WoefulLee

Healthy hair and healthy life journey. Come with me, let's grow! also find me @woefulwrites

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Great idea but they don't do that because they don't want to know. They want to keep shoving it in our faces until it's all we see.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We need a “Not interested, this is AI” button or a proper AI blocker. The algorithm needs to learn how badly most people don’t want AI slop.

[Epik High @EpikHighHQ]

WHO AGREES THAT THESE CONCERT TICKETING SITES ARE A JOKE?!

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

This is so embarrassing
Why did they post this?

[Masculine Order @gameth4ory]

Differences Between a Masculine vs. Feminine Man

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[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

A sad thing happened in Japan

An 11-year-old boy named Yuki was reported missing in Kyoto.

His stepfather was out on the streets, handing flyers to neighbors, asking for help finding him.

This week, that same stepfather was arrested.

He has reportedly told police he “lost his temper and strangled” Yuki, then dumped the body in a mountain forest.

The boy’s mother, by every account, believed him until the end.

This is where most people will stop reading, and this is exactly where the harder conversation should start.

Japan has a quiet, persistent problem that rarely makes it into the English-language conversation about this country: children living with stepfathers or their mother’s new partners are overrepresented in serious child abuse cases.

In Japan, when child abuse crosses into criminal prosecution, around 72% of offenders are “father figures” — and within that group, over a third are stepfathers, adoptive fathers, or the mother’s live-in boyfriend.

Given that stepfamilies make up only around 7% of marriages in Japan, that share is not small.

Child welfare data tells a similar story, case after case — sustained beatings, torture, sexual abuse, disposal of bodies.

It is not that stepfathers are monsters. Most are not.

It is that a country that treats family as a private black box — where divorce still carries stigma, where mothers are often financially cornered into remarrying, where schools and neighbors are trained not to intrude — systematically fails to see the children inside those homes until it is far too late.

Yuki’s mother handed out flyers next to the man who now says he killed her son.

Japan just began allowing joint custody this month, after decades of delay.

But the harder reforms — mandatory home visits, real authority for child welfare workers, serious screening around non-biological caregivers — are still stuck.

This is not an abstract policy argument. It is the difference between an 11-year-old going to school next week, and an 11-year-old becoming a headline.

Rest in peace, Yuki.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In her final semester at Harvard, Amanda Nguyen was raped. She did everything survivors are told to do. Then she discovered that the physical evidence collected from her own body would be destroyed in 6 months — unless she filed paperwork to stop it. And then filed it again. Every 6 months. Forever. She was 22 years old. She decided to change federal law instead. 🌟

Amanda had interned at NASA. She had big plans. The kind of future that takes years of hard work to build was finally within reach.

Then everything shattered.

She went to the hospital. She reported the assault to police. She endured the forensic exam. She made the careful decision to file her rape kit anonymously — worried that an open case could affect security clearance applications for her dream careers.

That's when the system revealed how broken it truly was.

Because she was anonymous, Massachusetts law gave her only 6 months before her rape kit — physical evidence collected from her own body — would be permanently destroyed.

Not the 15 years the state allowed for pressing charges.

Six months.

No official process to extend it. No clear instructions. No one to guide her. She had to figure it out herself, every 6 months, forcing herself to relive the worst experience of her life just to preserve her right to eventually seek justice.

She started researching rape kit laws in all 50 states.

What she found was staggering.

Some states kept kits for years. Others destroyed them in as little as 30 days. Some states charged survivors for the cost of their own kit collection. Others never notified survivors what happened to their evidence. No consistency. No standard.

*"Justice should not depend on geography,"* she said.

But it did.

In November 2014, Amanda founded Rise — a nonprofit dedicated to changing that reality. Everyone who worked with Rise was a volunteer. They fundraised through crowdfunding.

Their goal was rewriting federal law.

She met with lawmakers across Washington. Staffers told her it wasn't a priority. Some questioned her story. She kept going. She learned that the most powerful thing she could do was stop being abstract — to walk into a room, look a senator in the eyes, and say: *this happened to me. I am sitting in front of you.*

Together with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, she drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act — proposing that survivors should never be charged for their rape kit collection, should receive testing results, and must be notified at least 60 days before their evidence was scheduled for destruction.

In February 2016, the bill was introduced.

It passed the Senate unanimously.

It passed the House unanimously.

Not a single vote against.

On October 7, 2016, President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act into federal law.

Amanda Nguyen was 24 years old.

Rise continued working state by state. To date, Rise has helped pass 33 laws across the United States, covering protections for over 84 million rape survivors.

A movement started in spare time, with no budget and only volunteers, became one of the most effective civil rights campaigns of its generation.

And Amanda never stopped reaching for the stars — literally.

In 2024, Blue Origin announced she would be the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space. The young woman who had once feared that fighting for justice would cost her a future in space proved the two didn't have to be a choice.

She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Named a Time Woman of the Year. She wrote a memoir called *Saving Five.*

But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Amanda Nguyen's story is not any single achievement.

It is the fact that she turned the most painful moment of her life into something that made the world more just for millions of people who will never know her name.

She was a college student who needed the system to work.

When it didn't, she rebuilt it herself.

**At 24 years old.

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

I feel like Jean's beef with Jasmine reminds of a faithful correctly identifying a traitor in The Traitors - she's right about Jasmine but she has no proof but she is right tho

#EastEnders

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

The talent this man has is insane!

[Wisdom Kaye @modsiwW]

What if Christmas was Halloween?

[Lippy @LickshotLippy]

Coz they killed all their opps. Has Spider Man even got the don that licked down his uncle??? How you got super powers but your uncle got touched, I’m a normal human and all my uncle’s are fine

[Lee @woefulwrites]

Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent https://t.co/lEz6aopEgo

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Really, Vicky and Zach? Do they have any non familial romantic love stories for Sharon's family?

#EastEnders

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

London: The most surveilled city in the world.

Walford: Not even a Ring doorbell in sight.

#EastEnders

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Think Jasmine is Cindy's niece because she seems very interested in Cindy's history and they've recently mentioned Cindy having a sister (which I don't recall being mentioned before but they're possibly reminding us) and she's just the 1st character in a new family #EastEnders

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Guessing this is Max Marshall's, who plays Joel, exit story. Hope he gets a role as a nice character very soon because he's played the villain so well, he's at risk of being typecast because although Joel is also a vulnerable little boy, he plays the dark side so well #EastEnders

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

It doesn’t feel like party rock is in the house tonight. It hasn’t for a long time

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Why has Teddy Mitchell bought the worst spy camera known to man?

#Eastenders

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

@Dr_SaebGaza .

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Tortellini

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

You have to name him the last thing you ate

[WoefulLee @WoefulToFroFull]

Oh my good god!

[alice might drop dead ❤︎⁠ @ttpdlukee]

the caption?? im-