Tamar Millen
@tamarmillen.bsky.social
Tired.
Warrior/Worrier.
Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design - Loss to Hope and Collective Imagined Futures - the artist role.
Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2
Sheffield.
Warrior/Worrier.
Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design - Loss to Hope and Collective Imagined Futures - the artist role.
Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2
Sheffield.
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Tamar Millen
@tamarmillen.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Is this the place? This must be the place.
Turns out.. it might well be *the place*
A marvellous mate made me a NY Sushi inspired playlist. Any of you clever people able to transfer it to Qobuz? 😘
open.spotify.com/playlist/6h9...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6h9...
NY Sushi
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A marvellous mate made me a NY Sushi inspired playlist. Any of you clever people able to transfer it to Qobuz? 😘
open.spotify.com/playlist/6h9...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6h9...
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Next Thursday, we're inviting the team behind Regen Melbourne – a community of more than 200 organisations committed to creating a thriving city living within our planetary boundaries – to Sheffield 🌏
Find out more at the link below, or grab a ticket ⬇
www.tickettailor.com/events/wordl...
Find out more at the link below, or grab a ticket ⬇
www.tickettailor.com/events/wordl...
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Next Thursday, we're inviting the team behind Regen Melbourne – a community of more than 200 organisations committed to creating a thriving city living within our planetary boundaries – to Sheffield 🌏
Find out more at the link below, or grab a ticket ⬇
www.tickettailor.com/events/wordl...
Find out more at the link below, or grab a ticket ⬇
www.tickettailor.com/events/wordl...
I miss Twitter circa 2012. I could have had a long discussion about this instead of writing in my notes app...
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I miss Twitter circa 2012. I could have had a long discussion about this instead of writing in my notes app...
Having an NY Sushi nostalgia night.
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Having an NY Sushi nostalgia night.
A visit to someone I've known all my life who won't be around much longer. A call to say a family member had died. Today has been a lot.
Tell someone you love them. Do it now.
Tell someone you love them. Do it now.
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A visit to someone I've known all my life who won't be around much longer. A call to say a family member had died. Today has been a lot.
Tell someone you love them. Do it now.
Tell someone you love them. Do it now.
Lived 11 doors away from these fellas in 1981 just before tainted love was big.
Bye Dave. I loved Non Stop Erotic Cabaret.
Bye Dave. I loved Non Stop Erotic Cabaret.
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Lived 11 doors away from these fellas in 1981 just before tainted love was big.
Bye Dave. I loved Non Stop Erotic Cabaret.
Bye Dave. I loved Non Stop Erotic Cabaret.
If someone cld let me know where the radiator bleed key is, thatd be handy. Thanks.
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If someone cld let me know where the radiator bleed key is, thatd be handy. Thanks.
The brief was conkers. The brief was "nailed" all puns intended.
October 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The brief was conkers. The brief was "nailed" all puns intended.
October 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The annual report from Kinship Charity that highlights aspects of my life. Although some things are improving it's hit and miss.
It was only yesterday that we received another no, that means one of our kids wont get the support they need.
kinship.org.uk/our-work-and...
It was only yesterday that we received another no, that means one of our kids wont get the support they need.
kinship.org.uk/our-work-and...
Handle With Care: Annual survey of kinship carers 2025
Explore key findings from our 2025 annual survey of more than 1,900 kinship carers and learn more about kinship families and the policy context in 2025.
kinship.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The annual report from Kinship Charity that highlights aspects of my life. Although some things are improving it's hit and miss.
It was only yesterday that we received another no, that means one of our kids wont get the support they need.
kinship.org.uk/our-work-and...
It was only yesterday that we received another no, that means one of our kids wont get the support they need.
kinship.org.uk/our-work-and...
Really interesting thread.
Should the question be 'What do you have for tea'
Having code switched across my life, I maintain that asserting Spaghetti Hoops on toast is a perfectly acceptable evening meal, sorts the wheat from the chaff.
😉
Should the question be 'What do you have for tea'
Having code switched across my life, I maintain that asserting Spaghetti Hoops on toast is a perfectly acceptable evening meal, sorts the wheat from the chaff.
