Dilman Dila

I Write. I make films. Transmedia artist. My blog @dilman is about my works and life. I daydream a lot and want to be paid for it. Been creating #sff #scifi for long but only recently was BSFA + Nommo Awards + PKD Awards 2024 finalist!

My films #DilmanShortFilms

#fedi22 #filmmaking #writing #writingcommunity #film #writer #filmmaker #solarpunk

East Africa

Avatar: A black-and-white portrait of me smiling like an idiot at the camera. Header: comic page of a woman holding a baby

Website: https://www.dilmandila.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dilstories
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/dilmandila
PeerTube: Dilman Dila (npub1yk0…jf37)

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2026-02-23 06:44:45 UTC

Sometimes I think my #solarpunk ideas are very original. Decentralized countries. 3D printers manufacturing anything. Biophotovaltic panels that grow in backyards to power homes. And then I read an article like this and I remember that a lot of other writers like me are reacting to our present dilemmas and troubles, and we probably grew up on the same kind of scifi stories so we most likely end up with the same solutions. See #books to read inside.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/02/solarpunk-sci-fi-books-literary-genres-climate-change-optimism-technology/
#bookstodon

2026-01-10 06:32:09 UTC

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Oh shucks, I don't know why this keeps happening. I don't remember changing any links. Let me fix it in a moment.

2026-01-10 06:20:47 UTC

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I'm bookmarking this, so will surely send you a link once I'm ready, or even email you a copy. I was actually going to ask for beta readers from here since with self publishing I don't have the advantage of an editor giving me feedback, so if you are up for that as well... They are novellas, so quick reads (I hope!)

2026-01-10 05:58:32 UTC

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I was wondering if NetGalley is worth it to promote my book, given that this year I want to get into self publishing... What other platforms are there to reach to reviewers with ARCs?

2025-09-17 12:43:30 UTC

So updates on #TheNightDancer to which many of you contributed a few months ago. I should have finished it like at the end of July, but well, mocap really bullied me and I gave up on it. I've written something small about it on patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-finishing-and-139097498
#film #wip #patreon

2025-09-13 05:50:07 UTC

For a moment I thought this image was a scene in a film like Brokeback Mountain or Moonlight
https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/sports-2eg6blgnz/-/a-vEPIECdvQ6S_IxZeuhQamw%3Aa%3A3199698-%2F0

2025-09-08 19:44:45 UTC

The #vfx are pleasant! Or was it all practical? Now I want to see this production in a theater!
https://beige.party/@CoachMark/115169026899561591
CoachMark@beige.party - This is mind blowingly good! Too good not to share!
Absolutely brilliant!
Thanks again @OutOnTheMoors for bringing it to my attention again this morning.
https://youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?si=nbVOjrdd9FCOKpbx

2025-09-08 09:01:45 UTC

"The Silicon Valley jerks and their politicians know this on some level, and they can't stand it. They hate artists because great art makes them irrelevant. Great art can inspire millions. It can overturn dictatorships. It can spark riots.
This is what they can't stand. They want all the power for themselves."
The Biggest Problem with AI Art - by Jessica
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/the-biggest-problem-with-ai-art

2025-09-06 20:21:50 UTC

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Thanks! It feels like having a new baby :D

2025-09-04 08:09:52 UTC

When I hear of 15minute or 23minute standing ovation at a film festival, I have many questions. Don't the audience have other films to watch? Was there no other film coming up right after this one? (15-23 minutes is enough time for a short film or two!) And above all, what do the filmmakers be doing while everyone is clapping and cheering for them? I mean, no one has every figured out what to do while they sing for "happy birthday to you" and that lasts like 30 seconds. So many questions!

2025-09-01 16:02:01 UTC

The #peertube instance is still down, with no communication from the admins, and yet I have been using links on that instance professionally, so it's a bit of a nightmare. But well, I decided to host my own, and still experimenting, and finding my way around, but I didn't know it was as easy as setting up your own website! I would have done this way much earlier.
https://tv.dilstories.com/
If only now I can figure out how to customize to my liking..... @npub17gp…7p4g

2025-08-30 04:35:36 UTC

This deserves to be made into a film!
https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/display/8a89e8f8-2068-b193-f503-e99458124895

2025-07-07 20:15:47 UTC

This is the moment I pull out my hair and scream at #linuxmint I installed DavinciResolve 20 and the renders became unusably slow. I rolled back to 19 and the problem persisted. I tried to install Rocky Linux from Blackmagic and it kept giving me a blank screen, so I decided to fresh install LM 22 thinking it shouldn't be a problem to start from scratch. But now DR19 can't install at all, it says "please install the following missing packages" and I try to and get no installation candidate. 1/2

