dilmandila

dilmandila, 3 days ago to writing

I have so many short story ideas, but I write only the first paragraph and just can't continue, yet the entire story is sitting there in my head anxious to come out. Because I've thought so much about the story that I know how it starts, how it ends, who the main characters are, but I can't get it out of my head..... Not sure how to get out of this state. It's been going for about a month now 😭

#writing #writingcommunity #writer

dilmandila, 5 days ago to random

Its insomnia season so I'm looking for a new hobby. Perhaps night dancing.

Night dancers, in some places they are called night runners, are people who dance at midnight to bewitch others. They dance stark naked, sometimes covered in ash, at the door of the person they want to bewitch. They rub their naked butts on the door in the process, so one way to protect yourself is embed razor blades on the door.

I've been thinking of a film based on these people since 2009 but never gotten round to it.

dilmandila, 8 days ago to mastodon

While on the web I see a lot of posts on my timeline. But using @Tusky I don't see as much, just a handful from a few people over and over again. Or is it just me? Like the last five minutes, tried refreshing but no new posts come up. For 5 minutes?

Perhaps I'm missing something, or need to do something on the settings?

#tusky #mastodon

dilmandila, 10 days ago to random

Breakfast is here. Now I wonder why so many fruits have this color. Is it orange?

dilmandila, 13 days ago to random

Is it just me or does everyone who works from home spend a lot of time in the kitchen, either cooking or washing dishes and cleaning stuff up? Its become annoying.

dilmandila, 14 days ago to random

Where have all the websites gone?
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

dilmandila, 17 days ago to books

Author copies arrived of this bulky anthology of African ghost stories. Now I can say that my story was published in the same book as the legend, Amos Tutuola!

@bookstodon @blackmastodon #books #ghost #ghosts #africa #africanwriters #sff #fantasy #gothic #horror #writing #writingcommunity

dilmandila, 16 days ago to random

According to research by the Havard School of Futurism, by 2030 bananas will officially be called bananum, and strawberries will be strawberrum, because the Large Lying Models will make us believe these are the right words. The researchers quoted Aristotle who said "If you tell a lie three times while drinking a town's water supply, it will become the truth."

dilmandila, 17 days ago to email

Ever since I quit Google I've stopped receiving junk emails, used to come about 10 a day and would end up in promotions folder, or updates, or socials, which google created. Now, I get nothing. Only newsletters, some of which are industry related so I don't mind them.
#email #google #webdev

dilmandila, 21 days ago to movies

May the Fourth be with you as we watch the first Star Wars film, this chilly night in the outskirts of Kampala, in the compound of a film studio.

#maythe4th #maytheforce #MovieNight #filmisnotdead #film

dilmandila, 23 days ago to movies

Yesterday, for supporting my robot film, #TheMetalPerson I rewarded patrons with a stylized wallpaper of a pied kingfisher sitting on a leafless branch (looks like a stick suspended in air). The foreground, bird and branch, is monochrome, the background is pale yellow. (Okay, alt-texting has taught me how to describe images, you get the picture?)

If you have a spare dollar, support #DilmanShortFilms

https://www.patreon.com/posts/103512006

#film #mastoart #creativetoots #art #artists #robot #sff #scifi

dilmandila, 24 days ago to writing

I have finally finished a novel that I have been writing since 2017 (I think I am now done!?) so wondering what the way forward is. Agent? Big Five/Four? But I would really prefer a reputable small press publisher (maybe Big Small Press😁), so going to knock on doors again. If there is any you know that is open for submissions, I'll appreciate the tip.

It is a science fiction/fantasy story.

