Notices by Dilman Dila (dilmandila@mograph.social)

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! "
#books #bookstodon #book

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
#mutualaid #creativetoots #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film #crowdfunding #scifi #climate #artforsale #fedigiftshop

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
#mutualaid #creativetoots #kickstarter #crowdfund #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film #crowdfunding #scifi #writing #artforsale #fedigiftshop

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.

996/2000

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

#solarpunk spoke to me for it is all about activism, imagining a future we would all want to live in. There is the tech and aesthetics to depict, but there is also the worldview, for clean energy without social justice is greenwashing! In this #film I imagine direct democracy in a sustainable world free from capitalism. Help me make it! Share with your friends or donate if you can!

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

1041/2000

#mutualaid #sff #scifi #writing #writingcommunity #art #BuyIntoArt

I'm making a film in the #solarpunk genre, live action (rather than animation) set in the near future for I want to imagine practical alternatives to capitalism. Given recent events in #us and other places battling fascism, I envision a world where direct democracy is possible, so no central governments, politicians, or police/military. Help me make it!

1145/2000

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

#film #sff #scifi #creativetoots #BuyIntoArt #mutualaid #writing #writingcommunity #movies

I'm #crowdfunding for a film via my website as I'm excluded from major platforms (I'm based on the wrong continent) I've developed it since 2018 and will shoot next year, but I have to figure out the vfx needed to envision this futuristic world with no capitalism, where direct democracy thrives. I need your support! Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
1170/2000

#solarpunk #climate #mutualaid #kickstarter #backerkit #creativetoots #BuyIntoArt #sff #scifi #writing #writingcommunity #crowdfund #film

The generous donations today leave me breathless with thanks! I'm closer to reaching my first goal to make this film that imagines a future with no government so we have direct democracy; no police so we use traditional justice systems; no capitalism so no poverty. It's a dream worth having! Your support will help me envision this future.
Details: https://www.dilmandila.com/embracing-solarpunk-in-my-stories/
1390/2000

#crowdfund #crowdfunding #mutualaid #sff #scifi #film #creativetoots #BuyIntoArt #climate #kickstarter #writing

I dream about the future as escapism. Things are bleak; bad governance in much of Africa, the #climate crisis unfolding, fascism in the #us but in my head it turns out OK. This is perhaps how I began creating #solarpunk stuff like this film set in a post-capitalist world where direct democracy ensures everyone has a say in running the government. Help me make it! Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film
#mutualaid #sff #scifi #crowdfunding #BuyIntoArt #creativetoots #crowdfund #kickstarter #backerkit