kctipton4d ago
Trump in Defeat - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/06/trump-defeat-iran-war/687566/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3ujumpmP8twmoNxPcXTi2pI Free link! #iran #folly
Trump in Defeat

The president went to war triumphant and will likely leave greatly weakened.

The Atlantic
WIST Quotations6d ago

A quotation from The Bible

Some people are thought to be wise because they don’t talk much; others are disliked because they talk too much. Some people keep quiet because they don’t have anything to say; others keep quiet because they know the right time to speak. A wise person will not speak until the right moment, but a bragging fool doesn’t know when that time is.
 
[ἔστιν σιωπῶν εὑρισκόμενος σοφός,
καὶ ἔστιν μισητὸς ἀπὸ πολλῆς λαλιᾶς.
ἔστιν σιωπῶν, οὐ γὰρ ἔχει ἀπόκρισιν,
καὶ ἔστιν σιωπῶν εἰδὼς καιρόν.
ἄνθρωπος σοφὸς σιγήσει ἕως καιροῦ,
ὁ δὲ λαπιστὴς καὶ ἄφρων ὑπερβήσεται καιρόν.]

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 20: 5ff (Sir 20:5–7) [tr. GNT (1992 ed.)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84525/

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Bible, Vol. 1. Old Testament - Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 20: 5ff (Sir 20:5–7) [tr. GNT (1992 ed.)] | WIST Quotations

Some people are thought to be wise because they don't talk much; others are disliked because they talk too much. Some people keep quiet because they don't have anything to say; others keep quiet because they know the right time to speak. A wise person will not speak until the…

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JBinnacleJun 6
Pointed arches inside a folly built into a rock, first a bar, possibly being turned into a rural hotel. Cívica / Brihuega, Spain 🇪🇸, 6th July 2025.

https://wp.me/p2yJaA-3bp

#Spain #España #Espana #Brihuega #Cívica #Civica
#RuinasDeCivica #RuinasDeCívica #architecture #folly #curiousplaces
#travel #travelphotography #traveling #travelling #trip #tourism
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JBinnacleJun 6
A folly built into a rock, first a bar, possibly being turned into a rural hotel. Cívica / Brihuega, Spain 🇪🇸, 6th July 2025.

https://wp.me/p2yJaA-3bp

#Spain #España #Espana #Brihuega #Cívica #Civica
#RuinasDeCivica #RuinasDeCívica #architecture #folly #curiousplaces
#travel #travelphotography #traveling #travelling #trip #tourism
#JBinnacle
JBinnacleJun 6
A folly built into a rock, first a bar, possibly being turned into a rural hotel. Cívica / Brihuega, Spain 🇪🇸, 6th July 2025.

https://wp.me/p2yJaA-3bp

#Spain #España #Espana #Brihuega #Cívica #Civica
#RuinasDeCivica #RuinasDeCívica #architecture #folly #curiousplaces
#travel #travelphotography #traveling #travelling #trip #tourism
#JBinnacle
WIST QuotationsJun 4

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

Billings, Josh - Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1876-04 (1876 ed.) | WIST Quotations

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…

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JBinnacleJun 3
The folly known as the “artificial mountain” Montaña Artificial, park Parque del Retiro. Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸, 30th May 2025.

https://wp.me/p2yJaA-3ah

#Spain #España #Espana #Madrid #MadridSpain
#architecture #folly #gardening #MontanaArtifcial #MontañaArtificial #ParqueDelRetiro #Retiro #RetiroMadrid
#travel #travelphotography #traveling #travelling #trip #tourism
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Obsidian Urbex PhotographyMay 27

🌿🪨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.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/other/druids-temple-yorkshire-england/

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

WiseGreyOwl 🌍 🦉May 11

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

Mike CoxMay 8
View from the office
#appleyTower
#folly
#idleOfWight