2025-05-06 05:17:58 UTC

This story bundle with many African scifi books, including mine, ends in 16 days. If there are any "book influencers" here, or perhaps you want to run a campaign of some sort and need to give people a gift or bonus or something, let me know and I can get you gift codes.
https://storybundle.com/scifi
@npub1ny7…uv57 #writing #writingcommunity #sffbooks #sff #africa

2025-05-01 07:16:46 UTC

If you want to get into African scifi, there is a story bundle with lots of good books on it, including my collection of short stories, Where Rivers Go To Die.
https://storybundle.com/scifi
@npub1ny7…uv57 #writing #sff #sffbooks #writingcommunity #scifi

2025-04-03 09:16:59 UTC

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kickstarter, backerkit, gofundme, they all require someone in the supported countries to create the campaign on my behalf.
I'll investigate opencollective and liberapay. Thanks!

2025-04-03 09:00:32 UTC

This is frustrating. I'm exploring options to #crowdfund for my feature film, but I live in the wrong continent. No platform accepts creators from Uganda/Africa, so I'm stuck with #patreon and ko-fi and the like. I guess my best option now is to create a page on my website and some kind of form to collect details of backers and a button for them to make a donation to the project. Not fun, since I don't have a huge following 😭

2025-04-02 17:09:51 UTC

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Oh thanks! I don't know much about US political stuff, I don't remember if I watched Mr Smith but it's a title that has been flying around.... I might have watched it, will look up a trailer and see if I remember anything. Also, I can't figure out what a filibuster is, though I've gone to wiki pages and all that, it's a concept that's hard for me to grasp. Maybe that's why I'm failing to see the significance of the speech.

2025-04-02 15:28:41 UTC

Someone educate me please. Why do USAians think a 25-hour-long speech is the answer to their problems?
What I'm reading about it is like the final act of a feel good Hollywood movie, where the hero makes a speech and everyone claps and as credits roll we assume the speech fixed everything!

2025-03-30 03:16:39 UTC

What happens when you join Nicole The Fediverse Chick's discord?

2025-03-26 09:36:08 UTC

I always read ICYMI as "icy me".

2025-03-23 08:12:47 UTC

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how does it look in render view if the Suzanne has a texture of their own, with maybe the eyes popping out? I once wanted to make a monster with eyes all over its body and this seems like the solution 😁

2025-03-22 12:16:11 UTC

Here, again, is a trailer to my short #film Little Red Eve, a #scifi about a scientist who sells her soul to the devil.
I've opened up a shop on ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/s/7ddda58198
and also on patreon https://www.patreon.com/dilstories/shop/little-red-eve-short-film-1336404
so you can watch it, Little Red Eve, and in the process donate to my next film, which is going to be about dancing zombies. I'm sure you'd love to see dancing zombies.

2025-03-18 07:17:08 UTC

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Didn't know you could do this. Looking it up.

2025-03-17 05:42:13 UTC

I wonder what I can do to learn riding a bicycle. When I was a kid a disability meant everyone actively discouraged me from doing it, though I think I can manage since I ride the exercise bike just fine..... 😊

2025-03-16 11:29:43 UTC

The state of my headphones and my current solution to it! Right to Repair!
And to think this pair is hardly three years old... I once had a Sony headphone that I used for about eight years. It still works, might be somewhere in my junk gadget store, but this one which was more expensive is already falling apart.
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/171/860/470/508/923/original/f495d33998c5facc.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/171/860/388/785/941/original/cacdebb225aeac73.jpg

2025-03-15 16:40:10 UTC

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I tried Abbott Elementary but I think it was too American for me to get the humor. I've heard of Severance, so checking it out. Thanks for the suggestions!

2025-03-15 14:24:27 UTC

This weekend is slow and low, just lying on the sofa, unable to work, unable to watch any movie to distract me, unable to read to cheer up, don't feel like going out for a walk but that's perhaps what I should do. Then when I get back, I could use a good thriller series to binge on, if anyone can recommend anything....

2025-02-28 12:15:43 UTC

Trying to understand this #mozilla thing. So if I use #firefox to access my blog and write a post, does the updated policy mean mozilla has a right to use my blogpost anyway they deem fit?

