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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 13h

I will be at my local No Kings 4.0 protest tomorrow! You know, when I retired, I thought I'd be spending my Saturday mornings enjoying coffee on the patio instead of marching to save our country from fascism. Man I hate this timeline.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

LLMs like ChatGPT are 'narrow artificial intelligence". They have not achieved Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), much less Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). So I will not be referring to LLMs as "SI". Go ahead and put me on the enemies list.

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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 · 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 · 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

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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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 · 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 · 15/07/2026

I often wonder whether MAGA folks ever think, "You know, that's a bit much even for me."

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I just finished pickling a batch of jalapeno peppers. Kinda funny: Nature spent millions of years evolving a spicy seed pod that birds would happily eat but that no animal could tolerate. And then humans came along, said screw that, and ate them anyway.

A clear glass jar full of sliced jalapeno peppers

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Okay, maybe I have been spending too much time lately on Facebook.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Trump announces that he is cancelling attacks on Iran because a peace treaty is yet again nigh. (Is this his 38th or 39th such announcement?) And the stock market soars! I think I should probably not have my money invested in a market that's so full of silly, gullible people.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hey, we can't use our secret super powers all of the time. Sometimes we need to use them to control the weather.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I can't wait to pull out my new passport with Trump's picture on it when I visit a country that's rationing energy because of the war he started. Or a country that he levied heavy tariffs on. Or a country that he threatened to make a 51st state out of. Those people love us.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

<O'Donnell taking Trump's hand and slapping it against his face> O'Donnell: Stop hitting yourself! Why are you hitting yourself? Trump: Stop! <Whap whap whap>

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

The reason that many of us No Kings protesters are folks of a certain age is that we grew up with statesmen as our Presidents. Sober, thoughtful men. And it makes us sad that our kids and grandkids are having to grow up with... this.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." He is correct, but the civilization that dies tonight will not be Iran. It will be the civilization of our parents and grandparents who fought against the great villains of the 20th century. Now we will be the villains.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Experts are dubious"??? Like, people sometimes teleport to Waffle House, but maybe not this time???

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Trump is ranting because Megyn Kelly said that Mark Levin has a micropenis. If my eyes could roll any further back, I'd be looking out my ass.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It seems like it was ages ago that Kristi Noem was screaming about "Dow 50,000!"

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

These are songs from Kid Rock albums. Really! And you'll be able to watch him perform them on TBN, the Trinity Broadcast Network. Really!

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It's an old meme, but it checks out.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Three Texas schools made the Top 20 list, and two of them are Christian schools. C'mon, Baylor! Maybe next year!

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Thirty years ago, if you had told me that in 2026 someone would be trying to rob me 12 or more times a day, I would have been astonished. But here we are. Just one moment of inattention, one accidental click, and someone in another country will steal all of my money. Why do we live like this?

A junk email folder showing multiple scam attempts.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

So, companies have four business days to paint some shovels gold and start ground-breaking on some new multi-billion dollar manufacturing plants.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The H-1B fee will critically impact the medical field. And that's not even the worst thing in this list.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

It's like watching a demented old guy rant and rave and wave around a loaded shotgun. You have no idea what's going to happen next, you just know that it'll be bad.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Just finished Dan McClellan's excellent book "The Bible Says So" and ready to start on John Fugelsang's new book "Separation of Church and Hate". The books have a common theme: Many people who call themselves Christians are running around saying the Bible says this and that when it just ain't so.

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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 · 26/05/2025

It was 80 years ago this month that Nazi Germany surrendered to the US and its allies. Many thousands of men and women in uniform died to bring about V-E Day on May 8. It would have been nice if our sacred war dead had been at least mentioned in this Memorial Day post. 😡

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Barry Diller @brdiller.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Everyone in the neighborhood can see what I put into my recycle bin, so I try to be careful. I don't want to flaunt my wealth.

Empty, large egg carton in a green recycle bin.

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