#names — Public Fediverse posts
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A name is something given at birth, a title earned through effort or time, a description of a thing noticed in nature, of something meant to be held, worn, used, breathed, lived.
A designation should describe what is recorded inside. It rarely does.
I was meant to be a Robert from birth to death, in a long line of Roberts. Not a badge of honor or recognition, it is one of an ancestry I don’t recognize, know, or simply care about.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/whats-in-a-name-a-transgender-s-name-everything-95597b25f470 -
Old flame, or: Call me back
A pantoum
She blows again. The flame stays lit. “Sunny,” the little candle says. Her mouth goes still around the name. “You used to turn when people called.” “Sunny,” the little candle says. “That girl is gone. Don’t call her back.” “You used to turn when people called.” “I stopped answering long ago.” “That girl is gone. Don’t call her back.” “Then why do you still know her name?” “I stopped answering long ago.” “But something in you answered me.” “Then why do you still know her name?” “I tried to leave her far behind.” “But something in you answered me.” “Perhaps she never really left.” “I tried to leave her far behind.” Her mouth goes still around the name. “Perhaps she never really left.” She blows again. The flame stays lit.
W3 poetry prompt
For this week’s W3, Judy invites us to write a poem in which an old woman tries to blow out the candles on her birthday cake, but one remains lit and whispers a name she has not heard in forty years. The poem takes the form of her conversation with the candle and ends with her deciding whether to let it keep burning or put it out.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
#Birthday #Candles #Dialogue #Fiction #Memories #Names #Pantoum #Poem #Poetry #Storytelling #Wistfulness -
How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349984
#HackerNews #IKEA #product #names #naming #process #design #creativity #home #furnishings
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Can anyone help with a query, please? I'm looking for a reliable source on the history, etymology or provenance of first names in English. I'm specifically interested in the origin of Harold and Humphrey in the Anglo-Saxon period.
(For those in the know, yes it relates to Finnegans Wake.)
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Hmm, I'm not sure I'd dare to call my feminist tech startup Female Algorithm Technologies, but hey, you do you girl ...
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/16/the-information-cami-clark
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@anon_opin
Where do you stand on assigning pets names that begin with same letter as their species? -
"These tiny expressions of creativity show up all over public datasets. Air traffic controllers choose funny names for airplane navigation waypoints. Rejected vanity license plate registrations turn up in state motor vehicle databases. [....]
And if you own a boat, you get to name that too."
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https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationships/parenting/a73295189/top-baby-names-england-uk-america
I was surprised to see Emma, Eleanor, and Elizabeth as names that ranked in the top 50 in the United States but not in England.
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“The Socialists were prosecuted with fury, and the weeding out was so terrible and so thorough that for the next twelve or fifteen years the very traces of Socialism disappeared; its literature vanished so completely that even names, once so familiar before 1848, were entirely forgotten; ideas which were then current—the stock ideas of the Socialists before 1848—were so wiped out as to be taken, later on, by our generation, for new discoveries.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/07/29/the-socialists-were-prosecuted-with-fury-and-the-weeding-out-was-so-terrible-and-so-thorough-that-for-the-next-twelve-or-fifteen-years-the-very-traces-of-socialism-disappeared-its-literature-vanis/ #anarchism #book #CommunismAndEcology #completely #current #disappeared #entirelyForgotten #EuropeanHistoryAfter1450 #EuropeanStudies #familiar #Fury #history #HistoryOfIdeasAndIntellectualHistory #ideas #later #literature #names #newDiscoveries #ourGeneration #PeterKropotkin #PetrAlekseevichKropotkin #PoliticsAndInternationalRelations #prosecuted #PyotrAlexeyevichKropotkin #quote #socialism #socialists #stockIdeas #taken #terrible #TextsInPoliticalThought #thorough #UtopianIdeology #vanished #veryTraces #weedingOut #wipedOut -
TIL: the bird with the scientific name Puffinus puffinus is not the Puffin.
"The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters were called Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn) for the cured carcasses of nestling shearwaters." -
I would like to see names in English Bibles spelled so that we say them the way they were most likely said originally. There are so many distortions the way we do it now. How many people know that Judah and Judas are the same name? Or that Jesus and Joshua are the same name, and neither bears much resemblance to how it was actually said?
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I've always known that "Jno." was an abbreviation for "John" .. but it started to bug be as to why? I mean, Jno is just one letter shorter than John, and why not "Joh" or at least "Jn"? I guess we can blame the medieval scribes for this one.
