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Daractenus

@daractenus.bsky.social
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News. Commentary. Occasional satire. Central & Eastern Europe Focus.

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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The EU has the moral duty and responsibility to let in all the Russians that claim to have no moral duty or responsibility for their country's invasion of Ukraine. Did I get that right?
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"We will defend every inch of NATO territory!" Except, apparently, for all the inches Russia chooses to sabotage.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Seeing how seemingly every Russian out there is now busy finding reasons why the "dictatorial EU" should make it easier for them to get visas, maybe we should start lining out the reasons why the EU should not.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is just one of the many reasons why Russians should not get EU visas.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
In November, China reduced its purchases of Russian oil by a rather impressive 36%, replacing it with crude from Saudi Arabia. Similar drop is expected to take place in India next month, with the country's top 5 refineries having already rejected Russian oil for December.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
No, your account was frozen for a whole variety of both practical and moral reasons, and if this and other measures like this get Ukraine even an inch closer to victory, they will be prioritized over the comfort and convenience of nationals of the aggressor state.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
While I am as thrilled as the next man by the idea of ingesting longevity elixirs ordered from Temu, worth waiting for someone to survive the refund window before placing an order.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Russian manufacturer Baikal Electronics, which has been ‘experimenting’ for three years with the production of advanced processors, has now announced that it has pretty much given up on the idea, mostly on grounds of having no clue of what they're doing really.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Enraging and incredibly fascinating to see this ability the Russians have to blame anyone and everyone for their failure to create anything but demented dictatorships ruled by psychopaths. Anything at all the Russians are responsible for and guilty of Mikhail?
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I just decided to get back on Bsky. The cover up felt the most authentically Russian part indeed.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thank you! Planning to be active here as well from now on.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
You just have to give it to them, they've really built a robot in their spitting image. Rather telling how you can just guess which country I’m talking about without me having to say it.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
How utterly surreal that the President of the United States and the First Lady are each currently running their very own cryptocurrency scams.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Not an inch. Not a step. Not as long as we draw breath.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a Romanian politician and conspiracy theorist, Călin Georgescu. He’s best-known for his pro-Kremlin and conspiratorial views, running for president of Romania, and doing it by only campaigning on TikTok. 1/25
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Last night, the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu dropped the act and began issuing threats and ultimatums on prime-time TV: "Tell the young people now in the city squares to go home to their parents, we don't want anything to happen to them, something really bad to happen to them."
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Yep!
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
www.biziday.ro/303265-2/
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Vicepreședintele ANCOM anunță că va cere suspendarea TikTok pe teritoriul României, începând de mâine, până vor fi făcute verificări cu privire la suspiciunile de manipulare a alegerilor prezidențiale...
Pavel Popescu, secretar de stat și vicepreşedinte al Autorităţii Naţionale pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (ANCOM), anunță că va cere
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
BREAKING: Starting tomorrow, TikTok will likely be banned in Romania for "failing to comply with the regulations for the conduct of the electoral process".
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The "Supreme Council for National Defense" has the following members:
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
BREAKING: Romanian President has convened an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council for National Defense of Romania.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The first picture, taken during the 1989 Revolution, reads "our children will be free". The second one, taken yesterday, reads "your children ARE free". And they will stay that way.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
www.politico.eu/article/elec...
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TikTok CEO summoned to European Parliament over role in shock Romania election
The role of Chinese-owned TikTok is under scrutiny following the shock victory of a far-right candidate in Romania’s election.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
POLITICO: TikTok CEO summoned to European Parliament over role in shock Romanian election. "Romania is a warning bell: Radicalization and disinformation can happen all over Europe with catastrophic consequences [...] We call on the CEO of TikTok to come to speak in this house."
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We do, at a scale I can't believe myself. The scale of the mobilization is beyond incredible. There's even hordes of people joining every social platform there is to fight his bots.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Romanians are taking to the streets in various cities across the country to send a clear message to the openly fascist pro-Russian candidate: "better dead than fascist". Expect these demonstrations to spread and grow exponentially every day until round 2 of the election.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I will own my mistake. When the first exit-poll came out, seeing how many votes he got, I got curious and looked him up. Only then I realized the extent of the catastrophe. An overwhelming sensation of shame and guilt took over me. I was ashamed to tell anyone who it is I just voted for.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I heard his name somewhere on TikTok at some point, something about how decent and well spoken he is. For some reason, call it TikTok brain rot, I voted for him - despite knowing essentially nothing about the guy. I have no excuse, not trying to take this into the realm of "conspiracy theories".
