Sarah Playforth
@owlysarah.bsky.social
Deaf,ex librarian,eclectic reader,librocubicularist,cruciverbalist, art lover,dog person,nature lover,forest bather,swimmer,walker. Non interventionist gardener. In remission from myeloma after stem cell transplant. Mother, grandma, wife, friend. No DMs!
The last nature books post is a list of those on my kindle. Thank you to all who have liked and/or replied to my posts.
I’m spending more time on other social media than here as I get more engagement from them, so this is my last post. Closing down tonight, love to all.
I’m spending more time on other social media than here as I get more engagement from them, so this is my last post. Closing down tonight, love to all.
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The last nature books post is a list of those on my kindle. Thank you to all who have liked and/or replied to my posts.
I’m spending more time on other social media than here as I get more engagement from them, so this is my last post. Closing down tonight, love to all.
I’m spending more time on other social media than here as I get more engagement from them, so this is my last post. Closing down tonight, love to all.
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
June 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
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One day politicians will have to treat the public like grown ups and force them to grapple with reality. Until then, this is the trap we are stuck in.
Everything you need to know about the British voting public
June 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
One day politicians will have to treat the public like grown ups and force them to grapple with reality. Until then, this is the trap we are stuck in.
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Cis women - the anti trans mess in the UK clearly isn't going to improve anything for women and it is making life even harder for trans people and doing nothing to improve the behaviour of men.
Perhaps consider signing this Not In Our Name petition.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
Perhaps consider signing this Not In Our Name petition.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
chng.it
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Cis women - the anti trans mess in the UK clearly isn't going to improve anything for women and it is making life even harder for trans people and doing nothing to improve the behaviour of men.
Perhaps consider signing this Not In Our Name petition.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
Perhaps consider signing this Not In Our Name petition.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
June 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
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When a conservative talking point suddenly becomes a widespread topic of conversation in public life, you can bet it's because loads of money has been poured into promoting it. Another crucial exposure by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social : democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
US anti‑abortion cash floods UK free speech frontlines
Democracy for Sale investigation finds US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union, while Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars.
democracyforsale.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
When a conservative talking point suddenly becomes a widespread topic of conversation in public life, you can bet it's because loads of money has been poured into promoting it. Another crucial exposure by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social : democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
June 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
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🪲 Chalk streams are rare, ecologically rich habitats which are under significant threats from anthropogenic pressures.
🌍 Please sign and share this petition to help protect our chalk streams and support their recovery!
🦫 Petition Link: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
🌍 Please sign and share this petition to help protect our chalk streams and support their recovery!
🦫 Petition Link: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Don’t abandon the Chalk Stream recovery pack
We think the chalk stream recovery pack would increase investment, regulation and transparency; improving the state of all rivers. We feel Chalk streams’ rarity, cultural and ecological importance sho...
petition.parliament.uk
May 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🪲 Chalk streams are rare, ecologically rich habitats which are under significant threats from anthropogenic pressures.
🌍 Please sign and share this petition to help protect our chalk streams and support their recovery!
🦫 Petition Link: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
🌍 Please sign and share this petition to help protect our chalk streams and support their recovery!
🦫 Petition Link: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
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Biggest ever fine handed to Water Company today at £122.7m to Thames Water for dumping sewage.
They will just laugh, borrow more money, then use that as an excuse to increase their bills.
They need to be banned from paying dividends, or in the case of Thames Water simply banned
They will just laugh, borrow more money, then use that as an excuse to increase their bills.
They need to be banned from paying dividends, or in the case of Thames Water simply banned
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Biggest ever fine handed to Water Company today at £122.7m to Thames Water for dumping sewage.
They will just laugh, borrow more money, then use that as an excuse to increase their bills.
They need to be banned from paying dividends, or in the case of Thames Water simply banned
They will just laugh, borrow more money, then use that as an excuse to increase their bills.
They need to be banned from paying dividends, or in the case of Thames Water simply banned
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Reposted by Sarah Playforth
We shouldn’t cut support for disabled people - we should tax the ultra-wealthy instead.
Over 65,000 people have signed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts.
Add your name here 👇 www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
Over 65,000 people have signed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts.
