Patrick John Gillam
@patrickgillam.bsky.social
I’m not Christian in any conventional sense, but I love this thought in John 9:3:
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.”
A good thought whenever I behold something needing fixing.
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.”
A good thought whenever I behold something needing fixing.
Been thinking a lot lately about moral injury, the guilt and scarring suffered by people who realize they hurt others. In addition to all the veterans of the Bush-Cheney wars, this Trump era is generating a lot of prospects for the disability.
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January 18, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Been thinking a lot lately about moral injury, the guilt and scarring suffered by people who realize they hurt others. In addition to all the veterans of the Bush-Cheney wars, this Trump era is generating a lot of prospects for the disability.
www.ptsd.va.gov/professional...
www.ptsd.va.gov/professional...
So right. This episode really contextualizes January 6th. A sample:
January 7, 2026 at 12:26 AM
So right. This episode really contextualizes January 6th. A sample:
Hey, not that it matters, but when Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about self-reliance, he was not saying we need to sew our own clothes and repair our own plumbing. He was saying we each have our own satisfactions and our own ways of doing things, and we live best when we follow our individual impulses.
December 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hey, not that it matters, but when Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about self-reliance, he was not saying we need to sew our own clothes and repair our own plumbing. He was saying we each have our own satisfactions and our own ways of doing things, and we live best when we follow our individual impulses.
Are American humans really posting these stupid fucken opinions that the United States would benefit from a military coup? Or are they bots? I see this nonsense and have to think it’s coming from St. Petersburg. Spare me such idiocy.
December 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Are American humans really posting these stupid fucken opinions that the United States would benefit from a military coup? Or are they bots? I see this nonsense and have to think it’s coming from St. Petersburg. Spare me such idiocy.
A quick search found me this picture. Is this the look you mean?
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A quick search found me this picture. Is this the look you mean?
Quiet demonstration today. The annual Peak into Peterborough events conflicted with No Kings, so we had maybe half the demonstrators we had in June. (We had nowhere to park!) But more notable was the absence of counterprotestors. No flag-flying monster trucks. Just honking supporters.
October 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Quiet demonstration today. The annual Peak into Peterborough events conflicted with No Kings, so we had maybe half the demonstrators we had in June. (We had nowhere to park!) But more notable was the absence of counterprotestors. No flag-flying monster trucks. Just honking supporters.
On my way home from seeing a Dartmouth-Hitchcock oncologist I side-tripped to the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire. Morbidly, and let’s hope not presciently, I had to snap this selfie with a statue of Death.
October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
On my way home from seeing a Dartmouth-Hitchcock oncologist I side-tripped to the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire. Morbidly, and let’s hope not presciently, I had to snap this selfie with a statue of Death.
Thanks for bringing NHJ’s essay to my attention. The closing reminded me of a friend who facilitated discussion among people of divergent views *not to find common ground* but to understand where they differed and, more importantly, to recognize the other as human, thereby avoiding violence.
September 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thanks for bringing NHJ’s essay to my attention. The closing reminded me of a friend who facilitated discussion among people of divergent views *not to find common ground* but to understand where they differed and, more importantly, to recognize the other as human, thereby avoiding violence.
Here’s a story at the time:
September 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Here’s a story at the time:
I love Slate but this is the second podcast to wonder what Trump has against renewable energy. People, he told energy companies he’d give them whatever they wanted if they’d donate enough money to his 2024 campaign. And they want no competition. This seems easy.
September 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I love Slate but this is the second podcast to wonder what Trump has against renewable energy. People, he told energy companies he’d give them whatever they wanted if they’d donate enough money to his 2024 campaign. And they want no competition. This seems easy.
When the Facebook assholes learned how powerful their platform was, instead of instituting control rods, they became even more reckless and dangerous. We allow such wealth at our peril.
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
When the Facebook assholes learned how powerful their platform was, instead of instituting control rods, they became even more reckless and dangerous. We allow such wealth at our peril.
