Bad Machinery

I’ve had a few messages over the last week about unusual stuff in the RSS feeds for some of my less-used URLS – chiefly, bobbins.horse and destroyhistory.com. I let all my niche sub-site URLS go a couple of years ago. If you subscribed to those feeds, just delete them. The only up-to-date RSS feed I have ever used is the Badmachinery.com one, no matter which poorly thought out URL I might have been putting my comics up at.

This is my last word on really simple syndication (RSS), extensible markup language (XML), and irresponsible domain name purchase (IDNP) for the forseeable future.

I have a few in-person events (in the UK) coming up:

Saturday June 27th – MACC-POW, Macclesfield

Saturday July 11th – Big City Reads: Meet The Authors, Nottingham Central Library 4-6pm.

Wednesday August 5th – Big City Reads (John Allison in conversation with Laura Snapes) 5.30-6.30pm

Saturday October 10th – SCARF, Sheffield (free entry!)

Sat/Sun November 14-15th Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate

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The two Nottingham events have to be booked in advance, but they are both free.

In the last couple of days something very strange happened, another webcomic linked to me. This used to be common 20 years ago, but now is so unusual that I looked at my stats and couldn’t work out why they were up for several days in a row. So thank you to the creators of Cassiopeia Quinn. I have been thinking for weeks of instituting a new links list to (free) webcomics I like, but wondered if it wouldn’t just be archaic and weird. Once again, our old friend the cosmos, indeed Cassiopeia itself, has sent me a sign. So I will proceed.