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Monica @weeklyscene.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Just heading to work this morning, listening to POTUS channel on SIRIUSXM when @jaredgoyette.bsky.social was talking. I knew you had moved on from doing stuff in the Twin Cities - good to hear you moving up and doing some good work in Ukraine.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Без надії таки сподіватись.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Reading about Trump’s plan to bleed a devastated post-war Ukraine dry with colonial “agreements” forced down Ukrainians’ throats while I huddle in the bathroom of my Kyiv apt, listening to one distant explosion after another. Ru drone attack. Ukraine has always been caught between imperial empires.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Trump doesn't care one way or the other about Ukraine, but he does want to come out of negotiations as the "victor," delivering on a campaign promise and getting whatever accolades follow. If Trump views Putin as the main obstacle, he will start progressively taking stronger actions against him.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My first piece to 🇧🇷 media in @folha.com with Marina Slhessarenko Barreto. I highlighted how critical reporting of the war management has increased in Ukraine, pointing to work by UA journalists. I try to spotlight 🇺🇦 civil society and efforts to resist Ru and push for internal accountability.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It's telling when writers like Anatol Lieven talk about "constitutional amendments guaranteeing the linguistic and cultural rights of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine" while saying nothing about the linguistic and cultural rights of Ukrainain speakers in Russia or the territory it occupies.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The free English convo club for Ukrainian journalists I host with the Media Development Foundation now has 100 members, with reporters and editors from every corner of Ukraine. We are adding international journalists as guest speakers. Reach out if interested. Wednesdays, 18:30, Kyiv time.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Today, I am editing a 🔥 Oksana Zabuzhko speech as translated by Hanna Leliv! Such a good combo. I just try to stay out of the way and make helpful suggestions and small tweaks where needed. Looking forward to seeing it published. If you are a Ukraine supporter and don't know Zabuzhko, fix that!

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Allow me to reintroduce myself: I'm a 🇺🇸 copy editor and journo based in Kyiv. I edit translations for The Ukrainians Media. On Wednesdays, I host a free English conversation club for 🇺🇦 journalists. 18:30 Kyiv time. Help me connect with UA supporters here, будь ласка.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

I spoke with Ukrainian soldier, writer, and activist Artem Chapey about the new English translation of his book "The Ukraine" and its aim to portray a humanistic, nuanced picture of Ukraine and Ukrainians — showing the good and the bad, "but with love." Read/share: chytomo.com/en/artem-cha...

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Artem Chapeye on the search for authentic Ukraine: ‘It doesn't have to be a ‘propaganda’ story’

While the term "The Ukraine" is typically used to refer to Ukraine during its time within the Russian Empire, here Chapeye reclaims or re-appropriates it to denote "untranslatable cultural phenomena" ...

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Thinking about Maksym Kryvtsov, the Ukrainian solider-poet just killed at the front. I'm new to Ukrainian. Speak it like a toddler. But I was so captivated by the film adaption of his poem "He moved to Bucha," last year. I watched it for hours. Line by line, with a dictionary.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

COVID thoughts: I have bursts of energy when the mental fog lifts and and I feel like I can tackle so much — the daily work I'm behind in, the emails and messages I need to respond to, and then maybe those creative projects I've neglected. Alas, these moments only last about 40 mins. Then nap.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

I have COVID in Ukraine AMA. Jk. I mean it’s true but I don’t think anyone will have questions. I am just standing in my apartment to stop coughing and it’s getting dull.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

So apparently they announce bar close with tornado sirens in Kyiv? Overkill if you ask me.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

“When the war began, he picked up a machine gun for the first time... and this enables the international community to understand that the people fighting for Ukraine are ordinary civilian men and women who decided to fight for their right to live in a peaceful country."

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I went to a medical clinic in Kyiv to see a doctor for a swollen lymph node. They gave me a blood test and an ultrasound and charged me $50. Total. As an American, I'm very confused.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I wondered who goes to the metro during air raids in Kyiv now. Many of my Ukrainian friends have stopped going, preferring instead to follow the "2 wall" rule, or keeping 2 walls between you and the window. But the metro was still pretty full last night, with lots of families with small children.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

At least in Minneapolis you know when the weekly tornado siren is going to go off. In Kyiv it just seems to happen randomly.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

How much time do you take to adjust to arriving in a new country?

