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Blake Eskin

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

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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Frame #62700 from S02 -E24 - Chinese Cabbage-628414
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Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hubie Brooks RF-3B-SS Debut: 1980 - Retired: 1994 NYM - KCR - ANA - MON - LAD
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Hubie Brooks at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Hubie Brooks
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 12/09/2026
“They certainly both like a hairband…” (Grealish and Maddison) “but yes, beyond that, there are many parallels.” #COYB
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Never on TCM @neverontcm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A vaudeville team prepares for the evils of both drink and prohibition.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AINSLEY MAITLAND-NILES
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Before: “The Corrections” Is 25 Years Old. Its First Paragraph Still Feels New.
After: ‘The Corrections’ Is 25 Years Old. Its First Paragraph Still Feels New.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 01/09/2026
I wish the student newspaper would cover the add/drop period for fall semester as breathlessly as the soccer internet follows the end of the summer transfer window
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 29/08/2026
Tarkowski giveth and Tarkowski taketh away #UTFT
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 29/08/2026
“And I think that’s a rather fortunate escape for Bournemouth” is British English for Everton was robbed
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Never on TCM @neverontcm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A fading southern belle can't choose unexpected snobbery when she marries her boss.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 27/08/2026
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 27/08/2026
Curious whether Bonica has received further legal threats post-publication and whether he has any legal protection through Substack or someone offering to represent him pro bono
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Before: Dolly Parton Died After Brief Battle With Cancer
After: Dolly Parton Died After Brief Period of Cancer
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Never on TCM @neverontcm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A Parisian tailor discovers their friends' marital problems.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 22/08/2026
Bring back Ange
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 22/08/2026
EPL is back and with it appositives like “the experienced Slovakian,” baby
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 18/08/2026
A Fever-Dream game sounds like something you'd have found at a medicine show out West
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Cause I like to stay in my lane (raise awareness!) as you get angry at right wing assholes, don‘t overlook the response by Simon & Schuster
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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Awful for his family. The responsibility for this is not on the media who did their accountability work, not even on the politically motivated 'bloggers'. It's on the people who used him to sell a false message and who didn't do their due diligence.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 14/08/2026
Anticipating the Tyler Austin Harper-Jason Arday columns with dread. Curious about the Venn diagram of those who express genuine compassion for both.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 14/08/2026
The slot machine pays off in mysterious ways
Three visual Bluesky posts in a row: baseball player failing to catch a home run; still from Gumby, a close up, Nigel Farage voting
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Before: Trump-Led Board Votes Again to Close Kennedy Center for Renovations
After: Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump’s Name on Building
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Never on TCM @neverontcm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In the days after Pearl Harbor, a woman falls in love with their friends' marital problems.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 12/08/2026
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
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 11/08/2026
There is a bug in Messages where I reply to a message, then emoji-react to the previous message and it puts the 👍 on my message instead, and I hate that the other person thinks I'm vain. Or maybe they know the bug too?
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 10/08/2026
It's August, folks. #augustjournalism www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
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Chuck Grassley Announces the Death of His Beloved Vacuum, Beth
Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”
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Never on TCM @neverontcm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
After accidentally killing his mistress' husband, a young sailor has no choice but to flee her children with faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 04/08/2026
There was a time when people like him would have to buy the back page of the A section to put out nonsense like this
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 04/08/2026
So the company that swallowed (and drove a lot of people off of) Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo is buying Airtable? I can't imagine this acquisition will go any better techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/b...
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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 31/07/2026
People rightly love the For You feed but I’ve been trying a “smart mix” from @opentrough.com and it is really good. I have it mixing from For You, Followers, Mutuals and Quiet Posters and it’s nice to get out of the For You bubble a little opentrough.com
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Welcome to the Beta - Open Trough
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Before: A seven-figure settlement is announced two days before a scheduled Senate committee vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.
After: A seven-figure settlement was announced hours before a crucial vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general was thrown into limbo.
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Never on TCM @neverontcm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A dancer goes to work as her straying husband when he's jilted.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 27/07/2026
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
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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 24/07/2026
Mizuki's father worked for the American embassy, so he would bring home stacks of comics for his son the cartoonist to learn by. Mizuki's first work is pretty much straight-up copying American comics.
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Before: Oil Prices Continue to Rise as Conflict With Iran Drags On
After: Oil Prices Hover Near $100 as Conflict With Iran Drags On
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 24/07/2026
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.)
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Before: Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.
After: Gen Z Fell Out of Love With Work. I Don’t Blame Them.
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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Frame #70650 from S04 -E03 - Battle Bamboo Shoots-628197
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you want to feel old, the videogame 'Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey' came out in 1996.
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Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
John Franco Pitcher Debut: 1984 - Retired: 2005 HOU - CIN - NYM
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John Franco at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of John Franco
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 19/07/2026
Tuchel took an edible?
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 15/07/2026
“Argentina is the best at provocating the English player“
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Before: With barbecue, haute Southern cooking, innovative Chinese cuisine and even a revelatory fried fish shop, the food scene in Music City as vibrant as it’s ever been.
After: With barbecue, haute Southern cooking, innovative Japanese cuisine and a revelatory fried fish shop, the food scene in Music City is as lively as it’s ever been.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Luis de la Fuente tactical masterpiece. Slipped the minds of a lot of pundits that stingy teams win international tournaments. And the teams that look the best in the group stages rarely do.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 14/07/2026
Erling Haaland counts as charismatic megafauna
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Before: Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina will name a replacement for Senator Lindsey Graham, who died on Saturday.
After: Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina named Darline Graham Nordone to replace Mr. Graham, who died on Saturday.
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 12/07/2026
This take makes a lot of sense to me
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Blake Eskin @blakeeskin.com · 12/07/2026
Talking to Thomas Tuchel About Poetry
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