Mark Riechers
@bymarkriechers.com
Digital content editor 📺. Public media true believer. Photographer, podcast producer, woodworker. Chihuahua dad🐾
Telling stories about everything from a history of Milwaukee beer ads to processing death through game development.
Telling stories about everything from a history of Milwaukee beer ads to processing death through game development.
Years of therapy hasn't fixed me yet, but maybe, just maybe, Fantastical might.
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Years of therapy hasn't fixed me yet, but maybe, just maybe, Fantastical might.
Um yes hello, it’s the relentlessly Wisconsin content I crave! #spookylakes www.wpr.org/news/meet-wi...
Meet the Wisconsin creator behind Spooky Lake Month
Artist 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.
www.wpr.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Um yes hello, it’s the relentlessly Wisconsin content I crave! #spookylakes www.wpr.org/news/meet-wi...
“What do you do when someone who used to be your donor becomes a client?” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/b...
Shutdown With No Clear End Poses New Economic Threat
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“What do you do when someone who used to be your donor becomes a client?” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/b...
Reposted by Mark Riechers
Them: need help doing things?
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Me: ooh
Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?
Me: oh no
Them: 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.
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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.
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.
“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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | Can Trump End This Impossibly Cruel Practice?
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Me when everything is on fire but there’s still content to post
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Me when everything is on fire but there’s still content to post
Signal boosting my @ttbook.bsky.social pals, who just released their final episode. www.ttbook.org/show/farewel...
Farewell from TTBOOK
You 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...
www.ttbook.org
September 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Signal boosting my @ttbook.bsky.social pals, who just released their final episode. www.ttbook.org/show/farewel...
“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...
The Enshittification of American Power — WIRED
First Google and Facebook, then the whole world.
apple.news
August 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“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...
It's truly incredible how thoroughly we have erased the pandemic from our collective memory. We have learned nothing and we will suffer the consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
F.D.A. Approves Covid Shots With New Restrictions
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's truly incredible how thoroughly we have erased the pandemic from our collective memory. We have learned nothing and we will suffer the consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
To The Best Of Our Knowledge just re-aired one of the best things I've ever worked on: a show celebrating our loving partnership with dogs, and how we grieve and celebrate them when they are gone. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
To All The Dogs We've Loved
Podcast Episode · To The Best Of Our Knowledge · 08/16/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To The Best Of Our Knowledge just re-aired one of the best things I've ever worked on: a show celebrating our loving partnership with dogs, and how we grieve and celebrate them when they are gone. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Reposted by Mark Riechers
The US Department of Health and Human Services is arguing with a cable news channel to say that french fries aren’t unhealthy
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The US Department of Health and Human Services is arguing with a cable news channel to say that french fries aren’t unhealthy
Happy National Lighthouse Day!
I interviewed the folks behind @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “Illuminating Cana Island” about scanning the lighthouse there, what it means to balance interactivity and accessibility, and how games fit into the public media mission.
pbswisconsin.org/article/a-vi...
I interviewed the folks behind @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “Illuminating Cana Island” about scanning the lighthouse there, what it means to balance interactivity and accessibility, and how games fit into the public media mission.
pbswisconsin.org/article/a-vi...
A view from the top of the Cana Island Lighthouse - PBS Wisconsin
Most visitors to Cana Island Lighthouse face a choice: climb the 97 steep steps to the top, or stay below...
pbswisconsin.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy National Lighthouse Day!
I interviewed the folks behind @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “Illuminating Cana Island” about scanning the lighthouse there, what it means to balance interactivity and accessibility, and how games fit into the public media mission.
pbswisconsin.org/article/a-vi...
I interviewed the folks behind @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “Illuminating Cana Island” about scanning the lighthouse there, what it means to balance interactivity and accessibility, and how games fit into the public media mission.
pbswisconsin.org/article/a-vi...
“If people are celebrating and eating treats, they don’t want to be tasting beets.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/rfk-food-dyes-candy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Kennedy’s Battle Against Food Dyes Hits a Roadblock: M&M’s
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“If people are celebrating and eating treats, they don’t want to be tasting beets.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/rfk-food-dyes-candy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"The idea that ‘To The Best Of Our Knowledge’ has not reflected Wisconsin is hurtful.” @ttbook.bsky.social captimes.com/business/a-s...
‘A sad blow to the Wisconsin Idea’: Hosts react to WPR cuts
Wisconsin Public Radio laid off employees with plans to end ‘To The Best Of Our Knowledge’ and three other shows this fall.
captimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"The idea that ‘To The Best Of Our Knowledge’ has not reflected Wisconsin is hurtful.” @ttbook.bsky.social captimes.com/business/a-s...
Proud to have helped out with this, a lot of folks @pbswisconsin.bsky.social have worked hard on it. Check it out! 🎸
pbswisconsin.org/mileofmusic
pbswisconsin.org/mileofmusic
Mile of Music
This concert documentary offers a front row seat to Appleton's community music festival.
pbswisconsin.org
June 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Proud to have helped out with this, a lot of folks @pbswisconsin.bsky.social have worked hard on it. Check it out! 🎸
pbswisconsin.org/mileofmusic
pbswisconsin.org/mileofmusic
Thought of it, couldn’t unsee it
June 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Thought of it, couldn’t unsee it
Reposted by Mark Riechers
Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists.
donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
April 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists.
donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
“The real change isn’t that older adults are absent; it’s that their kids need them more than ever.” https://apple.news/AN8frGnlNSam3MKDtJB74Mw
April 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The real change isn’t that older adults are absent; it’s that their kids need them more than ever.” https://apple.news/AN8frGnlNSam3MKDtJB74Mw
Japanese Breakfast x Gorillaz at #Coachella2025 streamable.com/cj40d7
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Watch "unnamed" on Streamable.
streamable.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Japanese Breakfast x Gorillaz at #Coachella2025 streamable.com/cj40d7
Alert! @lucydacus.bsky.social content on @pbswisconsin.bsky.social! pbswisconsin.org/watch/americ...
Watch Lucy Dacus Makes Her First Loves Songs on PBS Wisconsin
Singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus talks about love songs for her new album,
pbswisconsin.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Alert! @lucydacus.bsky.social content on @pbswisconsin.bsky.social! pbswisconsin.org/watch/americ...