Another Hero

"But here’s an unpopular opinion: Months ago, after all of the Cambridge Analytica scandal had broken, and we already knew about their role in the election and fake news, Mark Zuckerberg told us all that he planned on significantly increasing Facebook’s investment in security, and would add thousands of new employees to help that cause.

This is what he told the US Congress in April:
“I’ve directed our teams to invest so much insecurity — on top of the other investments we’re making — that it will significantly impact our profitability going forward.”

And then he added, for extra oomph.

“But I want to be clear about what our priority is: protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits.”

Many didn’t believe him. Many tweeted about all the times that he’s talked the talk, but not walked the walk. But yesterday, when Facebook faced the music and took $120 billion on the chin, the fact that Zuckerberg finally walked the walk was conveniently absent from the conversation.

Here is the unpopular reality:

Mark Zuckerberg told us all he would put our safety, and fixing the problems of Facebook ahead of profits. He did that. Wall Street may not have liked it, but there’s no way around it: the man held true to his word." (Alex Whitcomb, @medium.com. Read the full article here.)

I Blame Kip!

So, this evening I was innocently going about my business in SL, whilst my - otherwise - sweet husband was browsing on Facebook. There he saw a suggestion from Kip Ashbourne which he thought was completely appropriate for me. I am not sure I agree...

OK, so I have a phobia against chickens, but should my husband really send me "Crazy Chickens" from Marketplace, or as he himself claims "Delightful items like this" (a dead rubber chicken).

Self Rape?

Rape is defined differently in various countries but I should think all of the legal definitions would contain the following necessary conditions sexual activity/sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury, or against the will of a person, or with a person who is beneath a certain age, or in other ways incapable of valid consent.

I'm not sure if this is a joke or sarcasm, someone told me it could be... (I've always have difficulty with sarcasm as I usually take things too literally. I know, I know, so spank me would'ya!)

To equate masturbation to rape is to give a false or misleading meaning to the nature of both masturbation and of rape. How insane anyone must be to even compare the two actions is beyond me.

I just saw that there is actually a Facebook group for this cause, Christian Mothers Against Masturbation/Self-Rape.

Oh my, I may just give up breathing in the face of all the silliness in the world we live in. And then there are Trump, Putin and al-Assad on top of it all. Well, all I can say is that I have always given consent, enthusiastically I might add, every time I have played with myself.

Second Pride - General Assembly 2017

As announced on the Second Pride Facebook page there will be a Second Pride General Assembly meeting held on Sunday, July 30th, 2017, at 1PM SLT. 

The agenda is as follows:

1. Call to order
2. Second Pride Festival wrap up
3. Second Pride Festival projected donations and disbursement of funds
4. Election timeline
5. Q & A period if needed
6. Adjournment

All Second Pride members are welcome to attend. Hope to see you there!

Second Pride HQ (SLurl)

Second Pride Board of Directors

Get Ready: Second Pride 2017 Is Coming

Basic information on the upcoming Second Pride event as supplied by persons close to - but not on - the board.

The amazing Second Pride Festival is coming to the grid again, ✯ ✯ June 23 - July 2, 2017 ✯ ✯! 

For the 12th edition of Pride we are going to be better, stronger and faster! One entire sim filled with Parties - Shopping - Amusement Rides - Lounging in cafe's and parks and much more! Amazing Content Creators - The Best DJ's and Hosts - Superb Live Vocalists and more, this years Pride cannot be missed!

Get your outfits ready as free pride outfits emerge all over SecondLife - Mark your calendar - Get your avie in shape and JOIN us to show Pride! LGBTQ+ - Gay - Straight - In Between or anything you want to be, come show support and inclusion! 

Help Pride and the charities we support, together we are stronger!

Check our the Second Pride Website or this Facebook page Second Pride on Facebook for updates, schedules and sponsors when the festival nears. Check these page for more info in the weeks to come!!! 

JOIN the in-world Second Pride Festival Group today!

Parties from as early as 10 am till as late as midnight, all we need now is YOU!

DJ slots and Vendor Spaces are sold out. We can always add more sponsors though! For more information please visit us in-world: Second Pride HQ (SLurl).

