Misty Shadows

Small horse in a big world
Pony Convention Enthusiast
Computer Engineering student
Former Pony Town Event Lead
Sunnykin

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

All the Ponies in this Town are crazy.

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@Minty_Root Sometimes you just have to let yourself be sad in order to be stronger tomorrow.

[kurokimoko @kurokimoko]

chud incel alien life

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@Minty_Root Ah. Well, plenty of time to have fuf and crash your friends' panels instead!

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@Minty_Root Drive safe!

[Skye Freeman @Skyebrows]

Damn this is turning into a thriller! I'm gettin my popcorn!... They coulda just given the legos back... wtf

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@RenoMayGuns Did you know that when you chamber a round and fire, the casing wears on the chamber? If you shoot it enough your 9mm pistol will turn into a .40 S&W, and no one wants that horrible caliber. Don't shoot your gun.

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

Also got a trigger warning which is no bueno.

Also I'm just not calling my shots correctly. I did make up shots on a number of targets today that had all alphas, and my only charlie I didn't make up TOT.

Just need more live fire practice.

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

Shot a match today.

Didn't quite make top 10. I keep getting procedurals. Shot 2 steel targets from the wrong spot, managed to do a make up on one, but the other was a popper.

Need to get out and actually practice and then slow down in matches.

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@RenoMayGuns You're the only one who's shooting footage I actually find entertaining enough to watch. I can't explain why, but it feels more engaging than just watching someone shoot.

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@RenoMayGuns With the rise in comped guns, there really needs to be a "Carry Comp" division.

Optic must be mounted to the slide, and maybe we restrict the amount of porting/comp size that can be used, and drop the power factor requirements to just regular 9mm. Maybe 9mm NATO spec.

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@Tablesalt13 Two things can be true. Maybe Canadians want the feds to govern harder and ban all political opposition for our own safety. I wouldn't even be surprised at this point.

[Avra @avrameow]

Tia

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

@shoe0nhead Please we need vtuber Shoe

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Os Guinness coined the phrase “cut-flower civilisation” to describe a culture cut off from the roots that once gave it life.

Look at Canada today under the Liberal machine and its latest boardroom saviour, Mark Carney, and the phrase fits a little too well.

Canada still looks alive. In many ways, it is. We are still a wealthy country. We still have decent people, vast resources, serious workers, inherited institutions, and enough stored national strength to keep the lights on for a while.

But the wilting is visible.

The problem is not that Canada lacks talent, land, energy, minerals, farmers, tradespeople, engineers, entrepreneurs, or ambition. The problem is that the governing class has spent the last decade cutting away at the very roots that made those things productive.

Canada did not become a G7 country because Ottawa held press conferences, hired consultants, or released glossy strategy documents. Canada became prosperous because earlier generations understood the basics. Build things. Produce things. Develop resources. Reward work. Protect property rights. Defend free speech. Keep government limited enough that private competence can actually breathe.

That was the soil.

And that soil has been poisoned by years of managerial arrogance.

Canadians were told that prosperity could be designed from above by technocrats, climate planners, corporate consultants, regulators, and global conference people with expensive credentials and no real skin in the game. They told us that taxing energy would make us richer. Blocking resource development would make us virtuous. Deficits did not matter. Productivity could wait. National unity could survive endless moral scolding from people who confuse a résumé with wisdom.

Now this same crowd wants applause because a few mines, rail terminals, aircraft deals, or manufacturing projects are being announced.

Fine. Good. Canada needs all of it.

But let’s not mistake oxygen for genius.

If a man spends ten years tightening his hands around your throat, he does not deserve a parade because he lets you breathe for ten seconds.

This is not some grand national renaissance because Mark Carney found a clean hard hat and stood beside a podium. Much of what we are seeing is an economy gasping for air after years of political strangulation.

The real question is not, “What project did they announce today?”

The real question is: what did they do to the soil?

Where did the habits of a serious country go?

Thrift. Production. Energy realism. Institutional integrity. Personal responsibility. Local grit. Honest media. Independent journalism. A government that protects the conditions for prosperity instead of replacing them with slogans, subsidies, and corporate welfare.

A cut flower can still look good for a while. That is the trick. It keeps its colour. It photographs well. It looks fine in the vase. But without roots, the clock is already running.

That is Canada’s problem.

We are living off stored capital: financial capital, moral capital, institutional capital, cultural capital. Previous generations built the reserves. This generation of elites is spending them and calling it leadership.

Eventually the runway ends.

And when it does, the speeches get louder, the excuses get thicker, and the very people who cut the roots start demanding credit for watering the vase.

An elite rebrand will not fix this. More Liberal managerial theatre will not save the dollar. Canada does not need another round of carbon-tax sermons from people who fly to international summits to lecture truckers, farmers, and working families about sacrifice.

Canada has to get back to the dirt.

Production. Responsibility. Truth. Energy abundance. Free speech. Strong families. Functional institutions. A state that remembers it serves national life. It does not create it.

The country is not dead.

But it is wilting.

And the first step toward recovery is simple: stop applauding the people holding the scissors.

[BuvanyBu @BuBuvany]

Twilight Day 5

I just couldn’t walk past, her hairstyle is just fantastic

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

Bill C-22 is a travesty and will destroy Canadian freedoms and businesses.

Build in Canada? More like build elsewhere.

The Liberal Government destroys everything: natural resource extraction business, firearms retailers + manufacturers, and now VPNs and other internet businesse

[Misty Shadows @MistyShadowsMLP]

Just got a new mouse, and being able to scroll again is crazy.

Previous mouse's scroll wheel was scrolling in the wrong direction 50% of the time and that was making things difficult. It feels so weird having the mouse scroll in the intended direction.

[chryssi best pancakes @MaudPies]

applejack episodes: is it really okay to lie to your family if it seems like the lie is improving their life?

rainbow dash episode: is it okay to sell ur friend for a book