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On this day in 1898, the Battle of Virden began when armed members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) surrounded a train full of strikebreakers and exchanged fire with company guards. 13 people were killed, dozens more wounded.

After a local chapter of the UMW began striking at a mine in Virden, Illinois, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company hired black strikebreakers from Birmingham, Alabama and shipped them to Virden by train.

The company hired armed detectives or security guards to accompany the strikebreakers, and an armed conflict broke out when armed miners surrounded the train as it arrived in town. A total of four detectives and seven striking mine workers were killed, with five guards, thirty miners, and an unrecorded number of strikebreakers wounded.

After this incident, Illinois Governor John Tanner ordered the National Guard to prevent any more strikebreakers from coming into the state by force. The next month, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company relented and allowed the unionization of its workers.

"When the last call comes for me to take my final rest, will the miners see that I get a resting place in the same clay that shelters the miners who gave up their lives on the hills of Virden, Illinois...They are responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America."

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Playing Cyberpunk 2077 again purely because I am in love with the French girl from the DLC

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[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sad posting. Long

I'm the type of person who likes to share life moments and nice things. I also love if others do this, I'm the person who never minded people posting their morning coffee vibes on FB.

So we have this family chat. I don't have friends other than work buddies who I don't really socialize with outside work. I am audhd and don't mind the solitude. But, I often share stuff I think might be nice to the fam in our chat. And they most often can't be arsed to even react in any way. They do react to the posts of my younger siblings or the posts my dad makes, but my posting is such a given that it is just there. This aligns with our family dynamic anyway.

My youngest sibling especially who I am sort of a surrogate mom for typically never even looks at what I post, I see him pop online for a split second after I say something and know he didn't even bother to look at it or read it. Often resulting in not answering my questions as well, which is super frustrating for planning anything with him. Question like "so what time you will be here" anf he just doesn't bother, often leaving me hanging for days. It aligns with the way he treats me outside of the chat too. I am always there for him, always have been. (Tbf he is now coming to terms with his undiagnosed adhd, but paradoxically his unmasking is making him even more toxic. Not much masking was ever demanded of him in the first place, but he definitely doesn't see that or how different it has been for us older siblings, both afab.)

Then they all say how nice it is that we are this close and have this active family chat when we do see each other, even though they rarely keep it active.

So it makes me feel sad when it happens. I have tried to stop sharing stuff with them, but turns out I can't. I don't really have any social media accounts to share stuff in anymore and those made me feel even more sad and alienated. I find it to be a bit soulcrushing that my 40 second long tea brewing video that I tried to make very cozy for them is too long and too much to even bother to look at. Me sharing that out of joy of just having nice tea is something I think their middle class brains can't see because in our fam I'm the one who has been piss poor for decades and they haven't. When I can finally enjoy a treat that is probably a given to them, nobody cares. Not that I am saying they should, but why is it so hard to just be kind and nice. You can react to a thing just because its kind, probably feels nice when others do it for you so why not extend that even if you don't care one bit about tea or the autumn leaf colours outside your sisters house that day.

But clearly there is no time to push a button once, because they are too busy watching tiktoks by people they don't even know, doing the grind or gaming. Yet I am expected to look, comment and react to all the posts they make.

Not looking for advice, just venting a bit.

[–] magi@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

rambleFirstly I'm not going to offer advice. This touched me, I know what it feels like to feel ignored. I don't have family to share things with and spent a lot of my childhood unable to. Now I'm much older I struggle to share the most basic of feelings because of my alienation. The bear site is the only place I talk generally. I'm not looking sympathy either, I just hope at some point your family can appreciate your tea making. I know how hard it can be to stay positive, to continue to be kind and nice. Anyhow I've rambled enough, thank you for your post.

