Mark Riechers

11 Feb 2025

Me talking about SEO at work

pbswisconsin.orgBugs, bones and bumps in the night: 'Wisconsin Life' as your guide to the state's spookiest corners - PBS WisconsinDiscover the strange, the spooky and the macabre all over Wisconsin with these highlights from the most recent season of "Wisconsin Life."

Did you know the Wonder Spot got paved over?? I assume that was the moment we became untethered from regular spacetime (I wrote a fun thing for @pbswisconsin.bsky.social) pbswisconsin.org/article/bugs...

I know I’m late to the Werewolf By Night party but dang, how did we not just get a spooky Marvel one-shot every Halloween after this?!? It was so good!!

6 Sept

Sometimes I read the news these days and just, what are we even doing

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/h...

6 Sept

nytimes.comInside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus ScientistsAs Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.

6 Sept

You know in the Spiderverse movies where if you aren’t in your own universe you constantly glitch out? It feels like that’s just happening to my brain daily

theliv-ingroom.comMy promise to AugustI usually think of August with disdain. It has long been my least favorite month — a hot, muggy 31 days standing between me and my favorite time of year.Everyone has their season and mine has always b...

12 Aug

"I don’t want to wait to love myself or my life until it is perfect, until I feel like I have nothing left to fix, because that day will never come." www.theliv-ingroom.com/post/my-prom... @pbswisconsin.bsky.social

wisconsinlife.orgMy promise to August: Reflections on living in the moment - Wisconsin LifeWellness books and self-care social media accounts often stress the importance of “living in the moment.” But, what if you’re just not that into the current moment? How do you approach things more pos...

12 Aug

With an audio edition on #WisconsinLife: wisconsinlife.org/story/my-pro...

@thesarahrose.bsky.social

27 July

If you're not a big birthday celebration person, it definitely changes when you have little kids running around as part of it. Nothing takes the sting off of turning 40 like 10 kids surrounding you and saying "yeah okay but seriously, can you open your present so we can eat cake?"

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Sarah Rose

27 June

On FB Marketplace someone is selling their Emmy the creative economy is so busted www.facebook.com/marketplace/...?

4 June

Where am I on my open source software journey? Where is “if it isn’t in Homebrew, I’m not installing it” on the flow chart?

3 June

PSA to the marathon dads out there

youtube.comTim and Eric - Celery ManYouTube video by Twinfold11

4 May

How I feel when I sit down work on my little Claude Code projects, knowing that people now sit down at their computers every day and perform all manner of miracles using generative AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAF...

nytimes.comJesus Memes, Threats and a War in Iran: A Portrait of Trump Under Pressure

17 Apr

“Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s advisers have privately acknowledged that his attack on the pope was not productive.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

11 Apr

galaxy brain moment: 1) find woodworking plans someone added to GitHub for a wooden enclosure for an open server rack. 2) fork plans and add a note with a list of the gear I have on hand including a similar rack. 3) “Claude, help me re-factor these plans to work with the gear I want to use”

11 Apr

Help the nerd police are here

nytimes.comNo One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

5 Apr

No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

5 Apr

What are we doing @nytimes.com

5 Apr

“Austin Spears, 29, a land surveyor, also found Mr. Phillips’s story to be dubious. But he also acknowledged that all human lives are studded with little mysteries. ‘I can say I’ve been drunk and ended up in a Waffle House,’ Mr. Spears said. ‘Don’t know how I got there. But I was there.’”

13 Mar

Just thinking about the expression "petty tyrant" for no particular reason at all.

11 Mar

I feel attacked/honored

skills >>> agents

There is nothing more relatable to a slightly introverted adult than a child being told they have to do a social thing and saying "NO! BORING!"

nytimes.comThese American Service Members Died in the Iran Conflict

4 Mar

“He just wanted to get there, and get it over with, and get back” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

3 Mar

To whoever @ Apple made “announcement notifications” the default for every Apple device: who hurt you? Why are you like this?

nytimes.comProsecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

7 Feb

“Gone are the top prosecutors who had overseen a sprawling, yearslong investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs, which the White House months ago cited as a reason for the immigration crackdown in the state.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

nytimes.comSmall Businesses in Minneapolis Serve a City in Crisis. ‘This Is Our New Normal.’

