U.S. Senator and documented Princess Bride superfan Ted Cruz is back with a new movie take. In an interview with the conservative media website the Daily Signal, Cruz asserted that the upcoming Barbie movie, which releases this weekend, pushes Chinese Communist Party Propaganda on young women.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert immediately discarded a pin honoring one of the victims of the Uvalde mass shooting after activists handed the memento to her in the halls of the Capitol on Tuesday.

BUDA, Texas (KXAN) — The popular restaurant in Buda, Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ, is facing some backlash for its employee tip policy.

If employees broke certain rules, they’d be at risk of not receiving tips. The owners said the policy has since changed.

See the quick inspect-element mockup I put together for an example. I'm bad at design, but I think it gets the point across. Current implementation on left, suggested on right. Also, I'm using Kbin Enhancement Suite for the modifications to instance names, but I think they are even more useful for this demonstration.

How it could work: If the same link is submitted across multiple communities in your current view (subscribed, favorites, all, etc) within a certain time period (probably 24 hours), then have them automatically group themselves into the same box, along with a brief list of the duplicate threads and instances. Use whichever of the threads has the highest score as the one to fill the title and thumbnail for the grouped thread.

I didn't make a mockup for this, but when clicking the thread, it could then import the comments from each of the grouped instances. Options on the sidebar could show you each of the instances whose comments are being shown on that page, along with an option to filter them out of your current feed, and options to add your votes to each instance's thread.

EDIT: To add, as I'm seeing some confusion in the comments: I'm envisioning this as a strictly user-side bundling of threads. This would only bundle threads as they are displayed to the user in their own feed based on communities you're subscribed to. So if the same link were to be posted to 5 different communities you subscribe to, when you view the feed, you'll see those 5 links all bundled together. Though perhaps an option could also include seeing non-subscribed duplicates, as well.

Seriously, I don't know what it is about this super, but it feels absolutely terrible in PVP. There's definitely something wrong with the damage resist, because it doesn't even feel like 0% DR, it feels like negative DR sometimes. I can't tell if maybe the animation just makes your hitbox an easier target or if you're actually just getting melted faster in that super, but it makes it pretty damn impossible to actually close the distance to get within killing range on most maps. Even worse if somebody's got Vorpal; you just get deleted before you even realize what hit you.

Not to mention the terrible third-person camera you're forced into for this super which makes movement an even bigger chore. I bounce so many walls trying to grapple around in this super. Half my super energy is spent on just trying to position myself so that I'm closely-aligned enough on the X axis for the rope dart to even connect with my target.

And even then, it's a coin toss whether or not it'll register a kill at all. I've had so many times where the dart 100% pierces the enemy, and it just whiffs. It's just bad in every regard. Meanwhile, Titans have like 5 different options for free OHKO melee abilities that seem to connect from halfway across Eternity sometimes.

It really makes me wish that Hunters had an exotic that gave you some sort of bonus for hanging onto your super, like Mantle of Battle Harmony or something, because I feel like I'm throwing every time I pop this super in PVP. If I ever manage to get a kill with this super, I pretty much never make it out alive. It causes me to end up hanging onto my super and not using it in some matches, because why risk feeding the enemy team a free kill when I can most likely land more kills without the super?

I'll get off my soapbox now. Thanks for entertaining my rant. Bungie, pls buff, thx.

Most of the other Fediverse platforms are pretty obvious to me as to what they're meant to be alternatives to. Mastodon for Twitter/Threads, PixelFed for Instagram, Lemmy for Reddit, Matrix for Discord/Slack... But I can't quite place MissKey. It doesn't really feel like any other social network I've seen before.

I've tried looking around, but most of the instances I've seen are either in Japanese or Russian so I can't really tell what I'm looking at, or have no active users to really see what the engagement is supposed to be like.

Can anyone fill me in on what MissKey is meant to be an analog to or how it's meant to be used?

A brush fire that began burning at a ranch Thursday afternoon has now grown to scorch 150 acres and is 10% contained as of just before 5 p.m.

The Llano County Office of Emergency Management posted on its Facebook page that at least 10 agencies are now responding to the fire located near East Highway 71 and County Road 307. Crews also have CR 307 shut down right now due to the ongoing response.

By 6 p.m., there were nearly 20 agencies responding to the fire, including 13 volunteer fire departments.

Initially, first responders told KXAN the fire began on a ranch property. As of 2 p.m., the growing fire caused no evacuations.

Air support from the Texas Forest Service is currently assisting with the fire, according to the Llano County Office of Emergency Management.

At last check, there are no structures currently in danger, according to Llano officials.

As of July 10, Llano County had a burn ban in place.

On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered an additional 30 Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to Austin, according to a spokesperson with DPS.

The order comes one day after the City of Austin said it would be suspending the partnership between the Austin Police Department and DPS.

The additional troopers would bring the total number to 130, not including the troopers that work the Capitol.

DPS said overall, there would be 80 of the original troopers that began patrolling at the beginning of the partnership, the 20 Criminal Investigations Division officers that were also deployed as part of the partnership, and now the new 30 troopers.

"I know you can fight, but can you hold territory?"

Austin's Interim City Manager Jesús Garza has suspended the Austin Police Department's (APD) partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), in consultation with Mayor Kirk Watson.

"From the start of this partnership with DPS, I said I wanted Austinites to feel safe and be safe. Recent events demonstrate we need to suspend the partnership with DPS. The safety of our community is a primary function of City government, and we must keep trying to get it right," Watson said in a statement. "This partnership was an innovative approach to address acute staffing shortages that were years in the making. However, any approach must be in sync with Austin values."

Austin's Interim City Manager Jesús Garza has suspended the Austin Police Department's (APD) partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), in consultation with Mayor Kirk Watson.

"From the start of this partnership with DPS, I said I wanted Austinites to feel safe and be safe. Recent events demonstrate we need to suspend the partnership with DPS. The safety of our community is a primary function of City government, and we must keep trying to get it right," Watson said in a statement. "This partnership was an innovative approach to address acute staffing shortages that were years in the making. However, any approach must be in sync with Austin values."

I was looking at a comment I left earlier today (several hours earlier) and realized I made a typo, and went to edit it. I'm used to Reddit putting a little asterisk next to the comment's timestamp to indicate that it was edited, but I'm not seeing anything like this on Kbin. Is this something that's tracked somewhere for users to see, or possibly something that we might see get added in as a feature in the future?