Thanks For Your Donation

Thank you for your generous donations! We've met our goal!

Thanks for honoring Pattie with us. I’ve known her as her twitter cat persona, @CathyKeisha, since 2009. She DJed at my charity parties and I loved her knowledge of and taste in music. It has been sad scheduling parties without her this year and it has been utterly devastating for the whole group to learn she is not coming back.

F*ck Cancer.

You may have noticed I changed the goal amount. I put a lowball placeholder when I configured the fundraiser and forgot to come back to it. I apologize for any confusion.

The recipient, The Lucky Cat Rescue | TLC Rescue (NJ), is on Facebook at TheLuckyCatRescue. If you are local to Central Jersey please consider fostering or adopting one or two of their cats. Money helps but they need hands too.

You're all invited to our Halloween party on twitter on Oct. 28th to benefit this fundraiser. Some of the DJs will tap into @cathykeisha’s Howl-O-Ween playlist. If you’re on twitter do stop by and search for the hashtag #nipclub.

I’ll close the GoFundMe and transfer the funds after the party.

Thanks again!

-- Mr. Breeze

In Honor of @CathyKeisha's TW, Pattie Kleinke

Yesterday we lost one of our earliest twitter pals' staff. Pattie Kleinke succumbed after a long fight with cancer. I don't have words for how I feel.

@cathykeisha is a longtime twitter personality. She DJed at many pawties including @georgetheduck's #CatmasEve and #ChiliPawty and her absence will be felt for years to come. She has an award-winning blog, Stunning Keisha.

The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, we donate to a rescue. #nipclub decided to fundraise for her favorite local rescue, The Lucky Cat Rescue in Weehawken, NJ. From their web page:

The Lucky Cat Rescue (TLC Rescue) works to help and reduce the homeless cat and kitten populations of Hudson County, NJ through owner education, TNR (trap-neuter-return of feral cats), and rehabilitation/adoption. We are a foster-based rescue, which means we have no physical shelter building, but instead place animals in private residences under the loving care of our dedicated volunteers.

#nipclub will be holding a party in Pattie's honor on Thursday, October 12, 2023. Do stop by!

Additionally, #nipclub will be having a Hallowe'en party on Saturday, October 28. Two of our DJs will be dedicating their sets to Pattie and @CathyKeisha. I hope you can make it.

Old Tweetdeck Extension from GitHub

dimdenGD/OldTweetDeckReturns old TweetDeck, for free!

Recently many of us lost access to Tweetdeck, the Twitter/X product that enabled us to schedule tweets and which organized our timelines to make parties manageable. dimdenGD/OldTweetDeck contains extensions for the Chrome and Firefox browsers that imitate the old tweetdeck.

At its core, GitHub is a code repository with version control. A deeper explanation of GitHub is beyond the scope of this post. Geeks, can read more about it on GitHub.

These are the simple instructions on the project page, word for word, with pictures. Click the picture for a readable size.

Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Etc.)

1. Go to Release page and download OldTweetDeckChrome.zip
   
   
   
2. Unzip the archive
   
   
   
3. Go to extentions[sic] page (chrome://extensions)
   
4. Enable developer mode (there should be switch somewhere on that page)
   
5. Press "Load unpacked" button
   
6. Select folder with unzipped archive
   
7. [Editor's note: Fix the error. When it breaks check the github page for an update.]
   
   
   
8. Go to tweetdeck.twitter.com and enjoy old TweetDeck
   
9. Donate to encourage continued support

Please donate so the author has time to keep the project updated.

Free! eBooks

Mr. Breeze and His Favorite Book

If you love to read ebooks, but your wallet is thin, try these sites for free ebooks.

• Amazon Kindle Store
  Free Popular Classics page.
• Amazon Kindle Store
  Top 100 Free Best Sellers.
• Baen Books
  Baen Books, founded by SFF editor Jim Baen, is a hub for SFF readers complete with plenty of Baen's own ebooks in its Free Library.
• Barnes & Noble Online
  The Barnes & Noble digital shop is stocked with plenty of free and discount books and free magazines. Some free titles can only be read on a B&N NOOK ereader. Their Reading App is free.
• Book Cave
  Book Cave enables readers to search nearly 2,000 free books with advanced filters such as genre, maturity level or sensitive content.
• BookBoon
  BookBoon provides free e-textbooks on subjects ranging from chemistry to communications.
• BookRix - old site
  Self-publishing platform BookRix hosts thousands of freebies in its online library, most of which are original stories from brand-new authors.
• Ebooks.com
  Ebooks.com has large collection of free books, with a focus on the classics. Its online e-reader works well, but if you download their ebooks you must install Adobe Digital Editions.
• Feedbooks
  Feedbooks hosts ebooks to purchase, but also has free public domain ebooks and free original books.
• Free eBooks!
  Discover 1000's of New Authors in Hundreds of Categories. Fiction and Non-Fiction --- Free Every Month!
• Google Play Bookstore
  Google Play has a page of freebies, largely test prep and self-help books.
• The Internet Archive
  The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
• Kobo Bookstore
  Kobo has a huge digital store and its own brand of e-readers.
• ManyBooks
  50,000+ Free eBooks in the Genres you Love
• Open Library
  Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Open Library contains information about books. Internet Archive hosts a collection of digitized books. Open Library’s universal catalog provides links to discover, borrow, and read from the Internet Archive’s collections. Your Internet Archive account can be used to sign-in to Open Library.
• OverDrive
  OverDrive allows anyone with a library card to pull ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. There can be long waiting lists for popular book, but borrowing books on OverDrive is better than buying hard copy you'll only read once. OverDrive offers a mobile app called Libby.
• Planet Ebook
  Because it’s based in Australia, Planet Ebook pulls from a wider public domain than in the US.
• Project Gutenberg
  Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
• Reedsy Discovery
  Reviewers on Reedsy Discovery receive a free ebook copy of every title you pick up for review.
• Smashwords
  The Smashwords store hosts 86,000+ of those books are available for free books by authors who publish on the site
• Standard Ebooks
  Standard Ebooks provides beautiful-formatted editions of ebooks found in Project Gutenberg.
• Your local library! Your local library eBook list may include everything from websites that are free to the general public to resources available only to local library cardholders.

Move Your Mastodon from home.social

Mr. Breeze's Mastodon Header

Time Sensitive Announcement

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home.social will close down TOMORROW June 16th, 2023 23:59 CET. Please migrate your accounts in time to avoid losing content and followers. Thanks.

Quick and dirty instructions. Please note I don't know how to transfer posts. Mine are gone but for an archive. Correct me in the comments if you know how.

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I kind of fumbled around until it worked.

First make a new account. A lot of us are on
ohai.social. <<< click linky

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In the app...

Home button -->
Settings gear button -->
Account settings
Moving from a different account. Enter your old account there.

This only starts the process.

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Log back into your old home.social account.

Export followers and post archive. Also grab your av and header image.

Then go the same settings page as before on your old home account. Enter your new ohai name in the "move to a different account".

You should have the option of transferring some data.

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There should now be a redirect on your old home.social profile.

Log into your new ohai.social account.

Import the followers if you have to, upload av and header image.

Posts - I think they're gone. If I'm wrong, please let me know what to do.

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