Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Why is alt text good? Because if images don’t load, your message still gets through instead of looking like whatever this is. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Accessibility helps everyone. It’s also pretty easy. Good luck with the marketing, or something. 010
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Why alt text matters: images don’t always load in email. Your readers will be left with nothing. #accessibility 031
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12/06/20261, 2, 3, and… Knicks lines at 34th! #knicks #nyc #subway 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 25/02/20264 years ago, putin ordered a brutal war of aggression against Ukraine, a peaceful, democratic neighbor. Ukraine still deserves and needs our help! #standwithukraine 🇺🇦 020
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026It’s a lot easier to stay in the know when emailers don’t rely solely on images. Text works too, you know. And even then, put alt text in the image. Real alt text. [image: a photo of a large blank screen, with tiny text reading “stay in the know” tucked way up in the upper left corner.] 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025To borrow from the presentation, by connecting with the steak-holders. I’ll stop now. Also, with a food theme to the slides. The handouts were labeled a menu. 100
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The Holocaust exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Centre is a must-visit. Their motto is that they localize, personalize, and humanize the history. They tell the story through Cincinnati residents who survived. The exhibit design is exceptional and easy to understand (1/n) @aaslh.org #aaslh2025 171
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Stunningly beautiful art deco architecture at the Cincinnati Museum Centre. @aaslh.org #aaslh2025 291
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Tonight’s #aaslh2025 evening party was at the Cincinnati Museum Centre, AKA the Halls of Justice. One of the most amazing buildings in the US. If you like art deco, visit here. @aaslh.org 051
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Wonderful #aaslh2025 event at the Underground Railroad Freedom Centre. They look back at history, and use it to inspire people to work for a fairer, more just future. They discuss the role of faith in being inclusive and welcoming. HIGHLY recommend a visit! @aaslh.org 063
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025awe and respect for the people who created them. Beyond that, and this is just a personal reflection, there is a spiritual feel in the air. These are not just historic but sacred places that deserve universal respect. Thank you to @aaslh.org and the National Park Service! #aaslh2025 030
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Sites that are miles apart have the same measurements and right angles. Markers line up with the solstices and equinoxes. Construction techniques were highly sophisticated. Lines and angles are precise. These were the work of advanced, sophisticated civilizations. I left with a feeling of (2/n) 120
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Today I was fortunate to be able to take a tour to Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. It is a series of Native sites created about 2,000 years ago as part of a cross-cultural spiritual movement. The look of earthen mounds belies an exacting mathematical precision. (1/n) @aaslh.org #aaslh2025 151
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The Roebling Bridge at night. This is the view from my hotel room. Tomorrow I’m on a tour of the Hopewell Earthworks, a Native site and the only UNESCO World Heritage site in Ohio. There will be pics. #aaslh2025 is off to a great start! @aaslh.org 181
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Welcome to Cincinnati! #museum #aaslh2025 @aaslh.org 051
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025There’s a real art deco feel to the Hilton! #aaslh2025 @aaslh.org 181
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Goooood morning AASLH! Here is one of my fave quirky Ohio places. Yes, it’s a field of giant concrete ears of corn. It’s across the street from a cornfield near Columbus, because where else? I don’t know the proper name but I always called it Cornhenge. #aaslh2025 @aaslh.org 352
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025This year’s @aaslh.org conference is in Cincinnati, Ohio, a state I used to call home. Ohio has many wonderful places, and its share of quirky ones. Here’s one I love: a plaque outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. For me, there are few better examples of why museums do what they do. #aaslh2025 091
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! Slava Ukraini! [pics of the Ukrainian flag flying over Oxford (England) and painted in the side of a beach cabin in Brighton (Australia)] 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Third Space Network presents Bunker Fridays Defending Culture An Online Public Dialogue Fri, 5/30, 4pm ET Register: lu.ma/nzws20xr Federal actions send a clear signal: any organization that champions diversity, truth, or dissenting ideas could be on the chopping block. We must not stay silent! 020
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025AI has massive potential (and pitfalls). But this? Late capitalism at its worst. AI companies are profiteering off taking jobs from people. 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025To my friends in the true north: stay strong and free! #canada 020
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Spotted today in New Jersey! Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 #ukraine #StandWithUkraine 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Inclusive design can help just about everything. Here’s a mockup of a tactile QR code. This helps visitors with visual impairment know where to point their phone to access information. A simple yet brilliant design. Thank you SolidLight for designing this! 131
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Always been with Ukraine. Always will be. Slava Ukraini! #ukraine 020
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Just cancelled my @washingtonpost.com subscription. If I wanted to read opinions by right-wing billionaires, I’d subscribe to some other rag. Democracy died in darkness and Bezos is one the gang responsible. 040
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025It’s actually pretty easy to design emails for accessibility. The New York Transit Museum does exactly that right here. The text is actual text, not an image, so it’s visible to a screen reader. The image has descriptive alt text. Good job @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social! #a11y 130
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Why alt text matters… again… Why, why, why do people insist on putting text in images instead of showing, you know, text? It makes emails easier to lay out and faster to send. It also avoids absurdity like this. What’s playing? I don’t know, why don’t you tell me… using your words! #a11y 020
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Looks like apple maps is complying with fascism, too. When these clowns are out of office, we the people remember. 010
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This. Is. Not. Alt. Text. Imagine you were using a screen reader or other assistive device to check your email. Those devices read alt text to present a description of an image to a user. This is useless. This is almost a joke. From a Marriott hotel. You can do better. #a11y 030
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Email marketers, alt text isn’t hard. If you don’t use it your communications come in looking like this to anyone using a screen reader. If you want people to bother with your email, make it possible for people to read them. 120
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Hey @nytimes.com, I think you need to bring Spelling Bee up to date. It says “yeet” isn’t in the word list, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who tried it. Merriam-Webster hasn’t yeeted it yet. ;) 251
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025To follow up, this example. The “see more” button at the bottom seems to be there only for irony. Alt text. Use your alt text or there’s literally nothing to see. #a11y 010
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Why does alt text matter? Because without it, any emails you send will look like this to anyone using an assistive device like a screen reader. Your museum visitors will be left with literally nothing about your exhibitions, opening hours, anything. It sends a signal that they aren’t welcome. #a11y 131
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Spotted at the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition on Elizabeth Catlett over the weekend. Our compassion is our strength and we can’t let them take that from us. 093
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024My personal fave is the Queens Daily Eagle, from his home borough. With a local angle. 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2024Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,047,712! Happy to be here! 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 18/03/2024Apple Podcasts won’t let me download this @techwontsave.us episode. Seems to prove the point, doesn’t it? 010
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 13/03/2024March 13, 2020. Empty supermarket aisles as toilet paper was unavailable. The Daily News headline summed it up with “Goin’ Bunkers” as everyone took shelter. In answer to Elise Stefanik, yes, I am better off now than I was four years ago. @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 19/12/2023Dedication plaque on a bench in Central Park, quoting Bobby Kennedy. A good thought and, perhaps, a sign of why we’re all here on Bluesky. 000
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2023Evidence suggesting that yes, the Great Pumpkin is real! I suspect this is one of his temples. 😉 Photo from the Shinkansen pulling out of Okayama a few years ago. The Great Pumpkin has believers everywhere. 100