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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Iirc it's quite amusing how New York is like 'oh you want to open a laundromat? You'll need a medallion from the national guild of washerwomen (controlled by the Gambino crime family. This is a nominally left wing procedure'
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Iirc it's quite amusing how New York is like 'oh you want to open a laundromat? You'll need a medallion from the national guild of washerwomen (controlled by the Gambino crime family. This is a nominally left wing procedure'
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Starting a campaign to bring back the On The Record crocodile
November 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Starting a campaign to bring back the On The Record crocodile
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just remembered a fact from one of @paulsinha.bsky.social’s shows:
tom stoppard was born in the same town as ivana trump.
(checking i’d remembered this right led me to discover he was also born in the same town as john tusa.)
tom stoppard was born in the same town as ivana trump.
(checking i’d remembered this right led me to discover he was also born in the same town as john tusa.)
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
just remembered a fact from one of @paulsinha.bsky.social’s shows:
tom stoppard was born in the same town as ivana trump.
(checking i’d remembered this right led me to discover he was also born in the same town as john tusa.)
tom stoppard was born in the same town as ivana trump.
(checking i’d remembered this right led me to discover he was also born in the same town as john tusa.)
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my favorite rumor about Amadeus is that it was Peter Shaffer's take on a prolific young upstart, Tom Stoppard
August 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
my favorite rumor about Amadeus is that it was Peter Shaffer's take on a prolific young upstart, Tom Stoppard
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Now that we know the end result, every change listed here makes you go, “Well, of course!” but what a rare intelligence to be able to shape a story like that.
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Now that we know the end result, every change listed here makes you go, “Well, of course!” but what a rare intelligence to be able to shape a story like that.
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
R&G, the 15 Minute Hamlet at school, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (one of my favourite-ever plays). As Aliki says in thread, a great light has gone out.
Rozencrantz and Guildenstern. And Arcadia.
And going to see Shakespeare In Love in Athens with my dad, and the whole audience glaring at us as we giggled and guffawed, because the jokes just didn’t translate.
And going to see Shakespeare In Love in Athens with my dad, and the whole audience glaring at us as we giggled and guffawed, because the jokes just didn’t translate.
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
R&G, the 15 Minute Hamlet at school, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (one of my favourite-ever plays). As Aliki says in thread, a great light has gone out.
Best t-shirts spotted so far at Sabres of Paradise/Leftfield gig, which is full of 40-60yo ex-ravers:
- “The plural of vinyl is vinyl”
- “Raver at heart”
- the Screamadelica cover, obviously
- “The plural of vinyl is vinyl”
- “Raver at heart”
- the Screamadelica cover, obviously
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Best t-shirts spotted so far at Sabres of Paradise/Leftfield gig, which is full of 40-60yo ex-ravers:
- “The plural of vinyl is vinyl”
- “Raver at heart”
- the Screamadelica cover, obviously
- “The plural of vinyl is vinyl”
- “Raver at heart”
- the Screamadelica cover, obviously
The once-a-year drinkers have been out in London for two weeks already - it’s very odd. Soho and Fitzrovia are rammed with shaky in-from-the-sticks office parties.
The second the decorations go up and it ruins Friday night for a month.
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The once-a-year drinkers have been out in London for two weeks already - it’s very odd. Soho and Fitzrovia are rammed with shaky in-from-the-sticks office parties.
Interesting that the meme-o-sphere is now so disconnected thanks to the demise of Twitter that few people on Bluesky have noticed that Neil is riffing on a Twitter meme (Nick 30 ans). That doesn't make it good or mean I agree with it, but it does situate it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Interesting that the meme-o-sphere is now so disconnected thanks to the demise of Twitter that few people on Bluesky have noticed that Neil is riffing on a Twitter meme (Nick 30 ans). That doesn't make it good or mean I agree with it, but it does situate it.
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I strongly recommend anyone who reads and writes all day learn a foreign language, particularly one from a different language family. It's super instructive in how it feels to *not* be very literate, and I feel our current circumstances make that an important insight.
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I strongly recommend anyone who reads and writes all day learn a foreign language, particularly one from a different language family. It's super instructive in how it feels to *not* be very literate, and I feel our current circumstances make that an important insight.
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There are a lot of "have the BBC never heard of the Streisand Effect?" comments on this but the Streisand Effect has nothing to do with this. This isn't about the BBC trying to stop you knowing about this line, but about it trying to navigate away from a ridiculous lawsuit. It's still depressing!
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
There are a lot of "have the BBC never heard of the Streisand Effect?" comments on this but the Streisand Effect has nothing to do with this. This isn't about the BBC trying to stop you knowing about this line, but about it trying to navigate away from a ridiculous lawsuit. It's still depressing!
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!