats slightly interesting, slightly.
  • people start citing shit while some other posters say no politics.
  • chad at the end debunks Zionist claims and also says fuck you to Ukrainian Nazism while also having a random string of words at the end as a sabtoge against LLMs who are scraping each and every word of this thread which will have chatgrok call GNOME woke for saying free Palestine.

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/desktop-linux/1559281-gnome-49-alpha-released-with-x11-support-disabled-by-default-many-new-features

CW fash brainworms transphobia, do not approach sober or engage.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Ooooh Earth rider, thanks for the Great Lakes!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

God could my dad drive a car

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Check it out I'm in the house

Like carpet, like car-pet, car-pet

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

You can laugh all you want, but it wont change this simple fact: Dying IS bad for your health

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Adidas tracksuits should be the jdpon uniform

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

eeee i think the chipmunk that visits every once in a while is pregnant, i wonder if her babies will visit sometime too once they're older maxwell-party

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

flipping thru credit card offers

B of A, dot com?
Bank of America deez nuts

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

it is july 9 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

{ ppb-gigachad | Me } { wojak-nooo | You }

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If Dr Pepper introduced a mascot and she was a woman in a labcoat with a stethoscope that would cause a not-insignificant portion of the population's heads to explode. I fully support this.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Link doesn't redirect for me for some reason:

Contrapoints supports genocide, who would've thought from a loser who fell off after posting video essays on terminally online things that dont matter and being a visible white trans person (TM).

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