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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 23h

Fairbanks have you voted yet? Early voting ends tomorrow! Vote on October 6th

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Democrats are leading in the polls. But are they leading in the vibes?

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Leah Berman Williams @leahwrenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#fairbanks don’t forget to vote in your local election! Early voting now, or vote on Election Day, October 6. Vote No on all the ballot initiatives (in this election and in November. Here’s who I’m voting for…

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had a good day door knocking for some great candidates

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026

Feedback from healthcare providers in response to the AI pilot program has been scathing, with one calling it “a disgrace to the human race” and reporting that they saw patients crying in pain as they waited for care.

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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Local politics is great- sometimes you have a local super volunteer trying to push bulk croissants on campaigns that no one asked for I’m calling it croissant gate

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Again to make the biotech comparison “the experiment went wrong” would also be a result of human incompetence or negligence. The AI industry would do well to study how the pharmaceutical industry makes sure that their clinical trials keep patients safe and apply the similar guardrails

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/09/2026

the vast majority the american electorate do not know or care about the last decade of political trends; they care that it costs $300 to fill up their pickup truck. which is a thing that's happening now

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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really appreciate all the advocacy and acknowledgement Jamiann has built over the years. So important that this history isn’t overlooked.

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someday I will write a love letter to our small, well insulated energy sipping solar paneled fiscally conservative house but while trying to get it ready to fit another human in it is not one of those times This house will be why we retire

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Pat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 23/09/2026

A heart warming sight after eight years of terrible governance. A GTFO moving truck parked in front of the Alaska Governor's mansion.

Moving truck in front of the Alaska Governor's mansion.

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve been making this comparison for a while but now the NYT has picked it up- if we can regulate biotech which has the potential to be far more dangerous than AI we can regulate AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

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How Scientists Contained a Threat That Could Have Destroyed Humanity (Gift Article)

A half-century ago, scientists and lawyers agreed to strict self-regulation in DNA research to avoid catastrophe. Can A.I. follow the same model?

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can’t wait for the midterms to be over so that I can write guilt free again. This is the one downside to being a small town politico in a swing state- you start feeling like the fate of the US senate is in your hands if you don’t show up to the office to canvas on the weekends

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apparently my book has really good sex scenes

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

This is the shit we need. Can you imagine being able to cut the CO2 emissions from air travel virtually overnight? There'd obviously still be production pollutants from batteries & the planes themselves, but come on: call it $200 of electricity for DC to ATL, fully loaded? Vs ~$4k in jet fuel? Shit…

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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Fairbanks: In case any of you are getting suckered in by Pearl Creek revenge candidate for school board Robert Herrick, at last night’s forum at UAF he didn’t even know what preschool is. I’m not making this up. Vote for Bobby Burgess.

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Ptarmageddon @ptarmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Vote local! Early voting starts Monday! #Alaska #Fairbanks #AkLeg

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Take a shot every time someone says “porn in the libraries” during this school board debate

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally sitting down to read T. Kira Madden’s “Whidbey” and I am deeply enjoying it but as someone from the Pacific Northwest Whidbey Island is really not as remote/ wild as these New Yorkers make it out to be

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Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates - West @ppaawest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📆 Early voting opens September 21— send this to 5 people who need a reminder today!

Early voting in the Fairbanks local election begins on September 21.

Noel Wein Public Library:
Monday - Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Fairbanks + North Pole
City Clerk's Offices:
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates - West @ppaawest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

PPAA–Alaska is proud to endorse candidates in the Fairbanks local election on October 6! We're especially excited for our School Board candidates who will champion safe, inclusive, and equitable schools. 💖 plannedp.info/ak-endorsements #Akleg #Fairbanks #AlaskaSky

Fairbanks Election

FNSB School Board
Tim Doran Seat E
Bobby Burgess Seat F
Sean Holland Seat G

FNSB Assembly
Alexis Howell Seat D
Nick LaJiness Seat E
Scott Crass Seat H

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If we can regulate the pharmaceutical industry we can regulate AI- I’m just saying. Medicine is more complicated than machine learning and has higher stakes with smaller but still significant money involved. Create an FDA but for AI

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Uzbekistan has a lot of rules to prevent religious extremism and honestly I think we could learn a think or two from them in the US- I appreciate a country realizing that religious extremism is dangerous in any form

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pretty sure this is the best writing view of my life or one of them- Khiva Uzbekistan

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Killing off a character off the page later in this book and the last scene where we have him alive got emotional.

