Welcome to Netstorms Unlimited

In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms and opaque institutions, the power to connect, to create, and to speak freely is often held hostage by platforms that operate without transparency or accountability. The recent removal of my Facebook account—without warning, without explanation—was not just a personal disruption. It was a sharp reminder that the digital commons we rely on can be withdrawn at any moment by forces indifferent to dialogue, community, or justice. And, deeper still, a reminder, though none were needed, of the reality articulated by the historian Thucydides that:

“The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.“

This website exists in response to that reality. It proposes that:

“The fault … is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

There is a story – I can’t cite its provenance – that once, in old Japan, a warlord entered a village with his army. All had fled or were cowering, except for an old monk who remained in the temple, meditating. Angered by the monk’s indifference, the warlord confronted him, saying, “Don’t you recognise that I am one who could run you through without batting an eyelid?”
The monk replied, “And don’t you recognise that I am one who could be run through without batting an eyelid?”

In a song that I wrote, as part of my ‘Stormhaven Chronicles’ fantasy stories, I commend three ‘enabling’ virtues, courage, detachment, and diligence, that are complements to the ‘existential’ virtues of humility, justice, truth, and compassion. Virtues we must cultivate to serve those we aspire to. The song has become an aspirational creed of sorts and I offer it here without apology.

This website is not political except insofar as the political coincides with the ethical, it is not religious, except insofar as the religious coincides with the quest for meaning. But in pursuit of truth, justice and meaning it will not fail to challenge orthodoxies or eccentricities of the political or the religious where such challenge is necessary.

Netstorms Unlimited brings together the various strands of my work—community-based projects like Newham Mosaic and Negotiating AI as a Community, creative endeavours such as The Stormhaven Chronicles and Equations to Invocation, and educational platforms like STEAM/DREAMS. At their heart, all these initiatives are about reclaiming agency. They aim to support individuals and communities in building autonomy, imagination, and ethical awareness in an age increasingly dominated by institutional omnipotence and technological overreach.

You’ll find here a growing archive of writing, artwork, collaborative learning opportunities, and dialogue spaces. More importantly, you’ll find an open invitation to join a network committed to creative resistance, compassionate community, and conscious engagement with the world—both as it is and as it might become.

I invite you to explore, to reflect, and most of all, to participate. Use the forum to introduce yourself, share your thoughts, and help shape this space into a living conversation.

Because the future should not be left to corporations and code alone.

Welcome. Let’s dream together—and work together.

Gavin Sealey