Hi! I'm Lewis, a professional amateur who has lived an extremely interesting life.
I am associated with the non-profit 9th Circle and the for-profit Anathema, though any opinion I share here is my own.
I am fiercely justice oriented as the result of many many rounds of traumatic growth, and consequently keep as few secrets as I possibly can. Almost everything I write about is something I have direct or close experience with.
I have bipolar disorder with psychotic features, autism and profound agoraphobia.
The nature of my conditions is that I'm not usually suitable for directly appearing to the public. I have a degree of inherent instability which is a structural part of how I can do what I do. Going outside is also hard. So I mostly communicate by writing.
If you have driven a truck in Australia, there's a 95% chance I wrote the telemetry for it. If you have done an exam at a particular large university here, there's a similar chance you've used my diagnostics.
I do biohacking (two microchip implants, have built access control using them) and have a passionate interest in pharmacology.
I am a DV survivor several times over, and have spent 2024-2025 exploring unconventional relationships. Being homeless but housebound was a laugh.
Politically, I am a left-libertarian ("the state exists to provide the basics, and to catch people when they fall") and believe that many materially significant problems are absolutely solvable with correctly applied effort.
Philosophically, I am a naturalist absurdist: I do not believe in anything outside the physical world, but also that any inherent meaning to that world is outside of human comprehension. I have a penchant for appropriating Christian imagery when explaining this, but have a membership card from the Satanic Temple.
I do not know if I believe in Heaven, but I do not need to believe in Hell, because I've been there. Many times.
I don't use AI in my writing, except occasional Deep Research to double check citations.
I have learned firsthand that sometimes silence is a betrayal.