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."
Mother Jones
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I am so tired
My dad picked today to do extremely loud hammer-wall-smashing work on house and I'm broken and can't keep a "normal" sleep schedule, also insomnia from new ADHD meds
Fuck sleep, abolish sleep, may this vyvance revive me
I remember living at home and dad's absolutely are incapable if waiting a single day to do loud house work even if they've been putting it off for years. They have momentum or whatever. Dunno much about vyanase bit it seems to end kutbbeing the same as dexies when the body does whar it do from a brief look, I've found that stuff has legs to it. So if you do too much in order to keep awake, cut what you think you need by half cause otherwise you will overshoot your desired crash time
Good advice tbh. I'm on a fixed dose unfortunately and they gave me kinda high starting dose of 50 mg. Apparently it's equivalent to like 20 mg of dextroamphetamine so I have a very weird energy rn lol
Although... I suppose I could empty half a capsule or something..... nahhh we vibe :3
No crash at all yesterday thankfully, although lasted too long honestly
Gonna clean up my room, make my bed, etc, try to make it as easy as possible to sleep well tonight
So, here's my advice for abusing uppers, chop em up and make a 2-3 lines per pill and hit em every half hour or so. But also like, this will really make the urge to redose major so maybe even 5 small lines. It's a faster briefer stronger hit and honestly I have never enjoyed doing uppers orally, I've just found they work when a longer term but milder up is needed and even then I'd usually snort half the pill to get the quick burst. I cannot overstate how much you'll wanna re-dose past your limit though. I'd even recommend keeping all bit what you set out to try at a friend's house and keep some weed and or booze around to co.e down with. Honestly, I'm just kinda missing speed rn as a former tweaker and my advice is good advice for bad choices but damn I'd really enjoy blasting a boulder or railing a far line rn