#mayfly — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mayfly, aggregated by home.social.
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The annual swarming of burrowing mayflies (Ephoron virgo, Uferaas, dunavirág) has started on the Danube.
They were extinct in Hungary due to water pollution for 40 years and only returned in 2012.
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The annual swarming of burrowing mayflies (Ephoron virgo, Uferaas, dunavirág) has started on the Danube.
They were extinct in Hungary due to water pollution for 40 years and only returned in 2012.
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The air was too gnarly for me to take a walk today. There was a mayfly on my office window though, a rare find for me.
This mayfly will never know clear air. We're lucky.
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The air was too gnarly for me to take a walk today. There was a mayfly on my office window though, a rare find for me.
This mayfly will never know clear air. We're lucky.
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Photo from last July of a resting Mayfly near the river.
"The brief lives of mayfly adults have been noted by naturalists and encyclopaedists since Aristotle and Pliny the Elder in classical antiquity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly
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Photo from last July of a resting Mayfly near the river.
"The brief lives of mayfly adults have been noted by naturalists and encyclopaedists since Aristotle and Pliny the Elder in classical antiquity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly
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5 Poems by Carl Bernard Schwartz
LAST LAMENT
The days and nights in prison cells steal souls.
It’s very clear where each wall stands in place.
The floor is filled with doubts and guilt galore.
Abysmal mood defines the range of hope.
The hint of rehab does not stand a chance.Your lawyer takes some precious time away
From counting money each and every day,
To fashion pleas and keep your hopes alive.
The walls stand close, their shadows deep and glum.
Your plea’s denied. There is no other plan,Except an appeal which could do the trick.
You’re tired of waiting, frozen stone cold.
The dark of night and dark of day are one.
There’s no path of light for you to follow.~~
CARING
Mama Mayfly warned
her offspring that too much screen
time was bad for them~~
TWO OLD MEN
Each with a very serious game face, sitting
on opposite sides of an elaborate chessboard,
both deadly sure that they were the divinely
chosen one to guide the chessmen across the
board. Pawns were, of course, as dispensable
as entry-level wage earners. Queens assumed
the same personalities as any of the women
the two old men had ever encountered. Kings
were mostly for show, shunning battle. Bishops
brought in rules for every move imaginable;
Knights rode atop their steeds like Census
takers, recording property rights across the
board. and the Rooks stood silently like those
obedient white flags marking holes on the golf
course. A timer was engaged to ensure a level
playing field for each player. When time had
elapsed, a buzzer or bell would sound, and both
old men would quickly rise up, shout RECESS!
then turn their backs to the board and strut
haltingly outside to play child games.~~
PAPA FOUND HIS FAVORITE MUG
I had a successful fishing expedition and decided
to make my early arrival home a delightful surprise.
Slipped in a back way and stashed the fish in the
freezer, thought I’d wait till dawn to actually appear.
Mother Nature had other plans, and before I could
catch one wink of sleep, she flung torrential storms
causing widespread damage and destruction. Our old
house that had stood proudly through other severe
storms, didn’t have quite enough strength to endure
this one. I felt like one small nail under a barrage of a
thousand hammers, The compression of the wind
reduced normal furniture and fixtures in the house to
museum relics, like dinosaur bones, each with its own
display cabinet not quite fitting with anything else.Papa found his favorite mug, then basically stopped
looking. He didn’t know I was there, trapped in my
own web that I had woven. It was too early to yell or
scream, as part of the storm’s massive footprint was a
collection of its own screams, and other high-decibel
remarks as it tore down the house. Oh, how I wanted
to be that found mug! But all I could do was wait until
the storm passed and then try all the tricks in the book.~~
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
My local professional basketball team
used to function like a fine-tuned, top
brand 10-speed derailleur bicycle, with
all the best parts in all the right places.
