Anthony Dhanendran
@dhanendran.co.uk
I’m a product manager and sometime coach
Product and software development, music, cricket - was @phowax on Twitter
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
Product and software development, music, cricket - was @phowax on Twitter
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
A lot of people up in arms about this, both here and on reddit, but 1) it literally *is* a french-fry restaurant, the place is not that hard to find, and 2) the NYT is an American paper with an American audience - what did you all expect them to call it?
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A lot of people up in arms about this, both here and on reddit, but 1) it literally *is* a french-fry restaurant, the place is not that hard to find, and 2) the NYT is an American paper with an American audience - what did you all expect them to call it?
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I'm sure this joke has been made before and apologies to everyone who beat me too it, but you've got to love an integrated economy where the top exports are bacon and Wegovy 🇩🇰
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I'm sure this joke has been made before and apologies to everyone who beat me too it, but you've got to love an integrated economy where the top exports are bacon and Wegovy 🇩🇰
Fifty-one years (and three days) since the Cleveland Browns "some asshole" letter was sent:
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Fifty-one years (and three days) since the Cleveland Browns "some asshole" letter was sent:
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Globalisation in all its complexity: a South African can make £££ by acting as a remote PA to someone in the United Kingdom, or, failing that, by tweeting about how race war in the United Kingdom is inevitable on X dot com.
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Globalisation in all its complexity: a South African can make £££ by acting as a remote PA to someone in the United Kingdom, or, failing that, by tweeting about how race war in the United Kingdom is inevitable on X dot com.
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This is far too complicated a topic to be reduced to a five-word soundbite, eg: is it fair that the taxes of a ~minimum-wage shop worker would subsidise my commute to the office? How would free transport interact with TFL's budget problems and maintenance backlog? What modes: buses, tube, trains?
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is far too complicated a topic to be reduced to a five-word soundbite, eg: is it fair that the taxes of a ~minimum-wage shop worker would subsidise my commute to the office? How would free transport interact with TFL's budget problems and maintenance backlog? What modes: buses, tube, trains?
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It's going to be fascinating if Twitter gets properly regulated again and there are localised economic collapses because the rage farmers of developing countries lose their income.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It's going to be fascinating if Twitter gets properly regulated again and there are localised economic collapses because the rage farmers of developing countries lose their income.
I’m no media lawyer but I’d say that this headline was very unwise and is potentially actionable (for libel) on Adele’s and Beckham’s parts. I’ve had a look through the same database and most of the people listed are named in passing email chatter, including those two.
All the British celebs named in Epstein files - from Adele to Sir David Beckham
Over 30 British names appear in 23,000 Epstein-linked documents handed to US authorities - but being named does not indicate wrongdoing
www.dailystar.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’m no media lawyer but I’d say that this headline was very unwise and is potentially actionable (for libel) on Adele’s and Beckham’s parts. I’ve had a look through the same database and most of the people listed are named in passing email chatter, including those two.
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As an occasional watcher, and someone just following by text, would it fair to say, what the fuck was that match? No-one could bat, and then one guy was really good at batting and wrapped the whole thing up in an hour?
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As an occasional watcher, and someone just following by text, would it fair to say, what the fuck was that match? No-one could bat, and then one guy was really good at batting and wrapped the whole thing up in an hour?
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Listen, we don’t go out there to win, we go out there to entertain. And we did entertain an enormous number of Aussies. Bazball Mission Accomplished!
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Listen, we don’t go out there to win, we go out there to entertain. And we did entertain an enormous number of Aussies. Bazball Mission Accomplished!
Nineteen wickets and Radiohead. I’ll take that, as days go.
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nineteen wickets and Radiohead. I’ll take that, as days go.
