Chef's kiss.
#nominativedeterminism — Public Fediverse posts
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Are the Russians so grouchy because they are always rushin'?
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RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117280629570341535
Of COURSE a mafia boss president, that always tries to outdo everyone with their criminality is named "Don Trump". The simulation writers are so fucking lazy.
#CurrentMood #FuckTrump #NominativeDeterminism #NominativeDeterminismWatch #Venezuela
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Reading a philosophy book, and saw a citation to a philosopher called 'John Wisdom', which is a pretty great bit of #nominativeDeterminism
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BTW
the fact this new, unhinged honeytrap is surnamed HARP is what takes this whole Trump circus into the realm of absurdist theater:
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The excellent RTÉ News report on burning hills and other climate emergency effects this evening is by Eleanor Burnhill.
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#KemiBadenoch's choice of company 😡
1/ neo-Nazi named "Bonehill-Paine". #NominativeDeterminism
2/ In #Badenoch's #ConservativeParty:
Support for #ECHR: you're fired.
3 years in jail for antisemitism = you're hired.screenshot from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/05/former-neo-nazi-activist-withdraws-as-conservative-election-candidate-joshua-bonehill-paine
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"Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds"- did a cat write this?
A joint Welsh and Ugandan study has shown a 6% catnip oil based lotion to be just as effective as DEET for repelling mosquitos. The guardian article is by, I shit you not, "Kat Lay"
more: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-homegrown-catnip-lotion-effective-mosquito.html
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#NominativeDeterminism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominat... Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate toward areas of work or interest that fit their names.
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It irks me more than should when a company has a line of products (looking at you Apple and Ecoflow) where they have a model called “Max” … and yet it’s not the most powerful.
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Nominative determinism strikes again:
> Tuesday was Tag des Deutschen Brotes, or German National Bread Day. (Unclear how this is different than every day.) Berlin appointed a new Bread Ambassador — ironically named Katarina Barley
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I’m reading a non-fic book by a LGBT+ researcher and his surname is Grindrod, and I am trying to be SO MATURE about this.
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I've just realised that the name of the presenter of the Sunday Game on RTÉ2 is Jacqui Hurley... #NominativeDeterminism
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Scriptorium seems to have an oddly family concept in it... sorry sorry familiar
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And in a delightful instance of nominative determinism:
"...the simple act of wearing a hat was a complex, high-stakes game of social and political signaling. Bernard Capp, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick..."
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@Edent not quite, Frau Reiche is a person #NominativeDeterminism https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherina_Reiche
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Local news website: "Green city councillor Lois Muddiman" 🧑🌾
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Nice bit of nominative determinism from my old stomping grounds in Stoke Newington, Northeast London.
#Hamburger #Butcher #NominativeDeterminism #StokeNewington #London #N16
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This is the most bizarre case of #NominativeDeterminism I've ever come across: an 18th Century French spy whose surname means "Strawberry" brings back from Chile a variety of strawberry which, when crossed with another new world strawberry and an existing hybrid, produces the strawberry which is the variety most commonly cultivated today.
Frézier's ancient surname was derived from fraise, the French word for strawberry.
The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s via a cross of F. virginiana from eastern North America and F. chiloensis, which was brought from Chile by Amédée-François Frézier in 1714. Cultivars of F. × ananassa have replaced the woodland strawberry F. vesca in commercial production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9d%C3%A9e-Fran%C3%A7ois_Fr%C3%A9zier
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That's ranked this one down to second greatest example of #nominativeDeterminism
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TIL, with pleasure, that M J Forecast was a weather observer at Wilkes Station in Antarctica in 1965.
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Today’s piece of #NominativeDeterminism comes from the Ukrainian military spokesperson quoted in the piece about Breton fishing nets being used as drone protection, who is named Rybakova (translated, unless I’m mistaken, as “Fisher”)
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his new thing is a bloody minded determination to run across our arterial street during supervised outdoor time, which involves a 20ft SPRINT down a hill, so innocuous stories are a relief. never name your cat after james tiberius kirk also #nominativedeterminism
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Nominative Determinism for branches of Government
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an appropriate name for this professional violinist. the roamin' fiddle man. from the 1922-23 A.F.M. local 802 directory.
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If this island isn't called Tasmaniette, I am going to be upset and ask to speak to the manager.
#Australia #Tasmania #Drone #Photography #Windows #NewSouthWales #Island #Geography #Maps #NominativeDeterminism #CanISpeakToTheManager
