For a long time, I have been following All Day I Dream About Food on Facebook. Suddenly, recently (maybe in the past month? not more than two months?), Carolyn blocked me. She had posted a recipe with Cajun sausage in it and I had commented on where to look for real Cajun sausage. I am not sure if that offended her or if she looked at my profile and decided I was a horrible person (I make no bones about finding the concept of “gender identity” to be complete bullshit and Carolyn’s Canadian, and we gender-criticals call that country “Tranada” for good reason), but it was weird either way because I had followed her for literal years and we’d always been friendly. I’ll never figure it out, I’m sure.
All I know is that when she blocked me from her page, it broke a whole lot of links in my Saved Links section on my Facebook. And then I couldn’t remove them, either. I would have had to delete the whole category, and I had a whole lot of other links in that category.
So my weirdo Internet OCD kicked in and I thought, Nope, fuck this, I want a bookmark section where I don’t have like a third of my stuff blocked by an idiot. Sorry Carolyn, but it was really stupid of you. Anyway, and although moderation on Facebook has gotten a good bit less insane since they got scared of Trump*, the risk that I will someday lose my account is never zero. The possibility that I might start over with a new account someday is also never zero. So if I’m going to continue to save links, I need to do it somewhere else. delicio.us is gone. A whole lot of other stuff is gone. A website I found that allegedly stores and organizes bookmarks ate several of my links without preamble. Surely there is a plugin that would do the job on WordPress.
Okay… not really. I found one, but… it sucks. So if you noticed I had a bookmarks page and that it was weird, that’s what that was. I was trying out the plugin and it failed me.
I did hit upon a solution, though, at least temporarily. And that is here. Have fun.
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*I hate Donald Trump, but when you are facing serious bullies and the only thing that scares them is a bigger bully, you celebrate whatever win you can get.