Unchechen

Thanks to Kahvy Smith for sharing this video on Facebook.

Tell Tomais I Love Him

I haven't seen much of my darling Tomais during the last two weeks, except for the weekend, due to the USA switching to Daylight Savings Time two weeks before Europe and our different work hours.

I am giving all my readers a mission on my behalf, please tell Tomais that I love him on his timeline on Facebook. Just a simple "Bock loves you, Tomais!" will do perfectly.

Don't worry if anyone else has already done it, you do it too! After all, he cannot get the message too many times can he? Not even 10,000 times is enough, but I don't have that many readers that are also friends with us both on Facebook so I will take as many as I get and be grateful for your help.

Sweden and the rest of Europe will switch to DST during the upcoming weekend and everything will be normalized again. Thank the Babylonians!

When The World Ends...

There are a lot of silly tests on Facebook, this one presumed to tell you what you would be doing when the world ends.

I found the result of my test to be extremely fitting and hilarious, so I am sharing it here too. Isn't it strange, that something you once were forced to do by your concerned parents in time can turn into a luxury in life?

Amazing Giraffes

My friend Kahvy Smith just shared this amazing video by Nicholas Deveaux on Facebook.

I totally adore this beautiful video and had to share it with ya'll! This is the kind of crazy imagination I love.

Things Friends Do (Update)

I just had an exchange on Facebook that left me a bit confused afterwards.

There is also this corroborating thing, that I have always had a problem with sarcasm and irony. (Some say it is because I lack a sense of humor and always take things too seriously and at face value.)

Anyhow, during the exchange the name of the only person I have blocked in SecondLife and on Facebook was dropped into the conversation by the person whom I think of as a friend.

I am not yet certain of why and for what reason really, but right now I have a nagging feeling it was done deliberately and only to hurt me. But I don't understand why this particular person would want to do that. I was also too surprised to confront him at the time.

I'll have to think more about this, it may be just me being silly and hypersensitive. There, now I can get back to trying to sleep.

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Update the next morning (local time)
After sleeping on it - which I should have done before posting, I know - I've reached the conclusion that I (due to totally unrelated events) was being oversensitive and read things into it that may not have been there as far as the other party was concerned. I would delete the post if I had not promised myself never to do that.

Nine Million Bicycles

My husband Tomais sent me this song with Katie Melua on Facebook. The feelings are mutual sweetheart!

Nine Million Bicycles, lyrics by Mike Batt
There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact;
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you 'til I die.
We are twelve billion light years from the edge
That's a guess;
No one can ever say it's true
But I know that I will always be with you
So don't call me a liar
Just believe everything that I say...
There are six billion people in the world
More or less
And it makes me feel quite small
But you're the one I love the most of all
Instrumental
We're high on a wire with the world in our sight
And I'll never tire
Of the love that give me every night
There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact;
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you 'til I die
And there are nine million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you 'til I die.

Five Kisses & A Hug

Well, the Kiss-A-Swede Day 2016 cannot be declared as a roaring success, as this particular Swede only managed to collect five kisses, and two of those were from my hubby Tomais who has to kiss me whenever I want, and one hug.

I did however manage to assault Bre Czaroux into giving me a kiss as Tomais and I posed for his White-series.

Then, after Tomais had helped me with setting up the kissing booth at the Gay Archipelago SummerFest sim, we of course had to try it out to see that it was fully functional. That's when I got my second kiss from hubby.

After Tomais had gone off to work I posted on Facebook that I had lubed up my lips and was eagerly awaiting kissers.

Time went by without any takers, so I started checking my Twitter and reading the JoeMyGod-blog.

I was alerted that something was going on when I heard an IM coming in, lo and behold, when I checked SecondLife, Stephano was waiting to kiss me. I am not quite sure how long he had tried to get my attention, but we finally started snogging a bit.

 A bit later my vertically challenged and sweet niece Pieni, came along for a kiss. I will not show you a picture of that because my ladylike niece was rubbing her pretty - albeit hairy - little face all over my crotch. Huggers do not work for avatars in different sizes.

I was sad that I had no picture of Pienikins visit at my booth, but then I saw she had posted one herself, so I borrowed it.

