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!
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Last Notes npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila This #SolarPunkSunday my book is on sell in smashwords as part of the summer sale. It is the story of a 70yr old woman who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizee invades to steal the tech that makes them a #solarpunk utopia. Get it here https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1977090 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Yesterday, proofs came of my new novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, and it got me a bit excited. I have got print copies of my books before, but not one I designed from scratch. I was worried about how the cover would look like, and also because I used LibreWriter for typesetting, if the font was the right one, etc, but it all looks nice and cute. Proud of myself. 😊 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila "This was a very interesting novella. Science fiction that presents a new world always is.... If Dilman Dila’s goal was to create an interesting and engaging world, then he definitely succeeded." npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Here is a new review of my #solarpunk novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, and hope it can nudge you to make a purchase. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Danish journalist held in Uganda "The arrest appears heavily tied to Thymann's environmental activism. During a 2012 expedition, Thymann photographed Rwenzori’s shrinking peaks alongside UWA rangers. When his updated findings on the receding glaciers were published internationally last year, they drew fierce backlash from the Ugandan government, which publicly denied the climate crisis, claiming the melting was merely a "normal seasonal pattern." " npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Today, my new book comes out, marking my official entry into publishing. Here after I'll put out a book every month. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Last night at a film festival in Kampala the audience was treated to my film, The Night Dancer, and it was the first public screening in Uganda, where everyone knows stories of this type of character, but glad they enjoyed it. They laughed heartily, and they said they were scared and laughing at the same time. Which was a good thing. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Who cursed me today? Tusky isn't working for me, so tried the official client and it says this. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…hsl0 Thanks. I do have a pop-filter and a wind-shield, but perhaps I have to learn to use it properly. Or invest in a plugin. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Need feedback. I narrated a short story to test making audio books, and could use honest opinions on how it sounds, the technical quality, and also reading/narration, or anything that I need to improve before I embark on an actual projects. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila "...the hottest thing in AI these days is hiring humans, because they're getting to be cheaper than AI — and are needed for quality control on AI's output anyway. " npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila In about three weeks, I'll launch my new novella, about an old woman with social anxiety who finds herself organising the defence of a decentralised nation when colonisers invade to steal the tech that makes her village a #solarpunk utopia. It is available for pre-order in all major stores (I think), but you can also get it from my small press, and there is a sample chapter available. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila #silentsunday #Bloomscrolling #bloom npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I'm set to shoot #windShortFilm a #solarpunk comedy in June, so this last mile campaign is to cover basics like food, transport, etc. We made all costumes, props, and set constructions from scratch and it strained our budget since it is a futuristic story with no central governments, and no #capitalism Everyone participates in running the country. Help me make it! npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila For the first time in my life I planted something, an onion that sprout in my kitchen. There were three buds, but only one made it, and now for reasons I can't figure it is dying. It's been out with plenty of sun, and it's been raining a lot, so not sure why dude won't live. There seems to be an ecosystem developing in the tin with smaller plants creeping out. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila People who can read #finnish here is an article featuring me and three other writers from Uganda. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Scam alert! npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Need feedback. I'll share stories via @nprofile…0njf but hate that #wordpress has no print-style layout for text, indent first line of, and no space between, paragraphs. (Really, why?) So I installed a plugin, Simple eBook Viewer, that allows me to embed epub in my post, giving an ebook reader layout. See this example at the bottom of the page in this first tale. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila So I convinced someone to join the #fediverse @nprofile…km8e we met recently in Dakar. He is from Mali, speaks mostly French, so it's been interesting having conversations. He got interested after I made a presentation about what works for me as an African artist, having left corporate social media. During the presentation there was a professional interpreter so the point went through. But as we wait for his #introduction post, perhaps someone fluent in #french could welcome and guide him. