#bragging — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bragging, aggregated by home.social.
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Fin janvier, je fait une demande pour une fonctionnalité sur un outil qui me plait. C'est du Rust, je regarde le code et je ne comprends rien, je ne peux pas le faire moi même. Pas longtemps après je me mets à Rust. Aujourd'hui j'ai ajouté la fonctionnalité sans difficulté et fait une pull request. #JeSuisFierVoilà #bragging
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GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 55ff (3.1.55-57) (1597)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #henryiv #occult #boast #braggadocio #bragging #ghosts #influence #magic #power #spirits #supernatural
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A quotation from Josh Billings
I never knu a man to brag ov hiz munny, or hiz pedigree, who had enny thing else worth bragging about.
[I never knew a man to brag of his money, or his pedigree, who had anything else worth bragging about.]Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 (1877 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85536/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #ancestry #braggart #bragging #ego #lineage #money #pedigree #praiseworthiness #pride #value #wealth #worth #worthiness
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A quotation from Josh Billings
I dont kno which iz the biggest phool, the man who kan spend two hours bragging about himself, or the one who kan sit pashuntly and listen to him.
[I don’t know which is the biggest fool, the man who can spend two hours bragging about himself, or the one who can sit patiently and listen to him.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-04 (1876 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/84043/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #braggadocio #braggart #bragging #enabling #folly #fool #listening #patience
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were “convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,” Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #amorality #attractiveness #boasting #bragging #brazenness #bullies #contempt #crime #evil #evildoers #immorality #moralstandards #morality #propaganda #seduction #seductiveness #shamelessness #totalitarianism
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russian oil storage tanks before flames from previous attacks extinguished -- At least 4 killed, 26 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day -- Drone strike kills driver near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, IAEA says -- JD Vance brags about halting Ukraine aid; sources say he's not just talking, he's driving policy ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-28-2026/
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#Trump’s alleged #sexual #assault of a #minor: what we know & what’s still being hidden
🤦♂️"only 16 pages hv been disclosed, meaning 37 pages r still being withheld by te Trump admin.. More than 2 dozen #women hv accused Trump of #sexualassault. In 2023, a #jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing writer #EJeanCarroll in te mid-90s & later defaming her.. Trump was #recorded #bragging about his ability to get away with sexual assault in 2005 on an #AccessHollywood tape"🧐
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I think I've overstepped the cult of Infosec territory... 🤪
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A quotation from Judith Martin
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/martin-judith/32074/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #boasting #bragging #ego #humble #humility #impression #meme #pride #reputation #selfaggrandizement #strengths #selfpromotion
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3/🧵Hardly a day goes by without Trump’s telling us that no president has amassed a political movement like his or accomplished as much in such a short time or built such a rich economy or worked harder. Me, me, me. Best, best, best. He can’t find enough hours in the conventional workday to proclaim his glory adequately, so he has been known to spend the wee hours strutting on Truth Social, as he did from 9 p.m. to midnight on the first day of December, in a narcissistic meltdown of more than 150 posts.
About six hours later, as he reflected on what terrific fun that was, he awarded a superlative to the platform designed to accommodate his superlatives. “TRUTH SOCIAL IS THE BEST!” he wrote. “There is nothing even close!!!” Exclamation points are like pluses. You can’t have just one. —Frank Bruni, NYTimes #Trump #Huckster #bragging #Republicans #TrumpRegime #USPol
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2/🧵When Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, gave a status report on his agency’s work in mid-October in the Oval Office, he effused: “These are the best numbers for fighting crime in U.S. history.” He used “historic” less than a minute later, and another “historic” less than a minute after that. As Shakespeare might have written, methinks he doth “historic” too much.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, giving a status report of his own at a cabinet meeting two weeks ago, pronounced: “It has been a historic year at the Department of War.” He added that “the spirit in our ranks” was “unprecedented” and that recruitment and retention were “at the most historic levels our country has ever seen.” Not just historic — most historic. —Frank Bruni, NYTimes #Trump #TrumpRegime #Republicans #bragging #boasting #character #USPol
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Trump and his team exuberantly violate just about every precept of character that I was ever taught, and so it goes with moderation and humility. They’ve normalized bragging. Scratch that: They’ve fetishized it. It’s a naughtiness they allow themselves, a perk they accord themselves, a rite by which they identify themselves to one another as birds of a feather — peacocks, in this case. It’s a competition: My superlatives are bigger than yours. —Frank Bruni, NYTimes #Bragging #character #braggart #boasting #Trump #TrumpRegime #USPol
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Wawww look at our cool new looks! <3 Thanks @janamarie <3 <3 <3
(yes, it looks a lot like #39C3: https://events.ccc.de/en/2025/10/30/39c3-erstrahlt-im-nerdy-chique/ )
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My review of the recent Edinburgh show by the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra was the most-read article of the week on UKJazzNews.
Well chuffed!
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A thousand likes! Numbers go up!
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1739 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/76…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #PoorRichardsAlamanack #bragging #boasting #discretion #ego #reticence #silence
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #RobertLouisStevenson #bragging #concern #dishonesty #facade #honor #integrity #suspicion
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CLÉANTE: There’s true and false in piety, as in bravery,
And just as those whose courage shines the most
In battle, are the least inclined to boast,
So those whose hearts are truly pure and lowly
Don’t make a flashy show of being holy.
[Il est de faux dévots ainsi que de faux braves:
Et, comme on ne voit pas qu’où l’honneur les conduit
Les vrais braves soient ceux qui font beaucoup de bruit,
Les bons et vrais dévots, qu’on doit suivre à la trace,
Ne sont pas ceux aussi qui font tant de grimace.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/75622/
#quote #quotes #quotation #boasting #bragging #bravado #bravery #courage #devotion #hypocrisy #hypocrite #ostentation #performance #piety #pious #showingoff #visibility
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My short story was accepted!
This is the third time I submitted to this specific yearly anthology and the third I got in! I'm thrilled and definitely feel this is one of my best stories yet.
