Emily Elżbieta Chomicz
@queerloveriot.com
📰 Investigative Journalist at queerloveriot.com
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🌈 I started wythenshawepride.com
✍🏻 I wrote transitioninagony.com
🏛️ I lead the queerparty.co.uk
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🏳️⚧️ Pronouns: it/its/it's/she/kit
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🌈 I started wythenshawepride.com
✍🏻 I wrote transitioninagony.com
🏛️ I lead the queerparty.co.uk
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🏳️⚧️ Pronouns: it/its/it's/she/kit
The audiobook version of Transition in Agony will come out in the next few days.
After that, I will be enjoying the holiday season, spending Christmas with my friends, & working on a major investigation which will get published after New Year.
Happy holidays everyone. 2026 will be even crazier. ❄️
After that, I will be enjoying the holiday season, spending Christmas with my friends, & working on a major investigation which will get published after New Year.
Happy holidays everyone. 2026 will be even crazier. ❄️
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The audiobook version of Transition in Agony will come out in the next few days.
After that, I will be enjoying the holiday season, spending Christmas with my friends, & working on a major investigation which will get published after New Year.
Happy holidays everyone. 2026 will be even crazier. ❄️
After that, I will be enjoying the holiday season, spending Christmas with my friends, & working on a major investigation which will get published after New Year.
Happy holidays everyone. 2026 will be even crazier. ❄️
As the year draws to a close, I would like to thank all the people in my life.
This year was an incredibly difficult one, and having to adjust to my increasing disability has been very challenging at times.
Having people who understand and support what I want to achieve, has been truly wonderful.
This year was an incredibly difficult one, and having to adjust to my increasing disability has been very challenging at times.
Having people who understand and support what I want to achieve, has been truly wonderful.
December 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As the year draws to a close, I would like to thank all the people in my life.
This year was an incredibly difficult one, and having to adjust to my increasing disability has been very challenging at times.
Having people who understand and support what I want to achieve, has been truly wonderful.
This year was an incredibly difficult one, and having to adjust to my increasing disability has been very challenging at times.
Having people who understand and support what I want to achieve, has been truly wonderful.
After much fiddling around with the Dell website, it appears that this server's BIOS hasn't been updated for the last 10 years.
It's going to require multiple BIOS updates because it's too old to upgrade to the latest one straight away.
Oh bloody hell...
It's going to require multiple BIOS updates because it's too old to upgrade to the latest one straight away.
Oh bloody hell...
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
After much fiddling around with the Dell website, it appears that this server's BIOS hasn't been updated for the last 10 years.
It's going to require multiple BIOS updates because it's too old to upgrade to the latest one straight away.
Oh bloody hell...
It's going to require multiple BIOS updates because it's too old to upgrade to the latest one straight away.
Oh bloody hell...
The time is 8:19am. I'm performing some final upgrades to the QLR server and I've just discovered it needs a bloody BIOS update.
Kill me.
Kill me.
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The time is 8:19am. I'm performing some final upgrades to the QLR server and I've just discovered it needs a bloody BIOS update.
Kill me.
Kill me.
I've been looking round Preston. Things get pretty grim in parts if you look closer.
December 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I've been looking round Preston. Things get pretty grim in parts if you look closer.
I've read an interesting article from October.
It's almost as if diversification of editorial staff would mean we actually get to hear the real human cost of decisions made against queer people.
Newsrooms need LGBT+ journalists. Without them, you're simply not getting the full story in the press.
It's almost as if diversification of editorial staff would mean we actually get to hear the real human cost of decisions made against queer people.
Newsrooms need LGBT+ journalists. Without them, you're simply not getting the full story in the press.
Coverage Of The Trans Community Is Exploding. Interviews With Trans People Are Not
Within the 58 stories sampled, just 33 per cent of sources were trans people.
www.journoresources.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I've read an interesting article from October.
It's almost as if diversification of editorial staff would mean we actually get to hear the real human cost of decisions made against queer people.
Newsrooms need LGBT+ journalists. Without them, you're simply not getting the full story in the press.
It's almost as if diversification of editorial staff would mean we actually get to hear the real human cost of decisions made against queer people.
Newsrooms need LGBT+ journalists. Without them, you're simply not getting the full story in the press.
Both my local colleges require applicants to counselling courses to start at Level 1, even though they both agree this is pointless.
I have a university degree, and I have literally worked as a mental health worker over several years.
And then we wonder why there's a shortage in the profession.
I have a university degree, and I have literally worked as a mental health worker over several years.
And then we wonder why there's a shortage in the profession.
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Both my local colleges require applicants to counselling courses to start at Level 1, even though they both agree this is pointless.
I have a university degree, and I have literally worked as a mental health worker over several years.
And then we wonder why there's a shortage in the profession.
I have a university degree, and I have literally worked as a mental health worker over several years.
And then we wonder why there's a shortage in the profession.
Meanwhile, Badenoch's proposal to fix the economy is to redefine how poverty is measured.
Absolute poverty should not be a requirement to need the state's financial assistance.
Badenoch's shitty Machiavellianism strikes again. She conveniently misses out we still have to pay a landlord rent.
Absolute poverty should not be a requirement to need the state's financial assistance.
Badenoch's shitty Machiavellianism strikes again. She conveniently misses out we still have to pay a landlord rent.
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Meanwhile, Badenoch's proposal to fix the economy is to redefine how poverty is measured.
Absolute poverty should not be a requirement to need the state's financial assistance.
Badenoch's shitty Machiavellianism strikes again. She conveniently misses out we still have to pay a landlord rent.
Absolute poverty should not be a requirement to need the state's financial assistance.
Badenoch's shitty Machiavellianism strikes again. She conveniently misses out we still have to pay a landlord rent.
I don't believe it should take seven months to get assessed for disability, when it's patently obvious.
I don't believe that the process should be so complex it requires you to seek specialist advice.
I don't believe that the DWP are trying hard enough, they're encouraging the scrounger narrative.
I don't believe that the process should be so complex it requires you to seek specialist advice.
I don't believe that the DWP are trying hard enough, they're encouraging the scrounger narrative.
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I don't believe it should take seven months to get assessed for disability, when it's patently obvious.
I don't believe that the process should be so complex it requires you to seek specialist advice.
I don't believe that the DWP are trying hard enough, they're encouraging the scrounger narrative.
I don't believe that the process should be so complex it requires you to seek specialist advice.
I don't believe that the DWP are trying hard enough, they're encouraging the scrounger narrative.
This is a reminder that the DWP are still collecting interest on the money they owe me (LWCRA on Universal Credit) from taxes I paid in the system while working.
It's absolutely outrageous that if a trans person with a GRC has to leave work, it will be almost 7 months before they get paid properly.
It's absolutely outrageous that if a trans person with a GRC has to leave work, it will be almost 7 months before they get paid properly.
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is a reminder that the DWP are still collecting interest on the money they owe me (LWCRA on Universal Credit) from taxes I paid in the system while working.
It's absolutely outrageous that if a trans person with a GRC has to leave work, it will be almost 7 months before they get paid properly.
It's absolutely outrageous that if a trans person with a GRC has to leave work, it will be almost 7 months before they get paid properly.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You can paint a union jack over the problem, but at the end of the day you're still travelling on a Northern Class 150 and your train has been delayed yet again on the Stoke-Manchester line.
The first rebranded service was a rail replacement bus. Says it all really.
You can paint a union jack over the problem, but at the end of the day you're still travelling on a Northern Class 150 and your train has been delayed yet again on the Stoke-Manchester line.
The first rebranded service was a rail replacement bus. Says it all really.
Branding and logo for Great British Railways unveiled
The new red, white and blue branding mirrors the colours of the Union Flag, and will start to appear from next year.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You can paint a union jack over the problem, but at the end of the day you're still travelling on a Northern Class 150 and your train has been delayed yet again on the Stoke-Manchester line.
The first rebranded service was a rail replacement bus. Says it all really.
You can paint a union jack over the problem, but at the end of the day you're still travelling on a Northern Class 150 and your train has been delayed yet again on the Stoke-Manchester line.
