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Rob Myers 🍵

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Author: Essential Test-Driven Development | Keynote speaker | Instructor/coach: #TDD, #BDD, Advanced CSD, #XP | Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/robmyersagileco…

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 19m

Election law: the reassuring, and the terrifying. Via @onthemedia.bsky.social of course. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Trump's Guide to Stealing an Election

Podcast Episode · On the Media · October 3 · 51m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wait wait wait @micahloewinger.bsky.social of @onthemedia.bsky.social … At 40 minutes in there’s mention of offering human debaters money to out-influence AI. But tying performance to monetary gain is known to have the opposite result. I call foul! 😆 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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How Extinction Entered the AI Debate

Podcast Episode · On the Media · September 19 · 50m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An ex Pentagon reporter (not by choice) throws down the gauntlet. I’m sure Pete Hegseth is too much of a cowardly buffoon to accept. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Iraq withdrawal / America's Mideast footprint / Hegseth's Pentagon overhaul

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · October 1 · 32m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the clearest multilayered descriptions of what AI is, and what we perceive it to be. “Sort of…” via @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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How Extinction Entered the AI Debate

Podcast Episode · On the Media · September 19 · 50m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump, Hegseth: incompetence…shamefulness…war crimes? Via @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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The New Rules Of War Are There Are No Rules

Podcast Episode · On the Media · September 23 · 30m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A very nice review of Trump’s relationship with the press over the years, and how utterly stupid he’s made himself look because of it. Thank you @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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The White House on Mute

Podcast Episode · On the Media · September 25 · 50m

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m at it again! Will be here until 10:45. (My 10:30 timeslot is taken.) #Starwest Only four copies left!

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Speaker 1-on-1s at #STARWest - I’m selling these roughly at cost: $25 cash or $28 Venmo|PayPal

My book, Essential Test-Driven Development, on sale at the 1-on-1 tables.

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The horror of this day 25 years ago. A natsec perspective. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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How Sept. 11 reshaped national security

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · September 9 · 1h 2m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Stupid is as MAGA does. futurism.com/trump-suppor...

Trump Supporters Lost a Staggering Amount of Money as They Bought His Meme Coin

Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters lost money on his meme coin after its price crashed shortly after launching.

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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Test-Driven Development (TDD) is at the heart of low-defect agile software development, enabling incremental development and emergent design without degrading quality. By allowing software teams to cr...

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Don't forget who profits from the Iran war. And White House war-profiteers do NOT have your best interest in mind.

Donald Trump saying "When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money"

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Listen to all the ways Trump’s/Hegseth’s pathetic blunders have completely destabilized…well, the whole planet. 🤦‍♂️ Via @npr.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Six months of Iran war / Gains and losses / CIA Chief in Moscow

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · August 27 · 33m

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The stupidest waste of taxpayer dollars since SDI. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump administration to pay German firm to halt US wind projects

The RWE payout is the latest in a string of deals cancelling wind energy projects, a power source long derided by Trump.

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Good morning America! Here’s a very depressing podcast enumerating all of the ways in which Donald Trump has dismantled American greatness, possibly forever. What an incompetent moron. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Trump Has Forever Changed America's Place in the World

Podcast Episode · On the Media · August 5 · 18m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It just occurred to me that dramatic fiction, no matter how well-written, is never quite as stressful as the news. Which is why FOX News is so popular with people who cannot tolerate reality.

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Your hard earned tax dollars at work. 🤦‍♂️ gillianbrockell.com

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Gillian Brockell

Time is neutral. History isn’t.

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

💔deportation flights (2nd segment?): US government sanctioned torture. Trump has now surely earned the “Just Like Hitler Award” Via @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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The Red Scare, But Dumber

Podcast Episode · On the Media · July 25 · 50m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wikipedia page of the day. (Or perhaps the decade?) When you can’t win a fair fight, claim that your opponent is cheating. Trump’s favorite “othering” tool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusat...

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Accusation in a mirror - Wikipedia

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Another pinnacle of hypocrisy as a conservative warns you that you’ll work two or three jobs to pay your taxes so that the elites can live in a subsidized utopia. That’s exactly what’s happening under the Trump regime. Via @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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The Red Scare, But Dumber

Podcast Episode · On the Media · July 25 · 50m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Most hypocritical statement ever made in the history of humanity: “White people are the only people who do not see color.” 🤣🤦‍♂️ And it’s right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5NH...

Leslie Jones on Right-Wing Claims That Racism Is Over & What Allyship Really Means | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Here’s something every red-blooded American should read. 🇺🇸🫡 www.snopes.com/collections/...

Trump repeated election integrity claims in primetime address. Here are 16 we've fact-checked

In his July 16 address, Trump revisited long-running claims about mail ballots, voting machines, noncitizen voters and the 2020 election.

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Do I have this right? Decades ago Republicans encouraged a free market style media, and because of that the free market has given us a liberal media. So now MAGA is cracking down on the media for giving people what they want. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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The FCC’s Pressure Campaign to Reshape Broadcast TV

Podcast Episode · On the Media · July 10 · 51m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“We’re scientists, we only know things until someone shows us we’re wrong.“ — Elvi, Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The incomparably idiotic nonsense that pours from Trump’s mouth! ”Love”? I do not think it means what you think it means. “Conceited”? No. Try narcissistic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Iran ceasefire over? / NATO drama / Khamenei funeral

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · July 9 · 28m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ukraine, Iran, and fiber-optic birds’ nests. Via @npr.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Ukraine latest / Limits of military might / Can major powers regain dominance?

