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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"Magistratus II", exhibition in Manole art gallery, Eyn Hod. תערוכת הציירים הגדולים בגלריה "מנולה" לאמנות, עין הוד. #תערוכה #חיפה #art

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

תערוכה "עושות סצנה" במרכז "פירמידה" לאמנות עכשווית, חיפה. #art #תערוכה #חיפה

ורוניקה ברנרד וקטיה אנסקי
קדוש פשוט מס' 2
ציור דיוקן, הדפס; טכניקה מעורבת על קרטון, 2023

Veronika Bernard and Katya Anski
Simple Saint No. 2
Portrait painting, print; mixed media on cardboard, 2023

אנה לוקשבסקי
טטיאנה, 2017

Anna Lukashevsky
Tatyana

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

הכלל של אזור הזמן של ישראל ב-timezone נקרא ZION 🤯 שילוב הכלל והתבנית יוצא מבדר במיוחד, לא האמנתי למראה עיניי 🫣 via @leyrer and sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

Screenshot of Israel entry in timezone database file

Screenshot of timezone rule demonstration on a computer with Israel Standard Time defined.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

📢 So thrilled to pre-announce zTheme by Adolfo Ovalles - the next UI theme for FontForge! It is based on the Symbolic SVG convention, so the icons would seamlessly fit into any color theme, light or dark. I plan to integrate the icon set after the upcoming […] [Original post on kishkush.net]

A bitmap view window with dark icons on a light background in the toolbar

A bitmap view window with light icons on a dark background in the toolbar

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Embracing small local businesses 🎨👩‍🎨 סטודיו וגלריה לאמנות של נטליה דיאטלוב "המרפאה" בעין הוד. בואו בהמוניכם! #art #lettering #Hebrew #SignPainting

A smal and colorful gallery with sculptures and paintings

Me drawing a pencil sketch fot the gallery sign in English and Hebrew

In the middle of sign drawing - "Polyclinic Studio Gallery"

Posing with the final sign. Yes, the "g" was fixed later. I'm not that proficient in Latin letters.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

תחביב מוזר של רוסים. כן, זה אכיל. Porcino mushroom (Boletus edulis) hunt in Dresden. 🏆🍄

Five specimens of Boletus edulis in various sizes

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I finally found it, the mysterious and elusive Triple SSS! The photos are not of the Grosssedlitz gardens, but rather the nearby Weesenstein park and castle. I put them here for likes.

Weesenstein park, view from castle square.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

In memoriam Yayoi Kusama. Tel Aviv Museum, February 2022. RIP. #המנוחה_ואני

אני יושב על רקע נקודות שחורות על קירות צהובים

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

הייתי במפגש מבוא לדבוראות במכוורת דבש מכמנים ושרדתי כדי לספר 🐝 www.facebook.com/HoneyGalil An introduction to beekeeping in the Honey Galil Apiary, nobody was hurt. #трудовыебудни #beekeeping #bees

בחליפת דבוראים אמיתית ועם דבורים אמיתיות, כמו גדול!

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

📢 Shout-out for @nicoverbruggen, and I think it's the first time I use a real Mastodon handle. Nico had the courage to dive deep into the fossil FontForge UI code, and hs contribution greatly improved the menubar experience […] [Original post on kishkush.net]

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

תערוכת בובות חיפה, סירקין 21, קומה שניה. התערוכה פתוחה עד 30 ביולי

ЛЮДМИЛА ПОДОЛЬСКАЯ
פודולסקי לודמילה
0525116364

ЛЕЯ МУЛЛОКАНД
לאה רחל מולאקנד
0502443065

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

📢 Today's shout-out is for Adolfo Ovalles who developed an all-new staggeringly beautiful UI theme for #FontForge, complete with 310 (yes, three hundred and ten❗) new icons in light and dark. github.com/adolfo-ovalles/zThemes #typography #opensource #FOSS #UI #UX #icons

FontForge "Generate Fonts" dialog in dark and light colors

FontForge Character View window in dark and light colors

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

The Kibbutz Passover Hagadah, drawn by Shmuel Katz. Published in 1964. מלאך המוות וחבריו, להנאת הצופים! מלל ואיורים על ידי שמואל כץ. הצילומים באדיבות מוזיאון ישראל והבלוג "קוים ונקודות" של יגאל זורע. #Hebrew #calligraphy #lettering

שער אביב עם איורים של שמש, פרחים, ציפורים ומשפחה מטיילת בשדה.