2025-02-27 11:29:37 UTC

Have you seen the trailer of my new short film? Little Red Eve is about a scientist who accepts a morally questionable job from the military, against politicians pushing for direct democracy.
https://video.ploud.jp/w/dy5vgzRNXwRCqW7hYvaq7K?subtitle=en
#DilmanShortFilms #film #scifi #movie

2025-02-24 20:05:36 UTC

Berlin Taxi drivers were weird. They insisted on conversations though I don't speak German or Turkish (most were Turks) and they barely spoke English. They'd ask "Where from?" and once I said UG they'd tell me how they drive US peeps in circles so they pay more, 'coz of Gaza.
But I met an Iranian, spoke English, we talked film. He told me of a director who was harassed for showing her body on screen; in protest she made her next film with full nudity. I sadly didn't get her name. Anyone knows?

2025-02-24 06:52:04 UTC

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oh that was a perfect time to read The Stand. I think the horror was multiplied a hundredfold 😁

2025-02-24 04:37:05 UTC

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I read The Stand when I was about 15 years. Great, long book!
Anna Karenina is another long one I remember

2025-02-19 22:16:14 UTC

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to keyframe opacity, use a mix shader node, with one shader being your material and the other being transparent, then keyframe the values. Not on a computer now to share a screenshot of how easily this can be done but perhaps searching the internet for mix shader node will bring up a tutorial.

2025-02-18 16:01:55 UTC

You people who live in winter countries, how do you pee? I have failed to use the urinal since coming to Berlin, because I have so many layers of clothing I can't just unzip and take out my pee instrument, I have to go inside a toilet and undress before taking a piss. It's so annoying!

2025-02-15 20:39:35 UTC

My body must be hating me now, for making it jump from the frying pan into the freezer. Even the sunlight is cold here. ;-((

2025-02-15 13:23:50 UTC

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Yes. I came for the Berlinale. I'll stay indoors then, not a fan of cold!!

2025-02-08 10:14:10 UTC

Have you ever eaten this fruit?
If not, put it on your bucket list, but be sure to oil your hands and lips before eating it. I forgot and three hours later my lips are still covered with sticky sap.
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/714/060/535/857/original/36ef04ed1aa1ffe2.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/715/799/926/848/original/f1e2d73bdbd103f0.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/716/616/285/569/original/2c6c5868efa45a6c.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/714/373/440/157/original/a8fc79d04f59bfcc.jpg

2025-02-06 15:31:10 UTC

I just received a rejection email with some personal notes (not a form rejection, I mean) and I'm tempted to respond to it, but when I was starting out the golden rule was to never respond to rejection emails. I wonder if that still holds, or if it is okay to tell the editor thanks for those kind words?
#writingcommunity #amwriting #writing

2025-02-03 15:11:42 UTC

We became a victim of the foolery going on in the US. We are a recipient of a grant from an organisation in Europe. At the time of application we budgeted with an estimated exchange rate of 1 Euro to about 4,000 UGX. Today the money comes in, and the bank calls to say the rate has dropped to 3600. That means we get over 10% less than what we expected. The bank official simply said "I don't know what that US guy did, but this is a direct result."
F***!

2025-02-03 06:05:26 UTC

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how Davinci works in Linux. There are other annoying things like Davinci not having a minimize-maximize window option. I have read that using Discs is the same as an entry in fstab, but will try and make changes to fstab and see if there is a diffference

2025-02-03 06:02:38 UTC

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The drives are internal, and I can still find them on the file manager. Other programs like Blender see them as well with the new names. But Davinci doesn't see them at all, so it's not possible to reconnect like in windows after a drive letter change. The only way Davinci sees the drives is if, in Discs, Edit Mount Options, I leave it at default settings, with User Session Defaults switched on. Not sure if this will be the same case with fstab, but I'm beginning to think its /2

2025-02-02 18:14:31 UTC

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Oh thanks! Will definately learn to use it!

2025-02-02 17:58:40 UTC

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I've actually been using linux for almost two years exclusively on my laptop but my workstation still had Windows so I was making the move to switch all work stuff to linux as well.
It's the first time I'm hearing about /etc/fstab Should I learn how to manage it?

2025-02-02 16:43:19 UTC

I'm here cursing #LinuxMint I started a project in Davinci Resolve, edited it without issues for a couple of days, but today I log in and all my databases are offline and I can't figure out why! I thought it was because the project was in an add on drive, but even the Local Database which should be located in /Home can't be located. I th
Migrating to Linux for work is becoming a pain. Not sure there are #filmmakers here who have encountered this issue.

