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Gareth S. Brown

@garethsbrown.bsky.social

Musician with Death-Static, The Declining Winter, Your Good Selves (formerly with Memory Drawings, Hood, Canvas, etc) Game designer for Red Plenty Games Employee at University and College Union Member of Leeds Surrealist Group He/Him

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Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 🔥 Two week ballot window 🔥 75% turnout 🔥 73% YES to strike action 🔥 81% YES to ASOS Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated. UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us. #HandsOffMarie

UCU @ MMU@manmetucu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Marie is our Regional Support Officer & is fantastic. Trade union victimisation is indefensible & abhorrent. To see it done by a union employer undermines the work of all trade unionists. We have written to the GS to call for a stop to the victimisation and to settle the dispute. #HandsOffMarie

Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Hands off Marie! Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep. ✍️ jgrady@ucu.org.uk #HandsOffMarie #UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Photo of Marie, Unite UCU's health and safety rep, who is being victimised by her trade union employer
Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

ASOS which is "work in the same way you’ve done for years" is not irresponsible. It's protecting our members until a fair & equitable hybrid policy is agreed. UCU SMT then deducting 100% of daily pay from staff taking ASOS & undermining its own policy? Now that’s irresponsible.

Photo showing an article from the latest Private Eye on the Unite dispute which exposes UCU management's hypocrisy, in particular highlighting a quote from an SMT member that strongly suggests our action short of a strike (ie, continue doing your job but office attendance remains voluntary as it has done over the last five years) is somehow irresponsible.
Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We wondered last week whether @drjogrady.bsky.social would listen to @ucu.org.uk members, agree to unconditional talks & withdraw the threat of deductions for taking ASOS. So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...

Branch update

Fifty UCU branches join calls for unconditional talks After over 50 UCU branches signed up to a statement calling on SMT and the General Secretary to meet with Unite for unconditional talks, branch…

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Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU

Jo Grady calling Queen Mary management "vindictive" for making deductions from UCU members taking action short of a strike: Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said Queen Mary's senior management had "launched a vindictive attack" on its members, "punishing them for taking part in lawful industrial action" and "cementing its reputation as the worst university employer in the UK" She said: "It is wrong to do this at any time and all the more deplorable as staff struggle to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis."Screen shot of the article from The Guardian about Queen Mary ASOS deductions in which Jo Grady is quoted
Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s not just us! We’re sending massive solidarity today to Unite @ NEU, on strike for two days over a restructure being carried out without meaningful consultation. And also to @uniteitf.bsky.social who are facing major job cuts as well as dealing with yet another union-busting union employer.

Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 May Day Rally 📣 We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London. All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace. #ThriveNotSurvive

Image promoting our strike rally on 12-1pm on 1 May outside UCU head office in London.
@betreutesproggen.bsky.social · 2y ago

#review #DeathStatic @garethsbrown.bsky.social – Time Is Ignorance (10.02.25) "... gerät zu einer Messe, in der die Zeit einfach ignoriert wird beziehungsweise keine Rolle spielt", 9/15 Via #SoundInSilence www.betreutesproggen.de/2025/03/deat... soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/time-i...

Death-Static - Time Is Ignorance - BetreutesProggen.de

CA 9/15: „Ambient vor allem für Zeitgenossen, die die Ruhe weghaben und sich eher von einem entspannten Sofasurfing animieren lassen.”

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David Harvie@davidharvie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wednesday 5 March – 12noon–1.30pm – online @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Simon Lilley and I will be discussing our book and exploring the possibilities for resisting mediocrity and remaking the university.

Shaping for Mediocrity | University of Essex

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David Harvie@davidharvie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Four years ago today, University of Leicester bosses put 145 workers at risk of redundancy, leading to an eventual exodus of 200+. In the next 2 months we’ll be doing 3 more events on our collective resistance & our struggle to remake the university. www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

The Declining Winter@thedecliningwinter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our luxuriously bearded keyboard whizz Gareth S. Brown has the first album under his Death-Static moniker released today. Truly gorgeous ambience.

Gareth S. Brown@garethsbrown.bsky.social · 2y ago

My new miserable ambient album (the first under the name Death-Static and first solo release since 2020) has been released today by sound in silence. You can buy download or hard copies here: soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/time-i...