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Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.

Everyone say mean things about him.

Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:

His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid

He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times

He dies and gets resurrected

His wife gets possessed

He fails to save her and she dies in his arms

He dies and gets resurrected again

He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum

He dies and gets resurrected again

His ex gets possessed

He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation

He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped

He gets kidnapped by a princess

He gets kidnapped by a fish alien

He gets kidnapped and tortured by some terrorists

He gets kidnapped and tortured by another alien

He is driven to insanity by an alien device

He dies and gets resurrected again

But the true extent of Dolan’s panopticon has only been caught in glimpses. A 2025 lawsuit by a former member of the MSG security team lifted the veil, just a bit. We started our own digging into the Garden's operations. We discovered that Dolan’s security teams obsessively tracked Nina Richards, a trans woman, over a two-year period, monitoring her movements through the venue down to the second. (WIRED is using a pseudonym in this article out of respect for her privacy.) Dolan's biometric surveillance is so extensive that a New York City police officer’s photo was added to a face-recognition database, and a child triggered an alert at one of Dolan’s properties. According to that lawsuit and our sources, Dolan’s head of corporate security takes such an expansive view of his mission that his employees will functionally cosplay as cops—patrolling the neighborhood, snooping on protesters if they happen to be in the area. You don't have to enter a Dolan venue to be under his watch.

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Most of us have become numb to the “surveillance capitalism” model of trading personal information for some kind of digital convenience—a better map or an AI model tuned to our quirks. The post-9/11 security state has habituated us to the idea of trading a fingerprint or a scan of our face in exchange for security. But what’s happening in sports and entertainment is relatively new: an attempt to get customers to give up their biometric data in exchange for a perk, or a hot dog. At Intuit Dome near Los Angeles, Citi Field in Queens, and Pechanga Arena in San Diego, fans are encouraged to use their face as their ticket or to pay for their food and drinks. “By integrating biometric authentication, Ticketmaster clients” can offer, among other things, “premium guests a frictionless, exclusive experience,” the company says on its website.

XtractOne, meanwhile, is looking to automatically flag people whose tweets or Instagram posts they don't like. Evans gives a hypothetical: “I can pull his picture right off of social media. I can feed it into our database, our eConnect database. Now we can get awareness of that person as he approaches the building.”

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All of this has done more than turn sports venues into panopticons. It has allowed Dolan's brand of score-settling to trickle out into the wider world.

As far as our sources know, the Garden is not at this moment automatically banning social media posters. But for years, Dolan "would come in, and he and Eversole would pore over all these social media comments from the Knicks and the Rangers," one veteran of MSG security tells us. Sports fans who talked shit would get “work-ups.” Ingrasselino, in his suit, says he was ordered to “perform full and intrusive background checks, surveillance, and assessments into individuals’ private backgrounds who were of no threat to MSG.” That included “sports fans who articulated frustration with team losses, chant[ed] for Mr. Dolan to sell the Knicks, or simply us[ed] foul language.”

If those posts could be interpreted in any way as threats, Eversole would contact their hometown police, multiple security team sources say. “He would take it upon himself to reach out to someone somewhere and introduce himself as the CSO of Madison Square Garden and demand that the local PD take action,” the security veteran adds.

One teenager posted a tweet, and MSG security asked local law enforcement to visit him. “They scared the crap [poop emoji] out of some 14 year old kid in Colorado,” one MSG security staffer texted in a message we reviewed. Cops would at times ignore Eversole's demands. He and his deputies would then “freak the fuck out when a PD somewhere would not play ball,” the second veteran continues.

Eversole would also allegedly push his subordinates to act more like municipal cops. He'd urge them to patrol the streets surrounding MSG, which is located in one of Manhattan's more derelict neighborhoods, functionally acting as a second, ersatz police force—without formal permission of New York's real one. “On many occasions, I was ordered to stop traffic, close sidewalks, and unlawfully detain individuals in the venue and demand identification,” Munn, the former security worker, wrote in his filing. Munn added that these orders were “against NY State/City laws without proper permits or NYPD's authorization, which MSG did not maintain.” An NYPD spokesperson confirms that such authorization was never given. […]

Ingrasselino also alleges in his suit that he was ordered to embed “in the middle of pro-Palestine or anti-Israel protests” that happened to be passing a Dolan venue. Other security sources say that they were not ordered to insert themselves into any demonstrations. But they confirm that they were asked to observe protests that went anywhere near a Dolan venue. Given those venues' central location, it happened a lot.

