BLA BLA BLA MAGAZINE IS BACK!

After a little break, Bla Bla Bla Magazine is returning — and we’re getting ready for our December Issue!

This time around, the magazine is changing things up. Rather than publishing every month, Bla Bla Bla Magazine will now be published every 3 months, bringing you bigger features, more stories, more places to discover, and plenty of OpenSim goodness!

WINTER GRIDS & REGIONS — WE WANT YOU!

Are you the owner, creator or manager of a Winter-themed Grid or Region?

Have you transformed your virtual world into a snowy wonderland, festive village, Christmas market, winter adventure, magical landscape or somewhere simply spectacular?

We want to showcase YOU in the December Issue!

I’m currently looking for Winter Grids and Regions that would like to be featured in Bla Bla Bla Magazine, giving readers the opportunity to discover your location and experience what you have created.

GOT WINTER EVENTS?

We also want to hear about your December events!

If you have Christmas parties, live music, DJs, markets, festivals, winter activities, celebrations, competitions, gatherings or other special events happening during December, send them our way!

Let everyone know what's happening!
Let readers discover your Winter locations!
Put your events in front of the OpenSim community!

The goal is to have the December Issue ready for everyone to enjoy on 1st December, packed with wonderful Winter destinations and December happenings from across the OpenSim community.

WANT TO BE FEATURED?

If you would like your Winter Grid, Region or December Events considered for the December Issue, please get in touch with me and send:

Your Grid / Region name
Your Winter location or landmark
A little information about your location
Your December events and dates
Any photographs or promotional images you'd like included
Any important links or Hypergrid information

Whether you're running a spectacular Winter Wonderland or simply hosting a few festive events for friends and visitors, we want to hear from you!

Bla Bla Bla Magazine is coming back — and we're ready to make some noise!

So, Winter creators, Grid owners, Region owners, event organisers and Christmas enthusiasts...

DON'T BE SHY — COME AND BLA BLA BLA WITH US!

Bla Bla Bla Magazine
Discovering the places, people, stories and happenings that make OpenSim special.

Contact Sofee Supermarine on LinkUp Grid or via Opensimworld.

Boats, all kinds and all drive
Easy access no lag, Aprox 2000 Vehicles in all regions tp boards to get you where you need.

Take a look at my other regions

Boats Region
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Boats/516/457/23

Alina Cars & Vehicles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Vehicles/369/301/22

Alina Motorcycles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Motorcycles/181/361/22

Alina Aviation
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina's%20Aviation/539/498/21

SOLIDO Gianni Men’s Flannel Shirt

Sleeves rolled. Style sorted.

Classic plaid with an urban edge, detailed PBR textures, and a tucked-in cut that pairs easily with jeans or casual pants.

Four colors: Mid Brown, Green, Grey, and Rust & Navy.

Made for Signature Gianni. The tucked-in style can also work with other bodies—try it for your fit.

Free at the Neverworld Marketplace.

I have modified the fertility/pregnancy system to ensure it is fully functional and ready for use.
I added a clinic setup featuring equipment such as an examination bed and a monitor to check the fetus's condition.
Additionally, I included a visual HUD element that displays key information—such as your current status (pregnant or not), your menstrual cycle stage, and the father's name (if pregnant).
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The system is still in the testing phase and has not been released yet. ^^

If you have any suggestions or ideas, please leave them in the comments. Thank you

The Dave King Experience Live at 11am

Dave sings several genres of music to cover, country, Classic Rock, Oldies and more.

Dave will be streaming in world, Twitch, Youtube, AMV Radio, and TuneIn Radio app on Q103 Internet Radio
Today Dave will start out with some country favorites and then who knows
Where he will go from there..

So come out to The Hardrock Highway and jump on the Dance floor for an hour of live singing and fun.

Dave loves to do requests off of his song list which is in his board on stage.

See you there

hop://login.linkup-grid.com:8002/Kings%20Ranch/55/40/23

MANIC MONDAY — 10AM–12NOON BUZZ WITH DAVE KING! START YOUR MONDAY WITH A BUZZ!

Join DJ Dave King every Monday morning at the LinkUp Welcome Stage and kick your Monday into gear!

COUNTRY & CLASSIC ROCK
Get those boots tapping, turn up the volume, and start the week with great music and plenty of fun!

EVERY MONDAY → 10AM–12 NOON
DJ Dave King → LinkUp → 10–12 Buzz → Party Stage

Come along, meet up with friends, have a laugh, and get your Monday morning started the LinkUp way!

DON’T MISS THE BUZZ — BE THERE!
LOCATION:
hop://login.linkup-grid.com:8002/LinkUp%20Welcome/128/128/...

Running a grid is more than throwing around some dirt and rocks! It's ensuring that residents have a safe place to create, lag-free, thousands of kilometers of roads and water, free land to live their dreams, free store space, a free marketplace, thousands of original content items, friendly and helpful admins, and stability. With so much DRAMA! And anyone who says it cannot be done, has not been running Neverworld for the past 11 years of stability, respect and friendship.

Ferries at Dublin port, note you will need WolfViewer / WolfStorm to access it, these ferries run for 3 to 11 hours stopping at all the major ports on the Ireland region. This is an 1800x1800 region which contains the full terrain of Ireland and we are working on building it out.

https://wolf-grid.com < get the viewers here.

The Haunted Halloween Isles are back open along with the charming, friendly Pumpkin Patch. Come visit, but realize you may not leave alive.

This year features an all new Day of the Dead area thanks to materials from Kim Starr and Cooper Swizzle.

For those not aware, OSFest is now a fully Hypergrid festival where you can host events on your own grid or grab some space on the OSFest grid to exhibit or setup a store. Before OSFest in September, OSGrid tends to run its fundraiser which is why we didn't choose dates in that month. Following OSFest, Hypergrid International Expo will be in November then OSCC likely in December. Fall is busy on the Hypergrid with many other events happening so hopefully some of those will join in the fun with remote events instead of schedule conflicts so we can send them some avatars too Let's celebrate each other together. It's your OSFest!!
OSFest Performances and Dance Area for live music, DJs, comedy, readings, prose, fireworks, light shows, and burn events!

Contact: Shelenn Ayres

grid.opensimfest.com:8022:OSF_Event

Harmony’s Haven Grid Grand Opening Today at Noon!

I’m so excited to announce that the grid is officially open, and our stress test was a complete success! Now it’s time to celebrate together at our Grand Opening Party!

Isla Pacifica on Harmony’s Haven Grid
Starting at 12:00 PM SLT
Hosted by Jojo and Harmony

HARMONY'S HAVEN GRID GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION!

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT FEATURING TWO AMAZING STARS!

**Putrisolo • Live at 12 PM
** DJ Rosa • Live at 2 PM

Join us for:
* Dancing!
* Great conversation!
*Lots of laughter!
*Fabulous music!
***Fun, friendship, and community!!

Come celebrate the launch of Harmony’s Haven Grid and be part of this exciting new beginning! Whether you're a longtime friend or a first-time visitor, everyone is welcome!

Come as you are and enjoy the festivities with us! We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

login.harmonyshaven.com:8002:Isla Pacifica

See you there!
SORRY, NO CHILD AVIES

Between the difficult days, a little light shines through.
A rainbow in the sky, a smile between us.
And for this moment, only one thing matters:
You are with me – and I am with you.
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Zwischen schweren Tagen fällt ein wenig Licht.
Ein Regenbogen am Himmel, ein Lächeln zwischen uns.
Und für diesen Augenblick zählt nur eines:
Du bist bei mir – und ich bin bei dir.

So liebe Musikzuhörer und Lagerfeuertänzer,
morgen am 22. September 2026 gibts am Gridtalk Lagerfeuer wieder Musik aus der Musikalischen Rumpelkiste. Ab 20 Uhr wird ausgepackt, Vormusiken gibts ab 19:30. Zieht Euch etwas wärmer an als bisher - es wird schattiger draussen.
dorenas-world.de:8002:Gridtalk
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Dear music lovers and campfire dancers,
tomorrow, September 22, 2026, there will be more music from the musical treasure trove at the Gridtalk campfire. Things will get underway at 8 pm, with pre-concert performances starting at 7:30 pm. Dress a little warmer than usual – it's getting cooler outside.
dorenas-world.de:8002:Gridtalk

◥▧▧▧ DJ Adriana & DJ Adrian Moon ▧▧▧◤
◥▧▧▧▧Sunday 9AM Grid Time▧▧▧▧◤
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴏ : DJ Adriana & DJ Adrian Moon
█◄♫►█ ⇨ sᴛʏʟᴇ : in da Mix
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇɴ : 09/20/26 -- start is 9Am Grid Time
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: PangeaVille Festival Place
█◄♫►█ ⇨ GRAB YOUR FRIENDS and come :))))
hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/PangeaVille/220/364/22

BINGO BINGO BINGO ,Come join us for a few games of Bingo, Get the best Numbers and Seats, Get those points in, and who knows you will be the Bingo King Or Queen , with host Ted Junior Calling the Numbers

(no AI). So some of you are aware we have been working on hyper regions at Wolf. We have a 200x200 region (40,000 SL regions in size), we have loaded the terrain of my beloved Ireland on it (with some mods for the rivers). Note you will need WolfViewer or use WolfStorm to visit it - the region is called Wolf Nation. I'm not sure where we will go from here with it https://wolf-grid.com.

Warning FIRESTORM will crash if you try and visit this region with it.

I was creating a Landing Area for New People from Sinespace who have never been in Opensim and I thought I would post the most basic that most people look over for Mesh Clothing. Just my thoughts. BOM is back with some Mesh avatars.

A Small but Important Update on Textures

Ina Beaumont recently asked if I could include all of the textures with my items, not just the PBR materials, so that people who are not using a PBR-enabled viewer can still enjoy them properly.

I gave this some thought. I had been hoping that most everyone was moving toward PBR-enabled viewers, but Ina made a very good point—not everyone is there yet, and not everyone uses Firestorm.

So, going forward, I will include the complete set of textures that comes with the model, including the traditional textures as well as the PBR materials.

A quick note about texture sizes: please feel free to reduce them to whatever size works best for you. I have experimented with reducing them myself, but on many of the items I find that they become noticeably blurry, so the original size generally gives me the best results.

These are the textures produced with the model pack, and with the number of things I create, I simply don't have the time to resize and test every individual texture before release.

Please resize them as you wish and use whatever gives you the best balance between appearance and performance on your grid.

Thank you, Ina, for bringing this up. It was a good suggestion, and hopefully including everything will make my creations more accessible to everyone. ♥

I have added all the textures to the Hot Damn BBQ (sorry for the return trip to grab them) Also the Butterflies are Near Choker at Monentes Jewelry. Thank you Ina for helping me to realize the obvious, not everyone has or likes PBR!

🎀 OCTOBER ROSE SPECIAL PARTY 🎀

💗 Together against breast cancer

On Tuesday, October 6, the Event Beach Club on BloodMoon Grid will turn pink for a very special evening dedicated to October Rose.

🎧 DJ CAM will be behind the decks for a night of music, dancing and good vibes — but above all, for a cause that matters. 💕

👚 DRESS CODE: ALL IN PINK! 🩷
Wear pink and come light up the dance floor with us!

🎗️ 100% of all donations received during the event will be donated to RoseUp, an association supporting women affected by cancer and defending their rights.

📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026
🕣 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM Paris Time
🕦 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM SLT
📍 Event Beach Club – BloodMoon Grid
🎧 DJ CAM

💕 Music • Awareness • Support

🎶 Come dance, have fun, wear pink… and join us for a good cause.

🎀 Together through music, united for a good cause.

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🎀 SOIRÉE SPÉCIALE OCTOBRE ROSE 🎀

💗 Ensemble contre le cancer du sein

Le mardi 6 octobre, l'Event Beach Club sur la grille BloodMoon se mettra en rose pour une soirée très spéciale dédiée à Octobre Rose.

🎧 DJ CAM sera aux platines pour une soirée de musique, de danse et de bonne humeur — mais surtout pour une cause qui nous tient à cœur. 💕

👚 DRESS CODE : TOUS EN ROSE ! 🩷
Portez du rose et venez illuminer le dancefloor avec nous !

🎗️ 100 % des dons reçus durant cette soirée seront intégralement reversés à l'association RoseUp, qui accompagne les femmes touchées par le cancer et défend leurs droits.

📅 Mardi 6 octobre 2026
🕣 20h30 – 23h30, heure de Paris
🕦 11h30 – 14h30 SLT
📍 Event Beach Club – Grille BloodMoon
🎧 DJ CAM

💕 Musique • Sensibilisation • Solidarité

🎶 Venez danser, vous amuser, vous habiller en rose… et surtout vous joindre à nous pour une belle cause.

🎀 Ensemble en musique, unis pour une belle cause.

🎯 Destination Guide — v1.1.0 Update! 🎯

You asked, it's here — full category management, right from the WordPress dashboard. No more editing code to add a new category!

✨ What's new:
🔹 New Categories screen — add, rename, reorder, and delete categories anytime
🔹 Rename a category and every destination using it updates automatically — nothing gets orphaned
🔹 Reorder categories and the in-world tile display follows your order
🔹 Smart cap keeps the category strip from turning into an endless side-scroll
🔹 Upgrading from v1.0.1? Your existing destinations and categories carry over automatically — no data loss

📦 Download:
🔗 https://github.com/mteedev/os-destination-guide-wp-plug-in...

🌐 See it live: https://nerdypappy.com/dest-guide

More control, more flexibility, still a better OpenSim experience. 🧭

Hi everyone.
An update on OpenSim-Aura, current version v1.0.6.
https://github.com/amandaleeang/OpenSim-Aura
This release adds server-side bake (Firestorm SSA). It is live now on my test sim.
Server-side bake includes:
• 2K textures
• Cached bakes and XBakes for standalone and Robust grids
• XBakes for HG visitors

It is live now in my sims.

Other highlights, implemented so far:
• Attachment scripts start on HG teleport
• Display names set from the viewer
• Display names carried on HG (OpenSim-Aura only)
• Concurrent asset transfer for copy, give folder, open object, and buy object
• Concurrent asset gather on HG teleport
• Online status kept through HG teleports
• Standalone groups in SQLite
• Standalone offline messages in SQLite
• FSAssests with SQLite

Binaries are on the Releases page.

Feedback welcome.

X Amanda

SVPortal now has a pannable world map.

Estate owners/managers can add information about their region (including images if TinyMCE is installed in SVPortal) and this information along with basic details such as name, maturity, estate, position and a "Copy HOP" button is displayed when the region is clicked in the world map.

SVPortal can be downloaded (always free) from https://www.glenysbieler.com/svportal/