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Heather Aruffo

@haharuffo.bsky.social
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2021 Pen/Robert J Dau Prize| Clarion West NWW ‘26| 2022 Best American Essays Notable | Vice Chair Interior Democrats I🇲🇽🇺🇸 | repped by Justin Brouckaert | work in TSR, AQR |opinions are mine | 9-5 Biotechie Based in Fairbanks, AK hcaruffo.com

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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 32m
That sounds amazing- I’d read the shit out of that
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 46m
I sort of agree with you on this- especially in the current climate you can’t give people an inch
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 47m
Then Luke throws himself off the radiator shaft because he’s so tired of hearing about it The end
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 47m
I told my husband about this idea and now we’ve been making jokes about Darth Vader’s robot penis all day and how much the No, I am your father scene could have been improved by Darth Vader going into too much detail about his anatomy including the prosthetic penis
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 47m
Seeing a Star Wars fan fic with the serial numbers filed off get a movie deal (the Love Hypothesis) makes me think I should just write a Star Wars fan fic where Padme survives the prequels and leads the resistance to get a book deal Darth Vader will pursue her and have a robotic prosthetic penis
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 1h
She did indeed say that
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 21h
I think she’s intending to grand stand to curry favor with Trump and get a nice position in DC for her trouble
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 23h
A lot of the same conservative talking points but Bernadette is downright scary with how hostile she is
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 23h
Yeah I could not tell who the audience was or why they decided to send it to the northern journal of all places m. Was a weird thing
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah I did it was a very weird op Ed Honestly the Alaska Republican Party not having its shit together is one of the best things to ever happen to this state
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh yes!! He did!
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well that’s annoying
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just the Rs were lunatics as per the usual. JKT did great though
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m sorry what??
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I knew there had to be some catch with these. Got a baby coming in February and I’m just going to open her a 529 and a custodial brokerage because I don’t want your handouts Donald
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That gubernatorial debate was rough to listen to tonight Anyway please join me in voting for the pro math candidate, JKT
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I low key hope he runs for president
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What drug is this? Yowza those are some results
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Got canvassed by peltola canvassers yesterday which I thought was funny because if course I’m voting for her im the f*** vice chair of the dems in FBX My husband who is our district rep for the party AND a progressive elected official got an F*** Dan Sullivan mailer Where are these data from??
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Really really proud of our progressive slate tonight in Fairbanks , Alaska. We crushed it y’all for the fourth year in a row!
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Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🎉🎉🎉🍾 yay @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social !! Thanks to everyone who voted for WE WILL RISE AGAIN!
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gorgeous weekend to knock some doors
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’re welcome- I’m proud of the many many people in my community who are part of it.
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Doing the good work and fighting the good fight in purple states!
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my third year running a progressive assembly candidates campaign and it’s not sexy work (door knocking at 20 degrees in October for an entire weekend like I did yesterday) but I’m very very proud of it and the candidates that run
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some of the most important work we do and it pays dividends for up ballot races because it creates a bench of candidates with name recognition, strengthens the local progressive ecosystem, boosts volunteers turnout, all kinds of good things outside of the immediate policy benefits
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One thing I am very proud of my little town in interior Alaska for is that we have a progressive supermajority on both school board and our county council (borough assembly) we fight like hell every year to keep it
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had no idea you were on this project- makes me even more excited to watch it. Congrats!
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Found out my least favorite narcissistic super volunteer wasted $400 of campaign money today. Same one who caused croissant gate Love people who waste limited time and donated money on their own vanity projects
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congrats Angela!!
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fairbanks have you voted yet? Early voting ends tomorrow! Vote on October 6th
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think a lot of people really don’t appreciate how much you aren’t in control of your own health sometimes with certain disease like say, cancer or measles
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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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
😆😆😆
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Those ten dollar donations really went a long way huh
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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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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad you called them on it Ken
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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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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We got a very low tech speed queen when we replaced our dryer and she’s great - functional and no frills
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Heather Aruffo @haharuffo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hope no journalist ever gets hold of my political group chat is all I’m saying
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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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