2025-02-01 18:42:35 UTC

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Thanks for the shout out!
And here is a "Hi!" from East Africa 😀

2025-01-30 19:46:52 UTC

"This isn't about China — it's so much fucking easier if we let it be about China — it's about how the American tech industry is incurious, lazy, entitled, directionless and irresponsible."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

2025-01-28 06:39:35 UTC

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Not everyone lives in the US and some of us already exist under worse regimes, hence the request to CW. What is happening to you is horrible, but hey, there is a whole wide world....

2025-01-19 14:36:14 UTC

Hundreds of Beavers started strongly. Its a good comedy with lots of physical gags, and I hear reviews likening it to the classics from the 1920, but I think its not even close to what was achieved back then. This lacks a story and meanders about.... It would have been a green film if it were 40 minutes shorter, and if the makers had a better visial style.
Still its different from what is being produced at the moment, and a good one to chill with on a Sunday afternoon with some beers for laughs

2025-01-16 03:58:16 UTC

"Investigating the human past in this way is not a matter of searching for utopia, but of freeing us to think about the true possibilities of human existence."
An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/an-archeological-revolution-transforms-our-image-of-human-freedoms

2024-12-01 05:20:53 UTC

Watching videos on Tusky is a nightmare. A 5 sec video takes two minutes to play. On the website I don't experience such lag.

2024-09-28 10:27:10 UTC

Bragging time! I miss playing scrabble with people on real boards, and the droid is always whooping my a** but once in a while I beat it. Like here, with my last tiles I played junglist, scoring 212 as it fell on two tripple words and I got a bonus. This gave me victory. (I cheated a bit. I first played jinglist and should have missed a turn when challenged, but I'm allowed to cheat the machine!)
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/214/686/519/722/731/original/ff77991711858786.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/214/686/870/767/058/original/854585fd31690368.jpg

2024-09-13 10:13:17 UTC

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ooh. I'm just learning of shart, but it is quite close to the past tense of shit (shit, shitting, shat) unless you use shitted?
Anyway, the more the merrier!

2024-09-03 18:00:01 UTC

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The dead cat photo will sure send them the right signals 😁

2024-08-23 19:31:24 UTC

The Brothers Sun is such a big yawn.
#thebrotherssun #review #tv

2024-08-23 05:55:13 UTC

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I think there is a portable version, so perhaps you get that to run along your old version?

2024-08-21 05:21:03 UTC

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Yes, they say thats its other name

2024-08-21 05:16:38 UTC

I missed agriculture class at school so when I saw these beauties, I was fascinated. A person I was with said it is called tick berry and is poisonous to humans and animals, but not to birds, and the scifi writer in me imagined a war in which birds use this flower to eradicate pests (humans!) and save Earth.
#bloomscolling #bloom #flowers
https://cdn.masto.host/mographsocial/media_attachments/files/112/998/265/655/733/264/original/5551cc014fd96d37.jpg

2024-08-20 19:06:12 UTC

It just struck me that its a loooong time since I read a book labelled No.1 NYT Bestseller list. And now that I think about it those books tend to be published by the big guys, and they are always not very deep reads. More like "popcorn movies". A lot of what I read these days is sci-fi stuff, maybe popular in the genre but I don't see them on that list. A lot are published by small press.
#writingcommunity #writing #amreading #reading

2024-08-18 09:55:51 UTC

#silentsunday #breakfast
https://cdn.masto.host/mographsocial/media_attachments/files/112/982/409/393/278/189/original/013665375ab6072e.jpg

2024-08-18 06:21:45 UTC

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platforms like ko-fi and patreon seem to be better than indiegogo and kickstarter, as you can build a fan base who will pledge to support you beyond this one project. You can still make a campaign targeting October, and some people can stay to give you mothly donations....

2024-08-15 08:11:39 UTC

I cross two of these bridges when I take a short cut from home to my film studio. But its a legit bridge, on a legit footpath that connects two (villages?) There is a swamp in a valley, with a lot of gardens, and on either hills are homes and stuff. I stay on one hill and have to cross the valley to the other hill to work. Thing is, walking takes me about 10 minutes through this path. If I used a car or bodaboda (motorcycle taxi) on official routes, it takes about the same time. So I walk. 😊
https://cdn.masto.host/mographsocial/media_attachments/files/112/964/976/797/220/949/original/3a8338f0b6d773e3.jpg

2024-08-13 08:42:58 UTC

This song gives me gothic feels.... it's quiet a nice listen too.
https://youtu.be/T00KNHcXyMg?feature=shared

2024-07-30 05:56:03 UTC

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I will camp here for replies, been looking for something similar