Then, management would sell or trade
players to other teams, where they fit in
quite well, thank you, but my local team
soon fell from the top rankings and then
wondered why. It was as if they had
gotten rid of the derailleur device, and
combined the 2 chains into one much
longer chain, and then just couldn’t ever
get what was left of that bike into gear.Copyright © 2026 Carl Bernard Schwartz
#aging #baseball #chess #mayfly #prisoner #storm
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I believe this is a species of mayfly known as the European Green Drake (Ephemera danica)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/452500-Ephemera-danica?photo_id=172417409#map-tab
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I believe this is a species of mayfly known as the European Green Drake (Ephemera danica)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/452500-Ephemera-danica?photo_id=172417409#map-tab
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A bit of AI jiggery pokery. This is the nymph of an Olive Dun Mayfly, Naetis rhodani. I photographed it in shallow water in a plastic box, but the artificial background was distracting and naff. Lightrooms AI selection tools allowed me to accurately select the mayfly and smooth the background. It would have taken hours to do the same manually. #Photography #AI #Lightroom #Nature #Invertebrates #Mayfly
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A bit of AI jiggery pokery. This is the nymph of an Olive Dun Mayfly, Naetis rhodani. I photographed it in shallow water in a plastic box, but the artificial background was distracting and naff. Lightrooms AI selection tools allowed me to accurately select the mayfly and smooth the background. It would have taken hours to do the same manually. #Photography #AI #Lightroom #Nature #Invertebrates #Mayfly
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Dilophosaurus meets a Potamanthus.
#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Potamanthus #Mayfly #Insects #Dinosaurs
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CW: ビバ丼虫部 ファンタジーな生き物みたいな
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Heavy Metal Geomatrix with Billy
Welcome back, comic crusaders and digital daredevils! This week on Play Comics, we’re diving into the gloriously chaotic world of Heavy Metal: Geomatrix for the Sega Dreamcast—a game that asks, “What if Heavy Metal magazine became a button-mashing arena brawler with enough explosions to make Michael Bay jealous?” Released by Capcom in 2001 and featuring the wild art of Simon Bisley, this four-player deathmatch extravaganza throws you into a 23rd-century future where VR-addicted humanity battles it out in submerged cities, all while capturing the magazine’s signature blend of sci-fi, fantasy, and “did my mom just see that?” moments.
Joining us for this high-octane journey through neo-cyberspace mayhem is none other than our beloved returning guest Billy – yes, the same mysterious internet hermit who graced us with his presence during our previous mecha-focused episodes covering Gundam Battle Assault 2 and Gundam Wing: Endless Duel. Billy’s back to help us navigate the testosterone-fueled battlegrounds of teams like the 818 Stompers, 991 Elite, 707 Metal Heads, and 323 Agents, because apparently in the future, gang names are just random numbers followed by edgy nouns.
So grab your favorite energy drink, prepare your best robot voice impressions, and settle in for another episode where we discover if this Dreamcast gem was a faithful adaptation or just an excuse to watch scantily-clad warriors duke it out with bazookas and laser swords in the name of preserving humanity. With Billy’s expert commentary on all things giant robot-adjacent, this promises to be more entertaining than watching someone try to explain the plot of Heavy Metal magazine to their grandmother!
Learn such things as:
- Can nano-technology make terrible character names sound cooler?
- Is it possible to have too many weapons in one arena, or is that just quitter talk?
- How many metal bands does it take to make a video game soundtrack truly “heavy”?
- And so much more!
You can find Billy nowhere online because he’s a hermit who hides out in those secret places of the internet that only we know about.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.
A big thanks to the Kickstarter campaign for Starlite and The Last Comic Shop Podcast for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who couldn’t make a better soundtrack for this game. But he could come pretty close.
#BillyCommanderCast #Capcom #Di #Dreamcast #Duke #HeavyMetal #Hound #Kassey #Lance #Mayfly #Phantom #Sarge #Slash #Stab #Talbot #Zeus
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ブログ書きました！
5月はカゲロウの季節？色んな所で目撃します
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wow I really wasn't paying enough attention to #Seungmin before the #Mayfly collaboration.
for the Kingdom sports day, he's wearing a hoodie that says GUCCI SEXINESS. also pink shorts.
