Stopping for the night. Looks fantastic.

Feels like I'm building my own Citizens Advice office.

Building an office. Here's a progress photo.

www.queerloveriot.com/p/the-heartb...

@wigancouncil.bsky.social

I have some questions about your treatment of domestic violence victims through the homelessness system. I would like to arrange a meeting with you to register a formal complaint.

This should have never happened. This is ridiculous.

It's gone purple now. I don't understand what's going on with my Anglepoise.

Perhaps it needs a service soon.

Uhh... does anyone know what red means on an Anglepoise?

I checked the Anglepoise manual for this model and unfortunately I can't find anything about this.

I'll keep you guys informed if it changes back to its normal glow.

Due to last minute discussions with the council yesterday, the homelessness article will be published today instead.

Housing has been secured for a day by the homelessness team. This is progress.

Currently fighting an epic battle with Wigan Council, where they have taken four weeks to assess a vulnerable adult for emergency housing.

This delay is unacceptable. They are literally homeless but keep fobbing us off.

They've made themselves harder to contact than the Prime Minister. Ludicrous.

Whoever put this up in Wigan, top marks.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mel Stride is literally proposing xenophobia. Not that the Tories matter anyway.

Even though I received my entire schooling education & have worked here, that's not enough for him.

How is this now the Overton window? How did this become acceptable? Racist twat.

There's an article on queer homelessness going out tonight. As a former charity CEO, I think I may have something to add to the conversation.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Tonight, on the Tories being out of touch with young people's needs.

They propose a National Insurance cut for young people for their first jobs.

Of course, completely misses the fact that young people's first jobs likely pay so low that they don't pay anyway.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'm curious how this "you can protest, but only once" power will go.

Definitely won't violate the European Convention of Human Rights, not at all...

Weird tram - it introduced itself as going to Wythenshawe Centre, most likely related to the transport disruptions at Cornbrook.

Breaking news: Wythenshawe is expanding and absorbing Manchester.

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It's been great to meet with other authors and journalists today at Queer Lit with the Society of Authors.

I still can't believe how quickly this is all happening.

Thank you all for reading my work, it's an absolute pleasure to serve the public.

Move successful. There's a few missing links but queerloveriot.com is now live!

Substack has the world's slowest process for verifying domains.

I'm glad I started this at night.

I am currently doing some domain migration.

We are now officially beginning the process of moving to queerloveriot.com.

If something breaks, blame DNS. It's always DNS.

channel4news.substack.com/p/three-dead...

Fuck.

Let's design a beautiful logo for Queer Love Riot.

That looks beautiful. Let's put it on Substack.

Substack proceeds to murder the logo into the world's smallest size. For crying out loud.

I can't even justify paragraphs correctly in Substack. This is meant to be professional software, but yet...