Bvvwully. Extreamist apparently

CEO/Director Yes to Scottish independence ,nice Gin and pies. Scottish ancestral people should be making our decisions not colonial England.

[Bvvwully. Extreamist apparently @Bullionbill]

THE UK THE BIGGEST CON TRICK IN HISTORY https://t.co/rhNMvxQoGE via @YouTube

[Bvvwully. Extreamist apparently @Bullionbill]

@Glam_AngeI Ostria

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

This is where I live. It’s been like it for 3 days. Where there is a hosepipe ban. Where we pay our extortionate water bills so that these water companies can waste 2.9 BILLION litres of water a DAY!!

[Bvvwully. Extreamist apparently @Bullionbill]

Eclipses are getting stranger must be net zero

[Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺 @Axaxia88]

Imagine being locked in a room barely the size of two single beds for nearly nine years. No windows. No running. No stretching out. Every day, someone opens the door, puts something in your mouth, then forces you to stand on one leg, smile, and perform in front of a crowd. When the show is over, you are pushed back into that room, loaded onto a truck, and driven to another city. This is not an imagined scenario. It was Synochok’s entire childhood and adolescence.

This brown bear was not only physically confined. He was forced to play the role of a “performer.” The instinct to dig, to smell the wind, to lie in the sunlight, or simply to do nothing at all was treated as a problem. To survive, he had to learn to suppress his own nature. Animal behavior specialists describe phenomena like this as changes in behavior and brain function under chronic stress. His body adapted by slowing his heart rate, wearing down his teeth from biting metal bars, and gradually suppressing his natural play behaviors. His vacant expression was not a sign of stupidity. It was the result of learning that showing his true emotions would bring him no benefit.

In 2018, when he was brought to White Rock Bear Shelter, the most surprising thing was not that he was finally free, but that he was afraid of freedom. For the first time in his life, a vast open space became something threatening. He stood motionless in a corner, afraid to step out. It was a moment that revealed a painful truth: after so many years of being forced to perform, Synochok had forgotten how to simply be a bear.

The rescuers did not shout or force him to move. Instead, they quietly placed a few logs nearby and waited. That patience was perhaps the most important form of help they could give him. They did not teach him how to play. They simply created a safe environment where he could rediscover it for himself.

Gradually, behaviors that seemed to have disappeared began to emerge again. He lay on his back, kicking his feet in the air. He dragged logs around as though he were a young cub discovering toys for the first time. He even hibernated for the first time, an instinctive behavior that his previous environment had never allowed him to express.

Synochok’s recovery was not a miracle. It was evidence that instincts can be suppressed to the point where they seem almost gone, but they are not necessarily erased completely, as long as an animal is given enough time and safety for them to emerge again.

There are at least three profound lessons we can take from his story.

First, instinct cannot necessarily be erased completely, but it can be buried so deeply that it appears almost gone. When we deprive a living creature of its natural environment, we are not merely imprisoning its body. We are also disrupting the systems that regulate its emotions and behavior. Synochok eventually rediscovering how to play like a bear shows how powerful those underlying instincts can be. At the same time, his story reminds us that not every animal is fortunate enough to have the time and conditions needed to recover.

Second, compassion cannot stop at emotion. Many people may feel deeply moved after watching a video about Synochok, only to return to their daily lives and unknowingly continue supporting forms of entertainment that use animals. This contradiction reflects the gap between an emotional reaction and conscious action. His story forces us to confront an uncomfortable question: Is human entertainment worth the psychological harm inflicted on another species?

Third, time and patience are essential to any process of healing, whether in animals or humans. We often expect change to happen quickly, but Synochok shows that wounds accumulated over many years can only be addressed layer by layer. Rushing the process or failing to remain patient can undermine recovery.

Today, Synochok is more than 16 years old. He lives in a spacious environment, receives medical care, and is allowed to express his natural behaviors. Yet behind the image of the happy bear are still traces of nearly a decade of deprivation.

His story is not only a reminder of the suffering endured by captive animals. It is also a warning about the cost of placing human entertainment above another living creature’s ability to live according to its own nature.

[yash saghal @YSaghal]

These kids are literally torturing a puppy while the parent just stands there, watches and records. Makes me wonder how many so-called “dog bite incidents” are actually provoked by people like this!

[Harekrishna #AbolishHolyrood @DownWithTheSNP]

🤮🚩Scottish Greeens pervert Manivannan thinks rape is overly demonised as it is a spectrum.

🕹️ Get him deported back to India.

[Bvvwully. Extreamist apparently @Bullionbill]

@willtravers @BornFreeFDN Fkn ch ..ks

[Will Travers @willtravers]

What on earth have we done? What have we become? Shameful doesn’t begin to describe… #KeepWildlifeInTheWild @BornFreeFDN

[MAGADevilDog @MAGADevilDog]

They don't know wtf they're doing

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

This isn't something fun; it's normalised animal abuse.

The horse's suffering is clearly visible. What a bunch of animal abusers!!

[The National @ScotNational]

The SNP have claimed Scottish Labour 'doesn’t exist' after it emerged the party is reliant on support from their London bosses to pay for staff 👇 https://t.co/uzdqMHyc8c

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

@jessphillips I am a retired teacher in Scotland, there is no education crisis & the SNHS is the best performing in the UK. Do your homework before believing British nationalist lies.

[Rogue @RogueUnfiltered]

🚨I hate the silence because it’s deafening. 🚨

‼️What is happening?
‼️Police are supposed to update people surely?

🚨When is her funeral?
🚨What is happening!!

I have so many questions!!!!

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Paula Vennells.
In her 7 year tenure as CEO of the Post Office she waltzed off with £5.1 Mn; around £2.2 Mn coming from performance related incentives and pension in lieu payments.
Yet postmasters/mistresses are still waiting for their compensation.
#Newsnight #PostOfficeScandal

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

@whizz812 Scottish territorial waters as recognised by UNCLOS i.e. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

It now turns out that the Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, received thousands of pounds worth of donations linked to a notorious crypto fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried.

Will Sky News be harassing his relatives?

Will the BBC go to his constituency to speak to locals?

I doubt it.

[Oracle @biggle1908]

Dale Vince (you know the one with half a hair cut) donated £5.7 million to the Labour Party.

Then his energy companies received £123 million in taxpayer subsidies.

Where is the scrutiny?

Everything is bloody two tier in this country.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Serious allegations if true…

Perhaps the BBC can help??