In Japanese this probably says she referred to Rika's mother by a more casual suffix/title but in english it just sounds like using her first name is some kind of affectionate nickname

also if I was gonna pick a kneecap song to put over a Fenian riot I'd pick your sniffer dogs are shite since it's genuinely angry/anti police rather get your Brits out which is fairly lighthearted

For a government supposedly concerned with online safety it seems ridiculous to repeal one of the only protections against predatory data collection

Our constitutional amendment are often focused on the law, we shy away from changing anything about the political system even the Seanad, but we do need to consider the spaces where our political system could be made more democratic and more functional

I'm not concerned about Marie Steen or whoever (I don't know who she and I don't care) but I think introducing a way for candidates to get on the ballet through petition or some other measure could actually be useful

I do support Connolly and I think she's a better candidate, but she doesn't measure up to presidents past, and I do think this election cycle has made the presidency feel as unimportant and ineffectual as it was before Mary Robinson

Oh god Connolly will be even worse than that damn commie miggeldy