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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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Eddie Dempsey general secretary RMT said: “We are devastated to learn that a train driver and former RMT rep has tragically died as a result of today’s crash between Luton and Bedford. The thoughts of RMT are with their family, friends, colleagues and the ASLEF trade union at this awful time.”

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

. . . and a collaborative text with Cecilia Wee (@ceciliawee.bsky.social) (collectively (CWxWC)) on ‘inherited listening’. I am in excellent company, alongside several colleagues and comrades, legends of the sound arts game, and folks I’ve admired and been inspired by for many years.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

. . . performance scores, theories and poems. The terms invite listening through another’s ears or from specific perspectives, and together, offer a practical guide to listening as a relational practice. I am very grateful to have been invited to contribute my writing on ‘muddy listening’, . . .

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hannah’s edited collection is a vibrant and crucial addition to sound and listening studies, gathering 215 terms for listening, contributed by people from diverse disciplines and constituencies, with entries taking multiple forms, including personal narratives, diagrams . . .

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I am very excited to have contributed to Hannah Kemp-Welch's upcoming book, 'Listening Glossary', published by Silver Press's Spiral House imprint. Thank you, Hannah! 👂 🖤 You can pre-order the book here: www.silverpress.org/products/lis...

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Great report from Grant. Technocrats on the right of the union/leadership once again undermining democracy and transparency.

Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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Join a union, and be an active member

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Join NATO so that like Denmark you too can have one member publicly threatening to invade and annexe your sovereign territory, while another refuses to even state that doing so is wrong.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I am genuinely tempted to add something like "This email was written by me, for you to read. I do not and will not use LLM AI in any of my work." to my office signature.

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nicol @nicolnicol.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I've uploaded two new albums to bandcamp. Recordings of performance art and noise, exchanging roles of lead voice and atmosphere/environment. nicolnicolnicol.bandcamp.com (I like them!)

album titled 'inside birds outside', a person on all fours is pushing and gathering seeds with their face

album titled 'outside birds inside', a small pile of sorted seeds, the number 5, circled in charcoal

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

LMAO Noam Chomsky doesn’t surprise me one bit. Integrity isn’t exactly a trait for someone who picks and chooses his genocides and genocide denialisms.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Cafe Oto | Sun 7 December 2025 Playing new music for guitar by Thanos Chrysakis, Tim Hodgkinson, and David Ryan . . . and old music by Feldman, Takemitsu, and Wolff . . . alongside Jason Alder and Atsuko Kamura. Tickets: bit.ly/49A4lVa

The Onion @theonion.com · 07/11/2025

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Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-a…

Claim: Mamdani is a communist.

False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

AI is not sentient. It doesn't have a survival instinct. What's happened is that corporations have decided that we'll all obey capital if it can pretend to talk.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Members, together, will get wins in spite of our leadership; we will take what is ours. www.ucu.org.uk/WeAreTheUniv... (end)

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We are the University

It's time to remind bosses and politicians: We are the University.

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ballot papers for upcoming industrial action will be delivered to members across the country next week, and I will be organising and campaigning across my two branches for a YES vote, and encourage all members to do the same in their branches. Militant industrial action is the only strategy. (cont…)

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

colleagues. We cannot allow them a single inch more than they’ve already got their grubby, hoodwinking mitts on. Personally, I am done with being patient and playing nice. For the sake of all our members and their jobs, all our students, and all the sector, the gloves are now off. (cont…)

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

endlessly pandering to VCs in the hope for some scraps in return. Otherwise, their primary functions seems to be to behave as sycophants for the most deceptive and egotistical members of our senior leadership, and act in their own self-interest rather than fight to protect our sector and (cont…)

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

she needs to remember to keep her own house in check. Many parts of our union are trying to address these concerns, but factions such as UCU Commons & Campaign for UCU Democracy seem happy with the status quo. In truth, their industrial strategy appears to amount to little more than (cont…)

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

she is capable of leading us into nationwide industrial action. To this end, she has launched a campaign to ‘expose’ UK Vice Chancellors, but her own leadership and treatment of her staff copies and employs some of the UK VCs’ very worst tactics. As her support among the membership wanes, (cont…)

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

motions from branches, and emails from lay members imploring her to resolve it. Her/UCU’s treatment of these workers, on whom the running of our union relies, is bringing disgrace upon UCU and the trade union movement as a whole. However, Jo simultaneously believes (publicly at least) that (cont…)

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

upcoming strike ballot, and the aforementioned wing of the union have been busy publicly undermining and attempting to scupper it. Hanging over all of this is the ongoing Unite UCU dispute, and Jo Grady continues to ignore letters signed by hundreds of members, pressure from our NEC, (cont…)

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🧵 The last month or so in UCU world has left me feeling very concerned. I’m not a member or fan of any faction, but the recent NEC elections have given the hard-right of the union a majority on our highest council. Meanwhile, our senior leadership appear to be half heartedly launching our (cont…)

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

“something something genuine concerns”…..?

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This treatment of staff by a trade union employer (or any!) is despicable. Jo Grady must resign (in shame). She is not fit to have her name associated with the trade union movement.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@drjogrady.bsky.social, you need to demonstrate the change you want to see. You cannot go after our Vice Chancellors while you’re yourself employing some of their worst practices. Remember what you said, “a fairer future for all”. FOR ALL.

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Jo is intentionally omitting key details here. General Secretary, be transparent with your members for once, the ballot is on 3 issues: 1. Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2. Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3. A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects

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Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things: 1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects #WeAreTheUniversity

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Same folks who seem unbothered by the mistreatment of our UCU Staff…what do you expect? Undermining the ballot before it’s even started is a great strategy . . . . . . .

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Looking forward to speaking at ‘Thinking Through Sound’ @ Sheffield Uni tomorrow! Can a ‘muddy’ episteme resist capitalist and colonialist conceptions of clarity, convenience, and knowledge production, and can new ways of thinking with/through sound mess up, or ‘muddy‘ the waters, of the academy?

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

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UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Jo Grady finds new ways to undermine UCU every week. TUC attendees should let her know their views. Oh, and where is the outcome from HEC @drjogrady.bsky.social?

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

That would require a) humility, and b) morals . . . Neither of which these people have.

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Sickening (but by now not surprising) behaviour from so-called fellow trade unionists. Solidarity, comrades.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u... UCU senior leadership once again channeling the worst of our sector’s Vice Chancellors in how they treat their own staff. These people are not trade unionists, they are self-serving cowards and a stain upon our movement. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

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UCU deploys “vindictive” union-busting tactics in attempt to crush staff union

Unite the union members working for the University and College Union vote to take further industrial action with a 76% Yes vote for strike action on a 77% turnout This was their third consecutive s…

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"But they came here illegally" 1. No, they didn't. Seeking asylum is a human right protected under Article 14 of UDHR. 2. Even if they did, who even gives a fuck?! We would ALL break the law in a desperate situation. Less chat of legality more chat of justice & morality pls They're not the same.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Solidarity, comrades. I am sorry that my union chooses to treat you this way. ✊

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Everyday I become more and more disgusted by and ashamed of UCU senior leadership, and those pockets of the membership that continue to support them and/or bury their heads in the sand. UCU supposedly stands for a “fairer future for all”. That has to mean ALL. Not just the SMT’s sycophants.

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We will be researching and making new work throughout August, alongside several other artists, building towards a group exhibition at GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn in Autumn 2025. Thank you to GroundWork for selecting us. More soon . . .