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Mhairi McFarlane

@mhairim.bsky.social

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Writer 📚romantic comedies & 🍏📺 writers room Slow Horses Series 5 ✍🏻 Meme slag. Lover of cats. Prosecco goblin. Old Hollywood enthusiast. Don’t trust me with Google Maps & we should be fine. https://www.mhairimcfarlane.com/

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity

Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 2d

Me at 9am: a fresh week, a positive mindset

Me at 4.51pm: why can’t literally everything go piss itself

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 3d

On the bones of your arse hustling for the last box of Oatly Barista

Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 3d

She’ll never understand life in Saffron Walden

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 3d

CALLING OUR FIRST WITNESS: the manager of Saks haberdashery

Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 3d

Yes brilliant but has her London Boy moments 😆

Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 3d

Yes it’s the refereeing who’s right? Fiction is emotional truth plus embellishment, she doesn’t have to stand by any of it in court. Maybe Warren Beatty thought Carly Simon was the show off

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 3d

I know Taylor is architect of own downfall with her clues & Easter eggs, but I still find the frenzy of literalism where her lyrics can’t be *made up cool stories* rather than honest testimony, very odd. Like we are going to demand police check if Jake Gyllenhaal’s fridge had an interior light

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll be there 7-7.30 thanks

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 4d

Amongst other things, this is the problem with the "triangulate with Farage" theory of Labour government - the right does not have a limited list of demands - every time you try to appease them, they just go further.

Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 4d

#BBCNews - UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 7d

Brb seeing if you can add lines to books published in 2022

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 9d

Missy Writerina

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 9d

The disrespect was staggering tbh & only compounded by the photo you included

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 9d

David I told you I didn’t like you writing that in a Valentine’s card

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 9d

Cassoulet my dear scrote

Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 9d

Restaurant news: snouts are having a moment. I’m a carnivore but this stuff makes me feel like the Cleveland Torso Murderer

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 10d

Might as well say this now

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 14d

Male friend: ‘Why do I have to do it, why can’t you download the file to your laptop and send it to them?’

Me: ‘I’m not Gary McKinnon’

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 17d

Sophie Ellis Bextor having five ginger sons is like a Hans Christian Andersen

Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 19d

Oh yeah!

Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 19d

Bon soir

a raccoon is drinking milk from a bottle .

ALT: a raccoon is drinking milk from a bottle .

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 19d

Carte D’Or rum n raisin is the most ‘car keys in a bowl’ retro dessert. That or rum baba with glacé cherry

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Agent Prince @agentprince.bsky.social · 20d

Free three months of Apple TV activated, just in time for Slow Horses next week. @mhairim.bsky.social

a man with a mustache is standing in front of a wall of toys

ALT: a man with a mustache is standing in front of a wall of toys

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Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 21d

‘I've been working with this now for about half an hour. I can't figure it out.’

Nigel from Spinal Tap is confused by the backstage catering offer

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 21d

It really does doesn’t it! I wonder how much it’s based on the logistical horror of getting that many meals out at once. Corporate Christmas party scenes

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