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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 12h

John Stewart nailed this. Let's stop pretending that the overwhelming majority of Republicans will ever stand up or break from DJT. "You're getting our hopes up, Lucy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31f...

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Will Republicans Divorce Trump Over Xi Embrace? Probably Not | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SI is just another MAGA shibboleth. It'll be fun to see which, if any, of my favorite IT websites start using it. And LLMs like ChatGPT are not "artificial intelligence", in the technical sense, much less "super intelligence".

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing screams "Land of Liberty, Home of the Free" more than a sniper tower in the nation's capitol.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm reading some FB comments from folks in my hometown in deep-red Oklahoma. They all still massively Republican. These are folks who all want to be paid for their work in cash so they don't risk losing their Disability checks. Crazy stuff.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Barricades are reportedly going up around the Kennedy Center. I have a very bad feeling. The East Wing was bulldozed before anyone knew what was happening.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow, I wish I had been a Dingo Man! Just like "Super" Joe Namath! Golly. (March 1972)

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“La shukra ala wajeb.” There is no thanks for a duty. Well, this may not matter much, but: Thank you, Macklemore!

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This happened just a very few months after 9/11. My wife and I watched it on TV and wept big tears. Leave it to an Irish band to give the cathartic performance that all of us Americans needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=og0V...

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U2 Superbowl 36 halftime performance where the streets have no name HD

YouTube video by tewing170

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm reading some FB comments from folks in my hometown in deep-red Oklahoma. Summers lately have been brutal there. They're remembering how summers used to be fun, but now they're way too hot. Someone asks if the sun is somehow hotter now. Could all of this be because of... of... nah, never mind.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Texans, don’t sit this one out. PLEASE VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTION! 📌 Register by: Oct. 5 🗳️ Early Voting: Oct. 19–30 🇺🇸 Election Day: Nov. 3 ⏰ Polls: 7 AM–7 PM Make a plan. Check your registration. Show up and cast your ballot. Official info: votetexas.gov #TexasVotes #Vote2026PLEASE

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everyone gets a Welcome to Medicare health screening when they start Medicare. What's crazy is that this assessment is the first time that many folks have seen a doctor in years! I fully support Medicare For All. And a good first step would be covering everyone over 50 and under 20.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Save this prediction: In the future, every person will have their own phone app.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The arch is supposedly to be constructed of reinforced concrete covered in marble siding. So, it should be easy to tear down in 2029.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Linda Ronstadt released a New Wave album in the early 1980s. I. Loved. It. But I seem to be the only one left alive in this world who remembers it. 😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUBj...

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Linda Ronstadt - How Do I Make You (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Linda Ronstadt

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I dabble in Genealogy, and I found this today: "On March 9, 1904, their youngest daughter, Erma, died just eight days short of her 5th birthday, and on the very next day their 14 year old daughter Silvia died. The cause of their untimely deaths was diphtheria." This is what vaccines save us from.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yeah, I was expecting this. I kept checking, and it appears to have happened overnight. Bastards. Time to unsubscribe YouTube Premium and anything else that I can find Google-related.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Man, I wish I had some Lee Leens! So I could be cool like the high school and college guys. Golly. (November 1970)

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Recently retired IT security contractor for NASA JSC here. We weren't 'limping along' for 4 years. Does he think that Artemis was just thrown together in the last two years? It was the result of many years of work. And bragging about Space Force to a NASA audience is such a colossal faux pas. 😂

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Year after year, Christian churches wring their hands because people are abandoning them. Year after year, people report that they're leaving because they don't want to be like the people in those churches. Yet year after year, Christian churches scratch their heads as to why people are leaving.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/08/2026

Eight billion people, one shared thought: “Could you not?”

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I dream of the day when I don't have to wake up to read the latest rantings of a madman.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Add this to the list of things that we'll need to rename - buildings, airports, ships - if we ever shed the current fascist government.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Much gratitude to Heather Cox Richardson for turning me on to the epic poems of Robert Service. I read a couple of them online and then ordered this book. I'm looking forward to spending the next couple of days reading about folks like Sam McGee and Blasphemous Bill. substack.com/inbox/post/2...