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[More] and more business leaders seem ready to embrace parts of Dolan's security state. Biometric surveillance is everywhere now: at your hotel, on your dating app, in the drug store, on Ring door cameras, in your Meta sunglasses. Trump's security forces, too, have deployed face recognition on the streets of Chicago and Minneapolis, to identify and intimidate activists trying to document the brutal paramilitary occupations there.

While the Trump administration is trying to corner the market on morally compromised henchmen, a corporate overlord who wants their own security force can easily find everything from paid muscle to private intelligence analysis to the dark arts of public influence. LinkedIn alone is littered with CIA and NSA veterans who are #readytowork. Executives from Elon Musk to Bari Weiss reportedly walk around their offices with bodyguards at times, as if they need to be protected from their employees. Dueling global workforce management firms have accused one another of both corporate espionage—and of spying on their spies. One security executive compares our current situation to “where Italy was 100 years ago,” when “people had guards at their homes and moved around with guys carrying rifles.”

Jayme Lawson as Pearline.

“She is a performer. She is a sharecropper who was married off young to an older gentleman and seeks to find her life in these kinds of juke joints. That’s where she seems to come alive. That’s where she tends to have some level of freedom.”-Jayme Lawson.

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The next day he was called into a meeting where he was insulted and grilled about “ruining the party” and “stealing his co-workers’ joy”, which caused him to have another panic attack and start doing coping behaviours like hugging himself, at which point his employers decided he must be angry and was going to turn violent. They then suspended him for days and later told him he’d been fired.

So yeah, it’s not over an “unwanted birthday party”, it’s over employers repeatedly failing to accommodate someone’s disability, trying to frame them as the villain for having accessibility needs, and firing them for not conforming to some stupid office politics.

It'll be interesting (?) to see how the new tumblr update affects this post. But I wanted to share them before the blackouts happen soon. Again, thanks for all the comments and notes, I'm having a lot of fun making these and sharing them!

Codes Part 1

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terfs' attitudes towards transmascs vary quite a bit and are a lot more complicated than their attitudes towards transfems are. often you'll see terfs who very clearly give straight trans men more sympathy than gay trans men. you'll see one terf talk about how gay trans men are victims of the patriarchy who deserve help and another say that we're all homophobic rapist straight women. but in general, we are seen as "salavageable". they want us to detransition and join them.

is this violently transphobic and predatory? absolutely. 100%. but they just straight up want transfems to die. they are pretty unanimous about that across the board.

so because of that, there is far more of a concerted effort to get us to join them. and, unfortunately, they are very good at it.

they'll often have a blog where they don't outright say anything hateful but will suspiciously never utter a peep about trans women. they'll have a multitude of posts about how they consider trans men to be comrades of theirs and how it's so important that gnc women and trans men have solidarity. they'll talk at length about how trans men and butch lesbians have a rich shared history but never mention transfem butches even when asked directly. they'll follow young insecure transmascs from these blogs and they'll be respectful of their pronouns, they'll like their vent posts and offer them advice on dealing with their conservative parents and when enough time has passed they'll start making comments about trans women ("isn't it odd that trans women have so much representation compared to trans men?") and usually the guy in question already has some transmisogynistic tendencies so he doesn't call them out. at some point they'll own up to being a radfem "but a trans inclusive one" and start being more upfront about the less offensive aspects of their ideology. slowly but surely they're getting him to actually agree with what they're saying and eventually they'll introduce him to their radfem friends. they'll make comments like "see how nice everyone is? isn't it weird that people on tumblr say that we're supposed to hate each other?" and it'll progress until suddenly he's a "desisted womyn" and attacking trans women like it's his goddamn job

and i know this happens because i have seen it happen to others and when i was a baby trans guy i had cis women who i now know were terfs try to pull this shit on me (thankfully they never got past the "follow and act like you're his friend" stage)

and these transmascs are still absolutely responsible for their own actions just like a cis boy being groomed into a neo nazi group would still be responsible for his. I am not approaching this from a "won't someone think of the poor transmisogynists" angle. but I think it's something that is worth keeping in mind especially with the rise of the "transmisandry" shit. I don't buy the theory that it's all a terf psyop (and i think that's just brushing the transmisogyny within the trans community under the rug tbh) but don't think for a second that terfs aren't taking advantage of it.

if you're a young trans guy reading this, the best advice i can give you is to go out of your way to look at what your new friend's mutuals circle looks like. if you don't see a single trans woman, just block and move on.

The starter 'mons for the first pokemon generation.... but in formline! :>

You can find them on my ko-fi!!