@ithoughtisawa2 @tychotithonus yeah, something like that, or something like 90% or 95% of the current year

(ask me how i know)

@ithoughtisawa2 @tychotithonus also the penalties are minimal because mostly only rich people underpay estimated taxes

@ithoughtisawa2 @tychotithonus You still owe it later if you under withhold, mind you, there's just no penalty if it's not too much.

@ithoughtisawa2 @tychotithonus The exact amount you can under-withhold without incurring penalties can be calculated if your pay is predictable.

Just sayin'

Hey Americans! You're not obligated to give the government a free loan out of your paycheck, so don't! Do the math and submit a W-4 to your employer to minimize your withholding.

The IRS W-4 calculator is offline until the end of the month, but there are others.

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@jschwart "a transgender" is not great phasing, "a trans person" would be preferable.

@jschwart In my case, I try to walk a razor's edge of androgyny. Sometimes people spontaneously refer to me in gender neutral terms. I once got "sir-or-mam"

Little things can tip it one way or the other. I've had people switch which pronouns they used for me after I took my jacket off.

@jschwart It is, in part, death of a thousand cuts, but beyond that, it is the banal cruelty of "we don't care" and "you don't matter".

In other words, it is not, at least for me, the computer being wrong that hurts, it's being told that you're not who you know yourself to be, or worse, that it doesn't matter.

@zomgwtfbbqkewl the arguments are literally just very elaborate versions of "tHeRe ArE oNlY tWo GeNdErS" and "we can't be arsed, sod off"

@memyselfiamweird The result mostly likely will be that this gets appealed again to the supreme court of the UK.

@boffbowsh It's rare for such things to be decided the day of the hearing. It'll be a month or two.

I would very much like the court to consider what gender they would consider me to have been living as for the last five years.

OH: Cis people should be made to go to gender hearings where a group of trans people decide what their legal gender is.

Of course, we know how shitty it is to be treated as the wrong gender...

There were five reporters in attendance at my hearing today. No idea who they were.

Just now resuming after lunch.

Going offline for a while.

@cstross The New Management would be less distressing than what we got, honestly.

The British government didn't even thank me for my efforts to protect the power grid from cyberattacks!

Their bloody computer even already supports GRCs that say "Not Specified"! All they have to do is print it, and then I'd stop raising a fuss!

But noooooo, that would cause "administrative chaos", just like it's caused in other countries that gave legal recognition to intersex and nonbinary people.

Oh, what's that? No such chaos happened in the dozens of other places that did so?

What's the bloody problem then?

@risottobias My lead barrister is King's Counsel, he's very good.