High Court rules UK Government ban on Palestine Action unlawful. This is a win for free speech amid public outrage on Palestine genocide. Met Police will drop enforcement pending appeal. 1/3

External construction work is due to end in April, so I'm researching plants to create a micro-bog window box and a meadow flower window box, all which will be exclusively native plants. Sundews, Heather, Knapweed, Yellow Rattle etc. I'll really be summoning the bees this year!

I've only skimmed the report that was made by Cass for NI GIC services, but the weaponisation of neuro-divergence and mental health assessments as a form of gatekeeping to access care is quite frankly ableist, dangerous and will likely be used to deny people care.

Update on Boucher & Pitches Strategy last night at Council. We don't have to pit music & sport against each other. As Greens we successfully argued for a deferral to give everyone a few weeks to get this right. The bigger political parties are failing to deliver up Stormont & need a distraction.

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

Starmer is a coward with no credibility left, he had presided over a cruel and wicked government and one that was voted in on hope. Nothing more than a diet lite Reform. He has long known the actions of Mandelson and his connections with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Resign.

Public honours are a statement of values. When serious abuse allegations emerge, silence becomes complicity. Cllr Áine Groogan is calling for an urgent, transparent review of Belfast’s Freedom of the City honour. Prestige must not outweigh survivors and history does not excuse harm.

Happy LGBT History Month! A time where we celebrate those who came before us and remember how they carried on with their lives despite the time periods they lived in. Unfortunately, a lot of LGBT history has been overwritten by historically queerphobic institutions.

Belfast City Council just killed large-scale concerts at Boucher Playing Fields - with NO alternative venue lined up. Sinn Féin & DUP voted to end this without a plan. Young people lose the chance to see world-class artists in their own city. 1/2

Thank you to @goodlawproject.bsky.social for this report, please read our response 1/2

Green Party councillors in Belfast are calling for a review of the Freedom of the City honour, in light of further information from the newly released Epstein files. We are seeking it to be removed from George Mitchell and Bill Clinton given what is now known about their behaviour towards women.

If you are a young person in school or you know such a person, please ask them to complete this (very short!) survey. We have good numbers but the more we get the easier to present a solid case to decision makers on why this approach to accessing bathrooms needs to be changed!

Our 2026 fundraiser is live gofund.me/907cb930b

Why is Peter Mandelson still allowed to sit in the House of Lords? He needs to be placed under police investigation due to his close links with Epstein.

Is it time to devolve transport and infrastructure powers to councils to actually get stuff done? Or as Cllr Brian Smyth eloquently put it “It’s time to put on our big boy and big girl pants and fix obvious problems Sinn Féin and DUP are blocking. What do think?

The Ehlers-Danlos Society began 2016 as a global organization with one common goal: to change the future for those with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD). www.ehlers-danlos.com/the-ehlers-d...

This anniversary is a celebration, but also a promise to keep pushing forward. For faster diagnosis. For better care. For real progress. Here’s to the next decade.

Extract from "An Essay on Living with Severe ME" virology.ws/2026/01/27/t... Blog post written by someone living with very severe ME but most of the points are pretty general, relevant for people of all severities #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome 1/

I spoke to Frank Mitchell about the failure of the Hill Street pedestrianisation scheme this week. It's reflective of wider problems, at Stormont, especially Sinn Fein & DUP don't want to make NI work. When will they put their big boy & big girl pants on, govern this place & improve people's lives?

Major set up adjustments! I've moved a few plants on to other people, due to the climate within the flat but I've jerry rigged a rail for the lights and implemented some Spanish moss for higher humidity locally (now at 60%). The lights + window will give them a huge boost during the warmer months

Photos from today's IPSC march are up on the webshite nai brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/there-is-no-...

There is no ceasefire. That is the lie we are being sold. Gaza is still under attack. Children are being killed, families freezing in collapsing tents, hunger spreading while the world is told to look away. 1/2

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the six million Jewish people and all others murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, including Roma, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, political opponents and many more. 1/3

Storm Chandra has been named and will bring heavy rain to the UK this evening and tomorrow. But how is climate change influencing extreme events like this in the UK? www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/cli...

State sanctioned murder should never be the norm, and ICE funding expires on Jan 30th. Encouraging folks who live in the USA to take action and contact their elected reps to voice their concerns about supercharging ICE funds.

