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Daniel Bachman
@danielbachman.bsky.social
Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener
Manahoac Territory
Born at 353.15 ppm.
Pinned
Heres an easy climate action to take wherever you are on Earth in 2026. Whether its fracked gas pipelines, mining, deforestation, AI data centers, etc, there are people organizing where you live trying to protect the Earth systems that enable life. Try to educate yourself about whats going on...
Surfing Radio Garden tonight, here’s some good ones we found tonight.

90 Rakthai
Bangkok Thailand
Listen to live Bangkok radio on Radio Garden
Listen to live Bangkok radio on Radio Garden
radio.garden
January 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM
These are the last of our French fry sizes potatoes. We grew around 150 lbs this year and just now running out!
January 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Turnip coleslaw and veggie burgers with the last of our summer potatoes.
January 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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National Guard troops to stay on Washington, DC, streets through 2026 trib.al/1FW6Ebs
National Guard troops to stay on Washington, DC, streets through 2026
Troops have been charged with patrolling the streets and picking up trash.
trib.al
January 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Got a draft of a record done just now that feels like it just poured out of me. Different variations of layered drones using that Japanese 3D printed Cantareel device. Hoping to have it out for this coming bandcamp Friday.
January 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Or yeah.........Some in Norway wanted the Nobel Peace Prize for Hitler in 1938.
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
This is the first year that we’ve really let our corn and sunflowers just go into the winter and it’s so satisfying to see all kinds of songbirds getting food from them.
January 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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JUST IN: Virginia's legislature just adopted a constitutional amendment that would end Virginia's rules that ban people from voting for life.

Virginia currently is the only state that strips people of voting rights for life for any felony. Youngkin rolled back reforms.

Now going to a referendum.
Virginia Lawmakers Ask Voters to Repeal a Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts
Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.
boltsmag.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I would also like to plug the tireless efforts of @climatehuman.bsky.social and @scientistrebellion.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
The pains of having a cute clingy cat but making music that absolutely terrifies her…😿
January 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I am only able to do music/art/research full time because I split $600 month rent with my partner & have a patreon rn. Surreal to watch the possibility to peruse a full time American arts life disintegrate over the last 10+ years. It was never easy, but we’re at a new low imo.
But also - there are astronomically low chances for most artists to do art full-time/as a career. I remember talking to @petridisch.bsky.social how surprised I was about members of Lush needing day jobs.
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
You can also check out this 15 minute film I made about Texas that features her granddaughter Vicki Miller, in the home the original Lomax recordings were done in, which has since been torn down.

Interview with Texas Gladden's Grandchild - Encyclopedia Virginia
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Excited to share this event honoring the first Virginia folk performer to get an Encyclopedia Virginia entry, Texas Gladden. We will share lots of music from the archive & have ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle speak to her influence in her work.

Texas Gladden & the Art of Appalachian Ballads
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Honest question, where do we think the “don’t talk about your politics in music” attitude came from.
January 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
My most recent short story/soundtrack is about this. A community in the Blue Ridge is not aware a CAT5 hurricane is coming for them because the regime has dismantled all the agencies & infrastructure. Follow up story/soundtrack coming in April.

As Time Draws Near - by Daniel Bachman
January 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Lynchburg

"The British Official Commission asserted that a main cause of the revolt had been Chilembwe's education in the United States. Malawi, where Chilembwe remains a symbol of liberation, became independent in 1964. John Chilembwe Day is celebrated annually on 15 Jan."
January 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Anyone interested in US power-ways would benefit from reading about colonial Virginia history, which eerily re-enacts its own events century after century. Albions Seed really speaks to the mindset of the white elite of the time, the strict racial hierarchy, extreme violence, gross inequality etc.
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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"Virginia: Cradle of White Supremacy" should be the state motto.
January 16, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Also worth mentioning Fort Christanna, an early 17 century pentagon shaped “fort” (concentration camp) used to forcibly detain/re-educate Indigenous Nations of southern Virginia & N Carolina. One of, if not the earliest of its kind in what would later become the USA.

Fort Christanna - Wikipedia
January 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Incoming 10,000 person concentration camp for Stafford co VA.

ICE ‘mega detention center’ in Stafford Co.? Leader concerned – NBC4 Washington
January 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
A really easy way to practice empathy rn in your daily life is to mask in public, esp during this extreme season of flu and SARS. Bonus, it also protects you from an accelerating surveillance state. ❤️‍🔥😷
January 15, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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"White people fear for ourselves what we expect for others"
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM