Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins

Thank you! I just followed you, but maybe you have to follow me too?

Hey, Chicago, does anyone know of any mutual aid groups doing work in Back of the Yards or nearby areas? Trying to find help for a Venezuelan mom and her two girls and our regular orgs are swamped.

Well, that's a block. What PR nonsense.

fandom Craft Market benefitting AIC: the American Immigration Council

Who’s ready for….

THE OFMD FANDOM CRAFT MARKET?

Running March 5 through March 21, we’ll be raising money for the amazing @immcouncil.org!

if anyone has friends with huge followings who might be willing to flog this one, that would be amazing. it's going to take a lot to keep these kids in their homes.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Un-fucking-believable. I mean, not actually a surprise, but still un-fucking-believabe.

Yeah, the Red-winged Blackbirds were trilling up a storm at the bird sanctuary yesterday. It begins!

Another thing people might do, is donate to the Queer Liberation Library. That way, young people without access to queer books in schools will still have access to a wide and flourishing digital library, so long as they have some unmonitored internet access of course.

At first, I could literally only read about 5 pages at a time, because I got so tense/scared. But it's a brilliant book and I'm racing through it now.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to…

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works:

www.404media.co/this-app-war...

I've never seen one! Owls are so cool. 🦉❤️

Ooh, I need to get that On Morrison book. 😍 I'm reading Tananarive Due's The Reformatory and it's one of my top reads of the decade. Relentlessly terrifying, but extraordinary.

Ahhhhh! 😍😍😍 How amazing!

YouTube video by Get To Know Nature Beach, Birds and an Orange Moon

Need to catch your breath? Here’s a peaceful two minute nature break with birds, crabs and the sound of ocean waves

#birds #invertebrates 🌿 🦀 🦑

I have a Downy AND a Red-bellied Woodpecker outside my bedroom window. 😍 What the heck, birds? This is not the woods!

Birds are officially on the move. Hello, spring migration! 😊

❤️❤️❤️ We'll work on it.

Wow. I have never been able to do that in my life, but I've also never seen it summarized so clearly. Probably should journal on that one. 😭

Per NYT:

"The Department of Defense is calling these strikes 'Operation Epic Fury.'" 😐

Please call your reps. And then scream into a pillow over the fact we have man children creating geopolitical chaos in the Middle East.

You win some... 😅

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Practice has definitely improved my "% of bird captured" ratio. 😂

So true! 😁

Should've got into birding when I was young and had faster reaction time. 😂

Photo of 90% of a Red-breasted Merganser in flight over bright water shining in the sunlight. The bird's head and right wing tip are out of frame on the right edge of the photo.

SO CLOSE to being a great shot. 😂 #birds

Clearly! 😂

TY! 😊

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Always! 😂

TY! That duck looks like it wanted to stab me to death with its bill. 😂