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · July 2 · 32m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In war, everyone loses. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Iran “deal” / Winners and losers / Regional impact

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · June 18 · 34m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I really don’t know how people can stand to listen to the whiny man-baby voice DJT uses when he blames others (Vance, Obama, Netanyahu, …) for his own bumbling incompetence, or how they can pretend he’s not going to stab them in the back eventually, too. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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J.D. Vance: Iran Deal Fall Guy

Podcast Episode · On the Media · June 19 · 51m

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Stick around for the 3rd story, where we learn that Trumpy wants to “be like Vlad.”

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

What’s happening at CBS. But first, Elon Musk, racist bully-coward. Via @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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The UK’s Violent Riots Were Stoked by Elon Musk and a Global Far-Right Network

Podcast Episode · On the Media · June 12 · 51m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Refreshing to listen to an intelligent person with experience in international affairs talk about Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Ukraine. Of course he’s not part of Twaddlepot’s administration. They don’t have anyone like this. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Jake Sullivan: 'Hard to see' what U.S. has gained in Iran

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · June 1 · 40m

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The interview with the Stanford scientist (an actual scientist, unlike RFKJr) is the best part. youtu.be/3LDe3k6lyac?...

America's Protein Obsession Is Making Us Fat I Dr. Christopher Gardner

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Trump administration attempts to steal $1.8B from US Taxpayers to pay convicted insurrections. Yes @onthemedia.bsky.social I’m offended too. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Trump Sued Himself … and ‘Settled’ for a $1.8 Billion Fund

Podcast Episode · On the Media · May 29 · 51m

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

So Trump effectively gave Iran their enriched uranium. TACO TACO TACO podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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U.S., Iran trade strikes / Trump 'won't rush' / Obama nuclear deal 2.0?

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · May 28 · 30m

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ah! I knew Dimwit J. Twaddlepot wasn’t smart enough to invent all his own diabolical plans to destroy civilization. The real antichrist is the Heritage Foundation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Episode 4 of American Emergency; The Movement to Kill FEMA

Podcast Episode · On the Media · May 22 · 52m

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Yes, but it’s a strategic decline. He’s the spoiled child who’d rather break a toy than share it with the neighbor kid.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If I were a single-issue voter, my single issue would be that violent insurrectionists should be in prison, not collecting taxpayer dollars.

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“Time is not money, time is life, time is love. Each of us has a deep desire that is about much more than just making money—a desire to help others suffer less and contribute to taking society in a positive direction.” — Thich Nhat Hanh, to 15 Silicon Valley CEOs in 2013 [The Other Shore, 2017]

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#MAGA will do any damn thing to win elections: lie, cheat, & even threaten Federal employees while those employees try to rescue American citizens from disaster. Via @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Episode 3 of American Emergency; The Movement To Kill FEMA

Podcast Episode · On the Media · May 15 · 51m

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hmmm. “Accelerationists”?! What? Trump isn’t tearing down our democracy fast enough for them??? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Trump counterterror plan: cartels, left-wing violence / San Diego and the far right

Podcast Episode · Sources & Methods · May 21 · 33m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Just watched someone try to move a big folder of video files within the same drive & Windows said there wasn’t enough space. Really?! 🙄🤦‍♂️ When will Windows grow up into a real operating system?

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The good news: Essential Test-Driven Development is now available on Amazon in the UK and EU (without having to pay a 50USD shipping charge!) The bad news: It's only available in English (...for now...?) www.amazon.co.uk/Essential-Te...

Essential Test-Driven Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)): Amazon.co.uk: Myers, Rob: 9780134494159: Books

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"I don't think about Americans' financial situations. I don't think about anybody." -- Donald J. Trump, current and former President of the United States 🏆 Worst US President since Andrew Johnson.

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Left panel: "Obama's Iran deal: 0 Americans killed, 0 Iranians killed, 0 bombs dropped, $0 spent on war" - Republican response: "This is an total failure! We lost!" Right panel: "Iran ceasefire by Trump: 15 americans killed ~700 injured, 1900 Iranian citizens killed, 26,000 injured, $45 BILLION wasted, 18 countries bombed or involved in war" MAGA response: "This is a total win! So much winning!"

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Finally one of my favorite podcasts had the courage to face the issue head-on. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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What is a Pig Worth?

Podcast Episode · Radiolab · May 1 · 43m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We’re just one ticket sale away from dropping the price for everyone by 200 USD. 🥳

Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Dairy cows drinking their own pee. ‘Nuf said. 🤢 Via @radiolab.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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The Resistance of a Cow

Podcast Episode · Radiolab · April 17 · 51m

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Rob Myers 🍵 @robmyers.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It gives me hope to know that the Trump regime is following the failed Hungary model imperfectly. E.g., there *isn’t* more money in the average voter’s bank account, & we’re not afraid of Trump & his bumbling clown-cabinet. Via @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Influencers Usher In A New Era For #MeToo

Podcast Episode · On the Media · April 18 · 50m