A book entitled "The Collected Verse of Robert Service" by Robert Service.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Might be time to re-subscribe to Disney+? I canceled back during the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco, but they seem to have grown a backbone since then.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My Father-In-Law fought in the Korean War on behalf of the South Koreans. He passed away in the 1990s, and I am so glad that he is not here to see this thing.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Paul Krugman has taught me a new word: Führerprinzip. The Fuhrer's word is above all written law, and government policies, decisions, and officials all serve to realize his will. (Thanks, Wikipedia) It perfectly describes the mindset of the Republican party today. substack.com/inbox/post/2...

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The Misery Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Why Trump is eviscerating the military

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The last time men forced women back into the kitchen we put shrimp in Jello. We’ll do it again!

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Any study like this that fails to distinguish extroverts from introverts is flawed. There are lots of introverted folks who do not miss "chatting with your neighbor on the train and catching up with your local barista." They get quite enough social interaction through Teams or Slack, thank you.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is very sad. I had an older manager who was one of the cowboys who helped bring the cattle onto the site years ago. www.chron.com/gulf-coast/a...

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The longhorn cattle grazing outside NASA will soon go away

It has helped more than 100,000 students, claim officials.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

According to an Internet rumor, the solar eclipse today will cause gravity to stop for 7 seconds and 40 million people to die. A good excuse to start drinking margaritas right now, eh?

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Am I a terrible person because when I see "POS" on a receipt my first thought is not "Point of Sale"?

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This musical number is from "Stormy Weather" and it fills me with joy. But it does make me a little uncomfortable in certain parts of my body. No idea why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMb...

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Stormy Weather in color - The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway | Colorized with DeOldify

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We're being told that another Iran deal is supposedly in work. Bessent is saying that the Strait of Hormuz will open soon. Iran denies all of this, of course. But the stock market is soaring today on "optimism". I wish I could get me some of that "optimism". finance.yahoo.com/markets/live...

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Stock market today: Nasdaq surges, Dow and S&P 500 trade at record highs amid US-Iran optimism, tech rally

Markets are coming off a Big Tech rally, eyeing uncertainty in Middle East talks and SpaceX earnings after the bell.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And just like that, all the Monday stock market indexes are up. You'd think that investors would get tired of being played.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If Trump & RFK Jr are in charge during the next pandemic, we are doomed. And another pandemic is inevitable. Best eat, drink, and be merry now. Not gonna live long enough to spend our retirement savings.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am being pummelled by texts and emails asking for money for Troy Jackson, and they all come from different PACs. How many of these are legit? Unknown. For now I'll donate directly to ActBlue. flipthesenate2026[.]org jacksonformaine[.]com jackson4me[.]com act-troyjackson[.]org maine-fund[.]com

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Interesting how the people that want to force us to live Christian lives make fun of the people actually living Christian lives. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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President Donald Trump mocks Texas Democrat James Talarico at correspondents' dinner

The annual Washington press gala was rescheduled after being disrupted by a gunman in April.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I kind of hesitate to go see long movies like "Project Hail Mary" or "The Odyssey" in a theater. My brain works just fine for 3 hours. My bladder not so much. It's a curse of getting older. Maybe it's time to bring back intermissions in longer movies, like we had in "2001" and "Lawrence of Arabia".

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

QOTD: "The simple fact is that since 1981 ... there hasn’t been even one single piece of major legislation passed through the US Congress that was written by Republicans and passed by a majority of Republicans and signed by a Republican president whose major beneficiary was the average American."

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One of the greatest joys in my retired life has been being able to ignore LinkedIn.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The US and Iran are trading missiles. Our soldiers are dying. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Our oil reserves are gone. We have a new tariff on Canada. Explosive diarrhea is raging and the FDA won't name the source. ICE is still killing people with impunity. And the stock market is up! WTH?

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I came to this same conclusion a couple of years ago. I thought it was just my old age manifesting.

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