😉
It's fascinating how much of English analysis of class get reduced to 'what do you have for your dinner?' I like to think that were my mining ancestors alive they'd be thinking 'fair play to folks these days there's loads more choices of what to eat and where than i had'.
"It's genuinely hard to imagine today's Labour activists going to a northern fish and chip shop" is a really self-incriminating sentence. Yeah, when I sit down in The Scrap Box in York or, frankly, anywhere in Whitby, I think 'I can't imagine a middle class person eating here'.
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Really interesting thread.
Should the question be 'What do you have for tea'
Having code switched across my life, I maintain that asserting Spaghetti Hoops on toast is a perfectly acceptable evening meal, sorts the wheat from the chaff.
😉
Should the question be 'What do you have for tea'
Having code switched across my life, I maintain that asserting Spaghetti Hoops on toast is a perfectly acceptable evening meal, sorts the wheat from the chaff.
😉
Lurg and PhD. are kicking me right now. Get a girl when she's down, why don't you.
September 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Lurg and PhD. are kicking me right now. Get a girl when she's down, why don't you.
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The Social ¡No Pasarán! Tshirt
100% of profits to @hopenothate.org.uk
heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/the-so...
100% of profits to @hopenothate.org.uk
heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/the-so...
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The Social ¡No Pasarán! Tshirt
100% of profits to @hopenothate.org.uk
heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/the-so...
100% of profits to @hopenothate.org.uk
heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/the-so...
Highlights of World Design Congress >> Brian Eno // Tori Tsui // Celine Semaan // Indy Johar // Kate Raworth
September 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Highlights of World Design Congress >> Brian Eno // Tori Tsui // Celine Semaan // Indy Johar // Kate Raworth
Thomas Heatherwick at world design congress has just said you can do a phd. from bed. I would like to see him try.
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Thomas Heatherwick at world design congress has just said you can do a phd. from bed. I would like to see him try.
Every time I go to a conference that has @kateraworth.bsky.social at it, Im inspired and amazed.
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Every time I go to a conference that has @kateraworth.bsky.social at it, Im inspired and amazed.
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I cannot stomach this ongoing pattern of women, especially working class women and WOC, facing consequences for corruption, and rich white men who have been born with only the best untarnished silver crockery rammed into every orifice prancing away scot-free.
September 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I cannot stomach this ongoing pattern of women, especially working class women and WOC, facing consequences for corruption, and rich white men who have been born with only the best untarnished silver crockery rammed into every orifice prancing away scot-free.
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get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions
The first of the month falling on a Monday is ALWAYS a joy. However, Monday 1st Sept is the pinnacle. My New Years Day!
*does a happy organised dance*
*does a happy organised dance*
September 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The first of the month falling on a Monday is ALWAYS a joy. However, Monday 1st Sept is the pinnacle. My New Years Day!
*does a happy organised dance*
*does a happy organised dance*
It's just a condiment
*le sigh*
IYKYK
*le sigh*
IYKYK
August 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It's just a condiment
*le sigh*
IYKYK
*le sigh*
IYKYK
Plus, the absolute breakdown of a care system. One that doesn't centre care.
What we're dealing with is the results of collapsing Sure Start, punishing local austerity, an exodus from mainstream schools with no adequate funding of specialist settings, a mental health crisis that ballooned on their watch , and more. Not 'overdiagnosis'. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health – Hunt
The former health secretary argued that society has ‘lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process’.
www.independent.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Plus, the absolute breakdown of a care system. One that doesn't centre care.
GCSE results day. Shout out to all those who did the supporting.
August 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
GCSE results day. Shout out to all those who did the supporting.
Went to North Landing. It was glorious.
August 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Went to North Landing. It was glorious.
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having thought about this for three days, my current status is:
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
this makes me suspect that one of the routes that AI companies are aiming at is targeting young people. anything that existed when you were a kid feels normal and indispensable. especially if you always used AI to write all your essays for you. and to comfort you when your parents were arguing.
August 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
having thought about this for three days, my current status is:
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.