Love these kinds of architectural quirks in NYC. Giant glass skyscraper built around and over a smaller, older brick building. Either that small building didn't wanna sell or was a protected landmark. So the skyscraper has a funky shape.

Minolta XE-7, Minolta MD Rokkor-X 28mm f2.8, Kodak Tri-X 400.

#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NewYorkCity #AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography

Mary Poppendieck's talk on how the Empire State Building was built in an agile way—without a big up-front plan, but instead with a strategic objective & planning two stories ahead of where they were building, is well worth reading.

https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of-the-plan/

Terry Hall: his most memorable songs – video obituary - Lead singer of the Specials and a former member of Fun Boy Three and the Colourfield, Terry Hall, has died aged 63. The Specials' single Gangsters, released in 1979, reached No 6 in the UK singles charts and they dominated the Top 10 over the next two years. Their 1981 single Ghost Town reached No 1 as riots between... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2022/dec/20/terry-hall-his-most-memorable-songs-video-obituary

#Introduction - I'm Congress member Ritchie Torres from #NewYork , The past few days here have been great, I want to keep building our platform here on #Mastodon to make sure we can continue our conversations on a public social media platform.

Can you please BOOST this post and FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same? Thank you.

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

My latest for WIRED: The Mastodon features Elon Musk should steal but won't because he hates you

https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-features-that-twitter-should-steal-but-wont/

Posting this here tonight for you all. Will post on Twitter tomorrow. We'll see if I have a Twitter account still on Tuesday. #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration

#JohnMastodon is proof that things *CAN* go viral here on Mastodon, but the key is that *YOU* are the algorithm. The reason that the John Mastodon meme showed up on other people's timelines is because so many users boosted the posts.

The lesson here is: please don't just favourite something if you really enjoyed it; BOOST it so that other people can enjoy it, too! This is the only reason why I bother to create as large a social graph as I can on Mastodon—to act as an amplifier. You can, too!❤️😉