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Ukrainian poet Kateryna Kalytko's at the Frankfurt Book Fair:. "Ukrainian voices that are now heard globally, in fact, overcome the silence and the 'Ukrainian fatigue' which has naturally begun to rise, and this speaking is also a great act of love for each other."

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Twitter has never been about traffic for journalists.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

It's funny that can say "Hello, I am an American journalist working for Ukrainians and based in Zagreb."

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Prepping to host weekly English conversation clubs tonight w/ a school in Ukraine. Hroza will be in the back of everyone’s mind. It might come up; it might not. Sometimes people just need the class to talk, share space, whatever the language. It's both class and community.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I enjoy the innovative and improvisational approach to parking in the Balkans.

A car is parked perpendicular to a row of cars parked by the curb. Achieved by parking in a green / park area off the street.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Working now on interviews with two authors: Ukrainian Yuri Adrukhovych and Croatian Slavenka Drakulić. Both icons in their respective countries, bother internationally renown. It's humbling and imposter syndrome inducing (WTF am ?). But I feel very luck to be able to do this kind of work.

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Chytomo @chytomo.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Sofia Andrukhovych's novel “Amadoka” has clinched this year's Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Prize. The prize celebrates contributions to Ukraine’s multi-ethnic identity. chytomo.com/en/sofia-and...

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

In the Croatian costal city of Sibenik, they sell Donal Trump rubber duckies imported from Germany (designed by a Dutch company).

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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 05/09/2023

Georgia has filed RICO charges against 61 Stop Cop City activists, marking the state's latest escalation of an authoritarian crackdown on the movement. Organizers say the charges send the message that "any dissent to Cop City will be punished with the full power and violence of the government."

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Cop City Protesters Hit With RICO Charges in Latest Act of Political Repression

The RICO charges levied against Stop Cop City protesters can result in a fine or a five to 20 year prison sentence in Georgia.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

When someone starts taking to me in Croatian, I intellectually understand that I can respond in English, but for some reason I prefer to mime, gesticulate and grunt-mumble my way through it.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

“Arm trans women,” mural in Metelkova, Ljubljana.

A spray painted AK-47 above the words “Arm Trans Women” painted in white.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

I edited a piece with so much grief and anger, backed with that typical Ukrainian matter of fact acceptance and determination. A bitter resolve to fight and survive. I had to step away, to sit with all the emotions in those words and to try to imagine the lives of the men and women who spoke them.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

I'm working out of a coffee shop in Zagreb on my first day here and the music is non stop Euro dance. I feel so at home.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

I’ve decided this is going to be my free write no fillers space.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

I love editing and working with translators, collaborating with them in the search for the perfect word, the right turn of phrase. It's reignited my love of writing as a craft.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Since I'm moving I have convinced myself that I get a pass on eating the most indulgent things at every opportunity because it's my "last chance."

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

John Frusciante is a truly intriguing musician on the solo tip -- this avant/lofi weirdo also stuck in an arena band -- Smith's affable and talented, Flea is Flea. Buuuuuuut the whole is just a weird mess and as for you know who up front, uhhh no thanks.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Anyone have advice for moving via airplane? I'm trying to figure out what to pack and what to ditch. What kind of luggage to use. Never done this.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

How do you use Bsky differently than Twitter/X?

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

This summer my 13-yo daughter has taught me how popular Andrew Tate is with some of the boys in her class. Some leftists dismiss him as dumb, but we misinterpret his target audience. It’s tweens. He has weaponized “girls have cooties” and bent it into a deranged ideology.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Editing text translated text from Ukrainian to English. Trying to find a better phrase for "good neighborliness," as in new, modern libraries are community hubs that promote better relations between neighbors. Neighborly rapport? Community harmony?

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

So many of my story ideas came came from reading arguments on Twitter and occasionally participating — TikTok is not built to replace that and never will.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Every freelance writing job I’ve gotten in the last decade was thanks to connections from Twitter. All my custom lists, etc., are how I keep track of issues and generate story ideas. Now disintegrating thanks to a right-wing manchild.

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Jared Goyette @jaredgoyette.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

Checking in over here, who's active, who sees this? What does it look like from the nearest window?

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