Add your name here 👇 www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
May 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
We shouldn’t cut support for disabled people - we should tax the ultra-wealthy instead.
Over 65,000 people have signed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts.
Add your name here 👇 www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
Over 65,000 people have signed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts.
Add your name here 👇 www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
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A manifesto for ‘adults’ who believe in the tooth fairy. And hate what they don’t understand -which is a lot.
Tax cuts paid for by scrapping Net Zero, the EU deal and DEI and deporting asylum seekers to god knows where at no apparent cost.
This is ‘tip your country into the bin’ stuff.
(The i Paper)
Tax cuts paid for by scrapping Net Zero, the EU deal and DEI and deporting asylum seekers to god knows where at no apparent cost.
This is ‘tip your country into the bin’ stuff.
(The i Paper)
![Farage policy plan 'risks Truss-style market chaos'
(Extract of article)
Nigel Farage’s plan to slash tax and increase benefits would cause a market shock up to twice the size of Liz Truss's mini-budget, independent economists have told The i Paper.
The Reform UK leader pledged yesterday to scrap the two-child benefit cap and fully reinstate winter fuel payments for pensioners,
He restated commitments to raise the personal tax threshold to £20,000 and introduce a more generous marriage allowance so one spouse would be exempt from paying tax on the first $25,000 of their income.
Challenged on how he would pay for his pledges, Farage said he could save "about £70bn a year" by scrapping net zero, ending the cost of housing asylum seekers, abolishing diversity schemes and cutting 5 per cent off the money spent on quangos.
"If you add all of that up, you've got a pretty eyewatering number of £350bn [over five years]," he said.
"That may be, I accept, slightly op-timistic, but I think you can see very clearly the direction we're going in." Independent economists questioned the credibility of the figures.
Simon French, chief economist at investment bankers Panmure Liberum, said many of the cuts had already been outlined in Reform's general election manifesto, which promised to slash spending by £150bn to fund £141bn of spending and tax cuts commitments](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreihikwappxjqvsnbzjzsqr5zzeunehnfigyv2v53opb2r4uzk4a2ti@jpeg)
May 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
A manifesto for ‘adults’ who believe in the tooth fairy. And hate what they don’t understand -which is a lot.
Tax cuts paid for by scrapping Net Zero, the EU deal and DEI and deporting asylum seekers to god knows where at no apparent cost.
This is ‘tip your country into the bin’ stuff.
(The i Paper)
Tax cuts paid for by scrapping Net Zero, the EU deal and DEI and deporting asylum seekers to god knows where at no apparent cost.
This is ‘tip your country into the bin’ stuff.
(The i Paper)
Reposted by Sarah Playforth
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
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Kishwer Falkner has been a disaster for the EHRC (long before recent events, and not just on trans issues).
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
MPs fear UK equality watchdog may take months to sign off gender guidance
Exclusive: EHRC insiders believe process could drag on until after its chair is replaced in November
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Kishwer Falkner has been a disaster for the EHRC (long before recent events, and not just on trans issues).
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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White men are apparently terrified of doing the wrong thing at work. I have some advice | Gaby Hinsliff
White men are apparently terrified of doing the wrong thing at work. I have some advice | Gaby Hinsliff
Fears of being sacked or saying something unwise are near-universal. What’s striking is that men in this new polling can’t see that, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
White men are apparently terrified of doing the wrong thing at work. I have some advice | Gaby Hinsliff
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
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So, have you told the truth about Brexit, immigration, social care, ‘levelling up’, tax, NetZero… about 14yrs abusing power?
No.
You spend your life on a disinformation hellsite and you don’t call out “the lies and delusions that dominate Westminster” because your party is neck-deep in all of them.
No.
You spend your life on a disinformation hellsite and you don’t call out “the lies and delusions that dominate Westminster” because your party is neck-deep in all of them.
May 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
So, have you told the truth about Brexit, immigration, social care, ‘levelling up’, tax, NetZero… about 14yrs abusing power?
No.
You spend your life on a disinformation hellsite and you don’t call out “the lies and delusions that dominate Westminster” because your party is neck-deep in all of them.
No.
You spend your life on a disinformation hellsite and you don’t call out “the lies and delusions that dominate Westminster” because your party is neck-deep in all of them.
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
May 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!💙📚 #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky