Tracy Erickson

Awesome! Thank you, see you in Seattle!

Thank you! Can I pick it up at your signing?

I gasped when I saw you holding a regular Coke! Lol

Ronald Reagan

THREAD: How Ronald Reagan Broke America

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You want to pinpoint the exact moment things in this country went to hell?

Here it is. 👇

Ronald Reagan. 1981. The year the grift went mainstream.

Let’s break down how he sabotaged your future. 🧵

A hardback please!

so a few months ago i read an article about how someone put "don't scrape" commands in robots.txt and that AI crawlers ignore that so each legit page had a hidden link that would trap the crawler into endless pages of generated garbage and listen it said in robots.txt to go away but did you listen?

Very excited to see you again! Travel safely!

Yay! I’ll see you there! Also, I can’t wait for the Tumblr panel! My favorite hellsite(affectionate).

Yes please, I’d much rather buy a copy from the author than any other option.

Here's the truth.

You can't stand with trans people and take a gig with Rowling. It is impossible. You can make donations, you can issue statements of support, but at the end of the day you are choosing to work with the single most prominent transphobe who uses her money and platform to harm us.

Every day, that demented old man makes the White House look even tackier, having workers glue gold-spray-painted polyurethane bric-a-brac to every available surface.

Who knew it was even possible in the United States to stand out for your vulgarity?

SOCIAL SECURITY Office of the Chief Actuary August 5, 2025 The Honorable Ron Wyden United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Wyden: I am writing in response to your request for our estimate of the financial effects on the Social Security trust funds of Public Law 119-21, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), which the President signed into law on July 4, 2025. Among many other provisions, this law makes permanent the lower ordinary income tax rates and adjusted tax brackets originally enacted under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and temporarily changes certain standard and itemized deduction amounts. Because the revenue from income taxation of Social Security benefits is directed to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, implementation of the OBBBA will have material effects on the financial status of the Social Security trust funds. The balance of this letter provides our understanding of the provisions of the OBBBA with material effects on Social Security program cost, followed by estimates of the program cost effects of the law change. All estimates reflect the intermediate assumptions of the 2025 Trustees Report. Effects of the OBBBA are determined by comparing to the law in effect prior to its passage (i.e., a current law baseline). Specification for and Effects of the Law Change Before the OBBBA was signed into law, the marginal tax rates and tax bracket amounts were set as specified in the 2017 TCJA; those values were scheduled to revert to pre-TCJA levels in 2026. However, implementation of the OBBBA makes permanent the rates and bracket amounts specified in the TCJA. The OBBBA also increases the standard deduction amounts for those age 65 and older for years 2025 through 2028 and includes other tax changes with relatively smaller effects on Social Security beneficiaries. The combined net effect of these income tax provisions results in less overall tax liability for Social Security beneficiaries. In turn, the trust funds will …

Page 2 - The Honorable Ron Wyden Given the uncertainty about possible future effects on Social Security due to other provisions included in the OBBBA, we have limited our analysis to the effects of the income tax changes and their resulting effects on taxation of benefits revenue to the trust funds. We will continue to monitor incoming experience and modify our projections as appropriate. DASDI Program Cost Effects We estimate that implementation of the OBBBA will result in net increased program cost starting in 2025. Over calendar years 2025 through 2034, the total net increase in OASDI program cost is estimated to be $168.6 billion. In addition, the timing of combined OASI and DI Trust Fund reserve depletion is accelerated from the third quarter of 2034 under the 2025 Trustees Report baseline to the first quarter of 2034 following implementation of the law. Considered alone, the reserve depletion date for the OASI Trust Fund is accelerated from the first quarter of 2033 to the fourth quarter of 2032. DI Trust Fund reserves are not projected to become depleted during the 75-year projection period. Over the long-range projection period, implementation of the OBBBA will decrease (worsen) the 75-year OASDI actuarial balance by 0.16 percent of taxable payroll, from -3.82 percent under the 2025 Trustees Report baseline to -3.98 percent following implementation of the law. Table 1, attached, indicates that the net effect of the changes in the law will decrease annual balances for the OASDI program from 2025 through the end of the 75-year projection period, decreasing the annual balance for the 75" projection year (2099) by 0.17 percent of taxable payroll. Tables 1b and lb.n show the effects of enacting the OBBBA in present value dollar and nominal dollar amounts, respectively. Finally, note that we will be using the results provided in this letter as an updated baseline for evaluating the effects of proposals that affect the OASI and DI Trust Funds, and particularly prop…

NEW: @wyden.senate.gov asked the Social Security Admin’s Office of the Chief Actuary what Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would do to Social Security’s solvency — and as expected they said it will cause Social Security to run out of money more quickly: 2032Q4 instead of 2033Q1 (4-5 months earlier).

Like I said, you don’t have to pay attention to all of the PR about how AI will revolutionize human creativity or whatever nonsense, when the people deploying it are open that its main purpose is to devalue and destroy human labor. futurism.com/ceo-replacin...

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara.

PLEASE REPOST EVERYWHERE! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Kickstarter has just 11 HOURS to reach its Stretch Goals! An original covers by Katy Shuttleworth! Staff raises! Keeping flash fiction and a novella! MAKE IT SO, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/2WK5nk0

Claire's has been tied up with private equity, in some form or another, since 2005. At this point I assume all such cases involve PE unless explicitly told otherwise. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

This trad Catholic is running for California governor. He's also a Nazi sympathizer. Kyle Langford, 24, is a longshot Republican candidate for governor of California, where he has stirred controversy for espousing white supremacist and antisemitic beliefs. "I know how to strike a nerv...

Many will dismiss this story about an avowed Nazi running as a Republican in the California governor’s primary. Sure, he won’t win. But haven’t we learned our lesson about dismissing GOP candidates who express ideas that seem outlandish (at the time)? www.ncronline.org/news/trad-ca...

Anytime!

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I do, @imzadidragonfly.bsky.social

I can always ship something back to you if you need me to.

Looking forward to meeting you!

Secondly, I keep bringing this up every time the idea to centralize the Worldcon comes up and no one ever seems to acknowledge it: if you want a single team running the Worldcon year after year, they can't be volunteers. They will be professional employees, and will need to be paid accordingly.

I’ll see you there!

❤️❤️❤️

See you there!

I can’t wait to see you, it’s been a thousand years!

See you there!

Yay I’ll see you at Fairwood (I already bought your collection because Patrick has never steered me wrong).

Hopefully I’ll see you there!

Hopefully I can make it!