Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 11/09/2026almostrational.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...almostrational.wordpress.comA Personal Account of 9/11: Lessons in Compassion and AngerAfter only a couple minutes, he stopped me and said: “Do you have CNN in your room?” “Yes”, I said. “Well, turn it on now!!!” 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 17/08/2026In light of the passing Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, I want to share something that Kitra Cahana just shared and which I find to be stunning. May Rabbi Ronnie’s name forever be a blessing! youtu.be/43nX7uzD-Lcyoutu.beWhat Does It Mean to Be Alive in Profound Isolation? | Op-DocsYouTube video by New York Times Opinion 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It’s time to get your tickets to the Golden Leaf Education Foundation “Magical Night in Cambodia” gala!! 4:00 PM October 24, 2026 - Clark College! goldenleaf.tofinoauctions.com/mnic2026/goldenleaf.tofinoauctions.comMagical Night in Cambodia 2026 SchoolAuction.net and TofinoAuctions.com are web applications designed to simplify and streamline managing fundraising auctions. 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 22/07/2026New on my blog: almostrational.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/t... Please share.almostrational.wordpress.comTisha b’Av 2026 – Jews Are Always the Scapegoats When You Need Someone to Blame…even if we don’t want to rebuild a third temple, we have no shortage of tragedies to mourn. That’s why we embrace Tisha b’Av. But, in the past few years, the hatred of Jews… 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 16/07/2026When I realize the gender distribution and the age range, indicated by these photos, of the people who are doing critical work as PhD candidates, postdocs, and professors, in a field that is so important to me, it gives me hope that our little planet may be in good hands after all. #MSAfungi26 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 24/04/2026alatus.eocampaign1.com/web-version?... Love these guys. They write the amicus briefs that I wish I could write.alatus.eocampaign1.com 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Big Tech wins again if this happens epic.org/epics-statem...epic.orgEPIC’s statement on the House GOP SECURE Data Act and GUARD Financial Data Act 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 10/03/2026almostrational.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/w...almostrational.wordpress.comWhy Anthropic is Ethically CorrectIf the people leading a combat mission, or a war, will not take responsibility for errors, then they cannot be trusted to have an unbounded system at their disposal. 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 04/03/2026If you'd like to see the full set of photos from the CBI 2026 Purim Schpiel, they are in an album on Flickr that you can access here. #purim #schpiel flic.kr/s/aHBqjCMbofflic.krCBI Purim Schpiel 2026Congregation Beth Israel Disney themed Purim Schpiel photos 000
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Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 13/11/2025US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...hrw.orgUS/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan DeporteesThe Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 31/10/2025boomorbubble.ai?utm_source=s...boomorbubble.aiAI Bubble Dashboard | Exponential ViewA practical framework to analyze whether AI is in a bubble. Monitor five key gauges measuring economic strain, industry strain, revenue growth, valuation heat, and funding quality. 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Yet another opportunity to guest edit an issue of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. Out now! 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 30/09/2025To you have a piece agreement, two sides need to want peace. Hamas does not want peace. If they agree to a peace deal, they lose all the leverage they have by putting their own people in the line of fire and demonizing Israel. It does not matter what Trump and Netanyahu call a “deal”. 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 30/09/2025There is no war zone in Portland. It has nothing to do with living in Hell. We are being baited by a master-baiter. DON’T TAKE THE BAIT! 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 30/09/2025To any of my friends who are in a position to nominate musicians for Grammy awards, Kristen Ford and her wonderful album Pinto, our deserving contenders. Best New Artist and Best Americana categories are places she should be. If you can vote for Grammys, consider KFo. 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I admit it. I might be too much of a groupie. :-) @kristenfordmusic #fandom #altmusic 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 03/08/2025almostrational.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/t...almostrational.wordpress.comTisha b’Av, 2025: Apparently We Need a Reminder More Than EverYou’d think by now we’d be past this antisemitism bullshit. It’s 2025. We live in a world where AI can help me prepare for Torah Study, billionaires are flying to space just because they want to ac… 000
Reposted by Steve BilowD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 29/07/2025📌This EPA deregulation today by the Trump Administration is cynical, evil, and an attack on clean air, water, our children and their children’s children. It is absolutely grotesque. These people are fucking monsters, they really are. 2128692
