#tattle — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tattle, aggregated by home.social.
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To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
You need advice from me): Be careful about
The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
[Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness
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To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
You need advice from me): Be careful about
The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
[Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Drive away and never endure Tale-bearers: Whoever entertains thee with the Faults of others, designs to serve thee in the same Kind.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2057 (1727)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #calumny #gossip #hearsay #scandal #slander #tattle
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“There hasn’t been many turning points in the history of online bullying and harassment, but this is one.
“It’s not a threat to free speech but [to] consequence-free speech – speech that crosses the bridge into criminality. It’s not really over. It’s not over until he’s in front of a court to answer questions.
“He’s had one weekend of what everyone bullied on Tattle has had for years.”
Irish couple hold bullying website's owner to account
https://www.thejournal.ie/donna-neil-sands-sebastian-bond-tattlelife-6734991-Jun2025/?utm_source=thejournal&utm_content=top-stories
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Tattle Life, an online gossip forum that targets influencers and celebrities, which has been described as "the most toxic place on the internet," may be on its last legs. An Irish couple, Neil and Donna Sands, sued the site for hosting defamatory and harassing commentary about them and unveiled the founder as a vegan influencer and author called Sebastian Bond (who also used the name Helen McDougal). Cosmopolitan explains the site's background, how much money Bond was making from it, and how he was brought to justice.
#Internet #InternetForums #Celebrity #Influencers #Creators #Tattle #TattleLife
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Mozilla often get a bit of a hard time but this is spot on and a something no one else is doing. I Well done Mozilla. #Mozilla #hatespeach #tattle #opensource
Mozilla Foundation - A Community-based Tool to Block Hateful Content on Social Media
> A civic tech organization in India, Tattle, is buckling up to grant users more agency over how to protect themselves and report online abuse.