Hi All,

I've decided to leave both OpenSim and Second Life. It's not for some sulky reason, someone offended me or anything like that. I've just decided my life is going in a different direction.

Big hugs to all those who I have come to know over the months or years and hope you all have great virtual lives in OS :)

GET YOUR GROOVE ON!
Nubian's Groove Train is in the station tonight baby! He's spinning out of Club Chocolate this evening. Friday at 7 pm grid time. You'll find DJ Keng at Barefoot Dreamers Grid. Just click the board.... "chocolate....milk chocolate... dark chocolate.. hot chocolate.... CLUB CHOCOLATE" See you there! :) Pop this info into your world map. login.barefoot-dreamers.com:8002:Barefoot Dreamers Welcome

Come visit Africa - a region dedicated to the music, art, wildlife and cultures of Africa. Turn on stream to hear today's playlist - tunes from Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Benin and more :) Happy weekend :)

Jupiter mentioned that i should share these pics of some ruth outfits i have been working on. The clothes I am using are from Linda Kellie and Damien Fate meshes. I have also borrowed shoes from Tarna Wells Savvy and the jeans are BOM layers. When i have a few outfits done i will put them out for any who want them.

JOIN US AT THE NEW Majestic Club /Ballroom / Great place for wedding ,Birthdays Party , Event , for most Holidays Dress up or down Opening On Sunday at 12:Grid time . ♥Simply fabulous♥
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LIVE NOW! :) Come join us!
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Nothing you could do or say is right.
I already know just what I like.
Bad girl, need a bad girl, need a bad girl
'Cause the bad boys just don't cut it
We got what they want want, what they want want
They can look but they just can't touch it
Bad girl, need a bad girl, need a bad girl
'Cause the bad boys just don't cut it...

Daya - Bad Girl (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/hGu-yDffnQ8

Outfit: Bad Girl
oh HELLO: We're always up to no good.
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Thank you for helping us track the notorious and very dangerous PRISCILLA KLEENEX. Here at the special grids investigation center in langley, virginia, we've set up a special team to help find this MOST WANTED criminal! Our computer command center runs non stop 24/7/365 supplying leads to Local Enforcement Officers in the grids to eviscerate this highly obnoxious and extremely mischievous individual. The G.I.S. plans to put an end to this monkey business once and for all! God Bless America!

Well, my friends from the Metaverse. I'm starting my long dreamed project. Escor starting to build my own grid. At first it will be hosted on a small server of my own. Over time, who knows, if I have a few additions to the project, we might be able to migrate to a bigger server.
The roleplay project that I intend to create is based on some things that I wrote, that I researched and that I came up with with a little creativity.
It is the cult of the Goddess Velathri, the one who gave the human race the knowledge of spiritual fulfillment through erotic practices. So it's an adult roleplay and that's what it's aimed at. More details, I will give you if you contact me.
I would like to count on people to help me in this construction.

Catena di isole is now completed. It has been such a pleasure building this sim. Thank you everyone for visiting it has been nice chatting with you while I built this sim. Everyone is welcome here. Robin Ridley will be adding a new store to the Freebie mall so stay tuned for the ads. Please stop by anytime. continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Catena di isole

================The neoliberal doctrine: ================
==To establish pathology as the norm, and everything normal as pathology==

A large part of Bulgarians still do not realize that the West, from being conservative, national and right-wing, today is now liberal, global and left-wing, writes Irini Zikidis
Sofia, Bulgaria 16 Aug 2022, 09:56 - Author: BLITZ

"These days, an opponent shrewdly told me something like, 'We support Ukraine, not because we love it, but because we hate Russia. Like you support Russia, not because you love that bitch, but because you hate the neoliberal doctrine." We shook hands".

This is what the famous blogger Irini Zikidis writes and continues: And now let's remind ourselves once again what the neoliberal doctrine is:

The neoliberal doctrine represents today's western left, and its representatives are also called liberals, neoliberals, progressives. I strongly emphasize the fact that only in Bulgaria the defenders of the neoliberal ideology beat their chests for being right-wing. This nonsense is not found anywhere else, and in the West, people with liberal beliefs are called liberals (not according to Hayek!), neoliberals, leftists, leftists, progressives, Marxists, Trotskyists, etc. But never right.

In the 1960s, Frankfurt School member Herbert Marcuse argued that Marx had mistaken the subject of revolution. According to Marx, the inevitable global conflict is between the working class (the proletariat) and the exploitative upper class parasitic on its back.

According to Marcuse, however, this is wrong because the working class has discredited itself by being conservative and even endorsing capitalism at the moment it has won more goods and rights for itself.

Therefore, Marcuse corrects Marx, arguing that the conflict is not class, but between "oppressing privileged bullies" (conservatives, white men) and "oppressed underprivileged victims" (all minorities). Marcuse became the guru of the Western left, which at that time entered into a violent conflict with communism in Eastern Europe, declaring it a "perversion". This, by the way, is particularly misunderstood in Bulgaria.

