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  1. 🌿🪨The "Druid’s Temple " in North Yorkshire. A photogenic 19th-century folly built to mimic an ancient monument.

    It was a construction project to provide work for locals after the Napoleonic Wars.

    However, the site is linked to many a spooky tale. Shifting shadows and eerie noises in the night, alleged occult practices and dark folklore legends.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

  2. 🌿🪨The "Druid’s Temple " in North Yorkshire. A photogenic 19th-century folly built to mimic an ancient monument.

    It was a construction project to provide work for locals after the Napoleonic Wars.

    However, the site is linked to many a spooky tale. Shifting shadows and eerie noises in the night, alleged occult practices and dark folklore legends.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #Yorkshire #History #Folly #DarkTourism #Story #Photography #Folklore

  3. 🌿🪨The "Druid’s Temple " in North Yorkshire. A photogenic 19th-century folly built to mimic an ancient monument.

    It was a construction project to provide work for locals after the Napoleonic Wars.

    However, the site is linked to many a spooky tale. Shifting shadows and eerie noises in the night, alleged occult practices and dark folklore legends.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #Yorkshire #History #Folly #DarkTourism #Story #Photography #Folklore

  4. 🌿🪨The "Druid’s Temple " in North Yorkshire. A photogenic 19th-century folly built to mimic an ancient monument.

    It was a construction project to provide work for locals after the Napoleonic Wars.

    However, the site is linked to many a spooky tale. Shifting shadows and eerie noises in the night, alleged occult practices and dark folklore legends.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #Yorkshire #History #Folly #DarkTourism #Story #Photography #Folklore

  5. 🌿🪨The "Druid’s Temple " in North Yorkshire. A photogenic 19th-century folly built to mimic an ancient monument.

    It was a construction project to provide work for locals after the Napoleonic Wars.

    However, the site is linked to many a spooky tale. Shifting shadows and eerie noises in the night, alleged occult practices and dark folklore legends.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #Yorkshire #History #Folly #DarkTourism #Story #Photography #Folklore

  6. Anyone else think that AI is our Easter Island moment? We keep consuming resources to build more statues until there are no resources left ... but lots of statues, many unfinished.

    #AI #EasterIsland #Folly

  7. Anyone else think that AI is our Easter Island moment? We keep consuming resources to build more statues until there are no resources left ... but lots of statues, many unfinished.

    #AI #EasterIsland #Folly

  8. Anyone else think that AI is our Easter Island moment? We keep consuming resources to build more statues until there are no resources left ... but lots of statues, many unfinished.

    #AI #EasterIsland #Folly

  9. Anyone else think that AI is our Easter Island moment? We keep consuming resources to build more statues until there are no resources left ... but lots of statues, many unfinished.

    #AI #EasterIsland #Folly

  10. Anyone else think that AI is our Easter Island moment? We keep consuming resources to build more statues until there are no resources left ... but lots of statues, many unfinished.

    #AI #EasterIsland #Folly

  11. Ratcheugh Observatory, an 18th century folly owned by the Duke of Northumberland and consisting of, on the left, a raised square observatory with 360% views of Northumberland and the North Sea, and a small flat on the right, which is rented out. IIMHO the best flat in the county if you forget who owns it! The crag it sits on has a some poor rock climbs on it. #Photography #Landscape #Northumberland #Folly

  12. Ratcheugh Observatory, an 18th century folly owned by the Duke of Northumberland and consisting of, on the left, a raised square observatory with 360% views of Northumberland and the North Sea, and a small flat on the right, which is rented out. IIMHO the best flat in the county if you forget who owns it! The crag it sits on has a some poor rock climbs on it. #Photography #Landscape #Northumberland #Folly

  13. Ratcheugh Observatory, an 18th century folly owned by the Duke of Northumberland and consisting of, on the left, a raised square observatory with 360% views of Northumberland and the North Sea, and a small flat on the right, which is rented out. IIMHO the best flat in the county if you forget who owns it! The crag it sits on has a some poor rock climbs on it. #Photography #Landscape #Northumberland #Folly

  14. Ratcheugh Observatory, an 18th century folly owned by the Duke of Northumberland and consisting of, on the left, a raised square observatory with 360% views of Northumberland and the North Sea, and a small flat on the right, which is rented out. IIMHO the best flat in the county if you forget who owns it! The crag it sits on has a some poor rock climbs on it. #Photography #Landscape #Northumberland #Folly