I live in Belfast, Northern Ireland and what I am seeing unfolding from Minneapolis is the state sanctioned murder of civilians.

Another good showing for the Greens in the latest Lucidtalk poll, holding at 4% 💪 The shine has come off the Alliance Party, providing weak & ineffective government while people struggle to heat their homes & Lough Neagh lies as a sewer.

On these numbers, devolvedelections.co.uk has @greenpartyni.org gaining South Belfast & Mid Down, and North Down, being on a knife edge for a seat in East Belfast, and not far from one in North Belfast. Hope is here in the North!

We stand in solidarity with our colleague Cllr Honore Kamegni following the racist abuse he has faced on facebook this week. This behaviour is unacceptable. Racism has no place in Cork, in Ireland, or anywhere. We are proud to stand with Honore and support his great work in Cork City South East.

Great article! My disability is only made visible by the fact I use mobility aids, a portion of able-bodied people I have encountered aren't educated enough, which is a shame. Would be fab if learning about chronic illness and disability was more common in schools to encourage understanding.

Delighted that the proposal from @seamasbelfast.bsky.social and myself has passed to suspend Council use on Twitter. There was only opposition from the DUP. We won't be rolled over by Tech Bros who have contempt for laws to protect women and children. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

As an Artist, I'm really not a fan of Generative AI which is why I'm a huge fan of using Glaze and Nightshade. We all have our own unique style and that's what AI generators steal; what makes your art recognisable. These generators scrape the internet and learn off pre-existing works.

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Thanks to one of our East Belfast Greens for the brilliant print by Black Lodge Press. Now taking pride of place in our Belfast City Hall office. We've got lots to do this year, giving people hope & a vision, instead of a failing Stormont. Politics can be so much better than this. No pasarán

The ballsiest beasties in botanic, I swear they've gotten more bold a pair of them followed me for a bit! You can see some of them have a slightly red colouration, which happens due to the interbreeding of red and grey squirrels (grey are considered invasive).

At this point the response from the rest of world, but particularly Europe, should be piss off, we aren't for backing down little man. He doesn't do normal political convention and should be met with a much tougher kick back. He is weak and a bully.

Rose appears to have been using these changing rooms for 4 years before there was a complaint. Now, her presence is 'degrading, intimidating and humiliating' for cis women.

Palantir, which Wes Streeting is giving your health care records to, and which Labour has given a contract for military analytics to, is working with ICE in the United States to work out who to raid. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Me when the NISRA surveyor asks about environmental issues.

There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.

I was on Nolan today talking on how Twitter/X is now running a business model that tolerates & profits from the sexual abuse & exploitation of women & children through AI deepfakes. Any political party or public rep who keeps treating X as a normal platform, while knowing this, is complicit.

There's only one social media app that has led to me having to make statements to the PSNI for harassment, twice. Good riddance to X, an absolute cesspool of far-right fascists, obsessive transphobes and nonses sexualising children.

It couldn't be that healthcare can improve mental wellbeing through supporting trans young people 👀 (sarcasm)

We’re leaving X. Not for clicks. Not for politics. For safety, democracy and basic responsibility. We won’t stay on a platform that fails children, enables deepfake abuse and fuels disinformation. But this is not an exit from the conversation. It’s a move to better spaces. Come with us. 1/2

Never thought I'd say this, but I'm mad thrilled to see bugs crawling/swimming around in my monstera's peddle tray today. Springtails! Natures clean up crew, great for bioactive control against fungus, algae, mould and will eat fungus gnat large and thrip pupae.

I wrote this for the Irish News today, on X (the everything including CSAM app) and Grok, and why our governments, elected reps and public bodies need to leave it. www.irishnews.com/opinion/elai...

⚠️END CORRIDOR CARE⚠️ Mandatory Fire Safety Training for #NHS staff 🔥Corridors should be kept clear🔥 Hospital patients collapsing while out of sight www.theguardian.com/society/2026... www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe... The 5000 ‘permanent’ hospital beds promised 2023 never were in 2024 or in 2026

Sinn Féin’s multi-year budget is being sold as “transformation” - but it’s just more managed decline, more austerity dressed up as stability, not actual reform. 1/6