Indie Squid Kid

AKM is a company that makes novelty socks, which often feature animals, and that’s about all I know. (The Internet does not seem to want to give up its secrets on this one.) This cute pair of baby socks were purchased at the NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island gift shop. Each sock features a pair of pink octopuses and a white squid. (They also make a pair of socks for older kids with at least five pink octopuses and two purples squids per sock.)

Here they are being modeled by Kid Indie Squid Kid. These socks are even cuter when worn on a pair of cute little feet!

Both of these magnetic cephalopods came from the gift shop at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island. Their arms and tentacles are spring-mounted so they wiggle when the refrigerator door is opened. I’m not sure what kind of octopus that is supposed to be (if any), but the squid seems to be Humboldt—it’s arms are even splayed out in a manner that I’ve seen in footage of the large Pacific squid. The two mollusks are enjoying a snack of delicious-looking mini sushi magnets from Morgan Imports in Durham, NC.