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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 18h

A small photo dump from the #CastroStreetFair…

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 04/10/2026

Because I’m so often a day late these days… #belatedMeanGirlsDay

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 26/08/2026

Screen cap from the live cam of the Empire State Building in NYC, honoring #DollyParton with sparkly pink lighting.

The Empire State Building in New York City lit up in pink to honor Dolly Parton, August 25, 2026.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 19/08/2026

It’s been ten years to the day since I left D.C. to move to the Bay Area—the first eight spent in San Francisco and the rest in Alameda. Happy Anniversary to my bae the Bay!

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 29/07/2026

Today—from afar with thanks to the magic of the interwebs—I bade a final farewell to Michael Seneco. He was my first partner for nearly seven years. Though that relationship ended, we maintained a friendship for decades after. He passed away nearly three weeks ago. (1/4)

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 05/06/2026

Last weekend I participated in the first #CycleToZero, a three-day cycling event following the spirit of #AIDSLifeCycle. Collectively, we raised over $1.8 million for the SF AIDS Foundation, and we’re still taking donations all month. cycletozero.donordrive.com/participants...

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 06/05/2026

Let’s goooooooooooooooo…! 🚴‍♂️ #AchievementUnlocked

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 11/03/2026

I see you were raised correctly. Also, 🔥🥵🔥

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 09/03/2026

Currently experiencing a significant level of frustration I’ve not felt in a long while. It’s most uncomfortable. But anyway here’s a cat on my lap. (Is it still a lap when you’re lying down?)

An orange and white tabby cat with its head turned to the left crouched on a gray bedsheet.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 01/02/2026

A TV show you love with 3 seasons or less.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 25/01/2026

We all need an otter 🦦 in our lives. Here’s mine.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 25/12/2025

🎵 It’s beginning to look a lot like coquito… 🎵 ¡Felicidades! 🥂

Two glasses of coquito, a traditional Puerto Rican cocktail served at Christmastime.The glasses are filled near to the top with a creamy beverage over ice, with a sprinkling of ground cinnamon on top.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 23/12/2025

Oop! 😶 Incidentally, season 13 premieres in February.

Screenshot from CARROT Weather app showing the temperature is 14°C, and saying “This overcast sky is more depressing than an episode of Last Week Tonight.”

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 18/12/2025

So apparently there’s a trailer out for some feature length propaganda…? 🤷‍♂️

Photo of Melania wearing that “I really don’t care do u?” jacket.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 11/12/2025

And this doesn’t even take into account the trips I didn’t/couldn’t track. The transit nerd in me thinks this is interesting. #YearInTransit #TransitWrapped

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 08/12/2025

We’re all Ralphie right now.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 07/12/2025

One route safety elf reporting for duty! I am volunteering to raise money for Cycle to Zero. Help me out with a donation if you can.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 12/11/2025

iPod Socks were lowkey underrated.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 11/11/2025

My Ziggy knows how to smolder. (splchk. — Smoulder?)

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 10/11/2025

I mean… 💁🏻‍♂️

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 07/11/2025

I mean… 💁🏻‍♂️ Same, honestly!

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 05/11/2025

I mean… 💁🏻‍♂️

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 03/11/2025

Just a little bit of housekeeping — I shortened my handle here. I think it just makes more sense. That's all... carry on.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 01/11/2025

Imagine my surprise to find a Rocky Horror Show game available on the Switch. Then imagine my amusement to see this cut scene after a boss fight. 😂🎃

A cut scene from the Rocky Horror Show video game. A speech block shows Brad saying, ‘All we wanted was to use your phone. We didn’t expect to spend the evening jumping around dodging swinging balls in our underwear!’

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 01/11/2025

Been ill for a couple weeks now, so no extensive halloweenie fun for me this year. Just gonna hang at home and wear my lion 🦁 costume from a couple years ago.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 21/10/2025

I mean… 💁🏻‍♂️

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 22/09/2025

The internet never fails to disappoint 🫠

Four separate posts from different subreddits, each with one word (“Earthquake“) and varying numbers of punctuation, either question marks or exclamation points.

Two separate Facebook posts from different accounts. The first says “Earthquake” while the second says “Yup, felt it” almost a if in response.

Two-panel screenshot from the Golden Girls: in the first panel, Dorothy says into the phone, “Okay the earth did move”; in the second panel, she covers the phone mouthpiece to say to someone in the room, “Big quake in California.”

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 22/07/2025

Hey Siri, play “Mama, I’m Coming Home” by Ozzy Osbourne. 💔

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 27/06/2025

From the Archives: 10 years ago today, marriage equality became the law of the land thanks to a SCOTUS ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. Today, those rights are increasingly endangered as conservative interests seek to overturn that ruling.

A tipsy Fredo standing in front of White House awash in rainbow colors the night of the Obergefell ruling. You could say we were both lit.

Front pages of the New York Daily News, the Washington Post, and the New York Times on June 27, 2025, all covering the SCOTUS ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 16/06/2025

He looks just like my Tito! 🩶

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 14/06/2025

So sayeth the CARROT.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 13/06/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 05/06/2025

I mean… 💁🏻‍♂️ I can't be the only one who saw it this way. 😂

A "Mean Girls" meme featuring the tweetbomb dropped today by Elon Mush. The tweet is pasted into a page in the Burn Book and reads "Time to drop the really big bomb: realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 31/05/2025

An "AIDS/LifeCycle: the Final 545" update… First, thanks to all who donated. Your generosity means a lot. As of now, ALC raised over $15M; $3,155 came from my donors. Sadly, I can’t take part as planned. To a degree, I feel I let everyone down, mostly myself. Life happens.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 02/05/2025

From the archives — I apparently caught my little Tito by surprise when I snapped this pic of him nearly five years ago. 🙀

A gray and white tabby cat sitting by an automatic feeder looks has a look of surprise on his face. His green eyes are open wide as he faces the camera.

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 24/04/2025

It’s kinda giving “Piper, NOOOO!”

NBC News headline: ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ says Trump as Putin launches worst attack on Ukraine in months

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 06/04/2025

I vaguely recall seeing a radio station commercial when I was a kid in the early, EARLY 1980s, that featured this Dionne Warwick classic. I also recall being very confused by the idea of her never loving a square again. 🤦🏻‍♂️ #MisheardLyrics

A partial screen shot of a smartphone music app. It features cover art from the Dionne Warwick album “Dionne”; the app is playing her song “I’ll Never Love This Way Again.”

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Fredo Álvarez @fre.do · 05/04/2025

On a related note …

In a meme featuring a still from the TV show “South Park,” a red-haired man with a handlebar mustache stands behind a podium. The caption reads, “The pengwins terk err jerbs.” (“The penguins took our jobs.”)

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