The first rebranded service was a rail replacement bus. Says it all really.
Reposted by Emily Elżbieta Chomicz
Somehow I ended up writing long form analysis of the video game Horses. Come and read it. queerloveriot.com/the-clicking...
The Clicking of the Projector - How Horses Plays You
An in depth examination of the game Horses by Santa Ragione Game Studio which was recently refused publication on both Steam and Epic Games Store.
queerloveriot.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Somehow I ended up writing long form analysis of the video game Horses. Come and read it. queerloveriot.com/the-clicking...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yet another stupid decision by Labour made under the guise of the Equality Act and the Supreme Court ruling.
What possible reason or legitimate aim could this be possibly fulfilling?
Yet another stupid decision by Labour made under the guise of the Equality Act and the Supreme Court ruling.
What possible reason or legitimate aim could this be possibly fulfilling?
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
All delegates will be able to attend fringe programme as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yet another stupid decision by Labour made under the guise of the Equality Act and the Supreme Court ruling.
What possible reason or legitimate aim could this be possibly fulfilling?
Yet another stupid decision by Labour made under the guise of the Equality Act and the Supreme Court ruling.
What possible reason or legitimate aim could this be possibly fulfilling?
Substack's help chat (as I need to copy over some final bits and bobs, including image credit citations) is literally an AI chatbot and there is no way to speak to a human.
Fucking brilliant.
That's something I guess I'll need to fix at other point.
Fucking brilliant.
That's something I guess I'll need to fix at other point.
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Substack's help chat (as I need to copy over some final bits and bobs, including image credit citations) is literally an AI chatbot and there is no way to speak to a human.
Fucking brilliant.
That's something I guess I'll need to fix at other point.
Fucking brilliant.
That's something I guess I'll need to fix at other point.
Website is now fully up, and soon we will have the Patreon up and running, as well as a brand new article that is currently being written by the editor.
Tons of things happening.
Tons of things happening.
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Website is now fully up, and soon we will have the Patreon up and running, as well as a brand new article that is currently being written by the editor.
Tons of things happening.
Tons of things happening.
And we're live on our own servers!
www.queerloveriot.com
There's a few issues to fix, but we're officially off Substack!
www.queerloveriot.com
There's a few issues to fix, but we're officially off Substack!
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
And we're live on our own servers!
www.queerloveriot.com
There's a few issues to fix, but we're officially off Substack!
www.queerloveriot.com
There's a few issues to fix, but we're officially off Substack!
The new Queer Love Riot website goes live at 10pm today. It's now our perfect home for queer-led, radical investigative journalism!
I'm putting on final touches right now. Months of work, and thousands of lines of code have been spent visualising, designing and developing the project into reality!
I'm putting on final touches right now. Months of work, and thousands of lines of code have been spent visualising, designing and developing the project into reality!
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The new Queer Love Riot website goes live at 10pm today. It's now our perfect home for queer-led, radical investigative journalism!
I'm putting on final touches right now. Months of work, and thousands of lines of code have been spent visualising, designing and developing the project into reality!
I'm putting on final touches right now. Months of work, and thousands of lines of code have been spent visualising, designing and developing the project into reality!
Preparing for a Friday launch of the new Queer Love Riot website!
The content at this point is done. It's now securing it down, and making sure that the experience is the best it can be.
I've been working at this for almost two months. I'm very excited to show people I've not been procrastinating.
The content at this point is done. It's now securing it down, and making sure that the experience is the best it can be.
I've been working at this for almost two months. I'm very excited to show people I've not been procrastinating.
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Preparing for a Friday launch of the new Queer Love Riot website!
The content at this point is done. It's now securing it down, and making sure that the experience is the best it can be.
I've been working at this for almost two months. I'm very excited to show people I've not been procrastinating.
The content at this point is done. It's now securing it down, and making sure that the experience is the best it can be.
I've been working at this for almost two months. I'm very excited to show people I've not been procrastinating.
I knew it! My Anglepoise is stealing my chocolate from the fridge at night!
She keeps demanding more and more of these vintage lightbulbs, resorting to 15W signage bulbs, yet it's STILL not enough for her.
