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Aric Olnes
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🎼 Skating away upon the thin ice of the new day ☀️
We had to teach people that you could not catch HIV by touching someone.
A hug meant everything ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
World AIDS Day 2025
Tell their stories
Say their names
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Let them eat pie
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The vindictiveness of trumpism laid bare in a leaked CDC email:
“The U.S. Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year. To comply with this new directive, please note the following:
• USG funds should not be used for any World AIDS Day-related events or commemorative activities…
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Freddie Mercury died on this day 34 years ago. (Sept 5, 1946 – Nov 24, 1991)
Photo taken in 1978
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Nancy Pelosi
Speaking Truth to Power for 4 decades.
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The bigger picture:
Yellow Jessamine
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Starred cities are:
Red – Columbia
Dark Orange – North
Lt. Orange – Orangeburg
Yellow – Aiken
Green – Anderson
Dark Green – Greenville / Lyman
Cyan – Rock Hill
Lt. Blue – Florence
Blue – Myrtle Beach/Longs
Violet – Georgetown
Lavender – Charleston
Hot Pink – Beaufort
Lt. Pink – Hilton Head/Bluffton
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The starred cities on the map are:
Red – Helna (Capital city)
Orange – Butte
Yellow/Orange – Anaconda
Yellow – Missoula
Lite – Green – Cut Bank
Dark Green – Havre
Cyan – Chinook
Blue – Great Falls (Timo)
Dark Blue – Wolf Point
Violet – Hardin
Pink – Billings
Pale Pink – Lewistown
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
— Maya Angelou
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
When Ole’s 8 months were up in the Pacific, he joined an Experimental Outfit in Moffet Field, CA. He spent time with the Flying Mars Program (Martin JRM-3 Mars Air Tankers). There were only 6 of these aircraft made.
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Kim Davis is pissed!
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Since a subset of Americans yearn so much for some fictional past, here are some holiday recipe suggestions to transport you back 75 years.
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!"
— Bela Lugosi as Dracula. 1931
October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🧡 Trick or Treat! 🖤
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“I am an invisible man... I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me… When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination -- indeed, everything and anything except me.”
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. 1952
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
— Bram Stoker, Dracula. 1897
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“I am the night.”
October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Democrats Defend Democracy
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The gang brewing up some fun.
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM