hop://homelandz.opensim.fun:8802/Gloeb%20Mall/389/154/31

Our next release to the Homelandz Public Library is a classic rather short novel that is a gripping and touching tale of 2 unlikely traveling companions, looking for work, and a piece of the American Dream. I highly recommend the modern movie remake of the black and white classic as well. The newer one features Gary Sinise as George, and John Malkovich as Lenny.

"George...tell me about da rabbits?"

Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression.

Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences as a teenager working alongside migrant farm workers in the 1910s, before the arrival of the Okies whom he would describe in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry").

Although the book is taught in many schools, Of Mice and Men has been a frequent target of censorship and book bans for vulgarity and for what some consider offensive and racist language. Consequently, it appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century.

Watching the falcon close up in the shop, I found too many glitches and uglies, so.....Peregrin 2.0: remapped the mesh, remastered the textures, improved rig...
You gotta love a challenge☺.
It's painstaking time-consuming, so, making the anims now for the ready birdie.....takes some more ♫ time, patience is the key.

"Girls, we have a new addition you don't want to miss! The new Vale Outfit Complete is here! with HUD to change the shape of the feet, perfect for showing off leggings & fishnets at their best! Available in 3 fabulous colors, with all layers of material included.
Ready to shine?"
hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopClothes/13/115/29

**Evarin Dress FATPACK OUT NOW!**
Check out this new night dress with it's own satellite di-...I mean hat!
- Available for LaraX, Legacy, Reborn +Waifu
- Animated sparkles!!
- Texture HUD with 13 textures and sparkle ON/OFF
- All material layers included

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/98/135/26

Hey guys! 🎉 Super exciting news! We just added new sets bento poses to make your photos even more awesome! 📸✨ Each pack contains poses, ready to be tried and capture your best moments. Don't miss the chance, come and try them here and get inspired! We are waiting for you! 😊

hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopAnimation/195/230/2...

Hey there!

After a maintenance, asset wipe and re-setting up the Grid yesterday, the loading time have improved a lot on our Grid!

The new Skin collection for LaraX is back, we also updated the Greta Head Skin for EvoX (marked with an update sign) and we added small hints on the ground so you can see if your Evo skin fits with the Bodyskin.

All Head skins are done as fatpacks than taking single colors.

Happy shopping and have a great weekend,
Amelia & Hertha

**New: 11 Fatpacks with Female Stand Poses!**
AOs are a bit of a 'pet hate' of mine - I tend to only like 1 pose per pack, and most of 'stand' animations tend to 'walk' all over the sim.
So...bringing ELEVEN packs of feminine stand poses.
AS WELL AS, and assortment of WALK and RUN animations.
Instructions on how to leverage your viewers integrated AO - wish is my recommended option!

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/159/100/26

🌹 The Treasured Garden Hunt 🌹
A celebration in honor of beloved mothers.

In every corner of the grid, roses have been hidden — each one holding a never-before-seen gift created especially for this event. This hunt honors the spirit of all mothers, who deserve to be cherished and celebrated.

Explore and discover the treasures placed lovingly throughout the grid
Each rose offers a unique surprise, never before released in OpenSim
Ongoing through Mother’s Day week, with new gifts replenished as roses are found

Join us in celebrating the beauty, love, and strength of mothers everywhere.
Because every mother is a treasure — and in the Treasured Garden, they are honored with joy.

🌹 Please note: Once a rose is taken, that gift is gone — it will be replaced with a new, unique treasure. Each gift is limited, not copied, and only a few of each will be given, making every find truly special.

three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Catena di Isole

**Colin Skin FATPACK + Hairbase and Beard for EvoX Camden OUT NOW!+**
Aaaand another hot set for the guys!
- Skin comes in 10 different tones matching Jupiter body skin tones
- 12 hairbase and beard style - some including 'busy :P' print
- As usual, comes with shape, brows shape, face shadows, ear, etc.

Taxi: hop://sanctumastra.com:8002/StarchildShoppe/157/134/26

Wales is the smallest nation in mainland UK, but it is home, it’s said, to some of the largest, and best-known festivals in the world. The annual Welsh Fish Dancing Festival is not one of them. I was asked to post about it, by some prankster it seems.

Did they mean the Folk (not Fish) Dancing Festival, because there is one. I can post about the World Bog Snorkelling Championships or the National Welsh Rarebit Day, because these events actually happen. There is the The Cardigan River and Food Festival in Wales, which features seafood, but not fish dancing. After an extensive search, I find no mention of a Welsh Fish Dancing Festival on the web.

I did discover a site about the Wels fish (pictured above). I think there is a very good reason there is no annual Wels fish dancing festival. I did find a fish dancing video, but I can’t tell if the dancer is Welsh, Have a look and tell me what you think.

https://youtu.be/jtyFdK2Y33s?si=MSBcxrTcvbwQHcaB

All items from my inventory are now available in the store! I still have textures to go through but will do that tomorrow. It's been a hard slog! But the end is near. Once that is all done I can get back to what I love to do! Please remember and give it time for boxes to reach you before attempting to buy another one.

I will work on the rest of the sim later on to make it all pretty! And yes you may see a little store tucked away in the corner with a big ? on it, time will tell what that will be, but I am sure it will be exciting for all regardless! Thank you for putting up with me whilst I do all this, I really do appreciate you all ♥

12-2 GRID: LOVELY IN EXILE:
DOUBLE HEADER: PIN AND ZEN; BAD GIRLS NIGHT AT DOCKLANDS

We're bad girls we're really nice
We're twice the fun at half the price
We put our handbags in a pile
And dance arouind them Essex style
Come and play with us tonight
Docklands will be outasight

IM Bobbi Fox Pin Deluca or Zen Reiko for Uber
dark-heaven.eu:8002:Club DOCKLANDS2

Texures, Trees & Scripts is honored to work with Maisey Moon and The Shopping District. For the Landscaping lovers, I have added two huge Greenhouses of Maisey's quality plants and trees!

The Little Store that keeps getting better now offers:

Tropical Greenhouse
Non Tropical Greenhouse
Two Greenhouses filled with The Shopping District plants
Textures Warehouse
Textures Too Warehouse
Scripts Warehouse
Underwater life Dome

Textures Trees & Scripts ....we just got a lot better by adding a really great person's products, Maisey Moon!

So TDS will be changing the way that you grab items at the store! I have decided to make all items full perms, only because I see my items at other stores with no credit to myself at all. So if I make everything full perm then everyone can pass out the items to their friends. I will also be boxing items based on dates that are in my inventory. I have thousands of items not out because I am just myself at TDS. So the store will still be open whilst I work in the sky to get items boxed for you to grab once it is ready. I was going to put items in boxes based on what the item is, however, I would be trawling through my invy at a snail's pace. So if you have items already then you can just unpack and delete. Watch this space and thank you for your support as always ♥

OUT NOW!! Legacy f Perky Full Cyborg Avatar in different styles and with clothing. Another 13 styles can be requested, please just contact me and tell me the style number which you can find on a board in the store.

A little sneak preview of something I'm working on on a region not yet ready to showcase. Focail na mban means women's words in Irish.

Women’s Words is in the works to put Irish women writers into the spotlight; a spotlight that has too long been occupied by Irish men. The goal of focail na mban is to explore contemporary women's writing in Ireland through a diverse intersectional lens. The shop will feature different writers in rotation and offer a deep dive into their lives and work.

Happy International Women's Day!

Remove objects from your inventory that have the same name, keeping the object with the last date.
Delete Duplicates in opensim database

DELETE ii1
FROM
inventoryitems ii1
INNER JOIN (
SELECT
inventoryName,
MAX(creationDate) AS max_creation_date
FROM
inventoryitems
GROUP BY
inventoryName
) ii2 ON ii1.inventoryName = ii2.inventoryName AND ii1.creationDate < ii2.max_creation_date;

Please backup your inventory first!!! Just in case you are not happy with the results. It really will do what it says. However, there is a case where a person has merged their inventory multiple times and duplicates have the same creation date. In that case the script would leave those duplicates. Be sure to write down the size of your inventory when you start, and note the size after you run the script.

The Grove Bistro is a freebie little restaurant anyone can come and copy/buy for 0 on Birch Grove Spring. A while back I found both this cute little building (on Klamotto region) as well as a really cool collection of food on Sketchfab from a RL restaurant. I have been meaning to make a restauant combining both elements. Be aware there are some separate parts. The tables are LK from the Moonlight series and they have all the plates in them. I didn't like the square plates the originals came with so it's all on some classic round plates made by Sunny from OpenSimCreations. It was sorta supposed to be for Valentines day but the time got away on me so it's just for anytime and a cool place for your avs to go pretent to eat...lol. Not everything is free to copy/buy for 0 if it came from other creators and the perms were not so. Beside the cemetary and behind the Afree Hair Salon. Enjoy!

Alina's Custom Vehicle Shop – Now Open on OpenSim!

Discover a collection of custom cars, hot rods, monster trucks, American classics (1950s–present), military vehicles, construction trucks, and rare machines.

From vintage legends to extreme off-road beasts, there’s something for every enthusiast. Stop by and see for yourself—you won’t leave empty-handed.

Hey everyone, hope you are doing fine and had a great start into the new Week!

We just added new skins for female and a new skin for male. We also seperated full outfits from LovelyAmy to Crazyoutfits, wich can be found on 2nd Floor. Some male outfits are allready updated for Gianni & Legacy Meshbodys.

Also a small note about our escalators. Finaly we got them working so no need to walk anymore to the 2nd Floor but be aware that sometimes they will do ther own thing! :P

Have a great week and enjoy!

Greetings
Amelia & Hertha

Kitty_Shirt-&-Off with Ur Shirt - Bear Black

New Exclusive!
Top with Hud Colors
Cute Animesh Bear

Nuovo Esclusivo!
Top con Hud Colori
Simpatico Orsetto Animesh

hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopClothes/6/98/22

This is now starting my 15th year of trying to improve Opensim with the DreamWorld and DreamGrid systems. I haven't done an OSCC talk for several years so I thought I'd give a quick review of some Opensim stats that I track. This data is based on anonymous data from the DNS servers ns1.outworldz.com and ns2.outworldz.com and the publicity checkbox, which generates XML for the https://outworldz.com/search function. I am also able to count some stats from known 'other' grids via a web crawler that runs hourly scans.

There are now 259 free OARs, and that includes 63 exclusive regions for DreamGrid owners. I licensed these from the creators, and collections are copyrightable. The most popular Public OARS are at https://outworldz.com/cgi/freesculpts.plx?q=OAR- and sorted by popularity are IARS at https://outworldz.com/cgi/freesculpts.plx?q=IAR- I have many more to upload still.

I do not have access to any of your assets, backups, OARS, IARS, or any personal data. My servers periodically crawl the web looking for Opensim servers from publicly available sources such as my visitor lists, the data I publish and from Hypergrid Business.

DreamGrid goes back to 2011, when it was called DreamWorld. I didn't always track much back then and periodically flushed the database. Since 2018 (6 years) , there have been 5,180 distinct DreamGrid instances. People created 12,280 different grids with it. and 3,378 were online in 2024. In that same time period of six years, I've located 2,935 standard grids. In 2024 alone, there were 2,762 unique DreamGrids online.

Sl has 18,326 private estates, which are equivalent to the 12,334 regions in Dreamgrid. However, we have much larger regions, the equivalent of 73,341 SL regions. An SL region costs $349 to set up, and $209 a month to rent (not own). The first year, one region costs $2,857, the second year $2508.

When you compare DreamGrid with the SL private estates, we've collectively saved $209,535,237 in the first year, and $183,939,228 per year after that.

~ Fred

The event schedule for the 15th anniversary of Dorenas World is out in the Fediverse now. There'll be events from today until Sunday.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/31193831

https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/2b735681-0394-4c8b-be32-c...

If you have been keeping up with the weather in the US, you know that about half of the US is dealing with blizzards, sub freezing temperatures severe enough to challenge infrastructures, and peripheral states are dealing with flooding and electrical infrastructure challenges. Two of our presenters had to bow out due to last minute inclement weather, and my own electricity is VERY sketchy. We have experienced power surges in my city for over 24 hrs, with uncertain relief. Sadly, I live in a state that has puffed out their chest about being off the federal grid, and in the last 10 years, we have paid dearly for that.

We are committed to this. We will reschedule sometime after the Hypergrid World's Fair, where WolfTEC will be have a presence! We hope to see you all there!

Are you using a 4K monitor ? Are you looking to upgrade ?

I publish here some benchmark in the hope it might help those who are looking to up part their performances using Firestorm. I was myself looking to find those information before i upgraded.

This will allow you to see what performance you could get with a similar hardware. I chose Intel, but AMD is also a very good choice, so for comparison it would need to be an AMD with similar performance to get similar result, the same for the video card.

Please note, these benchmark are with Firestorm with everything enabled Ultra Detail and Distance view set to 864. With a 4k Monitor (3840x2160)

To See the Benckmark : https://vallands.ca/187-2/


hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/ValLands/1180/815/52
http://www.vallands.ca
Thank you for your generous donations.
https://paypal.me/valr300?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US

Taken by Harper.Held @admeja.bounceme.net:8002 at Digleberry Dump - A hidden valley of treasures, Dingleberry Dump "The Dump is Jumping"

Pictured is Harper Held, Hanks, Jamie Anna Wright, and Dexter Dung Beetle (Hyacinth is present making sure everyone is set) thank you Hy! Snik came out, Wendie, Prim, Enoch so many if I did not list you I apologize just know I love you very much! https://opensimworld.com/groups/1078

Firstly "Happy New Year" everybody!

zetaworld grid automatically logs out any hypergridders from dynamic dns grids from visiting them (SUPER RUDE ZETA!), so in return I've done the same, so if zetaworld residents get logged out when hypergridding to "http://snik.loseyourip.com:8002:home of merci" then that will be the reason why.

I'm more than happy to reverse my decision, assuming zetaworld does the same :)

I'm trying to be a more positive, encouraging, creative and empathic individual, but currently I'm struggling. I'll do my very best to do better in future. :)

Always happy to share grid admin tips along with general opensim support and help, generally, I don't bite, unless you do :)

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