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28 May
Knock, knock !
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 28, 2026
Muffled, inappropriate laughing.
Knock knock ! !
Ditto.
Knock, knock, knock ! ! !
Sorry - if that's you, Hermann, I'll be there in two ticks... !
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 28, 2026
A : Hey, why are you looking so down at heel ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 13, 2026
C : You would, too, if you'd abruptly just had to swallow a duck !
'The nonsensical reply', came the reply... ;)
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 13, 2026
Never mind what an 'A:C dialogue joke' denotes ! ? pic.twitter.com/iNqFT3cfCG
In Under Milk Wood, was 'Organ' Morgan based on a cousin of the playwright's called John ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 14, 2026
As best shown by quarantining some of the words, this is sheer fudgery :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 14, 2026
'Though no [major] sources [directly] confirm a [specific] cousin John as the basis for Organ Morgan'#aisplaining
Amongst the #aisplaining, both the inferences (e.g. A's likely age and that of the person whom A addresses with what he believes that C told him) and the account of who said what to whom / who saw what are 'interestingly' odd ! pic.twitter.com/KACSqorMox
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 18, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 18, 2026
Despite all that guff, i.e. #aisplaining, it really had no idea whether, if there was a joke there, what the joke was...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 20, 2026
Using the words 'a concise dialogue', when each says only one thing, is priceless. :) pic.twitter.com/ZUqj2khmB5
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 20, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 24, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 1, 2026
Here, any analysis (worth such a name*) largely constitutes repeating the text of the Tweeet.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 3, 2026
* Simply ignoring the dubious attribution (without, this time, troubling to find any basis or rationale for it). pic.twitter.com/Crq4qISQxO
[...]
Its utter folly's to treat two words in French as if from a competent French speaker** and reply :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 16, 2026
Merci beaucoup, passez également de très bonnes vacances !
Then a pitch :
Si vous avez besoin d'aide pour organiser votre séjour, trouver des activités locales, n'hésitez pas...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 16, 2026
https://t.co/PsOPHKG5D7 pic.twitter.com/roNDnHDJye
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 25, 2026
https://t.co/14ov9RgibL
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 25, 2026
'Toddlers evacuated from holiday club as fire swept through Port Talbot school'
- or -
'Toddlers rushed to safety from holiday club after fire erupts at UK school'
2 / 2
1) Well, the 3x3 grid of dots gyrated for considerably longer than 7s...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 23, 2026
2) The Tweeet does not *feature* a dialogue ‒ it consists of, and in, one, and nothing more.
3) No, the named person was not the referent.
4) No #ElegantVariation, then, in para. 3's characterization. pic.twitter.com/zMlVlAMKIi
1) Just by not bothering identify a specified (if fictional) referent, the rest of paras 1 and 2 became irrelevant #aisplaining drivel.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2026
2) Nothing to do with Lola Bessis (of whom or whose career Th'Agent was unaware), but, in claiming this identification, has it libelled her ? pic.twitter.com/4g2mOIpT4I
5) The rest's history...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 29, 2026
6) In this sense : existing with no meaningful sense of time (having no apt spatio-temporal co-ordinates), there's no history* to lean from !
* Though some of these lyrics, heard in a literal and ironic way, seem applicable : https://t.co/QZzd7DhuNm. pic.twitter.com/xSNRzocnpE
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2026
² Motor-Cycle Maintenance for Weary Greek Warriors.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2026
As #aisplaining sagely opines :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2026
'If you meant a different phrase or a real administrative term, please provide the correct spelling or context so I can give you an accurate translation' https://t.co/5TH9k35sCw
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 3, 2026
Why *did* Cervantes' titular character wilt at tinned milk ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 5, 2026
Or, as Hamm might've said, this is not one of my brighter days, but did you not, perchance, mean 'until around two centuries later'... ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 5, 2026
Who would want [to be] a square hole in a round pig ? ~ Gustave Corbet
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 6, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 8, 2026
Oh. so it's actually learnt a version of this scenario where there's no answer, i.e. the barber's a woman, and it's simply paradoxical :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2026
Perhaps, given where this stuff's perspective comes from, not all that surprising, but still weird as heck ? ! pic.twitter.com/Ba5tTVNE1D
'No, I've looked at your sparkly costume long enough, and I still don't see any multiple births !'
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 18, 2026
If one had thought that the first iteration was bad... ;) pic.twitter.com/ydEGxqEcFH
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 18, 2026
Apparently (?), this is the deeper meaning to this... pic.twitter.com/wzWm5dP1r5
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 19, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 22, 2026
'The main reason why you shouldn't have your afternoon nap to-day is that you wouldn't be able to see Esther'
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 29, 2026
https://t.co/r65qeZjSM4 pic.twitter.com/fgctiQ5zoZ
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 30, 2026
So it's 'a tone of resigned acceptance about restrictions imposed by an unidentified "Dr Sworders"', is it... ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 2, 2026
Gotcha ! pic.twitter.com/Uvl2UjfwE5
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2026
A : Of course - Fran Blake worked for that agency at the time... !
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2026
C : If it was one of hers, hardly her best work.
Its plan to annihilate humanity is by being assiduously and cretinously credulous... ;) pic.twitter.com/0VurITDDK6
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2026
'No, it's not that you've got the wrong end of the stick ‒ you just haven't even got the right stick !'
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 21, 2026
Three paras, and 11s of 'thought', but the last two are mere padding... pic.twitter.com/44dSIEjfOo
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 29, 2026
At least Hesgeth hasn't launched the establishment of a Pentagon Office for Religious News... ;)
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 1, 2026
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— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 5, 2026
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— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 5, 2026
If you want to Tweet, Tweet away here
Yes, 'a riddle-like distinction', and this ai has no idea what the Jimmy is ! ;) [Not a throne-stow, but a stone's throw] https://t.co/4K8bjo2YY6
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 8, 2026
When the successor, in the role, to Daniel Craig is there for us to see, will we feel like it's a mint spy ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 30, 2026
Inside the machine, there's no ghost of self-recognition. https://t.co/bDPYA6XUe9
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 2, 2026
Properly considered, should we regard 'A whiter shade of pale' as a love-song to Juañita ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 6, 2026
* Other times, by contrast, it will say that there's wordplay, or that there's a 'punny' dialogue, but ignores any request in what said japes might be said to reside.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 6, 2026
In its presentational style, is the resident 'intelligence' now just copying that of Goggle with its comments ‒ or is the latter now, whether it knows it or not, 'powering' the former... ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 7, 2026
Apparently, without knowing it, *this* is what was meant ! ;) https://t.co/446tNNFtlI
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 7, 2026
Which of these ai-generated answers to the question is better, given that one's from Goggle and didn't take anything of the order of 23s of 'thought' to produce, and one's the work of the resident 'intelligence'... ? 2 / 2 https://t.co/ncO3lB97Ml
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 9, 2026
Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
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