Cal

Vision mixer for @emgliveuk, techno-nerd for @hcr923fm and all-round geek. 🏳‍🌈
Please contact my agent @rarkvu • also available @[email protected]

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I captured the entire "Planetary Parade" using my 11" telescope, and combined everything into one composite photo that stayed true to the angular scale of these objects.

Made entirely with real photos, I hope this composite helps illustrate the scale of these things!

[chomper94 @chomper1994]

Today is the only day you can retweet this.

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

Just finished reading "Letters from Mesopotamia", here are some thousands of years old letters preserved in cuneiform.
1. "Mom buy me this" - Iddin-Sin to his mother

[alex.nl @lexrees]

Went through Vengeance Most Fowl to find all the Aardman details you inevitably miss the first time, here's Norbot's diagnostics from the hacking scene:

[dolphin_dane @dolphin_dane]

MELODIFESTIVALEN 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇸🇪🕸️📊
A dominant national final in modern Eurovision, Mello is back once again! And just look previous years, the song list is filled with familiar faces. Only 2 of the 30 songs seem to have no attachment to previous songs (a thread 🧵)

[Deedy @deedydas]

Most teams of software engineers have 1 savant.

They just want to build. They have crazy ideas. They have lightning fast execution. And they don't like rules.

Your job as a manager is to protect your savant from management at all costs, steer them and let them fly.

1/3

[Alasdair Beckett-King @MisterABK]

I found a pub with an inverted normal map. If you understand what this means, you have to retweet.

[Cal @cal_mclean]

@AlakaZan17x Congratulations!

[pbit @0xPBIT]

not enough people talk about the fact that semiconductor manufacturing is basically ritualistic supernatural phenomenon

[Thomas Godden @GoddenThomas]

When a system starts to work reliably I get really uneasy because the next failure mode is destined to be very obscure and take ages to root cause.

[Cal @cal_mclean]

@mmartin_joo Another step towards Atwood's Law...

[Cal @cal_mclean]

@drewrhyde Ooh, that's a lovely jacket!

[Cal @cal_mclean]

Look at hiiiiiiim!

[✨Frieren the Slayer ✨ @TeyTeysoBOUGIE]

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Because some of you skip this EVERYTIME and you’re in a relationship

[Cal @cal_mclean]

@AdamGilson8 Do they still work 😅

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

How to figure out what European language you are reading.

[Cal @cal_mclean]

@AlakaZan17x Amazing! Good luck man :) If you're based at WestWorks, it's a lovely place to be.

[Cal @cal_mclean]

@AlakaZan17x Amazing! Welcome to the family (fingers crossed!) What position?

[Cal @cal_mclean]

@harrisonjamesco Ooh, still waiting on AoM: Retold! So jealous...

[Cal @cal_mclean]

Only been in Brazil for 24 hours, but already learnt to politely ask for breakfast, lunch, a drink, and a takeaway - that feels like a start, right? :)