Photo by Pienikins

Last my old friend Kahvy came along to collect his kiss on his way to his set at Zeus later that afternoon. He very kindly invited me to come there and hoist myself on his admiring fans. I had every intention of doing just that - after a short nap. 

However, as it turned out I was much more tired than I though so I ended up sleeping from 9PM to 6AM (local time). I guess it was all for the best.

EXCLUSIVE: Confessions of A Cheater

It was recently revealed that there has been a widespread use of so called "Auto Poke Back"-scripts on the social media site Facebook.

The scandal erupted just a few days ago when one of the cheaters confessed his deceitful and perfidious behavior on his timeline.

According to the confession this European of noble descent, has installed an extension available for Google Chrome in his browser and had minimized the web page but forgot to close it properly when he went to sleep. This meant that his friends and acquaintances on Facebook got poked throughout the night and the next day, until he got home from work in the evening.

It seems he understood what had occurred when he received a large amount of messages concerning his poking.

This blogs intrepid reporter has tracked down the culprit and with great finesse and tenacity succeeded in persuading him to agree to this exclusive interview. The only conditions made was that neither his name or his hereditary or acquired titles should be mentioned. We have therefore decided to - for the purpose of this interview only - call him Lord X.

Lord X at his summer mansion
Photography by Tomais Ashdene

Bock in SecondLife (BiSL): "Thank you so much for giving us this interview Lord X."

Lord X: "Well, it wasn't as if I had much of a choice was it? You have been badgering me incessantly and sticking to me like dogshit under my shoe."

BiSL: "Now, now... It cannot really have been as bad as that!"

Lord X: "Yeah, I am sure you wouldn't think so, but I am giving you this interview just to be able to take a crap in peace without getting a microphone stuck under my nose through the window of the bathroom or getting woken up in the middle of the night by you crawling out from under my bed and sticking the same bloody microphone in my face... I think my assessment is fairly accurate. Could we move on? Your five minutes will be up soon!"

BiSL: "Hmmm OK, lets agree to disagree on my use of legitimate tenacity to get this shocking news out to our readers. Hmmmm so, please tell us why you took the shameful step of using the cheating "Auto Poke Back"-script?"

Lord X: "Are you serious? We are talking about a mind blowingly silly game on a lousy social media site. Aren't you really blowing this thing completely out of all reasonable proportions?"

BiSL: "I believe it would be more suitable to show some humility in the face of the anxiety and uproar you have created among your friends. As we understand it some of them are extremely hurt by your actions, even to the point where they are receiving treatment for PTSD."

Lord X: "It's effing unbelievable! I have too many friends and acquaintances to poke manually so I got the poke-ma-call-it to share the love without spending 20 hours a day on poking on Facebook. This is insane!"

BiSL: "You seem to be totally unrepentant concerning your cheating and the hurt you've caused your sweet and loving friends...?"

Lord X: "Yeah, actually I am if they truly have reacted the way you describe it, I don't want anything to do with them ever again. I hope they drop me as friends on Facebook! Now, your five minutes are up, get your sniveling ass out of here before I ask my guards to throw you in the sea..."

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This recording of the interview was dropped in our email today from an unknown source. We have not yet learned of the whereabouts of our reporter, he has been reported as a missing avatar to the SLPD (SecondLife Police Department.)

JJ's Pictures From The Pool Party

My sweet brother JJ Goodman has published these great pictures from yesterdays pool party of F*c*book. With his kind permission I post them here also.

As always you can enlarge the pictures by clicking on them.

Tomais and I would like to thank everyone who was there for making it such a great time. We are aware that some of you could not stay long because of the lag, but thanks for trying.

We would also like to thank our friends DJ Kahvy and his host Garrett, a.k.a. The Smith Boys, for helping us in making this a wonderful party. Thanks also to my brother Dejerrity Mycron for proving "Top Security" at the event, despite constant crashing.

We thank all of you for your generous donations to The Ali Forney Center (post on proceeds and forwarding to AFC to follow)

For more pictures from the party, please visit my friend Apmel Goosson's blog My Avatar's Name Is Apmel: At the Pool Party on Southern Charm.