Alex Holland
@alexlotl.bsky.social
Mostly posting about music, retro games, cats and poached eggs. He/him.
I am so, so tired of clicking a button labelled "Maybe Later" every time Microsoft try to force co-pilot on me.
Give me a big button labelled "No"! A checkbox saying "Do not ask me again"! Or a massive, physical button I can smash my fist onto, labelled "FUCK OFF INTO SPACE AND NEVER COME BACK".
Give me a big button labelled "No"! A checkbox saying "Do not ask me again"! Or a massive, physical button I can smash my fist onto, labelled "FUCK OFF INTO SPACE AND NEVER COME BACK".
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I am so, so tired of clicking a button labelled "Maybe Later" every time Microsoft try to force co-pilot on me.
Give me a big button labelled "No"! A checkbox saying "Do not ask me again"! Or a massive, physical button I can smash my fist onto, labelled "FUCK OFF INTO SPACE AND NEVER COME BACK".
Give me a big button labelled "No"! A checkbox saying "Do not ask me again"! Or a massive, physical button I can smash my fist onto, labelled "FUCK OFF INTO SPACE AND NEVER COME BACK".
It’s been a Walker Week - lots of Walker Brothers earlier after a forum thread on mono mixes sent me down a rabbit hole. Now onto Scott’s solo albums proper, from these 1992 Fontana discs (stereo - no CD of mono).
I always see his 60s solo work as two pairs - Scott 1 & 2 and Scott 3 & 4.
#cdFriday
I always see his 60s solo work as two pairs - Scott 1 & 2 and Scott 3 & 4.
#cdFriday
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It’s been a Walker Week - lots of Walker Brothers earlier after a forum thread on mono mixes sent me down a rabbit hole. Now onto Scott’s solo albums proper, from these 1992 Fontana discs (stereo - no CD of mono).
I always see his 60s solo work as two pairs - Scott 1 & 2 and Scott 3 & 4.
#cdFriday
I always see his 60s solo work as two pairs - Scott 1 & 2 and Scott 3 & 4.
#cdFriday
Me, after discovering a podcast devoted to comparing the mono and stereo mixes of 1960s albums.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Me, after discovering a podcast devoted to comparing the mono and stereo mixes of 1960s albums.
One week in. Using it for 1hr every week day, distance about 50cm. I think it is helping, mood and energy definitely improved.
While I’m relieved that it’s working, I’m also slightly disappointed in my animal brain for being fooled by this simple trick. It’s not the sun, you fool, it’s just a lamp!
While I’m relieved that it’s working, I’m also slightly disappointed in my animal brain for being fooled by this simple trick. It’s not the sun, you fool, it’s just a lamp!
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
One week in. Using it for 1hr every week day, distance about 50cm. I think it is helping, mood and energy definitely improved.
While I’m relieved that it’s working, I’m also slightly disappointed in my animal brain for being fooled by this simple trick. It’s not the sun, you fool, it’s just a lamp!
While I’m relieved that it’s working, I’m also slightly disappointed in my animal brain for being fooled by this simple trick. It’s not the sun, you fool, it’s just a lamp!
Cats: mammals, or glitchy AI hallucinations?
I imagine this is kind of like what happens inside the chrysalis during metamorphosis.
I imagine this is kind of like what happens inside the chrysalis during metamorphosis.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Cats: mammals, or glitchy AI hallucinations?
I imagine this is kind of like what happens inside the chrysalis during metamorphosis.
I imagine this is kind of like what happens inside the chrysalis during metamorphosis.
Spinning my imperial-era Roses discs in memory of Mani. I bought the debut from Woolies when I was 15, and learnt to play She Bangs The Drums on the bass, badly.
One for the spotters, this is the first UK CD of the debut, with a white rear inlay and no barcode. A lucky £1 car boot find!
#cdFriday
One for the spotters, this is the first UK CD of the debut, with a white rear inlay and no barcode. A lucky £1 car boot find!
