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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 6h

They’re clearly billionaires. Who can afford fuel?

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 27/09/2026

out on the road today I saw a wojack sticker on a cybertruck

cybertruck with a bumper sticker of the NPC meme that says ROCKET MAN BAD

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 8h

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 11h

Knew what the definition was all day, but couldn’t see it. Eventually answer came still didn’t see why. Then I did. 🤯🤯🤯 Minute Cryptic 29/9/26 "Annual migrants head to Germany, then south into, say, Tripoli?" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (172,088 solvers so far). Time: 9h 55m.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 11h

Wednesday's TGT looks at the first 'Jumbo Jet' to roll out of Boeing's Everett factory. It was twice as big and heavy as the previous largest ever plane and Boeing had to build the largest building in the world, to build it in. A remarkable Engineering project. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Wednesday 30th September
In the 1960s Boeing had ambitious plans to build a plane more than twice the size and weight of the existing largest plane in the world. It promised to transform the economics of long-distance air travel so much that Airline Pan Am ordered 25 of the new ‘Jumbo Jets’ before a single prototype had even been built.
Before Boeing could build the ‘747’, it first had to build the largest building in the world to build them in! Choosing a site near a military base north of Seattle, Washington. The Everett Factory was opened in October 1967 and had a volume of 13.3 million m3, the equivalent of around 5,300 Olympic swimming pools and remains today the largest building in the world by volume.
Just under a year later on 30th September 1968 the enormous hangar doors opened and the first Boeing 747 rolled out. The engineering and construction team had earned themselves the nickname ‘The Incredibles’ for the speed of their work.
The 747 went into service in January 1970 and revolutionised air travel. More passengers could travel on each flight, allowing costs to be spread across hundreds of tickets and helping make long-distance air travel affordable to more people.
Why do you think Boeing and Pan Am were committed to building something so big without knowing for certain it would work?
Are you interested in working in a career in engineering and construction?
What big and ambitious project should today’s engineers be working on?

Wednesday 30th September
In the 1960s Boeing had ambitious plans to build a plane twice the size and weight of the existing largest plane.
Before Boeing could build the 747 it first had to build the largest building in the world to build them in! The Everett Factory was opened in October 1967 and remains today the largest building in the world by volume.
On this day 1968 the enormous hangar doors opened and the first Boeing 747 rolled out. For their speed and daring the engineering and construction team earned themselves the nickname ‘The Incredibles’.

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tuesday's TGT follows on from Friday's look at The Sequoia National Park & General Sherman to look at the fate of the 2nd largest tree in the world, at the time. The Mother of The Forest. Was her fate a genius idea to educate the world, or a waste of a 2500+ year old organism? bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Tuesday 29th September
The ‘Mother of the Forest’ was a giant sequoia tree in California, which was the second largest in the valley when ‘discovered’ in 1852 by Europeans during the California Gold Rush. Looking for ways to make money the European settlers felled some smaller trees (pictured, top) and transported them to Europe and America’s east coast, where they could charge people to see the large trees of the great unexplored lands of the American West.
Transporting such large trees was expensive, so instead in 1854 the Mother of the Forest had its bark completely stripped. Workers made holes in the tree using augers and inserted rods to set up scaffolding, which enabled workers to saw off the bark. Over 90 days 60 tons of bark were removed in 8 feet by 5 sections. A sample of the trees core was studied and found it to be 2520 years old.
The bark was sent to New York and then shipped on to London in 1856, where it was setup in The Crystal Palace exhibition as a hollow Giant Sequoia (pictured, below). It remained at The Crystal Palace until a fire in 1866 which destroyed many of the Palace’s exhibits. In 1908 the remaining core of The Mother of the Forest was also destroyed in a forest fire, without it’s bark to protect it.
How would you feel seeing the tree’s bark in London? Would you admire its beauty and size, or be horrified it had been stripped?
Activities like this can lead to people appreciating nature in its original location. Was it the death of this tree worth it?