Thanks to Dan McClellan for giving me the word for why so many fundamentalist Christians are keen to treat the planet like there’s no tomorrow.
July 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Thanks to Dan McClellan for giving me the word for why so many fundamentalist Christians are keen to treat the planet like there’s no tomorrow.
J.D. Vance saying New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani won support of the elite with his pledge of free bus rides.
July 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
J.D. Vance saying New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani won support of the elite with his pledge of free bus rides.
Yes, it’s the Vice President of the United States of America talking about “foreign religions.”
What a fucken tool.
What a fucken tool.
July 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yes, it’s the Vice President of the United States of America talking about “foreign religions.”
What a fucken tool.
What a fucken tool.
These target-hunting drones in Ukraine and Gaza are metaphors for how I feel these days. Just as it’s near impossible to evade these killer drones, I feel as if I’m in the sights of man-made destroyers trying to take me down: artificial intelligence. Global warming. MAGA. Uncontrolled capitalism.
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
These target-hunting drones in Ukraine and Gaza are metaphors for how I feel these days. Just as it’s near impossible to evade these killer drones, I feel as if I’m in the sights of man-made destroyers trying to take me down: artificial intelligence. Global warming. MAGA. Uncontrolled capitalism.
Art replicates enlightenment in that it brings us into presence. It’s common from that state to appreciate finer feelings, such as acceptance and its summit, love.
April 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Art replicates enlightenment in that it brings us into presence. It’s common from that state to appreciate finer feelings, such as acceptance and its summit, love.
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social
This book is amusing and entertaining me. And goddammit if every now and then it isn’t giving me something to think about.
This book is amusing and entertaining me. And goddammit if every now and then it isn’t giving me something to think about.
April 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social
This book is amusing and entertaining me. And goddammit if every now and then it isn’t giving me something to think about.
This book is amusing and entertaining me. And goddammit if every now and then it isn’t giving me something to think about.
We hear spiritual transformation is prerequisite to political transformation. If you meditate for spiritual growth, a tip: Instead of trying to rid your mind of thoughts, simply allow your awareness to be aware of itself. Do that and the thoughts will take care of themselves.
April 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We hear spiritual transformation is prerequisite to political transformation. If you meditate for spiritual growth, a tip: Instead of trying to rid your mind of thoughts, simply allow your awareness to be aware of itself. Do that and the thoughts will take care of themselves.
Let’s just put this out there:
Sarah Schulman quotes Sadir Shafi – “Think about what you can do, not what you can lose.”
Sarah Schulman quotes Sadir Shafi – “Think about what you can do, not what you can lose.”
April 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Let’s just put this out there:
Sarah Schulman quotes Sadir Shafi – “Think about what you can do, not what you can lose.”
Sarah Schulman quotes Sadir Shafi – “Think about what you can do, not what you can lose.”
“I’m voting for Donald Trump because he’s a successful businessman who knows how to boost the economy.”
(Listen to the clip to drink in the irony.)
(Listen to the clip to drink in the irony.)
April 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“I’m voting for Donald Trump because he’s a successful businessman who knows how to boost the economy.”
(Listen to the clip to drink in the irony.)
(Listen to the clip to drink in the irony.)
I asked GPT 4o about Constitutional authority to set tariffs. Turns out the job belongs to Congress. But they delegated it to the Executive in emergencies. So welcome to upside-down world, where that decent (if unfair) economy we were enjoying is an “emergency.”
April 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I asked GPT 4o about Constitutional authority to set tariffs. Turns out the job belongs to Congress. But they delegated it to the Executive in emergencies. So welcome to upside-down world, where that decent (if unfair) economy we were enjoying is an “emergency.”
For people who believe All Lives Matter, they can sure generate a death toll.
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March 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
For people who believe All Lives Matter, they can sure generate a death toll.
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What are you doing to liberate yourself? I have a few things.
March 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What are you doing to liberate yourself? I have a few things.