
2025-07-07 09:25:02
Her Money Matters
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Her Money Matters
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
her: *holds up a bag*
her: "Do you like this flatbread stuff?"
me: *shakes head*
me: "I don't think it should be called 'bread' if it is flat. It's basically a soggy cracker."
her: "It's flat bread!" 🙄
DOJ: The Epstein Client List That Bondi Had On Her Desk Doesn't Exist | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/doj-epstein-client-list-bondi-had-her-desk
Laura Loomer Reveals White House Clout Has Earned Her a New Nickname (Amber Levis/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-loomer-reveals-white-house-clout-has-earned-her-a-new-nickname/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p122#a250806p122
Young Woman Accidentally Booked an Airbnb that Turned Out to Be Her Father’s Childhood Home in Italy https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/young-woman-accidentally-booked-an-airbnb-that-turned-out-to-be-her-fathers-chil…
Lately I've been approached by #UNICEF volunteer. I wanted to help. It turned out the only way to do that was… to sign a "direct debit" form. Of course, I can't imagine giving someone my PII in the middle of a street, and signing authorizations like that. She was particularly insistent too; I managed to get her to tell me that I can get the account number for regular wire from the website.
Well, I understand the logic there. They need repeated donations, not one-time. A lot of people would just forget about it after talking to her. However, if they fill the form there, they will have to actively put an effort to cancel it afterwards. And if I understood her correctly, she suggested you can cancel anytime by calling *them* — so effectively giving them an additional opportunity to convince you not to. Still, I am dismayed by such psychological games.
Pardoning Maxwell would be Trump's way of pleading guilty.
Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ Trump never did anything concerning around her: Sources #Epstein
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Huggy Bear:
🎵 Her Jazz
#HuggyBear
https://thewidowbabies.bandcamp.com/track/her-jazz-huggy-bear-cover-first-e-p
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Selene, horned driver of cattle! Now I am both--I have horns and I ride a bull!’ So he called out boasting to the round Moon. #Selene looked with a jealous eye through the air, to see how Ampleos rode on the murderous marauding bull.…
For those who forgot or never knew,
Mickey Flacks was among Santa Barbara’s most dogged advocates for affordable housing, among other struggles for social justice, environmental sanity, and other progressive causes.
The Independent launched the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund back in 2020 to honor her memory and keep Mickey’s work alive.
The $100,000 we’ve raised since have empowered numerous editorial projects, and the Mickey Flacks Fellowship marks the epitome of those ef…
Momo went from us today. She loved holding my hand with her paw, running through her tunnel, and sitting on my shoulder. I’m grieving today and turning off notifications, see you soon 😭
https://social.telemetrydeck.com/@daniel/114686736049544084
Disney and Lucasfilm settle with Gina Carano, who sued for discrimination over her firing from The Mandalorian after she shared controversial social media posts (Katcy Stephan/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/gina-carano-disney-settle-mand…
Kelsey Siegert, a recent master's graduate from the #UniversityOfGeorgia #LamarDoddSchoolOfArt, recently joined our team as our first William J. Thompson Curatorial Fellow. Here's a little bit more about Siegert as well as the projects she'll be working on.
My wife read some of the Discworld books years ago but lost interest, I have tried to get her hooked for a while.
This morning we collected an old edition of "Alles Sense" (Reaper Man) from the post office. She just wanted to have a quick peak inside. That was an hour ago. I silently retreated to another room.
Now I just heard her shout "I want a curry!" from the living room.
Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
JENNA: Well, yes, I've only met her once, but, yes, that's her.
AVON: Then it must be Chevner.
GAN: Chevner. How do you think he'll do it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/349 B7B2
Just finished "Love, Hate, and Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed. I was worried near the beginning it would be pretty shallow, but having read some of Ahmed's other stuff, I wasn't surprised when it turned into a page-turner. Her books have a lot of similarities, but staying close to her own experience makes them better, I suspect. This was a good book.
---SPOILERS---
Had a much-better-than-average college-separation-induced highschool-romance-ending in my opinion.
#AmReading
Shame it's not #caturday because Pixie just came and sat in her favourite plant pot right next to me.
AOC Roasts Chris Cuomo for Believing Obvious 'Deepfake' of Her Trashing Sydney Sweeney (Eboni Boykin-Patterson/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/aoc-roasts-chris-cuomo-for-believing-obvious-deepfake-of-her-talking-sydney-sweeney/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p3#a250807p3
"She raged at chemtrails and water fluoridation at a town hall where she said she's sick of the media saying she's not "serious.""