A large part of Bulgarians (even well-educated ones) still do not realize that the West, from being conservative, national and right-wing, is now liberal, global and left-wing today. These people say "Nonsense, the West should be left-wing?! That he denies communism?!” Well, here's the big surprise. Yes, the West denies communism. Eastern Communism. Communism of the USSR. He even calls it "vulgar Marxism", and accuses us of perverting the ideas of Marx, Trotsky, Lenin and Marcuse.

Here is Marcuse's most famous quote: "The bourgeoisie can still be defeated. Marx mistakenly believed that the proletariat was the authentic revolutionary class. The real revolutionary force today is the various minorities, the 'ghettos', who live outside the general order.

All pathology must be affirmed as the norm, and all the norm as pathology. The fusion of political and sexual-moral rebellion is key to effective opposition. Then bourgeois society will finally collapse.»

I mean, what does it turn out to be?

If a hundred years ago the progressive liberal forces fought for such fundamental things as social solidarity, equal rights and duties of people of every race, ethnicity, gender, religion and sexual preference, then modern Western left-wing ideologies boldly stepped into the quagmire of stupidity.

If the old left made a major contribution to today's luxuries that we take for granted (fair pay, two-day weekends, the eight-hour day, twenty days off, safe working conditions), the new left, the Starbucks-iPhone social justice warriors inspired by Marcuse, they have long since drawn one on the "working class" and have focused on "protecting" completely different ideas and social groups.

If the left in the past fought for class justice, this discourse has already been successfully replaced by the identity one, and the neoliberals have begun to stimulate new and new parasitic masses of victims.

The great collapse, the great schism in leftist ideology between East and West, occurred in two stages: after Stalin's death, when the Western left repudiated socialism in the Eastern Bloc as a "perversion of the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky", and a few years later, when the counterculture of the 1960s became mainstream culture, and leftist ideology was redirected from traditional class politics to the politically correct world of gender, racial, and sexual politics.

The electorate in the face of the working class has been replaced with itchy latte metropolitan voters and minorities. In this way, Marcuse replaces the subjects of the revolution - the revolutionaries are not the poor and oppressed workers, but blacks, women and gays.

Oppressors are no longer the hereditary heirs of financial empires of the notorious 1%, but the white, heterosexual, working man. The worker becomes a bourgeois. The former victim has been turned into an abuser. The vast working class has been left toothless, fistless and heartless. But why?

How did the working class suddenly become the enemy of the New Left? Very simply - it turned out that the working class did not really live up to the expectations of a fundamental and revolutionary change of society, and professed conservative values, which led Marcuse to replace the Marxist proletariat with other revolutionaries.

As white, working-class hetero men replace the bourgeoisie as the hated oppressor class, the left picks up on the victims as well. The new hierarchical pyramid is created. At the top are the perennial abusers - white straight men, followed by white straight women, followed by white gay men, followed by white gay women, followed by white disabled, followed by black straight men, black straight women, black gay men, black gays women, disabled blacks and Muslims.

On the left we have a tragicomic battle about who is more screwed up, and while the debate over whether a black gay disabled man is more wronged than a black healthy hetero but ugly Muslim woman is being fought on an academic level (!!!) agree that the white straight man can never be a victim for anything. A white man in the west can only survive by self-flagellation and apologizing for being white and heterosexual.

What is the profile of liberals today? A layer of educated and well-realized people has been created who, despite their undoubted academic and professional successes, are totally devoid of the ability for critical and analytical thinking. In their majority, they belong to the new, modern type of liberal intelligentsia, situated in a comfortable, modern and cool ideological framework.

It's easy to recognize them - they're passionately committed to saving the planet, minority rights, feminism, Me Too, open borders for refugees - basically, all those clean, slightly abstract but terribly humane urban causes that are professed from a comfortable position of user comfort.

Despite their claims of modernity, awareness and progressiveness, however, in fact these people live in a state of serious intellectual disorientation and "block thinking". Completely mutually exclusive and even hostile ideas in the real world, such as Muslim rights and gay rights, co-exist perfectly peacefully in their heads.

If they had any critical thinking, they would know that in most of the countries from which Muslim immigrants come, homosexuality is punishable by death, which means that they cannot support gay rights and Muslim rights in Europe at the same time, because -the majority of Muslims sincerely believe that gay people deserve death. And because liberals use emotional discourse as a tool of influence that completely dominates logic and facts, it often happens that they intellectually crash in an argument with opponents.

(I'll digress slightly here to comment on what desperately lobotomized scumbags our liberal elite are made of - a week ago they were extremely busy enjoying how Putin was waiting for Erdogan at the Tehran meeting without uttering a single word about the decisions, that were taken, and the treaties that were signed at that meeting. And he hardly understood anything about them.)

Another matter is that the recently declassified files of the fathers of today's Western Left such as Marcuse show that they were cadres of the services. I do not know better proof of social engineering of the elites. They rode, tamed and replaced the left to destroy it.

