#suppression

[vyorei]

Tumblr needs to be held accountable for the complete suppression of the pro-Palestine tags. You cannot hide what's happening, pretending it's not trending isn't going to work, we are here and we are speaking and we are ANGRY.

The global attempt to silence people speaking out against genocide is inconceivable, one would find it more realistic in a film, much like everything else that's been happening.

We aren't going to be silenced, we don't support genocide, and we won't bow to the will of a colonial force attempting to ethnically cleanse over 2 million people.

Staff should be ashamed of themselves for their actions, and I hope it haunts them.

✊🇵🇸

[liberalsarecool]

Drag is a lovely expression. Hypocrisy is a sin.

If only JD was honest with himself. He is trying to murder his younger self.

[alwaysbewoke]

Around early 1828, Nat Turner was convinced that he "was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty". A solar eclipse and an unusual atmospheric event and is what inspired Nat Turner to start his insurrection, which began on August 21, 1831. Nat Turner believed God was showing him a sign by putting a black man hand over the Sun. Its been known for thousands of years solar eclipse give off energy. On August 21, he began the rebellion with a few trusted fellow enslaved men. The rebels traveled from house to house, freeing enslaved people and killing their White owners. Turner's rebellion was suppressed within two days and he was captured October 30. On November 5, he was convicted and sentenced to death and was hanged November 11, 1831. The state executed 56 other Black men suspected of being involved in the uprising and another 200 Black people, most of whom had nothing to do with the uprising, were beaten, tortured, and murdered by angry White mobs. The Virginia General Assembly passed new laws making it unlawful to teach enslaved or free Black or Mulatto (mixed) people to read or write and restricting Black people from holding religious meetings without the presence of a licensed White minister.

[trinalwilliams]

Looking inside, sometimes you will find a buried treasure, open it and release the jewel.

Tlw

[kimchicuddles]

Throwback Thursday!

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[flock-talk]

How long have you had Toto now? I’ve been enjoying watching his growth bc I’d like to rescue a bird someday. I have a conure atm who I’ve raised since she was first weaned and think I’ve learned enough to handle a rescue eventually. So it’s interesting to see and note how his past stress is showing itself this far in.

(If you’re interested my dream rescue would be a sun conure bc I adore them and so many people give them up just for being loud but I need a house first lol)

Almost 6 months!

So let’s talk about what’s happening with Toto here a bit more in depth since it seems to be confusing a lot of people!

When an animal is rehomed, put in to a shelter, or otherwise experiencing immense stress that stress can suppress their behaviour. The fear, confusion and other aversive emotions they’re experiencing as a result of those experiences piles up and can cause them to appear complicit. They’re essentially so stressed out that they’re unable to express how they’re actually feeling and that can appear like a state of being “fine”.

So when they make it to their new home a standard, healthy, non-traumatized or excessively stressed animal will take less than a month to settle in. They learn their new routines, build trust with their new people, establish comfort in their environment. The first month they’re usually a bit stressed out, a bit wary and all of that shakes off by the end of the month- they adapt to the changes and move along pretty easily. In general, things just get gradually better from a “desirable behaviour” standpoint. Animal is scared -animals gets comfort - animal relieves stress - animal adapts.

In more severe cases there’s so much piled on stress, usually underlying existing behavioural concerns, and typically a history of stressful responses or a lingering fear to behave (consistent use of punishers) that it takes them significantly longer to reach that same goal. It usually takes well over the month threshold for them to begin to accept a new home and release some of that stress.

At this point once the animal is able to feel safe in its environment, it’s new people, etc. that release of stress will start to peel away some layers and show their underlying behavioural concerns. Once they feel safe again they feel free to advocate for themselves, set boundaries and express themselves freely without fear of behaving or stress suppressing behaviour.

It’s a big reason why people will say “my dog does x at home but never does X when they’re at daycare”, stress in the environment suppresses behaviour. They feel comfortable and safe at home so they feel safe expressing themselves in whatever “problematic” manner that may be.

And it’s clear to note here that when this phenomenon occurs it doesn’t always mean the animal has had a horrifically traumatizing past, it’s been found that animals who had perfectly solid well cared for lives prior to entering a rescue had the same issue arise just by merely entering a rescue facility. Rescues themselves are a chaotic, stressful, traumatizing experience- enough so to cause this to happen.

So what does this all mean? And how can we make this transition easier?

It means the animal is finally beginning to feel at home, they’re finally releasing stress and able to be themselves. It is a good thing! It’s a huge milestone! But it does mean that we’re entering the eye of the storm here as more and more stress leaves and more and more behavioural concerns arise. Suppressed behaviours are explosive- note the number of cases where a dog has had a prong collar popped for the “wrong” thing and that suppressed behaviour turns in to explosive aggression trying to attack the handler. The pent up frustration and stress and confusion can explode in very harmful ways and this release of suppression can make them significantly more sensitive to potential triggers.

