emperor penguin

a lonely fight.

[ً @cheonsjh]

jihyo with kim sook and song euni 😆🫶

🔗: https://t.co/XHNsM13EbG
#SongJiHyo #송지효

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

In Japan, survivors of sexual abuse almost never use their real names.

In 2024, Riho Fukuyama did.

She was 25 when she stood up publicly and named her own father as the man who had raped her — repeatedly, in their home in Toyama, from 8th grade through her second year of high school. At least eight times.

Her father was arrested. In court, he didn’t deny the sex happened.

He argued she could have fought back.

That her silence meant consent.

The trial court didn’t buy it. Eight years in prison. The judge called it “cowardly and cruel,” and wrote this about why she didn’t resist:

“She was forced to carry the unthinkable — being raped by her own father — entirely alone. Psychologically, she was cornered. She had almost no will left to fight.”

He appealed. Today, the Nagoya High Court threw it out.

Eight years stands.

After the ruling, Riho told reporters:
“I’m grateful they finally heard what I’ve been trying to say.”

She now runs a foundation that helps other survivors of family sexual abuse find the courage — and the legal footing — to press charges.

In Japan, this kind of abuse has long been called an invisible crime.

Riho made it visible by putting her

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

Seven elementary school teachers in Japan
formed a private chat group
to share photos of the children they taught.

Seventy-five girls were violated.

The leader was sentenced this week.
Two years and six months.

He had been the founder and administrator
of the group.
The other six members were also elementary school teachers.

None of them had ever met in person.
They had found each other online —
bound by one shared interest.

The sexual exploitation of the children they taught.

Over years,
in classrooms, at school lunches, on field trips,
during changing rooms and recorder practice,
they secretly photographed and filmed
more than 75 girls in their care.

They uploaded the images to a private group.
They complimented each other's work.

"Nice shot."
"Can't stop looking at this one."

They also shared AI-generated deepfake images
of the real children they taught —
digitally stripped, sexualized,
and circulated among themselves.

These men were not strangers to the girls.
They were their homeroom teachers.
The ones who wrote their report cards.
The ones who walked them to the school gate.

When police finally arrested the group's founder,
he offered one explanation:

"I felt lonely.
My relationship with my family was deteriorating.
On SNS, I finally felt connected to people.
I didn't want to lose that connection."

The judge gave him two years and six months.

Seventy-five children.
Two-and-a-half years.

If we divide his sentence by his known victims,
each child is worth twelve days of his freedom.

This is not a story about seven monsters.
Monsters are rare.

These men were ordinary elementary school teachers,
who signed contracts to protect children,
who showed up to work every day,
who were promoted,
who received parents' trust,
who stood at graduation ceremonies
and watched children they had photographed walk across the stage.

They found each other not because they were rare.
They found each other because they were many.

Japan is scheduled to begin operating
a background check system for people working with children —
the so-called "Japanese DBS" —
in December 2026.

Eight months from now.

Until then,
every year in Japan,
hundreds of teachers are disciplined
for sexual misconduct against students.

Most of them return to the classroom.
Many of them cross prefectures and apply again.
The system, for now, allows this.

His name is Yuji Wada.
He is forty-two years old.
He will walk out of prison at forty-four.

Seventy-five children will carry this for life.

This is not justice.

And somewhere, this morning,
in a Japanese classroom,
another man like him
is handing out worksheets.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Instead of hiding his daughter with Down syndrome, Charles de Gaulle raised her proudly, and she became the heart of his life.
When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he made a quiet request that surprised many. He did not want a grand state funeral in Paris. He asked to be buried in the small village of Colombey les Deux Églises, beside his daughter Anne. For him, that resting place mattered more than any monument.
Anne was born on New Year’s Day in 1928, the youngest of three children. She had Down syndrome, a condition surrounded by fear and misinformation at the time. Doctors and society often blamed parents and urged families to hide children like her from public view. For families of power and status, sending such children away was considered normal.
Charles and his wife Yvonne refused. They raised Anne at home with her brother Philippe and sister Élisabeth. There was no secrecy, no shame, no separation. She was simply their daughter.
To the world, de Gaulle was distant and unyielding. A leader shaped by war, discipline, and command. But inside his home, Anne revealed a side few ever saw. With her, he laughed freely. He sang songs, told stories, and played games. Friends noticed that the man who rarely showed emotion softened completely in her presence.
He called her my joy. Anne asked nothing of him except love, and in that simplicity, he found peace. She was never treated as fragile or inferior. She was respected fully, included always, and loved without condition.
That love did not end within the family. After the war, Charles and Yvonne founded the Fondation Anne de Gaulle. They turned a château into a home for young women with intellectual disabilities, many of whom had been abandoned. At a time when support barely existed, they chose action over silence.
Anne’s life was short. She died of pneumonia in 1948, just after turning twenty, in her father’s arms. In his grief, de Gaulle whispered that now she was like the others, finally free from the limits the world had placed on her.
After her death, he carried her photograph everywhere. He believed her presence protected him, even during an assassination attempt years later. Whether faith or fate, he never doubted her importance in his life.
Charles de Gaulle found his deepest calm not in leadership or victory, but in loving a child the world did not understand. His family showed that dignity is not about ability. It is about how fiercely we choose to care.

