ReturnOfTheLivingDoug

Vancouver Island, Canada

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ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-19

Kicking off a stormy, but nice, lazy Sunday with some rain showers, 9c and wind.

Hopefully just a warmup for what should be a stormy week ahead.

A shot down view street. Looking west towards downtown, and an ominous rain wall behind it.
The street is lined with trees that are in the middle of changing colour, and high density (apartment/Condon/office) buildings.
Early morning. Street lights are still on.
ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
Mat WrightMatWright
2025-10-19

This is some bent public health shitocracy - we've gone from Alberta charging over $100 for Covid shots unless you are in very limited groups, to now you must book BOTH your flu and Covid shots for NEXT YEAR by December 15th or you are SOL

It's Public Death

And we still don't have a Federal Public Health officer appointed to fight this since Tam stepped down in June

ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-18

@ChrisJagged

I can recommend two, and they are quite different...

1) Pontypool (Tony Burgess)

2) The Final Girl Support Group (Grady Hendrix)

ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-18

Imagine going to a protest maskless and thinking you're the good guy!

Eugenics is eugenics.

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ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-18

Your daily reminder that Mark Carney is a piece of shit.

ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
sport of sacred spherical cowsbeadsland@hcommons.social
2025-10-18

Will believe Usian liberals are ready for solidarity when the people NOT wearing masks during a wave of "razor-blade throat" virus are the ones who stand out.

Oh, sorry, is calling out failure to protect one's neighbors a split?

#JustVibes

ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-18

Kicking a rainy a-thon off with a mediocre movie and a great soundtrack...

1997s

Spawn

Poster for the movie.
It's actually pretty lame
Title is above the main character who is just standing there with his arms crossed.
The background is a weird grey, with smoke?
ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
Matti Alevemaleve@zeroes.ca
2025-10-18

Wow. Never had a reading this high in Costco since having my first co2 monitor circa 2021.

It was up as high as 2000ppm

Normally we'd see anything between 800 near opening and 1200 when busy.

After encountering multiple sick people last couple days switched from earloop to headband n95.

Glad I was sporting my CAN99 tonight.

ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
2025-10-18

But back to Universal Masking, the moral panic of Liberals Who Just Want To Forget So They Can Enjoy Brunch Again.

Did you know that most experts agree that if we ventilated schools, required NAAT testing, and installed HEPA, and everyone was required to mask in public govt offices and healthcare facilities, the R0 of SARS2 would go below 1?

That's right: it's likely that COVID would disappear or be relegated to minor outbreaks if we did minimal shit to prevent it.

ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
2025-10-17

Just admit you're powerless to do anything except obediently increase GHG emissions and send jobs south in the face of ascendent American fossil fascism.

‘I’m The Same Me’: Canada’s Mark Carney Defends His Climate Record
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

archive.is/Tpub6

ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-17

The second and third was an amazing theater going experience in 2007.
The theater was packed, and everyone was a lil high and or a lil drunk...

Grindhouse (Death proof / Planet Terror )

W/ proper theatrical trailers.

An alt poster for the movie.
A smash up of death proof and Grindhouse, 70s style of course. 
Colours are red white black.
ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
Conny with a Y :tinoflag:ConnyChiwa@mastodon.nz
2025-10-17

Wherever you're striking or protesting these days, please wear a mask and stay safe so you can keep fighting the good fight.

#NZpol
#CovidIsNotOver

The graphic has a bright orange background with white text and a white outline image of an N95 mask. The test reads - Striking? Be loud, stay safe in the crowd! There is a small violet framed circle in the bottom right with Aotearoa Covid Action's logo.
ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-17

Kicking things off early with today's first 1995s cult classic

Takes From The Crypt: Demon Knight

Solid movie, killer soundtrack

The poster for the movie the crypt keeper, opening his book and Billy Zane is bursting through while reaching for us, the audience, with the title at the bottom.
Tagline is: Ready for your deadtime story?
ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
2025-10-17

Holy crap!

Atari is literally bringing back the Intellivision—complete with those classic controller overlays!

Wait, what? Why is Atari doing this?

Because a couple of years ago, they quietly bought out Intellivision. And now, that acquisition has led to this: the Intellivision Sprint, a full-on modern re-release of the legendary console.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srqUdmzcQbc

ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
Olivier Mehanishtrom@piaille.fr
2025-10-17

> if you refuse to engage with the science- the science that shows that COVID is a virus that disables human beings, and that this virus is asymptomatic 44% of the time- then you are spreading a disabling virus, and you are harming people.
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> If you believe it’s unreasonable that you have to wear a mask indoors to prevent the spread of that virus, turn your irritation and your ire toward the target that deserves it: your government.
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> Get angry that your government knows that Long COVID is now the leading chronic illness among children and it is doing nothing

Beyond all reason thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all-

#covidIsNotOver #longCovid

ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-17

Some motherfuckers are always trying ice-skate uphill.

- Blade

Tonight's second is... Well...

Blade (1998)

Image for the movie. A shot from behind blade as he pulls out his sword thing.
Dark red / black background
Title to the left in silver
ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-17

Sticking with the genre, tonights first is one I will never tire of watching...

1990s

Tremors

"That's how they get you, under the gawd damned ground"

The poster for the movie.

The title is at the top in black lettering.
The main characters stand in front of the sun, in the town, with the monster below.
ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)Garwboy@ohai.social
2025-10-17

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

ReturnOfTheLivingDoug boosted:
JA WestenbergDaojoan
2025-10-17

Between 1995-2015 we all agreed the internet would make everyone smarter. The internet's response to this prediction has been 'lmao'

ReturnOfTheLivingDougReturnOfTheLivingDoug
2025-10-16

Your daily reminder that Mark Carney is a piece of shit.

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