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loathe and resent how funny this is
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
loathe and resent how funny this is
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"
Steve Smith vs Monty Panesar is a battle of wits between two unarmed men
The Ashes: Australia captain Steve Smith aims bizarre Mastermind jibe at Monty Panesar
Stand-in Australia captain Steve Smith takes a bizarre swipe at former England spinner Monty Panesar on the eve of the first Ashes Test.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Steve Smith vs Monty Panesar is a battle of wits between two unarmed men
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This guy spent years chasing me through the Guardian complaints system. I'd reported that his news agency had spread a wildly viral but denied claim that a Dutch teenager was legally euthanised at a clinic. He was so unhappy after his complaint was rejected he launched his own media regulator.
AI has helped break news ecosystem, but could also fix it – says agency boss. Michael Leidig's NewsX is a bid to make on the ground reporting pay again. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/w...
AI has helped break news ecosystem, but could also fix it - says agency boss
Michael Leidig's NewsX is a bid to make on the ground reporting pay again.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This guy spent years chasing me through the Guardian complaints system. I'd reported that his news agency had spread a wildly viral but denied claim that a Dutch teenager was legally euthanised at a clinic. He was so unhappy after his complaint was rejected he launched his own media regulator.
A reminder that “enshittification” has a specific and useful meaning and doesn’t just mean “things, companies or countries are getting worse”. There is an existing word for that which is “decline”.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A reminder that “enshittification” has a specific and useful meaning and doesn’t just mean “things, companies or countries are getting worse”. There is an existing word for that which is “decline”.
I was lucky enough to have seen Dick Gaughan play live (at a gig at Dulwich Hamlet FC, of all places) nearly 20 years ago. It was a very good night. Jude's piece at the end of the thread is a good read www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Richard Hawley calls his music “a league away from most things in any genre". Rufus Wainwright says he was “so lucky” to work with him at an impressionable age. One of Billy Bragg's most famous covers came about because of him. But have you heard of Dick Gaughan?
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I was lucky enough to have seen Dick Gaughan play live (at a gig at Dulwich Hamlet FC, of all places) nearly 20 years ago. It was a very good night. Jude's piece at the end of the thread is a good read www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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A thing that I remember vividly from GE2015 is when you'd knock on the door of a never-gonna-be-hit-by-the-mansion-tax house that was never going to be hit by a mansion tax who really thought their house's inflated price meant it might be close to it. Turns out that has spread to officials!
I sometimes feel like I am going mad.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A thing that I remember vividly from GE2015 is when you'd knock on the door of a never-gonna-be-hit-by-the-mansion-tax house that was never going to be hit by a mansion tax who really thought their house's inflated price meant it might be close to it. Turns out that has spread to officials!
Why is it always West Ham? In 2008 the government effectively nationalised West Ham after Landsbanki collapsed, and now it turns out the GLA has a vested interest in keeping them in the Premiership in order to avoid losing money on the stadium.
Hammered: West Ham relegation would cost Londoners £2.5m a year, says Sadiq Khan aide
Cost of running former 2012 Olympic stadium will soar if Hammers drop out of Premier League, warns mayor’s chief of staff
www.standard.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Why is it always West Ham? In 2008 the government effectively nationalised West Ham after Landsbanki collapsed, and now it turns out the GLA has a vested interest in keeping them in the Premiership in order to avoid losing money on the stadium.
Fascinating that we're now far enough away from "the post" being a thing with which people regularly interact that someone can get to driving age without having seen a pre-paid envelope before.
This isn't a "kids these days" point, it's more that a thing I took for granted... isn't.
This isn't a "kids these days" point, it's more that a thing I took for granted... isn't.
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Fascinating that we're now far enough away from "the post" being a thing with which people regularly interact that someone can get to driving age without having seen a pre-paid envelope before.
This isn't a "kids these days" point, it's more that a thing I took for granted... isn't.
This isn't a "kids these days" point, it's more that a thing I took for granted... isn't.
This is a _really interesting_ thread, esp if at work or elsewhere you're thinking about the impacts of LLMs and similar tech.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is a _really interesting_ thread, esp if at work or elsewhere you're thinking about the impacts of LLMs and similar tech.
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I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money