Hi! I'm Lewis, a professional amateur who has lived an extremely interesting life.
I am associated with the non-profits 9th Circle and Anathema, though any opinion I share here is my own.
If you got a free laptop, phone or tablet from a psychiatric service in the North of Melbourne, there is a strong chance it was something we donated.
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 believe in being merciless with unjust systems, and kind and forgiving with the individuals who make them up (but with zero sympathy for people who made these systems their identity)
I have bipolar disorder with psychotic features, autism and profound agoraphobia. I have been told I also likely meet the criteria for ADHD and schizoaffective (bipolar type), but that there is no benefit to seeking diagnoses for those.
Working day jobs causes extreme damage to my health, so I'm finding other ways to contribute. When we take the pressure away I can move mountains.
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 used to help run LAN parties.
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 am a living testament to the fact that polymathy is first and foremost a way of connecting with people.
My DnD alignment would be neutral good: order and chaos are simply tools through which to do good.
Quite ironically despite the agoraphobia, I have a penchant for solving problems by inserting myself into them and seeing how they work firsthand. Genchi genbutsu. You can in fact defeat unthinkable, unimaginable problems with curiosity, creativity and determination.
I think society could be made 60-70% better with an increase in the overall number of fluffy cats.
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 have spent enough time dancing on the edge of the world that it doesn't scare me. There are other things that do.
I have learned firsthand that sometimes silence is a betrayal.