The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

@markocoffeebonsai.bsky.social

387

Followers

583

Following

1409

Posts

Aotearoa based. Mostly bonsai with my coffee is all I seek.
Started Bonsai 2020 = new to it. Also into aviation/space/science/geopolitics/wildlife/helpful tech stuff.
Bonsai feed
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sw2dek7u74jxlriba65utp4d/feed/aaaiycpqcyp4u

Posts Replies Media Feeds

Wet and dark outside so this is tonight's line up. 🪴🇳🇿🌱 #Bonsai & a cuppa

Nice consideration of Ma #Bonsai 🪴🇳🇿🌱 youtu.be/cC70eWbK2ig?...

BONSAI-NO-MA | The Theory of Emptiness in Bonsai Art, Part Oneyoutu.be Creating bonsai art is a practice that intricately weaves together horticulture, aesthetics, and philosophy, with a deep emphasis on the use of space, or wha...

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

Tired (and an existential threat to humanity): Republicans refusing to admit anthropogenic global warming is real & urgent. Wired: The Taliban admitting the reality & urgency of anthropogenic global warming and the necessity of deniers to stop that bullshit.

Fascinating. "...the government affirms that climate change is real, that it’s destroying God’s work and that those in the world who reject the truth of climate change need to get on board. The Taliban has asked imams...to emphasize during Friday prayers the need for environmental protection.

Taliban tries reconciling science and religion in facing climate changewww.washingtonpost.com Afghanistan’s rulers, cut off from foreign assistance, are tackling climate change on their own while debating whether it is God’s doing or a foreign plot.

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

Can we revoke his faux-citizenship already? Kiwi billionaire Peter Thiel’s money links to J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwi-bill...

Revealed: The Kiwi billionaire who bankrolled J.D. Vance’s rise to Trump’s running matewww.nzherald.co.nz Thiel poured millions into Vance's campaigns and might be the reason he met Trump.

Got some pics of my various casuarina #Bonsai projects on the go all in the 4th year of growth from seed or purchase. 🪴🇳🇿🌱

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

"Cost of A&E for 1 respiratory case is about the same as insulating an entire house..." Assuming there's no follow on treatment required and over time, repeated visits will quickly get into 5 figures of taxpayers money... This will cost ordinary NZers in so many ways...

1.3 million homes in NZ were built before 2000. Living areas and bedrooms in winter are 6°C below WHO healthy minimum indoor temp of 18°C. 70% of all NZ homes have no underfloor and insufficient ceiling insulation. Cost of A&E for 1 respiratory case is about the same as insulating an entire house

Unhealthy livingarchitecturenow.co.nz We spend 70% of our time in our homes, yet many New Zealand homes are up to 6 degrees below the WHO's minimum of 18 degrees.

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

This is against evidence, against popular support, and the minister’s stated reasons don’t even make sense.

So expanded urban footprint, fewer controls on landlords, foreign investment/ownership, MUCH smaller dwellings and now no insulation. Welcome to the modern kiwi slums #nzpol #newzealand www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government considers rolling back insulation standardswww.rnz.co.nz The changes made last year were the first significant upgrades to minimum requirements for housing in more than a decade.

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

This absolutely applies to clinical roles. Mt friend is a nurse at a public hospital in the North Island and they desperately need nurses but are not allowed to hire due to the hiring freeze. 🇳🇿

"There are some roles that are exempt from the committee approval process, including […] those where there is extreme need." y'mean like Parliament's rules for urgency? so just apply extreme need to every role, government precedent for this #nzpol

Frontline hospital roles going unfilled amid hiring freeze, despite Health NZ saying otherwisewww.rnz.co.nz While Health NZ says the freeze doesn't apply to clinical roles, some staff are reporting jobs going vacant for months at a time.

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

No, discussion is NOT closed - the Minister used his office staff and ministerial title to arrange a dinner with mining companies invited to submit fast track applications. Which wasn’t diarised. Then blamed his staff. Um, WHAT? Great work by Newsroom here. #nzpol

Jones’ staffer arranged undeclared dinner with mining companiesnewsroom.co.nz Resources Minister Shane Jones refuses to answer fresh questions about an undeclared dinner on the South Island’s West Coast which, newly released emails reveal, was arranged by his staff.

Collected plum raft of 2 trees or trunks has been repotted. Was dug out and cut from connection to the parent tree 2yrs ago. Been in potting mix for a year. Now in #Bonsai mix. Repotted all my core favourite trees, now on to bonus extras. 🪴🌱🇳🇿

@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social thought you'd be keen on an update, if not already following. Seems this is at a similar success tipping point as Rocket Labs was once at. Though NZ Govt are buffoons right now so I expect they'll be the most unknown factor in near future. www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/521...

