At least now the scumminess of EAs business practices will be fully reflected in the absolute scumminess of their new ownership team. And it's now saddled with billions of debt for its own purchase and will need to make huge cuts to compensate, so a great business plan all round.

"Mass layoffs" expected at FC 27 and Star Wars Jedi developer EA, as controversial $55bn buyout by Saudi Arabia's PIF and Donald Trump's son-in-law is made official

Affinity Partners, Silver Lake, and the Saudi Public Investment Fund now own one of the largest video game publishers in the world.

eurogamer.net

Reform and Restore: "people keep calling us Nazis and people still want to vote for us!" Tories: Gotcha, hire actual Nazis.

Ex neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine selected as Tory candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed in 2015 after posting antisemitic remarks ahead of a protest.

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Good riddance to the nonce. Enjoy hell.

Journalist Rod Liddle dies aged 66

Rod Liddle’s children paid tribute to their father, who was their guide ‘on how to live an extraordinary life’

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Because being a massive bigot wasn't bad enough, we now need 3 more months of Sandie Peggie and her cadre of "gender critical" bullshit. Because thats what it is, it's bigotry in legal clothing, and how the fuck it past the Grainger criteria still beggars belief. Fuck off into the sea Transphobes.

Sandie Peggie's employment tribunal appeal to go ahead next year

The nurse was suspended by NHS Fife after she objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor.

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Tories: we want a judicial review because this consultation was ignored by the government! 1. It's a consultation, not a binding referendum. 2. 6615 people responded out of 623,000 people affected. So like 1% of people cared enough to complain. But they'll moan about wasting taxpayers money...

Ministers 'ignored' public over Leicester expansion - MPs

A government consultation shows 87% of respondents felt negatively about a larger Leicester.

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Calling yourself a social housing provider doesn't really mean much of you it ignore both the social and housing parts does it? Mind you years of dealing with shit HA's like Peabody leaves me completely unlocked they'll act like this to vulnerable adults when there's more cash to be made.

'We're being evicted from where we've called home for 55 years'

Brothers are told they must leave the house in Bury St Edmunds where they have lived since 1970.

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We built a building so badly that when we turn the Aircon off people suffer heatstroke, but that doesn't mean we have to supply the peasants with Aircon, the poor should just die. -building management.

Aircon 'turned off' in temporary housing flats at Britannia Point

Residents were told aircon had been switched off in flats leased through Aura and People First.

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The supposed bastion of human rights bowing to the bigots and apologising. How fucking embarrassing for Amnesty that they're too weak to call these people out for what they are.

Amnesty apologises to JK Rowling's sexual violence support centre Beira's Place

The centre, funded by the Harry Potter author, had threatened Amnesty with legal action after it was labelled "anti-rights".

bbc.co.uk

Bet it wasn’t a surgery with his constituents.

Quelle surprise that people didn't need to vandalise a shit repair job. As if anyone believed that kind of nonsense. Gotta be on for one of the worst lies they've come up with.

Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits flawed repairs

Former Olympian David Hearn had been arrested, but prosecutors now say he did not cause the damage.

bbc.co.uk

Game over.

Speaking as someone who works in recruitment: Utter Bollocks. Remote interviews are great for people with nerves to conduct an interview in comfortable surroundings And there is nothing "personality" wise you can't gauge from a screen to in person unless you lack experience conducting interviews.

Virtual interviews don't show bosses your personality, says Burnham

Interviews online may not allow young people to "shine" and communicate their "passion", the prime minister says.

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Only thing more embarrassing than people slapping shitty quality England flags on lampposts is that a year later these ragged, ruined things are left rotting out there,blowing limply in the breeze. What a metaphor that is.

Of course Jenrick said social care should be paid for by shitting on as many other people as possible, because he's a sociopathic power hungry cunt. And those are his good qualities.

