Alex Holland
@alexlotl.bsky.social
I’m the one on the right. Mostly posting about music, retro games, cats and poached eggs. He/him.
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?
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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!
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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!"
Two new pickups for #cdFriday. I have a nice routine when working in the office of hitting up Oxfam Books for some randomised post-lunch listening.
Very surprised to find some Deerhoof! Getz/Gilberto is the old WG CD, nice warm analogue sound.
Very surprised to find some Deerhoof! Getz/Gilberto is the old WG CD, nice warm analogue sound.
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Two new pickups for #cdFriday. I have a nice routine when working in the office of hitting up Oxfam Books for some randomised post-lunch listening.
Very surprised to find some Deerhoof! Getz/Gilberto is the old WG CD, nice warm analogue sound.
Very surprised to find some Deerhoof! Getz/Gilberto is the old WG CD, nice warm analogue sound.
I saw Cate Le Bon play live in York on Tuesday, and picked up her latest album from the merch table.
It’s cracker, and the live show was nothing short of incredible. A real culmination of everything she’s been doing from Reward onwards.
Are there any other seven album runs this good?
#cdFriday
It’s cracker, and the live show was nothing short of incredible. A real culmination of everything she’s been doing from Reward onwards.
Are there any other seven album runs this good?
#cdFriday
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I saw Cate Le Bon play live in York on Tuesday, and picked up her latest album from the merch table.
It’s cracker, and the live show was nothing short of incredible. A real culmination of everything she’s been doing from Reward onwards.
Are there any other seven album runs this good?
#cdFriday
It’s cracker, and the live show was nothing short of incredible. A real culmination of everything she’s been doing from Reward onwards.
Are there any other seven album runs this good?
#cdFriday
Reposted by Alex Holland
The awfulness of the name astounds me. I get the whole Smith & Jones association, but it’s so awkward - not just the repeated phoneme between “G” and “Jones”, but “Joneses” is so much more of a hobbity mouthful than “Smiths”.
Even Tee-Gee-Jay is awkward to say. In its own way, it’s a masterclass.
Even Tee-Gee-Jay is awkward to say. In its own way, it’s a masterclass.
Enshittification.
Default typeface; logo created in Word in 3.6 seconds; a name that rolls off the tongue about as smoothly as if you were trying to say it with a snow globe in your mouth. Teejyjo, Teajeedjo, Teagueyjones.
Default typeface; logo created in Word in 3.6 seconds; a name that rolls off the tongue about as smoothly as if you were trying to say it with a snow globe in your mouth. Teejyjo, Teajeedjo, Teagueyjones.
After 110 years on Cornmarket, stationery shop W.H. Smith has been rebranded T.G. Jones – a name invented by investment company Modella Capital, which acquired the high street shops in June. The Abingdon branch was renamed in August. www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/e...
October 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The awfulness of the name astounds me. I get the whole Smith & Jones association, but it’s so awkward - not just the repeated phoneme between “G” and “Jones”, but “Joneses” is so much more of a hobbity mouthful than “Smiths”.
Even Tee-Gee-Jay is awkward to say. In its own way, it’s a masterclass.
Even Tee-Gee-Jay is awkward to say. In its own way, it’s a masterclass.
With the nights drawing in, I’ve started playing Lemmings again, this time Oh No, More Lemmings.
Just cleared Tame difficulty (the first 20 levels), which was an utter waste of time. All trivial with no threats or falls, and with 20 of every skill. Mostly just bashing, didn’t lose a single Lem.
Just cleared Tame difficulty (the first 20 levels), which was an utter waste of time. All trivial with no threats or falls, and with 20 of every skill. Mostly just bashing, didn’t lose a single Lem.
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
With the nights drawing in, I’ve started playing Lemmings again, this time Oh No, More Lemmings.
Just cleared Tame difficulty (the first 20 levels), which was an utter waste of time. All trivial with no threats or falls, and with 20 of every skill. Mostly just bashing, didn’t lose a single Lem.
