Fucking Kafka. It's hard not to see it as weaponised cruelty. Sending hugs.

Ooooh, more cool pictures! Thank you!

OMG, doesn't it!

I have no idea!

The upper classes like the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes would occasionally multi-barrel, though now many of them, like Ralph Feinnes and Ranulf Feinnes, just use the one surname.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twislet...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_F...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph...

You must have Many Stories! 🤣

I guess every name is difficult somewhere.

Here is a list of falsehoods programmers believe about names. It is one of my favourite business / IT texts.

www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f...

PS

I am constantly astonished by the pain people inflict on their children with their choice of names.

www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/

As I said - I have thought far too much about this! 😄

Second husband is still shocked by the inadvertent oppression!

What I *should* have done is ditched my first name. But my middle name was also a difficult one (for politico-social reasons, not spelling) and it still makes me itchy today.

I could go on... I have thought FAR TOO MUCH about this! 😀

I kept it after my divorce because I didn't want to go back to spelling out both names again, and because I had a career and a professional blog in that name.

When I remarried, I still kept my ex's surname for my professional work, but took my new husband's surname for reasons of spelling.

I have thought about names a lot! My first name is difficult, and my maiden surname was not pronounced the way it was written. So I had to spell both every single time.

I embraced my first married surname because it was expected of me, and it was easier to spell.

And some women double-barrel their maiden name with their partner's or husband's name. For some it's so they have continuity during their career. For others it's so share part of their surname with their children (usually boys) who get given the father's name.

It's no longer a signifier of class.

I know several people with double-barrelled surnames because their mother chose not to take their father's surname: the parents double-barrelled the children's names.

It's almost as if the people who actually fail to integrate are cis-het, white, and desperately clutching their pearls.

Projection is a wonderful thing. 😕

Bemused, but grateful.

Unsurprisingly, neither of us won! 😀

To cure, or to cause?

"There Is No Cloud – There's Just Somebody Else's Computer" 😍

"The "i" in "LLM" stands for intelligence" 👌

Thank you! I enjoyed that!