מלל ואיורי "חד גדיא", עם גיבורי השיר עוסקים במלאכתם.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Wow, @drakulaboy@github.com wrote a full-blown font editor for Android, with FontForge as a backend. I don't understand much about mobile development, but it looks really impressive! github.com/fontforge/fontforge/disc… #FontForge #Android #typography

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

#FontForge has a new scaling operation, thanks to a contribution from the Oscar-winning digital artist Greg Ercolano 🏆 @erco77@github.com. The new scaling is much more in-line with modern UI conventions, and hopefully improves another small bit in FontForge […] [Original post on kishkush.net]

Screenshot of letter "a" with visual handlers for scaling in various directions.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

קצת גרפיטי מהטיול הכי לא חינוכי שאפשר לדמיין. שירותי הרווחה כבר בעקבותי... #חיפה #graffiti

את ארז שמח לא צריך להציג. אחד אמני הגרפיטי הבולטים בחיפה, ואולי בארץ.

לא הצלחתי לקרוא מה כתוב כאן. אבל אותיות צהובות בציור תלת מימד עם דפנות אפורות על רקע כחול. מרשים מאוד

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Some vintage Hebrew signs from the abandoned Haifa central bus station. Don't ask how I got there 😳 #Hebrew #typography #sign #lettering #חיפה

A red Hebrew sign "Treatment room, entry during emergency only"

A probably handmade tin sign in Hebrew "Egged house maintenance". Egged is an Israeli bus company.

A red sign on an orange shelter door: "No entry for vehicles", with hand-painted letters.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Lucille Uhlrich Helios in Reflection, 2026. Gold-glazed sandstone. The artist gave my wife one coin as a gift 💖😁 Biennale of Contemporary Keramics, #Rhodes #art #ceramics

Golden coins scattered across a small pond.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Another GTK-based dialog in #FontForge - Histogram UI. Perhaps not very useful by itself, but complicated. It was fun to port, and it introduced a few important pieces of generic functionality. 6 dialogs out of ~150, and counting (very slowly) ⏳ #OpenSource #GTK #typography

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Mirsini Roumelioti, The Vessels of the First Light, 2025 Stoneware dark clay and porcelain Installation dimensions 33 x 250 x 250 cm

Dark oval vessels scattered on a sandy ground, surrounded by native mediterranean vegetation. Each vessel carries an inscription in one of modern or ancient Mediterranean area scripts.

A vessel with Hebrew inscription "The sun shines to all"

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Elysia Athanatos, Echoes, 2024 Ceramic, stoneware and gold, magnet, iron metal base 90 x 85 x 90 cm

A grey ceramic vessel painted with gold inside, situated in a museum setting with christian icons on walls.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

2nd Biennale of Contemporary Keramics, Rhodos. Vassiliki Kyriaki, L-akrimaria, 2026 The artist is playing a self-created xylophone. #art #ceramics #Rhodos

A woman playing a ceramic xylophone with amphora-like vessels, surrounded by medieval walls.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

טעימה מפסטיבל אמנות "רונדל" שהתקיים בחיפה בסופ"ש האחרון 🐗 1. Vera Konyashova, "My Room", 2024 2. Natalya Lamanova, project "Alternative Stamps". #אמנות #חיפה #art

A room wall densely covered with lettering and abstract art paintings and sketches.

Faux vintage Hebrew postal stamps featuring a nude woman riding a wild boar.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Elinor Brodsky, a painter from Ashdod. Exhibition at Manole gallery, Ein Hod. #חיפה #תערוכה #art

Four women of different ages dancing in a circle with their faces outwards.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Studio & gallery "The Polyclinic", Ein Hod - the grand opening. Artist: Natalia Dyatlov #art #pottery

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

פתיחת סטודיו-גלריה חדש "המרפאה" של האמנית נטליה דיאטלוב בכפר האמנים עין הוד פתיחה חגיגית: שבת 23/05/2026 בשעה 11:00 טלפון: 054-6255749 #אמנות #פיסול #חיפה