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't like how whenever I'm holding nuts I get a powerful urge to swallow then. I know I can't digest metal and my body will fight me on getting them down but I wanna try still

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Saw someone with an official customer listened plate that read Blahaj today. This shark is really hitting a cultural nerve

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[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

what is it about phone calls specifically that fucks with even the most well-managed cases of social anxiety

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

I think it's because nothing good ever comes from telecommunications. It's either your boss, bill collectors, scams, or a relative you don't like. We're all of us already frayed to the point of snapping so the sudden unexpected noise and spike of fear that you're about to be told to come in on your day off provokes a constant vigilance and preparation to flee, and after twenty years of economic failure and alienation no one retains a desire to communicate by such means.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Banning πŸ”» as a symbol is Nazi-coded. Just like the downward-pointing pink triangle, it is people inverting the image of being a political prisoner.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao meant to take my ADHD med and took a sleeping pill instead this will be fun

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[–] blight@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

I don’t know if it’s intended, but the name β€œxitter” would be pronounced β€œshitter” in Portuguese. That’s funny I think.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Kittenposting πŸ’• πŸˆβ€β¬› πŸˆβ€β¬› πŸˆβ€β¬› πŸˆβ€β¬› πŸ’•

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would this be a good time to tell you all that this hexbear account is the real successor of ZA/UM and all my posts are spiritual successors to Disco Elysium?

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

olimar-point pikmin-carry-lspeed-dont-laughpikmin-carry-r pikmin-onion
FWIIII ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

At my family’s, they’re all reactionary and it’s funny hearing them talk about how much hotter shit is these days than when they were young but also that climate change is fake

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ranking of Kings Mangaka sued someone for defamation because they called them a right winger pedophile. Now right wing pedophile weebs are circlejerking over it in supper of the mangaka

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just thought of a phrase that instantly puts you on the top of a watchlist

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Looking into tech security shit (as an idiot who does not know numbers) is unironically like staring into a yawning void that stares back, and the void says shit like "proprietary firmware blobs" and "feds run the exit nodes". It's nice to get a little perspective on how bad it really is that way.

I FUCKING HATE COPS

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Voting for Kamala when the Dems are actively perpetrating a genocide because β€œTrump would be worse” is voting for Adolf Hitler because Joseph Goebbels would be worse

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Libs don't know history and definitely don't know who Goebbels is

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

kill the cracker in your head

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

And you think commenting in a Hexbear megathread entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?

[–] TheChemist@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I watched Coraline on Tubi. I also recently got home for Fall Break.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Is hawk tuah the dumbest and shittiest meme of recent months?

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[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

reworked the ending of my First Real Screenplay (i.e. when i came back to writing as a full adult) and also made some other changes, feelin pretty good about things overall big-cool and to think i'd quasi disowned this one!

still need to find my next project though. it's been two damn years! oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Wild to me how a hurricane will fucking tear miles and miles of a golf course to shreds and instead of being a wake up call into how much of a waste of land that is, the powers that be are shipping in people from all over to assist in the restoration efforts

Death to America

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Go to for adding veggies in meals is roasted cabbage and roasted cauliflower, total for both little under 5 dollars but I can add them to any meal afterwards to round out my nutrition. I sometimes go with broccoli too but depends if I can find it, broccoli goes by fast at my nearest store.

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Girls be like β€œI know a place” and then she takes you to a place.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Wish all of my oomfies a great weekend!

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did it Cowbee, I'm done lea-resigned Finally!

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Watching the JJ Abrams Star Trek being like did these mfs even watch an episode of TOS before making this

[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

self conscious that i came off unserious on my PSL call deeper-sadness like idk they wanted me to have more organizing experience or to ask more questions or have a firmer grounding in theory or ideas about praxis or something. they did give me a resource for a way to start getting involved soon though, maybe it's in my head. sometimes worry my sensitive/anxious temperament would just make me a liability in an organizing context too though deeper-sadness

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[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I gotta read more theory, or my partner is gonna become a bigger tankie than me. And before you askβ€”yes, it is a competition.

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