Nancy Mace begs Donald Trump to put her name on a restroom: "I just want one ask!" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/nancy-mace-begs-donald-to-put-her-name-on-a-restroom-i-just-want-one-ask/
When Harriet Impey started clearing out her childhood home after her parents died, she started with the clothes and was faced with a colossal quantity - which was a sign of things to come.
Back in January, she talked to me in episode 172 about the experience of clearing out a very large home of its very, very large volume of contents, and the way it was all immortalised in a film.
#WhereDragonsLive
The "spicy" option on Grok's new generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imag…
250 years, wars on multiple continents, millions sworn to protect and uphold it, and Mango Zedong decides to Barbara Streisand Effect it by removing key sections.
At least the Seize-her Geezer is bad at being a monstrous dictator.
https://techcrunch.com…
My friend Molly Snyder who once won the Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Contest at Wisconsin State Fair. (And will try again this year!)
#mke #Milwaukee #wisconsin
'If it were a bad deal, I wouldn’t have signed it' — Ukraine’s economy minister on negotiating US minerals deal in exclusive interview: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/if-it-were-a-bad.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Raveonettes:
🎵 Do You Believe Her
#TheRaveonettes
https://theraveonettes.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-believe-her-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7fGGobMDz12khhZHCMt1Wu
Katie Wilson, ahead in early results in Seattle's primary for mayor, emphasized housing in her platform.
But not the SF YIMBY vision of upzoning/market-rate only while slashing affordable housing funds. SOCIAL housing with major public investment.
Who will run for SF supervisor next year on that?
https://www.w…
Finishing up Cuckoo tonight, after seeing it recommended on a bunch of horror lists and for awards I think? Kinda weird and confusing so far, we shall see 😂
#movies
@samsabin.bsky.social has the scoop on Jen Easterly's new gig. And huge shout out to Huntress.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-fu
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"#Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treache…
Fellow citizens: What are you going to do between now and July 4, 2026, to protect and preserve our independence from a tinpot dictator❓
So, fellow citizens, I ask you:
Bow down to authoritarianism and normalize anti-democratic behavior.
Or
Reflect on the challenges facing the nation and become an advocate for policies that align with liberty, freedom, sovereignty, democracy, and the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
This is your America. The choice …
"Sir Keir’s reshuffle looks less like renewal than a coup by Labour’s “modernising” clique. Ian Murray’s sacking severs a bridge to Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour, which had been tacking leftwards, just as the Holyrood election looms, while Lucy Powell’s removal sidelines one of the few cabinet allies of Ed Miliband, the soft left’s champion" -- in other words, Labour is tacking even more violently towards the dark side.
Discovering Laura Valborg Aulin: A Composer of Swedish Romanticism https://ourmindonmusic.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/discovering-laura-valborg-aulin-a-composer-of-swedish-romanticism/
Valgkampen viser bare at systemet reproducerer seg selv i nye kostymer.
Les mer her: #NorskTut #Stortinget
Cleo visits Disney Imagineering. She's gets to experience many of WDI's innovations... but when she uses the Light Saber, holy crap, the *DELIGHT ON HER FACE*
▶️ How Disney Built A Realistic Lightsaber - Cleo Abrams
https://youtube.com/watch?v=enevSuDgf3U&si=…
Dez Bryant gets into social media feud with Nicki Minaj; rapper offers him $10 million to fight her husband
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dez-bry
Miss United States Lindsey Langston accuses Rep. Cory Mills of threatening to publish her nude pics, sex videos (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-accuses-rep-cory-mills-of-threatening-to-publish-her-nude-pics-sex-videos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p138#a250806p138
Action Alert! Stop the egg industry from starving hens #AnimalRights
her: "i kind of like working with autotools"
me: "that's horrifying"
her: "it was the good part of my childhood!"
My favourite politician who I have nearly had to call the cops to get them to leave me alone, had our ICO send them numerous legal demands re how she had my birthdate eg. and who I reported for numerous Covid breaches around the largely elderly population around my house is now in jail for 2.7 million fraud.
She stole wages from the uni and paid the bulk of it into her personal revolut.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Sonnet 135 - CXXXV
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,
And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus;
More than enough am I that vexed thee still,
To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
Shall will in others seem right gracious,
And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in abundance addeth to his…
Nicki Minaj offers Dez Bryant $10 millon to fight her husband after fight on social media https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/nicki-minaj-offers-dez-bryant-10-mil…
The 'turkeys voting for Christmas' syndrome.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/trump-voting-family-canadian-mother-detained-immigration-status?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Rentenpaket der Bundesregierung:
Her mit der Reichensteuer.