I swear if she goes for the pierogi...
Help! What do I do to make my Anglepoise behave?!
She keeps demanding more and more of these vintage lightbulbs, resorting to 15W signage bulbs, yet it's STILL not enough for her.
I swear if she goes for the pierogi...
Help! What do I do to make my Anglepoise behave?!
December 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I knew it! My Anglepoise is stealing my chocolate from the fridge at night!
She keeps demanding more and more of these vintage lightbulbs, resorting to 15W signage bulbs, yet it's STILL not enough for her.
I swear if she goes for the pierogi...
Help! What do I do to make my Anglepoise behave?!
She keeps demanding more and more of these vintage lightbulbs, resorting to 15W signage bulbs, yet it's STILL not enough for her.
I swear if she goes for the pierogi...
Help! What do I do to make my Anglepoise behave?!
I couldn't imagine doing software development full-time. It's brain-wrecking stress about data structures & logic puzzles.
Coding this site made me truly realise while I do actually enjoy coding, I enjoy sharing stories far more.
I can't wait to go out into the field again. I'm bored of code! 🌈
Coding this site made me truly realise while I do actually enjoy coding, I enjoy sharing stories far more.
I can't wait to go out into the field again. I'm bored of code! 🌈
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I couldn't imagine doing software development full-time. It's brain-wrecking stress about data structures & logic puzzles.
Coding this site made me truly realise while I do actually enjoy coding, I enjoy sharing stories far more.
I can't wait to go out into the field again. I'm bored of code! 🌈
Coding this site made me truly realise while I do actually enjoy coding, I enjoy sharing stories far more.
I can't wait to go out into the field again. I'm bored of code! 🌈
Still got a few more days to go.
Some screenshots of what the website looks like now.
Some screenshots of what the website looks like now.
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Still got a few more days to go.
Some screenshots of what the website looks like now.
Some screenshots of what the website looks like now.
Reposted by Emily Elżbieta Chomicz
It's called 'Your Party' cos they don't fucking want it lol
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's called 'Your Party' cos they don't fucking want it lol
I just downed an ENTIRE pre-packaged latte from the corner shop in one go! Thankfully I just got a whole pack of lactase in the post.
If Reeves wants to change consumer behaviour I think she's been rather successful as I intend to drink more of them before the tax rise comes in on the 1st Jan 2028.
If Reeves wants to change consumer behaviour I think she's been rather successful as I intend to drink more of them before the tax rise comes in on the 1st Jan 2028.
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I just downed an ENTIRE pre-packaged latte from the corner shop in one go! Thankfully I just got a whole pack of lactase in the post.
If Reeves wants to change consumer behaviour I think she's been rather successful as I intend to drink more of them before the tax rise comes in on the 1st Jan 2028.
If Reeves wants to change consumer behaviour I think she's been rather successful as I intend to drink more of them before the tax rise comes in on the 1st Jan 2028.
Nope, still not close enough to Christmas to go in the Christmas Markets.
The Christmas Season™ starts on December 1st. Anything before that is illegitimate.
Call me a Christmas hardliner but I ain't having a soft Christmas.
The Christmas Season™ starts on December 1st. Anything before that is illegitimate.
Call me a Christmas hardliner but I ain't having a soft Christmas.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nope, still not close enough to Christmas to go in the Christmas Markets.
The Christmas Season™ starts on December 1st. Anything before that is illegitimate.
Call me a Christmas hardliner but I ain't having a soft Christmas.
The Christmas Season™ starts on December 1st. Anything before that is illegitimate.
Call me a Christmas hardliner but I ain't having a soft Christmas.
On the slightly less funny side, the brainless jackass who defaced this lovely artwork to write "House" on the building.
Whatever views you have on grattifi, I think we can all agree this is an example of vandalism.
Whatever views you have on grattifi, I think we can all agree this is an example of vandalism.
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
On the slightly less funny side, the brainless jackass who defaced this lovely artwork to write "House" on the building.
Whatever views you have on grattifi, I think we can all agree this is an example of vandalism.
Whatever views you have on grattifi, I think we can all agree this is an example of vandalism.