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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 02/10/2026

Would be higher if creators (especially one of them) were better people.

Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 29/09/2026

Which put the breaks on worker mobility faster than at least a plurality and probably a majority of people who have ever had a job have ever seen.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 29/09/2026

And recently hiring rates cooled faster than at least a plurality and probably a majority of people who have ever had a job have ever seen.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 28/09/2026

My Seattle #WashingtonHeartWalk team is 73 percent toward our $10K fundraising goal for @americanheart.bsky.social. Help us raise the rest! As a sudden cardiac arrest survivor, it would mean a lot to me, personally.

An image of the poster just before discharge from the hospital where he received treatment in the aftermath of sudden cardiac arrest.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 26/09/2026

Peter Falk, staring into our eyes, BECAUSE HE KNOWS! HE KNOWS!

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 25/09/2026

"What is this Ben guy so up in arms about people ignoring when the most life-changing technology emerged on November 2022 and changed everything about everything?" THIS. I'm up in arms about THIS.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 22/09/2026

But classic gives LOWER odds than Deluxe of Dems taking Senate. So maybe it's not just the expert raters but also FLIPR's own estimates that downweight the evidence from the polls? I'm so confused here.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 18/09/2026

She’s on a kayak camping trip right now. Happy for her. Looking forward to the snuggles though.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 18/09/2026

I dunno this seems like.. $(*&ing unhinged still?

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 16/09/2026

This is what Denmark interest rates look like over the past ten years.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 13/09/2026

Here is the navigation modal while reading a chapter

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 13/09/2026

Progress on the landing page for the weird multimedia memoir + narrative science nonfiction project I for some reason can’t stop working on. First three chapters released online and in audio format next month to raise $ for American Heart and Medic One Foundation.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 12/09/2026

Progress on the landing page for the weird muilti-media book I'm writing. The Part [x] cards will eventually all be populated with original weirdo artwork for yours truly.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 12/09/2026

Orange, but not in the fascist way.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 12/09/2026

Mad crows feet up dis motha

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 12/09/2026

Real young Oliver Sacks energy in this portrait.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 12/09/2026

Working on the landing page for the book.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 09/09/2026

oh wait some people do still do science like this

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 09/09/2026

Why can't we do science like this again people?

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 09/09/2026

A simulation of partial syncope as the viewer reads coupled accounts of my own partial syncope, one account in the couple a panic attach triggered by a memory of the near-cardiac-arrest two years earlier, the former taking place a few weeks after the author died for 18 minutes during cardiac arrest.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 09/09/2026

Can we please stop writing plot headers like this, editors?

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 09/09/2026

Test of an interactive module in my multi-media memoir + narrative science non-fiction piece called The Dead Who Live. I'm teaching the competing risks paradox via the story of my own cardiac arrest, which I describe as a race between recovery from ventricular fibrillation and death at the scene.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 08/09/2026

Ah yes the “the only counterfactual possible is the line going down rather than up” fallacy. Love to see this continue. Love love love love it so much.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 07/09/2026

Did not want her to have to look at it anymore just because we spent thousands on this mattress aren’t made of money so I did this.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 05/09/2026

Another test of a piece of the booklength interactive I'm writing.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 04/09/2026

One day… one day… labor market journalists will realize that employment can increase without any increase in the hiring rate, and then stop writing headlines like this.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 03/09/2026

Bro Robespierre had an ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE HEAD.

Reconstruction of Robespierre based on his death mask

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 31/08/2026

After another figure to the study. I think in the end some of the figures won’t even have faces. The challenge is going to be creating some depth I think. Anyway also attached is the Wallace Smith piece that my piece will be an homage to.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 31/08/2026

Here is the rough sketch. It looks like scribbles but I’m just sketching and it’s like a sixteenth done and it’s just a positioning study.

Just a sketch of figures linked together like cardiac myocytes. It’s… weird.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 30/08/2026

The researchers are too.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 29/08/2026

Me and the daughter having a little fun in the Santa Monica Fun House.

A man and his daughter freak out in a fun house in a pier

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 24/08/2026

If you go for the king, you better not miss.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 21/08/2026

Whoever runs these accounts: Please put me on their blacklist. I block every single one that follows me. These seem predatory.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 14/08/2026

Retire this comic. At this point it expresses ignorance about how the technology is used. There are plenty of other things to be critical about.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 13/08/2026

And this is from a 1969 ethnography called “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” by Richard Borshay Lee.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 12/08/2026

Test for a feature in the introduction chapter of my multimedia medical memoir x narrative science non-fiction piece about a tragically underutilized statistical theory of competing risks, told in part through the lens of my own temporary death.

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Ben Hanowell @hanowell.me · 12/08/2026

I am so centrist that I don’t even take sides on the whole DSA/“establishment” thing, but this right here is an editor reaching hard for a headline that doesn’t quite fit the numbers. Stunning? They basically got the same share of votes within a chin hair.

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