Kommentar von Simone Schmollack.
https://taz.de/Rentenpaket-der-Bundesregierung/!6102089/
Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
GAN: There. [Avalon takes the phial out of the tunic and holds it up, dropping the tunic]
JENNA: [Entering from the corridor] Gan, that's not Avalon. [Avalon drops the phial and it lands on her tunic. She struggles with Jenna and Gan, but is obviously stronger than they are. Blake and Vila arrive and the four of them overpower her.]
Har jeg egentlig fortalt om den nye "**Musikforening Ved Kirsten Kjærs Museum- Langvadkoncerter i John's Hall**"?
Den skal fŸre den stolte tradition af Langvadkoncerter videre, som John Anderson og Harald Fuglsang grundlagde i deres tid.
Her er programmet for August måned.
Læg endelig vejen forbi hvis du skulle være i nærheden!
#boostwelcome
Tavira, Portugal, Praia do Barril, 2006 by me
First official #naturist beach of Portugal.
I went down to Portugal in August the first time by car to visit my mom there after her husband died. Still nice memories.
#meermittwoch
tttt tranny adopts skirt goes spinny reddit transgirl. shelters her from the horrors she's seen while harboring secret disdain for her. shows her how to cook depression meals. takes her to underground raves. they bond more and more, first over superficial things like their tastelessness and tired inability to stick to basic hygiene, then deeper things like shared humanity and dysphoria (which reddit girl thought she didn't have till she learned what it meant). one fateful day, reddit…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Unclassified
- Sherelle's Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker serves up a sublime sequence of ambient and experimental music. Plus British DJ-producer Sherelle shares a more downtempo side to her musical personality.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cbtz
🌟 “I see GÉANT as a strong component in the competitiveness that Europe is striving for.”
In her first interview as GÉANT CEO, Lise Fuhr reflects on her initial impressions, shares what she wishes more people knew about the GÉANT community, and offers a glimpse into the forthcoming GÉANT Association strategy.
➡️ Read the full interview:
I haven't folded laundry yet. The past 2 days I have a showdown w/ murdercat. I'm sitting at the table, I see her put a paw onto the clean laundry basket, figuring out her best approach.
"Erie," I say. "Eeeeeeerie. Erie."
She looks back at me, frozen.
"Hi Erie. Please don't go into the clean clothes."
She shifts her weight, looks back at the laundry, & puts another paw on the edge.
"I see what you're doing. …
Joanna Macy, one of the visionaries, has entered hospice this week. https://open.substack.com/pub/therapysocialchange/p/joanna-macy-prophet-of-the-great?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=pos…
Dear old Violet.
She'll be turning 13 in October, so she's kind of on borrowed time for a greyhound. She seems to have lost most of her vision now and is underweight, though her appetite is still huge and she still loves her walks.
She was once a terror for the local cats and squirrels but now if they remain still she doesn't spot them. She still sniffs every place that she remembers them to have been.
Well, *duh* - he never invited her to watch. Technically true, but I bet she knew.
Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ Trump never did anything concerning around her: Sources - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-considers-releasing-transcripts-doj-interview-ghislaine/story?id=124383957
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is "breaking the fourth wall, speaking beyond the court,”
said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University.
💥“She is alarmed at what the court is doing and is sounding that in a different register,
one that is less concerned with the appearance of collegiality and more concerned with how the court appears to the public.”
Her slashing critiques sometimes seemed to test her colleagues’ patience,
culminating in an unchar…
If I've understood the Labour Party rulebook correctly, there are 12 days left until the deadline for submitting leadership challenges for an election at this year's party conference. If the content of Angela Rayner's legal advice does exonerate her, that's long enough for her to publish it and get it digested by the press corps, no?
Aphrodite lifting her skirt doesn't always reveal a phallus. Sometimes it's a fanny 👌
#FannyFriday
https://mastodon.social/@AimeeMaroux/114714450684721135
Mzia Amaghlobeli, a prominent independent journalist in the country of Georgia, was sentenced to two years in prison for slapping a police officer at a protest (Francesca Ebel/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08…
Blue Internet schadenfreude is strong.
‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/…
Jeg er i Birmingham for at blive optaget til en podcast i morgen. Efter en lang periode med lidt vel rigeligt arbejde satsede jeg på lidt afslapning på turen. Værelset på Conference Aston Hotel (det hedder det! RækkefŸlgen er ulogisk, don’t shoot me) er gammelt og småt, og her var rigeligt varmt da jeg ankom.
Men nu har jeg fået indrettet mig! Vinduerne er på klem, indergardinet samlet med en knude (!), og så har jeg fået room service! Tre forretter og ikke andet, haha 😅
Kamea, the youngest orca at SeaWorld, dies at 11 https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/kamea-the-youngest-orca-at-seaworld-dies-at-11?utm_source=Mastodon
This perfectly captures how my family views me!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"According to Mimnermos, because Aphrodite had been wounded by Diomedes she caused [his wife] Aigialeia to go to bed with many lovers and to be loved by Kometes, the son of Sthenelos. And when Diomedes arrived in Argos she plotted against him."
Mimnermus, Fragment 22
🏛 Aphrodite with the Erotes, 2nd - early 1st century BCE
@…
Faced with US heat waves, the Navajo push for power—and A/C
#energy
FIRST − Susan Collins voted to bring Trump’s heartless budget to the Senate floor
NOW − Her Senate colleagues voted to ram the budget through the Senate – all thanks to her vote to advance the bill
I’m calling for 1,000 gifts in the next 90 minutes to make Sen. Collins rue the day that she put Trump ahead of Maine. Will you rush an emergency $15? >>
Hear me when I say this: The stakes have never been higher, and this win is in sight.
Susan Collins turned her bac…
Pixie would like to raise a complaint with the management about the weather outside.
#CatsOfMastodon
Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…
me: "Right now the A-Q-I is [only] 28!"
her: "YAY-Q-I"
A reporter details how her mother, a kidney transplant patient who lives in China, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it "more humane" (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
Erotic figure like a Sheela Na Gig in San Pedro de Cervatos, Spain 👌
Sheela Na Gigs are a type of erotic stone carving of a female figure usually found on Romanesque churches. They depict an old woman squatting and pulling apart her vulva.
#FannyFriday #vulva
I got a call at 10:00 a.m. this morning from somebody I used to work with saying that they had just been laid off. I really wish I had some decent advice to give to her beyond taking a day or two to breathe and do something pleasurable.
Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
TRAVIS: What's the matter with you, Servalan? [Jenna and Veron emerge into sight behind her in the doorway. Both are armed.]
JENNA: She's nervous.
BLAKE: Jenna!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/516 B7B6
A woman accused of fraud hired the AG's brother as her lawyer. Months later, DOJ dropped charges (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-accused-fraud-hired-ags-brother-lawyer-months/story?id=124429973
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p50#a250807p50
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The allwhite stone of Selene [the moonstone], which fades as the horned goddess wanes, and waxes when Mene (the Moon) newkindled distils her horn's liquid light and milks out the self-gotten fire of Father Helios."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.88
🏛️
ANGRY BEYOND WORDS
Look at Susan Collins after her vote to advance Trump's budget. You won't believe it:
https://j4me.org/a
Jordan Wood (D)
Memo: HFPA members voted to oust President Helen Hoehne from her role and also ejected her from its board, as members aim to reverse HFPA's 2023 dissolution (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/hfpa-ousts-president-helen-hoehne/
An Elderly Lawmaker's Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her? (Michael Schaffer/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/07/capitol-hill-gerontocracy-eleanor-holmes-norton-dianne-feinstein-joe-biden-00437318
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p62#a250707p62
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
ALTA TWO: [To guard] Stop! [To slaves and guards] March on.
[Control room. Alta Two enters and she and Alta One touch the silver dots on their foreheads. The pedestal dome beeps, Alta Two places her hands on it, and it gargles. Blake is pushed into the room and Alta One motions him to a chair across from hers]
Wimbledon organisers have apologised after the electronic line-calling system on Centre Court was turned off in error and missed three calls in one game.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova said a game was 'stolen' from her after there was no 'out' call when a Sonay Kartal backhand went long in the first set of their fourth-round match
A profile of WSJ EIC Emma Tucker, who has positioned WSJ as a rival to NYT through investigative journalism, without falling foul of Murdoch's politics (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-intera
Trump Praises 'Very Nice' Loomer as Her Body Count Grows (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-praises-very-nice-laura-loomer-as-her-bodycount-grows/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p18#a250804p18
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"When Arge, a huntress, was pursuing a stag, she is said to have told it: ‘Though you equal the speed of the Sun (Sol), yet I will catch up with you.’ Sol, in anger, changed her into a doe."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 205…
Ilhan Omar Said It's 'Categorically False' To Call Her a Millionaire. Her Net Worth Just Reached Up to $30 Million, an Increase of at Least 3,500 Percent in One Year. (Andrew Kerr/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ilhan-omar-said-its-categorically-false-to-call-her-a-millionaire-her-net-worth-just-reached-up-to-30-million-an-increase-of-at-least-3500-percent-in-one-year/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p48#a250901p48
Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support (Ashley Ahn/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/until-trump-fired-her-she-was-an-economist-with-bipartisan-support.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p63#a250802p63