This is a really useful explainer for the cis people in your life who are perplexed and struggling:
Return to Self is a 5-part video and podcast series, exploring gender affirmation through the experiences and insights of three trans people.
Learn what this means for each of us as we create an environment where trans and gender diverse people can participate, contribute, and thrive.
This site is designed to make World Bank data easy to find, download, and use. All of the data found here can be used free of charge with minimal restrictions.
The Data Catalog is designed to make World Bank's development data easy to find, download, use, and share. It includes data from the World Bank's microdata, finances and energy data platforms, as well as datasets from the open data catalog. There are different ways to access and download datasets.
Project 2025 Tracker began as a humble spreadsheet created by /u/rusticgorilla, combined with /u/mollynaquafina's vision for making this information accessible to everyone through a dedicated website.
What started as a passion project by two Redditors has grown into a community-driven resource, powered by people like you who believe in the importance of transparent, detailed analysis.
Really good tips here, including a couple I'd not heard about and promptly followed:
This is the bare minimum necessary to configure Firefox so that it behaves in a reasonable manner.
This document was last updated on 27 January 2025 and was tested with a clean install of Firefox 134.
Verify these steps each time Firefox is updated.
- Go to uBlock Origin and click Add to Firefox
This will filter out most of the advertisements on websites, saving you a shitload of network traffic (and if your computer is slow, not having to show all that crap is a big speedup). Once you get it set up you can just ignore it, but if you care it will tell you how much stuff it's blocked on your behalf.- Go to LocalCDN and click Add to Firefox
Most websites load the same files over and over from the same places -- primarily Google servers. This thing puts all that right in your browser, making for less network traffic and denies Google the privilege of inspecting your usage patterns. Once it's installed you can ignore it.[…]
With version 4.2.0 Mastodon added full text search. People asked for a better guide, so I am trying to create one. If I missed something or there is a mistake, please let me know in the comments. You can write a comment by replying to this post in the Fediverse, simply copy the URL, search for it in your Fediverse-client and reply to it.
ACOSS (the Australian Council of Social Service) has partnered with UNSW Sydney to undertake a research and impact collaboration to sharpen the national focus on poverty and inequality in Australia. The partnership monitors trends in poverty and inequality over time, explores drivers, and develops solutions to sharpen the focus and stimulate action to tackle these policy challenges.
The World Income Inequality Database (WIID) presents information on income inequality for most countries and historical entities. It provides the most comprehensive set of income inequality statistics available and can be downloaded for free. ​
This page hosts the latest version of WIID, but also the WIID Companion datasets which report standardized WIID data to create more comparable country level inequality series, inequality indices, and complete country and global income distributions for the longest periods possible. The WIID Companion datasets are directly accessible in real time through our WIID Explorer, a powerful tool for accessing and analysing the most comprehensive collection of comparable income inequality statistics in the world.
The World Inequality Database (WID) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.
The Commons Library exists to make social movements smarter and stronger.
We are an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, advocacy and justice.
We support the power and effectiveness of progressive social change efforts by collecting and sharing resources from Australia and around the world.