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Michael Baggs

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2 years

Gays, don’t forget to disconnect your phone from your family’s Bluetooth speaker when you go upstairs later

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Michael Baggs

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7 months

He hath risen, I guess

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Watching Drag Race UK season 2 vs Watching Drag Race US season 13

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2 years

Lived in London more than 10 years. Today I pressed the button on a tube door when it came into the station so I guess I have to leave the city forever now

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8 days

Someone released a box of crickets in the LGB Alliance conference hall. Alexa play Despacito

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Michael Baggs

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2 months

Gosh it would be awful if any sitting UK MPs, major British newspapers and their columnists, BBC sports commentators or heads of UK charities were found to be involved in this cyberbullying as well

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J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win (EXCLUSIVE)

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3 months

Really good to see such extensive BBC coverage of tens of thousands of lgbtq+ people marching through the streets of central London yesterday

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

I don't think I'll ever get bored of the time a Women's Institute dressed up in pirate fancy dress to meet a man who got kidnapped in Somalia and held at gunpoint for 47 days

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

The greatest #XFactor moment ever was when Amber Riley, as part of the Glee cast, walked up to Simon Cowell, looked him straight in the eyes and sung this note (with key change) in his face. She’d been turned down at an American Idol audition a few years before

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Michael Baggs

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1 year

LGB Alliance (and its founders) are the only charity to have instigated Twitter pile-ons on me and many other LGBTQ+ people, resulting in a deluge of hate and abuse to the point of having to shut down my account. They don't speak for me and they don't support LGB people either

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6 years

I’ve been thinking about this video for about 48 hours now

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2 years

One more thing: it’s a pity the BBC wasn’t as strict on staff social media when a senior journalist was tweeting anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ+ content day and night, 24 hours a day, engaging in pile-ons against junior members of staff and cracking jokes about agreeing with the Nazis

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Michael Baggs

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1 year

The world's most famous children's author, 'guffawing' at the idea of an LGBTQ+ person being bullied online

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1 year

@simonjedge @MichaelBaggs I just guffawed so loudly and unexpectedly I might have pulled something.

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Remember when Dan Wootton was just that guy who *checks notes* rated women's breasts out of ten in The Sun

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Michael Baggs

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3 months

All I'm saying is that if I was spending my birthday in 'the most beautiful place on earth' I wouldn't be on my phone stirring up hate against a c!sgender woman at the Olympics

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

Got some new tattoos this week and I’m really into them

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Michael Baggs

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4 months

Hey Rishi, what you up to this weekend?

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Trinity K Bonet: I helped someone change their mind about taking their own life. Eureka: I pooped myself doing the splits. RuPaul: That was a beautiful story Eureka, congratulations.

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Well, that’s enough internet for today, because it’s not going to get better than this 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Michael Baggs

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1 year

If you think 'cis' is a slur, you've clearly never had a bunch of lads scream 'fucking f****ts' at you and your partner out the window of a Nissan Micra as it speeds past

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Seriously when I'm out of tier 4, have a gym routine again, get my diet sorted, can sleep without medication, fit into my jeans, have the energy to socialise, stop feeling sad about everything and get back to my skincare routine it is OVER for you all

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

It takes a lot to shock me from certain columnists, but comments on the weekend about young trans people using suicide as a means 'to get their way' and claims that suicidal people don't talk about what they're going through? Yeah, that'll shock me

Journalist Hadley Freeman blasted for 'dangerous' comments about suicidal trans kids

Journalist Hadley Freeman has been criticised by LGBTQ+ activists following her comments on suicidal trans youth in a Sunday Times article.

www.thepinknews.com

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Michael Baggs

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1 year

Straight people in my mentions telling me how much they support LGB Alliance:

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Having a bunch of kids yell “faggot” at you from their bikes is a good reminder that your liberal London bubble is exactly that, a bubble, and that homophobia still exists, even for white, masculine-presenting, cis-gender men like me

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1 year

This is making me think long and hard about the photo I took on the weekend in a Barbie cinema box with my bum out and where I really am in my life rn

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1 year

This Barbie has a Nobel Prize 💖 He’s just Ken

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Michael Baggs

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1 year

That’s it? That’s… it? After years of dodging the ‘what have you actually done for LGB people?’ question, this vile group drop this divisive garbage, and at a time when lgbtq+ people are literally being attacked on UK streets for who they are, THIS is their priority?

