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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I think this film is cursed. Every time we screen it to a live audience in Kampala there is a glitch that happens. First, during a film festival in a proper cinema, well, everything went dark for a few seconds, interrupting the film. Now on Sunday at an […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A living room turned cinema, with about 30 people squeezed in front of a projector screen, which has a bluish scene playing. There are warm lights in the room.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

What song do you think this choir loves to sing?

Five ibis birds stand on an electric wire, the pole has more wires crisscrossing. The sky is a nice blue with some fluffy clouds spread around.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I should go see a shrink to understand why I like taking pictures of the sky.

A photo that mostly shows a sku, blue with a huge white cloud looming above the land. Makes you think of the anime Ghibli clouds. In the foreground is a grassy patch of land, a hill, full of weeds and in the mid-ground is a hint of houses, peeking from behind a hill.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Why is there always a big cloud at sunset?

It is just after sunset and the sky is mostly a purple color, I think that is purple, but with a brilliant splash of sunset colours somewhere in the middle of the image. The foreground had the almost-silhouette of a house under construction and the hint of a swamp in a valley.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Off season fruits are so annoying. Either bland or sour. All the fruits I bought this week, mangoes, pawpaw, pineapple, taste like their creator forgot about sugar. So I'm turning them into juice, at least that is drinkable. And the pawpaw, I haven't met this […] [Original post on mograph.social]

Photo of a pawpaw cut in the middle, it is orange and there is a ring of pockets of seeta around a central part that was a bit hard and uneatable. Weird fruit, if you ask me.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Life hack. Sprinking salt on a candle increases its lifespan. It but slower, and longer. I learned this as a kid, growing up with constant loadshedding and candles being a bit too pricey. These days candles are rare as people prefer eletric lights, the harsh […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A close up of a candle flame, with some dark spots on the molten part of the wax showing burnt salt.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Had a good evening in a cramped artist studio for our monthly movie night, and the films were exciting. "It Was Just An Accident", a political thriller many people here thought was relatable, though in Iran, with security agents kidnapping and torturing […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A tiny room lit only with by a projector screen, with silhouettes of people sitting on the floor enjoying. On the screen is a scene from the movie "It Was Just An Accident" A laptop in the foreground has the same scene

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Yay. I got paperback copies of my novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, in the UK, after another author offered to help sell indie books at cons around that country. So the first stop is PictCon in Scotland, 17th Oct, but if you won't attend and are in the […] [Original post on mograph.social]

The cover of a novella, it is yellow, with a solarpunk robot spider as the main image and the texts, in brown tones, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, a novella by Dilman Dila

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Is this the look cat's give you when they are begging? #caturday

A cat with orange tones in its fur sits on its butt, looking at someone offscreen who was eating a piece of chicken.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

This sweater too, bought around the same time. It still keeps me warm on chilly nights and this I can wear it outside of home. It is a Northface product. I had three of them, but the others got lost (one I forgot in a taxi). Not sure why I'm thinking of these […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A grey sweater lying on a bed which has deep blue sheets.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I bought this trouser in 2010 when I was in Nepal, and I still wear it. Fits nicely, though feels a little tite. It is still strong, not sure of the material, but its is stretchy, feels like silk, and hasn't faded since. Some of the seams are coming apart now […] [Original post on mograph.social]

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

This bird makes the ugliest sound, and so, so loud. The first time I heard it I got nigthmares, of birds with big beaks coming at me. I think I saw a hornbill that same day (they too make terrifying sounds) but their names are cute. Ibis. Hornbill. You'd think […] [Original post on mograph.social]

Two ibis birds on an electric pole, they are silhouette against a gray cloudy, and they are almost lost in the image since stuff and wires on the electric pole tends to take attention away from them.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Breakfast today. I cut this open and likes the way the light fell on the seeds. It was nicer before I scooped out a lot of the seeds but well, I think this is cute too. It's a pawpaw, for those wondering.

A closeup of a pawpaw fruit that has been cut open. It is orange, so nice and juicely ripe, and the seeds are black and highly glossy and cramped together, catching the lights - they made me think of a million eyes that an ogre scooped out of its victims and.... It is breakfast time, I shouldn't be thinking like that!

