شایان

just chillin

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

"The most complex political issue on the planet"

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

China is using AI to eliminate the need for poisons to be spread on crops, boosting ecosystem health and reducing cancer rates, while the US is using it to mass murder school children in foreign lands

[🐑 @shinywoolloo]

“want to go to taco bell?”

[Joyniel 🦇 @DanielJoyniel]

Unforgivable tragedy
#Castlevania

[redrum @griffisu]

damn shawty that thing you said kinda ruined my perception of you entirely

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

100 Watergates a week under this administration.

[Norman Roule @Norman_Roule]

There aren’t many surviving examples of bibliomancy in the world, but the practice of Fal-e Hafez lives on. For centuries, Iranians have sought guidance by consulting the Divan-e Hafez, the collected poetry of the great 14th-century Persian poet Hafez. Beyond the beauty of his poetry, Hafez came to be known as lisān al-ghayb (“the Tongue of the Unseen”) because generations of readers have believed his poems could reveal hidden truths and offer guidance. The phrase will also be familiar to readers of Dune, although its Persian literary usage long predates the novels.

This practice is not limited to Iran, but it takes on a particularly interest form at Hafez’s tomb in Shiraz. As shown in this video, bird handlers employ a trained, and presumably inspired, budgerigar or small green or blue parakeet that uses its beak to select a folded piece of paper containing a Hafez verse that becomes the basis for the "fal" (i.e., the omen or divinatory reading meant to respond to the question).

In the West, the closest counterparts would be the now largely historical practices of Sortes Biblicae and Sortes Virgilianae, in which passages from the Bible or the works of Virgil were selected by chance (no birds involved) and then interpreted as guidance or an omen.

[Cartoon Base @TheCartoonBase]

Frank Welker pays tribute to Peter Cullen:

“I will miss my friend, but that voice and his heart and values will always be part of Optimus Prime.”

[⋆｡˚ ☁︎ ˚｡⋆ n ⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆ @gellohcin]

me after having a cheesy gordita crunch & baja blast

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kingfishers tiny waddle

[machine yearning engineer @confusionm8trix]

when a red-tailed hawk shows up to the songbird function it’s like dude can you leave. you are freaking everybody out

[kaden (charadrius vociferus) @2unasushi]

instead of killing two birds with one stone we should ID two birds with one phone

[شایان @jaclosely]

@HaychQ my goat

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

He gets the job done.

[david 🫍 @daviddadummy]

well! im not arguing

[timberdoodlelover @labradortwister]

“lets go birding”

[شایان @jaclosely]

@its_MURPHINATOR @adhdeedeee this is so fire bro

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

Not really sure how we explain to later generations how there was a highly televised ethnic cleansing in 4K