Jenrick urges Burnham to rule out tax rises to fund social care

The prime minister has not ruled out tax rises to fund a long-awaited shake-up of social care.

bbc.co.uk

E-waste is good! Says company who aren't responsible for dealing with their own mess once it's gone wrong. Meanwhile I've had a mouse with a rechargeable AA battery for 8 years whilst my wife has chucked away 3 rechargeable mice.

Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo

Logitech recently told The Verge that some of its mice will soon feature replaceable lithium-ion batteries, but the new models will only be available in Europe. Like...

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"This just gives Reform fuel!" "That just plays in to the hands of the rightwing press!" "They have to be better than this because the right latches on to it!" These are all true 100% of the time whenever the left does anything at all leftwing because the right never stops whining and complaining.

The guys a crook, who works for Gbeebies and what do they focus on in the article? That he's had a kid with some love island idiot. Why is BBC journalism so bad these days?

Ex political advisor Matthew Torbitt admits expense fraud claims

Matthew Torbitt was working for Bury South MP Christian Wakeford at th etime of the offences.

bbc.co.uk

Same reform party that champions a woman who called for Burning immigrants as a free speech advocate Same party whose chief whip shared a photo of a noose to "deal with people." Same party whose leader said he'd don khaki and pick up a rifle to defend Brexit against other politicians Hypocrites.

Reform UK reporting Green leader Zack Polanski to police over Instagram post

The post included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.

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Notice how when it's talking about people moving here it's "migrants" and "immigration concerns." And when it's white people fucking around and finding out in other countries they're "expats" and "digital nomads. I fucking see you BBC. I see you.

Bali bans Dutch expats whose run club allegedly excluded Indonesians

The two men, who are accused of favouring foreigners for their events, allegedly violated immigration laws.

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See Labour will lead with the little wins, £40 off your electric here, a bus freeze there. Oh but we're going after benefit claimants again and shutting down an iconic scientific institution because we need money for bombs. Anything other than a wealth tax eh?

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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i'm done

Government home building targets are kind of pointless if you knock down 170+ council homes and replace them with 70 private ones....

Cambridge: The new flats that have raised ethical questions

A Cambridge council estate is being knocked down and replaced, potentially without council homes.

bbc.co.uk

Woman with no principles demands other people stick to their principles so they can't do she wouldn't do, because it might involve making other people's lives better slightly rather than benefiting profits.

Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care

In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.

bbc.co.uk

So there are people who are even more sore losers than Trump, who knew?

Boycotts and apologies: Argentina row over Rosalía and Patti Smith after World Cup

Messages of support for Spain from Rosalía and Patti Smith sparked a backlash in Argentina after the World Cup final, with online criticism, boycott calls and a cancelled tribute concert.

euronews.com

The problem with articles like this is they give you Trump's bullshit assessment of things uncritically, they don't give any explanation for what his bullshit assessment actually means or provide any examples and then the BBC would call this unbiased reporting, just parroting Trump's lies.

Trump orders Smithsonian to post warnings about 'inaccurate' US history

The Trump administration has often accused the world's largest research museum of harbouring an anti-American bias.

bbc.co.uk

Get ready for 370 copy and paste interviews from all the former Tories now pledging their loyalty to a new crook.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reform tells councillors to say donation inquiry is a ‘smear’ and ‘hit job’

I don't understand... what happened to the prosperity, economic gains and cheap beer that this turnip-headed fuckwit promised before the referendum?

Reform: helping the community by forcing community run libraries to close. Because education is the enemy of hate.

Community library closes due to rent and heating costs

Volunteers at Danesholme Library in Corby say they can't afford to keep the building open.

bbc.co.uk

The irony of someone who will never get close to being PM criticising someone whose been in the job 3 days is pretty rich. But Kemi does have less self awareness than the average jellyfish.

Andy Burnham acting like he's still a mayor, says Kemi Badenoch

The Tory leader says the new prime minister needs to "lift his sights" to fix broader issues with the UK.

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