337: What if they delighted in your misery?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A self-described geek finds his voice as a sci-fi author and amasses an audience on social media, but after he posts a seemingly innocuous tweet, a hoard of internet stalkers fixate on destroying his life.
Today’s episode featured Patrick S. Tomlinson. If you’d like to reach out to him, you can email him at [email protected], or you can find him on Twitter @stealthygeek, on Threads @pstomlinson and on Blue Sky @stealthygeek.bsky.social
Visit www.patrickstomlinson.com to find out more information about Patrick and his books.
Producers: Whit Missildine
Content/Trigger Warnings: cyber stalking, physical stalking, gun violence, suicide/suicidal ideation, infidelity & divorce, pregnancy, threats of suicide, threats of violence, threats of murder, elder pet (no harm), CPTSD, authoritarianism, lawsuit, explicit language
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Music Bed: Re-Entry
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening by joining |
| 0:05.7 | Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.7 | This is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:14.0 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information |
| 0:18.1 | about support services. They want us to separate us from everyone else. |
| 0:25.0 | They want us to never feel safe. |
| 0:30.0 | They want us to never have a moment's rest. |
| 0:32.0 | Just endless psychological terrorism, |
| 0:35.0 | because that's how you break a person down. |
| 0:38.0 | They want us to give up our lives. From Wundry, I'm Witt Misleine. |
| 0:50.0 | You are listening to this is actually. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misaldine. |
| 0:53.2 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:55.8 | Episode 3. Episode 337. |
| 1:05.0 | What if they delighted in your misery? |
| 1:09.0 | If you or |
| 1:15.0 | or someone you care about has cancer, |
| 1:17.0 | Macmillan Cancer Support's online community is here to help from day one. |
| 1:22.0 | Macmillan's free online forum provides a safe space to get support from both experts and others who've been there. |
| 1:28.0 | Members support each other anonymously, sharing what's helped them on a range of subjects, from dealing with side effects such |
| 1:35.2 | as hair loss and fatigue, to money worries and managing work or talking with children about a |
| 1:40.5 | diagnosis. |
| 1:41.9 | There are different forums on cancer types or experiences, |
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