March 2, 2026

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Permanently Moved 🔊

Permanently Moved is back! Six months of silence, time in a chrysalis, and now a changed format.

This is the wake-up episode. Before Episode 302 drops in your feed, Jay explains what happened after finishing the biggest creative project of his life — and what the show looks like from here.

Permanently Moved is now quarterly. Four audio essays a year, longer and more considered. Less treadmill, more terrain. And for the first time, each episode comes with a print companion: a physical zine, posted to you as part of your membership.

Episode 302 – Monsters in the Mirror – is next up in the feed.

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Pre-Flight: The New Container

I’m emerging from a chrysalis. Six months since I finished 301, and closed the loop on the biggest creative project of my life. And then… I did the only sensible thing I could think of doing…. I stopped. I turned 40 and enjoyed the summer sun.

The initial feeling of finishing the show was one of relief. A long exhale. Like sitting down in a comfortable chair with a cup of tea after a very long journey. During the summer I did all the things you are supposed to do when you finish any big project: a proper wash-up. A deliberate sit-down with the whole eight years of it. What went well, what didn’t. What I want to do more of. What I actively didn’t enjoy and won’t be carrying forward.

The bigger questions took longer to sit with. Was it worth it? Yes. Without doubt. I wouldn’t unpick any of it. But being worth it doesn’t mean I’d do it the same way again.

And then I left it all to sit and stew.

But then, somewhere around September, after the initial relief had wore off, I noticed an itch arrive at the back of my mind. A kind of low-level restlessness that I carried around for weeks. Then it dawned on me properly that I wasn’t on a break between show seasons. The 301 was over. I didn’t need to make a show right now, or think about what I was going to write and make that week. It was all completely over.

It felt a bit like discovering the existence of some kind of phantom creative limb. Something that had been woven deeply into my personal and creative life for so long was just… gone. And weirdly, what I was noticing the absence of wasn’t the show itself, It was the pressure. The grind which I’d complained about plenty, had apparently, been doing a lot of structural work in my life. Without it, there was a real absence. I was more irritable, and was unable to focus, which exerted a downward drag on life I hadn’t anticipated. It was a kind of mourning I guess.

And that process, as I’m sure you all know, has a way of producing bad decisions.

Around late September, over one particularly manic weekend, I sat down and wrote an eight-thousand-word draft of a new episode and edited it the next day. At the time I was convinced that this was the thing I wanted to say coming back to the show. And then I recorded it, and it was, quite frankly, awful.

So I threw it away, consigned it to the void, never to see the light of day. You’re welcome.

After that, I decided there was no pressure. I’d loosely targeted a six month break. So I held the line. And I am genuinely, deeply grateful to those of you who kept your subscriptions going through the silence and trusted I’d be back. That meant more than you know.

I did however in November, make some notes about what I thought I wanted to write about next. I spoke about it on my most recent appearance on New Models podcast. And then, I went to Sri Lanka over Christmas and new year, came back, and got to work.

Permanently Moved is back

But the format has changed.

The show is now quarterly. Four main audio essays a year, plus an occasional bonus show like this one. These are longer pieces, more considered Less treadmill and more terrain. The first one is about an hour long, and is next up in the feed. It’s called Monsters in the Mirror.

It’s about mirrors as magical reflective surfaces. About how since the Enlightenment we’ve built increasingly sophisticated mirrors to master the world: measurement tools, instruments, models, simulations. And about how these mirrors, at sufficient complexity and scale, stop being tools and start becoming habitats — with inhabitants. It’s about the transistor as a second Promethean moment, and what it means to live inside the mirror we built of silicon. We are no longer outside observing, but inside, currently learning to coexist with entities that wear language as their skin.

That’s Episode 302, and it’s the thing I wanted to write.

Start Select Reset

Now. Alongside the audio, there’s a print artefact. And if you will indulge me, I want to talk about the why, not just the what, because I think it matters.

The standard deal for independent online creators right now is essentially this: you get paid five pounds a month, and in return you make, and make, and grind, and produce. The deal audiences get is that you are basically paying people to send you more email. The algorithm forces people to keep up the constant output just to stay visible, and more and more content to justify the subscription in a world increasingly full of them. I just don’t think this is the solution to anything. That’s not what I want to do.

So the Permanently Moved is now adopting an older model.

Each episode now comes with an accompanying issue of my zine, Start Select Reset. This episode will have a 36-page A5 zine, properly printed on decent GSM weight paper, with thick covers, and will contain the full show’s transcript text plus an introduction and afterword that aren’t in the audio. Extra material that only exists on paper. In future as we go along, the zine and show will complement each other further, with notes, photos and fragments that only make sense in print. It depends on the show, and how things evolve creatively.

The zine is a shadow of the episode in print.

So here’s the deal.

Membership is £5 a month. For that support, four times a year, you get the audio essays in your podcast feed as you always have, and the zine gets posted to you as part of your membership. Shipping is included. Occasionally I’ll throw in a sticker or a small insert, not because you need perks, but because physical things and the return of the real is the point.

That’s £15 a quarter. Audio in your ears and a physical object in your hands.
Delivered via snail mail.

If you don’t want a regular membership, you can still get the zine as a one-off.

It’s £18 plus shipping from my etsy store. Think of it as merch. There’ll be a two-week pre-order window alongside each big audio drop. That window is for counting copies and doing the print run.

Either become a regular show supporter or pre-order within the window and you’ll be included in that quarter’s print run. After two weeks it all goes to the printer and I’ll ship them as soon as they arrive.

After that, whatever extra copies I have left will be back issues for sale. I don’t own a house, let alone a warehouse, so there won’t be many, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.

Simple as that. Pretty Human scale, and quarterly.

The pre-order window for the zine accompanying Episode 302 — Monsters in the Mirror — is open right now. You can subscribe monthly using the links above, or pre-order the zine below.

Pre-orders close in two weeks. Monday 16th March

Buy SSRZ15: Monsters in the Mirror on Etsy

This zine contains the full essay transcript alongside an introduction and afterword written exclusively for print, material that doesn’t exist in the audio. 36 pages. A5. Properly printed on heavy stock with thick covers. Hand stamped twice, copy number and FOG logo.

This is remaining stock after the print run for my paid subscribers. Once they are gone, they are gone.

£18 + shipping worldwide

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CAVEAT EMPTOR: International zines are posted with full customs declarations as printed booklets. Depending on your country, local VAT, customs, or handling fees may be due on arrival.

I’ve wanted a slower pace of audio and print to be the two pillars of my creative life for a while. I don’t want to chase platforms and constantly post stuff to keep afloat. Podcasting and blogging via RSS is direct relationship with you the listener and thats something I want really cultivate.

So thats what it all looks like going forward. If you aren’t in a position to do either, please do go rate and review the show 5 stars on iTunes or your app of choice. Tell a friend. Blog about me being back. I’d really appreciate it.

Alright then, Episode 302 – Monsters in the Mirror is next up

Thanks for sticking around through the silence and thanks for letting the work change shape.

Be well — and I’ll speak to you soon.

Permanently Moved

Permanently Moved (dot) Online is a quarterly audio personal podcast, written, recorded and edited by by @thejaymo