Stuck feeds, grrr

Magnolia is playing silly buggers this weekend and I've had to disable my sidebar feeds. The guys at Magnolia are working on it and it's an intermittent problem at present but as I can't get my site showing until the JS feeds load fully it's actually a major pain. I think I can order things so that the rest of the page loads first and doesn't get hung up on the JS, so under the hood I go...