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Of, causing, or characterized by lethargy. Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy. Any of various mammals of the order Primates, which consists of the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, New World monkeys, Old World monk

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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Customer: 'I'd like the biggest car you have.' Sales: 'We have this, only it can't park itself for plot reasons.
Enormous black car slightly less than half way unto a parking space.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The OnSpec Kickstarter is a little under $1500 short of its goal with 12 days to go. Can we get a repost for fans of Canadian-made SciFi to support a small press? @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @doctorow.pluralistic.net @nikostratis.com @premeemohamed.com @peterbcounter.com
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Surprised the Telegraph editors let this one slip though in the Mark Sedwill piece. Rather than 'Beijing, having invested in energy security for decades,' surely meant to write 'Beijing, having invested in expensive and unreliable energy instead of oil and gas'
Photo of newspaper with the offending  text circled. Context is the Israel/US war on Iran.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Or as Trump would describe it.. An OIL tanker bigly and SAFELY sailing through the straits of HUMUS. thank you for your attention in this matter.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I'm impressed, well done Ronnie. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...
bbc.co.uk
World Open: Ronnie O'Sullivan makes highest-ever professional break with historic 153
Ronnie O'Sullivan creates more snooker history by making the sport's highest-ever professional break with a 153 at the World Open in Yushan.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
www.fuel-finder.uk
fuel-finder.uk
Fuel Finder UK | Compare Cheapest Petrol, Diesel & EV Charging Prices
Find the cheapest fuel near you with independent Fuel Finder UK. 7,393 forecourts synced with the official government fuel price database every 5 minutes. Save up to £4.50 per tank (CMA, 2026).
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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Time for my annual Pi Day reminder that 22/7 is a closer approximation than 3.14, anyway
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
bbc.co.uk
The State of the Art by Iain M Banks - BBC Sounds
A spaceship arrives on Earth and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'money'.
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Timeless design! Roman rock crystal gaming die marked one to six like modern dice 🎲 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology
The British Museum photo shows a six-sided, cube-shaped die carved from rock crystal on a grey surface. The six sides are numbered one to six. The numbers are represented by circular incised markings, which comprise of a dark outer ring with a dark dot at the centre. Length: 9 - 13 millimetres, width: 9 - 13 millimetres. Display lighting casts a shadow beneath the die.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 19/02/2026
Gardeners regard the 45 British slugs, plus a newly-discovered species, as loathsome pests. But are they all to blame for plant destruction? | Chris du Feu
eastangliabylines.co.uk
New to science: a slug from Wicken
Gardeners regard the 45 British slugs, plus a newly-discovered species, as loathsome pests. But are they all to blame for plant destruction?
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Recommended for those who haven't seen Spurious Correlations. www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
tylervigen.com
Spurious Correlations
Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I got loads of new followers during my months of inactivity :D
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Look at the little buggers!
Blue sky with a few clouds and by far the dominant feature at least a dozen contrails from wide bodied jets. 😬
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you see this post a picture of a robot.
Picture of a washing machine. It is white.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Breakfast
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I've a joke about Ea-nāṣir but it just gets complaints.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Roll on grow your own teeth again and again... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
King's College scientists' lab-grown human teeth breakthrough
Scientists from King's College London manage to grow a human tooth under laboratory conditions.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Of course to grow lots of wool the peasants had to be thrown off the land to make room for sheep but one doesn't make a fortune without fucking up a bunch of people, I think that's the saying.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is fun :)
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
change.org
Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Back in my day I was a lot younger 😬
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I'm rich! #eggs
A brown chicken in the corner of a coup sitting on 8+ eggs in various shades of brown or blue.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Apparently grey seals can sense internal oxygen levels, which, while it might seem a sensible way to regulate breathing, isn't the case in most studied mammals, including humans. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Cognitive perception of circulating oxygen in seals is the reason they don’t drown
Marine mammals rely on maintaining sufficient blood oxygen levels while diving to prevent drowning. Generally, oxygen is cognitively imperceptible to mammals that instead sense rising carbon dioxide a...
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Perhaps a lesser known issue with AI in it's unending hunt for data. A literal if somewhat unlikely extrapolation would have the internet entirely occupied by crawlers and AI with humans forced back to analogue communication. Which might actually be good for all concerned. *sighs*
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What it really wants to do it eat my hair tie...
Chicken standing on my shoulder.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Heathrow effect, planes playing naughts and crosses in the sky.
Photo of the blue sky with an array of perpendicular contrails.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I've had a plan :) Make all the months 30 days and have a 5 day holiday between June and July (northern hemisphere) and December and January (elsewhere). Obviously leap day goes into holiday.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Now writers can advertise their new work as 'not yet stolen by Facebook.'
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Well done Brexit! 🤔
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Everyone should beware the Dunning-Kruger effect. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...
en.m.wikipedia.org
Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A win win for natural language processing and machine learning :D Cold called by a claim company robot so shared the podcast I'm listening to with it. It did understand my concern for the environment but tried to drag the 'conversation' back to car finance several times before giving up.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My day hasn't started until I've had a chicken stand on my back and shout in my ear.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Important update. I cracked open a jar of pasta sauce I made in 2019. It's still good :)
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It looks like Mr Trump and Mr Vance feel their priorities more closely align with those of Russia rather than the country Russia invaded. I wonder what kind of WWIII Trump was referring to during the conference? Could he be planning on invading Ukraine from the west? Reminds me of something 🤔
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Really very amusing. Human creativity at work. Also, watch the film!
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The crows I'm feeding in the hope of them becoming more friendly sit in the tree as far away as they can until I've put the food down and gone away. Ungrateful buggers.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Red and yellow catkins against a countryside scene, in the sunshine :)
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Mind controlling fungus in the UK! Exciting stuff :) Although that's not to forget <i>Toxoplasma gondi</i>, surely everyone's favourite brain parasite.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm maladjusted for this modern world 😑
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Snake Pass could be fanatic for non motorised traffic :) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Snake Pass: Could famous driving road close to cars?
It is known as one of the most scenic and famous driving roads, but could Snake Pass close to cars?
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Good morning
A cloudy, pale pink sky over low houses the roofs of which are covered with frost.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Something to look forward to: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Could the UK actually get colder with global warming?
Some scientists fear the risk of a collapse to warm Atlantic currents has not been taken seriously.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
'Now, you listen here. He's not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy. Now, go away!' Apply as often as needed.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
What might be a Small Skipper butterfly feeding on a white clover flower against a background of green grass.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It's been a while dark chocolate and Stilton but your time has come again!
A plate with a baked potato, a chopping board with a wedge of Stilton, some dark chocolate (85%) and a half full tin of baked beans. Cheese greater in the background.
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lethargicprimate.bsky.social @lethargicprimate.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Look at this beauty :)
A handsome dark brown house spider, species unknown, walking across a hand.
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