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

This scammer almost got me. I was looking at another invite when their email came, and I thought this was genuine since they normally bait us with publishing or promotions offers, not festival invites. What made me frown was the "tell me about your book" and […] [Original post on mograph.social]

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Not sure this fits the hashtag but I was on a boda yesterday and saw this tree right in the middle of the street and I was impressed that it was allowed to grow even as the city closes in around it. Such tall trees (I think this is a young mahogany tree) only […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A tree stands tall, towering beside a building with about five or six floors. The stree appears bare in the image but there was heavy traffic, a break in the traffic allowed for a clean shot of the tree.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

This weekend is full of literary activities for me. I'll be attending @LAcon virtually, and have a session where @carturo222 interviews me about my films. If you are attending, do tune in for a live video interview. #worldcon #worldcon2026

The poster for LAcon V, and it has images of me, looking into the camera, and book covers and posters of some of my films in a strip at the bottom.
The text reads LAcon V. Dilman Dila This Week at LA World Sci-Fi Convention
An Entire World in a Screen, Thursday, August 27, 2026, 10:30 AM PDT, www.dilmandila.com

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

So I rewarded my patrons with this artwork, so they can use it as wallpapers for their devices. If you support me on patreon you can get such gifts every month, along with unpublished short stories, sneak peaks into coming books and early access to rough cuts […] [Original post on mograph.social]

Screenshot of the home screen of an android phone, with artwork of a person holding a spear walking towards a tree in the distance. There are app icons at the bottom of the screen.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I got this plant as a gift, not sure what it is (someone tell me!) and I hope it is easy to look after. #Bloomscrolling

A cute plant growing in a mu1, has thich leaves like that of a cactus

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

There's something exciting about watching a film in the same space where it was made, and the audience, who are not filmmakers, being awed that the sets they are seeing on the screen happened in the very room they are in. This was at a movie night I hosted […] [Original post on mograph.social]

The silhouette of people in a dimly room, watching a film on a projector screen.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Fresh off the printers, paperback copies of my book are now available for shipping so I will send out to those who have already bought a copy in the coming week. Given that print costs were slightly lower than anticipated, we will sell this at $9 instead of 12 […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A stack of books on a table, with one standing upright so that the cover faces the camera. It is a yellowish book, with a spider-robot on the cover, with solar panels on its back. The title is The Blossoming of the Big Tree, a novella by Dilman Dila, with a blurb from Vector BSFA magazine "a genuinely absorbing read"

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I'm stuck here and can't find any info online. I want to increase the LinuxMint partition, so that I can use the unallocated space. When installing I thought I would need it as a seperate partition but its was cumbersome. I have tried booting using a usb stick […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A photo of a gpart window on linuxmint, showing a disc drive with available partitions.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Something doing the rounds in social media around here, perhaps a much needed ruling since I was getting tired of telling artists here not to use AI. It should serve as a wakeup call. But the story is strange. It appears that a company hired a writer to tell […] [Original post on mograph.social]

Photo of a newspaper article from Nation, a daily newspaper in Kenya. The headline reads "Kenyan author eho used AI loses copyright claim in landmark ruling"

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

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 […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A hand holding a newly printed book, which has a yellowish (leans towards green) cover and the texts are in red, reads The Blossoming of the Big Tree, a novella by Dilman Dila

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Whew. Of course I got the dates wrong (for some reason I thought it was to be on 12th), but my films are showing as part of #readercon at this moment, and we are having a discussion on Discord, if anyone is there. Here is the QR code.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

It's #SolarPunkSunday so here is a screenshot of a pedal + solar powered bus I'm creating for my new short film. #WindShortFilm Still a work in progress and jist today I realized I have to create dozens of cars, because it is a future without capitalism and no […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A 3D clay model of a kind of vehicle, with five bicycle-type wheels, and with steampunk aesthetics, though the final will be solarpowered. Ontop of the cockpit (the place the pilot sits, I might have spelt it wrong) there is an old fashionsd handlebar and a honk, for decoration rather than anything useful. (I'm tired, not sure I can describe it properly.)

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

How do I eat this thing? I got it from some kind of party, and the host said its name and how to eat it, but I forget it all. They said its like a cucumber, but it has a sappy taste...

A vegetable, white, not sure how to describe it, though.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

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 […] [Original post on mograph.social]

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Who cursed me today? Tusky isn't working for me, so tried the official client and it says this. #mastodon

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

What is happening to #tusky I haven't been able to use it all morning. Everyday, I have to open the app twice or thrice and keep refreshing before it connects, but today it's giving me this. On an android phone.

