@tamarmillen.bsky.social
Tired. Warrior/Worrier. Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design at Sussex - Loss to Hope and Collective Imagined Futures - the artist role. Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2 Sheffield.
Excuse me but this is a perfect use of the internet.
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This make it look like I have written a full thesis. I haven't. I have written bits. These bits are liberally sprinkled with oxford commas.
10.02.2026 18:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I have sprinkled oxford commas across my thesis so far. A bit like a fairy cake and hundreds and thousands, only I missed a couple of buns completely. They're naked buns except for the butter icing.
10.02.2026 17:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I mean, it depends what it is spread on.
10.02.2026 17:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I have a grammar problem. I have no attachment to the oxford comma, pro or anti. This means I place it sometimes and at other times I don't. It's random, it's reflexive, its not thought out. Turns out this really annoys people that read my writing. Another thing to address before submission.
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Analysis overdrive.
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This is fascinating www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
As a kinship carer I have so much to say about all of this. Does anyone know Amol Rajan - would love a follow up.
The questions at the end, I have notes..
And yes, its the system that's broken.
No. 5
King Hannah Look At Miss Ohio
youtu.be/LhtR__e-RmQ?...
No. 4
Mavis Staples Sad and Beautiful World
youtu.be/HAZGQG3yHNo?...
No.3
Thurston Moore Temptation Inside Your Heart
youtu.be/DXSXGXHF0Ng?...
No. 2
J Mascis Breathe
youtu.be/-C_4AK134Vk?...
Today's distraction has moved on. I'm now compiling (in my breaks) a top 5 of covers released in 2025.
I'm starting at No.1
Lankum Ghost Town
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
And also my inability to construct a sentence needs examining. That too could do with some thinking about LOT. Have I used all my word age on the #writethedamnthesis2026
28.01.2026 08:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I've been thinking about LOT lately about late 80s/early 90s mattress as a bed aesthetic.
Apparently, today's teens are not a fan. (Well our current ones aren't.)
Was it mainly an indy/alt thing?
*gets popcorn*
23.01.2026 08:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The interesting thing about that campaign of Zacks is it embodies something I'm working on, you cant think directly about large scale and and hope when you are running to keep up.
The larger Q is running to keep up with what and why.. which leads back to cruel optimism.
Yes! I suspect that word is based in the work of Lauren Berlant. The notion of Cruel Optimism. Which is part of my theoretical framework.
We should meet up - so much to talk about.
We do. We also need to know how to grow and sustain hope in contexts of ongoing loss. How to design the conditions. Lucky someone you know Is looking at exactly that in their PhD. ๐
23.01.2026 07:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Same.
22.01.2026 19:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wrote a thing. Still haven't decided where these meanderings belong. so website and substack it is. www.tamarmillen.com/blog/i-think...
22.01.2026 15:56 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
A pile of brightly coloured origami paper cranes, on a shelf.
New approach to writing. Every time I get stuck I stop and make a paper crane.
This is Jan so far.
#writetthisdamnthesis2026
Oooh @andycropperart.bsky.social on my telly
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I LOVE THIS.
I've been banging on about graff and street art since the late 80s. To see it take its place in Sheffield is a joy.
To think of the battles I faced getting the Council to commission and support 10 years ago.
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
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Nature is healing.
14.01.2026 11:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just the hashtag #writingthisdamnthesis2026
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It's a Spirit (Hip Hop mix) by Kitachi sort of day. Play it loud.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvCq...
From one mardy moment looking on linked in I seem to have written a thing and started a substack as well as updated the blog on my long forgotten and dusty website.
www.tamarmillen.com/blog/a-seasonal-note-from-a-qualitative-researcher
Xx
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Took a sexy picture of @cmatbaby.bsky.social
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