u/JoBrodie

You can just make a donation to support them 😄 (in Canadian dollars)

Original: "Tel un distingué mécène du dix-huitième siècle, faites un don sans contrepartie pour soutenir le travail des artistes."

Google Translation: "Like a distinguished eighteenth-century patron, make a donation without expecting anything in return to support the work of artists."

https://anginedepoitrine.com/boutique - at the bottom of their merch page.

I like this a lot as I don't really have anything on which to play their records (YouTube so far) and am probably a bit too Angine de 'Poids'-trine to fit in the t-shirts 😉

Jo

These films will be screened in the open air at the Barbican Centre's Sculpture Court in August.

Ticket on sale schedule:
Members: Wed 13 May at 8am 
General: Thu 14 May at 10am

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/series/outdoor-cinema

19 Aug Wed Arrival
20 Aug Thu Offside
21 Aug Fri Atlantics
22 Aug Sat Weathering With You
23 Aug Sun Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
25 Aug Tue The Florida Project
26 Aug Wed Pierrot le Fou
27 Aug Thu Poetic Justice
28 Aug Fri Beautiful Thing
29 Aug Sat Desperately Seeking Susan
30 Aug Sun David Byrne's American Utopia

Jo

I enjoyed this article about (it doesn't say anything about who the Poitrines are beneath their masks, so no spoilers) and didn't find it here already. It also made me laugh and there were so many paragraphs or snippets I wanted to share but I particularly like this one -

>"Plenty of bands wear masks. Plenty of bands play in odd time. Plenty of bands have incomprehensible vocals, ceremonial stage gestures, and song titles that look like they were found under a refrigerator. Very few make all of that feel festive. Most difficult music asks for patience. This music behaves like it has burst through the wall carrying its own hors d’oeuvres."

https://ericspitznagel.substack.com/p/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about (4 April 2026) by Eric Spitznagel

Jo

Here are vacancies pages belonging to ~180 UK companies, every so often I add more https://strayjobs.wordpress.com/vacancies-pages/#great-big-list-of-181-organisations-vacancies-pages

My professional interest is in computer science and science communication so the organisations skew toward science (though computer scientists are employed in every sector!)

There are several ways organisations might share their jobs - (1) published to major jobs boards (can cost money so not all orgs do this), (2) on their own vacancies pages (most places do this but not all) and (3) the less publicly visible roles (e.g. where someone is headhunted, or involves connections / networks where a current employee might let you know that a vacancy is imminent). My list relates to (2).

I think it would help if organisations had a /jobs page (or a /jobs redirect) so that anyone visiting their homepage could find out what vacancies they had by literally typing /jobs at the end of the address to find them. Lots do have a jobs page but you might find it hidden in 'About us' or linked at the bottom of the page, or it might be hidden in vacancies, recruitment, careers, work for us, work with us etc etc, sometimes it just goes in 'news'. Plus organisations keep moving pages around during site refreshes so I'm sure my list above will go out of date within a year!.

To that end I've created a UK petition - I doubt it will reach the threshold of parliamentary debate but I'm hoping it raises awareness of one way in which employers could make it marginally easier for people to find (as in hear about) vacancies.

Sign the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768264/sponsors/new?token=5StLn9oHKhwFNzykZ98k
Read more about the petition: (each petition must be approved and published, mine's still at the 'being checked' stage so there's not much info on the page itself): https://brodiesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/04/please-sign-my-uk-parliament-petition.html

Thanks
Jo