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 30/07/2025In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...nytimes.comIn Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Well, it would be nice to actually have something in common with a QAnon person. 010
Reposted by Steve BilowBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Jeffrey Epstein “stole” an underage female staffer from Trump’s spa and the first thought that occurred to Trump wasn’t “that’s weird that Jeff needs an underage female to work for him at his home”. Or “hey, that’s creepy, even for me, Donald Trump, maybe I should look into that.” 1823163
Reposted by Steve BilowKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Her name was Diana. She was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant. Russia murdered her today in an attack on the maternity hospital in Kamyanske. 792156315088
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 25/07/2025I disagree with MAGA people on many things. But, could set everything aside for a sec and agree that sex trafficking is an abomination?  if we can, is it possible that we could also agree that pardoning a convicted sex trafficker would also be an abomination? 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 25/07/2025The wrong guy is accusing the wrong guy of treason. The Line Trump Crossed by Accusing Obama of Treason www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Line Trump Crossed by Accusing Obama of Treason 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Well, God was busy saving Donald Trump, here is who he let die. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...washingtonpost.comThe children lost in the Texas floods, remembered by their loved onesThe flooding that ravaged Central Texas before sunrise on the Fourth of July was the country’s deadliest catastrophe for children in recent memory. 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Kfo is coming to Portland to play Al’s Den in September. She’s in Ani DiFranco’s RBR label and she rocks. Come check her out with me. 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I just backed Label Debut! Full length album from Kristen Ford on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kri...kickstarter.comLabel Debut! Full length album from Kristen FordKristen's 12-song Full-Length Album "Pinto" produced by John Driskell Hopkins (Zac Brown Band), and co-produced by Ani DiFranco. 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...nytimes.comLive Updates: Trump Says Protesters at Military Parade Will Face 'Heavy Force' 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 30/05/2025www.eastman.org/george-eastm... Big news about preserving the legacy of the greatest video artist in history.#videoarteastman.orgGeorge Eastman Museum to acquire and preserve the complete master recordings for the moving image works of Bill Viola | George Eastman MuseumThe Viola-Perov Trust has agreed to donate the complete set of the master recordings for the moving image artworks by Bill Viola to the George Eastman Museum for the purpose of creating the definitive... 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 14/05/2025epic.org/epic-condemn...epic.orgEPIC Condemns CFPB’s Withdrawal of Proposed Rules to Rein in Data Brokers<p>The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is withdrawing a proposal to crack down on the data brokers that profit from buying and selling our most sensitive personal information at industrial... 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 14/05/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention. 000
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors. 000
Reposted by Steve BilowSteve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Love these ladies #stormlarge #chinaforges #idaraecahana #pinkmartini #musicphotos #gifts 021
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Love these ladies #stormlarge #chinaforges #idaraecahana #pinkmartini #musicphotos #gifts 021
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 21/04/2025God! This dude is soooo woke. Crucify him. Oh wait. Old news. 020
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Oh no!!!! Another place where truth is told!!! Quick, kill it. Shit… 000
Reposted by Steve BilowAmy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 21/04/2025We will greatly miss the Pope: a voice for the voiceless. 🙏 The one time I saw him pray for and address the gathered at St. Peter’s Square, when he finished he did what he always did—he greeted and blessed those with disabilities first. 1565457
Reposted by Steve BilowMolly Lyons @mollylyons.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Pope Francis Death www.reuters.com/world/pope-f...reuters.comPope Francis has died, Vatican says in video statementPope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement on Monday, ending an often turbulent reign marked by division and tension as he sought to overhaul the hidebound institution. 001
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 21/04/2025He should go back to lying on TV before he makes an even bigger mistake and endangering American soldiers ends up with loss of like. 010
Reposted by Steve BilowAmy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 21/04/2025Pope Francis leaves a legacy of justice, faith, and compassion. I was honored to be on his escort committee for his 2015 address to Congress. He said: “Building a future of freedom requires love of the common good and cooperation in a spirit of subsidiarity and solidarity.” 1553056
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Hope my girlfriend had an awesome birthday weekend!!! 010
Steve Bilow @therealuncledude.bsky.social · 08/04/2025www.facebook.com/share/1BRjmu...facebook.comRedirecting... 000