  15. Ratcheugh Observatory, an 18th century folly owned by the Duke of Northumberland and consisting of, on the left, a raised square observatory with 360% views of Northumberland and the North Sea, and a small flat on the right, which is rented out. IIMHO the best flat in the county if you forget who owns it! The crag it sits on has a some poor rock climbs on it. #Photography #Landscape #Northumberland #Folly

  16. On a Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday afternoon) and the weather was fine and dandy for a walk around Hardwick Hall Country Park.
    Lots of other people out and about too, making the most of the warm sunshine and getting their steps in before tomorrow's forecasted heavy rain arrives.
    Love this view here across the Serpentine Lake to the Temple of Minerva, an 18th century folly designed by James Paine and constructed between 1754 and 1757.
    Its imposing presence is helped by being built on an elevated section of the park.
    Dedicated to 'Minerva' the Roman goddess of wisdom and patroness of the Arts.

    #england #durham #landscape #folly #bankholiday #may2026 #photography

  17. On a Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday afternoon) and the weather was fine and dandy for a walk around Hardwick Hall Country Park.
    Lots of other people out and about too, making the most of the warm sunshine and getting their steps in before tomorrow's forecasted heavy rain arrives.
    Love this view here across the Serpentine Lake to the Temple of Minerva, an 18th century folly designed by James Paine and constructed between 1754 and 1757.
    Its imposing presence is helped by being built on an elevated section of the park.
    Dedicated to 'Minerva' the Roman goddess of wisdom and patroness of the Arts.

    #england #durham #landscape #folly #bankholiday #may2026 #photography

  18. On a Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday afternoon) and the weather was fine and dandy for a walk around Hardwick Hall Country Park.
    Lots of other people out and about too, making the most of the warm sunshine and getting their steps in before tomorrow's forecasted heavy rain arrives.
    Love this view here across the Serpentine Lake to the Temple of Minerva, an 18th century folly designed by James Paine and constructed between 1754 and 1757.
    Its imposing presence is helped by being built on an elevated section of the park.
    Dedicated to 'Minerva' the Roman goddess of wisdom and patroness of the Arts.

    #england #durham #landscape #folly #bankholiday #may2026 #photography

  19. On a Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday afternoon) and the weather was fine and dandy for a walk around Hardwick Hall Country Park.
    Lots of other people out and about too, making the most of the warm sunshine and getting their steps in before tomorrow's forecasted heavy rain arrives.
    Love this view here across the Serpentine Lake to the Temple of Minerva, an 18th century folly designed by James Paine and constructed between 1754 and 1757.
    Its imposing presence is helped by being built on an elevated section of the park.
    Dedicated to 'Minerva' the Roman goddess of wisdom and patroness of the Arts.

    #england #durham #landscape #folly #bankholiday #may2026 #photography

  20. On a Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday afternoon) and the weather was fine and dandy for a walk around Hardwick Hall Country Park.
    Lots of other people out and about too, making the most of the warm sunshine and getting their steps in before tomorrow's forecasted heavy rain arrives.
    Love this view here across the Serpentine Lake to the Temple of Minerva, an 18th century folly designed by James Paine and constructed between 1754 and 1757.
    Its imposing presence is helped by being built on an elevated section of the park.
    Dedicated to 'Minerva' the Roman goddess of wisdom and patroness of the Arts.

    #england #durham #landscape #folly #bankholiday #may2026 #photography

  21. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  22. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  23. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  24. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #dolt #folly #fool #humanity #laughter #scorn

  25. A quotation from Einstein

    The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
     
    [Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8350…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #concentration #distraction #focus #folly #fools #humancondition #humannature #inconsistency #majority #stupidity

  26. A quotation from Einstein

    The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
     
    [Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8350…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #concentration #distraction #focus #folly #fools #humancondition #humannature #inconsistency #majority #stupidity

  27. A quotation from Einstein

    The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
     
    [Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8350…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #concentration #distraction #focus #folly #fools #humancondition #humannature #inconsistency #majority #stupidity

  28. A quotation from Einstein

    The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
     
    [Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8350…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #concentration #distraction #focus #folly #fools #humancondition #humannature #inconsistency #majority #stupidity

  29. A quotation from Einstine

    The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
     
    [Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
    Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

    More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8350…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #concentration #distraction #focus #folly #fools #humancondition #humannature #inconsistency #majority #stupidity