3 Feb

“Give me a task, tell me what to do, let’s go.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

theverge.comIt’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’“Podcast” is becoming an outdated relic

23 Dec 2025

I've been saying this for a few years now, the extreme shift to video podcasts (and even Netflix embracing them) is kind of the final domino to fall. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

19 Dec 2025

Explain the PBSWI Digital team retreat badly

14 Nov 2025

Years of therapy hasn't fixed me yet, but maybe, just maybe, Fantastical might.

wpr.orgMeet the Wisconsin creator behind Spooky Lake MonthArtist and educator Geo Rutherford makes educational videos about “haunted hydrology” for more than 2 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. Here, she shares her top 5 spooky spots in Wisconsin.

30 Oct 2025

Um yes hello, it’s the relentlessly Wisconsin content I crave! #spookylakes www.wpr.org/news/meet-wi...

30 Oct 2025

“We’re all working hard to try to make sure the internet is not just full of pranks and dance videos and AI.” — @geodesaurus.bsky.social 🫡

nytimes.comShutdown With No Clear End Poses New Economic Threat

21 Oct 2025

“What do you do when someone who used to be your donor becomes a client?” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/b...

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Courtney Milan

@courtneymilan.com

14 Oct 2025

Replying to @courtneymilan.com

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

nytimes.comOpinion | Can Trump End This Impossibly Cruel Practice?

8 Oct 2025

“Let’s not let political polarization blind us to the end game: a reduction in the use of animals in research.” - Deb Blum www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

8 Oct 2025

Me when everything is on fire but there’s still content to post

ttbook.orgFarewell from TTBOOKYou listened on car trips and overnight flights, kitchens and living rooms. You shared our love of ideas, our search for wonder, our curiosity and our belief in the future. Now, after 35 years, it’s t...

Signal boosting my @ttbook.bsky.social pals, who just released their final episode. www.ttbook.org/show/farewel...

And finally, Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson. I can't believe I got to work with such brilliant and decorated interviewers and producers. I didn't just learn how to produce better audio from them — I learned how to be a better listener, and a better human being. madison.com/life-enterta...

madison.comWisconsin Public Radio's 'To the Best of Our Knowledge' and Zorba Paster sign offOne listener said that TTBOOK, as it’s called for short, is "one of the most brilliant radio programs out there on the radio today."

wondercabinetproductions.comWonder CabinetA podcast from the creators of "To The Best Of Our Knowledge"

Anne and Steve have exciting things coming. Stay tuned (and keep TTBOOK in your podcast app, their new thing will drop there in 2026!) wondercabinetproductions.com

Signal boosting my @ttbook.bsky.social pals, who just released their final episode. www.ttbook.org/show/farewel...

Shannon Henry Kleiber was my partner in newsletter crime when I was on the show, and she made our partnership with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting a reality. americanarchive.org/special_coll... She's got a new newsletter that you should definitely subscribe to: cadence.ghost.io

charlesmonroekane.comBIO | lithiumjesus

I always said working with Charles Monroe-Kane is like working with a live flame — raw, powerful, fast-moving, brilliant. A bright creative light to keep you on your toes. More on his latest here: www.charlesmonroekane.com

Signal boosting my @ttbook.bsky.social pals, who just released their final episode. www.ttbook.org/show/farewel...

authory.comAngelo Bautista's PortfolioFind Angelo Bautista's content all in one single place and follow all new content pieces via email, regardless where they are published.

On top of being an exceptional producer, @angelobautista.bsky.social took on everything I handled in my former role on the show, and eventually handled a serious amount of engineering as well. Highly adaptable, whip-smart, and hilarious. More awesome work from him: authory.com/AngeloBautista

nytimes.comThe Last Person to Question Charlie Kirk

12 Sept 2025

Interesting sense of perspective. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

apple.newsThe Enshittification of American Power — WIREDFirst Google and Facebook, then the whole world.

31 Aug 2025

“In time, US citizens may find themselves trapped in a diminished, nightmare America—like a post-Musk Twitter at scale—where everything works badly, everything can be turned against you, and everyone else has fled.” apple.news/AkXgyDqu1QtG...