#cdFriday
November 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Spinning my imperial-era Roses discs in memory of Mani. I bought the debut from Woolies when I was 15, and learnt to play She Bangs The Drums on the bass, badly.
One for the spotters, this is the first UK CD of the debut, with a white rear inlay and no barcode. A lucky £1 car boot find!
#cdFriday
One for the spotters, this is the first UK CD of the debut, with a white rear inlay and no barcode. A lucky £1 car boot find!
#cdFriday
I remember the SVGA mode of the original Gabriel Knight game doing this. Backgrounds were crudely upscaled from the VGA 320x200, but any item you could interact with was rendered natively at 640x480, and utterly failed to blend in as intended.
This included a book on the first screen of the game.
This included a book on the first screen of the game.
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I remember the SVGA mode of the original Gabriel Knight game doing this. Backgrounds were crudely upscaled from the VGA 320x200, but any item you could interact with was rendered natively at 640x480, and utterly failed to blend in as intended.
This included a book on the first screen of the game.
This included a book on the first screen of the game.
Me turning my new SAD lamp on for the first time. Hopefully I will soon be a new kind of man.
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Me turning my new SAD lamp on for the first time. Hopefully I will soon be a new kind of man.
Reposted by Alex Holland
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
There’s a BBC Sub-Editor going to bed happy tonight. Sometimes the stars just align.
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
There’s a BBC Sub-Editor going to bed happy tonight. Sometimes the stars just align.
We scold children who ring doorbells and run away, but it’s actually valuable vocational training for a future job as an Evri driver.
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We scold children who ring doorbells and run away, but it’s actually valuable vocational training for a future job as an Evri driver.
Freshly arrived from eBay, a frankly terrifying amount of Big Star’s Third.
I basically bought this for the third disc, which is the urtext for final masters of this endlessly resequenced argument of an album.
Now to spend a few weeks trying out different track listings!
#cdFriday
I basically bought this for the third disc, which is the urtext for final masters of this endlessly resequenced argument of an album.
Now to spend a few weeks trying out different track listings!
#cdFriday
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Freshly arrived from eBay, a frankly terrifying amount of Big Star’s Third.
I basically bought this for the third disc, which is the urtext for final masters of this endlessly resequenced argument of an album.
Now to spend a few weeks trying out different track listings!
#cdFriday
I basically bought this for the third disc, which is the urtext for final masters of this endlessly resequenced argument of an album.
Now to spend a few weeks trying out different track listings!
#cdFriday
Coco luxuriating on the same rug that she tries to scratch to ribbons whenever we’re not looking.
No jury would convict.
No jury would convict.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Coco luxuriating on the same rug that she tries to scratch to ribbons whenever we’re not looking.
No jury would convict.
No jury would convict.
Watching a DVD on my laptop like it’s 2004. Or possibly 1874.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Watching a DVD on my laptop like it’s 2004. Or possibly 1874.
A fixture of my childhood! Designed by Kit Williams of Masquerade fame - the fish blows bubbles every half hour. This tiny card doesn’t do justice to how massive it is, particularly when you are small.
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A fixture of my childhood! Designed by Kit Williams of Masquerade fame - the fish blows bubbles every half hour. This tiny card doesn’t do justice to how massive it is, particularly when you are small.
Something about the gloomy skies put me in the mood for Wheels of Fire this morning. This is the old WG Polydor disc, processed in Audacity to remove the awful CSG encoding and align the channels. The difference is incredible, especially on headphones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeco-CSG
#cdFriday
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeco-CSG
#cdFriday
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Something about the gloomy skies put me in the mood for Wheels of Fire this morning. This is the old WG Polydor disc, processed in Audacity to remove the awful CSG encoding and align the channels. The difference is incredible, especially on headphones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeco-CSG
#cdFriday
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeco-CSG
#cdFriday
Someone is a bit dozy after her annual vaccine jabs.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone is a bit dozy after her annual vaccine jabs.
Fascinated by streaming old PC soundtracks using then-top-of-the-range hardware that was either too expensive or obscure to own back in the day. Adlib Gold, Gravis Ultrasound, Roland MT-32/CM-32L/SC-88. The future was already there, just not evenly distributed.
Cryo's Dune on Adlib Gold, anyone?
Cryo's Dune on Adlib Gold, anyone?
Dune full AdLib Gold soundtrack
YouTube video by DOS Nostalgia
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Fascinated by streaming old PC soundtracks using then-top-of-the-range hardware that was either too expensive or obscure to own back in the day. Adlib Gold, Gravis Ultrasound, Roland MT-32/CM-32L/SC-88. The future was already there, just not evenly distributed.
Cryo's Dune on Adlib Gold, anyone?
Cryo's Dune on Adlib Gold, anyone?
Reposted by Alex Holland
The Consumer Products Safety Commission recommends testing your smoke and CO alarms monthly, and changing their batteries every year. Be safe everyone!
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The Consumer Products Safety Commission recommends testing your smoke and CO alarms monthly, and changing their batteries every year. Be safe everyone!
Reposted by Alex Holland
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and select all that include images of motorcycles.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and I am once again asking for your financial support.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and I hope this email finds you well.
November 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and select all that include images of motorcycles.
New jeans ritual. Reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson twenty years ago made me properly understand that *I* own my clothes, and I can just remove any branding or labels that bother me. I do stop short of sanding down the rivets, though!
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New jeans ritual. Reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson twenty years ago made me properly understand that *I* own my clothes, and I can just remove any branding or labels that bother me. I do stop short of sanding down the rivets, though!
Reposted by Alex Holland
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
A few spun today. Tim Hardin in the afternoon - this cheap ‘94 set gets you Tim Hardin 1, 2 & 4, plus some bits, all well mastered.
For a rainy Halloween evening, Climate of Hunter by Scott Walker. A big Hardin fan who borrowed his album naming scheme, and covered a few of his tracks.
#cdFriday
For a rainy Halloween evening, Climate of Hunter by Scott Walker. A big Hardin fan who borrowed his album naming scheme, and covered a few of his tracks.
#cdFriday
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A few spun today. Tim Hardin in the afternoon - this cheap ‘94 set gets you Tim Hardin 1, 2 & 4, plus some bits, all well mastered.
For a rainy Halloween evening, Climate of Hunter by Scott Walker. A big Hardin fan who borrowed his album naming scheme, and covered a few of his tracks.
#cdFriday
For a rainy Halloween evening, Climate of Hunter by Scott Walker. A big Hardin fan who borrowed his album naming scheme, and covered a few of his tracks.
#cdFriday
Well I, 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 met a traveller,
From an antique land,
Who said, in the desert
Vast trunkless legs do staaaaaand!
The plaque says Ozyman-ian-ian-dias
Out in the lonely sands.
“Oh look”, 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 “on my works,
Ye mighty and despair”
While his shattered visage,
Up at the Sky does staaaaare…
From an antique land,
Who said, in the desert
Vast trunkless legs do staaaaaand!
The plaque says Ozyman-ian-ian-dias
Out in the lonely sands.
“Oh look”, 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 “on my works,
Ye mighty and despair”
While his shattered visage,
Up at the Sky does staaaaare…
October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Well I, 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 met a traveller,
From an antique land,
Who said, in the desert
Vast trunkless legs do staaaaaand!
The plaque says Ozyman-ian-ian-dias
Out in the lonely sands.
“Oh look”, 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 “on my works,
Ye mighty and despair”
While his shattered visage,
Up at the Sky does staaaaare…
From an antique land,
Who said, in the desert
Vast trunkless legs do staaaaaand!
The plaque says Ozyman-ian-ian-dias
Out in the lonely sands.
“Oh look”, 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 “on my works,
Ye mighty and despair”
While his shattered visage,
Up at the Sky does staaaaare…
Reposted by Alex Holland
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"