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Tonight I got white-wine drunk with my mum + dad, I talked to them for the first time ever about how happy I am to be gay, we chatted about homophobia, trans rights, equality and diversity. And it was honestly the nicest evening

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

Imagine if Heidi N Closet actually won this season of Drag Race. Imagine if someone was crowned because they were kind, warm, funny, had heart and stood up to bullies. That would be a good thing to see in 2020, wouldn't it

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Apologies if this makes anyone throw up 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢

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Michael Baggs

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8 days

(Although I feel v.bad for the crickets)

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Michael Baggs

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7 years

I am so confused why Jessie J is a contestant on a Chinese talent show now

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Michael Baggs

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10 months

Your annual reminder

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

After over four years freelancing and on various contracts, I was made permanent staff at @BBCNewsbeat this week and I can't say how much of a relief it is to not feel like I have to prove my worth every single day and just get on with what I love doing

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Michael Baggs

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1 year

LGB Alliance contribute nothing to the lives of any LGB people other than a cruel obsession with trans people. Communicating with them is impossible due to their one-track mind. The way this conversation escalated was wild

Michael Baggs

@MichaelBaggs

1 year

LGB Alliance (and its founders) are the only charity to have instigated Twitter pile-ons on me and many other LGBTQ+ people, resulting in a deluge of hate and abuse to the point of having to shut down my account. They don't speak for me and they don't support LGB people either

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Hands up if you were bullied at school for your sexuality (Those bullies knew before I did, TBH)

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Michael Baggs

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6 years

I now only aspire to one day having the same level of chill as Kay Longstaff

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

More about Gaga and Liza, less about Will and Chris, pls ❤️❤️❤️

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

You are not my gay friends, you are my…

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Life now is just consuming massive daily trauma and then saying “right I’m off to bed”

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Michael Baggs

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1 year

Catherine Tate was as drunk as all the gays watching and I love that for us

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Just this. That's all

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Hey @dragraceukbbc . Just wanna say thanks for honestly making an awful year so much better. Hope you know how happy you’ve made people. x

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Mighty Hoopla: Alexandra Burke was a true joy, Bimini ended her set with “fuck the LGB Alliance”, United Kingdolls was worth the wait and Cheryl Cole dropped all the hits AND Nicola Roberts showed up on stage

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

EasyJet staff checking another group onto a Mykonos flight

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4 years

Mulholland Drive in 1.5 seconds

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

I’m in a straight pub that’s just played the entire 17minute MacArthur Park suite by Donna Summer and every moment was wasted on 99% of the people here

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Well there’s ‘drunk’ and then there’s DMing a popstar to say thank you for changing your life at 4am in the morning 🙈

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Michael Baggs

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8 years

Remember when Ed Sheeran told GQ he saw Adele as his only real competition? 🤔🤔🤔

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Me, meeting friends after 14 September:

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

Do any other journalists worry about how closely their mental health is tied to their work? Like, if I've not produced something I'm proud of for a while I feel I'm entirely useless but as soon as I publish something I think is good, I'm happy with everything again 🤷‍♂️

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Michael Baggs

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6 years

Interview: me Words: @elenacresci Icon: @more_milf

Rebecca More: The straight porn star turned into a gay icon by the internet

Rebecca More's audience is usually straight men - but lately, memes of her have become hugely popular with gay Twitter.

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Went on a date yesterday. Gonna guess I wasn’t the man of his dreams

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

A stranger gave me a compliment in the gym today and it just reminded me that men don’t say nice things to other men very often and I had no idea how to respond but let me tell you I am glowing on the inside right now

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Gina G was my landlady when I first moved to London. Had to ring her about plumbing and things

Eurovision Song Contest

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4 years

Get that #FridayFeeling with this massive summer tune from 1996! 🇬🇧 Gina G's Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit filled dancefloors across Europe, Australia, and the USA and it's easy to see why! #Eurovision | #ESCSummerOfLove

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

SOME WORK NEWS: This week I started at @PinkNews as its News Editor, after freelancing for the past month with its very brilliant editorial team. Get in touch with stories, press releases or just to say hi. New email address in bio.

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Michael Baggs

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7 years

Me during the morning VS. me at lunch VS. me during the rest of the day

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

A reminder that behind every happy, confident, sorted LGBTQ+ person you see on social media or IRL are years, if not more, of trauma as they had to (mostly) work out who they are in isolation and secrecy.

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

Where did you listen to Norman Fucking Rockwell this weekend, huh?

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

I'm looking for LGBTQ+ stories that Newsbeat should be covering in 2020. - Young people making a difference to the LGBTQ+ community - Initiatives to improve the lives of young LGBTQ+ people - Personal experiences that could make a BBC story - And so on DMs open/Email in header

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

PITCH: The Purge, but for 24 hours journalists are able to tweet about which celebrities are horrible people and there'd be no professional consequences

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

It’s A Sin is the most powerful TV I’ve ever seen. As a gay man it’s impossible to watch it and not see the faces of your own friends, family and loved ones in all those actors. Had to pace myself, emotionally, but finally finished and I’m totally empty. All the awards pls, all

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

This morning I laid in bed looking at the PureGym app until there were enough people in my local gym for me to say "well I don't feel comfortable going now" and sacked it off for another day

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Mawaan Rizwan. That’s it, that’s the tweet

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5 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this but having a gym-fit body doesn’t make you any better at sex. (PS. Be nicer to people online)

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

A guy I dated once said to me "I could never get serious with you, your Instagram just embarasses me so much" and I still think about that

