And I didn’t need to chew…

Is it too cute?

Headspace…

Wonderland…

What emotional landscapes emerge between ambient electronics, cinematic melancholy, fading neon, and half-remembered voices? This Distraction Therapy mix drifts through reflective Japanese soundscapes shaped by memory, distance, and fragile atmosphere

Spring field…

Cage…

Three blades….

What emotional atmosphere links Japanese ambient pop, technopop, and cinematic melancholy? This new Distraction Therapy mixtape drifts through memory, neon cities, reflective solitude, and futures that still feel unfinished

Could community media help more people share local stories and ideas? Join Decentered Media’s Community Media Café on Thursday 14th May 2026, 10am–12pm, at Bishop Street Chapel Café, Leicester

Myth Bearers - Beyond Identity: What changes when we see people not only through identity, but as bearers of inherited stories, symbols and responsibilities? Could this offer a more grounded way to think about social cohesion, difference and shared civic life?

Protectors, Promoters, and Social Balance - How might we balance the need to protect people from exploitation with the need to encourage agency, creativity and renewal, so that care does not become control and freedom does not become abandonment?

Could community media help more people in Leicester share local stories, skills and ideas? Join Decentered Media’s Community Media Café, Thursdays from 14th May, 10.30am–12pm at Bishop Street Chapel Café.

Do you have a weird story to tell?

I had a really deep carb-snooze not long after eating this…

Moustache forehead…

Welcome addition to my collection…

Morning…

Are some of today’s most charged social conflicts less about ideology than idealisation? When empathy is raised above protection, responsibility and judgement, do we lose the balance needed to recognise deeper symbolic and collective patterns?

What might journalism look like if it worked more like a shared civic practice than a system of extraction? In this Decentered Media podcast, Megan Lucero and Debs Grayson discuss story commons, trust, participation and the future of independent media

What if feeling is not the same as emotion, but a way of judging what matters? Could Jung’s distinction between feeling, thinking, sensation and affect help us read intimacy, restraint and misrecognition in popular drama more carefully?

What happens when empathy is treated as the highest virtue in gender identity discussions, ahead of accuracy, safety, and truth? Does compassion still guide us well when it is used to silence questions rather than sustain dialogue?

What happens when we stop treating myth as fiction and begin to see it as something lived? Are the tensions around identity, meaning, and belonging pointing to deeper patterns we’ve forgotten how to recognise? Thanks to Dr Bret Alderman for exploring these issues with me

What happens when we stop treating myth as fiction and begin to see it as something lived? Are the tensions around identity, meaning, and belonging pointing to deeper patterns we’ve forgotten how to recognise? Thanks to Dr Bret Alderman for exploring these issues with me

If the BBC serves the public, who defines that purpose? Should it sit beyond Parliament, or within democratic oversight? And in an age of global platforms, is the priority protecting one institution, or enabling wider participation in media?

Is the “vibe shift” less about politics and more about how we make sense of change together? If people can’t revise their views without losing belonging, what does that mean for trust, dialogue, and how organisations hold disagreement?

Could shifts in media and online narratives shape how people interpret themselves, or might deeper symbolic patterns in the psyche also be involved? How might Jung’s idea of a collective unconscious help explain why certain identity stories resonate at particular moments?

An inspiring evening of heartfelt art in Loughborough at Studio No17. Check out the exhibition if you can 👏🏻

Is the BBC independent, or does its funding model give it a form of state power? If citizens can face criminal penalties for refusing the licence fee, where does conscientious objection fit? Should the burden of proof rest with the citizen, or with the state?

What does “epistemic security” mean for the future of the BBC? In our latest podcast, we explore Charter renewal, governance reform and whether public service media can still anchor democratic trust in a fragmented, platform-driven information environment

The govt has announced an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill to classify hate crimes targeting LGBT as aggravated offences The acronym LGBT+ conflates sexual orientation, a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010, with ‘transgender identity’, a concept which does not exist in law.

The One, the guardian of the river, emerges from the fire in his golden form…

Finally some sunshine ☀️ even if only for a few hours…

Finally some sunshine ☀️ even if only for a few hours…

I’m listening to the audiobooks of Diana Wynne Jones Dalemark Quartet and I’m blown away by the psychological complexity and challenge that the stories encompass! Stunning!

Oh lunch…

Below the surface…

Oh Mithras…

Nice to see…

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Exciting community events in Leicester this spring will explore language, heritage, radio, and local history. How might community media volunteers use these moments to build skills, share stories, and strengthen a sense of belonging in the places we live?

What happens when workplaces are asked to carry psychological and mythic questions they were never designed to hold? Are current conflicts over identity less about policy, and more about a loss of shared symbols, roles, and ways of making meaning?

Just been chatting about the Hydra for a Safer World project here at Computala

This evening we are immersed in intangible labour, at Leicester Adult Education basement gallery

How much creative work goes unseen? Intangible Labour and the New Folklore explores how artists, musicians and performers carry emotion, risk and care through everyday acts of making. What kinds of culture are being formed beneath the surface?

January in England can feel heavy, grey, and slow. When the landscape seems stripped back and the days press in, what helps you stay with the moment rather than rushing past it?

What if debates about “feminisation” miss a deeper question: not who dominates institutions, but how masculine and feminine dispositions shape meaning, conflict, and care? Can Jung’s symbolic lens help us think beyond culture-war binaries?

How are artists responding to AI and automation without losing what makes creative work human? Spotlight on Arts on Soar Sound explores the Computala exhibition at LCB Depot in Leicester. What questions does this kind of art raise for you?

What if Carl Jung were a guide through the modern mythscape, confronting monsters not as enemies but as shadows of the psyche? Does popular culture still offer symbolic spaces where we can rehearse encounters with the unconscious?

None of us should be standing by allowing this evil, harmful experimentation on vulnerable UK kids. Stand up against the Wes #StreetingTrial and add your voice to this critical petition today! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...