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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 06/09/2026

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

Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 27/07/2026

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 @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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

Screenshot of FB marketplace post with Emmy award for sale for $500. The image shows a gold award of an angel holding a big globe in her hands.

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 04/06/2026

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?

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 03/06/2026

PSA to the marathon dads out there

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 04/05/2026

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...

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Tim and Eric - Celery Man

YouTube video by Twinfold11

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 17/04/2026

“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...

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Jesus Memes, Threats and a War in Iran: A Portrait of Trump Under Pressure

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 11/04/2026

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”

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 05/04/2026

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

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No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 13/03/2026

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

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 06/03/2026

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!"

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 04/03/2026

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

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These American Service Members Died in the Iran Conflict

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 03/03/2026

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

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 07/02/2026

“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...

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

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 23/12/2025

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...

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It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’

“Podcast” is becoming an outdated relic

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 14/11/2025

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

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 21/10/2025

“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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Shutdown With No Clear End Poses New Economic Threat

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2025

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.

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 08/10/2025

“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...

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Opinion | Can Trump End This Impossibly Cruel Practice?

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 08/10/2025

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

Man with caption that says “we still have to produce the milk”

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 12/09/2025

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

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The Last Person to Question Charlie Kirk

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 31/08/2025

“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...

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The Enshittification of American Power — WIRED

First Google and Facebook, then the whole world.

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 29/08/2025

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...

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F.D.A. Approves Covid Shots With New Restrictions

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 17/08/2025

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...

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To All The Dogs We've Loved

Podcast Episode · To The Best Of Our Knowledge · 08/16/2025 · 52m

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The US Department of Health and Human Services is arguing with a cable news channel to say that french fries aren’t unhealthy

@HHSGov
•@NBCNews claims that @SecKennedy's recommendation to fry potatoes in beef tallow - rather than the seed oils used today - "isn't backed by scientific research."
Here is a basketful of studies that tell a different story:

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A salty twist: Diabetes risk study says french fries are a culprit nbcnews.com/health/health-...

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 07/08/2025

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...

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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...

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 10/06/2025

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

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Mile of Music

This concert documentary offers a front row seat to Appleton's community music festival.

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 08/06/2025

Thought of it, couldn’t unsee it

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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...

In early spring 2020, I reported an article for The New York Times on which I put the tentative headline: “New Coronavirus Is ‘Clearly Not a Lab Leak,’ Scientists Say.”

It never ran.

For two reasons.

The chief one was that inside the Times, we were sharply divided. My colleagues who cover national security were being assured by their Trump administration sources — albeit anonymously and with no hard evidence — that it was a lab leak and the Chinese were covering it up. We science reporters were hearing from virologists and zoologists — on the record and in great detail — that the odds were overwhelming that it was not a lab leak but an animal spillover.

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 20/04/2025

“The real change isn’t that older adults are absent; it’s that their kids need them more than ever.” apple.news/AN8frGnlNSam3MKDtJB74Mw

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Mark Riechers @bymarkriechers.com · 18/02/2025

There could always be more vinyl.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace:

As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism.

Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.

It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.

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