Heather Aruffo
@haharuffo.bsky.social
2021 Pen/Robert J Dau Prize, 2022 Best American Essays Notable |Writer, Runner, 9-5 biotechie I🇲🇽🇺🇸 | Novel in progress| repped by Justin Brouckaert | Interior Alaska Democrats Vice Chair |opinions are mine alone
Based in Fairbanks, AK
https://hcaruffo.com/
Based in Fairbanks, AK
https://hcaruffo.com/
My hot take is that the only group that came out of theranos looking good is Big Pharma because they didn’t fall for that shit
For the record I read the NYer article about her as a college chemistry major and thought the science made no sense. Same with most scientists and MDs I know
For the record I read the NYer article about her as a college chemistry major and thought the science made no sense. Same with most scientists and MDs I know
Elizabeth Holmes deserves so much worse. She was only ever convicted of defrauding her investors even though she also defrauded thousands of patients.
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
My hot take is that the only group that came out of theranos looking good is Big Pharma because they didn’t fall for that shit
For the record I read the NYer article about her as a college chemistry major and thought the science made no sense. Same with most scientists and MDs I know
For the record I read the NYer article about her as a college chemistry major and thought the science made no sense. Same with most scientists and MDs I know
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
I was about to give up on booktok and then I found out that @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social is on it. This is legitimately the most exciting thing I have ever heard about booktok
This TikTok from @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social (author of Magical/Realism) regarding how Guillermo del Toro's work has been mischaracterized by white feminist film discourse is really good
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMcB2Emk/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMcB2Emk/
The erasure of Guillermo del Toro’s Mexican identity and postcolonial contexts in critiques and reviews of Frankenstein #frankenstein #guillermodeltoro #oscarisaac #netflix #booktok
TikTok video by El Norte Recuerda
www.tiktok.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I was about to give up on booktok and then I found out that @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social is on it. This is legitimately the most exciting thing I have ever heard about booktok
The adventures of divorced Katniss at 50 continue!
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The adventures of divorced Katniss at 50 continue!
2 weeks ago it was 40 degrees and raining and now it’s -13 at my house. Fairbanks never disappoints
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
2 weeks ago it was 40 degrees and raining and now it’s -13 at my house. Fairbanks never disappoints
Whelp the book went in a direction I was not expecting tonight. Go developmental editing for strengthening the connective tissue between things and making it clear why things aren’t working and new ideas
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Whelp the book went in a direction I was not expecting tonight. Go developmental editing for strengthening the connective tissue between things and making it clear why things aren’t working and new ideas
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“I was curious about what would happen if that dehumanizing gaze was refracted towards whiteness. As the project took shape, the work led away from a straightforward reversal in gaze into a questioning of who has agency over how they’re perceived.”
- @akwenstrup.bsky.social
- @akwenstrup.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“I was curious about what would happen if that dehumanizing gaze was refracted towards whiteness. As the project took shape, the work led away from a straightforward reversal in gaze into a questioning of who has agency over how they’re perceived.”
- @akwenstrup.bsky.social
- @akwenstrup.bsky.social
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What: Food Drive for Bread Line
Who: Interior Democrats
Where: drop off at FEA Union Hall, 2118 South Cushman
When: Monday-Friday 9-5, through December 10th
Bread Line is in constant need of non-perishable snack items, socks, and many other things.
Please visit breadlineak.org/donate/ for ideas
Who: Interior Democrats
Where: drop off at FEA Union Hall, 2118 South Cushman
When: Monday-Friday 9-5, through December 10th
Bread Line is in constant need of non-perishable snack items, socks, and many other things.
Please visit breadlineak.org/donate/ for ideas
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What: Food Drive for Bread Line
Who: Interior Democrats
Where: drop off at FEA Union Hall, 2118 South Cushman
When: Monday-Friday 9-5, through December 10th
Bread Line is in constant need of non-perishable snack items, socks, and many other things.
Please visit breadlineak.org/donate/ for ideas
Who: Interior Democrats
Where: drop off at FEA Union Hall, 2118 South Cushman
When: Monday-Friday 9-5, through December 10th
Bread Line is in constant need of non-perishable snack items, socks, and many other things.
Please visit breadlineak.org/donate/ for ideas
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if you aren’t pivoting to pumping Medicare for All from here you’ve lost the script. the republicans are correct that it is insane to pay these corrupt corporations billions to then deny our claims, stop giving them our issues to lie about
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
if you aren’t pivoting to pumping Medicare for All from here you’ve lost the script. the republicans are correct that it is insane to pay these corrupt corporations billions to then deny our claims, stop giving them our issues to lie about
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Thimerosal has formula C9H9HgNaO2S. It is not mercury.
The systematic name for thimerosal is
Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium.
Chemicals aren’t the sum of their parts. Chemical bonds change everything about behavior.
1/
The systematic name for thimerosal is
Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium.
Chemicals aren’t the sum of their parts. Chemical bonds change everything about behavior.
1/
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thimerosal has formula C9H9HgNaO2S. It is not mercury.
The systematic name for thimerosal is
Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium.
Chemicals aren’t the sum of their parts. Chemical bonds change everything about behavior.
1/
The systematic name for thimerosal is
Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium.
Chemicals aren’t the sum of their parts. Chemical bonds change everything about behavior.
1/
This post is seconded by Zoya who was once a German shepherd puppy who ended up at animal control at 10 months
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This post is seconded by Zoya who was once a German shepherd puppy who ended up at animal control at 10 months
Fairbanks: There are ten German Shepherd puppies at animal control!!
Me: If you are adopting a German Shepherd puppy at animal control please take it to obedience classes and socialize it because otherwise it’s going to end up right to back at animal control in 6 months
Just a PSA
Me: If you are adopting a German Shepherd puppy at animal control please take it to obedience classes and socialize it because otherwise it’s going to end up right to back at animal control in 6 months
Just a PSA
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Fairbanks: There are ten German Shepherd puppies at animal control!!
Me: If you are adopting a German Shepherd puppy at animal control please take it to obedience classes and socialize it because otherwise it’s going to end up right to back at animal control in 6 months
Just a PSA
Me: If you are adopting a German Shepherd puppy at animal control please take it to obedience classes and socialize it because otherwise it’s going to end up right to back at animal control in 6 months
Just a PSA
Cannot wait for the day that Sung Ju’s book is out in the world
Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 100 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story 🖋️📚
#BookSky #BookTok #Writers #WritingCommunity #Reader
#SayakaMurata #SciFi #Horror #Dystopia #MagicalRealism
#Japan
87/100 🪐📚
⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 100 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story 🖋️📚
#BookSky #BookTok #Writers #WritingCommunity #Reader
#SayakaMurata #SciFi #Horror #Dystopia #MagicalRealism
#Japan
87/100 🪐📚
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Cannot wait for the day that Sung Ju’s book is out in the world
The transition to the dark part of winter (November- February) really caught me off guard this year and snuck up on me. But so far looks like it’s going to be a very productive writing season, hopefully punctuated with time to get outside with the dogs/ the husband and staying healthy
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The transition to the dark part of winter (November- February) really caught me off guard this year and snuck up on me. But so far looks like it’s going to be a very productive writing season, hopefully punctuated with time to get outside with the dogs/ the husband and staying healthy
Old one but a good one from the queen of essays herself - Jo Ann Beard - always worth a re-read
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
The Fourth State of Matter
Remembering a campus shooting.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Old one but a good one from the queen of essays herself - Jo Ann Beard - always worth a re-read
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Edited an interesting chapter last night with a character who only appears in that one chapter, around the midpoint (she’ll come back later because this is supposed to be a trilogy and you need some characters like that). But she’s working behind the scenes
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Edited an interesting chapter last night with a character who only appears in that one chapter, around the midpoint (she’ll come back later because this is supposed to be a trilogy and you need some characters like that). But she’s working behind the scenes
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We only rate dogs. This is spaghetti con salsiccia. Obviously has the noodles and the sausage, but is notably missing sauce. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (IG: futrinka_tacsko)
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We only rate dogs. This is spaghetti con salsiccia. Obviously has the noodles and the sausage, but is notably missing sauce. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (IG: futrinka_tacsko)
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2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave.
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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave.
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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
Got like ten manuscript pages of a tricky chapter rewritten today
If I do that two nights a week with one weekend day that’s a draft by around Christmas, not half bad
If I do that two nights a week with one weekend day that’s a draft by around Christmas, not half bad
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Got like ten manuscript pages of a tricky chapter rewritten today
If I do that two nights a week with one weekend day that’s a draft by around Christmas, not half bad
If I do that two nights a week with one weekend day that’s a draft by around Christmas, not half bad
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Anyone know Mackenzie Scott?
Dear Mackenzie Scott,
I run a very small nonprofit that provides residencies to women writers, especially those from communities historically excluded from these opportunities. Our budget is too small to qualify for most of the "big" grants, and we're in Alaska, 1/2
Dear Mackenzie Scott,
I run a very small nonprofit that provides residencies to women writers, especially those from communities historically excluded from these opportunities. Our budget is too small to qualify for most of the "big" grants, and we're in Alaska, 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Anyone know Mackenzie Scott?
Dear Mackenzie Scott,
I run a very small nonprofit that provides residencies to women writers, especially those from communities historically excluded from these opportunities. Our budget is too small to qualify for most of the "big" grants, and we're in Alaska, 1/2
Dear Mackenzie Scott,
I run a very small nonprofit that provides residencies to women writers, especially those from communities historically excluded from these opportunities. Our budget is too small to qualify for most of the "big" grants, and we're in Alaska, 1/2
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Join us in Fairbanks, Alaska for the book launch of Ghosts of Distant Trees. Author @rickirobin.bsky.social will be in conversation with @coyotetrail.bsky.social, hosted by publisher @pataky.bsky.social and Solstice Books. November 19, 2025!
porphyry.press/events/ghost...
porphyry.press/events/ghost...
book launch, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES · Erica Watson with Julianne Warren — Porphyry Press
Porphyry Press & Solstice Books present: GHOSTS LAUNCH You’re invited to the official Ghosts of Distant Trees book launch , the debut memoir-in-essays by Denali-based author Erica Watson and...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Join us in Fairbanks, Alaska for the book launch of Ghosts of Distant Trees. Author @rickirobin.bsky.social will be in conversation with @coyotetrail.bsky.social, hosted by publisher @pataky.bsky.social and Solstice Books. November 19, 2025!
porphyry.press/events/ghost...
porphyry.press/events/ghost...
Okay but if RFK Jr wanted to help me treat my prostrate cancer I’d just say no
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Okay but if RFK Jr wanted to help me treat my prostrate cancer I’d just say no
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Kept finding sugar packet trash all over the soup kitchen porch & was getting SO MAD about it until... I just watched a MASSIVE RAVEN pull all the wrappers out of the trash & THROW THEM ON THE GROUND
3x! What a dick!
#AlaskaSky #CorvidProblems
3x! What a dick!
#AlaskaSky #CorvidProblems
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Kept finding sugar packet trash all over the soup kitchen porch & was getting SO MAD about it until... I just watched a MASSIVE RAVEN pull all the wrappers out of the trash & THROW THEM ON THE GROUND
3x! What a dick!
#AlaskaSky #CorvidProblems
3x! What a dick!
#AlaskaSky #CorvidProblems
I’m not built for being the wife of a politician, I do not have the social battery to go to as many events as I am expected to go to
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’m not built for being the wife of a politician, I do not have the social battery to go to as many events as I am expected to go to
A friend of mine is beta reading my book chapter by chapter and we’re calling my main character “Divorced Katniss at 50”
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A friend of mine is beta reading my book chapter by chapter and we’re calling my main character “Divorced Katniss at 50”