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Michael Baggs

@michaelbaggs.bsky.social
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Queer journalist Current: The News Agents Prev: PinkNews, BBC

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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Not ‘gay as in happy’ but gay as in ‘there’s prep wedged in the charging port of my work laptop’
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My husband can’t do impressions and I love that for him
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There must be laws about letting a company as incapable as Evri / Hermes to continue operating 😬
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Me leaving the afters:
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Spectator is a deeply unserious publication
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Support queer art www.instagram.com/fergcooper/
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
On top of EVERYTHING else in the world I now have to deal with a fucking ghost in my flat. Are you kidding me?
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Absolutely the best pop song of 2025. Gays, get on this open.spotify.com/track/5qwr6y...
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L.O.V.E.
Jessica Winter · L.O.V.E. · Song · 2025
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We need a new series of Sex Box and we need it now
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Angel of My Dreams is now the most streamed Little Mix solo single on Spotify and honestly I think that’s beautiful
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What the fucking FUCK
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
RIP Dalston
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Never underestimate the determination of gays who want to party on New Years Day
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Babe, wake up and get back on Twitter for a few hours, it’s all gone to shit for Elon. The racist MAGA crowd are tearing him to shreds, he’s calling Americans unskilled and dumb, pretending to be a man called ‘Adrian’ and taking blue ticks away from big-name Republican supporters who call him out
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Wallace & Gromit / Gavin & Stacy is for Reform UK voters I’m sorry I don’t make the rules 🤷
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Nope, I see nothing troubling about the toilet in this Welsh pub, nothing at all. No privacy concerns whatsoever
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This tattoo won’t make sense for another 11 months after today
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Ah yeah, this would be why. Living outside of London is feral
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Someone please remind me why I live in London and not here in Wales
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
OK serious question but why can trains keep selling tickets when every seat has been sold leaving people standing all the way down the length of a train. How is this safe and why not do it on coaches or planes if it is 🤷
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 19/12/2024
“One by one, the judge found them all guilty of either rape or sexual assault. “Gisele Pelicot was looking at each man as the sentence was handed down"
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Gisèle Pelicot trial: ‘She looked at every guilty man as he was sentenced’
A court in Avignon, France, has found 51 men guilty of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault of Gisèle Pelicot, including her husband, in a case that has shocked the world.
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Every workplace would improve staff morale enormously by installing soft lighting in the office toilets. This is the hill I will die on. This is my Roman Empire
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The details of the workplace culture at PinkNews, reported by the Evening Standard here, are scarily familiar & deeply triggering. It has been 10 months since I was forced out of my role there - I’m glad all this is coming out, but it still feels so fucking fresh www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/pi...
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PinkNews: Inside the scandal tearing the LGBTQ publisher apart
The LGBTQ+ site is reeling from multiple allegations of sexual misconduct
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Look, I’m not saying that a senior reporter at The Sun would make up quotes, but there is literally no trace of any of the three “furious” people named in this piece online - apart from this piece, and the GBNews (lol) rewrite
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I wish I had a byline on this, because honestly it is my greatest contribution to human society and culture
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’m not even sure he was that gr8 a doctor because he scheduled my first redundancy meeting while I was still signed off work with stress
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PinkNews boss suspended from NHS job after BBC investigation
The BBC heard claims Dr Anthony James kissed and touched a younger PinkNews colleague at a party.
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Not now, mummy’s reading every bad review of Kraven The Hunter to find out how awful it actually is
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Only the BBC’s Today Programme could get through an entire sports segment on the backlash to Saudi Arabia holding the World Cup without once mentioning it is illegal to be gay in the country
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 10/12/2024
Spectator rebuked for calling Juno Dawson 'a man who claims to be a woman' The ruling is a rare finding of a breach by the press of the discrimination section (Clause 12) of the Editors' Code of Practice pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
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Spectator rebuked for calling Juno Dawson 'a man who claims to be a woman'
The Spectator has been reprimanded by the press regulator IPSO for calling author Juno Dawson "a man who claims to be a woman".
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Even my mum has messaged me today to say she’s seen this on the news
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I never witnessed any sexual misconduct while I worked there, but a lot of this story rings very true with my experience at PinkNews. It was the most toxic workplace I’ve ever experienced - and that toxicity came straight from the top of the company www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct
Ex-staff members say they saw one of the couple who runs the site kissing and touching a drunk colleague.
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The tattoo you get before sertraline (feb 24) vs the tattoo you get after sertraline (dec 24)
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Been doing this job for years already
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/12/2024
House Rep @jasmineforus.bsky.social says Joe Biden's decision to pardon son Hunter was one made by "a father – who happens to be a president." She says the 82-year-old is now "done" with politics @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
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Jasmine Crockett: 'Joe Biden won't lose sleep if people call him a hypocrite'
Jasmine Crockett, Democrat House representative, tells The News Agents Joe Biden is “done” with politics, and claims Donald Trump’s second presidency will be a “danger” to the whole world.
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The situation in France is so worrying because the political stability of a powerful nation has been destroyed only to stop (or delay) the rise in popularity of the hard right www.bbc.com/news/article...
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French government collapses after no-confidence vote in PM Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier's ousting over a budget bill deepens France's current political crisis.
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ummm so this seems like a lot. Is this a lot? Can anyone beat this? Please tell me someone can beat this… #spotifywrapped
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The BBC: “there’s a new AI pop sensation in town, and that’s his hit song Sunshine Soul” Is the ‘pop sensation’ or ‘hit song’ in the room with us or…
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The state of the right-wing media in this country means I had to google this to make sure it isn’t actually real
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m sorry but there is no one in my life I would publicly defend from sexual misconduct allegations like this
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Screaming at the radio this morning hearing a Today Programme presenter try desperately to get James May or a car industry exec to criticise the WEEK OLD Jaguar advert - both of whom thought it was good. This is not journalism. This is a weak, dated and flaccid attempt at stirring up culture wars
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Well-meaning locals saying hello and trying not be homophobic when I go home to the village for Christmas:
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Sorry Elon, tempting as the sex-toy scammers and “I am single girl looking relationship” bots are, I won’t be going back to your extremist hellsite any time soon
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/11/2024
It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
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It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Quick reminder that most mainstream ‘sound of…’ type prediction lists for music in the coming year are based on what record labels are pushing in Q1 and compiled after holding meetings with publishers and broadcasters to promote their priorities for the new year
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Donald Trump is really putting quite the cabinet together...
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Best thing about this place, compared to that ‘other’ place is not feeling scared to post, comment or reply to people - knowing the responses you’d get to LITERALLY ANYTHING wouldn’t be worth the energy
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
All I'm saying is that If I was breaking through a police barricade to demonstrate why I shouldn't have to pay tax I would think twice about doing it in a tractor that costs £70k
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Things to know about the London farmers' protest: - From 2026 anyone inheriting UK farmland will have to pay 20% inheritance tax on assets worth over £1m - The usual rate, for everyone else, is 40% on assets over £325k - The biggest owner of farmland is the aristocracy
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Due to the various stresses of 2024 I predict it will be tracks from the "Thunderstorm Sounds - 10 hours for Sleeping" playlist for me
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Michael Baggs @michaelbaggs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It’s not about sport, it’s never been about sport, it’s always been about driving trans people out of public life - and TERFs have used this as a ‘have a point’ issue for a long time now, including to justify the relentless bullying of Imane Khelif this year
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