Just cleared Tame difficulty (the first 20 levels), which was an utter waste of time. All trivial with no threats or falls, and with 20 of every skill. Mostly just bashing, didn’t lose a single Lem.
Weird, my whole life I’ve used the term “spong” for any kitchen tool of unidentifiable purpose. I had no idea it was an actual kitchen tool brand. I wonder if I subconsciously magpied it from somewhere?
I already thought these looked like cool little guys before I saw what their name is
October 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Weird, my whole life I’ve used the term “spong” for any kitchen tool of unidentifiable purpose. I had no idea it was an actual kitchen tool brand. I wonder if I subconsciously magpied it from somewhere?
The return of the silver disc
Throwing darts in streamers’ eyes
1984(?) WG RCA CD. The masters for this series have murky origins, but the end result sounds great. One of the later STS deluxe sets actually included a digital clone of this disc alongside various flavours of remaster.
#cdFriday
Throwing darts in streamers’ eyes
1984(?) WG RCA CD. The masters for this series have murky origins, but the end result sounds great. One of the later STS deluxe sets actually included a digital clone of this disc alongside various flavours of remaster.
#cdFriday
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The return of the silver disc
Throwing darts in streamers’ eyes
1984(?) WG RCA CD. The masters for this series have murky origins, but the end result sounds great. One of the later STS deluxe sets actually included a digital clone of this disc alongside various flavours of remaster.
#cdFriday
Throwing darts in streamers’ eyes
1984(?) WG RCA CD. The masters for this series have murky origins, but the end result sounds great. One of the later STS deluxe sets actually included a digital clone of this disc alongside various flavours of remaster.
#cdFriday
Reposted by Alex Holland
"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"
My AirPods have a Conversation Awareness mode, where they duck your music for 10s or so when you say something.
This is useful, but I just found out that if you sing along with your music it goes quiet on you, like a punishment for your lapse of headphone etiquette. I felt like I’d been shamed.
This is useful, but I just found out that if you sing along with your music it goes quiet on you, like a punishment for your lapse of headphone etiquette. I felt like I’d been shamed.
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
My AirPods have a Conversation Awareness mode, where they duck your music for 10s or so when you say something.
This is useful, but I just found out that if you sing along with your music it goes quiet on you, like a punishment for your lapse of headphone etiquette. I felt like I’d been shamed.
This is useful, but I just found out that if you sing along with your music it goes quiet on you, like a punishment for your lapse of headphone etiquette. I felt like I’d been shamed.
Imgur being blocked in the UK is a disaster for the usability of the web. The few surviving forums that exist outside the walled gardens of social networking rely on tools like these. This will just accelerate the death of the open web and give US tech giants even more control over our lives.
October 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Imgur being blocked in the UK is a disaster for the usability of the web. The few surviving forums that exist outside the walled gardens of social networking rely on tools like these. This will just accelerate the death of the open web and give US tech giants even more control over our lives.
Reposted by Alex Holland
Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity https://theonion.com/physical-media-collector-pumped-for-downfall-of-humanity/
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity https://theonion.com/physical-media-collector-pumped-for-downfall-of-humanity/
I found a £12 L.L.Bean chamois shirt on Vinted after reading about them online. They seem to be staples in the US, but obscure here. Anyway, it’s been two weeks and I now basically live in this thing.
Cosy without being heavy, works open over a jumper or closed over a t-shirt. Love it.
Cosy without being heavy, works open over a jumper or closed over a t-shirt. Love it.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I found a £12 L.L.Bean chamois shirt on Vinted after reading about them online. They seem to be staples in the US, but obscure here. Anyway, it’s been two weeks and I now basically live in this thing.
Cosy without being heavy, works open over a jumper or closed over a t-shirt. Love it.
Cosy without being heavy, works open over a jumper or closed over a t-shirt. Love it.
The hygiene rating
Was concerning.
Even worse?
The menu’s kerning.
Was concerning.
Even worse?
The menu’s kerning.
September 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The hygiene rating
Was concerning.
Even worse?
The menu’s kerning.
Was concerning.
Even worse?
The menu’s kerning.