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been doing CrossFit with my travel buddy while in Uzbekistan and regret to inform you that it has been fun

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Whenever I go through SeaTac I think about arguing with my grandpa on the phone about the $15 minimum wage circa 2014 Those were the days

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Ptarmageddon @ptarmageddon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fairbanks has some nasty bigots running for school board… spread the word about the progressive choices: Assembly: - Alexis Howell - Nick LaJiness - Scott Crass School Board: - Tim Doran - Bobby Burgess - Sean Holland Nonpartisan voter pamphlet from the FNSB: www.fnsb.gov/DocumentCent...

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the scotts must be crazy @scottymax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

like this post if you are not running for Governor of Alaska

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The new CDC Director is indeed the one who ordered the count of measles deaths to be changed from 2 to 0. “The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments, which historically make the determinations”.

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New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data

The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Was asked by a volunteer today “why are candidates so afraid of APOC” Clears throat- gestures to Treg Taylor. Also fines, many many thousands of dollars of fines

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Feedback for the novel is coming in slowly but surely- not exactly sure when I’ll stop my roll on writing the next one and move over to revising the first but will probably be when I hit the halfway point of book 2. So far mostly positive feedback which is encouraging

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Took the girls out to birch hill where the trees are starting to change and the fireweed and ground cover are bright red. It smells like fall out there - cold and crisp

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Chilly day in Fairbanks today- fall is coming fast as it always does in August

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Apparently now that I’m pregnant all I do is sleep? Which is crazy as a lifelong insomniac Weekends include a long nap most days, which is kind of crazy for me. I didn’t even sleep as much while I was training for an ultramarathon in 2024 and 2022

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Time to finish @fondalee.bsky.social ‘s Last Contract of Isako because I am hooked so badly on this book Reading buddy picture for tax

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Took the shepherd girls out on a 3-4 mile walk in the woods with @grarmstrong.bsky.social - perfect way to spend a Sunday. And the girls have such good recall they recall to “girls”

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Antisocial Bog Witch @boggywitch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In the days following my GF Oreo dinner, my heart rate variability numbers improved. Thus, GF Oreos improve HRV. I’m a scientist.

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’ve been on so many social media platforms & found joy & frustrations in all of them but sometimes I log into goodreads & am reminded that maybe it’s not good for us to know the mediocre reading habits of some random hookup from 20 years ago

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 20/08/2026

Research is part of the writing process. It inspires me with ideas I'd never have had if I hadn't gone down the rabbit hole myself. The thrill of that missing puzzle piece sliding into place? Priceless. I refuse to give up the joy of being surprised by learning to LLMs. (Not to mention, they lie.)

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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Australia is giving the world the blueprint. ☀️ Rooftop solar 🔋 Home batteries ⚡ Lower energy costs 🌎 Cleaner energy 🏠 Greater energy independence Maybe protecting the environment and lowering our energy bills were never opposing goals. #CleanEnergy #SolarEnergy www.fastcompany.com/91591220/how...

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How Australia made electricity cheaper while U.S. prices keep rising

A combination of abundant rooftop solar, subsidized home batteries, and far less red tape is pushing power prices down—and changing when and how Australians use electricity.

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My husband wants to get out marriage convalidated in the Catholic Church so we went to get our paperwork done yesterday. Since um I was baptized Protestant the priest decided to explain some of the finer points to me including why Mary is the queen of heaven

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The thing about biotech is that it takes a small army of experts and millions of dollars to create a safe and effective drug and that plus running safe ethical clinical trials are expensive And at Tesla you can just, well make a car that explodes which is cheaper than doing it right

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love how the way our economy works is Moderna announces "so yeah we might have just cured cancer" and their stock price rockets to a third of Tesla, the people who make vehicles that explode

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