I was previously way too distracted by #Felix's matching pink ensemble and his clear intention to be the prettiest twink at the sports day.
I'm sorry Seungmin. you looked very cute and fuckable and I'm sure many of the hot guys there also thought so.
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wow I really wasn't paying enough attention to #Seungmin before the #Mayfly collaboration.
for the Kingdom sports day, he's wearing a hoodie that says GUCCI SEXINESS. also pink shorts.
I was previously way too distracted by #Felix's matching pink ensemble and his clear intention to be the prettiest twink at the sports day.
I'm sorry Seungmin. you looked very cute and fuckable and I'm sure many of the hot guys there also thought so.
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> “Help Save Fenwick Plaza” was the all caps headline of an email and Instagram post Born sent out yesterday to Mayfly’s thousands of fans. “We need your help!!” it read. “PBOT is planning to remove the plaza this fall and we need to show them the positive impact that it has had for our neighborhood!”
https://bikeportland.org/2024/07/18/kenton-business-owner-fights-to-save-carfree-plaza-388709/amp
#portland #pdx #kenton #fenwickPlaza #mayfly #UrbanLandscape #urbanism #streetArt #parklet
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> “Help Save Fenwick Plaza” was the all caps headline of an email and Instagram post Born sent out yesterday to Mayfly’s thousands of fans. “We need your help!!” it read. “PBOT is planning to remove the plaza this fall and we need to show them the positive impact that it has had for our neighborhood!”
https://bikeportland.org/2024/07/18/kenton-business-owner-fights-to-save-carfree-plaza-388709/amp
#portland #pdx #kenton #fenwickPlaza #mayfly #UrbanLandscape #urbanism #streetArt #parklet
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I logged my 200th observation on #Inaturalist last weekend! Not of a particularly fancy or rare species, not even of a new one for me, but that’s why I like #Inat: it’s not a competition, and each tiny contribution adds a pixel to the big picture.
Considering #Ephemera vulgata is found, according to Wikipedia, ”throughout most of Europe”, I’m surprised this species of #mayfly does not seem to have a common name in English.
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Years of bigger dreams
small nymph in bright cool water
one day you may fly -
Years of bigger dreams
small nymph in bright cool water
one day you may fly -
Next for #KpopMonday's #PaintTheTown, my other emotional support group: Mayfly. 😜
Mayfly-R - Colours (Play with Paint) https://youtu.be/yTJiKjZy5Xo
note: the hangul title translates to "play with paint" but the track was published with the English title "Colours" (yes, you must use the "u" spelling, it's important)
#Kpop #KingdomLegendaryWar #Mayfly #BTOB #HUTA #StrayKids #ATEEZ
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Next for #KpopMonday's #PaintTheTown, my other emotional support group: Mayfly. 😜
Mayfly-R - Colours (Play with Paint) https://youtu.be/yTJiKjZy5Xo
note: the hangul title translates to "play with paint" but the track was published with the English title "Colours" (yes, you must use the "u" spelling, it's important)
#Kpop #KingdomLegendaryWar #Mayfly #BTOB #HUTA #StrayKids #ATEEZ
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"Monarch of of all I survey! I'm here for a good time, not for a long time."
CW: Insect (Mayfly)
Just down from The Courts of the Morning on the #ThamesPath (last post) - maybe they're looking to #sin!
#Mayfly #macrophotography #insects #insectmacro #Pangbourne #photography
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heute, auf die schnelle fotografiert, gibt's eine eintagsfliege.
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A life of mayfly - a Japanese metaphor for a short and fragile life…🥲
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By May 29, the woman who was made premier by one per cent of Albertans will be a gaudy footnote, in the dismal decline of a conservatism firmly captured by anger. This group continues to look for a fight with Ottawa under any pretence, however false.
Danielle Smith a political mayfly, not long for the job - The Hill Times https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2022/12/05/357637/357637/ #abpoli #smith #HFXsmackdown #mayfly #MayNot