#writing #writingcommunity #sff #scifi #fantasy #books #PublishMe #publishing

dilmandila, 27 days ago to writing

Looks like book submissions are becoming like movie pitches, with moodboards and character sketches and all that. I guess I should stick to working with indie press and small press publishers, just for a peace of mind, because the gatekeeperism of trad publishing is going up a notch....

https://lorrainewilson.substack.com/p/is-there-a-book-submission-arms-race

#writing #writingcommunity #publishing

dilmandila, 29 days ago to tech

I'm in the process of migrating from Google Workspace to Proton Mail, but I've hit a snag that might make me stick to Google. I have several email addresses for business, and yet Proton puts all emails in one inbox, which doesn't make any sense. So I'll get emails related to my writing in the same inbox as those for film, as personal emails, and as those for other work? I expected separate logins for each email.

Anyone knows how I can work around it?

#proton #tech #email #web #webdev #google

dilmandila, 1 month ago to random

I bet Hollywood scriptwriters are already plotting out stories of the traumatised Israeli soldier who goes into Gaza and shoots one armed person and saves a little girl from rubble and he has to live with the trauma of what he witnessed, but it will all be from Israeli military's point of view because, well, propaganda.

dilmandila, 1 month ago to random

A drug to cure loneliness? This is some scifi film cowdung.

https://assemblag.es/@theluddite/112241188344987214

dilmandila, 1 month ago to random

When is Fire Day, and Water Day, and Air Day? It seems unfair to the other nations to celebrate only Earth Day.

dilmandila, 1 month ago to Humor

"Maybe if we tell people the brain is an app, they'll start using it."

Seen on a bumper sticker on a mini-bus in Kamdini town, Northern Uganda.

#humor #quote

dilmandila, 1 month ago to random

Typical US. They won't condemn Israel for the unprovoked bombing of another country's embassy, killing its staff, but will be quick to warn the victim not to retaliate. Just wow.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/05/politics/us-israel-iran-retaliation-strike?cid=ios_app

dilmandila, 1 month ago to random

"DuckAssist won't always generate the correct answer, according to Weinberg. The tool might struggle to correctly answer complex questions, too."

So why roll it out, DuckDuckGo? I thought you were in the business of providing accurate search results.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/try-duckduckgos-new-ai-feature-duckassist-now-for-free/

dilmandila, 1 month ago to writing

The winners of the Philip K Dick Awards are announced tonight. My book, "Where Rivers Go To Die" was a finalist but didn't win.
Congrats to the winner Bethany Jacobs, "These Burning Stars", and the runner up, Rebekah Bergman, "The Museum of Human History"

Well, I've now been listed 13 times for 9 different awards, without winning any! I'm getting used to it, maybe setting some kind of record of most nominations without winning.

@bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #books #amreading #sff

dilmandila, 1 month ago to random

They say "American democracy is facing a unique historic threat." But then, their administration, their left leaning president, refuses to listen to the public on this matter, even as he begs them to vote for him because voting for the other guy means an end to democracy.... I can't wrap my head around US politics.

US reportedly approves transfer to Israel of bombs and jets worth billions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/us-approves-weapons-bombs-israel?CMP=share_btn_url

dilmandila, 1 month ago to random

Yesterday I officially tasted my first experience of a con, and I'm happy that @norwescon was my first! I had a reading, in a room full of people who had actually read my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, and we had some pretty interesting conversations (ps. The book is a finalist for the PKD Awards) and then I was on a panel where we discussed "Queering History and Legend". Quiet an exciting opening day, meeting lots of people (and fearing I won't remember their faces today 😭)
#norwescon

dilmandila, 2 months ago to random

I heard about a new pizza place close to my home and so I ordered. The thing took a whole hour to deliver and by then I was starving, but just one bite and I knew it was the worst pizza ever. It's not even pizza. Tastes more like half-cooked chapati with vegetables stuffed onto it. I struggled through one slice before giving up. The rest is going to the garbage bin! what a waste.

dilmandila, 2 months ago to history

Can someone help? Any historian or someone similar? Or someone good with looking up references?

I just found a text in an old media file that Alliance France (I think) in Uganda commissioned, and it says "The history of the Acholi people may date back to the Coa people and place in old biblical history involving a commercial link with the ancient people of Israel."

But I'm not a Bible person and searching for "Coa people" doesn't bring up anything meaningful.

#history #histodons #bible