פלייר הגלריה לאמנות ופיסול עם תמונת האמנית על רקע יצירותיה

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

יתרונות של קומת קרקע 😍

Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus on a tile floor

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Today, in a hilarious turn of events a bee family decided to swarm into a parking lot of a beekeeping startup. The integration and the research team leads promptly collected them into an empty box, and all the girls are now on the way to their new home 🐝 Images […] [Original post on kishkush.net]

A big bee swarm hanging on a tree next to a yellow gate

Two people in beekeeping protective gear are removing a bee swarm from a tree. One is holding an empty hive, the other is holding the branches below the swarm.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

@Love לא יודע, לי את מופיעה רגיל. אני לא עוקב אחרייך ספציפית, אבל את כן מופיעה בכל הפידים הרלוונטיים

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Being an open-source maintainer has unexpected perks sometimes, so now I can vibe-code like all those pesky youngsters. 😎 Let's start with the accidental removal of a root directory. That shouldn't be too difficult.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

In a continuing flurry of boring #FontForge news, I ported two more dialogs to GTK: bitmap strikes and problem detector. This boosts the number of modernized UI dialogs to 3 out of ~150. That's 2%, yay! 💪 #FontForge #GTK #opensource #FOSS

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

The first real FontForge plugin has landed! Just five years after the introduction of plugin framework, the Variable Font Plugin by @MihailJP@github.com is here. Grab your free copy at pypi.org/project/fontforge-variable… #FontForge #opensource #typography

Screenshot of a variable axes interface from FontForge plugin

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

פריחה בעמק יזרעאל Blossom in Jezreel valley. It's quite unfortunate that almond gardens are slowly cut down, more and more each season. Not economical, probably...

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

תערוכה באודיטוריום חיפה, הפתיחה מחר בשבע בערב. #תערוכה #חיפה

Two clay cat figures preparing to attack a bait, an exhibition poster is underneath.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

OMG, my obscene post reached BlueSky and was promptly flagged as "adult content". 🫣

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

"ארבעה צדדים של מודל אחד", תערוכה בחיפה. פתוח עד שבת. An interesting concept of four painters and one model in several sittings. Katia Desnenko's studio in Haifa. #art #תערוכה #חיפה

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

TIL that in Arabic calligraphy it's maybe not entirely clear which part of the "Lam+Alif" ligature is Lam, and which one is Alif. There is an entire Unicode proposal about it (www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22025-alda…), by Lorna Evans. It would be […] [Original post on kishkush.net]

A text excerpt containing Lam+Alif ligature with its parts highlighted in different colors

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

Spotted in the wild one of my less frequently used fonts, Ozrad CLM... on organic chestnuts. ערמונים אורגניים בחוות התבלינים בבית לחם הגלילית. פונט "עוזרד". #typography #Hebrew #fonts

A small black and orange package of roasted chestnuts.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

#FontForge has about 150 windows and dialogs, and I have converted 1 (one!) of them to GTK3. This firmly places us in nearly 1% of the total, and by the year 2100 this UI modernization project is very likely to be completed. 💪🏆 And it has a brand new search box […] [Original post on kishkush.net]

Old dialog with an alphabetic list of languages

New dialog with the same list and a search box.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

How many obscure languages does your municipal tax leaflet have? Ours has four. 🌍 #Haifa

Tax information leaflet with information in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and Amharic.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

Well, so there was a mechanical design meeting about our industrial robot, and somebody asked what color would be good for the rail detection algorithm. Somehow our group said "pink", and the mechanics group took it seriously. Now we have the most glamorous rail […] [Original post on kishkush.net]

A perforated pink rail attached to a wooden plate.

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

תופעה לשונית מעניינת: המילה "קיבוצי" מתועתקת לרוסית עם הטיה לפי כללי השפה הרוסית, ואחר כך מתועתקת חזרה לעברית.

תג מחיר מבורקד "טבורוג קיבוצני 9%" מודבק מעל קופסה של... הפתעה... טבורוג!

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

סוף-סוף הכריסמס נגמר, ואפשר לקשט את העץ לנובי גוד 🎄🌴

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Max Iorsh @iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

IP camera SDK installation instructions. Look quite descriptive, actually.

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