Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070

I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.

This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.

You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/tinysubversions

Anyway, if the Cities: Skylines people ever did something like let you play entirely different games on a map of your city... I would give them all my money

Also SimCopter had an easter egg in it that a programmer inserted without permission where on his birthday and on his boyfriend's birthday, the city would be full of men in swim trunks holding hands and making kissing noises. I remember there was a controversy about it at the time, they fired the programmer and released a patch you could download to get rid of it (which was pretty unusual at the time) :(

https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/2015/08/31/gay-sims-easter-egg-and-controversy-in-simcopter/

I still get "you're the czar / when you've got a kickass car" stuck in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkFmwT7MZA

Ooooh, someone has done the work of making these games run on modern Windows PCs

http://www.streetsofsimcity.com/index.html
http://www.simcopter.net/

SimCity 2000 + SimCopter + Streets of SimCity was such a glorious trifecta from Maxis. Like... the fact that you could import your cities into the other two games and either fly around them doing rescue missions or drive around them blowing stuff up... incredible

I have gotten MF DOOM lyrics stuck in my head literally every single day since 2003, but now when it happens there is a tinge of sadness :(((

Like whenever I hear a word that is also in a DOOM lyric, my brain free associates over there. I do not associate "All Star" with Smash Mouth, I associate it with "And while he's runnin down to All-Star Weekend to ball / I'm comin with the U-Haul"

this thong was made in Hangzhou circa 1200 CE... it is a Song thong

I'm rapping the words to "My Philosophy" by Boogie Down Productions to the tune of and in the voice of "Polyamorous" by Chris Fleming???