Joseph Sexton

What to see and do in Perpignan? What food should not be missed in that specific part of France? I'm happy to take more general, universal French food recommendations also.

Update: just spam, and far from the only one. This one was for a women's fitness retreat. Not great targeting there 😉

Others are offering me collab opportunities.

Guess I'm big on Russian-language social media now.

The one I've been using since 2020 cut a load of features I'd already paid for up front in the last year, refused to refund me for not providing the service I'd paid for upfront, and now want almost double the price to renew 😬

Could anyone recommend a good iOS photo filter app? In terms of colour balance, no, I don't want to make myself look like a dog...

Unsure as to whether to open this one... 🤔

Hate mail 😍 or just more spam? 😡

Spanish name, text in Russian....🤨

The bit that's visible says "It's possible, that you need a..." 🙂‍↔️

Any Moldovans on my timeline here?

If so, and if you'd like to help me a little bit with an Irish story relating to a figure from there, that would be amazing!

I'm not looking for much really, just some background help, the fact that I don't speak Romanian or Russian makes it tricky 🙏

View count is typically floating at around 2.5-3.5k per video, it would seem (I haven't conducted thorough research, but this is based on my experience, what I've watched).

The Hill is a good example of having a wildly successful YouTube channel, and slowly but steadily absolutely shredding it to the point where it's deader than the dodo.

2.1m million subscribers, 6,000 views is a video doing 'well' for them these days....

Is there any social media platform left in the year of Our Lord 2025 that is solely - or at least, primarily - photo driven?

Not quite as egregious as Spotify slipping a Belarusian post punk song into a Radio playlist of songs otherwise entirely in French last week....

But I just got Camilo Sesto 🇪🇸 on a playlist with Mexican music now 🤔

I just started following Drunken Dmitry on his Russian-language account, and he hasn't posted there since May... 🤔

As for Colonel Cirrhosis 🍾?

Having an absolutely normal one.

Me: Gee, I wonder how Alexander Dugin is doing today?

*Checks X* Yup.

I guess you could say that the erstwhile Transport Minister of the Russian Federation got promoted to a Special Fertiliser Operation 🫡

#TooSoon?

Thank you so much, no wonder I couldn't find it!

I did find that article, but I had it in my head that it was Raval.

Reading that people are worried el Mercat being turned into a tourist attraction has led me to stop recommending it.

I'll take friends visiting, but that's it from now on.

Latest thing the algorithm is serving me up over on Facebook: ads for real estate investment opportunities in Georgia 🇬🇪 — in Russian! 🤣

I've got a perfect solution here.

Slovakia leaves the EU, rejoins Most Glorious 'Russkiy Mir'; Ukraine takes it place here in the club with us.

Win/win/win.

I've got a perfect solution here.

Slovakia leaves the EU, rejoins Most Glorious 'Russkiy Mir'; Ukraine takes it place here in the club with us.

Win/win/win.

It specifically mentioned opposition by neighbours to pedestrianisation of a street there.

Google is not cooperating.

Does this ring a bell with you at all?

@stephenburgen.bsky.social Hey Stephen, I hope all is well with you!

I seem to remember an article, which I'm sure was in the Guardian (so quite possibly yours) from around 2019. It was about the gentrification of El Raval...

Easy like Sunday morning.

Contrast with what Putin said about Ukraine and Crimea back in 1999.

Where he said, amongst other things, that redrawing international borders would be a "disaster" — FOR RUSSIA.

🎶 Thank you Venezuela 🇻🇪 you are my best friend 🎵

🎶 You are the peacekeeper, you are the legend 🎵

But yeah, according to John Mearsheimer and assorted other Big Brain ‘Realpolitik’ sorts: “iT’s tHe nAfO ekZpAnsION bRO!”

Putin says 'the whole of Ukraine is ours' in theory, may take city of Sumy President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russians and Ukrainians were one people, "and in that sense the whole of Ukraine is ours," and said he did not rule out Russia taking control of the Ukrainian city of Sumy.

And Reuters:

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Exiled Russian independent media outlet Meduza, reporting on his appearance at the Forum:

meduza.io/amp/en/news/...

There's also the timeless Russian imperialist and military maxim, which never really ever fell out of fashion: "The only secure border is one with a Russian soldier standing on both sides of it."

As I am fond of quoting, as far back as November 2016, Putin had already said: "Russia's border doesn't end anywhere".

"Asked about fresh Russian advances, Putin told the St Petersburg International Economic Forum that he considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people and 'in that sense the whole of Ukraine is ours'."