Notices by Dilman Dila (dilmandila@mograph.social)

Whew! I guess I have to stop tweaking this site. It won't get any better than this, but yay! I'm announcing my venture into small press publishing with a new novella! Now on PRE-ORDER!!! (available in major stores too!). It's a #solarpunk about a seventy-something year old woman, probably autistic, who has to organize the defense of her decentralized country when a colonizer invades. See a sample chapter here https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/

#books #bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #sff #scifi

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/
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@HauntedOwlbear This is cool! Though I wonder about copyrights, if they would mind....?

Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans? I have some songs I treasure, got the CDs from the musicians or friends over 10yrs ago, but they've dropped out of the radar and I can't find them anywhere. Just their voice haunting my speakers like a sweet ghost. There's also an mp3 I got off a yahoo group, around 2005. I like the song, but it has no artist name, no title, just a voice and a guitar, perhaps home recorded.

#music

If you develop for #linux please make offline installation possible, for people in countries with restricted internet. Came back home last night and today I want to install Luminance HDR but their only option for linux is via the terminal, and yet, while I can access full internet on my phone using a VPN, I can't access any on my laptop/workstations, so I can't install this program, unless I use Wine. I'm in #Uganda They cut off internet during elections and it has now been partially restored.

RE: https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/115816077450379662

Perhaps the #fedi needs an automatic backup tool to periodically exports your data so you have a starting point if your instance suddenly goes offline. it will keep happening since they are run by ordinary folk whose lives can change in a wink. I was on a fairly big and well managed PeerTube instance that also just went dark without warning, yet I was hosting my films there professionally. Would also be nice to get an email notification once this happens.

#mastodon #fediverse

Fedi hive mind, I'm writing a story. The MC investigates a Luo folk song (re: oral history, Uganda/South Sudan) that has clues saying 500 yrs ago an astronomer from China visited and documented Luo space travel technologies (portals to the stars). This knowledge is now lost and my MC has to unravel the clues, but what clues could point to China without usung racist stereotypes? Perhaps a word, a name, a description, something?

Context in the next toot.
#writing #writingcommunity #sff

Excerpt from a book I'm reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.

"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx. “He’s dead.”

I said, “I'm sorry, what happened?”

“No, he died long ago.”

I wondered why, then, the question. “Why, then, are you asking me?”
Later, I would remind myself: the FBI introduced me to Karl Marx! "
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I'm close to #crowdfunding goal for a comedy film set in a near future with no central government, politicians, or capitalism; ordinary citizens govern themselves and support each other to survive the #climate crisis. Stories like this inspire hope that this future is possible. So show me some love, share! Or donate if you can!

1537/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
#film #mutualaid #creativetoots #BuyIntoArt #fedigiftshop #sff #art #writing #writingcommunity #crowdfund #kickstarter #scifi

I'm #crowdfunding for a short film to work out #vfx needed to imagine a future with no capitalism, no states, no politicians. Instead people govern themselves and set up egalitarian systems as they face the #climate crisis. I need your support to make it! Please share, or donate. There are rewards of my arts for each penny you can spare.

1608/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
#creativetoots #BuyIntoArt #artforsale #fedigiftshop #mutualaid #sff #scifi #film #writing #writingcommunity #art

I daydream about food processing technologies to fight hunger in the climate crisis. What if everyone had a gadget in their kitchen that easily preserves fruits, vegs, etc, before they go bad? Help me imagine it in a film set in an egalitarian world that runs on direct democracy and is free from capitalism!

1608/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
#solarpunk #mutualaid #creativetoots #kickstarter #crowdfund #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film #crowdfunding #scifi #climate #artforsale #fedigiftshop

Donations stalled for a few days, but I'm thankful for your support to this film since I'm excluded from #crowdfund platforms like #kickstarter due to global financial systems. This comedy imagines a future with no such colonial policies, no capitalism, and people govern themselves in a direct democracy. Share or donate if you can!

1608/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
#solarpunk #mutualaid #creativetoots #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film #crowdfunding #scifi #climate #artforsale #fedigiftshop

Wow! I'm touched. A flurry of love brings me close to raising the production budget of this #solarpunk short film. Thank you all so much! I can't do it without your support as I'm excluded from platforms like #kickstarter yet I really want to make this film about a future with no capitalism, governments, or police. Boost or donate if you can!

1868/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
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I'm $120 away from my first goal, to raise the production budget of this short film set in a solarpunk world without capitalism, politicians, central governments, or police.

I rely on your support as I'm excluded from platforms like kickstarter due to hangover colonial systems.

Boost or donate if you can!

1888/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
#solarpunk #mutualaid #creativetoots #kickstarter #crowdfund #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film #crowdfunding #scifi #climate #artforsale #fedigiftshop

Almost there! About $50 gets me to the first goal to cover production costs. Then I'll go for a $700 stretch goal for vfx gadgets and stuff that will make it easier to create a #solarpunk future! Thank you for supporting me, with ideas to imagine life without capitalism or governments, with boosts, and with donations♥️

1953/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
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I just read a news that the #solar boom in Pakistan coincided with the rapid depletion of water tables, perhaps a sign that capitalism will derail the #solarpunk revolution. I'm making a film that envisions a future where profit doesn't drive change, and clean energy happens with social justice. I need your support to make it 🙏 Share or donate if you can!

1430/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/embracing-solarpunk-in-my-stories/

#crowdfunding #mutualaid #crowdfund #creativetoots #sff #scifi #science #buyIntoArt #art

Here is the link to the article that says what's happening in Pakistan.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/solar-powered-farming-is-digging-pakistan-into-water-catastrophe-2025-10-02/

#solarpunk #solar

As I prepare to write the script for this #solarpunk film, I gather my thoughts to clarify the ideas I want to put out clearly, and so this blog post hints at life in this future without a centralized government, no police or military, and no capitalism.

I need your support to make it! Please share, or donate if you can!

1450/2000

Details: https://www.dilmandila.com/the-solarpunk-ideas-ill-explore-in-my-new-film/

#crowdfund #creativetoots #crowdfunding #buyIntoArt #mutualaid #sff #scifi #writing #writingcommunity #climate #futurism

Clean energy without fixing the system will recycle the injustices of today. Some see #solarpunk in Africa's solar boom, but I fear we’ll end up with a few monopoly corporations and #enshittification will happen.

I'm making a film that imagines a green future with no capitalism, no politicians, no central governments or police, and I need your support to make it!

1537/2000

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/the-solarpunk-ideas-ill-explore-in-my-new-film/
#crowdfunding #mutualaid #sff #scifi #BuyIntoArt #creativetoots #writing #blog #us

A lot of my works fit #solarpunk but I discovered the genre recently and so this film is the first I'm making with it in mind. meaning I have to carefully create the futurism aesthetics to fit. I imagine a world without central governments or the police or capitalism, and I'm seeking your support to create this future.

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Please boost! Donate if you can spare dollar! https://www.dilmandila.com/embracing-solarpunk-in-my-stories/

#sff #writing #writingcommunity #crowdfund #mutualaid #scifi #science #BuyIntoArt #blog