We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦
@themuseumguy.bsky.social
Museum professional, working primarily with small history museums. Social media and evaluation / audience research / analytics nerd. Stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Views my own.
This year can 🤬 all the way off. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/a...
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97 (Gift Article)
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
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Big increase in interest in the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum thanks to #TedLasso! With museums under increasing attack, I know the field appreciates the support! #museum
'Ted Lasso' inspired a 5,000% surge in interest for Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Satchel Paige
Fans are showing up and searches are soaring. "Ted Lasso" is bringing a new audience to Satchel Paige and Kansas City's Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
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Why 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.
Homework? For a movie... The whole cinematic universe thing is what's killing movies. I don't want to have to watch 30-50hrs of media to make one movie make sense. MAKE. STAND. ALONE. MOVIES.
IGN@ign.com · 3w agoReady for your Avengers Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before December 18 rolls around. https://bit.ly/3UmhwmS
When Steve Kornacki cracks, you know the world is in trouble. The word “omnishambles” comes to mind
biftechnoir@kenmegalopsuxos.bsky.social · 4w agoThis bit just now with Kornacki getting word Wisconsin election officials fucked up was pure cinema.
Congrats to the Secretary of Toxic Masculinity for admitting that gender-affirming care is real, and a good thing!
Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), framing it as a way to k…
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SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.
With just 3 hours to go, autocorrect finally decided to recognize the word “semiquincentennial.” Happy 250!
When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.
THIS and the "medical bankruptcies" are uniquely American social maladies the rest of the world can't comprehend. The average baby boomer owes $42,780 in federal student loans Read more: trib.al/c15kgyu
Excited to make my @defector.com debut with this piece! Read about my long, ridiculous trip through the world of 250th anniversary STUFF. Read it, then check out some of my favorites in the thread below. Also, you can all stop sending me photos of this crap now.
Defector@defector.com · 2mo ago“We Hold These Truds”: A search for the weirdest piece of America 250 merchandise: defector.com/we-hold-thes...
Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.
Working in history is not always easy but it matters. I have unending respect for the @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social and the work they do. Reminding is where hate has led in the past helps prevent it in the future.
Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn the Collections warehouse, suitcases belonging to Auschwitz victims are kept in specially designed cabinets, ensuring each item is preserved & protected to serve as a testimony to those who suffered and were murdered in the camp. -- Photo by: https://www.instagram.com/k_thompson_humanus_network/
Why alt text matters: images don’t always load in email. Your readers will be left with nothing. #accessibility
1/2 Excited and nervous to finally share something I've been working on for a while, my @denshoproject.bsky.social post "Importance of Accessibility at Historic Sites" & Accessibility Toolkit. Hope it is helpful. densho.org/catalyst/his... #Accessibility #DisabilitySky #Museum #HistoricSite
Importance of Accessibility at Historic Sites - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
In this guest contribution, historian and PhD student Selena Moon explores the importance of accessibility at historic sites, highlighting how many sites have been and continue to be inaccessible. She...
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Hoping to go to AASLH in September? There’s a scholarship for people from small museums to help defray costs. Deadline is tomorrow but the application isn’t hard. Details at www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZC6TNF6 #museum
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Perfect ending for Stephen Colbert’s show tonight. I’m not saying goodbye, except to CBS. You all messed up bigly with this one.
13 May 1943 | A transport of some 1,000 Yugoslavian Jewish men, women, and children arrived at Auschwitz from the ghetto in Zagreb. After arrival selection 30 men and 25 women were registered in the camp. The remaining people were murdered in a gas chamber.
Putin’s war must end with Ukraine fully integrated into NATO and the E.U.
"It used to be said that facts speak for themselves. This is, of course, untrue. The facts, speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the door, and in what order or context." E.H. Carr I think about this statement *ALL THE TIME*
Will no one think of the billionaires? I can’t understand why anyone bothers with the WaPo any more. It’s a joke.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4mo agoFinally, a major American newspaper whose editorial board is courageous enough to stand up for the rights of big tech companies.
9 May 1936 | French Jewish girl, Madeleine Flomembaum, was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 24 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