"Jno functions primarily as an abbreviated form of the given name John, where the 'J' represents 'John' and 'no' stands for the common Latin abbreviation for 'nomen' or simply a shorthand truncation. "
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Top Domain Name Generators for Startups and Small Businesses https://visualmodo.com/top-domain-name-generators-for-startups-and-small-businesses/ 💡🔍🌐 #Startups #Domain #Generation #Names #Tools
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Why do Joes look like Joes? Researchers say that as you age, your face changes to match your name.
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Now approaching 6,000!
A short and easy survey about nonbinary names:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFGof2INX5d9FvkugEI1klgtRaMqjk4IxeCcovzppdh13Frw/viewform
Closing date: 19th July 2026
See some incoming stats here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dAFjCq82TpgIjBGhue4hD116dFle6ygB4Wfk113BGUc/edit
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Approaching 5,000 responses! :)
A short and easy survey about nonbinary names:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFGof2INX5d9FvkugEI1klgtRaMqjk4IxeCcovzppdh13Frw/viewform
Closing date: 19th July 2026
See some incoming stats here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dAFjCq82TpgIjBGhue4hD116dFle6ygB4Wfk113BGUc/edit
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The Queen of Sheba is not “Queen of Light” by strict Russian etymology. In Russian she is Царица Савская: the Sabaean queen, the queen from Saba/Sheba. “Light” is свет, and from that root comes Светлана: a luminous woman, a woman of light. Different words. But poetry begins where the dictionary stops, and names can still shine across languages. ✨👑#Etymology #Russian #Hebrew #Arabic #Sheba #Saba #Language #History #Names #Poetry
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Couple with unfortunate last name hilariously mourns the baby names they couldn’t use
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/unfortunate-last-name-for-new-baby-ex1/
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I tell you this, because it is true: there is a towing company in my city called "Camel Towing".
To the company owner: this tells me that:
(1) you allowed a 13-year-old boy (or someone with the mental development of one) to choose the name for your company
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(2) there were no adults in the room to overrule this decision.
Seriously, you want to alienate half [1] your possible customer base even before they've tried to contact you?
They shouldn't be successful enough to stay in business. And yet...
[1] Well, more than half. Any man with a shred of respect for women should also be turned off by this. I sure am.
#HowDoesICapitalism #naming #names #NamingThings #adolescent #GrowUp #NoAdultsInTheRoom
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Society and conformity are so weird sometimes.
It's super common for people to really really yearn for some aspects of fantasy fiction, but then to become judgemental when they encounter people in real life doing those things.
For example, a lot of people love fantasy naming conventions that are unique and meaningful and they genuinely attach a lot of emotion to these fictional worlds. A fantasy coming-of-age ritual where teenagers see their fate in a vision and then choose their own new name based on that prophecy is something a ton of people think is extremely interesting, whimsical, cosy and deep.
But then those same people roll their eyes when they come across a trans person with names like "Andromeda", "Void", "Dog", "September Grace", "Cyber", or even a single-letter like "Z".
How many tabletop RPG nerds are super into worldbuilding and making thoughtful, emotional characters with unique names and cultures but then laugh at and exclude real life people doing the same thing for being 'weird' or 'cringe'? Or what about plurality in fiction versus in real life?
... Why all this? You thought the very same thing was heartwarming and cute when you read about it last week, and now you think it's 'kinda cringe', it reflects negatively on the trans community, and people should 'just maybe be normal for once'?
(I am not excluding myself from this kind of thinking. This post is also a reflection on why I feel these things, because it upsets me that I am so hypocritical in this regard.)
I honestly think it is a mix of personal insecurity and coping with the state of the world.
The existence of others actually choosing to live real life that way destroys their world view where these kinds of things just aren't possible and aren't real. It forces them to confront really uncomfortable questions and conclusions about the world – like whether you yourself would choose to do that, how people you love would treat these folks, or why the world is cruel to them.
Kind of like why people are annoyed by vegans. It's way more comfortable living in a fake 'just world' fantasy than being reminded that things could be different right now right here.
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Hm, always hard to tell if barista is trolling or genuinely has weak spelling skills. #coffee #oldtestament #names
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#News #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Science #Diplomacy #Education #Banking #Corporations #Business #Law #Names #Video
ARRON PARNAS 6/20/26
SOME OF THE NAMES IN THE EPSTEIN PAPERS