  30. Faith And Folly by Mary Brotherton

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q-1zCZItxvk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLJFS68S As we go through life we make decisions. Sometimes they are foolish. Sometimes they are not so foolish. However, there is always something more powerful to get us through. Faith and Folly is filled with such stories by Author Mary Brotherton. Real life stories with life lessons of faith and folly Shine cross shape in the end of wooden path at sunset

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  31. Faith And Folly by Mary Brotherton

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q-1zCZItxvk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLJFS68S As we go through life we make decisions. Sometimes they are foolish. Sometimes they are not so foolish. However, there is always something more powerful to get us through. Faith and Folly is filled with such stories by Author Mary Brotherton. Real life stories with life lessons of faith and folly Shine cross shape in the end of wooden path at sunset

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  32. Faith And Folly by Mary Brotherton

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q-1zCZItxvk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLJFS68S As we go through life we make decisions. Sometimes they are foolish. Sometimes they are not so foolish. However, there is always something more powerful to get us through. Faith and Folly is filled with such stories by Author Mary Brotherton. Real life stories with life lessons of faith and folly Shine cross shape in the end of wooden path at sunset

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  33. Faith And Folly by Mary Brotherton

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q-1zCZItxvk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLJFS68S As we go through life we make decisions. Sometimes they are foolish. Sometimes they are not so foolish. However, there is always something more powerful to get us through. Faith and Folly is filled with such stories by Author Mary Brotherton. Real life stories with life lessons of faith and folly Shine cross shape in the end of wooden path at sunset

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  34. Faith And Folly by Mary Brotherton

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q-1zCZItxvk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLJFS68S As we go through life we make decisions. Sometimes they are foolish. Sometimes they are not so foolish. However, there is always something more powerful to get us through. Faith and Folly is filled with such stories by Author Mary Brotherton. Real life stories with life lessons of faith and folly Shine cross shape in the end of wooden path at sunset

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  35. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  36. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  37. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  38. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  39. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  40. 🆕 🧙‍♂️🏛️ 🇬🇧 New location feature: The Druid’s Temple, England.

    Lost in the forests of #Yorkshire, a series of stone pillars form a circle.

    This isn't an actual "Druid's Temple", it is an elaborate 19th-century folly.

    However, the site is tied to unusual local folklore.

    Explore these tales and more history and photos 👇
    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #DarkTourism #Folly #EnglishHeritage #NorthYorkshire #Temple #Stone #Folklore #Story #Mystery

  41. 🆕 🧙‍♂️🏛️ 🇬🇧 New location feature: The Druid’s Temple, England.

    Lost in the forests of , a series of stone pillars form a circle.

    This isn't an actual "Druid's Temple", it is an elaborate 19th-century folly.

    However, the site is tied to unusual local folklore.

    Explore these tales and more history and photos 👇
    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

  42. 🆕 🧙‍♂️🏛️ 🇬🇧 New location feature: The Druid’s Temple, England.

    Lost in the forests of #Yorkshire, a series of stone pillars form a circle.

    This isn't an actual "Druid's Temple", it is an elaborate 19th-century folly.

    However, the site is tied to unusual local folklore.

    Explore these tales and more history and photos 👇
    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #DarkTourism #Folly #EnglishHeritage #NorthYorkshire #Temple #Stone #Folklore #Story #Mystery

  43. 🆕 🧙‍♂️🏛️ 🇬🇧 New location feature: The Druid’s Temple, England.

    Lost in the forests of #Yorkshire, a series of stone pillars form a circle.

    This isn't an actual "Druid's Temple", it is an elaborate 19th-century folly.

    However, the site is tied to unusual local folklore.

    Explore these tales and more history and photos 👇
    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #DarkTourism #Folly #EnglishHeritage #NorthYorkshire #Temple #Stone #Folklore #Story #Mystery

  44. 🆕 🧙‍♂️🏛️ 🇬🇧 New location feature: The Druid’s Temple, England.

    Lost in the forests of #Yorkshire, a series of stone pillars form a circle.

    This isn't an actual "Druid's Temple", it is an elaborate 19th-century folly.

    However, the site is tied to unusual local folklore.

    Explore these tales and more history and photos 👇
    obsidianurbexphotography.com/o

    #DarkTourism #Folly #EnglishHeritage #NorthYorkshire #Temple #Stone #Folklore #Story #Mystery