A mobile screenshot of Tusky, showing the nothing here error

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

I love these outdoor movie screenings. The movie we watched was a big yawn, The Taste of Things. Half of it is about people cooking food and the other half seems to be about other people eating thus food and I can't understand why this was ever made, but at […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A night scene. A projector a screen glows blue in the dark as a big yellow umbrella blocks a security light to create a semblance of darkness for the movie goers, but it gives the image something extra. The audience are barely visible in the darkness

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

In the dry season the sunsets are beautiful, a moment of respite after the sweltering heat of the day. #FensterFreitag #sunset #sunsetphotography

Close up of a window on a wall made of unplastered blocks. There is a reflection of a sunset in the window, a bright orange spot in the otherwise gray-ish wall.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

We finally wrapped #WindShortFilm and I can't feel my body because of exhaustion. Will try to rest today and tomorrow, perhaps binge on a comedy series, then start editing on Monday. Still many more sleepless nights before I bring out this film.

A film shoot. In the foreground the DOP studies the frame on a monitor, next to a camera. A 2k light is pointed at the ceiling and there are more lights and light reflectors around, and in the mid ground the director (that's me) in a cap and with a tummy from too much beer talks to an actor who is seated. The gaffer (guy who handles the lights) is a really tall dude towering besides the director. He stands on a stool and appears even taller. In the background is a greenscreen.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Today we were filming in a bush and I got distracted with this (among other distractions) and the crew were laughing at me for being an urban boy who gets fascinated with plants that, apparently, are pretty common in rural places. But well, this was quiet a […] [Original post on mograph.social]

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

So today, after a slight hiccup, and waking up to a heavy rainstorm that made the roads really wet and slippery, I finally started shooting #WindShortFilm Its midnight and I just got back home exhausted and tomorrow I have to be on set by 6:30 am. Things we do […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A photo of a video monitor displaying the view or a camera as it captures a film scene in which two actors in colorful crotchet costume face each other in a brightly lit room.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

So today I witnessed this. I first experienced it a looomg time ago while still a uni student and I wrote a poem about it, and today I saw it again. In the west, a beautiful and very colourful sunset and opposite in the east a full moon looking very cute and […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A very colorful sunset. The sun is still visible, hiding behind silhoutte buildings and landscape in the horizon.

The full moon in the evening, with the sky having faint shades of sunset colours since this is opposite the sun. The land is black and silhoutte

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

The moon was nice and bright tonight, and some stars were visible. It was a fine night for a walk but my ankles were hurting too much, so I'll just dream about the walk I might have had under the beautiful silver sky.

A night sky, with a bright moon and a few stars visible and the silhouette of trees against the bright sky. This photo was taken beside a graveyard but you can't know it. Just adding that bit of info as a bonus to those who read alt text, for well, it added to the atmosphere. Now I feel like writing a ghost story.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

I had quiet an experience yesterday, attended a show which was really an artist sharing his life story, through a slide show, rap music, poems, and some videos. He is a writer and rapper in Kampala. He had a stroke when he was 9yrs old, and two other strokes […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A small room with a poster projected onto a wall, as an artist called Mugabi Byenkya in stylish clothing, shorts, speaks into a mic, to an audience we can see.

The title of the poster is "An Intimate Evening With Mugabi Byenkya"

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

@sundogplanets I saw a bright rainbow too in a residential suburb of Kampala. The first bright one I was seeing in a loooong time.

A view of empty plots, one has a low wall fence. In the far distance is a line of trees. There is a huge dark cloud taking up almost half the image, while the other side has a bright blue with whiffs of white clouds. Out of the dark cloud a bright rainbow streams down to earth.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

@NewsDesk @NBCNews I thought we stopped calling viruses after places following the Corona outbreak, or does this only apply to powerful countries like China? Bundibugyo is a district in Uganda. To have headlines like this is very troublesome. Nowhere in this […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A screenshot of a news article. I'm working on my phone so can't extract text from the image. There are two sub headlines, though, saying:
What is Bundibugyo, the species of Ebola in the outbreak?
How does Bundibugyo spread?

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

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 […] [Original post on mograph.social]

A hand holds a plastic tin with an onion plant growing in it, part of the leaves are browning

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

A video doing the rounds in Ugandan social media, from a secondary school debate (looks like it, but could be a primary school) on the theme AI Should Replace Teachers. #ai

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