Christchurch aerospace company in talks with US military over rocket-powered planewww.rnz.co.nz Mk-II Aurora has received approval to fly at unlimited speeds - and it's hoped it will go supersonic soon.

Morning Monday morning..... yep

Wet windy warmish day and for the week ahead, pines are happy. 🌱🪴 #Bonsai

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

Just learned that Chloe Anne King, who has founded Raise the Bar Hospitality Union, and has been a tireless activist for working people recently suffered a seizure caused by a brain aneurysm. A Givealittle has been set up to support her recovery givealittle.co.nz/cause/recove...

Recovery for Chloegivealittle.co.nz Support Chloe's recovery from a brain aneurysm

Did a lot with casuarina or Sheoak today, especially my large group and single. Lifted them and other large groups too many times to be bothered placing for photos, so here are the small ones. 🌱🇳🇿🪴 #Bonsai

I've got lots of young oaks on the go in forests and some singles. This is one that I'm looking most forward to see develop this coming growth season. It's well set up to form nicely In a deeper #Bonsai pot as it will do well to carry on some base and trunk development. 🌱🇳🇿🪴

Meet my friend Sprucey. Likes hanging with the gang and moss be easygoing. Stika front and glauca at the back. Have trimmed lightly for now. Will give a solid prune around spring to see through to back. 🌱🇳🇿🪴 #Bonsai

Very much enjoy growing these macrocarpa over 4 years now from seed. As they've developed I've found out the trees on the right are a lemon scented variety with coarser foliage than the variety on their left. Starting to consider another front angle. 🌱🇳🇿🪴 #Bonsai

Had a real good #bonsai club night on Thursday. Worked on this project tree of mine with one of the national show award winners. Helped to decide on a new front option & add jin/shari with plans for more later in spring. Also some bits of wood to push out a couple primary branches from the trunk.🌱🇳🇿🪴

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

Just a wee reminder that I have these tea towels available for pre-order at the moment, closing on Sunday. I'm only planning on buying fabric to cover confirmed orders for this round, and I'd hate for you to miss out! www.thesewphist.com/product/pre-...

This website for Shiro Bonsai in Christchurch has just relaunched and has a really comprehensive range of offerings: Product Training Memberships Coffee, cafe, food. Paradise really. Really good to see in NZ 🌱🇳🇿🪴 #Bonsai shirobonsai.co.nz/collections/...

Productsshirobonsai.co.nz New Zealand’s largest bonsai range, from tools & soil to high quality trees. Created by Bonsai artist Aaron Curtis

Interested see what folks think of this issue with a Golf course shutting down - taking down land values & now saving the green space is the top line. I'd suggest they join forces with the local SOSSI & look to extend that in some way. Other than that - Popcorn time www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6v...

7 Changing Valueswww.youtube.com Values seem to be sliding around a lot at the moment. The economic climate means we are in a season of consolidation and the feel-good factor of assets quick...

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

🚨#BREAKING🚨 “Police lay fresh sexual assault charges against former Destiny Church disciple, new complainant comes forward. 29yo now faces 14 indecent assault charges relating to 3 youths” www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-la...

Fresh charges filed against ex-Destiny Church disciple accused of sexually abusing teen boyswww.nzherald.co.nz The 29-year-old now faces 14 indecent assault charges relating to three youths.

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.

No room for privacy: How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras

How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com A CNN investigation finds Airbnb fails to protect its guests against the persistent threat within its industry.

Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Awaywww.bloomberg.com When things go horribly wrong during a stay—the company’s secretive safety team jumps in.

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

The Prime Minister wants an investigation into a sacked probation officer’s snooping through offender files, following our reporting. Latest here.

Stuffwww.stuff.co.nz

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

The Siouxsie Wiles judgment should be a wake-up call for New Zealand’s universities

The Siouxsie Wiles judgment should be a wake-up call for New Zealand’s universitiesthespinoff.co.nz 'The fact she had to take her university to court to force it to take her concerns seriously should trigger some serious soul-searching.'

Reposted by

The Broke Bonsai Bloke Marko Alach🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

Really grateful to the @smcnz.bsky.social for pulling together links to the Employment Court judgement on my case and commentary from various experts. Check it out! www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/07/08/w...

Wiles v. University of Auckland Employment Court judgment released - Expert Reactionwww.sciencemediacentre.co.nz Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles' employer breached its contractual obligations to protect her health and safety in the wake of harassment she experienced as a result of her work, an Employment Cour...

Native tree fuchsia kōtukutuku development repotting out of potting mix and into bonsai mix. Doing one as compact and one larger version which was a cutting from the compact. 🌱🇳🇿🪴 #Bonsai