[SK misogyny🇰🇷 @zip99900]

Sergeant Lee Ye-ram, a female soldier, was sexually assaulted by a senior and reported it to her unit. However, the military never investigated the perpetrator even once, and instead, she endured harassment from colleagues and superiors, ultimately leading to her suicide.

In the Korean military, when a soldier dies—even if it’s due to harassment—it is commonplace to recognize them as a “national merit recipient.” Accordingly, her family filed an administrative lawsuit requesting the state to designate her as such, but the court dismissed their claim.

https://t.co/yBGaH6vNFT

[Sivanathan @sivanathans]

The CEO said competition is fuel for growth. In Malaysia, we just call it the "nasi lemak effect.”

Stall A had a monopoly for years. The rice was cold and the auntie never smiled.

Then stall B opened across the road with a viral TikTok.

Suddenly, stall A "found her fuel."
The rice became fragrant and the auntie started calling everyone "sayang."

Competition didn't change the economy. It just stopped the auntie from being lazy.

I’m currently fueling my growth by watching my neighbor’s evening runs.
He is getting into some shape I envy.

I’m buying new running shoes tonight.

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳 A Chinese girl buying the same fruits from the same fruit seller, 27 years later.

[Š | ندى الكلمات ​🌱 @mdsyaha]

Hebat anak Malaysia! Bacaan saudari kita Radhiah Muhammad Syafie mendapat pujian daripada ulama besar bidang al-Quran dan Qiraat zaman kita, Syeikh Dr. Ayman Suwaid hafizahullah.

Kata Syeikh,
ما عندي أي ملاحظة على تلاوتك
“I have no comment on your perfect recitation”

Inilah contoh bacaan yang kemas dari segi pengucapan makhraj, sifat huruf diucapkan dengan benar termasuklah sifat huruf bertemu dengan lainnya seperti idgham, ikhfa' dan selainnya. Panjang pendeknya betul, dengungnya betul serta waqaf dan ibtida' juga tepat.

Syeikh siap endorse lagi sekiranya saudari kita ini mengajar al-Quran agar para muslimah di Malaysia mendapat manfaatnya.

Boleh tonton playlist program Musabaqah Duta al-Qur'an Channel Sad pada halaman YouTube

https://t.co/41FKzyBesH

[Wirshad @TheShadspeare]

7 years later….

Answering the questions: I rejected all of the overseas offer to pursue medicine locally

Thankfully:
1) Graduated on time without failing any papers
2) A university double gold medalist recipient
3) MOST IMPORTANTLY, still making my parents happy & proud :))

[여성운전 프로젝트 '언니차' @unniecar]

태국 학교에서 10대 남학생이 총기로 학생을 붙잡고 인질극을 벌여, 교장선생님이 대신 인질을 자처해 학생들을 지키려다 총에 맞아 숨졌습니다. 인질인 학생은 구조되었으며 인질범은 체포되었으고, 경찰의 총에 맞아 치료 중입니다.
사시팟 신시모손 교장선생님께 존경과 깊은 애도를 드립니다.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

The Dewan Rakyat has passed the Anti-Bullying Bill to address bullying cases in educational institutions for students under 18 years old.

The proposed law establishes an anti-bullying tribunal that can award up to RM250,000 and hold parents accountable, says Law Minister Azalina Othman.

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[BFM News @NewsBFM]

🚨JUST IN: The AGC has ordered the death of UTM Palapes cadet Syamsul Haris Shamsudin to be classified as murder.

The investigation is ongoing to identify those responsible for the 22-year-old's death, said CID Director M. Kumar.

[James 🇭🇰 Ockenden @transit_jam]

One of the construction bosses arrested today has form: in 2004 he was charged with using false documents under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
POBO charges are brought by ICAC, which today announced a new taskforce into the fire investigation.
https://t.co/ItqS9WVnMG

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

[Recap] Forty-four people are dead and 279 are missing after a fire engulfed seven residential towers in Tai Po on Wednesday. Of those hospitalised, 45 remain in a serious condition. https://t.co/zEG2AzCtX5

[Razven @RazvenHK]

This is Ho Wai-ho. He perished in the line of duty while fighting the Tai Po building dire yesterday.

Rest in peace, Mr Fireman.

[sweetpink(⁠✿◠‿◠)🍭 @NuKyeom1318]

Assalamualaikum semua. Saya nak minta jasa baik korang repost dan sebarkan ni🙏🏻 Atok ni adik kepada Allahyarham Nekwan saya. Biasa kalau hari raya mesti singgah rumah beliau. Harini dah masuk hari ke 7 beliau hilang😔🥺

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Imagine being so intimidated by an Ice cream just because it’s gonna have a representation of Palestine that you make your Embassy post about it.

Pathetic.