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
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Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
February 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
"Say there are 650 MPs, and five per cent of them have links to paedophiles..."
February 11, 2026 at 1:32 PM
"Say there are 650 MPs, and five per cent of them have links to paedophiles..."
Incredible finish to the South Africa-Afghanistan match
&;&:’snntnFHABASGDBJDKAAKSBCBXNSJEJKSK #TheCricket
February 11, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Incredible finish to the South Africa-Afghanistan match
Good. The objections to this scheme are overblown, and largely amount to "we should save a 1990s branch of McDonald's from demolition" when you actually look at the plans in detail.
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Good. The objections to this scheme are overblown, and largely amount to "we should save a 1990s branch of McDonald's from demolition" when you actually look at the plans in detail.
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Time for my increasingly frequent, 'there's a clear Trend on this chart' joke
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Time for my increasingly frequent, 'there's a clear Trend on this chart' joke
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think I'm correct in saying that constitutionally you can't change prime minister during a Winter Olympics
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
think I'm correct in saying that constitutionally you can't change prime minister during a Winter Olympics
Alarmed that I'm closer to Arsenal fans than cricket fans 👀
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Alarmed that I'm closer to Arsenal fans than cricket fans 👀
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If you are using the phrase "full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism", especially if you are of the left, a loved one should take your phone off you and send you to Baden-Baden or somewhere for a month.
Yes, god help we risk a floundering government that feels like no one is in charge.
February 8, 2026 at 5:44 PM
If you are using the phrase "full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism", especially if you are of the left, a loved one should take your phone off you and send you to Baden-Baden or somewhere for a month.
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Malcolm Tucker: ...I am not the story here!
Jamie: You kind of are the story, Malcolm. They spelled your name right and everything.
Jamie: You kind of are the story, Malcolm. They spelled your name right and everything.
February 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Malcolm Tucker: ...I am not the story here!
Jamie: You kind of are the story, Malcolm. They spelled your name right and everything.
Jamie: You kind of are the story, Malcolm. They spelled your name right and everything.
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Naomi Wolf thinks the NYT Mayor election was really a tie, and has a weird theory about how it was stolen. Though I am not sure this would make even her top 5 conspiracy moments
February 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Naomi Wolf thinks the NYT Mayor election was really a tie, and has a weird theory about how it was stolen. Though I am not sure this would make even her top 5 conspiracy moments
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Pushed by Reach newspapers on social media feeds: the death of Michael Sundin. Which happened in 1989. As if it’s a news story. So that you click.
February 8, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Pushed by Reach newspapers on social media feeds: the death of Michael Sundin. Which happened in 1989. As if it’s a news story. So that you click.
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Going to be bleak when we find his name in the files
Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Going to be bleak when we find his name in the files
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Damnit. Meant to pick up some Albert Bartlett potatoes but accidentally got the Stephen Bartlett ones and they won’t shut up about why women are bad
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Damnit. Meant to pick up some Albert Bartlett potatoes but accidentally got the Stephen Bartlett ones and they won’t shut up about why women are bad
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Six down. USA bowlers be like #TheCricket
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Six down. USA bowlers be like #TheCricket
There was a name for this, at this point in the internet’s history: Sneakernet, when if you had a large block of data to transfer, it was faster, cheaper and easier to yank the hard disk out of your computer, get a cab to the other office and plug it in there.
A couple years later things had moved on. I had a Zip Drive. I would save my artwork onto those chunky Zip disks, walk to the train station car park, where a courier would be waiting to drive them into London and to the publisher.
The internet existed but it just wasn’t everywhere yet.
The internet existed but it just wasn’t everywhere yet.
February 7, 2026 at 9:27 AM
There was a name for this, at this point in the internet’s history: Sneakernet, when if you had a large block of data to transfer, it was faster, cheaper and easier to yank the hard disk out of your computer, get a cab to the other office and plug it in there.
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Very late nineties, I did occasional spot illos for a big Fleet Street newspaper, and they would take the actual artwork by fax. As in: I’d go to the newsagent, pay 50p, and fax it over. Not roughs. The art. That was it. It would be reprinted in one of the biggest selling papers. From a FAX.
I was thinking about when I left art college and first started doing illustrations for a magazine. They would send me the brief by fax, but I didn’t have a fax, so they’d send it to the post office fax machine, and I’d walk over there. I’d then walk back to fax them my roughs. FAXING. CAN U IMAGINE
February 7, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Very late nineties, I did occasional spot illos for a big Fleet Street newspaper, and they would take the actual artwork by fax. As in: I’d go to the newsagent, pay 50p, and fax it over. Not roughs. The art. That was it. It would be reprinted in one of the biggest selling papers. From a FAX.
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I was thinking about when I left art college and first started doing illustrations for a magazine. They would send me the brief by fax, but I didn’t have a fax, so they’d send it to the post office fax machine, and I’d walk over there. I’d then walk back to fax them my roughs. FAXING. CAN U IMAGINE
February 7, 2026 at 7:51 AM
I was thinking about when I left art college and first started doing illustrations for a magazine. They would send me the brief by fax, but I didn’t have a fax, so they’d send it to the post office fax machine, and I’d walk over there. I’d then walk back to fax them my roughs. FAXING. CAN U IMAGINE
“Would you rather pay £676 for 52 weeks of the Daily Express or £180 for all of the BBC?” would be quite a good whisper campaign (this thought prompted by @politicanimal.bsky.social’s observation about the Sat Ex’s £3 cover price).
Daily Express: ‘DEATH WISH’ TV LICENCE FEE HIKE
‘HURTS’ US ALL #TomorrowsPapersToday
‘HURTS’ US ALL #TomorrowsPapersToday
February 6, 2026 at 10:22 PM
“Would you rather pay £676 for 52 weeks of the Daily Express or £180 for all of the BBC?” would be quite a good whisper campaign (this thought prompted by @politicanimal.bsky.social’s observation about the Sat Ex’s £3 cover price).
I feel this. I recently bought this without having clocked the page count (780, I think) and as a result I was slightly surprised when it thudded onto the doormat. I’d have gone for the epub but there doesn’t seem to be one.
February 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I feel this. I recently bought this without having clocked the page count (780, I think) and as a result I was slightly surprised when it thudded onto the doormat. I’d have gone for the epub but there doesn’t seem to be one.
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On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was
February 6, 2026 at 10:06 PM
On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was
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the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
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We should only ever have dreadful lowest common denominator things that suck. Every penny spent on making Crossrail nicer than the Victoria line was wasted.
I'm sorry but it's ridiculous that the taxpayer is being asked to fund up to £40 billion pounds for urgent works to 'save Parliament burning down', which also yknow features Essential Improvements such as a brand new underground visitors centre
February 6, 2026 at 9:01 AM
We should only ever have dreadful lowest common denominator things that suck. Every penny spent on making Crossrail nicer than the Victoria line was wasted.
