On this day in 1917, the "July Days" began in Petrograd, Russia when soldiers, sailors, and workers took up arms against the Russian Provisional Government, chanting "All Power to the Soviets" and holding Viktor Chernov hostage.
The July Days took place in the context of growing discontent against the Provisional Government and increasing support for the Bolsheviks. A few months earlier, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin gave his "April Theses", coming out in support of an armed, proletarian insurrection. By July, rank-and-file Bolsheviks were advocating overthrowing the Provisional Government.
On the morning of July 16th, after a disastrous offensive on World War I's Eastern Front, armed soldiers and workers marched through the streets of Petrograd, to the Tauride Palace. These demonstrators marched under the slogan "All Power to the Soviets", firing their rifles into the air and commandeering vehicles.
The following day at Tauride Palace, the crowd demanded to see a government official, and the Soviet Leaders sent out Viktor Chernov, a prominent member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. When he tried to calm the crowd, they seized him instead, with one protester famously shouting, "Take power, you son of a bitch, when it is handed to you!" He was released upon the urging on Leon Trotsky.
The military authorities sent troops against the demonstrators, leading to many arrests and deaths. The government disarmed workers, disbanded revolutionary military units, destroyed the headquarters of the Bolshevik Central Committee were destroyed, and ordered the arrest of Lenin, Trotsky, and other Bolshevik leaders.
Lenin was able to flee to Finland, while Trotsky was arrested alongside Anatoly Lunacharsky and Lev Kamenev. Although the Bolshevik Party's power was temporarily limited in the crackdown, they came to power in the October Revolution just a few months later.
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Was looking up landlords sharing “horror” stories to get ideas and found this gem:
The former tenant supposedly had put the fridge at the top of the stairs and attached a rope around the fridge and then tied it to the front door downstairs on the inside. This way when someone opened the front door it pulled the rope and the fridge came barreling down the stairs.
They live in the home alone universe
Last April, there was a homophobic guy who wanted to organise an anti lgbt protest in a city somewhat close to me. A small counterprotest was organised by, and in, this queer discord I'm in.
The guy showed up alone, there were 20 counter protestors
My 13 mo old nephew has been sick for a week. We thought he just had a bug he couldn't shake, but my brother and sister in law took him to the hospital because he wasn't keeping fluids down, and it turns out he has a giant tumor in his brain. Got the mri results back today, and it's huge and it's spread out too, to the point that it's going to take an 8 hour surgery tomorrow, and they don't think they'll be able to get it all, so they're planning on a recovery day and then a 2nd brain surgery on Wednesday to get the rest of it. We won't know for sure what kind of tumor it is until it gets biopsied, but they're so sure he's going to need chemo that they're going to go ahead and put in a port while they've already got him under for surgery. He's so small and he has no idea what's happening to him, and I wish it was me instead. God, I wish it was me instead. A friend of mine died of brain cancer when we were 16, and the last time I saw him was in the hospital the day before he died. He suffered so much and now all those memories are flooding back. The thought of my nephew going through the same thing I saw with my friend is unbearable.
That is unspeakably awful and completely unfair, comrade - "I'm sorry" doesn't do it justice, but it's what I've got. Sending a lot of love and solidarity to you right now.
A friend of mine died of brain cancer when we were 16
that is a lot of brain cancers to encounter in one lifetime
It really is. At first, they figured out at the hospital that there was fluid putting pressure in his brain, so we were thinking meningitis maybe because of they symptoms he'd been having. Never even thought that it could be cancer.
I'm a huge supporter of the NSFWing meat pics rule, not because I care about pictures of meat, but because it potentially gets rid of and at the very least annoys the worst kind of nerds
IF you really leave hexbear because they censor steaks you are a pretty fragile snowflake.
Way back when the site started, before any vegan struggle session, I suggested having c/food and c/meat as a bit, but nobody listened
Chapo dot chat user who compulsively removes the one automatic upbear you get from yourself due to a stubborn & misguided belief in meritocracy
There are two wolves inside of me....
One says "oof Ukraine flag in bio, cringe." The other says "fuck it I'm just on these stupid apps to try and rebound" and swipes right.
There are two more wolves inside me (four is a crowd ngl)....
One hates these apps because they are dehumanizing and atomizing. The other hates them because I have had zero luck and am bad at them and thinks the first wolf is omega coping.
stop using that poison. You just gave yourself four reasons to delete them
Comrade if I were any good at not using poison then I would not have spent all day hungover, let me tell ya!
I'm pretty sure there's a huge male vs female skew on those apps. Also lots of dudes get literal pro photography done. So it's petty hard right now.
Sometimes I think to myself how nice it would be to be single and hook up with new people again, but then I remember how shitty dating is nowadays. You have my support.
Thanks man! Appreciate the sentiment - tbh it's not the biggest deal, I'm mostly just seeking distraction with these silly things (never really even been a big casual hookup person but wouldn't turn it down if it came my way). But yeah that does seem pretty true re: the gender skew, not sure how straight dudes tend to work around that.
Yeah it seems way easier to get dates but they have a whole host of their own issues on these hell apps, from what I've heard creeps abound
Ugh that all sounds awful and was tough to read, stupid fucking patriarchy happy 4 u that ur married now though!
Yeah it's not any better for women. I heard the phrase "firehose of dicks" once. They get lots of replies, and 90% of them are from serial killers.
I think the first wolf and second wolf are very related to each other.
I really want to go to one of those tiny Japanese bars that can seat like 6 people max. Those places sound cool as fuck
Yeah I've been thinking about those bars lately. Small bars (and small retail in general) is vital to maintaining a great urban environment. One thing Japan does super well is small retail spaces like this. Smaller lot sizes would help a lot in terms of city planning.