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RSS Bridge For Instagram: Hermitage Intensifies

Published October 15, 2019 by Warren Ellis

In talking yesterday about pulling RSS out of Instagram, I got a very kind note from one Peter Hogg telling me about RSS Bridge. This is an indieweb system designed to make RSS feeds where none exist, like the old Feedburner only with much more juice to it.

Just google RSS Bridge, as I did, and you will find both instructions to set up your own system, which to me are written in an alien language, and a few nice people who give free public access to an RSS Bridge instance.

When you scroll down those sites, you find a specific slot to put an Instagram user name in, and, provided that account is public, it’ll spit out a working RSS feed for it that you can add to your RSS reader (I use Feedbin).

It worked first time.

What this means for me is that I can add my favourite Instagram accounts to Feedbin and no longer have to open the app or Grids just to see the new Lordess Foudre. I feel like I’ve recovered something from the 2019 internet.

I am very grateful to all these people for helping me the quiet shadow internet I now wish and require. No noise, no stress, just a silent river of the good and necessary things.

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15oct19

Published October 15, 2019 by Warren Ellis

TREES: THREE FATES #3 is in: this is the end-of-chapter bumper, which Steven Finch/Fonografix sent overnight. He really does an amazing job.

I lost a bunch of yesterday to reviewing materials on a friend’s tv project, which I have to do again a bunch more times this week in order to pull together a coherent set of thoughts. Lucky I always have notebooks to spare. Always have notebooks to spare – I wrote an entire book of columns in super-cheap notebooks from the corner shop one time, it doesn’t have to be a fancy Moleskine.

I am frankly barely alive – my body is fighting me for the right to die – but there’s going to be another pass on the press release announcement for PROJECT KATRA today (tv things are complex on all levels, I’ve found), I need to fix the shape of BATMAN’S GRAVE 6, I have to work on at least one of the development documents on deck, fuck me it’s halfway through the month and I must make some more ground up on a tv script, and I need to clear the back room of the house. Here we go.

Inbox: 12. Listening: FOUR, Richard Skelton. Espresso: 5 and counting

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Blog Diet: A Starter List For Your RSS Reader

Published October 14, 2019 by Warren Ellis

(This post now updated in April 2022 at this link.)

People keep asking me where I find stuff, or where to start with an RSS reader.

I exported my subscruptions, and damn, there are a LOT of dead blogs out there. Here is a selection of blogs from the list of ones I think are still active. Like I say, it’s just a bit of my active subscriptions list, but maybe you’ll find something you want to follow.

All Tumblr pages spit out an RSS feed – just stick /rss on the end of the URL. Turns out you can maybe pull Instagram feeds into RSS, so that’s my next job, after I sort and cull my podcasts list.

My internet is substantially quieter than yours, and teaches me new things every day.

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RAIN, Mary & Bryan Talbot

Published October 14, 2019 by Warren Ellis

Just arrived – it’s Bryan’s new book!

(As it does with all British comics people of a certain age, it summons memories of bumping into Bryan somewhere and hearing “Have you seen me new book?”)

It looks gorgeous, the wide shape allowing Bryan and Mary to try something akin to the newspaper-strip format. Any new work by the Talbot makes it a good day, out here in my (also rainy) coastal cave. Thanks, both of you.

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14oct19

Published October 14, 2019 by Warren Ellis

Proofing BATMAN’S GRAVE 3 while the inks get finished up, which is why you’re looking at luminous Bryan Hitch pencilled art here.

Drinking watermelon juice with filtered water, super greens powder and superfruits powder and a shot of lemon juice, which is generally worse even than it sounds.

Listening to (abyss) by Pool Of Light.

It’s 12 C and dark on the Thames Delta. Inbox 10. Good morning, reader.

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13oct19

Published October 13, 2019 by Warren Ellis

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VIABLE SYSTEM 2, Keith Berry

Published October 12, 2019 by Warren Ellis

Classic-style ambient from London composer Keith Berry. Excellent for the sort of work I’m doing today. Sometimes you just want to be inside a space machine touring exoplanetary landscapes and alien factories.

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11oct19

Published October 11, 2019 by Warren Ellis

AUTUMN ALMANAC on mute on the big screen, IN TENEBRIS RATIONE ORGANI by Michael Bonaventure playing over the top, while I wrestle with a third draft (which is actually a first full draft) of a tv show concept document, while occasionally standing up to wipe things off the three whiteboards hanging in front of me. I’m sure things are happening on the internet, but I’m out.

(That said, I would be curious to see what’s being said about Simon Reynolds’ new piece in which he coins the curséd meme “conceptronica.” I mean, it’s not the worst stretch to surround a space I’ve ever seen. Anyone remember “The Scene That Celebrates Itself”?)

Autumn’s getting colder, and the rain is taking on that icy edge. In fact, we were hit by serious hailstones the other night. So I’ve decided to grow my beard to epic proportions and not show steel to it until spring.

Inbox: 12. Weight gain this year: I’m guessing I put on at least ten pounds, rooting my arse in this chair to write and produce two episodes of television. I walked five miles yesterday —

— when you jog past me in central London at rush hour and your body isn’t as wide as my last shit then son it’s okay to start walking normally —

— so goodbye, bread, I will miss you.

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Some Other Things That Have Arrived Lately

Published October 11, 2019 by Warren Ellis

Either been too busy or not in the house long enough to log everything, but hey, look at these: life is being pretty good to me.

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FROZEN PASSAGES, Poemme

Published October 11, 2019 by Warren Ellis

I love everything that Poemme has done, and I’m so happy she’s made a winter record. This is going to be on regularly until spring. It’s the sound of snowfall in heaven.

Frozen Passages is an imagined journey into the far north of the continent, through boreal forest, across vast, barren landscape, through the iciest storm, and eventually finding warm refuge as the night brings a welcome calm to the tundra. 

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