So for us that means we need to provide consistency, communication, respect their boundaries, and tread carefully. They’re in a highly sensitive state trying to navigate all these previously suppressed feelings, we need to do our best not to trigger them and make it harder for them than it already is. Being extra cautious around their body language, aware of our vocal tones, making a list of current triggers, and utilizing management strategies to live cooperatively while navigating through this.

Each day gets taken as it comes, utilizing compassionate training to help them through big feelings.

With time the effects of suppression will taper out and the core triggers can be isolated and proper training plans can be implemented!

[rubypomegranates]

"Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!"

Erich Maria Remarque "The Night in Lisbon"

[kellymagovern]

"If you are feeling a certain idea called fear, self-doubt, sorrow, sadness—if you do not prefer them—the first paradoxical thing, of course, is not to ignore them, not to suppress them, but to feel them fully, to own them, because you cannot change what you do not own." —Bashar (Darryl Anka) [x]

[whatthehelloh]

"There are two genders: male and political. There are two sexual orientations: straight and political. There are two kinds of gender identification: the cisgender and the political. There are two races: white and political.

When someone says something is “too political” you should know what they really mean."

- PolyDipsoManiac on reddit

[vyorei]

Got a headsup regarding those fucking WAR CRIMINALS trying to get Al Jazeera taken down. The IDF has already been attacking AJ journalists since this began and killed one last year (Shireen Abu Akleh), if the site goes down I will locate another one to continue updating you

Fascism won't silence the truth

Stand with Palestine ✊🇵🇸

[rchetypal]

"None of us stands outside humanity's black collective shadow."

Nothing has finally disappeared and nothing has been made good. The evil, the guilt, the profound unease of conscience, the obscure misgiving are there before our eyes, if only we would see. Man has done these things; I am a man, who has his share of human nature; therefore I am guilty with the rest and bear unaltered and indelibly within me the capacity and the inclination to do them again at any time. Even if, juristically speaking, we were not accessories to the crime, we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melee. None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow. Whether the crime lies many generations back or happens today, it remains the symptom of a disposition that is always and everywhere present – and one would therefore do well to possess some “imagination in evil,” for only the fool can permanently neglect the conditions of his own nature. In fact, this negligence is the best means of making him an instrument of evil. Harmlessness and naïveté are as little helpful as it would be for a cholera patient and those in his vicinity to remain unconscious of the contagiousness of the disease. On the contrary, they lead to projection of the unrecognized evil into the “other.”

— Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self

[jameslmartello]

Exorcist Father Stephen Rossetti saying Prayer to Cast out Evil Spirits

[hollownoire]

Just finished my first therapy session that I've had in, I think, over a year. This was the first time I had a queer/trans/informed therapist, and I don't think I've ever really felt more validated after a session than this one.

There was a lot I talked about, but a lot of it was this reoccurring theme of exhaustion. Of…work, struggle, denial, both conceptually like in how you would apply it to your living domestic life and systemically through the context of ableism, transphobia, and classism.

Those three, important things, which…I will be honest, I don't let myself think about. I don't talk about those issues, the observant folk who know me really well that follow this blog may have noticed that despite being in an awful financial situation, being in an awful situation, generally, systemically, that I just do not speak of it.

I just don't. I should be, because not talking about these things are what the oppressors want, but after being raised in a conservative household in Texas in the 2000s there was always going to be lasting effects of that oppression regardless of how well informed I was after. Regardless of the hormones I was on, regardless of the opinions that changed, regardless of my outlook, the oppression stuck, and that starting-wound given to me, to a lot of people like me, has informed my "later years" in such a way that shame and guilt is my God.

Cringe, SJWs, "Triggered", "Snowflake", Lazy. Buzzwords, memes, entire avenues of our culture engineered towards hatred, towards smothering ideas and people and issues that are just looked over not only by the enacting party but the oppressed because it's just folded into our fucking mindsets at this point regardless of our rejection of it.

My emotions, my needs, my thoughts, weren't allowed to exist as they should've innately. I was punished for thinking. For feeling, and the depths of those punishments are only now making themselves known through my inability to operate as a person outside of that cruelty.

Bureaucracy, poverty, transphobia, homophobia, bigotry, all of it informs my broken framework as a victim of it all, and I do not feel like I'm allowed to talk about it. I do not feel like I'm allowed to be seen, especially if what is seen of me is my suffering. Especially, if what is seen are my issues, internal, external, because at the end of the day that is a moral failing on my part.

I should have worked harder! I should have worked more. I should have, I should have, I SHOULD HAVE.

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

How do you turn off feelings?

[bestfuckinmusic]

Suppression - Demo - 1994

Powerviolence at its finest!