Tuesday 29th September
The ‘Mother of the Forest’ was a giant sequoia tree in California, the 2nd largest in the valley in 1852.
The bark was stripped from the 2520 year old tree in 1854 and shipped to London where it was set up as a hollow tree in the Crystal Palace (pictured), showing off the size of Sequoia in the American West. It was destroyed in the 1866 fire that destroyed The Crystal Palace. The remaining core of the tree died in 1908 in a forest fire, without it’s bark to protect it.
How would you feel seeing the tree’s bark in London? Would you admire its beauty and size, or be horrified it had been stripped?

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Told DUP man about midterms - Orangeman? (6,5)

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Monday's TGT looks at 2008 Crashgate scandal. Was it the greatest scandal in sport? If so how come hardly anyone seems to have paid a price? bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Monday 28th September
On 28th September 2008 Formula 1 held its first ever night race through the streets of Singapore. But the race is not remembered for the dramatic image of F1 cars racing through floodlit streets, it’s remembered for ‘Crashgate’.
The Renault team were having a disappointing season and qualifying at Singapore was no better. Their best driver, Fernando Alonso qualified 15th and took an early pit stop which appeared fortuitous when his teammate Nelson Piquet Jr crashed into a wall two laps later. The safety car slowed down the field and as they all needed to pit stop, Alonso was able to overtake the whole field and claim an unexpected victory.
It was over a year later that Piquet admitted he’d crashed deliberately under orders of team principal Flavio Briatore. Briatore was handed a lifetime ban from all FIA motorsport, but he challenged this in French courts and his ban was overturned and he returned to F1 in 2013.
Some have called it the worst case of cheating in sporting history given the potential consequences of a high speed crash, putting drivers, spectators and track crews in danger.
What would you do if you were ordered to deliberately crash in order to help your teammate? Would your answer change if you were threatened to be fired from your dream job?
Who carries more responsibility the team principal or the driver?
When should you refuse to follow an instruction from someone in authority?

Monday 28th September
On 28th September 2008 Formula 1 held its first ever night race through the streets of Singapore.
The race is not remembered for this milestone. Instead it is known as the ‘Crashgate’ race when Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr was ordered to deliberately crash his car at high speed so that his team mate Fernando Alonso could win as all other cars slowed down behind the safety car.
Team principal Flavio Briatore was handed a lifetime ban from all FIA motorsport, but he challenged this in court and his ban was overturned and he returned to F1 in 2013.
Given the dangers, some have called it the worst cheating in sports history.
Who carries more responsibility, the team principal or the driver?
When should you refuse to follow an instruction from someone in authority?

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 20/08/2026

i've been going to a weekly support group called Hope but every once in a while they skip a week

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Monday's TGT looks at 2008 Crashgate scandal. Was it the greatest scandal in sport? If so how come hardly anyone seems to have paid a price? bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

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John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️‍🌈 @johnbarnes.org · 26/09/2026

It was wonderful to lead the Preston Pride parade today as the Town Crier and Bellman of the city and to make the opening proclamation. Love is love my friends.

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Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think Bluesky is better than Twitter not because it is more liberal (that’s just another reason, but because algorithmic social makes you stupider. Algorithms feeds you the same stuff over and over, pushing you down ever narrower rabbit holes in a way that you just don’t get on Bluesky.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

reminder that i have an unapologetically fortifying and uplifting spotify playlist. for whatever reason you need it, it is there. i use it. you can use it. bookmark it. open.spotify.com/playlist/6Qe...

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Playlist · gariusthebrit · 27 items · 183 saves

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reckon it’s Spain. By some distance.

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katie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wrote "ouch" on a piece of paper and sent it through the photocopier. What happened next chilled me to the bone

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I went for a HoD job at my old school and asked if it would be possible to go 0.9FTE, but said I wouldn’t take a day off. I just wanted to buy myself more time to do the job in school. I was told it showed a lack of commitment to the role. Working for free. No commitment.

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