Thank you for that explanation. I’ll call him Falcon. 
As an aside … if you have a bit of a PR problem with something but want to continue using it in public, one of the first go-to’s is to change the name.
I don’t know if that is what is behind the name change, though.
Cereal probably has invented some kind of half-assed link to Native American tradition and his density, and thinks Shiok is a noble tribal name.
Mara is right, he picked Shiok, (which he pronouces incorrectly) because of some tale about Native Amerians and painted horses. It should be pronouced SHE-ok. but he says SHY-ok. It is a Native American name.
He did a TT about it when he purchased Falcon in Feb/March.
When I did Ye Olde Google Search for “Native American names for horses” I came upon a list of 40 names from tribal myths. Yup, Shiok is mentioned. It’s from a tale told by the Alsea tribe of coastal Oregon:
This hero is a wanderer who is also an Alsea trickster. Shiok went into the ocean and fought a whale before returning as a great slayer of monsters. Such a strong name would work well for an equally sturdy horse, one you could see fighting monsters for you, if necessary.
If he isn’t a tribal member, or even Native, the tribe should sue him. Talk about cultural appropriation….
Good lord. I think that’s a bit much. Many names come from languages or stories other than the holder (or owner)'s own. Should Gaelic folks sue every owner of "Epona"s? If you aren’t Norse, no “Odin” or “Zeus” for you. My name is Greek, but I’m about as Greek as a baked potato.
not all heros wear capes.
Thank you!!!
@moonlitoaksranch I think he is Canadian, who was living in Austin Tx. Becuase he called Foxtrotequine on his SM a liberal snowflake because she/them dyes her hair all sorts of colors. And she said how funny it was that HE was calling her snowflake when he comes from two liberal areas.
But you’re not out there monetizing a Native name by collecting donations for some sort of fake vision quest BS, either. My comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but it would be nice.
He’s from Quebec which is its own thing. But there’s certainly rightwing people in Canada. And in the tech industry, despite being in Seattle and San Francisco. Elon Musk is a hero to many. There’s pockets of libertarians and Darwinian Struggles Favor Us the Master Race of Tech Savants. And a higher (than in the total population) of people with the personality traits to focus on precise but kind nimbingly tedious tasks for 12 hours a day: Asperger’s spectrum, ADHD, etc. They tend to also think that because they are High Value Geniuses in their work lives they can self educate on any topic and be High Value Geniuses in literature, history, philosophy, political theory. When in fact they end up sounding like moderately smart college freshmen grabbing the most available interpretation and bloviating on it to impress some girl at a party.
Anyhow, I have no idea of his ideology other than Suffering a Personal Crisis and Quitting his Job. He may not have given the snowflake jab any thought at all. It might have mutated to a general purpose insult in his particular pod in the world.
I saw his latest “update” and he looks like he’s unhinged. I think the video was taken down from TT because he identified Josh, the vet tech and her boyfriend by posting their social media pages. And he’s threatening to sue everyone.
Most of the people he’s been showing as “hosts” have been young women. Personally, I wouldn’t let him near my house/farm. He’s also said that he’s feeding Falcon/Shiok by visiting feed stores and asking them for open bags/burst bags, etc. and then letting him eat whatever is available in large quantities to tide him over until the next opportunity.
Given that I usually take about a week to switch to a new grain, it’s a miracle the horse hasn’t colicked or foundered.
Oh! Yeah, good point.
Sorry, I did think you were serious.
I can fully attest to this. I lived near silicon valley for a number of years and the toxic tech bro is definitely a thing. Its why this bozo is so damn triggering to me. These arseholes think they are experts on absoultely everything and have their heads so far up their own asses they can never admit their faults or that they might just be wrong about something.
They are utterly unteachable and fancy themselves lone wolves who are cool renegades 
In reality they are just man-boys who can talk to computers.
Did you hear that his mom is a psychologist.
Is this a case of, “The Shoemaker’s wife goes barefoot”???
And often have some degree of autism spectrum that makes the human emotional intuitive world a bit opaque. Or other neurodivergency. It’s an advantage to programmers but it then creates and privileges a whole community that thinks like this. After the FTX meltdown I started following a blog of Ethical Altruists run by an actual young psychiatrist and it was fascinating. The level of thought and knowledge was basically sophomore, but they really thought they were on track to be World Thought Leaders making cliched comments on The Cycle of History. I eventually dropped the blog, it wasn’t that interesting, and I never commented. But it can be fascinating to just monitor some totally other world and see how they think. These weren’t even the toxic ones they were likely the least toxic and most earnest about doing good, but their information and analysis were laughably shallow.
So I did a degree in psychology, and the amount of middle-aged mums who were aiming for a side-career in child-care or “child psychology” was amazing; probably a good third of the class were non-school leavers SAH mums. Many of them often said they just wanted to understand their kids and were quite open about it. I think the subject of Freudian stages of development scared them though - all those boys grasping their doodles and thinking about their mothers!
Before anyone thinks I was being judgemental back then (or now), no. All my friends / study buddies at uni were older SAH or working mums. People my age scared me, so I found comfort in the closest thing to my own mum: uni mums!
One of the most florid Axis-I clients I ever worked with had a practicing psychologist for a mother.
Or “The farrier’s wife rides barefoot horses” 
This is the insta link that is Cereal’s lastest update from the other day where he doxxes people. One being Josh and the other is the vet tech and her boyfriend.
While he worked at a tech company, if the LinkedIn profile I found is correct, he’s not a programmer or engineer but was last employed as a glorified trucking dispatcher/manager at a technology focused logistics org.
Transportation, managing, and logistics. I wouldn’t have thought that.
Why do you call it “glorified “? Is there something about his job assignment that was watered down?
The job description is one I’ve worked with. It’s challenging. Typically the company depends on it being done well, even though it is often not the company’s central product. The company can rise or fall based on how well or poorly it is done. I spent a few years of my life tracking down profitability impacts of this function.
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