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Michael Baggs

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4 months

ok we need to talk about Nicola Roberts’ live vocals

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Michael Baggs

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7 months

A reminder that the world's most famous children's author finds Twitter abuse very very funny

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Look, I’m not saying it’s down to me that Little Mix won that Brit Award but this year was the first time I was on the voting panel, so... #BRITs

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

If I’d had someone as talented, successful and gay as Lil Nas X to look up to as a kid, damn, it would’ve shaved years off my self-loathing and inner turmoil. So, go stream Montero and be very, very gay today please

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

One of the best things about The Traitors was that Claudia never felt like 'a presenter'. She felt like part of the show, and was on as much of a journey and enjoyed the experience just as much as every contestant. Also Matt I am free next week so call me now it's finished

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

(and by 'old enough' I mean it was three years ago)

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Michael Baggs

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5 months

Hope all you queers enjoy seeing Nelly Furtado at Hoopla today

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

One of the worst things that happened to me in lockdown was when I tweeted about my neighbour’s untidy balcony. 12 hours and 25k likes later, he was out there cleaning it and I am sorry to that man because he definitely saw the tweet

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

I wrote this four year years ago. It comes around every year. It will haunt me until the day I die

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3 years

Never forget.

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4 years

I would like to spend Christmas 2021 with my beautiful new boyfriend... who I have around (rough estimate) 10/11 months to meet, persuade to date me and then convince him to give up his own Christmas plans

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

Don’t own an England flag, the closest thing I could find was the Le Creuset over glove, so that'll have to do

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Michael Baggs

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5 years

Honestly I’d watch a cookery programme called ‘Helena Bakes Whatever The Fuck She Wants’ every 👏🏻 single 👏🏻 week #bakeoff

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Michael Baggs

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7 years

Christmas as a child: PRESENTS!!! Christmas as a young adult: PARTIES!!! Christmas now: Please god just let my life just stop for a few days

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

As Drag Race viewers, we’ve been blessed and lucky to have seen and experienced someone like Tamisha Iman

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10 months

How do parents live like this

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

It would be nice to be able to hold hands with another man, in London, in 2021, in Pride Month, without having a gang of kids yell “gay” at you (not an insult, just a fact) but there you go 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

For the first year in my life, I have no interest in Christmas, no Christmas spirit, nothing. I can therefore only assume I'll meet a handsome local next week, when I visit family in Wales, who'll show me the true meaning of the season and then we'll open a little shop

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

Jacinda Ardern just upped the stakes when it comes to self care. Normalise walking away from a situation that no longer works for you, no matter how much you’ve invested in it

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Michael Baggs

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6 years

I’ll never forget the NHS nurse I saw at university when I caught my first STI. She listened to my symptoms, looked at me, looked at my notes, looked back at me and said: “I know your mum. I was the midwife who delivered you 18 years ago.” #NHSat70

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Michael Baggs

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3 months

My experience working at (and leaving) PinkNews... Sunday: Signed off work with stress. Tuesday: Told I was being made redundant. Thursday: First meeting held to confirm my redundancy

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

I wrote about my favourite thing in 2020

Quest Sprout: 'The most wholesome thing on the internet'

Among the horrors of 2020, one small green hero has emerged to bring brief moments of joy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

When I worked at the BBC, someone put in a complaint about me, because I had liked a tweet which said 'fuck the Daily Mail'. I don't work at the BBC any more, so I'd just like to say for myself: Fuck the Daily Mail

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2 years

of course because why would it be the man’s fault for committing murder

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

As a former BBC employee who was treated horribly by the company in my final months there by its archaic HR systems… I’m loving all this, ngl

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

After nine months working from home, going into an office seems like such a crazy idea. Imagine getting up earlier, paying for uncomfortable travel there and back, probably paying more for food while you're there AND getting home much later. It really doesn't make sense

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

I just don’t want Drag Race UK to end. Bring everyone back, all of them, and let it run another ten weeks

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

She's coming

chart data

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4 years

. @MariahCarey 's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has re-entered the global Spotify chart at #116 with 882K streams on November 1 ( #63 US).

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Sure, Drag Race UK was an absolute joy but you know what’s even better? Seeing how happy it’s made everyone on my twitter timeline. Honestly it’s not looked like this round here for a whole damn year

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

FWIW, when I was a music journalist I interviewed A LOT of people, and the nicest, friendliest and funniest of all of them was Kelly Clarkson. Hands down. No one else came close

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Kelly Clarkson CASUALLY doing iconic 90s R&B… I don’t know a better girl

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Michael Baggs

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2 years

This is my last day working for the BBC and @BBCNewsbeat . Working for Newsbeat has been the best job of my career. I’ve worked with some amazing journalists and met incredible, inspirational people along the way

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Michael Baggs

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3 years

All my friends (every single one, myself included) has an Aesop soap dispenser filled with supermarket handwash in their bathroom. And I love that we all, just once, wanted to be fancy

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Michael Baggs

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4 years

Anyway, I wear XXL t-shirts now I guess. Thanks 2020 🤷🏼‍♂️

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