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Following recent changes on policies of Draft2Digital and Barnes and Noble, I thought I should share my experience on how to set up a cost effective writer website, with one-time-fee-plugins that give you a shopping cart and a squeeze form to grow your newsletter, and so keep your costs manageable. Take a look! npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Want to read screenplays I wrote? I realized I have a whole ton of scripts lying idle in my folders and decided to make books out of them. Here is the first, the stories range from drama, dark comedy, thriller, teen lesbian romance (is that a genre?) It's available for free via @nprofile…0njf (Only pdf, the epub comes out a huge file at 40mbs and I can't figure out how to reduce it). Enjoy the read! npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Anyone have recommendations on a simple share button for my #wordpress blogs? I removed all the plugins for they were cluttered and a nuisance, and I keep seeing simple buttons like this but have no idea what plugin to use. It has to be free with no pro version, or if for sale, then a one-off payment rather than subscription. #blog #webdev npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila The ARC of my new novella is now ready, via BookSirens. It's a #solarpunk story set in an African nation without capitalism, or governments and politicians, and centers on a 70yr old peasant woman who has to coordinate the defense of the country when a colonizer invades. https://booksirens.com/book/BUG035E/WXLHD4W npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Just finished the book. Enjoyable. It is the first book I'm finishing this year. I tried to get into the author's earlier book, Autonomous, but failed to, perhaps because I thought it was a war thing. But this is a thriller of sorts, a time travel book that is themed on editing history, though is a commentary on politics in the US where rights are being rolled back, so perhaps someone is editing our timeline to revert us back to the 1950s. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila 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/ npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila 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. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila 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. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila This valentine's day, take a moment to read how they are destroying a wetland, an important site for migratory birds from Europe every winter, for $65m a year. "An exclusive investigation reveals how flower farms in Uganda’s protected wetlands are shipping millions of stems to Europe— ending up in ALDI aisles and the vases of the Dutch royal family." npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Austin Powers aged very poorly. I tried watching it again and not even one laugh. I can't remember what was so funny about it when it had just come out, perhaps the scene in the tent with the lights and shadows, in The Spy Who Shagged Me. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Question on #copyright I intend to publish a public domain book, Myths and Legends of the Bantu. I think it's an important documentation of our cultures, but it has problematic and racist content. So my goal is to strip it of racism, fix some factual errors, etc. I can't claim authorship, original author has moral rights to that. I'll only claim editorship. But 1) Can I legally register a copyright to this edition? 2) Is this whitewashing the author of her racism? npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila The moon looks lovely tonight (is there some celestial event going on?) but my phone camera is too crappy. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila #AI hallucination in #wikipedia is disheartening. This topped a search result (startpage). I at once knew it is false for I've never heard of "Basimba community". It mixes it up with an actual people, the Ngo (leopard) clan of Buganda. Proof of hallucination? It claims to be a Ugandan community but mentions places in Angola, and Portuguese (who never came anywhere close). I've seen other wiki articles of this thing, and also in grok vomit. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Long shot, but hopefully I get results. In the early 2000s, I read a Ugandan newspaper article about two Indian scientists trying to genetically engineer the anopheles mosquito. That set off alarm bells so I wrote a short story, which some universities in UK and Kenya teach in a course Applied African Science Fiction. I've looked for that article but can't find it. I guess it must have been via Reuters or AP or such a newswire. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila 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. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…upzx Thanks for this thread, and this map! It would however be nice, when talking of nations, to see that most of the continent was decentralized, but they don't get attention like Ethiopia, Egypt, Mali, Zimbabwe, because we love stories of empires and powerful kings, not those varying forms of direct democracy and communal governance; systems that the colonialist dismissed as anarchic and evidence of primitivity for they equated civilisation with authoritarian rule. And they still do! npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…pjqk Do you get to sleep after the first alarm goes off? Once I awake I don't even get the luxury of a second alarm, until day time npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila It's almost 5am here. Woke up an hour ago for no reason. Insomnia sucks npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…np83 Just so you know, my film career really took off after a film lab Mira Nair organized in my country, and we worked on a documentary together, though it was a corporate something for unicef. I also directed the bts film of her film Queen of Katwe ;-)) npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I don't understand why a lot of software in #linux don't read external hard drives. Trying to use Gaupol subtitle editor and it is functional. But it can't read files on external HDD or flash drives, which makes it the only pain. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I wish I knew the different names of flowers. It seems a bit rude to call them all flowers and not by their name. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila So #vfxpeople I won't be continuing with mocap anymore so I'm giving up my Rokoko Smartsuit Pro 1. Included are three textiles (Large, Medium, Small) and a Smart Gloves (still boxed). If you want it please message me, offer what you think is a fair compensation and pay for shipping (from Uganda, so might be between $50-100, depending on where you are). Or tell someone who you think might want it :-)) npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Something interesting is happening to the fedi, I keep running into more accounts of people based in my side of the world, those close to East Africa (I even saw a Shona poem today, from further down south). I know it's not a mass migration but it's a snail spreading the word. Not a cheetah. So I will have a reason to smile today. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I've finished setting up my own #peertube instance and I'm beating myself why I didn't do it earlier! It's as easy as doing a website, and I now have total control over my videos, and can install plugins to customize it. (Like annotations similar to YouTube cards). If you are a #filmmaker with regular uploads, it makes a lot of sense to set up your own peertube. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I need a prop for a film project which has a character who loves to watch anime films, and so I'm looking for any good quality anime that is in the public domain, that this character can watch and we can show bits of what she is watching. Any tips? npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila So this #followfriday here are two new accounts you might find worth giving a follow. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…aswq @nprofile…h4at @nprofile…ngtn There's a new one indiefilmmakers.social npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila #silentsunday #nature #photography npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I keep dreaming that the future is de-urbanized, and I'm working on a novella that is set in such a world, sort of a utopia. No mega cities, no mega urban centers. Life retreats to settlements that by today's standards are considered rural. But I want it to be 'hard scifi', meaning it is possible to achieve in the near future. Question then, is this a pipe dream? What would happen if this became the future? Would we be happier? Would it reverse climate change? npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila It would be nice if @nprofile…kz02 could add the ability to put your own language on videos. Right now, there is a list of languages, which are perhaps the most popular, but it doesn't include every language in the world. For example, I'm uploading a film in Acholi, but there is no option to specify that this is the language. Even a major language like Kiswahili, I don't see it in the drop down. #peertube npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Book lovers in #berlin you might be interested in this festival happening this weekend in your city. I'm one of the guests, and I'll read from/talk about two of my books, A Fledgling Abiba and Where Rivers Go To Die, and I'll be on some interesting panels as well. Pass by if you can! It will be lovely to see this city in a warm month. I hope its sunny. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Last night I thought I had encountered my first UFO. Turned out to be the moon sneaking out from wherever it goes to hide. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…gk57 @nprofile…0wqz Now I want to drink this tea 😅😅 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Did you see my new film? About a cheating husband who turns into a flower monster and haunts his wife.... I feel like doing a sequel to focus a lot more on the haunting part. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…gk57 Can you boost my post so that the magic happens for me too? ♥️😊 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Seen on a door today, when I went to visit the studio of a visual artist. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…009v I need to set myself these goals too. Film takes so much of my time that I haven't written anything for almost a year 😭 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Kimuli translates to flower, a thing that is supposed to be beautiful. A symbol of love and cuteness. But since I have an evil mind, I thought of a man turning into a flower monster, and haunting his wife. At least I stayed away from gore, so perhaps there's still some cuteness. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Have you seen my new short film yet? It's a kind of horror about a cheating husband and a flower monster. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Yesterday I went to town and this flower caught my eye. You can't believe it is a shrub in a very busy and noisy part of Kampala. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Is there a way to schedule a @nprofile…kz02 video and have a premiere? I have a new short film and would want to set a premiere, have people sign up to watch and they get a notification once it goes live (there's a feature like that on youtube) so we can have a watch party or something..... npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila 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. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila 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. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Dear good people, I need your help to make my next short film, #TheNightDancer so I'll do a crowdfund here as I can't create on the main platforms. Expect a lot of begging posts from me for the next month, but the film is complicated; a revenge fantasy based on Luo mythology, where dance is a powerful magic. It pushes my production costs beyond usual. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila A bit pissed off. My machine is stuck on this, and whatever I do, I can't seem to fix it. The last thing I remember trying to do is install AppImage Launcher via the terminal, and then I launched Audacity, and I kdenlive (which didn't run) I went for lunch and came back to this annoyance. Been searching online for solutions. Now stuck. Sadly, I had not enabled timeshift (not sure its on by default) but when I try recovery mode it says no backups. Not fun at all. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…xvlc Its crazy good. Can't imagine how long you've spent on it! npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila It has just struck me that I haven't written any fiction since July of last year 😭 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…xvlc You did put in the 10000 hours to end up with such gifted hands. I envy you 😊 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…xvlc How long does it take you to draw each? They are so good they look like photos with filters thrown on them 😊 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I contributed an essay to this book, which is a collection of academic-type writings by Africans who write speculative fiction, on their influences and worldbuilding and such things. I particularly talk about how my research into pre-colonial African cultures inspired me to imagine a future without central governments, where technology has enabled direct democracy. It's now a a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist! npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @nprofile…k3n9 do they have some telepathic communication or were the others watching and waiting 😁 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Are there any good open-source newsletter or mailing list tools that someone can recommend? I met a person who had a newsletter (not sure what service she was using) but she said the costs kept going up and she couldn't afford it anymore, so I promised I'd ask around and see if she can get something good and affordable. I've heard of Ghost, but wonder if there are free ones as well? npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila Been a while since I encountered some drama on the fedi, I was beginning to wonder if this place had become peaceful. :-) npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila I'm overwhelmed by all the engagement that my post about being nominated for Philip K Dick Awards generated. I haven't stopped smiling since yesterday, seeing all these strangers, over 1000 strangers, being happy for me and congratulating me. (1k? I thought such numbers are a rarity in Mastodon) I still don't know why people are being nice to me but it makes me happy 🤗❤ npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @npub135d…tg9k Oh you dear. Forgot to untag the other, but I was asking because your handle reads Fulani Girl 😊 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1ctz…zyq5 @npub1fyr…nfva Its one reason I don't like following mainstream news outlets. They will always side with the establishment, however wrong. The Bongo regime was propped by France, and that means Europe + Western countries would not object whatever goes in Gabon, and the Guardian for all its claims to being independent, I've never come across anything of it criticizing anything the EU countries support. npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @npub135d…tg9k @npub1ew9…qf5p Thanks. Following them. Are you based in West Africa? npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila There's a coup in #Gabon and I didn't know about it! Mastodon has to fix its news problem otherwise it's beginning to feel like a silo of sorts..... or perhaps its just that the African presence here is very limited? npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @npub1kyv…mvht 4. Beat him up in revenge for that time he refused you a 1% payrise npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @npub1ul2…5sjq I am going to Durban South Africa to pitch this film I'm working on. I have been sending emails to industry players requesting to meet them, but very few even bothered to reply. Then yesterday a big time producer sends me an email, not even a reply, just emails me out of the blue requesting to meet with me and I am confused for a whole moment. I check my emails to see if I had emailed them before. Nope. They made first contact. Don't want to count my unhatched chicks but this is soothing npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @npub1k24…26zw Problem is if I nap during the day, then it's like I've used up my sleep for the whole night and I'll be tortured awake until the wee hours.... perhaps let me take a walk to clear my head 🙂 npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila @npub1k24…26zw I'm on hibiscus tea... but might switch to coffee because my eyes are telling my brain to shut down for a bit. I don't normally drink coffee but people say it keeps you awake so.... npub1qf0e5aq0zszrtzv3axf3m8lemtf583zw494kqceg9mtuc4z0jaesqd35c8 Dilman Dila It's a quiet Sunday morning here. I spent all of yesterday writing a 5K word treatment for a feature film, and today I have to write a 6K non-fiction essay for an academic publication. I can't say I'm having a fun weekend :-((
