Dylan Funko Martin

Fellow #Funatic @OriginalFunko Pop! figure collector since 2015. #Funko #FunkoPop #FunkoCollector

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Main Account: @dylanmm5

[Ryan 👻✨| 🔎💄💀 @RyanRyanNewer]

Love this version of Toy Story. The lighting and characters look so much better in a warmer tint, and the fuzzy softness of film hides the lower quality textures.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. A firefly spends up to two years underground as a larva, hunting slugs in the dirt. Then it crawls out, grows wings, and gets maybe three weeks as the glowing thing you remember from childhood. Three weeks to find a mate and reproduce. Then it's dead.

So when the tweet says "some scientist" warned we're the last generation to see them, that's real. A Belgian firefly researcher named Raphaël De Cock said it, and the clip blew up on TikTok. But I dug into the actual science, and the picture is weirder than the headline.

We know of about 2,200 firefly species worldwide. Scientists have studied fewer than 150 of them. That's less than 7%. Of the ones they looked at, about 14% are at risk of extinction. And here's the part that got me: we know so little about more than half the species we've found that scientists can't even tell if they're dying off. If those mystery species are disappearing at the same rate, 1 in 3 North American fireflies could be in trouble. We might be losing species nobody's even properly named yet.

A major 2024 study by Penn State, the University of Kentucky, and Bucknell examined 24,000 citizen surveys across the eastern U.S. The number one thing killing fireflies turned out to be weather and climate shifts. Their larvae need wet soil to survive those two years underground. Too dry, they die. Too flooded, they drown. The second biggest killer: artificial light. Night skies are getting about 10% brighter every year. A quarter of Earth's land is now lit up at night. And fireflies talk to each other with light. Their whole mating system runs on flashing patterns in the dark. Flood that with streetlights and porch lights, and the signal disappears.

This isn't abstract. In Hong Kong, one firefly species lived along 1.8 kilometers of a single hiking trail. Street lamps went up in 2018 and 2019. The population is gone. Critically Endangered now. In Delaware, the Bethany Beach firefly exists in a few tiny salt marshes, and coastal construction is eating them up.

But your common backyard lightning bug, the one called Photinus pyralis, is fine. Ben Pfeiffer, who runs Firefly Conservation and Research, said it straight: "We won't be the last generation to see fireflies." What's actually vanishing is the variety. The weird ones. The specialists. They get replaced by the one tough generalist that can survive anywhere.

One last thing that stuck with me. A firefly turns chemical energy into light at about 41% efficiency, with almost zero heat lost. Our best LEDs just recently hit about 40%. We spent decades of engineering to match what a beetle worked out 100 million years ago.

And we're blinding them with the lights we built to copy them.

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@DisTrackers I pre-ordered last week. Should I be good?

[grizz @grizzlikesfilm]

so good you had to use a color corrected version?😭

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@DisTrackers I hope Fozzie and Gonzo get a FLOCKED variant in the future! @OriginalFunko

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@OriginalFunko Could we please get more 'Animated Series' Pops? Penguin, Grey Ghost, Ventriloquist?

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@ScarletJokerTWT They need to continue the Justice League Unlimited line! Long gone but not forgotten.

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@DisTrackers Giveaway?

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@ShowcaseUS 🦈

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

I won a Box of Fun GIVEAWAY! Thank you so much, @OriginalFunko.

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@ScarletJokerTWT

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@DisTrackers Disappointed. No Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Cartoon Network, Batman: The Animated Series, Star Wars or any movies!?! Well, I did blow $100 on NFT Marvel packs full of uncommons/commons so I guess it balances out. Lol

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@OriginalFunko FunDays, Mystery, Exploit, Pursuit, Journey, Venture, Odyssey
#QuestForTheGrail

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@8witAaron @DisTrackers Because there's nothing I want from today lol

[Sully 🤠 @CSSully]

Thanks to the @Dropppio team, I'm going to give away some community packs on stream, starting NOW!

Join in the fun on Twitch or YouTube for a chance to WIN!

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@10enesexy How much for Shrek?

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@DisTrackers Fair enough.

[Dylan Funko Martin @DylanFunko]

@funkofinderz It's already available on Funko's eBay.