In honor of National Crab Day, behold the Pom Pom Crab!! 🦀
The Pom Pom Crab, Lybia tessellata, isthe crustacean sensation that’s sweeping the nation. It’s debated whether the anemones they hold are for defense, camouflage, or mating. But it’s clear they know how to accessorize & they know it 💅
Awww oh no I missed crab day :(((((( like I can still throw money at the hellsite store obvs, but the fun was being silly with everyone over crustaceans. Oh well. 😔
I will never forgive mattel for not letting earring magic ken keep his mesh shirt and cock ring necklace in the movie
truly unforgivable
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[ID: Image 1: A photo of the doll Earring Magic Ken. He’s blonde and tan with slicked back hair. He wears a mesh purple shirt, a purple pleather vest, an earring in his left ear, and a necklace with a large ring pendant. The pendant has been universally understood to look like a cock ring, which contributed to him being quickly discontinued.
Image 2: A screenshot of Earring Magic Ken from Barbie (2023). His necklace is a large pendant of the Barbie logo. He’s blonde and tan with floppier hair. He wears a regular purple tee shirt, a purple pleather vest, and an earring in his left ear.
Image 3: Tags that say, “it’s because he was wearing the cock ring somewhere else on him. hope this helps/j”.
Image 4: Tags that say, “he’s still smooth down there but has it taped to the plastic”. /End ID]
as the media begins a public outpouring of grief at the passing of shuhada sadaqat, the artist known better as sinead o'connor, i’d ask us all remember three things:
first, sadaqat formally converted to islam and changed her name to shuhada sadaqat in 2018 (though continuing to perform under the name sinead o’connor).
second, sadaqat was a survivor of magdalene laundries, having been sent there for shoplifting and truancy at the age of 18. magdalene laundries were state-sanctioned, chruch-run “homes” for over 30,000 women who were “incarcerated for transgressing the narrow moral code of the time,” as well as girls with mental health issues, pregnancy outside of marriage, petty crime, and social dysfunction. conditions were abysmal: girls were treated with violence and aggression, corporal punishment was common, and it was almost impossible to leave without outside help. many women remained in these “laundries” for many years. investigations were presented to the united nations committee against torture after finding that these laundries and their exploitation amounted to human rights violations and torture. the discovery of a mass grave at one such location in 1993 became a national scandal.
third, when sadaqat protested child sex abuse in the catholic church during her snl performance in 1992, in which she tore a photograph of john paul ii and threw it at the camera with the words “fight the real enemy,” she was met with mockery and ridicule and almost entirely blackballed. this was before the catholic church had acknowledged or apologized for systemic child sex abuse and nearly a decade before the boston globe broke their investigation of allegations against paedophile priests. because she was a woman who had the audacity to speak the truth about a corrupt system. shuhada sadaquat was more than an artist.
edit as of 27 july: the original post has been edited to better reflect sadaqat’s name change (and i apologize for the unedited reblogged version).
But O’Connor saw it differently. Ripping up that photo of the pope defined her career in a “beautiful f**king way,” she told the Guardian in 2021.
“There was no doubt about who this b**ch is,” she said. “There was no more mistaking this woman for a pop star. But it was not derailing; people say, ‘Oh you f**ked up your career,’ but they’re talking about the career they had in mind for me. I f**ked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I f**ked up their career, not mine. It meant that I had to make my living playing live, and I am born for live performance.” (x)
IN A DISTANT and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part …
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On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin entered the lunar lander ‘Eagle’, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter ‘Columbia’, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon. Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface. One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11’s computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” –Neil Armstrong
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