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"I voted for Calin Georgescu. I am ashamed and disgusted by myself. I went into the voting booth planning to annule my vote as I didn't like any of the traditional candidates and parties. When I opened the ballot, I took a glimpse at the list of candidates and noticed Calin Georgescu there/
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Many of the people that voted for the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu are now coming forward and virtually all of them are saying more or less the same story - one I think you should very much give a read to. 🧵
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Elizabeta Rizea will go on to spend 12 years in prison. She will survive it, will survive the torture, will survive the communist regime. She will pass away in 2008 at the age of 91. She never betrayed the partisans.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Had I spoken, they would have killed half the village! After they pulled the table from under my feet, they started beating me until I bled. They broke my ribs, and I fainted. I was making the sign of the cross with my tongue in the roof of my mouth, praying to God to help me not to say anything."
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The braid was thick. I was different when I was 39. He pulled my chair. The other pulled the table. My braid remained on the hook, and I fell to the ground. That's how they tore out my hair. It never grew back. But still, I didn't betray them!
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Then, they tied me up and put me on a chair, from the chair to the table, from the table to another chair. He threw my headscarf off. 'Speak!' I was wearing a braid with a ribbon. They threw my jacket away, and I remained in my blouse. They tied my hair under the hook of the chandelier..
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Last time, a captain came with a rubber baton. 'Speak!' I didn't. 'We'll give you 300 lei!' 'Sir! Captain, I am not Judas, to sell them for 30 silver coins!' He threw me to the ground, tied me up and beat me with the rubber baton, from head to heel. But I didn't take his money and I didn't speak!
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"They took everything and everyone from me. My son-in-law and brother-in-law, all went to jail because I provided food to the partisans (resistance fighters). People would bring me food secretly to give them.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
To anyone thinking Romanians are the kind of people that will gently go into that dark night and to whatever Romanian needs reminding, here's the story of one of our heroes, back from when Russia last ruled over us. 🧵
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Great post!
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It will help us a great deal here in Romania if this video about the pro-Russian candidate gets to as many views as possible. Do help out with that if you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBj...
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Cine e Călin Georgescu?
YouTube video by Recorder
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Yes, I will do one Sunday for our parliamentary elections and another one on December 8th for round two of the presidential elections.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is the fight of our generation! Like lots of you, I feel that I've unknowingly prepared my whole life for this very fight! Together, we will defeat them! Romanians, so help us God, we will win this!
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We will not be thrown back into the darkness of the past! Independence from Russia and belonging to the European family was the dream we died for in 1989 and is the dream we will fight to the very end to defend today!
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Elena Lasconi: "In the next two weeks, Romania will face an existential struggle! [...] We will bitterly defend the freedom we died for 35 years ago in the revolution! The story does end here! Romanians have fought off tens of Russian invasions and we will fight them off again! [...]
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In what is a miraculous turn of events, by a margin of just 0.02%, Elena Lasconi (the most pro-West/pro-Ukraine candidate) managed to secure the second place in the first round of the presidential election and will be facing the guy planted by Russia in round 2.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Say what you will about Romania, but when some of our "farmers" tried illegally blocking the Ukrainian border in "protest", it took our special forces about two days to "convince" them how much wiser it is to take the protest elsewhere. Stuck to those other places ever since.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For reasons having absolutely nothing to do with my very passionate dislike for this man, here's a picture of him "training".
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Not taking the Gazprombank sanctions particularly well, Hungarian MFA Peter Szijjarto would like to let us know - somewhat threateningly - that a task-force of Hungarian lawyers has been assembled and are ready to fight tooth and nail for their right to buy blood oil and gas.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you breach every treaty you ever signed, shoot and torture every POW you get your hands on and turn every territory you grab into hell on earth, doesn't matter how many nukes you have or how willing you are to use them, you leave no option to anyone but to fight to the end.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Russia has apparently just now launched a second ICBM towards Ukraine.
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Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I hope now everyone understands, Sullivan included, just how much the Russian "red lines" are worth. The emperor has no clothes. Never did.
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