Today's left is designed, created and run by those it thinks it is fighting against, which is why it has abandoned the topic of social injustice and focused on the social and biological gender of legions of victimized yuzles. The cause of today's left has been superseded and replaced with a toothless shill. No one is looking at the 1% who control more than half the world's wealth anymore because they are fixated on their 72nd gender and too busy making themselves victims. The New Left is a long dead ferret and smells like carrion.

Today's left, today's neoliberal cause to me is desperate. Identity politics is always attractive because it allows human stupidity and laziness to be presented as the product of oppression and historical injustice. Personal responsibility is removed from the equation.

This is how millions of white, working, conservative, normal people suddenly felt bad because they somehow found themselves redundant, confused and scared in the new global world. And we were declared "fascists" and "losers in love" by "journalists" such as Mrs. Kapka Todorova (correspondent of "24 hours in Berlin, note ed.").

The old-fashioned notions of patriotism, discipline, conscience, love and care for family, integrity, respect for tradition, morality, Christian faith and free will – the pillars of a society – have collapsed. Their place was taken by extreme individualism, contempt for tradition, and a refusal to take personal responsibility for one's actions. In a few decades, the old universal moral code was destroyed.

Unfortunately, the social and cultural radicalism of the left is in no way accompanied by a corresponding economic radicalism. On the contrary, the economic policy of the left turns out to be a complete failure.

So, let's point out the main causes for which today's western left is fighting, and which it is trying to push in our country through the generously funded political formations, NGOs and influencers:

Globalism and multiculturalism - open societies without borders; centralization of power and global decision-making by a small, extremely powerful and wealthy elite;

Digitization of society - a huge database with personal files and a scoring system for each person;

Green deal: yes, if you think articles like the one on CNN yesterday about the benefits of eating cockroaches is cheerful nonsense, I'm about to disappoint you - this is the future. It also includes limiting consumables (no way, the resources are finished, and Russia will not give theirs voluntarily), limiting travel (emission quotas);

Bioengineering - free sex change and sexual freedom in every sense of the word. Remember Marcuse's "sexual-moral revolt"?

And if all this sounds conspiratorial to you, just visit the World Economic Forum website more often.

It's called "The Great Reset" there.

Well, I don't care.

causing some drama.... look, Opensim is based on avatars whether that be dog, dragon, dinke, or anime , "who you want to be"... so my question to you ... does that mean family, significate others or what??? Me. myself, I want a family ... we are a "G" grid, so far I have an older sister and a twin brother.... IDK, i think it's kewl... what are your thoughts?

Big Sweater. Big Attitude.
I'm wearing the Maxi Sweater & Shirt. They are not wrong. It is maxi to the max. Big sweater. Big attitude. Get the outfit (complete with fatpacks) at....

oh HELLO: Outfits with Attitude
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Thank God It's Friday, the beginning of the weekend.
Time to Hit The Disco.
So hurry on down to TGIF and dance the night away to the great DISCO music of the 70's and 80's with DJ Esse spinning the tunes which made Disco famous. NEW TIME Fridays 4 to 6pm

NEW LOCATION hg.osgrid.org:80:Trianon and Click the portal to TGIF 4pm every Friday

Set in the big city, were at night the latex and leather rule the streets, lays a club the Fetish Factor with the "Expanding Dance Floor™" so no one feels crowded.
Come as you are or in you are favourite Leather or Latex to the BEST Party on the OS in the 5pm Sunday Time Slot. And dont forget about the LaTeX Source being right across the street for now. Free Latex
DJ Esse playing a Classic Rock and your Requests.
every Sunday 5pm grid/PST
hg.osgrid.org:80:Trianon and Click Portal to the Fetish Factor

Do you enjoy soft music, nice dances and nice group of people to talk to or just talk to your lover that your dancing with? The Trianon's Ballroom is the place to be Thursdays at 1:00pm PST. DJ Essensual will be playing some of the Best Love Songs & Rock Ballads Today.
This is a Formal Venue
Join us at hg.osgrid.org:80:Trianon and Click the portal to the Ballroom

Steam may sound like an unusual place to go hunting for avatar accessories. After all, it's Vbinnia Radek's legendary steampunk varsim.

At 343, 589, 21, there's Vbinnia's Emporium 1 with lots of boxes including Arcadia Asylum creations mostly from the Urban Blight, Steampunk and Space Pirate themes, but also stuff by Vbinnia herself and others. It isn't too interesting when it comes to avatar accessories, but it's worth mentioning nonetheless. For you Arcadia Asylum aficionados: The buildings have working doors, but you may find more tricked-out versions elsewhere.

What's more interesting and actually on-topic for this group is Vbinnia's Emporium 2 at 291, 391, 22. It offers lots of classic avatar accessories, bits and pieces as well as entire outfits. But there's one box, all the way to the right from the entrance, that may be useful for everyone with a BoM body that can use alpha masks: the Free Lower Body Alpha Mask Set. It contains nine textures from which you can make alpha masks that render your feet and lower legs invisible. An absolute must-have for boots.