Alastair Fortuin

Books, technology, medicine, development and endeavour. Shared or not, all opinions are personal.

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Look here https://t.co/YK4tfTkRD4. Just a rather quick update. I've moved from Wall and All to digital screens.

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There are poets and maestros who work with meter and rhyme. And then — there is us. I stepped into an avalanche. And you? You're touching my heart, playing with its strings like it's a priceless, crystal Stradivarius. So much so for the invisible scaffolding of deep mathematics.

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Today we present auteurism as an action theory of textuality production.

If you have to see https://t.co/4KUTaSRVzn to believe it, find attached here a soupçon of 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘺 𝘔𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘳 𝘍𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵.

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Medicine has come a long way from digitalisation to digital transformation; and it still has further to go.

⏰ 27 February 2025, 07:32:07Z.

Source: copies of the images in the attached GIF were accessed at https://t.co/1tbJX466jP and https://t.co/cEoPGQAFSl and adapted.

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Tilda has done it again!

https://t.co/G6Kai4IJS5

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Come on, people, come on! Let's call a ♠️ a spade. You're behaving like Elon Musk is the 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘰 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 when in fact he is quite the opposite. He was born into the old ruling class of a South Africa struggling with an apartheid hangover.

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Let's see about racial equality on LinkedIn. The first image contravenes LinkedIn community guidelines but the second one most probably won't.

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@HamdanMohammed ICU dreams court and woo you too

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Is it just me or does anybody else get a little bit twittery about banana nut bread?

Source: the attached image was accessed at https://t.co/qpDeAMQGIy.

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@SpaceX, If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. Better luck next time🍀

Video credit:  US National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Alexander Courage / Paramount

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Trick or treat?  Lest there be any confusion.  It's All Hallows' Eve. And, make no mistake; you have been given a choice.  Make it a good one.  Democracy is not a form of government only. It underpins a way of life.

Image credit:  Unreal at https://t.co/LOSl7yoUCv.

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Far be it from me to rain on someone else's parade and this may sound somewhat low-key highbrow but I am rather partial to the 4 Chords - https://t.co/OsdHZjy2a8 - by the Axis of Awesome.

Image credit: Cristian Farias / https://t.co/lA5y8tBYLH

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What a difference a day makes - https://t.co/d7iK2kZ08v - and (like a Pollard picture point: https://t.co/YvMzUtKPlc) the difference is you.

Freeze-frame image credit:  Bodies (2023)

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The remains of Arthur James Balfour lie buried in a somewhat simple Scottish gravesite given the instrumental part he had played in events leading to the present Middle East catastrophe we see unfolding on our screens currently.
https://t.co/9HOftqm02U image credit: Jerry Klinger

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Hold that spirit.  We're still here - https://t.co/jlpP4llNrF - one in a million still shining - https://t.co/sTsA389oQw - dancing in a sea of stars.  Here we are.

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It is the weekend of Friday the 13th of October 2023.

Cork it - https://t.co/JHM6JX0PIG - and chill out.

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Reading the distress signals may be hard but not impossible for those with a broad general interest in the development of civilization. See here, it now 09:36:03Z on Saturday (7 October 2023) and softly, softly from the shadows we sing, "Peace on the Earth and goodwill to all."

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Bring the Eye of Sion out of high orbit and place it on our laptop so that we may begin the interlocking procedure.  The things issuing from somewhere between the funny and grave sides of our elfish tongue are downright awful sometimes.

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From hurricanes to epidemics, here is a link to books about global perspectives on health geography https://t.co/JUSv7Znx1X.  It is Thursday (14 September 2023) 16:50:44Z.  I'm enjoying the remains of the day.

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Okay!  Right!  People!  ICU!  https://t.co/kcvrIOfi5q.  It is Thursday (14 September 2023) 09:10:21Z.  Yesterday was World Sepsis Day.  And, we are in the middle of shite.  Everybody on your hands and knees facing Riyadh.  Stand on your heads.  Now!