Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia physalis)
The Portuguese man o’ war is a marine hydrozoan found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is one of two species in the genus Physalia, along with the Pacific man o’ war. Physalia is the only genus in the family Physaliidae. Its long tentacles deliver a painful sting, which is venomous and powerful enough to kill fish and even humans. Despite its appearance, the Portuguese man o’ war is not a true jellyfish but a siphonophore, which is not an individual multicellular organism (true jellyfishes are single organisms), but a colonial organism made up of many specialized animals of the same species, called zooids or polyps. These polyps are attached to one another and physiologically integrated, to the extent that they cannot survive independently, creating a symbiotic relationship, requiring each polyp to work together and function like an individual animal. The Atlantic Portuguese man o’ war lives at the surface of the ocean. The gas-filled bladder, or pneumatophore, remains at the surface, while the remainder is submerged. Portuguese men o’ war have no means of propulsion, and move driven by the winds, currents, and tides. This species is responsible for up to 10,000 human stings in Australia each summer, particularly on the east coast, with some others occurring off the coast of South Australia and Western Australia. One of the problems with identifying these stings is that the detached tentacles may drift for days in the water, and the swimmer may not have any idea if they have been stung by a man o’ war or by some other less venomous creature. The Portuguese man o’ war is a carnivore. Using its venomous tentacles, a man o’ war traps and paralyzes its prey while “reeling” it inwards to the digestive polyps. It typically feeds on small marine organisms, such as fish and plankton.
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It’s a coming out party of sorts.
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972) - Geneni Film Distributing Co.
On this day, 27 January 1875, Mexican revolutionary and feminist Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza was born to a mestizo father an Indigenous mother. Educating herself as a child, she began to write for the radical press, and she was jailed in 1897 for criticising mine workers’ conditions in Chihuahua state.
She later became a teacher, translated numerous classic anarchist texts by the likes of Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin into Spanish, and contributed prolifically to revolutionary publications, and more mainstream ones on working class issues.
In 1907, she founded Las Hijas de Anáhuac, an anarchist-feminist group which agitated for strikes for better working conditions for women.
She enthusiastically took part in the revolution which began in 1911, and was imprisoned for three years, and upon her release she set up a military unit in the army of Emiliano Zapata, who made her a colonel.
She kept up her political activity advocating for rights for women, workers and Indigenous people until her death in 1942. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1335439623307851/?type=3
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Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) dir. Stewart Raffill
An evil scientist implants the brain of Michael (Paul Walker), a murdered high school student, into a Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high school tormentors, and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy (Denise Richards).I’m sorry, this hit me with the biggest train wreck of “wtf” I think I need to sit down, process this, and do my research on this movie later
