Blake Eskin

@blakeeskin

Chair of @journalismdesign.bsky.social at newschool.edu. Editor, writer, producer, subway photographer. Podcast consulting at . Knicks. Mets. Everton. Cook. Thief. His wife. Her lover.

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Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· 16h

This laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... is an interesting article for more significant reasons, but this stopped me

Article excerpt screenshot with the words highlighted: the maths is unambiguous

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· 16d

What a pair

FIFA Chief Lashes Out at World Cup Critics for ‘Planting
Seeds of Hate’

FROM THE ATHLETIC

Netanyahu Accuses Mamdani of ‘Hate Speech’ After
Mayor’s Video Address

3 MIN READ

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· 20d

Maybe the best disclosure sentence I've ever seen www.wired.com/story/epstei...

reason to get out from under it," says Schneider, who had butted heads with school officials several times
that year over the Bark. (Schneider is also someone I've known for years; I'm a massage therapist in Marin County, and Schneider used to be an occasional client before I started working as a journalist.)

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jul 11

But let's wait until the 13TH paragraph to say it's the United Arab Emirates. (Sudan, where it is happening, is in the lede.)

OPINION
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Lets Name the Country That's
Financing Mass Murder

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jul 7

I don't usually read these "how people live on x dollars a year" pieces www.nytimes.com/interactive/... but this one was about a security guard at the Met: 46, commutes an hour from Parkchester, lives with a roommate, makes $51K. The money quote, so to speak:

The largest constraint tempering Mr. Compton’s spending
is his $100,000 student loan debt from graduate school.
The window for his deferment period closed, and even
with some money he inherited after his mother passed,
he says he needs a miracle to finish paying off his loans.
“I’m not sure what to do anymore,” he said.

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jul 7

Plane lands early, usually a good thing but the TV feed froze in the 82nd minute 😤

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jul 7

This flat tone, single-sentence paragraph, no-headline treatment feels appropriate for reporting the words of a politician-bullshitter

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jul 7

Christian Pulisic with his hand covering his face after coming out of the Belgium game

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jul 4

From another Reuters photographer, a white woman on a Metro bench wearing a similar color scheme to the white supremacists

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jul 4

“Patriotism“ should also be in scare quotes — and not just for parallel structure!

At Mount Rushmore, Trump Veers
From Fatriotism to ‘Communism’

On the eve of July 4, President Trump extolled the nation’s
founders while branding his opponents as “communists” in what
seemed to be a warm-up for November.

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 30

This is a real person? I would have bet on this being the Father Guido Sarducci of the Sasha Baron Cohen era, wearing the superintendent's keychain on his sash

Highlighted screenshot of New York Times: Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan

hurting their own cause. But the crisis has generally become a way to second-guess or flat-out oppose the reforms of Vatican II.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan, a global leader among conservatives, has said that excommunicating the society would be
"unjust" and that "the demand to accept

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 24

And We Keep Reporting What He Claims As If It Has Any Relationship to the Truth, Even Though We Should Know Better

Screenshot from NYTimes.com:

War in the Middle East
The Latest
U.S.-Iran Talks
What Are th
Trump Is Making Big Claims About the Iran Talks. Iran Keeps Contradicting Him.
President Trump appears to be describing his preferences as fully negotiated deals,

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 22

So my identity is embedded in the major large language models intheweights.com/p/blake-eskin mostly accurately but some errors of fact and hallucinations, one of which I also have fantasized about:

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Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 16

Born with a coaxial cable in his mouth, not sure where he gets off lecturing others about sacrifice

give it your all," Dolan said. "You're going to have to get more now than you've ever, ever before. For this team and to your careers. And the big word is sacrifice. You're going to have to sacrifice if you want to achieve this.

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 16

Ew.

"Go home. Talk to your wives and tell them — don't tell them you're not gonna have sex, don't tell 'em it was my idea — but let them know what this is gonna be like, what your commitment is gonna be like, and how they're gonna have to sacrifice, too."

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 15

“In a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

“I miss the days when it was a grainy video of a shark swimming
up the street,” Farid said one night, as he sat on the back deck of
his house with his wife, Emily Cooper. He put down his phone and
poured a whiskey. “The technology is getting so good. It takes me
to a dark place.”

“Because you can’t tell just by looking anymore?” Cooper asked.

“Because nobody can,” Farid said. “I don’t trust anything. Every
image I see, I’m drawing lines for shadows and doing geometry in
my head, trying to figure out what I’m looking at. It’s over. Within a
year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.”

“And then what? You give up? You retire?”

“T don’t know,” he said.

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 14

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 13

The Decline of Western Civilization, Part XLVII

The New York Times misspelled the Louvre

bodies as easily as our hair color."
Orlan's decades-long interrogation of the human form led the Louve museum in Paris to chose her as this year's guest lecturer for its "Artist Lessons," and she

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 11

The British are coming

~ Trending:
1. Starmer
2. Knicks
3. Wu Tang Clan
4. Mike Brown
5. Basketball Game

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 7

A pile of comfort worthy of the 👸 and the 🫛

The word comfortable, stacked

finally got to a point where he was comfortable, (where) I was comfortable, Jalen (Brunson) was comfortable, OG (Anunoby) was comfortable, Mikal (Bridges) was comfortable. And to me, that's what the regular season is about. The

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Jun 3

Will you be at SRCCON in Minneapolis next month? I'm facilitating a session on July 9 with @lancedixon.bsky.social about using email newsletters to help journalism students learn lots of relevant skills

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· May 16

Celebrating Maz Pacheco’s game-winning goal in extra time on and off the field

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· May 16

Never would've gotten this close in this Lower Gwladys End before the men moved on to Hill Dickinson

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· May 10

Interesting proposal from @katecohen.bsky.social, one of “16 Washington Post veterans on what they would change about D.C. journalism“: www.notus.org/perspectives...

NOTUS
Treat lies like obscenities.
Kate Cohen
Former Post contributing columnist

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· May 9

My favorite sentence of the year so far, from Joanna Geary of @bloomberglp.bsky.social's presentation at #MediaParty this morning

The news story is a human compression and orchestration protocol for computing meaning

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· May 5

"South American mango basically screwed up the mango," says Savani. "It tastes like a raw potato."

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· May 1

⚒️🇷🇸 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

necessary to be at a championship level. Does he believe changes
are needed?

"That's not my decision, to be honest,” Jokic said. "Definitely, if

This was arguably the worst playoff series of Jokic's career. He

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Apr 30

I’ve been missing @anakanaschofield.bsky.social’s NBA color commentary on here, and it turns out she’s been holding back and batching it open.substack.com/pub/bingerea...

More woolly hats in sunny places. I have predicted the Rockets will win this game by 6 points, because I like making barmy declarations. I try to avoid writing basketball tweets on Bluesky because I fear NOBODY will come to my book launch(s) if I sound like a mental sports bro.

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Apr 29

Continuous news is difficult, and mistakes happen. But it would have been exceptionally easy to prewrite this paragraph!

An isolated unfinished sentence

Constitution with "an unconstitutional gerrymander" by aiming to create a new district with a majority of Black voters.

Justice Alito explained that

Justice Elena Kagan, in dissent, countered that the practical effect of the decision would be to make it nearly

Blake Eskin@blakeeskin· Apr 29

My documentary about Camilo Brooks, the ball man of Prospect Park, will be screened at the @coneyislandusa.bsky.social Film Festival on Saturday at 1 p.m. Tickets at www.coneyisland.com/2026-ciff/pr...